Statement,Label
An 11yearold boy saved the lives of two people on the same day.,true
Infertility is treated differently than other issues and often excluded from insurance coverage,true
Just last year MiamiDade Public Schools had over 14000 new children 10000 of which came from four countries of Cuba Nicaragua Venezuela and Haiti.,true
For African American families in particular the homeownership rate remains relatively unchanged since 1968 the year the Fair Housing Act was signed into law.,true
When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin that one games salary they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away.,true
If you need Girl Scout cookies this year and dont have a local troop to support please consider buying from Troop 6000 which is entirely made up of girls living in NYCs homeless shelters.,true
Joe Biden was older on his first day as president than Ronald Reagan was on his last day.,true
Many law enforcement agencies didnt submit their hate crime data to the FBI.,true
WOW county swing suburban voters in Wisconsin dont vote for Donald Trump.,true
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded over 50 of the felonies to misdemeanors.,true
$1 of every $3 Ron DeSantis spends comes from the federal government.,true
If New Yorks proposed limits on natural gas in buildings take effect the grid today cant handle the increased electric load.,true
Wisconsin is the nations top cranberry producer  in fact our farmers harvest around 60 percent of the countrys crop.,true
Biden drained Americas Strategic Petroleum Reserves to the lowest level since 1984.,true
Historically our spring elections including for state Supreme Court have a smaller turnout associated with them.,true
Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white nonHispanic men.,true
Joe Bidens $36 billion for a union pension fund is the largest private pension bailout in American history.,true
Proposed rule would limit milk for WIC participants,true
In Milwaukee The homicide rate has nearly doubled in the past two years.,true
Gas prices are down back to where they were before Russia invaded Ukraine.,true
West Virginia is poised to receive $25M for 160 orphaned well cleanup projects across the state.,true
Kari Lake is opposed to red flag laws.,true
In Georgia its illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place and punishable by up to a year in prison.,true
Nancy Pelosi gave $30000  to boost LizMathis1s campaign,true
David Schweikert has been convicted of 11 House ethics violations.,true
Says Tim Michels opposes closing the loophole that allows domestic abusers to buy guns.,true
Overdoses reached an alltime high in 2021.,true
Herschel Walker misled about personally treating 4500 veterans per year about graduating from college and about working in law enforcement.,true
Since 2019 Ive successfully lobbied for the funds to add hundreds of school counselors lowering our student to school counselor ratio by 20.,true
40 of the folks who have student loans do not have a college diploma fouryear diploma. These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses aides.,true
Image claims to show a list of Republican members of Congress whose PPP loans were forgiven.,true
Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called climate change bull during a record heatwave and raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.,true
In the Wisconsin State Assembly this session more than 75 of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile the GOP allowed less than 2 of Democratic bills to have a hearing.,true
Texas public high school graduation rate is at 90 overall.,true
The four big meat packers are raking in record profits  ,true
In Virginia Black people are eight times 8X more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.,true
Wisconsins archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states.,true
The tax carve out Ron Johnson spearheaded overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest over small businesses.,true
In a recent year the Milwaukee Police Department collected more guns per capita off the streets than in New York.,true
In 2020 when Raphael Warnock ran a campaign ad featuring himself with a beagle that wasnt his dog.,true
Because of U.S. Senate rules Democrats need more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade.,true
The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel including DNA.,true
When the New York State Senate voted to legalize abortion in 1970 12 Republican senators voted in favor of it.,true
New York leads the U.S. in population loss.,true
Weve reduced crime to its lowest level in 27 years.,true
Since taking office Hochul has passed more than 400 new bills,true
Cannabis reform is supported by the majority of the residents of our state including a majority of Republicans.,true
Only 2 of K12 students would benefit from Iowas school voucher bill.,true
Virginia women are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to Virginia men.,true
Florida is 49th in the nation when it comes to Medicaid funding for people with disabilities.,true
We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five to 11 yearolds.,true
The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not.,true
With the ongoing pandemic our State Park attendance is at the highest its ever been.,true
In 2020 more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world.,true
100000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year.,true
More than half of Virginias school buildings are older than 50 years.,true
Says he has issued more pardons than any Wisconsin governor in contemporary history.,true
Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would put governmentinstalled cameras in every single classroom to livestream school activities for parents to spy on teachers and children.,true
In Iowa since we have put a number of the voting laws into place over the last several years  voter ID is one of those  weve actually seen voter participation increase even in offelection years.,true
The number of COVID19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020.,true
You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if youre not vaccinated 20 times more likely to die.,true
Gov. Kim Reynolds touting $210 million for Iowa broadband failed to mention these are actually federal funds approved by Rep. Cindy Axne and signed into law by President Joe Biden.,true
New York is leading the nation with the lowest imprisonment rate of any large state,true
Iowa ranks 45th in the U.S. for internet connectivity.,true
FUN FACT West Virginia is home to zero billionaires.,true
Says gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch worked with Scott Walker to sign five abortion restrictions into law that took away services and threatened doctors with prison time for providing safe and legal abortions.,true
The Biden administration published a study concluding 4 of 5 new cars on the road by 2050 will still require liquid fuels.,true
Southwest Airlines announce they will no longer terminate employees over the mandate.,true
The annual Pentagon budget hovers over $750 billion annually twice that of the much debated Build Back Better Act that costs about $350 billion annually as currently proposed.,true
If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia and around the country 90 to 95 of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.,true
Overdose deaths in WV are up 45 from the prior year.,true
The GOPcontrolled Legislature has refused to act on at least 150 appointees of Gov. Tony Evers.,true
End of eviction moratorium means millions of Americans could lose their housing in the middle of a pandemic.,true
The Trump administration worked to free 5000 Taliban prisoners.,true
In Afghanistan over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.,true
A photo shows two COVID19 patients lying on the floor awaiting treatment in Florida.,true
Weve got 115000 miles of roads in this state and 90 is owned by the locals.,true
324000 pregnant people experience domestic violence during their pregnancy.,true
A quorumbreaking Texas Democrat said in 2007 that mailin ballot fraud is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state.,true
Its been over 50 years since minimum wage and inflation parted ways then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.,true
We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.,true
Before the pandemic just over 40000 were on continuing UI claims. Now there are well over 100000 on state or federal UI benefits.,true
Its not currently legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.,true
Since 1978 CEO compensation rose over 1000 and only 11.9 for average workers.,true
New Haven Conn. had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement.,true
Wisconsins 201921 budget produced the first positive general fund balance since 2000 and the governors proposed 202123 budget would return it to a deficit.,true
Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the super minority.,true
We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60 more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.,true
There are more job openings than there are people on unemployment in Iowa.,true
Says he was one of the 2 state Senators who voted against North Carolinas body camera law.,true
San Francisco had twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths last year.,true
On Virginias new marijuana law You can have up to one pound with only a $25 fine.,true
Foxconn is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.,true
The federal American Rescue Plan will purchase more food from farmers for distribution.,true
There is racism physically built into some of our highways.,true
Twice as many children are inBorder Patrolcustody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.,true
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz was the lone vote in the House against an antihuman trafficking bill.,true
Theres still only a handful of school districts doing no inperson instruction.,true
West Virginia is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years,true
If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens Virginia ranks last.,true
Pot today is not the weed baby boomers were smoking.,true
86 of Americans and 82 of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check.,true
The Georgia House passed a bill that makes it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line.,true
The filibuster was never an idea of the founding fathers.,true
Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. Theyre buried beneath the ground.,true
The National Academy of Medicine points to a significant correlation between marijuana and psychosis schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders particularly in teenagers where the risk of developing schizophrenia increases three fold.,true
Becerra supports Bernies government takeover of your health care eliminating your employerprovided coverage.,true
Were the only major gasproducing state in the US that doesnt have a severance tax.,true
There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century.,true
Energy experts and State House Dems among others were warning of this the Texas power blackout for years.,true
The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.,true
We know mask mandates work. Theres enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that havent.,true
Insulin prices have gone THRU THE ROOF for patientstaxpayers bc of manufacturer health plan  PBM biz practices.,true
North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has won more statewide races than probably anyone else alive.,true
The United States is the only industrialized modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.,true
Says Joe Biden has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time ever more than Obama more than Trump more than anyone.,true
We put $330 million in general school aids  the largest in more than a decade.,true
There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with sixfigure incomes whove had no income interruption whatsoever.,true
Virginia ranks in the bottom third of states in administering the COVID19 vaccine.,true
It takes quite a while on Election Day to load those ballots which is why we have the 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. ballot dumping in Milwaukee.,true
It wasnt all women that lost jobs in the December jobs report it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact white women gained employment.,true
The second presidential impeachment of Donald Trump was the most bipartisan impeachment in American history.,true
Summer protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas rubber bullets a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol.,true
Before COVID19 more Iowans were working than at any other time in our state history.,true
This election actually was not unusually close.,true
In more than 60 cases judges looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit.,true
Congress has one job here to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.,true
In my state as in many other states we have governors who are closing down businesses again.,true
Jurisdictions representing about 80 of WI residents have passed referendums or resolutions in favor of fair maps.,true
New data shows inperson learning isnt driving spikes in cases.,true
Wisconsin is one of the few states that doesnt allow absentee ballots to be processed before Election Day.,true
Republican elected officials a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks were spreading a lie about his daughter breaking COVID19 restrictions.,true
Says COVID19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.,true
People of color and those of not they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.,true
When Donald Trump lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz in 2016 he immediately cried that Cruz cheated.,true
We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election thats ever been run in the United States.,true
Ive released 22 years of my tax returns. You can go online and look. Donald Trump hasnt released one.,true
Farm bankruptcies are at an eightyear high.,true
Says Dan Forest has missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic.,true
My 2018 election was the first time Speaker Robin Vos has lost a Republicanheld seat,true
Joe Biden wants to get rid of something called stepped up basis that reduces inheritance taxes.,true
While serving as Town Supervisor Nate McMurray voted to raise taxes on homeowners.,true
Georgia has almost 100000 more COVID19 cases almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.,true
West Virginia has one of the greatest percentages of veterans in any state.,true
Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.,true
The presidents own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.,true
That 5 wealth tax starts at $159000 per family.,true
In the last 10 years less than half of adults in the U.S. received a flu shot.,true
Republicans have the power to overturn the state of emergency order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it.,true
Over three months after receiving CARES Act relief funds from the state the county has still not made those dollars available to help struggling MidMissourians.,true
Iran has stockpiled 10 times as much enriched uranium as it had in 2016.,true
Abigail Spanberger has voted with Nancy Pelosi over 90 of the time,true
Nick Freitas supports a plan letting insurance companies deny coverage for preexisting conditions like asthma or diabetes.,true
Video showed police thank Kyle Rittenhouse  give him water prior to the killings,true
Police are 20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal.,true
In one of the states that determined the outcome of the 2016 presidential race the winning margin averaged out to just two votes per precinct two votes.,true
Cal Cunningham voted for over $1 billion in new taxes.,true
Says the U.S. Senate is dominated by millionaires and that he is not one of them.,true
The GOP lawyer who helped Kanye West get on the ballot in Wisconsin is actively working for Donald Trumps campaign.,true
Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic and now nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 dont have access to health care insurance.,true
On home health workers low pay and limited benefits 40 are still on SNAP or Medicaid.,true
Murders this year have spiked 27 in Philadelphia.,true
Taxpayers spent $70000000 to develop this drug  remdesivir.,true
The average family in America forks over more of their hardearned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.,true
Homicides are intraracial. When you look at whiteonwhite crime its 84. Right Homicides. White people kill white people.,true
Higher education is one of Americas strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities in the 201819 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.,true
Former U.S. Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson was a slave owner married to one of his slaves and father of two children with her.,true
The United States has not completed a toptobottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.,true
North Carolina is one of four states that hasnt opened gyms.,true
Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad so I said to my people Slow the testing down.,true
Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent racist carnival game,true
Our health department our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.,true
Significantly more people died of Covid19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.,true
In COVID19 crisis only 20 of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.,true
Infection rates in Allegany Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties have consistently been among the lowest in the state.,true
Since the week ending March 14 Wisconsin actually saw a drop in tourism spending compared to last year of $1.7 billion.,true
If Roe is overturned Wisconsin has a law on the books that would immediately make abortion a crime.,true
Today the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.,true
Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and higher COVID19 mortality rates.,true
Twothirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.,true
Says gloves shouldnt be worn in public because if you are wearing the same set of gloves all over town you are only spreading germs everywhere you go.,true
New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00.,true
Says its illegal to hold an absenteeonly election or mail ballots to every registered voter,true
Small trials to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients seem to have had some degree of success.,true
Says Texas either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.,true
North Carolina is in the small minority of states that requires an absentee ballot to be signed by two witnesses or a notary public.,true
Virginia has lagged behind other states when it comes to covid19 testing.,true
Until this week they OSHA werent even enforcing these guidelines for coronavirus. Still today OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.,true
The poor are ironically the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed essential while their upperclass peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.,true
Go look at other countries that went through exactly this started to reopen and then they saw the infection rate go back up again.,true
Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold as Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.,true
Republicans have shown themselves willing to cut millions off their health insurance and eliminate preexisting condition protections for millions more even in the middle of this public health crisis.,true
Before COVID19 Iowa had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country and many employers were scrambling to find qualified employees to fill their job openings.,true
Says of the coronavirus threat there was not a single suggestion by anyone a doctor a scientist a political figure that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.,true
Photo shows a crowded New York City subway train during stayathome order.,true
On February 7 the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks gowns and respirators to China.,true
My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.,true
Says longstanding Food and Drug Administration regulations created barriers to the private industry creating a test quickly for the coronavirus.,true
No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval.,true
Says most NC legislators are in the high risk age group for coronavirus,true
Says Spectrum will provide free internet to students during coronavirus school closures.,true
Some states are only getting 50 tests per day and the Utah Jazz got 58.,true
Whole of Italy goes into quarantine.,true
The average Wisconsin residents tax burden is at its lowest level in nearly 50 years while incomes continue to grow.,true
Youve raised a lot more money than I have Bernie.,true
During his tenure as mayor of New York City street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.,true
BernieSanders receives strong support from the conservative  most rural part of Vermont.,true
The majority of hunters now want universal background checks the majority of Trump voters.,true
From the moment we passed that signature legislation Mike Bloomberg called it a disgrace.,true
Says since he took office the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7000 new affordable housing units.,true
Over 50 of the people now in the House and state Senate have not been born in Virginia.,true
National polls have never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama  20 points behind in the national polls roughly.,true
Traditionally the Speaker says Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States. Tonight Speaker Pelosi said Members of Congress the President of the United States. ,true
Says 10 of U.S. children are Texans.,true
The president of the United States already has the legal authority to reduce the price of many commonly used prescription drugs.,true
More than 80 of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks.,true
The American people are overwhelmingly with us in calling witnessesin Senate trial,true
Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent covering 700000 more New Yorkers,true
Twitter is banned in Iran.,true
Witnesses have been part of every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had.,true
We have the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968.,true
Florida is the 45th in state education funding.,true
In 1988 in response to Irans attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts President Ronald Reagan destroyed half of Irans Navy.,true
We end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes.,true
Look at the men on this stage. Collectively they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that theyve been in are the women Amy and me.,true
A man at the storming of the U.S. embassy in Iraq visited the White House in 2011.,true
The United States is the only nation that grants legal permanent residency to more than a million people per year.,true
Last year 36 million Americans didnt have a prescription filled because they couldnt affordit.,true
If youre a black woman youre 320 more likely to die from complications in childbirth.,true
Says Pete Buttigieg ran statewide in Indiana and lost by 20 points.,true
Real wages went up last year 1.1.,true
California firefighters decided to speak out against President Trump because his tweet about the states wildfires contained so much misinformation.,true
Says a newannual report shows that West Virginias tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent.,true
A study showed as many as one in four people have had a package stolen from their residence.,true
Says the cartels are so bad in a Mexicanborder state that the U.S. government issued a Do Not Travel warning  the same warning it issued for Syria.,true
I am the only member of Congress that voted for both inquiries  the Clinton inquiry and now the Trump inquiry.,true
If we make no changes over the next 10 years Americans will reach into their pockets and pay out about $11 trillion on insurance premiums copays deductibles and uncovered medical expenses.,true
On average one person dies by suicide every 22 hours in West Virginia.,true
90000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless.,true
The impeachment inquiry hearings going on behind closed doors over which Congressman Schiff is presidingthey are consistent with the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives.,true
President Trump has sent 14000 American troops to the Middle East region since May. So he cant tell his political rallies that hes getting troops out of endless wars when hes sending 14 times the amount back into the region.,true
Americans say that what they want is a choice to join a singlepayer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.,true
West Virginia Department of Education reported over 10000 children and youth have been identified as homeless for the 20182019 school year.,true
Millionaires are eligible for food stamps but Donald Trump came along and decided to put a stop to it.,true
About 95 percent of Americas production of ethylene is produced on the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana.,true
Meth production in MO has cratered over last decade. MO Hwy Patrol reported 1326 meth lab seizures in 2006 only 50 in 2018.,true
Minneapolis city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530000 in security and other costs related to a Trump rally more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama.,true
Says in the 2016 presidential election I won that one by 42 points  42 points  West Virginia.,true
More than half of death row prisoners are people of color.,true
U.S. agricultural  food exports are expected to increase more than $2 billion annually under USMCA,true
Says people convicted of felonies or under restraining orders can buy a firearm without going through a background check.,true
One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leoaffiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch then a donor  perhaps the same one  gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh.,true
Thirtyfour of the 47 men depicted in the famous Declaration of Independence painting were slaveholders.,true
There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people.,true
America has more governors whove worn blackface than black governors.,true
The last time people created a Hollywood blacklist people ended up killing themselves  They were accused and they lost their right to work.,true
Floridas red flag gun law has been used about five times a day.,true
The law says that mental health must be treated the same as physical health but coverage by health insurers is unequal.,true
If you go back you can see Wayne LaPierre who runs the NRA testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or 20 years ago.,true
More Americans are uninsured today than when President Donald Trump took office.,true
Says of El Paso that some years in a city of almost 700000 we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last 10 years is 18 murders per year. We exceeded that average just on one day after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the city.,true
Studies show at the minimum wage you cant rent a twobedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest twobedroom apartment.,true
Since 2014 there has been a 25 reduction in crime in communities at the TexasMexico border.,true
Rep. Ilhan Omar voted yes to provide further funding for the 911 First Responders Victims Fund while Sen. Rand Paul voted no.,true
Triggering leftists Trumps reelection campaign is selling plastic straws.,true
Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low.,true
In 2017 we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined.,true
The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country.,true
The typical black family in this country has onetenth the wealth of the typical white family.,true
Wisconsin is a Top 10 state for health care coverage.,true
In 2018 when he ran for senator young voter turnout in early voting was up 500. We won more votes than any Democrat has in the history of the state of Texas.,true
The United States is the ONLY industrialized country without universal healthcare.,true
Just the last three weeks on average about 23000 women children men are coming over across the border illegally as family units or as unaccompanied children.,true
Most research shows that UW salaries are a little behind and in some areas were behind more than others.,true
The VA negotiates prescription drug prices. Medicare doesnt do that.,true
Says immigrant military service members applying for U.S. citizenship are getting rejected at higher numbers than those who are not veterans.,true
We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9 to 15.2 over the last eight years.,true
We beat the NRA with tough tough gun laws in Colorado.,true
In fact high Crimes and Misdemeanors is not defined in the Constitution and does not require corresponding statutory charges. The context implies conduct that violates the public trustand that view is echoed by the Framers of the Constitution and early American scholars.,true
I actually in 2005 ran on Medicare for all.,true
Weve had a 30 increase in suicides in this country in just 15 years.,true
Suicide is the secondleading cause of death among 1519 year olds and 2534 year olds in Missouri.,true
Texas actually leads in the number of Confederate monuments removed.,true
Over 30 states passed the legislation to ban powdered alcohol and Missouri is not one of them,true
Im one of the first guys to introduce a climate change bill way way back in 87.,true
99.4 of businesses in Wisconsin are small businesses and they employ nearly half of our workforce.,true
Youve got millions of families paying 40 50 60 of their limited incomes to put a roof over their heads.,true
The unemployment rate for Wisconsin workers has reached historic lows. Its never been this low before ever ever ever.,true
Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007 I talked about it to anyone who would listen a crisis is coming.,true
The enumeration clause speaks to the count of every individual and not just Americans not just citizens.,true
All the ponds in Missouri for which we have data are causing groundwater contamination.  This is a statewide issue.,true
Says 74 of people in Texas are crammed into 4 of the land.,true
Big pharmaceuticals pay off  they literally pay off  generics to keep the prices and the competition off the market.,true
Says 5 out of 10 GOP candidates dont live in North Carolinas 9th Congressional District.,true
In my own state of Vermont from the very first days of our states history what our Constitution says is that everybody can vote. That is true. So people in jail can vote.,true
I was the only member of the Senate  Republican or Democrat  who has consistently voted against efforts to use the so called nuclear option to change the rules of the Senate.,true
West Virginias exports increased for the second year in a row in 2018 reaching $8.1 billion. Additionally West Virginias export growth rate was 14.2 nearly double the national average of 7.6.,true
Our state has fewer science technology engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state.,true
Since 2011 we have documentation of 1671 dead bodies we have recovered in Texas many in Brooks County.,true
The 2008 election was the first election in which voters of color comprised over 25 percent of the electorate and that number is going up.,true
Currently 23 percent of our militarys infrastructure is graded as poor while 9 percent is failing.,true
In New York State Democrats blocked a Bill expanding College Tuition for Gold Star families after approving aid for illegal immigrants.,true
There have been zero reported instances of any child born alive after an abortion in Texas.,true
The Affordable Care Act provided over 200000 West Virginians with health care coverage.,true
Wisconsin has the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide.,true
Like every budget passed by the Senate since I have been lieutenant governor Senate Bill 1 is within the spending limit set by the Texas Constitution.,true
Says all North Carolina teachers do not currently get a duty free lunch break.,true
Missouri ranks 45th in the nation in per capita state fiscal support for higher education and Missouri State is last among Missouri schools.,true
About 80 percent of the manufacturing and agriculture tax credit goes to claimants who are making $1 million or more.,true
Right now 1 in 4 Texas women of reproductive age are uninsured totaling 1.5 million Texas women.,true
For Cabinet posts I have the best voting record against Trump nominees of anyone else running for president,true
Says an ICE detainer request is not a valid warrant.,true
29 states still dont have comprehensive protections for people in the LGBTQ community.,true
Says zero African Americans have presented to the House Budget Committee in 2019.,true
We are always going to need architects doctors were going to need professionals with fouryear degrees. But 65 to 70 percent of the people in Missouri dont have degrees.,true
Over the last eight years weve shown that even though weve cut taxes by $8 billion revenues continue to grow.,true
California has the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere the largest death row in the United States of America  two times the size of the next largest state Florida.,true
The Boeing 737 Max 8 the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia continues to fly in the United States despite the FAA saying software updates are likely coming.,true
Since 2011 the gap in high school graduation rates between AfricanAmerican students and all students has been cut in half from 6.4 percent to 3.1 percent.,true
We maintain this Missouri highway system with one of the lowest levels of funding in the country.,true
Virginia House Republicans have had more AfricanAmericans on key committees than when the Democrats were in control.,true
West Virginia has the nations lowest workforce participation rate which hovers around 50 percent when the national average is about 63 percent.,true
More than a million Californians do not have clean water to bathe in or drink.,true
Todays minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s.,true
I have more military experience than anybody whos arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush.,true
On extremerisk guns laws This idea has passed Republican legislatures in other states and has been signed by Republican governors.,true
A bill passed by GOP legislators makes it harder to prosecute people and groups that violate campaign finance laws.,true
The facts are the majority of opioids and all kinds of other things that are connected to the opioids are coming through the point of entry.,true
New York has passed the best paid family leave program in the United States of America.,true
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 includes the largest pay raise in nearly 10 years.,true
Adjusting for inflation West Virginias median household income has not grown in a decade.,true
The poverty rate in West Virginia was 19.1 percent the fourthhighest in the country.,true
There is nothing that we have done on Amazon that we have not done with hundreds of other projects.,true
In 2017 West Virginias $43469 median household income was $16867 below the national average ranking 50th.,true
Says Ann Coulter said I am a settler. I am descended from settlers  not from immigrants.,true
At General Motors CEO Mary Barra took home almost 22 MILLION DOLLARS last year alone 295x your companys average employee.,true
The United States spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy RD.,true
Missouri had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country.,true
In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses.,true
Middleclass income rose to a record level in 2017 as the strong economy lifted the fortunes of more Americans.,true
We have lost more lives in the last two years due to opioids than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War.,true
Says Joe Manchin refused to commit to Kavanaugh until AFTER the Senate had the votes.,true
Trump supporters are heading to the border as the migrant caravan approaches.,true
Do you know that New York State pays out way more than they ever get back,true
West Virginia added the highest percentage of new construction jobs in 2017 in the United States at 14.4. This amounted to 4300 additional jobs In fact WV was the only state with doubledigit growth,true
Household income among Hispanic Americans has just set a new record high.,true
West Virginia has the highest overdose rate per capita of any state in our nation.,true
Matt Rosendale supports plans that dont have to cover preexisting conditions.,true
On spending growth under Gov. Andrew Cuomo Despite the fact that you continue to suggest that youve been able to hold the two percent you havent.,true
My opponent is endorsed by Citizens United.,true
Thousands of folks are opening West Virginia EZPass accounts.,true
Black lung cases are at a 25year high.,true
The poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans  its been incredible theyve all reached their lowest levels in the history of our country.,true
Says Rick Scotts hospital company stole millions defrauding the militarys health care program.,true
Mark Harris has said he would abolish the Department of Education.,true
He even supports putting a female inmate in shackles during childbirth.,true
Says only one other senator from either party over the last 25 years has a worse record on bipartisanship than Ted Cruz.,true
Leah Vukmir OPPOSES Buy American legislation.,true
In West Virginia personal income tax collections were up 14 from 2017.,true
Since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Walmart increased their starting wage to $11hr  has given about $400 million in bonuses.,true
Most of Kathy Mannings donors are from outofstate.,true
The national economy was strong in its largest expansion of private sector jobs before President Trump came into office.,true
I think I received more votes in the Democratic primary than any governor in history.,true
Close to half of the children in California are at or near poverty when you consider costofliving.,true
Says Sean Hannity told listeners of his radio show that Beto ORourke is asking for help in getting undocumented to vote.,true
Says a Josh Hawley lawsuit would take away important prescription drug coverage for seniors through Medicare and end all of the consumer protections under the ACA.,true
Says the Trump administration transferred $10 million from FEMA to ICE.,true
Says Texas high school graduation rates are at alltime highs.,true
For only the second time since 2000 there are more job openings than Americans who are unemployed.,true
This year West Virginia produced more AmeriCorps members than any other state.,true
Says hes a smalltown supervisor who has kept a balanced budget who has increased surpluses who has led us to the highest credit rating our town has ever had.,true
If you are a gun store owner and you decide to go out of business  you right now are allowed to convert your entire gun store inventory to personal use and once it is a personal use weapon you can sell it without background checks.,true
The American economy is continuing its longest monthly streak of job growth in history with 3.9 million jobs added since President Trump was elected.,true
Says Beto ORourke has a criminal record that includes DWI and burglary arrests.,true
Apple and Amazon already operate in many states that require levels of voter ID.,true
I dont take a dime of PAC money.,true
Says Leah Vukmir claimed the open records law didnt apply to her got sued lost and cost taxpayers $15000 in legal fees.,true
One out of every 30 people in the Greater Boston area is an illegal alien.,true
Says hes never voted present in the House instead of taking a yes or no position.,true
In 2017 ICE arrested more than 127000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or facing charges of breaking our nations laws and removed nearly 5000 gang members.,true
In December of 2017 the Prince William board of supervisors had a meeting ... Corey Stewart skipped that meeting to go campaign in Alabama for Roy Moore to be a U.S. senator  You havent disavowed Roy Moores name yet.,true
Lets talk about the facts and where we are today. There are still nearly 2600 children who are separated from their parentsdue to the Trump administrations zerotolerance policy.,true
The Railroad Commission of Texas has nothing to do with railroads.,true
The three wealthiest people own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people.,true
Since 2014 each year NATO nations have been increasing their contributions.,true
There isnt a system for reuniting families separated under Trumps zerotolerance border policy.,true
Migrant mother and crying girl on Time cover never separated.,true
Since taking office we have enacted more than $8 billion in cumulative tax relief.,true
Under Emanuel CPS has become the most understaffed school district in Illinois.,true
When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years.,true
Says most of Austins biggest parks have recycling though as many as 293 out of 300 Austin city parks have no recycling including almost every neighborhood park.,true
Ohios payday lending laws are now the worst in the nation. Things have gotten so bad that it is legal to charge 594 percent interest on loans.,true
Says our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment.,true
Weve been down this road beforeblanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression.,true
Its against the law in Texas to let any loaded gun get in the hands of a child.,true
Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obamas term showing children from the Border in steel cages.,true
Senator Cryin Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal even going at it with President Obama  then Voted AGAINST it Now he says I should not have terminated the deal,true
Taking into account inflation the federal minimum wage is actually worth less than what it was worth 50 years ago.,true
You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year Zero.,true
Says Mitt Romney is using a million of his presidential campaign dollars to finance his Utah Senate race.,true
After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine the state reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure.,true
Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage.,true
A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis including recreational and medicalmarijuana.,true
Here are the facts there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as theyve been in nearly 50 years and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California.,true
New York has among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation,true
West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the nation.,true
In one day of fundraising I received more small donor contributions than Andrew Cuomo received in seven years.,true
California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production.,true
Half of the American women who are murdered are killed by their intimate partners.,true
Says PTA meetings are now being conducted to help parents tell their kids that if a guy with an AR15 walks into their classroom you are supposed to create as much chaos as you possibly can. They want you to scream and yell and dance around and throw books and just keep moving.,true
Says China and Singapore impose the death penalty on drug dealers.,true
Says Richard Cordray directed an Ohio commission to permit an armed group to have a rally on the statehouse grounds even taking the extraordinary step of assuming personal responsibility for waiving an insurance requirement in the event of an incident.,true
Since 1990 production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily.,true
We are last in the nation in startups  50th.,true
The 2018 Academy Awards show was the lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY.,true
Says Texas ranks among the nations top five states for its high school graduation rate.,true
Says Stephen F. Austin and James Bowie promoted slavery.,true
Under N.Y. State Assault Weapon ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal  banned,true
Its now constitutional to ban assault weapons in Illinois. Yet the Illinois General Assembly has failed to allow other cities to have that opportunity.,true
The impending work stoppage is unlawful.,true
About New York state We have the highest debt per capita.,true
Says that as a judge she has presided over more than 10000 cases.,true
In Georgia 25 percent of rural residents are without access to high speed internet.,true
The past president Barack Obama brought Al Sharpton into the White House something like 80 times.,true
There was no requirement to put in affordable housing.,true
Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union.,true
New York consistently ranks as one of the worst voting turnout states in the nation.,true
New York has the third lowest rate of guncaused death in America.,true
70 percent of the income tax that the state collects happens to come from Westchester Nassau Suffolk and New York City,true
Small business confidence is at an alltime high.,true
They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013 for immigration legislationand each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up.,true
Californias prisons budgetin 1970 was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now its 8.9 percent about $12 billion.,true
Reauthorizing the Childrens Health Insurance Program for six years saves $1 billion and doing it for 10 years saves $6 billion.,true
When we say one vote matters its not just a saying  it has proven true 141 times in Ohio over the last five years.,true
Says Donald Trumps use of the term fake news to undermine journalism seems to have inspired dictators and authoritarians.,true
The graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years,true
The White House staff risks violating federal ethics rules if they participatein Donald Trumps fake news awards.,true
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1000 points in last 5 weeks Record fastest 1000 point move in history.,true
These guys are now pretty much living up to the BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.,true
Wisconsins driver licenses and identification ID cards are currently the most secure in the nation.,true
Says Roy Moore said a practicing Muslim should not be a member of Congress because of his faith.,true
The No. 1 job vacancy in Florida every month for seven years has been nursing.,true
When I saw corruption and sexual harassment coverups I called on Sheldon Silver to resign.,true
Were growing union jobs faster than Illinois.,true
We are spending more on affordable housing than were spending on Dix Park right now.,true
Says county parties representing more than half the states Republican voters approved resolutions demanding changes in Texas House leadership.,true
Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s the muchmaligned Millennials have only a 5050 chance of doing better financially than their parents despite being the besteducated generation in our history.,true
What Republicans call the death tax is the estate tax on the ultra wealthy which in 2016 was paid by only two out of every 1000 people.,true
Our tax code has nearly doubled since 1985.,true
One in 10 babies born in this country is born in Texas.,true
I personally am prochoice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor.,true
90 percent of Americans support universal background checks for gun purchases.,true
Some states hit hardest by opioid deaths have more opioid prescriptions than residents.,true
While Mayor Rick Kriseman said he would dip into reserves this year because of Hurricane Irmahe went into the emergency reserves before Irma ever hit.,true
Floridas coastal and stormwater infrastructure are two of the most critical areas during a storm and received Dplus and D ratings respectively by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2016.,true
Ronald Reagan was a verified Democrat until his mid50s.,true
Seventysix percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act  with citizenship and legalization as part of it all.  More than 60 percent of Republicans support that.,true
Nearly 23 of rural Missourians dont have access to broadband. That needs to change.,true
No court has held Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals unconstitutional.,true
Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will harm our economy.,true
I think what the authors of the 25th Amendment principally had in mind was some kind of physical incapacitation or serious mental illness or a breakdown an inability to function in office.,true
Im the only candidate who has not accepted money from Carl Paladino nor LPCiminelli two of the biggest developers in the city of Buffalo.,true
It costs us about $33000 a year on average nationally to lock somebody up. In California it costs about $75000 a year.,true
Says his time away from Washington coincides with a long planned renovation for the White House.,true
The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.,true
Says transgender residents make up about 1in300 people were all over the place were your friends and your neighbors.,true
The Inland Empire is the second fastest growing region for jobs in California.,true
We have been able to cut New Yorks uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population.,true
We now have about onethird of New Yorks population on Medicaid.,true
Says President Richard Nixon held meetings with heads of state without an American interpreter.,true
One Texas school district alone  Austin ISD  is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year.,true
I helped win one of the biggest private lawsuits against Medicare fraud in history. The government declined to pursue the case so my firm did and we recovered $324 million for taxpayers.,true
Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done.,true
The New York State Senate passed legislation allowing minors to race snowmobiles get their own hunting licenses and not be employed gathering or picking rags cigar stumps or collecting bones.,true
Seven years later Scott Walker has not hit his first campaign promise of creating 250000 jobs.,true
Says Jon Ossoff doesnt even live in his district.,true
There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap.,true
Says each of the past three years has been the hottest on record.,true
Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year more than double that held by the committee in any recent year.,true
How many federal rulings have NOW found intentional discrimination by Txlege since 2011 6.,true
For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients the delivery driver is the only human contact in their life from week to week.,true
The waiting list for PreK is over in the House budget.,true
Texas leads the country in animal deaths by sodium cyanide M44s.,true
Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didnt sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasnt tough enough.,true
Many of the countries in question in Trumps travel ban dont even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet.,true
Due to the recent downturn in steel production more than 13600 Americans have been laid off and the steel industry is facing billions in losses.,true
President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office.,true
The federal tax code includes deductions for birds flying across America.,true
Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country.,true
In some cases asex offender who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft when ridehailing is allowed upstate in July,true
General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration.,true
China accounts for 90 percent of North Korean trade.,true
The estimated price of President Trumps border wall is the same as the cost of one and a half aircraft carriers.,true
Theres no real evidence in the last 20 years that growth from tax cuts has made up lost revenue.,true
Were experiencing a net outflow of illegal undocumented workers from America back to Mexico.,true
Illegal immigrationon the U.S.Mexico border is the lowest in 17 years.,true
Missouri is actually the only state that has been forced to borrow money from the federal government to pay for unemployment benefits during each of the last five economic downturns.,true
Trump looking to open up E Coast  new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP,true
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter is a terrorist movement a hate group and calls it Black LIES Matter.,true
Says a Texas Senate committee considering private school voucher legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.,true
More than 20 million people are at risk of dying from starvation within 6 months in 4 nations.,true
House Bill 991 could lead to the opening of as many as 2000 new liquor stores.,true
75 percent of the town boards in Wisconsin have no women on them at all.,true
There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders.,true
Says President Donald Trump had a different opinion in 2013 than he does now about whether Barack Obama should have intervened in Syria after Obamas red line was crossed.,true
Afghanistan has more hectares of opium poppies planted today than they had before we started this war.,true
In New York state you cannot charge an older person even one dollar more than a younger person for health insurance.,true
2.1 million jobs have been created in the last six or seven years in California,true
More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas.,true
South Florida ranks No. 1 in the gap between wages and housing.,true
The GOPs Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lowerincome people buy health insurance but also expand the entitlement by giving subsidies to higherincome people that Obamacare never helped.,true
Small businesses create two out of every three American jobs.,true
The average margin of victory in the House of Representatives was 37 for Democrats and Republicans in the 2016 election.,true
Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995 but all of them have failed to become law.,true
Onethird of the counties  think of it onethird  only have one insurer left on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.,true
Says condoms used to be taxexempt here in Texas.,true
Florida is now the only state in the nation to tax commercial leases.,true
Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trumps proposal for child care go to the people making over $100000 a year.,true
Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants.,true
Says HB2 has hurt North Carolinas economy by onetenth of 1 percent of our annual GDP.,true
Ive given the religious schools in my budget more money than ever before in history.,true
Just last year over 5000 refugees came to New York state and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.,true
During his campaign for president Donald Trump committed to honoring states rights when it comes to marijuana legalization.,true
You can almost pinpoint half of the gun violence deaths to two or three specific sections in the city. They are just areas of devastation economically and otherwise.,true
For every extra year a girl goes to school her income goes up 12 percent.,true
The status quo led the General Assembly to reduce pension payments four straight years starting in 2005 costing billions of dollars as the delay in contributions essentially borrowed from pension funds at a very high interest rate.,true
New York state subsidizes private colleges probably more than any other state except maybe one.,true
Graduation rates in Buffalos school district which were around 48 percent are now up to 64 percent since Say Yes Buffalo launched.,true
Says ExxonMobil fought to kill a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.,true
Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuchs confirmation in 2006.,true
About threequarters of Syrian refugees are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old.,true
All of our taxpayers are paying roughly 22 of the U.N. budget.,true
Twentyseven percent of Californians almost 11 million were born in a foreign land.,true
The exodus of citizens from New York State has been growing.,true
California has the highest poverty rate in the nation when considering the U.S. Census Bureaus Supplemental Poverty Measure.,true
The uninsured rate in California reached a historic low of 7.4 percent in 2016.,true
House Bill 6627 also requires the applicant to attest to their eligibility to vote as is required by the National Voter Registration Act and used by all other states that have automatic voter registration.,true
By funding the authorization thats already happened a decade ago in the Secure Fence Act of 2006 we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trumps campaign pledge to secure the border.,true
The federal government is prohibited from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens.,true
Wisconsin property taxes as a percentage of personal income are the lowest that theyve been since the end of World War II.,true
I have never once raised the county tax levy  not for seven straight years.,true
More college graduates are living at home than in decades.,true
In New York Average college debt  $30000 per student.,true
Jackie Evanchos album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her inauguration performance.,true
Unlike California we in Florida welcome driverless cars  no permit required.,true
The causation standard in Indiana is exactly the same as it is in Illinois.,true
On Oct. 7 the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails.,true
In Austin Texas the average homeowner is paying about $1300 to $1400 just for recapture meaning funds spent in nonAustin school districts.,true
Social Security was basically invented at the University of WisconsinMadison thats where Franklin Roosevelt got the idea.,true
We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security.,true
Says Donald Trump thinks stopandfrisk is fine.,true
Even though men comprise 49 of the population they hold 80 of the lawmaking power in the Legislature 144 of 181 seats.,true
We spend less than 2 percent more every year. That is the lowest increase in spending since they have been keeping numbers.,true
Hillary Clinton in 2005 cosponsored legislation that would jail flag burners.,true
Texas spends more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student.,true
Says John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year thatI still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct.,true
Financial conflictofinterest laws dont apply to the president right So the president doesnt have to have a blind trust.,true
Newt Gingrich has been a proponent of selecting a president by popular vote instead of the Electoral College.,true
I was the first member of Congress to contribute to Donald Trump.,true
Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid.,true
Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country.,true
Under Donald Trumps tax plan 51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up.,true
Says Richard Burr was one of only three senators who voted against a ban on insider trading for members of Congress. And he called that vote brave.,true
Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare we could keep our doctors and our plans it was rated as the Lie of the Year.,true
Says Donald Trump wants to undo marriage equality.,true
Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think youve made a mistake.,true
Says of Donald Trump He even said on his very first day in office he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms.,true
Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families.,true
Says Donald Trump was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well first hed want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them.,true
Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are prohibited from recommending medical marijuana.,true
Were already bombing seven countries.,true
Says Ted Strickland in this campaign bragged about his Aplus rating with the NRA. ... He has said he has a mixed and spotty record on this issue and that he can be criticized for it. Those are his words not mine. So I dont know where he is on this issue.,true
Zephyr Teachout says she is against Super PACs despite taking money from Super PAC donors,true
Says Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower.,true
We have 17 intelligence agencies civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks these cyberattacks come from the highest levels of the Kremlin and they are designed to influence our election.,true
Heroin .. pours across our southern borders.,true
Says Warren Buffett has publicly said his secretary should not be paying a higher tax rate than him.,true
Marco Rubio made it clear Not only does he think Donald Trump is a con man hewent on to say he doesnt trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes.,true
Says over 90 percent of Travis Countys eligible residents have registered to vote.,true
Weve had Muslims in America since George Washington.,true
Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S.,true
Says Donald Trumps tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two.,true
Says Paul Ryan is still endorsing Trump.,true
You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites and what Donald Trump saysabout Muslims is used to recruit fighters.,true
Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. Thats the highest weve ever been in our country.,true
Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied by Hillary Clintons State Department.,true
Says Rep. John Katko promised he wouldnt vote to defund Planned Parenthood and since hes been in office hes done that four times,true
Says Philando Castile had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident.,true
Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.,true
Says Senate candidate Katie McGinty made thousands from companies she previously regulated.,true
Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat she has said that we need causation in our workers comp system. Thats the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.,true
Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year.,true
Says Donald Trump started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to AfricanAmericans.,true
According to independent experts Donald Trumps tax plan would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middleclass families compared to the wealthy.,true
In Chicago theyve had thousands of shootings thousands since Jan. 1. Thousands of shootings.,true
The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young AfricanAmerican men more than the next nine causes put together.,true
Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today,true
Says a change in law he carried stopped a $100 million tax increase in the Dallas school district.,true
Tom Suozzi raised taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars as Nassau County executive.,true
In Harrisburg I passed more bills than all the Democrats combined in terms of legislation affecting the city.,true
We spend more per student than almost any other major country in the world.,true
In the mid 1990s in our state Florida was No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds.,true
Says thatRepublican Darryl Glennhas described Democrats as evil and has said hes tired of hearing about Republicans reaching across the aisle.,true
Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America.,true
In the past decade in New York State more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing  more than any other state.,true
Latinos are 17 percent of our countrys population but hold only 2 percent of its wealth.,true
When Moammar Gadhafi was set to visit the United Nations and no one would let him stay in New York Trump allowed Gadhafi to set up an elaborate tent at his Westchester County New York estate.,true
Trump Management was charged with discriminating against AfricanAmericans and breaking federal law.,true
Says Donald Trumpsfoundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a sixfoottall painting of himself.,true
Heroin comes in the United States from the southern border.,true
Says Dick Cheney supported gay marriage soonerthan Hillary Clinton.,true
As governor Ted Strickland left only 89 cents in Ohios rainy day fund.,true
Says Russ Feingold broke his 1992 promise to always get the majority of funding from Wisconsin residents.,true
Says Hillary Clinton wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.,true
Child care costs in some states now exceed the average price tag for college tuition.,true
Tom Reed has actually voted for every single trade deal that has ever come before him in any form.,true
Says that in 2015 illegal immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.,true
The Dallas Cowboys cant put a sticker on their helmets for the 5 police officers who were killed.,true
Says Alex Jones said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.,true
SaysGOP U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn wants to eliminate the Department of Education and jeopardize college fundingfor 320000 Coloradans.,true
Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are quite unpopular.,true
Says there are concrete examples of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because of handguns being allowed in campus buildings and classrooms.,true
Says Marco Rubio voted against the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act.,true
Says Scott Walkers listening sessions are inviteonly and excluding the press.,true
Almost half a million people are still eligible for DACA particularly in the AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander community.,true
In Congress right now were doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature but its still only 19 percent.,true
While introducing Donald Trump former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11 2001 strikes as a successful terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obamas 2008 election.,true
Today California is kicking our butt creating more jobs and more economic growth than Texas.,true
Most Americans support the legalization of marijuana.,true
50 of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college.,true
Donald Trump is against marriage equality. He wants to go back.,true
California is home to the largest death row populationin the Western Hemisphere.,true
Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.,true
Says the media distortedwhat happened with a baby at his rally.,true
The mosquito population in South Florida is larger than it is in many other communities in the country.,true
Illinois suffered 1652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012 and is now ranked the third worst in the country for statefunded treatment capacity.,true
Says Danny Tarkanian  wants to defund Planned Parenthood and would outlaw a womans right to choose even in cases of rape or incest.,true
We fixed a loophole in the gun background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer.,true
After the shootings of Dallas policemen nearly 500 people applied in just 12 days.,true
The Koch network is spending more money in a Senate race in Ohio than anywhere else in the country.,true
Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales.,true
Speakers at the Democratic National Convention made zero mentions of the global terrorist threat posed by ISIS.,true
I wake up every morning in a house the White House that was built by slaves.,true
We created 800000 new jobs we cut the unemployment rate almost in half and today New York State has more private sector jobs than it has ever had in its history,true
An amendment pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago threatens religious institutions with a loss of their taxexempt status if they openly advocate their political views.,true
Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly  $800 billion last year alone.,true
Fortythree million Americans are on food stamps.,true
For decades the states gas tax has been among the highest in the nation.,true
Says Hillary Clinton said all workrelated emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said thats not true.,true
There are at least twice as many licensed firearm dealers in California as there are McDonalds.,true
Says Gary Farmers claim that he received an A from the NRA is an absolute lie.,true
Over the last six years the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants.,true
A shocking 20 veterans are committing suicide each and every day especially our older veterans.,true
Says GOP Senate nominee Darryl Glenn said he wants to see Ted Cruz appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.,true
The United States is the oldest democracy in the world.,true
Says Donald Trump wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.,true
More people now die in Wisconsin from drug overdoses than car crashes.,true
Proposed NClaw for body camera footage gives police broad authority to keep video footage secret  even from individuals who are filmed.,true
Says Donald Trumps proposed tax treatment of hedge fund managers makes the current loophole even worse.,true
If you are a member of union your median weekly income is roughly $200 more than if you are a nonunion member and that doesnt include benefits.,true
Risk analysts listed Donald Trump a Donald Trump presidency as one of the top threats facing the global economy ahead of terrorism.,true
The major immigration issue was about Poles and Bulgarians and Romanians and that they werent contributing economically. The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits.,true
The National Park Service has an annual budget that is less than the city of Austin.,true
SaysDonald Trump called pregnant employees an inconvenience.,true
The LGBT community is more often the victims of hate crimes than any other recognized group.,true
Says Hillary Clinton said she was under attack in Bosnia but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.,true
Says Kelly Ayotte voted again yesterday against a proposal to expand background checks  buyers can continue to simply go online or to gun shows to purchase guns without background checks.,true
Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world.,true
Nine million people have lowercost HIVAIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband.,true
Only half of the murders in the city of St. Louis get solved.,true
Says Donald Trump mocked someone with a disability.,true
The labor force participation rate  the share of the potential workforce that is actually working or looking for work currently stands below 63 the lowest level since the 1970s.,true
Since 1978 college tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation.,true
A trade war is something very different than curbing new trade agreements. We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful.,true
The 2015 Legislature passed the fewest laws in 20 years.,true
The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured UW faculty fired during the last two decades.,true
Sayvideo shows massive alligator strolling across Florida golf course.,true
Vietnamese is the third most commonly spoken language in Texas.,true
When I was secretary of state I had a very high approval rating.,true
You can import as many hemp products into this country as you want...but we cant grow it.,true
We now do have evidence that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.,true
Before 2005 the percentage of Texas high school students meeting the college readiness standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stood at 28 in English and 42 in math. Those figures stood at 65 and 66 in 2013.,true
Under Donald Trumps tax plan the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers  people earning multiple millions of dollars a year on average  would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined.,true
The United States has a low voter turnout rate.,true
Austin is number one in Texas in startups venture capital and patents.,true
For the first time in over 40 years Republicansdont hold a single statewide office in Virginia.,true
The city of Clarkston cant decriminalize marijuana. Only state legislators and Congress can do that.,true
Says $15anhourproposal in Cleveland is the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country.,true
Before April 22 we have restored the rights of more than 18000 individuals which is more than the past seven governors combined in their fouryear terms.,true
Closing the tobacco loophole would save Missouri taxpayers $50000000,true
After my first year as governor I was one of the most unpopular governors maybe the most unpopular governor in the country. ... It changed.,true
In two years Gov. McAuliffe has vetoed more bills that the previous three governors issued in each of their fouryear terms.,true
North Carolina has one of the fastest growing populations as well as the fastest growing economy in the country.,true
Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes.,true
Says he was the only Republican to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.,true
I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York.,true
A tax on soda and juice drinks would disproportionately increase taxes on lowincome families in Philadelphia.,true
As a former federal prosecutor I prosecuted over 4000 cases.,true
Says Republican presidential candidate and Gov. John Kasich has spent 177 days out of state and used $350000 in taxpayer money on his costly campaign.,true
Says New Hampshires second congressional district includes two counties where almost 5 percent if not more of residents are enrolled in the states expanded Medicaid program.,true
In nine Democratic debates Weve not had one question about a womans right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care not one question.,true
Right now here in Texas wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels.,true
In Malaysia  many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slavelike conditions.,true
States with the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates.,true
Polls showHillary Clinton wins every time with Donald Trump as her opponent.,true
More people are struck by lightning than commit inperson voter fraud by impersonation.,true
The barber regulation here in Missouri is 10000 words long.the book of Revelation is also 10000 words long.,true
When it comes to fighting terrorism Another thing we know that does not work based on lots of empirical evidence is torture.,true
Big soda has a lot of money.They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that were trying to cure.,true
Since 1900 six U.S. Supreme Court justices have been confirmed during election years including Justice Anthony Kennedy who was confirmed in the final year of the Reagan Administration.,true
During three and a half years of campaigning Lamar Smith has never once appeared at a moderated debate to defend his positions on the issues.,true
Virginia now is the number one exporter of agricultural products to Cuba. We have now jumped to number one.,true
Bernie Sanders passed more roll call amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member.,true
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms.,true
We do not have an overcrowding problem. As a matter of fact Rhode Island has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country.,true
Six justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been confirmed in presidential election years since 1912.,true
Six justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been confirmed in presidential election years since 1912.,true
Says a YouTube video shows Thomas DiMassimo the man who rushed Trump at an Ohio rally dragging the American flag on the ground like it was a piece of garbage.,true
Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men outstripping the next nine causes of death combined.,true
The U.S. doesnt make television sets anymore.,true
One would have to go back more than a century to find a scenario where a presidents nominee for the Supreme Court was confirmed by the opposition party in the Senate when the vacancy occurred during an election year.,true
We understand that this heroin is primarily coming from Mexico over the border.,true
The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people.,true
More than once Ive actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance.,true
Foreign aid is less than 1 percent of our federal budget.,true
When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years.,true
Like Marco Rubio Sen. Barack Obama had one of the worst attendance records in the Senate.,true
Theres no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections.,true
There have been multiple media reports about Donald Trumps business dealings with the mob with the mafia.,true
Texas is home to millions of Latinas but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress.,true
Building a wall on the U.S.Mexico border will take literally years.,true
AfricanAmericans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do.,true
Theres never been a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy in the last I think 30 years lasting longer than 237 days.,true
People have actually broken down the transcripts for oral arguments and Antonin Scalia told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other justices.,true
We are almost halfway to our goal of 1000 rapes prosecuted,true
Says Donald Trump supported impeachment of President George W. Bush.,true
North Koreas missiles are not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon.,true
The AfricanAmerican community lost half of their wealth as a result of the Wall Street collapse.,true
Says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.,true
Says she is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors John Kasich and Chris Christie combined.,true
Owen in MA vs. Owen in RI  AdvantageRhode Island.,true
China is practicing how to blow up our satellites.,true
I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA Ive got Bernies back.,true
It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces.,true
Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country.,true
When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics When they get to the question on Would you vote for a socialist it is even less popular than voting for atheists.,true
Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 more Americans have died by gunfire within our own country than American servicemen and women who were killed in all our wars.,true
Anyone can die of a toothache.,true
In 40 years of broadcast I have never endorsed any candidate.,true
Two million new jobs have been created in California since 2011.,true
Today if you were raised poor youre just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago.,true
SaysBernie Sanders has reversed his position on immunity for gun manufacturers and sellers.,true
Boston is just 60 minutes away and its offering subsidies to developers who can charge higher rent than you can get in Providence while construction costs are more or less equal. As a result the Boston skyline is completely dominated by the cranes.,true
Says Marco Rubio knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion.,true
Our businesses have created jobs every single month since Obamacare became law.,true
Lets start with the premise that Rhode Island already has one of the 10 strictest gun laws amongst all the states.,true
Guantanamo has never been a key component of ISIS or alQaida propaganda.,true
Here in Wisconsin weve put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years.,true
Says American polling shows Russian President Vladimir Putin has an 80 percent approval rating.,true
The United States spends almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K. on health care and 50 percent more than they pay in France.,true
If you are going to kill the families of terrorists realize that theres something called the Geneva Convention were going to have to pull out of.,true
Since 2008 Gwinnett Countys population has grown 15 percent while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.,true
The U.S.tax rate on successful small businesses is 44.6 percent while the business tax rate in Canada is 15 percent.,true
Since 2008 we have cut 5000 positions from Virginia public schools.,true
Probably less than 4 percent of Wisconsin residents are enjoying the subsidies from Obamacare.,true
The number of people in Atlanta dying from HIV and AIDS declined 59 percent between 2004 and 2012.,true
Twentyfive percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs.,true
The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070.,true
Says President Barack Obama will not utter the words radical Islamic terrorism and as matter of policy nobody in the administration will say the words radical Islamic terrorism.,true
More black babies are aborted in NYC than born.,true
Instead of fighting ISIS the Saudis have focused more on a campaign to oust Iranbacked Houthi rebels in Yemen.,true
Wisconsins 6th congressional district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other in the nation.,true
When President Barack Obama said ISIS or ISIL was contained he was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.,true
Says income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.,true
Will Hurd tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican straight party voting record.,true
There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible.,true
Marco Rubio spent $400K of your tax dollars remodeling offices and building a membersonly lounge.,true
Most Americans are ready to put it marijuana prohibition behind us and move on.,true
Dark money spending in the 2016 election cycle is 10 times what it was at the same point in the 2012 election cycle when it topped $308 million.,true
Electric car sales in Georgia have dropped dramatically since a $5000 tax credit was eliminated and a $200 annual registration fee was imposed July 1.,true
A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers We can take your competition off the streets for FREE.,true
In 2008 thenSen. Barack Obama missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes. In 2004 John Kerry missed close to 60 to 70 percent and Bob Graham missed over 30 percent of his votes.,true
After today GovJayNixon will have been overridden more times than all previous governors in MO history moleg,true
Brewpubs cant sell growlers of their beer to customers.,true
60 percent of all Americans do not want to see Planned Parenthood defunded.,true
Sen. Sanders did vote five times against the Brady bill.,true
Says Donald Trump supports eminent domain and the Supreme Courts Kelodecision.,true
90 of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes.,true
Since 2008 U.S. crude oil output has increased by over 80 percent an increase of over 4 million barrels a day. That is the fastest increase in U.S. history.,true
We have 650 people who move to Texas every day.,true
Says Bernie Sanders was there when it came to samesex marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasnt popular.,true
Theres no money for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.,true
Six of the 10 richest counties in the United States surround Washington D.C.,true
The racial and ethnic makeup of the Gwinnett County Sheriffs Office mirrors the community it serves.,true
No openly gay man has ever been elected to the Georgia Legislature.,true
On the main GOP presidential debateNot one candidate on the debate stage has military experience  ,true
Tens of thousands of Atlanta households pay more than 30 percent of their income towards rent.,true
Just about half of rural hospitals operate in the red in Virginia. They operate at a loss.,true
Eightythree law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twentyfour of them were shot and killed in cold blood.,true
The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago.,true
Georgias CRCT set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation.,true
Im the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time theres a death of someone in police custody.,true
The State of Texas is funding  womens health services at historically high levels they just increased their level another $50 million for the next two years.,true
Trump proposed enacting the largest tax increase in American history.,true
Georgia has the 9th highest rate of adults ages 18 to 64 without a high school diploma or GED.,true
Of the 25 wealthiest nations were the only one that doesnt provide basic health coverage.,true
Saudi Arabia has the thirdlargest military budget in the entire world.,true
By the end of this budget Im in right now taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state.,true
More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.,true
Says Ron Johnson opposes entirely a federal minimum wage except perhaps for guest workers.,true
To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamperproof photoID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram.,true
Last year we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi.,true
There are actually only 30 countries that practice birthright citizenship.,true
Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription.,true
Youre more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas thanfind inperson voter fraud.,true
Says Donald Trump has changed his mind on abortion.,true
AfricanAmerican children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids.,true
The Republican presidential nominee hasnt won women since 1988.,true
As governor of Florida I defunded Planned Parenthood.,true
Wisconsins rainy day fund is 165 times bigger than when we first took office.,true
Caution Kissing and cuddling chickens can be hazardous to your health.,true
Since Volvo spurned Georgia for South Carolina in early May some 3455 jobs promising more than $800 million in investments have come to the Peach State.,true
The majority of the Hispanic population and the growth of the population is U.S.born.,true
With the exception of baby formula the federal government does not require any food to carry an expiration date and state laws vary widely.,true
Says David Jolly refused to cut spending for a national greenhouse in D.C.,true
Hillary Clintons State Department actually admonished one of her ambassadors because he wasnt using the proper server.,true
Says Donald Trump has supported a Canadianstyle universal health care system.,true
The murder rate in Atlanta is on the rise this year.,true
Says Bill and Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trumps last wedding.,true
The actual deportations from the interior of the country are way down under President Obama.,true
Says Scott Walkers views on abortion are more restrictive than any Republican president in recent times.,true
In New Orleans nearly100 percent of our kids are in charter schools.,true
Despite what Donald Trump claims there werent 15000 people who turned out in Phoenix to see Trump speak.,true
Says she called for addressing risks of derivatives cracking down on subprime mortgages and improving financial oversight early on in the financial crisis.,true
Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case.,true
Replacing 100000 old toilets with waterefficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.,true
Greece is not a big economy. Its about the size of metropolitan Miami.,true
The House of Representatives just voted 300131 to remove countryoforigin labeling on chicken pork and beef sold in the U.S.,true
Says his release of 33 years of tax returns is more than any presidential candidate in history.,true
Only five states including Georgia do not have a hate crimes law.,true
If you want to vote in Texas you can use a concealedweapon permit as a valid form of identification but a valid student ID isnt good enough.,true
Between 1980 and 2010 water usage in Georgia dropped even as the states population grew.,true
46 percent of women between the age of 16 to 24 despise sexual contact in Japan.,true
More than half of women under 30 who give birth do so outside of marriage...,true
The Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse must fly at a height of 30 feet. Any changes  taken down or even at halfstaff if that can be done  must be passed by a supermajority of the General Assembly.,true
This March for the first time in human history the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years.,true
The top25 hedge fund managers are making more than all of Americas kindergarten teachers combined.,true
Ninetyseven percent of Americans do not receive subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act.,true
Georgia residents file the most insurance claims for lightning strikes in the country.,true
47 percent of Americanscant pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards without selling something or borrowing money.,true
We reduced the government workforce by 13000 11 percent during my eight years.,true
Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago.,true
Fox News barely covered the Duggar family scandal until Megyn Kelly was able to secure this interview.,true
Since 2010 eight children in Georgia have died due to vehicular heatstroke.,true
You can fill out your tax return in Estonia online in five minutes.,true
One out of five of our children live in a family thats on food stamps.,true
For the first time in 35 years we have more businesses dying than we do starting.,true
We spend more money on lobbying than we do on campaigns.,true
A 5050 publicprivate split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would be much better  in terms of the portion of the public financing  than most of the other arena projects done around the country.,true
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS 75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon.,true
Says Sen. Rand Paul RKy. has stated that supporting the right to health care ... means you believe in slavery.,true
Georgia ranks 49th for women serving in elected state and federal offices.,true
Says he was known as Veto Corleone for cutting spending as Florida governor.,true
The United States is one of only seven nations that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks postfertilization.,true
Accidents are down 50 percent and injury accidents are down 60 percent in the rebuilt Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee.,true
Georgia is on track for 1200 traffic fatalities this year a reversal of nine years of declines.,true
Annual precipitation has increased in Rhode Island by over 12 inches in the last century.,true
Says Mike Huckabee appeared in diabetes infomercials to endorse cures and treatments that no health agency supports.,true
The state budget will include scholarship money for minority students as a concession to Senate Democrats for supporting the GOPinitiated transportation bill.,true
During the Bush administration you actually had a prominent liberal write a book about how Bush was preparing for a fascist takeover of this country.,true
An audit shows there are 6.5 million people who have active Social Security numbers who are 112 years of age or older,true
Wisconsins nondiscrimination law doesnt protect members of the transgender community.,true
When we moved into the White House we had the lowest net worth of any family since Harry Truman.,true
The people of Tiverton have historically supported gambling measures at a rate higher than the rest of the state.,true
The Iranians are now saying that what were saying the deal is and what they understand it to be are two different things.,true
Distracted driving such as texting behind the wheel is behind a rise in traffic deaths on Georgia roadways this year.,true
Im the only member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds in the last election from small contributions of less than $200.,true
Of the 13 Bill Clinton speeches that fetched $500000 or more only two occurred during the years his wife was not secretary of state.,true
Hillary Clintons State Department sent three comedians to India on the Make Chai Not War tour.,true
The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5  far more than double white unemployment  and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000.,true
We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein I think or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries.,true
The fastestgrowing part of the Pentagons budget are health care expenses.,true
More than 30 cents of every state tax dollar goes to Medicaid.,true
We are in the sixth year of recovery and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery.,true
Wisconsins attorney general and state treasurer ordered the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson not to discuss climate change on state time.,true
You cant build a Christian church in Saudi Arabia.,true
Seventy percent of Americans dont have a college degree.,true
Lawmakers were paid for their offseason efforts to for the first time take the lead in drawing borders for two wouldbe cities.,true
Did you know that the U.S. is one of the very few nations in the world without an official language,true
Says he paid one dollar for a sweater at Kohls.,true
White people control almost 90 percent of the nations wealth.,true
Under current conditions by 2023 the interest payments on the national debt will be $722 billion larger than the projected defense spending of $696 billion.,true
Liberty University students were mandated to attend Sen. Ted Cruzs presidential announcement or they would be fined.,true
Ted Cruz was the longestserving solicitor general in the history of Texas.,true
Uber and other rideshare firms are not required to carry auto insurance under Georgia law.,true
Polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support requiring background checks for all gun sales.,true
The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a taxcredit for consumers electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.,true
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House some children who are legal refugees could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.,true
Contrary to popular belief we actually dont have that many public employeesWe are well below average in the number of public employees.,true
Research performed by economists has shown no consistent positive impact on jobs income or tax revenues arising from stadiums or sports franchises.,true
Already this calendar year since January 1 we have had more than 20000 people come across the border apprehended unauthorized.,true
America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world.,true
Six of the nations 10 wealthiest counties according to median income are in and around the Washington D.C. area.,true
The Clintons foundation took millions from foreign governments including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.,true
Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and virtually everyone of them is playing in government owned ballparks.,true
The potential Iran nuclear agreement would limit Iran to the number of centrifuges needed for a weapon but too few for a nuclear power program.,true
Georgias share of money from the Federal Highway Trust Fund declined 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.,true
Last year we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years.,true
Cigarette butts poison babies and small children because of the nicotine in them.,true
A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines jet fuel tax breaks violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration.,true
The Department of Homeland Security is the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year by Congress.,true
The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted  an estimated 2.7 million people in the U.S.,true
There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States.,true
The governors budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.,true
If someone is in a room that has measles and leaves and you walk in two hours later you could get measles from that person.,true
Measles is one of the most common causes of child blindness worldwide.,true
Science is very certain that the measles vaccine doesnt cause autism.,true
Since I took office over 319000 new private sector jobs have been created in Georgia with nearly 93000 of those coming in the past 12 months.,true
GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR 59PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY,true
Only 18 percent of jobs are accessible by transit for metro Atlanta residents. 33 percent for those living in the city.,true
Since Gov. Nathan Deal office in 2011 the states rainy day fund has grown by 643 percent.,true
The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.,true
Democrats have lost more than 900 state legislators since Barack Obama has been president.,true
The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make GSU one of the largest universities in the nation with more than 54000 students.,true
The economy is creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.,true
In President Barack Obamas 2015 State of the Union address the words alQaida were never used the first time those words have not been used in a State of the Union address since February 2001.,true
America is No. 1one in oil and gas.,true
The religious liberty bill proposed in the Georgia House of Representatives does not specifically exclude corporations which means they can legally claim a religious exemption.,true
Over the past five years the American automobile industry has created about 500000 new jobs.,true
Federal officials declared that grant funds could be used only for Milwaukees streetcar project meaning it isnt possible to redirect the money to other modes of public transportation or to our public schools.,true
Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right and never said it had to be between a man and a woman.,true
Mercedes said high taxes and the cost of doing business in New Jersey worked to Georgias advantage in landing the companys USA corporate headquarters.,true
I belong to the AFLCIO.,true
A private company building a natural gas pipeline into Florida is being forced to spend months under the review of six federal agencies.,true
State school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009 after adjusting for inflation.,true
After World War II we tried convicted and in some cases executed Japanese soldiers for war crimes that included charges of waterboarding.,true
January through November 2014 the year so far were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded.,true
Western Europeans can fly in the United States without even having a visa.,true
Colorado raked in $60 million in marijuana taxes and licensing fees in the past year.,true
Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.,true
Were now the No. 1 producer of oil in the world. Weve surpassed Saudi Arabia.,true
The President has decided to move forward with executive actions on immigration that he has said on numerous occasions that he didnt have the constitutional power to take.,true
Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas sales tax deduction a decade ago.,true
The United States decided waterboarding was torture back when we courtmartialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution.,true
Only 20 colleges and universities have athletic departments with revenue exceeding expenses.,true
My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas.,true
Were spending millions for each individual held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.,true
My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5 because of the money we put in at state.,true
The U.S. has 5 percent of the worlds population 25 percent of the worlds known prison population.,true
The United States right now incarcerates more AfricanAmericans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did.,true
Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24657.50 legal bill.,true
Unlike marijuana medical cannabis oil cannot get you high.,true
There are more African American men in prison jail on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850.,true
Thirtyeight states  Georgia not included  have appointed rather than elected state school superintendents.,true
At the 50 Milwaukee schools serving at least 80 AfricanAmerican and at least 80 low income students the reading proficiency is 8.,true
In 2010 uninsured voters made up about 5 percent of the electorate.,true
Too many tattoos on visible body parts keepsome applicants out of the military.,true
Rhode Islands legislature is the strongest in the country.,true
Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.,true
Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the 30s they weighed 13.2 pounds.,true
Fox News uses photo of a married couple promoting traditional marriage and the photo is actually of a samesex couple.,true
Georgia ranks No. 9 in the rate of women murdered by men.,true
The president of the United States came in the Tuesday before the election in a ward that went 99 for him in the last election and they couldnt even increase the vote there.,true
Congress has 11 percent approval ratings yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were reelected in 2014.,true
Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.,true
Ill be the only economist in the U.S. House.,true
I spent only $36.29 on my campaign for governor.,true
Among the developed nations we are the least economically and socially mobile country in the world.,true
The last time Republican U.S. Senate candidates beat more than two incumbents was 1980.,true
Kansas has not elected somebody other than a Republican to the U.S. Senate since before The Wizard of Oz hit the movie theaters.,true
We have the thirdlowest minimum wage  of developed countries.,true
Before World War II very few people actually had health insurance.,true
Says Sen. Rand Pauls 2011 budget included a big cut in the CDC.,true
Governor Carcieri has not been campaigning with me.,true
A lawyer demanded several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers including their sermons.,true
Ninetyfive percent of Oregonians now have health insurance coverage tens of thousands for the very first time.,true
In the past three years we have prosecuted or brought more cases on access to public records than in the previous 12 years combined.,true
Almost every state has offered an insurance plan on its health exchange that does not cover abortion.,true
Says Jeb Bush  not Charlie Crist  signed legislation that let Duke Energy collect money for nuclear projects.,true
My office sends federal money back every year.,true
Says Rick Scott changed his promise from700000 jobs created on top of what normal growth would be to just 700000 jobs.,true
Says Scott Brown cosponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for birth control.,true
The states overall revenues only returned this year to 2007 levels.,true
TSA WILL ACCEPT DRIVERS PRIV CARDS FOR ID AT THE AIRPORT,true
Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country out of 47 Muslimmajority countries where women cannot get licenses to drive.,true
More women were killed by their husbands or boyfriends since Sept. 11 than all the Americans who were killed by 911 or in Afghanistan and Iraq.,true
We have a retiree that is collecting a $17000 paycheck a month . . . tax free.,true
When I was mayor Providence was one of the five renaissance cities of America according to USA Today in those days. Money magazine said it was the fifth best city to live in in America. In addition to that All Cities Almanac said in 1994 I believe that it was the safest city in America.,true
Says U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland voted to keep the shutdown going.,true
In the last 10 years Georgias middle class income has dropped $6500.,true
Countries bombed Obama 7 Bush 4,true
Every time the people from Newport Tent work in a city or town they have a whole different set of permits that they have to get in order to pitch a tent.,true
The state budget has increased almost $800 million a year in each of the last two years.,true
The U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in use today among nations.,true
Last weeks three mostviewed television programs wereSunday Night Football Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football.,true
Says Fox News gave Republicansenators twice the air time as Democrats during a hearing about theIslamic State.,true
Since I took office Wisconsin ranks 11th in the nation in total business establishment growth compared to 47th in the years Mary Burke was Commerce secretary.,true
More than three women per day lose their lives at the hands of their partners.,true
The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors and so on.,true
More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.Mexico border a week than are born in Texas each week.,true
Miller Brewing is not a U.S. company any more. Neither is AnheuserBusch.,true
Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate.,true
Opponent Glenn Hegar expressed pride in legislated cuts to public school funding.,true
We cut our deficits by more than half.,true
In Georgia Perdues company closed plants and moved jobs to China.,true
Wisconsins dead last in Midwest job growth.,true
Al Sharpton went to Ferguson Mo. and is declaring as a matter of fact that ...Michael Brown didnt use any deadly force or posed no deadly threat to the officer.,true
Wisconsin is dead last in income growth among midwestern states during Gov. Scott Walkers term.,true
Says President Barack Obama released a statement on the death of brother Robin Williams before ... a statement on brother Michael Brown.,true
New Glarus Brewing Co.s Spotted Cow is available only in Wisconsin.,true
The No. 1 cause of death for AfricanAmerican males1534 is murder.,true
The majority of Austinites rent the places they live.,true
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts.,true
Texas prosecutor Rosemary Lehmberg purchased 72 bottles of vodka in just one store alone in just over a year.,true
Before I was state treasurer my Rhode Island business helped create over 1000 jobs.,true
Says Keene N.H. requested a militarygrade armored personnel truck citing their annual Pumpkin Festival as a possible target for terrorists.,true
Jason Carter backed three of Nathan Deals budgets but accuses the governor of underfunding education.,true
Under Mayor Tom Barrett the number of Milwaukee police officers has not increased.,true
The Milwaukee Police Department has seized nearly as many firearms this year as the much larger New York City Police Department.,true
Says Charlie Crist rode on a jet that belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water.,true
Wisconsin is 1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year.,true
The minimum number of infrastructure needs in Atlanta is $900 million.,true
Uncompensated care has gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.,true
It cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open.,true
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. advised citizens to point that barrel center mass and pull the trigger because 911 is not our best option.,true
San Antonio is now the largest city in the United States ever to have an African American woman mayor.,true
There has never been an alderman who has defeated an incumbent mayor in the history of this great city.,true
Its been 17 years that weve had unemployment higher than the national average in Oregon.,true
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.,true
There are approximately 20000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island.,true
More women are graduating from college now than men.,true
Black voter turnout in 2012 exceeded the rate of white voter turnout even in the states with the strictest voter ID laws.,true
If youre a Mexican you get sent back. ... But if youre from a noncontiguous country like the Central American countries then you can stay in the United States.,true
There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining.,true
Dan Patrick was the only state senator who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses.,true
Republican candidate for governor Ken Block was fined and had to admit that he funneled money illegally to the Moderate Party.,true
Says Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst promises to shut down the Department of Education and abolish the EPA.,true
Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years worth of Austins water use.,true
The number of terrorists out there has doubled.,true
Wisconsin was the first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.,true
Says Dan Patrick has called immigration into Texas an invasion and said immigrants coming into Texas bring thirdworld diseases.,true
A record number of immigrants not from Mexico are being apprehended at the border.,true
At the beginning of World War II we had a relatively small army smaller than Portugals.,true
The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent.,true
FIFA pressured Brazil into passing a socalled Budweiser bill allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums.,true
Cantors campaign spent more at steakhouses than Brat spent on his entire campaign.,true
By 2009 dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the battlefield by drones.,true
Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that is only going to be used for four World Cup games and theres no team that can fill it afterwards.,true
Right now America has $1.1 trillion of student debt. Thats more than credit card debt.,true
The Israelisgave up 1000 terrorists in return for one sergeant.,true
Four maybe five Latinos have served on the Austin City Council.,true
Public display of a long rifle is perfectly legal in Texas.,true
Marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco.,true
The numbers make it clear that Georgia voters are increasingly taking advantage of early voting opportunities.,true
Rick Perry doesnt think there should be a federal minimum wage.,true
Its been nearly three weeks since the president has commented on questions about possible hidden wait lists at veterans hospitals.,true
Before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security but instead actually reduced security in Libya.,true
Ninetyseven percent of the time. Thats how often Mark Warner votes with President Obama.,true
Says Dan Patrick proposed Arizonastyle showmeyourpapers legislation.,true
With only 67 bills or so passed into law 2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since weve been keeping record.,true
The Rhode Island Parole Board never received an objection from the attorney general to the parole of convicted murder Alfred Brissette.,true
I am the only senator who turned down the state pension plan for parttime legislators.,true
A white family is likely to have about six times as much wealth than a black or Hispanic family coming out of the recession.,true
My Treasury team eliminated a 900case backlog in the Crime Victim Compensation Program.,true
In Rhode Island today 25 percent of our households either dont have a bank account at all or they have a bank account and theyre still relying on highcost financial services like payday loans pawn shop check cashing and so on.,true
Did you know US population growth is at its lowest since the Great Depression,true
Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year on tax preparation.,true
Says Charlie Crist implemented Jeb Bushs A Plan.,true
From 1972 until 2011 the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total federal personnel decreased by 15 percent.,true
During Lyndon B. Johnsons first 20 years in Congress he opposed every civil rights measure that came up for a vote.,true
The Capitol rotunda was actually made to invite the people in and to accommodate protests.,true
In 2006 Charlie Crist opposed instate tuition for illegal immigrants.,true
Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2877 gallons of gas 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent.,true
Before our last three presidents you have to go back to the 1800s early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively reelected.,true
The Koch brothers are one of the biggest polluters in the country.,true
Drone technology now allows an individual to be recorded in their homes by drones as small as birds and immediately uploaded to the internet.,true
Says he was the only statewide elected official to speak in favor of a federal guest worker plan at the 2012 Republican Party of Texas convention.,true
When people enter the service theres not a mental health evaluation.,true
The National Science Foundation awarded $700000 to fund a climate change musical.,true
The Austin Independent School Districts graduation rate reached an alltime high of 82.5 percent in 2012.,true
Todays marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear.,true
Georgia has recovered more than $60 million that was lost to Medicaid fraud,true
Says Sen. Mitch McConnell is the No. 1 recipient of contributions from lobbyists this cycle.,true
You can buy lobster with food stamps.,true
Ted Cruz has been to Iowa four times. Rio Grande Valley of Texas  just once.,true
In Oregon students are skipping math class to learn about the Bible.,true
Georgia has saved $20 million through changes in criminal sentencing.,true
Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slavesfreedom in border states but the states all rejected it.,true
The majority support raising the minimum wage.,true
In the U.S. AfricanAmericans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites on marijuana charges.,true
Seneca Jones Timber Co. aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut says mills have shifted to secondgeneration trees. An ad from the company asks Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years,true
The average family is now bringing home $4000 less than they did just five years ago.,true
If you rent a UHaul to move your company it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around because you cant find enough trucks to flee the Golden State.,true
Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law we will have delivered $2 billion in tax relief.,true
As attorney general I have prosecuted judges district attorneys and other public officials across Texas who violated that public trust who have been corrupted.,true
Says five Democratic state senators were for her bicycle tailgating bill before they were against it.,true
Austin is a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded.,true
Oregon has never before tried to create a landuse plan for what it should look like for 50 years.,true
Says Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL.,true
American Hustleshows the FBI making reallife bribes to Washington politicians. I know because as your U.S. senator I turned them down.,true
Over the past three years deep poverty has reached its highest level on record.,true
For every week that state lawmakers are able to cut off our timeline it saves Georgia taxpayers approximately $100000.,true
Crimea became part of Ukraine only in 1954. Crimea was historically part of Russia and Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in a gesture that mystified some people.,true
Crimea was part of Russia until 1954 when it was given to the Soviet Republic of the Ukraine.,true
Seventyfive percent of the young adults in this country are not mentally or physically fit to serve.,true
Says by 4th grade 86 percent of AfricanAmerican boys and 82 percent of Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.,true
Says the U.S. Supreme Court found that Social Security is not guaranteed.,true
A majority of drunk driving deaths and injuries are caused by drunk driving offenders with no prior convictions.,true
Rhode Island is almost dead last among Northeastern states in the length of time firstdegree murderers must spend in prison before theyre eligible for parole.,true
Since 2009 Georgias public schools have lost nearly 9000 classroom teachers while the number of students has gone up.,true
When the DallasFort Worth Airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground ... and those earthquakes stopped.,true
The words subhuman mongrel which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama were used by the Nazis to justify the genocide of the Jewish community.,true
The annual gross domestic product of metro Atlanta is bigger than 28 states in the union.,true
As a result of climate change ice fishermen in Wisconsin are already noticing fewer days they can be out on our ice covered lakes.,true
Seventy percent of all uninsured live in households in which at least one person is working.,true
Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family.,true
Over 3 million Americans are employed in the growing greencollar workforce which is more than the number of people working in the fossil fuel industry.,true
The Keystone pipeline creates 35 permanent jobs after construction according to a government report.,true
Six of Georgias counties have no lawyers at all.,true
Mark Warner voted for nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt.,true
Its been 14 years since a president or a vice president or a member of their family has not gone and attended at least an event at the Olympics.,true
Some businesses in Oregon are having to shrink back their businesses as a result of the law.,true
Pinellas County voters elected me as their chief financial officer  and elected me as their governor four years ago.,true
Florida shelled out more money for drug testing than it saved by denying welfare benefits to people who tested positive for drugs.,true
Georgia has the fifthhighest number of uninsured people of any state in the union.,true
The extra point is almost automatic.  The NFL had five missed extra points this year out of 1200 some odd attempts.,true
Quarterbacks won the Super Bowl MVP more than 50 percent of the time.,true
Every four minutes another American home or business goes solar.,true
There is more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world  the first time thats happened in nearly 20 years.,true
During the past four years average wages have barely budged.,true
The national economic recovery has led to higher than expected tax revenues and projected budget surpluses in nearly every state in the nation including Wisconsin.,true
Deer baiting planned for Block Island by DEM is illegal in Rhode Island.,true
In the past three years state legislatures have enacted more of these restrictions on abortion than in the previous 10 years combined.,true
The average Georgia family makes $6000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.,true
Weve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector at Quonset Business Park.,true
Travis County is surrounded by red counties.,true
More Georgians have jobs than at any other time since October 2008.,true
In Virginia Medicaid has grown by 1600 percent in the last 30 years.,true
The General Assembly has no explicit constitutional authority to impose income sales estate and the myriad of other taxes upon us.,true
For the first time in nearly two decades we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world.,true
Trey Radel does not even qualify to drive a Lee County school bus at this point yet he occupies a seat in Congress.,true
Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 dont believe that climate change is really happening.,true
What do Rutgers University Kean University Montclair State University New Jersey City University Stockton College Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years.,true
Members of the military dont contribute toward their pension.,true
The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined.,true
Crime in Atlanta is down 18 percent since 2009.,true
Our economy still has three people looking for every job opening.,true
Nearly 40 percent of his McAllenarea constituents suffer from obesity.,true
Forty percent of the country is going to be in states that are tolerant of gay marriage or at least civil unions.,true
Granite Staters who hold individual policies from Anthem...can indeed renew their policies and keep their current doctors and hospitals in 2014.,true
The commission form of government is definitely losing favor in the United States.,true
60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were livingwage jobs. Of the jobs weve gotten back only 40 percent are livingwage.,true
Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state.,true
Medicare costs have slowed down dramatically. In fact the first two months of this fiscal year Medicare costs were down even in nominal terms relative to the previous year.,true
Whether the Amendment passes or not the medical use of marijuana is a federal criminal offense.,true
Of the four statewide races this century within a 300vote margin three have been overturned in a recount.,true
Iran President Hassan Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities than members of Barack Obamas Cabinet.,true
Says Rep. Steve Stockman basically wants gunfilled zones in schools.,true
We pay among the highest tolls in the nation for the privilege of crossing that bridge.,true
The Walton family which owns WalMart controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined.,true
At present spending levels only citizens of New York have a greater local debt burden than Texans.,true
By the time she turns 3 years old a child born into a lowincome home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a welloff family.,true
We the bishops of the United States  can you believe it  in 1919 came out for more affordable more comprehensive more universal health care.,true
Just days ago Irans Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who will oversee implementation of this agreement was calling Israel a rabid dog and accusing the United States of war crimes.,true
I did not support the sequester.,true
Macys sent a letter to Rick Perry urging him to veto equal pay bill.,true
Harry Reid was against the nuclear option before he was for it. Mitch McConnell was for it before he was against it. President Obama was against it before he was for it.,true
Nearly 20 of our residents are born abroad.,true
Says theres no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.,true
The United States has never been richer if you look at per capita GDP.,true
The deficit this year could pay all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years.,true
Says New Jersey has gained 143000 new privatesector jobs.,true
I have returned money every year since taking office.,true
During my eight years as county executive we cut the number of county workers by 20 percent.,true
Says the Affordable Care Act has already reduced the number of uninsured in Oregon by 10 percent.,true
Things went wrong with the Medicare prescription D plan that George Bush rolled out.,true
Finance experts estimate that paying in cash for the $2.5 billion in projects funded by the sales tax saved Gwinnett County more than $1 billion in interest payments.,true
Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.,true
In fact theres more state funding for education today than any other time.,true
A million people  could get health insurance right away if Texas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare.,true
Says taxpayer subsidy for the Oregon Convention Center hotel jumped $100 million in closeddoor sessions,true
Congress is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus but in 2008 and 2012 explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure.,true
Says Rick Scott didnt even come to his own education summit. But he did take time to go to the tea party convention the same week.,true
Before the Republican wave in 2010 Democrats had an advantage on the generic ballot in Congress. Even in 1994 with the Gingrich revolution ... Democrats had that advantage.,true
Rand Pauls speech ... on Gattaca was totally ripped off of Wikipedia.,true
Even after Obamacare is fully implemented there still will be tens of millions of people not covered.,true
Under President George W. Bush we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama  weve added $6.5 trillion to the debt.,true
Most voters prefer zombies to the current U.S. Congress.,true
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the SAVE database is not a foolproof means of verifying citizenship on the voter rolls.,true
In Massachusetts half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients.,true
A congressional laundry closed due to the partial government shutdown.,true
Ninety six percent of employers in the Granite State are considered small businesses.,true
Says Oregonians for Food and Shelter proudly features board members from Monsanto and Syngenta and the Oregon Farm Bureau also receives funding from biotech companies.,true
Many dont know that Bill Young was once the minority leader in the Florida Senate...because he was the only Republican senator.,true
For the first time since the Korean War total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.,true
There is a constitutional issue that affects the paychecks of members of Congress during a shutdown.,true
Photo ID is not required for those who vote by mail.,true
Many state and federal agencies have such navigators involved in helping folks maneuver through the often complex processes associated with filing benefits claims for example  even buying health insurance.,true
I would be the first Republican senator elected in New Jersey in 41 years.,true
There are still tens of thousands of missing service members from previous and current conflicts that our nation is working to find and repatriate.,true
The highest paid employee of the State of Rhode Island is a basketball coach.,true
If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped,true
The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1982 that noncitizen children must get free K12 education.,true
If the government shuts down all military personnel will continue to serve and accrue pay but will not actually be paid until appropriations are available.,true
Mental health provisions related to mass shootings got over 90 votes in the Senate.,true
In fiscal year 20112012 4191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan.,true
You have to get a license to fish on our beaches.,true
One out of 10 minimumwage workers in the U.S. live in Texas.,true
The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.,true
President Barack Obama had the legal authority to strike Syria without a vote from Congress.,true
The government does not need a warrant to read your old emails.,true
Says he would be first CPA to serve as Texas comptroller.,true
Trenton politicians cut $1.3 billion from education.,true
Over the past twenty years the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted declining by nearly 70 percent.,true
According to a recent poll there are more young Republicans enrolled in their parents health insurance plans than young Democrats.,true
Americans spend more than $160 billion and 6 billion hours per year complying with the tax code.,true
Fleeing Syria a million children are now refugees.,true
The city of Portland has won more national Constitution contests than any city in America.,true
Says that unlike Texas Missouri has a perfect AAA credit rating.,true
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit unlimited carbon pollution into our air,true
State law says that once the state appraises a piece of property they can only pay it a certain amount above appraisal.,true
Says he sued Obamas EPA seven times.,true
We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before.,true
Polls show that 96 percent of New Jerseyans  and 95 percent of gun households in the state  support expanding background checks to keep guns away from those who shouldnt have them.,true
Under Obamacare members of Congress are required to purchase their health insurance from the new exchanges.,true
Why didnt uninsured Americans buy insurance Because of the expense.,true
Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in St. Petersburg are caused by people leaving their keys in the car.,true
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt there wasnt a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people.,true
Says nearly 29000 Oregonians  almost 5 percent of all homeowners  are 90 days or more delinquent on their mortgage.,true
Says Florida refused to allow theinsurance commissioner to negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high under Obamacare.,true
Since the Affordable Care Act passed 90 percent of job growth has been in fulltime positions.,true
This year the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time.,true
Says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law Georgia was depriving 25000 veterans of health care coverage.,true
In fact New Jersey is a donor state we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington. And interestingly Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to Washington.,true
Theyve seen employersupported coverage increase in Massachusetts after this law Romneycare was implemented.,true
Says the State Department spent $630000 to get 2 million Facebook Likes.,true
The Congressional Budget Office a nonpartisan office did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade.,true
More than 72 percent of children in the AfricanAmerican community are born out of wedlock.,true
Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average. All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years.,true
The Senate immigration bill is  filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos.,true
Says our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.,true
The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007 but the typical familys incomes barely budged.,true
Food stamp spending doubled under President Bush doubled again under President Obama.,true
Says Austin is the largest city in America without a congressional district anchored in it.,true
Guess what governor Theres no fried butter in Newark. Just 13 percent unemployment.,true
There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year and 70 percent of Egyptians dont want our money.,true
Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds for 38 Studios.,true
It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so.,true
Says spending in the fiscal 2009 budget was lower than spending in the fiscal 2014 budget,true
In South Florida weve had nine inches of sealevel rise since the 1920s.,true
Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years.,true
If it is enacted the Senate immigration bill is going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI  you could put one agent every 250 feet.,true
The United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death.,true
Says Delaware County has more waterfront property than any other county in the state of Ohio,true
Says proposed teacher contract would layer on more restrictive rules.,true
Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible.,true
We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies per capita in the entire country.,true
Since Newtown more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan.,true
Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies but want to cut food stamps.,true
Says that when the Rolling Stones performed in an Austin park they paid $25000 to the nearby city of Rollingwood for one night of inconvenience.,true
The Pink Pony club in DeKalb County has never been cited for any violation of an ordinance or state law.,true
Currently the intelligence community can collect business records on lawabiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism.,true
Says Texas law requires state agencies to give preference to goods produced and grown in Texas.,true
Says Madison Mayor Paul Soglins stated intent when proposing that city contractors disclose private political donations was to discourage contributions to organizations with which he disagrees.,true
47  New provisions ObamaCare charges the IRS with implementing according to the Government Accountability Office.,true
There was no surge in 501c4 applications in 2010.,true
Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S.,true
During the Civil War more than 300000 Ohioans served in the Union Army  more per capita than any other state.,true
Says first eight chosen to draw Austin City Council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one Republican primary voter.,true
Cuyahoga County passed a program to guarantee a college savings account for every single child who enters kindergarten in this county  the first county in the United States to do so.,true
The Obama administration has put out more of these major rules than the Clinton administration or the Bush administration during comparable times.,true
Says Oregon has the third largest class size in the nation.,true
Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote.,true
The proposed raises for the Norcross City Council would put it in line with other likedsized communities.,true
18 percent of our land in our state right now is either federally state or county owned for conservation purposes.,true
Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes  like the sales tax the income tax health care taxes even small business taxes.,true
Says he has sued the Obama administration 25 times.,true
North Korea has a substantial standing army one of the largest certainly the largest per capita in the world.,true
Over the last 10 years Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide.,true
If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because youve engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks.,true
Says new Medicare billing guidelines have nine codes for injuries by turkeys.,true
Despite having their budget increased by over 40 percent since 2009  pending claims for benefits with the Department of Veterans Affairs have increased from 391000 to 890000 under the Obama Administration.,true
Says more Austinites voted in the citys 1973 election featuring a mayors race than in the citys most recent mayoral election.,true
Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012.,true
Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.,true
A bipartisan background check amendment outlawed any gun registry. Plain and simple right there in the text.,true
The NRA used to support expanded background checks.,true
Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support expanding background checks.,true
Says a packaday smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1650 a year.,true
The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.,true
In Rhode Island 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are reincarcerated within a year.,true
Within the three miles surrounding the University Circle area infant mortality exceeds some Third World countries.,true
Says A baby in Coos County is two times as likely to be born to a mother who is someone who used tobacco during her pregnancy as is the average baby born in Oregon or the U.S.,true
Says in Chicago we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A.,true
Right now Texas doesnt have an income tax and Oklahomas lowering their income tax rates and guess what their severance tax is Sky high.,true
Says 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers.,true
Says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.,true
It is legal in Ohio to fire an employee or evict a tenant just for being gay.,true
Says 94 percent of Marco Rubios constituents support a universal background check.,true
In 2011 alone 269 New Jerseyans were killed by gun violence.,true
Says she has bipartisan support including 53 sheriffs throughout the state Democrats and Republicans.,true
Says PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years.,true
If you go back to 1999 Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done.,true
Do you know that statistically when you take the SAT a second time one third of the people that take the SAT even if theyve been studying will get a lower score than they did the first time around,true
Nearly 65 percent  almost twothirds  of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status.,true
The hole in the earth thats going to be dug for the proposed Gogebic mine is bigger than my entire district.,true
Under Gov. Kasich Ohio wages have increased by $10.3 billion.,true
We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats.,true
Seven of the 10 highestincome counties in the country ring the city of Washington D.C.,true
Cobb is one of the largest school systems in the nation that is debt free.,true
More than 64 percent of minimumwage earners are women.,true
When John Brennan ... was asked directly  Is there any geographic limitation to your drone strike program Brennan responded and said no there is no limitation.,true
More than 80 percent of Americans believe we need to have universal background checks.,true
Says I205 six miles of which runs through my district already carries more traffic than I5.,true
There have been literally hundreds of new tax preferences and loopholes added to the code since 1986 last time we did this.,true
In 32 other states and Washington D.C. they voters can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day.,true
Says Jeb Bush flipflopflipped on immigration.,true
We have over 300000000 weapons firearms in this country. Thats almost as big as the population.,true
Virginia is the only state that has a tradition of attorneys general resigning if they run for governor.,true
Says the last nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that VoterID was necessary.,true
Felony crimes in the city of Atlanta are the lowest they have been since 1969.,true
Says that except for foreign policy Ron Pauls voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.,true
Of six Rhode Island taxcredit programs worth about $35 million three companies got 90 percent of that  CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island.,true
There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country.,true
Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K12 education.,true
Says wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln.,true
The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years.,true
Says Texas is last in workers compensation coverage.,true
Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states.,true
Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012.,true
After shedding jobs for more than 10 years our manufacturers have added about 500000 jobs over the past three.,true
Says abortions are decreasing.,true
Says Since 1994 when VAWA was first passed incidents of domestic violence have dropped more than 50 percent.,true
Three in four lowincome workers dont have any paid sick days available.,true
Says right now we have more military spending than the next 10 11 12 countries combined.,true
Says Texas ranks first in executions among the states.,true
Says Texas ranks last in the percentage of residents with high school diplomas.,true
Says outofstate abortion clinics have marketed their services to minors in states with parental consent laws.,true
Says MAX carries 30 percent of evening rushhour commuters traveling from Downtown on the Sunset and Banfield freeways.,true
A majority of Americans agree with a ban on assault weapons. And by the way so did Ronald Reagan.,true
Fortyseven percent of members of Congress are millionaires.,true
Says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program could save up to $28.4 billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit.,true
Odds of winning the Monopoly Millionaire instant win game are 1 in 3.27.,true
Approximately 43 percent of all college grades today are As an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960.,true
Says according to the FBI more people are killed each year with hammers and clubs than rifles.,true
Says state workers have not had acrosstheboard raises in six years.,true
Spending of government money is 17 percent less than it was a decade ago.,true
Since taking office in January 2011 the rainy day fund has increased by 226 percent.,true
We have the fourth highest instate tuition for public universities in the country.,true
The tax penalty that the government imposes if you dont buy health insurance is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance.,true
It is ironic that First Energy Corp. is going to have a name on our football stadium where we Cleveland Public Power supply the electricity.,true
Says his elections proposal would allow a potential of 168 hours of early voting which I think is the most weve ever had.,true
Says in this next biennium the cost of primary and secondary education is going to increase by more that $1000 per student. Half of that $1000  $500 per student  is accounted for by the increased cost of PERS alone.,true
Abraham Lincoln visited and some say even danced in the Ohio Senate chamber.,true
Virginia spends less per student today than we did in 2008.,true
In total we have added nearly 75000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010.,true
It costs $10000 a year to keep a child in school it costs $30000 a year to keep someone in prison.,true
Since 1968 more Americans have died from gunfire than died in  all the wars of this countrys history.,true
In 2011 more people were murdered with knives hands or feet or clubs and hammers than with any type of rifle.,true
I am now the No. 2 member of this House in terms of length of service.,true
The state budget proposal has been submitted on time and its the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades.,true
Gross income tax receipts are exceeding the Administrations projections for this fiscal year prior to Sandy.,true
Unlike the gridlock in Washington more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support.,true
Says in our region 2011 was worst drought year ever recorded.,true
Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world it still wouldnt add up to enough needed to pay down our nations debt.,true
Seven of Americas 10 wealthiest counties are in the Washington D.C. area.,true
Says if you are on your bike in a crosswalk all you have to do is dip your wheel into the road and cars must legally stop.,true
Says his transportation plan would make Virginia the first state in the nation to eliminate the state tax on gasoline.,true
A far different picture from the prior eight years which saw 115 increases in taxes and fees.,true
There is over 20 times more energy in a proposed Southside uranium mining site than there is in all the oil thats estimated to be off Virginias coast,true
Our pension system is the only one in the country thats 100 percent funded.,true
Says 10 days after Hurricane Katrina this chamber passed two separate bills amounting to $60 billion. It has been nearly two months since we had Superstorm Sandy and nothing has passed.,true
Among Milwaukee Public Schools students 86 percent are behind in reading and 80 percent are behind in math.,true
Connecticut has the fifth toughest gun control laws in the country including an assault weapons ban that bans 35 different weapons.,true
Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness.,true
Did U know Block Island Wind Farm would mean 40 est. drop in BI electric rates.,true
Even hunters are restricted from using large capacity magazines there is a five cartridge limit for large game hunting and three for bird hunting.,true
Faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average.,true
Says Virginia is the biggest state that does not have a major league sports team.,true
Northern Virginia is the most heavily trafficked place in the country.,true
Says the Senate will have a record number of female senators in 2013.,true
Says the Portland Childrens Levy holds its administrative expenses to less than 5 percent.,true
Says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.,true
This week the House of Representatives voted to remove the word lunatic from federal law.,true
Says budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years  more than $50000 per worker.,true
In the last 15 years weve witnessed a dramatic expansion in the jailing of immigrants from about 70000 people detained annually to about 400000.,true
Fourteen million Americans mortgages are greater than the value of their homes.,true
Agriculture is the strongest industry in Ohio.,true
In 2008 tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300000 jobs in the state of New Jersey.,true
The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks  for the first time since August 2006  were positive this October.,true
A man using bath salts reported that raccoons had set fire inside his home and stolen his cell phone.,true
Says food stamp growth while high lagged the rise in unemployment.,true
Says that in 2011 Oregon had the second fastest growing economy in the nation.,true
Says he has never voted for raising taxes.,true
Our race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 36 years  when Howard Metzenbaum defeated Robert Taft in 1976.,true
We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country.,true
Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.,true
In the past year alone Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country.,true
Says veterans disability claims backlog doubled in Obamas first term.,true
Says Delta Air Lines has once again broken a promise they made to me and to the people of Memphis.,true
Says she is entering in the most diverse class ever of U.S. Representatives,true
Says Fran DeWines madefromscratch dinner rolls are a delicious favorite in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.,true
Says about 25 Texas cities and 39 states have banned texting while driving.,true
Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts.,true
Three thousand felons voted in Rhode Island in 2008.,true
Says the Multnomah County Library system is the second busiest in the nation.,true
Barack Obama is only the second Democrat in the last 75 years to win Ohio twice with more than 50 percent of the vote.,true
Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would take us into a recession and kill jobs.,true
Says the state of Texas rates as unacceptable almost 500 of the states 8000 public schools.,true
Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients.,true
Says a poll shows that without a name attached Democrats are just one point behind Gov. John Kasich.,true
Wisconsin still ranks first among the 50 states in manufacturing jobs per capita.,true
Says Tennessees higher education funding model is 100 percent outcomesbased and we are already seeing this model changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business.,true
Says that Tennessee law requires that schools receive half of proceeds  $31 million per year  from a halfcent increase in the Shelby County sales tax.,true
Says Connie Mack wrote a letter to the Department of Transportation in order to get $29 million in stimulus for his congressional district.,true
There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.,true
The truth is David Cicilline voted for tougher laws against child abusers domestic abusers and abusers of the elderly.,true
Says Multnomah County libraries are open 44 hours per week  the lowest of any library in the fourcounty region.,true
Says the typical homeowner will pay $4 more per month if library district passes.,true
One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176000 people the United States government.,true
Connecticuts take on slot machines is 25 cents on the dollar. And the states take on table games zero.,true
Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasnt asked for.,true
Jim Renacci tried to avoid paying taxes on nearly $14 million that he made.,true
The poverty rate amongst women is the worst its been in 17 years and the extreme poverty rate is the worst its ever been.,true
Virginias educational level among whites is higher than Georgias.,true
Says Barack Obama said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened.,true
While I was mayor of the city of Providence we had the lowest crime rate in 30 years.,true
Ive got a 94 percent career voting record in Congress while Bill Nelson has a 92 percent voting record.,true
Says fewer than 30 percent of Texas college students graduate in four years and only 58 percent graduate within six years.,true
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he votes about 66 percent with his own party.,true
Says Mitt Romney suggested that employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.,true
Sherrod Brown failed to pay his own taxes three separate times.,true
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts he stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said This plant kills.,true
Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year.,true
Says as CoChair of the Joint Ways  Means Committee I secured the key piece of funding for the PortlandMilwaukie Light Rail project bridge.,true
David Cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence and child abuse.,true
Tennessee students now cover about 67 percent of the cost of their education at public universities and some 60 percent at community colleges.,true
Theres not one Democrat who endorses the RomneyRyan Medicare plan.,true
The federal tax code has loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas.,true
When Joe Kyrillos had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care not once not twice but six times he voted against womens health care in our state.,true
Says Tennessee is providing millions of dollars to virtual school company for results at the bottom of the bottom.,true
Says Portland has higher standards than feds on allowed police use of force.,true
Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasnt asked for.,true
Says Obama promised to cut the deficit in half.,true
Rhode Islands voter identification law was pushed by a black Democrat in the House a black Democrat in the Senate. Thats a fact.,true
In every state women are paid less than men.,true
We havent passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year.,true
Texas is the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide.,true
A poll conducted in Egypt revealed that 80 percent of Egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the United States.,true
The truth is Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms. Planned Parenthood refers women to mammography providers serving as the middlewoman if you will.,true
Says that in the U.S. House of Representatives weve had bipartisan support for the repeal of Obamacare  for getting rid of cap and trade  for building the Keystone Pipeline.,true
Fortyseven percent of Americans pay no income tax.,true
Says if current trends continue by 2040 one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma.,true
The U.S. unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 43 consecutive months the longest stretch since the Great Depression.,true
In Cuyahoga County ... 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.,true
We just dont want to get to be like Louisiana where you have driveup daiquiri shops.,true
The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years not a good budget not a bad budget no budget.,true
$16 trillion the national debt in $1 bills would cover the entire state of Ohio nearly 1.5 times.,true
The Obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent.,true
Wayne Powell has a stated position of having no objection to taking In God We Trust off of U.S. currency.,true
Says the Republican Party platform says pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform get rid of McCainFeingold while the Democratic Party platform says we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform.,true
After a decade of decline this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years.,true
Under President Barack Obamas leadership since June 2009 the auto industry has added a quarter of a million jobs.,true
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for the same amount of Medicare savings that Ryan had in his own budget.,true
We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world.,true
Since 1961  our private economy has produced 66 million privatesector jobs. So whats the jobs score Republicans 24 million Democrats 42 million.,true
Says Bruce Springsteen played in 1975 at Seton Hall University in South Orange at Walsh gym.,true
Says Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business they should borrow money if you have to from your parents.,true
Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nations topperforming local economy.,true
The first state budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood...It resulted in the reduction of hours the elimination of days elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state.,true
In 2008 Charlie Crist applauded the pick of Sarah Palin and said she would do a great job.,true
The GOP platform that seeks further limits on abortion and is silent on an exception for rape has been there for more than 30 years.,true
Federal law adopted under Tommy Thompsons watch prohibits the government from negotiating for better prices on prescription drugs for senior citizens,true
Says a federal judge sanctions Tennessee birther lawyer  for bringing a frivolous lawsuit.,true
At Bain Capital we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.,true
In his first TV interview as president Obama said we should talk to Iran.,true
Says women care most about jobs and the economy,true
Claims Ohio Gov. John Kasich says climate change is a problem.,true
If you look at the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country it is net zero. Its been that way now for almost two years.,true
Says Republicans supported legislation on early voting and inperson voting in 2005.,true
Mitt Romney gave away his fathers inheritance.,true
Half the kids coming out of college this year  cant find a job or a job thats consistent with a college degree.,true
Says the top 20 percent of income earners pay nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes.,true
In 2008 candidate Barack Obama attacked John McCain for proposing cuts to Medicare.,true
Initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status has no effect on the contracts or the citys diversity goals.,true
Mitt Romney says class sizes dont matter.,true
Says 88 Texas constables have died in the line of duty.,true
Says Congressmen Paul Ryan and Todd Akin cosponsored legislation to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of forcible rape.,true
Clayton County Public Schools recently achieved a milestone that has eluded othermetropolitan districts across the state by meeting federal guidelines for having a highly qualified staff.,true
Says under Wisconsin law he cannot remove his name from the ballot for reelection to Congress.,true
From a standpoint of the county government neither school system has received an increase in funding over the past six years.,true
Austin is the largest city in the U.S. or Texas with no geographic representation on its city council.,true
Says Paul Ryans budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.,true
Says a Republican hasnt won an election for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988.,true
Florida has more concealed weapons permits than any other state.,true
Says Mitt Romney wants to end tax credits for wind producers.,true
Georgia spends fewer tourism advertising dollars than any other state in the South.,true
The property appraisers budget is $1 million less today than when I took office 16 years ago.,true
In June 2012 we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability 85000 ... than the 80000 jobs that were created.,true
Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.,true
Ninety percent of the topsoil has inadequate moisture to grow crops.,true
As president Barack Obama has never visited Israel.,true
Says Georgia ranks near the bottom in per capita transportation spending.,true
Says About 7 in 10 of Oregons inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses.,true
Tim Kaine as governor proposed tax increases on people earning as little as $17000.,true
There are close to 900000 unemployed veterans in America right now.,true
Says 1 in 7 American families is on food stamps.,true
The judicial system is the most underfunded in this state able to only pay 52 percent of its obligations. Meanwhile judges get some of the richest pensions of all public employees.,true
Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nations topperforming local economy.,true
Says under federal law we do not have any limitation on the number of guns and bullets we can buy.,true
Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America.,true
Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses of smallpox vaccine and I created enough to vaccinate every man woman and child against smallpox in America.,true
I ended up my time as governor with a general fund budget that was smaller than the one I started with.,true
In 2010 Mr. Anthony Gemma described himself as a prolife candidate. Now he claims to be prochoice.,true
Says he has seen Border Patrol signs near the Mexico border in English Spanish and Chinese.,true
Twenty two years ago when he was running for governor Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House.,true
The new 21st State Senate district was created in secret for Van Wanggaard. It was drawn within half a block of his house.,true
We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for privatesector job growth since the year 2000.,true
The state of Georgia has lost 200000 total jobs and 50000 construction jobs since May 2007.,true
Says New Hampshire has the thirdhighest property tax in the country.,true
Rhode Islanders pay among the highest auto repair bills in the nation.,true
Says Jim Frishe wanted to tax us for doing our taxes through an accountant.,true
Over the last six months President Barack Obama has golfed 10 times and held 106 fundraisers but his jobs council has never met.,true
Says if labor force participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama became president unemployment would be 11 percent.,true
Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands a tax haven.,true
Federal regulations required the changes to Georgias drivers license renewal process.,true
Says Mitt Romney had millions in a Swiss bank account.,true
Says Your kid just ate 16 packs of sugar.,true
Says Mitt Romney has a corporation in Bermuda but failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures.,true
Says tenure still exists but its been overhauled for teachers in New Jersey.,true
If you look at most of the polls this is a marginoferror race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president.,true
Fireworks have never been safer and their use continues to increase each year.,true
Were spending $12000 bucks a kid a year in the school system.,true
As Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney used a lineitem veto to cut millions of dollars for firefighting equipment including firefighters coats pants helmets and boots.,true
Oregon schools receive millions of dollars per year in federal school lunch assistance and yet they are required to spend that money almost anywhere but Oregon.,true
Says the federal health care law upheld by the Supreme Court has improved or saved the lives of more than 4000 Texans otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to preexisting conditions.,true
Obama said the individual mandate wasnt a tax.,true
There is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in New Jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used.,true
The states unemployment rate is fifthhighest in the country a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our...neighboring states.,true
Ronald Reagan raised taxes in 1982 1984 1985 1986 and 1987.,true
Under current law if you go on a dating website and you say youre 32 and youre actually 42 youve committed a misdemeanor.,true
Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma.,true
Gov. Romney was very clear he would veto the DREAM Act.,true
In 2008 33.2 percent of those who voted early on the last Sunday before Election Day were AfricanAmerican while 23.6 percent were Hispanic.,true
Rhode Island has the worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads behind Alaska.,true
A million people a year come into the U.S. legally. No other country even comes close to that figure.,true
Before I was governor tuition was skyrocketing and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.,true
Says Barack Obama is trying to slash funding for the Armed Pilots Program designed to prevent terror attacks.,true
Says lawyer appointed by Eric Holder to investigate government leaks helped and donated to Obamas campaign vetting vice presidential prospects.,true
Says only 18 percent of Portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to 83 percent nationally.,true
The United States has experienced 40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher.,true
Says Democratic runoff opponent Grady Yarbrough twice previously ran statewide as a Republican.,true
In Galveston Texas they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth.,true
Says Barack Obama has played nearly 100 rounds of golf as president.,true
In the 2000 Florida election at least 1100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons. Many of those who were dropped showed up to vote and were told they could not.,true
President Obama budget request for veterans ismore than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980 when the veterans population was larger by a third.,true
The U.S. is borrowing approximately $2.52 for every $1 of economic growth so far in 2012.,true
The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios.,true
Says Amanda Fritz manages less than 5 percent of city operations.,true
Says that from 1992 through 2010 every statewide candidate drawing over 43 percent of the vote in a Republican Texas primary won the resulting runoff.,true
Says there have been some job gains in the McMansion State since Mr. Christie took office but they have lagged gains both in the nation as a whole and in New York and Connecticut the obvious points of comparison.,true
The Republican from Georgia U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston he hasnt even been to a NASCAR race.,true
The region I represent both currently and in the future has more automotive plants than the entire state of California.,true
Water transportation is the most fuel efficient least polluting safest and least expensive means of moving cargo.,true
Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six frontline workers.,true
Says one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.,true
Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees.,true
Says New Jerseys prison system is 61 percent AfricanAmerican even though our state is just 13 percent black.,true
Obama promised to cut the deficit by half by the end of his first term but he hasnt even come close.,true
Says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obamas jobs bill.,true
When these undocumented students graduate from college theyre still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job.,true
Says when he was governorwe expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent.,true
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little. They are the highest property taxes in the nation more than double the national average.,true
Says Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac.,true
We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate.,true
There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades.,true
Says that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says troops are leaving Iraq too fast.,true
Says he is the only candidate in the race for Clackamas County Chair who will refuse to join the Public Employees Retirement System.,true
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a tax cut that gives an average of $250000 to every millionaire in this country.,true
Say that under state law systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment.,true
Says she is coowner of Celilo Group Media.,true
Says in our gun laws were allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun. The loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun no questions asked.,true
We have to recognize that our salaries for faculty are the lowest in New England with the exception of the University of Maine.,true
Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state.,true
The fastestrising expense in the U.S. Defense Department is health care.,true
Says legislative cuts mean Texas is spending on average $500 less per student.,true
The Democratcontrolled Senate it hasnt passed a budget in more than 1000 days.,true
In the past three years weve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.,true
If youre earning under $100000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax.,true
Says theCongressional Budget Officehas estimatedevery penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt and entitlement spending by 2025.,true
The Buffett Rule will bring in less than $5 billion per year. ... Enough to pay one weeks interest on the national debt.,true
Tourism accounts for 439000 jobs in the state of Ohio and visitors spend $36 billion annually.,true
The federal government owns tens of thousands of properties that are vacant or underused.,true
Congress as a whole is less popular than its been since polling was invented.,true
The ARC Tunnel project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns.,true
We are at a 40year low in our crime rate in our state.,true
Rhode Islands exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years.,true
Says opponent Ted Cruz has not led businesses.,true
The U.S. Supreme Court has not traditionally asked a lot of questions during oral arguments.,true
Georgia is one of three states that effectively have no regulations whatsoever on lobbyists giving to legislators.,true
Says the Pentagon has never passed a financial audit. In fact the Pentagon is exempt from a federal law that requires all federal agencies to complete annual audits.,true
Over 200000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred.,true
Says the United States actually exports more gasoline diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since I think 1949.,true
Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million.,true
98 percent of American families make under $250000 a year.,true
The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.,true
An effort to repeal votingreform legislation would be the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum.,true
Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close.,true
We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year.,true
To get out of the teachers union you pay 85 percent of $731. Then youre out of the union but youve got to pay it every year also required by statute. Thats called a representation fee.,true
This is the only state in the country that bypassed the General Assembly to authorize instate tuition for undocumented immigrants.,true
Says Barack Obama has played over 90 rounds of golf as president.,true
More children die in agricultural jobs than in any other industry.,true
Says streetcars carry more people than buses  you attract more riders who dont ride transit now and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus.,true
Last year Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.,true
Says Gloria Steinem once called Kay Bailey Hutchison a female impersonator.,true
Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.,true
President Barack Obama reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011.,true
The changes to Georgias tax and fee structure is an overall tax cut.,true
The poorest in this country are women.,true
Says a study shows that children who live with a biological parent and the parents boyfriend or girlfriend have a 20 times greater chance of being sexually abused.,true
Every poll you see the overwhelming majority of people want EVerify.,true
More than half of the births in Texas are paid for by Medicaid.,true
New business startups are at the lowest levels in 30 years.,true
When we passed the stand your ground law we said it portends horrific events when peoples lives were put into these situations.,true
Says Romney flipflopped on abortion.,true
New Jersey loses net that is minus those who come into the state 30000 students a year.,true
More than 27000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.,true
In 1950 the average American lived for 68 years and 16 workers supported one retiree. Today the average life expectancy is 78 and three workers support one retiree.,true
There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt.,true
There are 850000 Ohio jobs tied to the auto industry.,true
Says there are four super PACs on the Republican side of the Texas U.S. Senate race.,true
Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV.,true
In the last two years super PACs raised more than $180 million  with roughly half of it coming from fewer than 200 superrich people and roughly 20 percent from corporations.,true
Says he cut taxes by more than $600 million when he wasgovernor.,true
If we keep the minimum wage at the current level then singleparent families earning the minimum wage at a fulltime job will live in poverty in New Jersey.,true
Says Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half but didnt.,true
Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget is still below the level of state spending when I took office.,true
Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of a college education increased 439 percent.,true
The top 1 percent of income earners paid 36.7 percent of the taxes. ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent.,true
Wisconsin is called the Badger State because our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.,true
Pasco County schools have graduation rates substantially higher than the state average and dropout rates below the state average.,true
In 2010 about 75 percent of child abuse and neglect reports in Oregon were made by those required to report by law.,true
Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates.,true
All travelers  even babies  arriving in the U.S. by air must have a passport.,true
Rhode Island has the the secondmost heavily deployed National Guard in the United States.,true
Sixteen million jobs were created under Ronald Reagans presidency.,true
Says local Texas chambers of commerce were granted exemptions from paying property taxes on their headquarter properties.,true
Says Mitt Romney said he does not line up with the NRA.,true
Says Rick Santorum supported Arlen Specter over conservative candidates twice.,true
Says half the Americans dont pay any income taxes.,true
Florida ranks 45th in the nation for tuition.,true
Our small staff of 51 is still fewer than we had a decade ago yet our caseload  like that of other courts  has grown.,true
Says in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested for HIV.,true
Florida is the largest dogracing state in the country.,true
Over 40 percent of children born in America are born out of wedlock.,true
Says 80 percent of the health care dollars are spent by 20 percent of the population.,true
Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz opposes the DREAM Act which is supported by 85 of Latinos.,true
Wrong precinct rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems and HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrongprecinct problem.,true
Says Scott Walker enacted the biggest cuts to education in our states history.,true
Florida unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent the secondlargest drop in the nation.,true
Says a 1915 referendum on womens right to vote went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it.,true
You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text.,true
Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them.,true
We arent the only state cutting back on public television.,true
As Dane County executive Kathleen Falk raised property taxes by millions of dollars every year and approved the second highest increase in the state in 2010.,true
91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act which allows undocumented youth to attend college but Marco Rubio opposes it.,true
A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.,true
If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work or have just stopped looking the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent.,true
Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country and many of them go uncounted each election.,true
The Georgia Secretary of States Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud.,true
In just a few decades Social Security Medicare and Medicaid other mandatory spending programs and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.,true
The national debt is equal to $48700 for every American or $128300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy.,true
Weve seen more antiwomens choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than weve seen in the last three General Assemblies.,true
One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol.,true
Today for the first time in fifteen years Master Locks unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.,true
In 1992 Mitt Romney gave money to Democrats for Congress.,true
In July 1996 Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.,true
Says the New York Giants train in New Jersey they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey.,true
Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since fiscal 2009.,true
Says Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies.,true
Before this day is out 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives. That is the daily average it is intolerable and it has to stop.,true
The United States is no longer top nation in the globe on infrastructure having fallen to 15th.,true
Right now in Georgia nearly one in three leaving our prisons are reconvicted within three years.,true
Sherrod Brown has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time.,true
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.,true
A typical married couple will contribute $119000 into Medicare but will receive $357000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.,true
There are 86 languages spoken at Miami Dade College.,true
Tennessees grocery tax is one of the highest in the nation.,true
Says Newt Gingrichs contract was with the lobbyists at Freddie Mac.,true
Under this tax cut middleclass families dont save enough for a weeks worth of groceries while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation.,true
The top 10 most wellpaid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010 while the average American workers wage rose just 2 percent.,true
Says she got unions to agree to about $10 million in reduction of salaries and health benefits while serving as Dane County executive in Wisconsin.,true
Gov. Bob McDonnellsbudget plantakesmoney out of our classrooms to pave roads.,true
My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False.,true
Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.,true
Federal law prohibits the growing of industrial hemp in the United States.,true
Says hes proposed the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history.,true
Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100000 pay.,true
Georgias unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.,true
By the way Im not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did.,true
Small businesses create 70 percent of the jobs in America.,true
And as of today New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001.,true
After filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island we reached an agreement with state agencies that resulted in more voters being registered in the first full month after our lawsuit than in the entire previous twoyear reporting period.,true
Says Ron Paul doesnt believe in marriage licenses.,true
I was one of about a dozen senators who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere.,true
Says America spends over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12.,true
Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.,true
Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.,true
Says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is the smartest guy that I know in terms of the economy and on finance I really mean this.,true
Newt Gingrich teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.,true
Ive done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.,true
Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states.,true
Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in unemployment foreclosures violent crime personal bankruptcy and divorce.,true
Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is unAmerican.,true
Says with Jon Corzine its the first time I think in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues.,true
Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country.,true
Sherrod Brown has been running for public office since Richard Nixon was president.,true
Richard Cordrays nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau marks the first time in Senate history that a political party has blocked a nomination of someone because they didnt like the construction of the agency.,true
Newt Gingrich has suggested building a mirror system in space could improve the Earths habitability.,true
A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court.,true
Says our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. Were over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government.,true
The national debt increased $16000 every secondGeorge Allen served in theU.S. Senate.,true
The United States is numberonein the world in energyresourcesRussia isnumber two.,true
Last year we spent more than $40 billion on highways. And Lord knows we need that. But thats more than we spent on Amtrak in its entire 40year history.,true
Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations.,true
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollegeeducated.,true
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.,true
The balancedbudget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican and Rick Santorum says he stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship.,true
Its legal to sign a recall petition against Gov. Scott Walker even if you have already signed another recall petition but only one signature counts,true
Says Barack Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term.,true
For the average middleclass family your taxes today are lower than when I took office.,true
Says Mitt Romney flipflopped on a taxpayer protection pledge.,true
We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis.,true
Says Mitt Romney flipflopped on abortion.,true
The U.S. would gainrevenue by cutting personal income tax rates in half and ending tax breaks.,true
Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece.,true
Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30000 engineers.,true
Stimulus money went to critically important projects like studying ants in Africa.,true
A Republicanled softening of firearms training rules means that untrained individuals would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit.,true
When the national debt reaches $15 trillion it means that U.S. debttoGDP ratio will reach 99.7 percent of our debt and this is $47900 for every living American.,true
The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close.,true
The median income of a middle class family went down $2100 from 2001 to 2007.,true
Says 51 percent of federal tax filers paid zero federal income tax.,true
Torture is illegal by our laws. Its illegal by international laws.,true
Georgia has had more bank failures than any other state.,true
Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times.,true
Ilana Shafran Mandels stake in Forest City Enterprises constitutes significantly less than 1 percent of the companys shares and any implication of a conflict of interest is legally incorrect.,true
The problem with invasive species today in the Great Lakes isnt ballast water.,true
A couple retiring today will pay about $119000 in lifetime Medicare taxes and receive about $357000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. ... about 3 bucks in benefits for every dollar in taxes.,true
The average homeowner spends more than $2000 each year on energy costs  more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance.,true
Every day in the United States we are losing 15 factories.,true
Says over the last 48 years every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003.,true
Says Mitt Romney has flipflopped on abortion rights.,true
Says if elected he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd.,true
Under a law proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker businesses that move into Wisconsin dont have to pay any taxes on their income for two years.,true
Says Mitt Romney flipflopped on abortion.,true
The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values.,true
Says for every dollar the state spent on audits last year it delivered $64 in cost savings.,true
Says judges get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state.,true
Says 24 million people in this country cant find a fulltime job 50 million cant see a doctor when theyre sick 47 million people need government help to feed themselves and 15 million families owe more than the value of their home.,true
Romneycare was model for Obamacare.,true
Says his proposed payroll tax cut will mean an extra $1500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing.,true
Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.,true
When we got the income tax in 1913 the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980 the top rate was 70 percent.,true
The people in Massachusetts like the state health care plan by about a 31 margin.,true
Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented people to use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply for and receive a RI drivers license.,true
According to Wikipedia there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the United States in the distribution of our wealth.,true
Says he came to the Republican Party sooner in age than Ronald Reagan.,true
Our government right now. . . is spending 40 percent more than what we take in.,true
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Its 35 percent.,true
Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget.,true
Legally it doesnt make any difference which state district you live in when running for Congress.,true
Today you have six financial institutions the largest six that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.,true
A family of four can make up to $88000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance under the new federal health care law.,true
Were. . . keeping and creating jobs in our state. From American Greetings to Wendys to Diebold weve gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in Ohio.,true
Members of the public are being charged $50 to hear Gov. Scott Walker and a dozen members of his administration talk about jobs and the economy at Lambeau Field.,true
Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving instate tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants.,true
The federal government is spending $46000 a year per family or group of four and could balance its budget by dropping that to $30000.,true
The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing gave it to banks and some of them foreign banks so that they could stabilize their operations.,true
At nearly 19 million people the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined.,true
We have 10000 baby boomers retiring every day.,true
Says as a share of the US economy the governments support for research and development RD has fallen by nearly twothirds since the 1960s.,true
The city of Atlanta has either the highest or secondhighest average water bills in the country.,true
Toledo Mayor Mike Bell once lost his job as a firefighter because his city ran out of money.,true
Says Rick Perry provided instate tuition... for illegal immigrants.,true
In 1976 the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical fouryear public college. Today a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.,true
The state ethics commission took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies.  They were somewhere in the 7 percent range  same as the governors office.,true
Says that in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date.,true
Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members.,true
Ten years ago the Austin Water Utility used a total of 240.3 million gallons. Every summer since then our peak day of water use has been lower.,true
Under President Barack Obamas jobs bill you can sue if you are unemployed and dont get the job and think you werent hired because you are unemployed.,true
In writing his book Gov. Perry pointed out that  by any measure Social Security has been a failure.,true
The Republicancontrolled Wisconsin Assembly approved only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats in 2011.,true
Over the past 10 years the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact Lower Manhattan has added more people over the last 10 years than Atlanta Dallas and Philadelphia combined.,true
Two days of interest we pay to China is enough to buy one joint strike fighter jet.,true
The day President Obama took office gasoline was $1.79 a gallon.,true
Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.,true
Says the federal government is the largest energy user in the country.,true
I became a Republican sooner in my life than Ronald Reagan did in his.,true
Says New Jerseys public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.,true
Says Ron Paul insisted FEMA should be shut down.,true
The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression.,true
A national study of 2500 charter schools shows that maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference.,true
Congressional Budget Office says 8 percent unemployment till 2014,true
The health insurance plan that members of Congress have is no different than any other federal employees in the United States government.,true
Weve had 11000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789.,true
Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.,true
The estimated savings of this debt ceiling deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bushera tax cuts for another decade.,true
The United States death rate is twoandahalf times higher for those who do not have a high school education.,true
When Social Security first started there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree.,true
The proposed transportation bill could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history.,true
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland.,true
Hair stylists are required to undergo more government scrutiny than foreclosure consultants.,true
The megarich pay about 15 percent in taxes while the middle class fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.,true
The governor having a meeting ... isnt covered by the open meetings act.,true
Twentyfive states have lower unemployment than Texas which is tied with Mississippi for more minimumwage jobs than anywhere in the United States.,true
One in four Texans lacks health insurance the highest proportion in the nation.,true
Certainly were going to be the most restrictive state in the land  in terms of who can get medical marijuana how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace.,true
Obamacare was patterned after Mitt Romneys plan in Massachusetts.,true
Says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.,true
There are cities and counties in Georgia that dont have websites and where elected officials dont have email addresses.,true
One in every five families in the state of New Jersey has a loved one with a mental illness a serious mental illness and today we dont care.,true
Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.,true
Theres actually 600 abortions done after the 20th week of pregnancy every year in Ohio.,true
For the second quarter in a row my campaign has raised more money than any other challenger in the nation and brought our fundraising total to over $800000.,true
Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia.,true
Believe it or not consumer spending is up over the last eight months.,true
The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent.,true
When I served as City Commissioner we made great strides we successfully fought for and won adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau.,true
The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office.,true
Thirtyfour of the last 44 debt ceiling increases have been for less than a year. So this notion that shortterm is somehow the exception its actually the rule.,true
The state of Georgia is near the bottom among states for SAT scores and graduation rates.,true
President Reagan did it raised the debt ceiling 18 times. George W. Bush did it seven times.,true
When the Republicans were in charge they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program.,true
Says state Rep. Fred Clark DBaraboo ran a red light and seriously injured a bicyclist.,true
Says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than theyve sent President Barack Obama and more than twice what theyve sent other Republican presidential candidates.,true
Says in the Legislature Mary Nolan has been a partyline Democrat showing a 100 track record in harmony with the American Civil Liberties Union.,true
Says that U.S. Rep. Allen West is a constituent of mine.,true
Florida Democrats put my Social Security number and my wifes Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.,true
Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of her state Senate district by a half a block.,true
I did not vote to spend money to fight that Amendment 6 redistricting lawsuit.,true
Says state Senate recall challenger Sandy Pasch voted to cut school aid by nearly $300 million.,true
Less than onetenth of Atlantas transportation needs are covered in a referendum to levy a 1cent sales tax.,true
The State Election Board has issued nearly $275000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws.,true
The black unemployment rate has increased since the recovery has begun.,true
Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector.,true
Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen.,true
There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when President Barack Obama took office.,true
Were losing almost 6000 state jobs.,true
Fiftyone percent  that is a majority of American households  paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada.,true
Rhode Island spends 52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average.,true
Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didnt serve.,true
Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of marketbased solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.,true
Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.,true
Creeping defense commitments in the Middle East and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually.,true
Says that as a gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie promised no school cuts.,true
Says President Obama has fired more cruise missiles than all other Peace Prize winners combined.,true
Says states that passed antiillegalimmigrant legislation also had few Hispanic legislators.,true
The top 1 percent of income earners pay 40 percent of all state income taxes and those at the bottom pay little or nothing.,true
Virginia spends $400000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnells political agenda.,true
Providence is one of the busiest fire departments for its relative size in the country.,true
Seventy of Ohios 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food.,true
The U.S. is spending one out of every six Defense Department dollars on Afghanistan.,true
Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... Canadians buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state.,true
The righttowork states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states.,true
A couple of hundred American cities are infested by members of the Mexican cartels.,true
We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second Saudi Arabia is number three.,true
Says the state budget includes spending on commercials for Fortune 500 companies.,true
Says hes signed a pledge not to raise taxes four times.,true
ThenSen. Barack Obama refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership.,true
Taxpayers pay for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin And 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee,true
The budget currently being debated significantly decreases the use of onetime resources.,true
The average person will pay $6000 more a year under Rep. Paul Ryans Medicare proposal.,true
We already have $23 billion worth of debt.,true
The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks.,true
Says six of the states 58 family planning centers had to close because of Gov. Chris Christies budget cuts.,true
Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country.,true
The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees.,true
Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a murder mill.,true
Says this months special session will cost the state $27300 a day just for legislators daily living expenses.,true
It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party for kids.,true
If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector.,true
Abraham Lincoln once jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.,true
Says Republicanapproved changes to make it more difficult to participate in Ohio elections include reducing inperson early voting from 35 days to six.,true
Sometimes I was the only no vote on the entire board.,true
For more than 30 years after World War II there was a steady reduction in U.S. debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.,true
To give a sense of how families are struggling a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch.,true
No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law,true
If you take the population growth here in Virginia we are net zero on job creation since Bob McDonnell became governor.,true
Department of Education officials investigating Virginia Tech shootings have not once gotten into the car and driven down to Blacksburg to talk to the police chief or the university president or to anyone else.,true
Says state lawmakers have voted to spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times since the funds creation.,true
Says people who signed recall petitions against Wisconsin state Sen. Jim Holperin received harassing phone calls from outofstate telemarketers claiming to represent the Democratic Party and insinuating foul play by petition circulators.,true
You cant give a child an aspirin in school without permission. You cant do any kind of medication but we can secretly take the child off and have an abortion.,true
Failure to raise the debt limit does not force a U.S. default on debt payments.,true
Were within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. Were in a perfect location.,true
The substitute budget now adds in tax breaks and tax deductions for those who buy these prisons.,true
The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.,true
American oil production is at its highest level since 2003.,true
When the governor announced his jobs budget 99 folks from the Department of Taxation were let go the next day.,true
The Border Patrol has 20000 agents  more than twice as many as there were in 2004.,true
There is a situation in this country where youre nearing 50 percent of people who dont even pay income taxes.,true
Says close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was nonAnglo.,true
Georgia is one of only about seven states in the country that has a AAA bond rating.,true
Says Milwaukee County spent over $170000 in salaries in 2010 for employees to participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.,true
From 2008 to 2011 the pages in the conforming bills have gone from 400 pages to 2200.,true
Nearly 2000 high schools  roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States  produce about half of the nations dropouts.,true
Rep. Paul Ryans budget proposal cuts nothing from Medicare Social Security or defense in the next two to three years and in three years he does not cut one dime from the debt.,true
Youve got each day 10000 new seniors baby boomers becoming eligible for the entitlement programs.,true
China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars.,true
Currently there is no one from South Austin on the Austin City Council,true
The Bush tax cuts helped to create a substantial part of the deficit.,true
90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted.,true
In Senate Bill 5 there is this new method of evaluating teachers.  Youre also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents.,true
Each day our nation pays communist China $73.9 million in interest on our debt.,true
Large majorities of the public oppose major changes to Medicare and favor higher taxes on the wealthy.,true
Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.,true
Salaries for Virginias teachers are below the national average.,true
Right now we are spending at an alltime high close to 25 percent of our GDP is being spent on the federal government. But our revenues are at an almost alltime low of about 15 percent of GDP.,true
Says he couldnt keep a 42inch redfish he caught because of fishing rules.,true
If we had the same staffing ratio of officers to residents as Seattle wed have 300 more officers in our department.,true
The facts show that approximately 40 persons on death row have had all of their appellate review completed and await only the governors signature on a death warrant to end the case.,true
Americas wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes.,true
Appalachian Power wants another 10 percent rate increase. The compensation package for CEO Mike Morris rose 22 percent to $8.7 million in 2010.,true
If you go strictly by the numbers crime is down across the board. Last year we had a 10 percent decrease in the most serious crimes.,true
The costs of cancer and all affiliated issues are over $20 billion a year to this state.,true
George Allen voted to add $3 trillion to the federal debt voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the No Child Left Behind Act while he was a senator.,true
Foreign aid makes up about 1 percent of our entire budget.,true
President Obama has stopped using the phrase war on terror. ,true
There used to be 16 workers for every one person on Social Security. ... Now its three.,true
Proposed fees for Rhode Island beaches will still be less than some of the town beaches.,true
In Florida its not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse.,true
From 05 to 09 weve had 1100 soldiers commit suicide one every 36 hours.,true
Virginia was named best managed state best state for business and best state toraise a child while I was governor.,true
A government shutdown could disrupt ... veterans benefits.,true
The only segment in the beer market that is growing is the craft beer segment.,true
Three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional.,true
Says some states with the largest reductions in crime have also lowered their prison population.,true
The federal government has 77 different meanstested social welfare programs.,true
We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined.,true
Since Oregons prescriptiononly law took effect meth lab incidents have dropped by 96 percent and methrelated arrests by 32 percent.,true
There has never been a death caused by a commercial nuclear reactor in the United States even when Three Mile Island failed in the 1970s.,true
The Housepassed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe slash more than $1.7 million in antiterror funds for Ohio.,true
The hour of sleep you lose during the change to daylight saving time might initially pose some health risks.,true
Says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans appeared on the GAOs list of government programs at high risk of waste fraud and abuse.,true
Says a Lubbock terror suspects alleged plan to use baby dolls to conceal chemical explosives is similar to a 1995 plot to blow up 12 jumbo jets over the Pacific Ocean.,true
Central Health is the only hospital district in Texas that spends taxpayer dollars on abortions.,true
Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.,true
The entire state of Florida led the nation last year with the most prison inmates committing tax fraud.,true
Since 1980 over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas including 36 deaths of children.,true
The coalition of Arab states against Libyas Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 19901991.,true
Says Oregon is near the top or at the top of the list when it comes to capital gains tax,true
Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.,true
We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have concealed handgun licenses.,true
Federal spending is all discretionary other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid.,true
There are corporations in this nation some of the biggest corporations in this nation who do not pay taxes.,true
Georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college.,true
Says taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average.,true
Says fouryear terms for City Council members are the norm in most cities of our size.,true
Our average private sector employee pays 23 percent for their health care. Our average city worker in Ohio pays 9 percent.,true
Just 400 Americans  400  have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.,true
We know that every 85 visitors create one Florida job.,true
A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U.S. Constitution.,true
We ... sold the state airplanes as I had promised.,true
Hitler didnt want unions. Stalin didnt want unions. Mubarak didnt want independent unions. These autocrats in history dont want independent unions.,true
We closed that plant down. It was a $27 milliondollar plant operating full steam and we closed it down.,true
Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident.,true
A telephone company will no longer have to provide landline service to customers if there is an alternative provider including wireless.,true
In 2011 the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools system will exceed $100000.,true
DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget than any local government in the Atlanta metro region.,true
We have lost 600000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse.,true
Says the Army is spending $7 million to sponsor a NASCAR team.,true
For every $10000 invested in business incubators up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated.,true
Most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits nor for pay.,true
From 2003 to 2006 Sesame Street made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales.,true
The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9 or higher unemployment and 2.6 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus bill was signed.,true
The cost for renovating the headquarters of the U.N. has doubled from the original estimate.,true
The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.,true
If you printed a $1 bill for the entirety of the $14.1 trillion national debt the resulting pile of money would weigh more than 136 aircraft carriers.,true
Gov. Rick Scotts sale of the state planes was not proper.,true
Every Wisconsin legislator that votes for this bill will have to give up the same amount of pay as other state employees.,true
In 2009 Democratic Wisconsin state senators rammed through a billiondollar tax hike in 24 hours with no public input.,true
The House of Delegates budget bill cuts $50 million from education.,true
If Wisconsins governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do it would still leave workers better off than their private sector counterparts.,true
We have 80000 abortions in Texas every year.,true
One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending.,true
The federal government can cut all of the nonmilitary discretionary spending and not balance the budget.,true
The United states is borrowing more than 40 cents of every dollar we spend.,true
Senator Webb was a reliable vote for President Obama and Senator Harry Reid.,true
In its current state this bill is the most restrictive voter ID legislation in the nation.,true
Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state.,true
There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that confidential.,true
Orrin Hatch cosponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate.,true
In the month of January Canada created more new jobs than we did.,true
Im the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.,true
More than onequarter of Americas young adults are too fat to serve in the U.S. military,true
Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax and it has the lowest threshold in the nation.,true
If you tried to pay out $1 trillion by handing it out at $1 per second it would take more than 31000 years.,true
Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.,true
Most state employees could pay twice as much toward their health care premiums and it would still be half the national average,true
Some politicians  want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries.,true
Georgia has some of the best maintained roads in America.,true
Says every school will be negatively impacted if Education Stability Fund is not tapped.,true
Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. It costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually.,true
Israels per capita income is greater than probably threefourths of the rest of the world.,true
Under Hosni Mubaraks rule Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel.,true
Georgia is the secondfastest growing state for international tourists.,true
The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes.,true
Says the United States does not trade as much as other developed nations.,true
Says there have been 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade was decided.,true
Tailpipe emissions rules if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five onehundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050.,true
There have been at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.,true
Were borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend.,true
The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy.,true
The United States has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.,true
Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up.,true
The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.,true
Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance.,true
George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate.,true
New England already has access to ample supplies of natural gas.,true
Says hes the first Aggie governor of Texas.,true
Some of the men serving in the Afghan armed forces have never driven a vehicle before.,true
This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years.,true
Whether you like to admit it or not half our general revenue goes to education.,true
Says she condemned violence at a campaign stop in Arizona in March.,true
Following the 2009 session Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was acknowledged and thanked for his tireless efforts by Planned Parenthood the nations premier abortion provider.,true
Georgia lawmakers fuel up for the session by feasting on wild hogs.,true
Says the person who Florida U.S. Rep. Allen West first hired as chief of staff told people attending a Tea Party rally that We will use bullets if ballots dont work.,true
Our spending has caught up with us and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.,true
New provisions of the health care law bar the use offlexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other nonprescription health needs.,true
Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken an hour and 15 minutes longer to carry passengers across Ohio than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935.,true
Its taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the Ohio  Erie Canal.,true
State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run.,true
I stopped requesting earmarks in 2008.,true
I never proposed privatizing the Milwaukee County airport.,true
We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twentyone states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down.,true
Proposed federal regulations would affect every streetsign in the country,true
Texas children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching.,true
House Speaker Dean Cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for onethird of the 120member House and that twothirds of the chamber have two years or less experience.,true
Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.,true
You can go to Georgia and make about $6000 more a year as a teacher.,true
The Milwaukee business community did not speak about the facts  and in support of train manufacturer Talgo  as the MilwaukeeMadison rail link was being killed.,true
Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included $277000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin.,true
Every student paying outofstate tuition actually covers more than the cost of instruction.,true
Says that in his first 17 months as president the United States doubled its worldleading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.,true
When Social Security was passed there were all kinds of lawsuits just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.,true
Under the compromise tax agreement 99.7 of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax.,true
The Atlanta Braves are the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America.,true
A 5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump.,true
In 2007 the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income which is more than the entire bottom 50 percent.,true
I think a little less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year. ... We have people who are check kiters and dont pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen.,true
Oregonians have an amazing nocost way to fight abortion with free political donations,true
The national debt grew an estimated$15 billion last weekend.,true
Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year some of them just to pay the inheritance tax.,true
150000 oil spill claims have been filed by Floridians but only 40 percent of them have been paid.,true
Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Floridas economy.,true
Said Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures during last months election,true
Hillsboroughs Public Transportation Commission has a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean please. Come on.,true
The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled  100 percent  in the last 10 years.,true
In Wisconsin deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years.,true
Historically Senate ratification of arms control treaties has been bipartisan.,true
We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers to bring the treatment plant on line.,true
Says the House Rules Committee is the only panel other than the Intelligence and Ethics committees not able to telecast proceedings in its main hearing room.,true
More people hunt and fish in Texas in a given year than attend the... games of the Dallas Cowboys the Dallas Mavericks the Houston Texans and the Houston Rockets combined.,true
Demand for transportation choice is on the rise with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year.,true
Over the course of one fouryear term it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate the governors mansion.,true
The law right now permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.,true
Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.,true
The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody say at 30000 feet.,true
Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116838763 to date for the Mahoning Valley and has an additional $27095000 pending in FY2010 spending bills.,true
Nobody has played clips over and over ...of President Obama saying If they bring a knife to the fight well bring a gun. ,true
The federal debt is growing by more than $4 billion a day.,true
Re Marco Rubios support of earmark ban In 2002 alone he requested 37 earmarks worth $43 million.,true
We havent had control of the House for the last two years and its been malfunctioning. We had 109 sessions scheduled and held 49.,true
Federal spending is the highest its been as a share of our economy in 60 years and revenue is the lowest its been as a share of our economy in 60 years.,true
We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So weve taken 5 percent away from the private sector.,true
Says that the federal gas tax has not been raised since 1993.,true
As mayor Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley which now supports nearly 4000 jobs in Wisconsin.,true
Electric utility FirstEnergys annual revenues are greater than the GDP of Haiti Kyrgyzstan Iceland or 15 African nations.,true
Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.,true
Says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings.,true
Georgia has the secondhighest rate of childhood obesity in the United States.,true
The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined.,true
Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill when the stimulus was rushed into law.,true
Sen. Harry Reid voted against declaring English our national language twice.,true
Decorated Marine twotour Iraq war vet.,true
Says Will Rasmussen falsely claimed he had lived in the West Linn district for about a year.,true
Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect.,true
As CEO of WWE Linda McMahon was caught tipping off a ringside physician about a federal investigation into illegally distributing steroids to wrestlers.,true
Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.,true
Says Scott Walker wants to make abortion illegal even in cases of rape incest or to protect the life of the mother.,true
Says Lloyd Doggett voted for the health care stimulus and capandtrade bills.,true
More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth.,true
I am very proud as governor of Florida that we signed the first divestment act as it relates to Iran divesting any investments in companies that would invest in Iran.,true
Says Marco Rubio said that people who essentially dont agree with him ought to leave the country like Keith Olbermann.,true
Lizbeth Benacquisto broke election law 105 times hiding special interest contributors.,true
Says Ron Johnson likes to say there are too many lawyers in the Senate  57. Hed be the 70th millionaire.,true
Since 2000 when he entered politics Jon Husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices.,true
Ken Buck wants to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest.,true
His biography says he was the top ROTC officer in the nation.,true
New Castle Countys unemployment rate has not almost doubled in the last two years.,true
John Raeses wife is registered to vote in Florida so she cant even vote for him.,true
Since the stimulus package was passed Ohios lost over 100000 more jobs.,true
Says the Texas Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase up to 300000 promotional stress balls.,true
Says Rep. Jim Weidner proposed a bill taking away health care for 80000 of Oregons children.,true
I said no to these big bank bailouts.,true
Webster sponsored a bill to create a form of marriage that would trap women in abusive relationships.,true
Since being elected in 2002 Scott Walker has given back over $370000 of his salary to the county.,true
Rhode Island has a very generous unemployment compensation rate compared to most other states.,true
Exit polls indicate that Democrats get over 70 percent of LGBT votes in federal elections.,true
An organized crime syndicate was extorting money from his Tom Ganleys business threatening his family but he fought back and won the FBIs highest civilian award,true
Pepper ... kicked off a jock tax imposing a levy on the sports and entertainment industry.,true
Says the U.S. Constitution provides for just compensation when land is taken under eminent domain.,true
Weve created more than 850000 jobs more than all the other states combined.,true
Children born today will carry a $30000 share of the national debt.,true
Theres a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street.,true
Ed Schultz said Alan Grayson is what its all about.,true
Taxpayers pay $18000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosis district office in downtown San Francisco.,true
Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents...And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident.,true
I dont understand what Republicans are doing against this. It was their idea. John McCain introduced cap and trade legislation three times.,true
Says state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers.,true
Says State Rep. Kristi Thibaut was an ACORN lobbyist.,true
Ohio today has the fewest number of state employees since the Reagan administration.,true
Jennifer Carroll is the first AfricanAmerican Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida.,true
Sharron Angle would eliminate the Department of Education.,true
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.,true
Florida is 49th in per capita spending on mental health care.,true
Under the new health care law if a landscaper wants to buy a new lawnmower or a restaurant needs a new icemaker they have to report that to the feds.,true
Michael Thurmond authored major legislation that has provided more than $250 million in tax relief to Georgias senior citizens and working families.,true
The federal government is now on track for the secondlargest budget deficit in 65 years.,true
Says most of Perrys chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.,true
In Rhode Island there are 150 different pension plans for public workers.,true
I helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare.,true
There is already a mosque four blocks away.,true
Kendrick Meek claims hes the only candidate who saidSonia Sotomayor will make an excellent Supreme Court justice.,true
Says Barack Obama didnt keep his promise to have an immigration bill in his first year.,true
U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Raufs trip to the Middle East.,true
Warren Buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction. And Greene was the first individual to use them.,true
In 1935 more than 50 of the elderly population lived in poverty. Today that poverty rate stands officially at 9.4.,true
The unemployment rate for folks whove never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have.,true
This year Newt Gingrich has raised as much money as Mitt Romney Tim Pawlenty Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee combined.,true
The overall fact about illegal immigration is that its not actually getting worse.,true
Ive taken on the federal government and won.,true
Ive even cut my own salary  twice.,true
Exporters are using a federal loophole to deceptively sell products made from cat and dog fur to U.S. consumers.,true
About 106000 soldiers had a prescription of three weeks or more for pain depression or anxiety medication.,true
Last year we borrowed $1.4 trillion  or 41 cents of every dollar we spent. Over half of this debt is held by foreign investors.,true
Police officers in this state have that right to check the immigration status of people they arrest.,true
Bill McCollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs.,true
During the recession the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent.,true
Jeff Greene can buy anything ... he owns two mansions.,true
The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city.,true
Today almost half our debt is owned by foreigners.,true
Over the last 10 years incomes for the top 1 percent have grown. Meanwhile the bottom half of the country theyve seen their wages stagnate.,true
There are more pain clinics in Broward County than there are McDonalds in Broward County.,true
Democratic candidate Jeff Greene ran for Congress as a California Republican.,true
The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate.,true
Weve seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector.,true
Sometime in the next decade there will be more Latinos in the state of Texas than there are Anglos. That will happen sometime in the next five to eight to ten years.,true
Twentytwo million jobs were created during Clintons two terms but only 3 million during Bushs.,true
Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation.,true
In the 18th Congressional District 100 of electric generation comes from coal.,true
Since 1904 the Ohio victor has won the presidency 25 out of 27 times,true
The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure.,true
House Republicans who complained they didnt have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling.,true
Maurice Ferre says Kendrick Meek has voted 98.6 percent of the time with the Democrat party.,true
I never called for a partition of Iraq.,true
Have the suburbs been inundated with former residents of Atlanta housing projects Absolutely not.,true
Providence has the lowest crime rate in three decades.,true
Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children.,true
Were spending $1 trillion a year on our foreign policy.,true
Says Texas has one state inspector for every 4500 oil and gas wells.,true
Gov. Crist has never wavered in his support of the Second Amendment the right to bear arms.,true
Attorney General McCollum SpeakerDesignate Cannon Senate PresidentDesignate Haridopolos and I stood up to Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his mismanagement of the party.,true
Only about a third of Texans who enroll in college graduate.,true
Sen. McConnell offered a fully paid twomonth extension of unemployment insurance.,true
We spend three times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense.,true
The company I created Point Judith Capital is the only venture capital firm in Rhode Island.,true
Floridas high school graduation rate falls well below the national average.,true
He Kirk did violate Pentagon rules twice actually for improperly mingling politics with his military service.,true
Weare picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags.,true
Crime is down in Arizona.,true
Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive,true
I have filed every disclosure that has ever been required.,true
Were No. 1 in child hunger.,true
I have spent virtually every weekend since Memorial Day in the Panhandle.,true
Georgia has the most restrictive ballot access laws in the country.,true
Says he fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003.,true
Langevin votes the party line about 98 percent of the time.,true
Georgia has more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona.,true
The national debt has gone up by $1729000000 during the Isner v. Mahut match.,true
In the last 6 years there have been 420 elections for State Senator and State Representative. Only three incumbents have been defeated,true
Rick Scott has heavily invested in a company that is geared to helping illegal aliens transfer money to family and friends out of the country.,true
Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning.,true
After J.D. Hayworth was voted out of Congress he became a registered lobbyist who was paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on.,true
The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era.,true
Bill McCollumhas recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud.,true
Georgia has a dropout rate thats higher than Alabamas.,true
Californias credit rating is the worst in the country.,true
Rick Scotts former health care company ColumbiaHCA committed fraud.,true
Almost 1 million children ... have no health insurance in this state.,true
Fulton County has successfully reduced the number of pregnancies among 15 to 19yearolds.,true
If voters agree in November to approve a onecent sales tax increase that will give Hillsborough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties.,true
For now we are still below average in the metro region.,true
Charlie Crist bizarrely vetoed $9.7 million for a teaching hospital at the University of Florida despite having previously argued the budget request had merit.,true
The president has added close to 68000 troops in the last year since he came into office not just the 30000 you hear but the others that were added before that.,true
The Republican Party fought very hard in the 60s to get the civil rights bill passed as well as the voting rights bill.,true
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.,true
Jeff Greene only moved from California to Florida in the last two years. In fact he would not legally be allowed to run for any other statewide office because he has not lived here long enough to meet the residency requirement.,true
In Hawaii they dont have a history of throwing incumbents out of office.,true
Rick Scott was forced to resign as the head of a company that pled guilty to massive amounts of systematic fraud including 14 felonies leading to a historic $1.7 billion fine.,true
Rick Scotts even saying he wants more offshore drilling.,true
Bill McCollum explained his lack of action on mortgage fraud by saying You cant do everything.,true
Texas has now the highest share of minimumwage workers in the nation.,true
Greece has a GDP the size of the DallasFort Worth Metroplex.,true
Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway.,true
On military recruiters at Harvard Elena Kagan took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong.,true
In the last 50 years the federal government has only balanced the budget five times.,true
We can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane but the FBI doesnt have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK47.,true
Scott Maddox is a lobbyist.,true
If you will go look up the definition of act of God weve used it in legal terms for a long time in this state.,true
Incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon and incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos have said they plan to champion efforts next legislative session to allow oil rigs off Floridas coast.,true
At the moment energy companies spend 0.25 percent on RD.,true
Says Texas General Land Office has earned the school children of Texas $451932.89 on wind leases that havent produced a watt of energy.,true
By registration fewer than 20 percent of Florida voters are Independents.,true
Congress can tell the Supreme Court which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority.,true
Daniel Webster said hes out. Now he says hes in.,true
Fifteen years ago the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP.,true
Republican challenger Bill Flores has never once voted in a general election in our district.,true
Bill Young uses his campaign money for among other things a luxury car.,true
By the end of Governor Rick Perrys term he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360000 to pay for the rental mansion he has been living in while the historic Governors Mansion is repaired.,true
Thanks to you in under one week we have the largest GOP Facebook page in the Governors race,true
No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power  a record unmatched by other fuels.,true
If the spaceshuttle program is terminated Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space.,true
I never had a filibusterproof Senate.,true
Crist sent his top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal then vetoed the bill.,true
John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.,true
President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito who now sits on the Supreme Court.,true
Says that under a new program jail time for nonviolent mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent.,true
Says Holly Turner failed to vote in five straight Republican primaries.,true
Snitker has been virtually ignored by the major media.,true
The Senate Republican education plan is an unfunded mandate for local school districts.,true
With this reform every insured American gets valuable consumer protections and every uninsured American can become insured.,true
Farouk is on fire.,true
On the day that the Republican state leader resigned in disgrace a ShredIt truck rolled up to Republican headquarters.,true
Actually Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican.,true
Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program 211000 Floridians have lost their jobs.,true
Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than its taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016.,true
Marco Rubios income skyrocketed while his power increased.,true
Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years.,true
The Associated Press called Charlie Crists attacks over the top out of context and not true.,true
Says she was the the only Democrat who voted against the Wall Street bailout.,true
The cost to implement Floridas class size amendment so far has been $16 billion.,true
The health care bill will subsidize families of four that make more than $80000 a year.,true
There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation.,true
In Texas schools do not even have to teach sex education.,true
As Floridas CFO I shut down Krakows scam and refunded more than $1.2 million to Josephine and other victims of this con man.,true
Because of a local version of Amendment 4 the taxpayers of St. Pete Beach have had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal bills.,true
House Appropriations Chair David Obeys partial earmark ban wouldnt apply to 90 of earmarks.,true
Health insurance companies costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending.,true
If we just froze spending at 2007 levels ... by 2013 we would balance the budget ... and by 2020 we would cut the national debt in half.,true
Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida.,true
The Florida Legislature raised taxes and fees by almost $2 billion in the 2009 session.,true
When Social Security started age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62  62 for women.,true
Theres almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and thats an alltime record number in our state.,true
Texas has installed more wind power than any other state and all but four countries.,true
Says Gov. Charlie Crist has called him a rock star.,true
Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry.,true
Washington cannot hide from the fact that Congress hiked the national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. They cannot hide from the fact . . . that the budget that theyre going forward with has more than a $5 trillion in debt in it over the next five years.,true
The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less on health care. ... To put it bluntly we spend more and die sooner.,true
Due to ... tax cuts and lower property values 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes.,true
We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime.,true
Her opponent zero times a judge zero rulings zero experience on the bench.,true
Says Paul Workman voted in the Democrat primary supporting Democrats with his vote.,true
Speaker Rubio supported gun restrictions that included background checks and waiting periods.,true
Since 1981 reconciliation has been used 21 times. Most of its been used by Republicans.,true
Bill McCollum voted four times to raise his own pay by a total of $51000 and earns a congressional pension worth more than $75000 a year.,true
In the stimulus $15 million dollars went to build a bigger better airport for the town of Ouzinkie Alaska population 165.,true
During the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a fivestar hotel on a trip costing nearly $10000 per person.,true
There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now.,true
A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country.,true
Houston is the thirdmost toxic city in the United States of America.,true
The law is very clear The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt.,true
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings.,true
Our Texas graduation rate ranks 43rd out of 50 states.,true
We passed without frankly the help of the Republican caucus we passed 25 tax cuts last year mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses.,true
The State of Texas does not even use the EVerify system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job.,true
Mr. President multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions on health care.,true
President Obamas proposed spending freeze will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than onehalf of 1 percent.,true
Here in Virginia we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore.,true
We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families.,true
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling.,true
PWNED House GOP Dominates Twitter YouTube Social Media in Congress.,true
Democratic presidents have been considerably more effective at creating privatesector jobs.,true
The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work.,true
Most Texans arent millionaires.,true
We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained  we lost 300000 jobs in Texas alone this year.,true
No Democratic campaign for Fla. governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle.,true
During his tenure as mayor he saw Houstons crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years.,true
I havent missed a vote since 1993.,true
President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout health care reform negotiations.,true
Charlie Crist broke the quarter record for fundraising in a U.S. Senate race in Florida.,true
President Obamas proposal calls for serious cuts in our own longterm carbon emissions but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.,true
The Senate health care bill does not contain limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.,true
The Senate health care bill would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage.,true
Obama has visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office.,true
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to skyrocket.,true
The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority.,true
Barack Obama wont even use the term war on terrorism.,true
Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine.,true
President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan.,true
History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth.,true
A fairly limited number of people 25 million to 30 million will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange.,true
A request for an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House during the presidency of George W. Bush including the vice presidents for more than eight months a resource request filled by President Obama in March.,true
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missiledefense facilities at the last minute in midnight phone calls.,true
A report by the health insurance industry ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill.,true
Other Western countries have ended their Dont Ask Dont Tell policies.,true
Health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001.,true
Barack Obama and the Democrats have proposed a tax for not having health insurance.,true
In a nowviral video impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama.,true
Goldman Sachs was Barack Obamas No. 1 private contributor.,true
FDR was called a socialist and a communist.,true
The Baucus bill contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and governmentchartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion.,true
In some states it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because shes been the victim of domestic violence.,true
Mathematically the White Sox can still get in the playoffs.,true
As a candidate President Obama declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion and vowed that this right would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president.,true
The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie plain and simple.,true
If you already have health insurance through your job or Medicare or Medicaid or the VA nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.,true
Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers and they do so for much less cost.,true
Since World War II only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama.,true
Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a preexisting condition.,true
Preventive care does not save the government money.,true
Health care reform will not affect veterans benefits.,true
The health care plan for members of Congress is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices.,true
A loophole still exists which allows members of Congress and highpowered executive branch appointees to exploit insider knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit.,true
All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.,true
Now there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95plus votes.,true
During a town hall meeting on health care ABC didnt even allow ads that opposed the presidents health care plan to be aired.,true
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II  more than AIDS cocaine heroin alcohol vehicular accidents homicide and suicide combined.,true
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a capandtrade program would cost the average family the equivalent of a postage stamp a day.,true
In Texas the No. 1 name for new male babies  many of whom will vote one day  is Jose.,true
Obama has more czars than the Romanovs.,true
Contends that President Obama literally said if his capandtrade proposals were to pass that utility rates his words now would necessarily skyrocket.,true
In the first round of repayments from financial institutions that received TARP money the government has actually turned a profit.,true
President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent.,true
The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earths 2054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests.,true
Youve heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists.,true
Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal supermax prisons.,true
The reality is we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing the shoe bomber the Unabomber and many others.,true
Our government has now spent lent or committed $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession.,true
The president of the United States ... agrees with me that marriage should be between a man and a woman.,true
Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.,true
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough makes a huge difference in reducing transmission of the flu.,true
In Iraq civilian deaths incidents of bombings etc. remain very low relative to what was going on last year.,true
About halfway through fiscal year 2009 Washington has run out of money.,true
Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.,true
2008 was the deadliest year of the war in Afghanistan for American forces.,true
The Republican leaderships budget proposal doesnt contain any numbers.,true
Obamas budget plan would take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically its been about 40 percent.,true
Warren Buffett still does support me.,true
Tens of billions of dollars from taxpayerfunded bailouts ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks.,true
AIG said they were giving $57 million in retention payments to people who were being terminated.,true
Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter.,true
I dont do earmarks. Ive never done one. Im not going to do one.,true
Amiddleclass family donates $1 to charity they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity he takes 35 cents off his income tax.,true
Teddy Roosevelt first called for health care reform nearly a century ago.,true
The president campaigned against this type of legislation.,true
We are making the largest investment in education in our nations history.,true
The omnibus spending bill has 9427 pork barrel items.,true
When the salmonella source was finally identified FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the peanut recall.,true
If we got solar energy from an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side that would be enough in and of itself to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year.,true
Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented.,true
The stimulus bill contains $20 million for the removal of small to mediumsized fish passage barriers and $25 million to rehabilitate offroading trails for ATVs.,true
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then you still wouldnt have spent $1 trillion.,true
Democrats have said that even one hearing on the stimulus bill would be one too many and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions.,true
The Capitol was built by slaves.,true
Geithner still didnt correct the same type of error for some years even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years.,true
Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue.,true
Fidel Castro has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me.,true
John McCains health care plan wont guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care.,true
Medicare spends $15billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies.,true
98 percent of small businesses make less than $250000 and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obamas plan.,true
Congressman John Lewis an American hero made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And Senator Obama you didnt repudiate those remarks.,true
Under Barack Obamas health care proposal if youve got a health care plan that you like you can keep it.,true
Barack Obama voted against born alive legislation in Illinois that was virtually identical to the federal law.,true
Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke and told them subprime lending is something we have to deal with.,true
Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks and thats good but earmarks account for about $18billion of our budget.,true
I have disagreed strongly with the Bush administration on this issue of global warming.,true
John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops.,true
You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief.,true
Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line.,true
Palin supports aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife.,true
Palin proposed a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf.,true
Says that under his tax plan seniors making less than $50000 per year wont pay any income taxes.,true
The average South Korean is3 inches taller than the average North Korean a huge gulag.,true
John McCain wants to give oil companies another $4billion in tax breaks.,true
Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists from Bermuda gave McCain $50000.,true
Obamas tax plan cuts taxes for 95 percent of all working families.,true
John McCain said last year he didnt know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.,true
My grandfather came home from ... World War II exhausted from the burdens he had borne and died the next day.,true
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said quote I cant stand John McCain. ,true
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.,true
Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country.,true
Sarah Palin already has more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden combined.,true
As governor Ive stood up to ... the big oil companies.,true
Joe Biden voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq.,true
Sarah Palin has had 12 years of elected office experience.,true
When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up Palin sent a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska.,true
John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time.,true
McCain voted 19 times against a minimumwage increase.,true
Today we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office.,true
Three years ago John McCain said Afghanistan  we dont read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded.,true
Biden is one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.,true
McCain said he was stumped when asked whether contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV.,true
Less than four cents of every health care dollar is spent on prevention and public health.,true
We spend more on health care than any other country but were ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality.,true
More than 12500 service men and women have been discharged on the basis of sexual orientation since the Dont Ask Dont Tell policy was implemented at a cost of over $360 million. Many of those forced out had special skills in high demand such as translators engineers and pilots.,true
Says McCain once said that on the most important issues of our day Ive been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.,true
Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 911 and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of Iraq.,true
The musical Mamma Mia has been selling out for years.,true
John McCains top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government.,true
McCain is raising campaign cash with one of Jack Abramoffs closest business partners scandalplagued conservative activist Ralph Reed.,true
McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy Americanmade motorcycles. And he said all buyAmerican provisions were quote disgraceful. ,true
We could save all the oil that theyre talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tuneups.,true
Obama said his proposed $1000 emergency energy rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months.,true
I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target AfricanAmerican and Latino communities.,true
McCain got more money from Airbus U.S. executives than any other politician.,true
Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine.,true
Says Obama has flipflopped on public campaign financing.,true
For at least a year now I have called for two additional brigades perhaps three.,true
McCain has switched to Obamas position on more troops to Afghanistan.,true
Obama worked with Sen. Dick Lugar a Republican to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.,true
Says Obama flipflopped on warrantless wiretapping.,true
U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan include a few thousand that are still green card holders who are not even citizens of this country.,true
McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs.,true
The legislation ... that Senator McCain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille American citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that theyre engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity.,true
He wont even support his colleagues ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps.,true
Says Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday.,true
When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax McCain said I could. But today hes attacking me for holding the very same position.,true
You know the approval rating of Congress is down to 13 percent.,true
More than half of all black children live in singleparent households a number that has doubled  doubled  since we were children.,true
I joined the Gang of 14 seven Republicans seven Democrats so that we wouldnt blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to.,true
John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming ... five years ago.,true
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldnt pay.,true
The U.S. Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them and weve never had an accident.,true
When the United States invaded Iraq Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction and he said so himself after his capture.,true
Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years.,true
John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time last year.,true
John McCain has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate.,true
Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once.,true
McCain hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign.,true
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say The American people wont care about this. ,true
Ten years ago John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists.,true
Sen. Obama has declared and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions.,true
NATO hasnt provided enough troops in Afghanistan because they are still angry about us going into Iraq.,true
McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee who believes Hurricane Katrina was Gods punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church the Antichrist and a false cult.,true
Every family health insurance policy has a $900 hidden tax to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.,true
Tax rates were significantly higher in the 40s the 50s and the 60s.,true
Hillary Clinton advocates a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no.,true
A year ago in March 2007 I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so.,true
As a state senator he Obama even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship,true
Hillary Clinton has taken over $800000 from lobbyists.,true
Barack Obama accepted $200000 from executives and employees of oil companies.,true
Again today Ahmadinejad made light of 911 and said that hes not even sure it happened and that people actually died.,true
The United States is seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s.,true
Says she is the subject of 60 books.,true
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 911.,true
McCain opposes a womans right to choose.,true
John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,true
The Childrens Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children.,true
Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month.,true
Obama spent 40 percent of the PAC money 43 percent to be exact on Iowa New Hampshire Nevada and South Carolina politicians.,true
Obama did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that through his political action committee.,true
I am a candidate. I have not withdrawn.,true
John McCain and George Bush have absolutely no plan for universal health care.,true
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between alQaida and the Iraqi government.,true
Ive spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream.,true
John McCain says its okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq.,true
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.,true
Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time,true
He Obama chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... Hes held not one substantive hearing to do oversight.,true
Clinton said great things about NAFTA until she started running for president.,true
We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil.,true
Hes been endorsed by every major newspaper here in the state of Texas.,true
She flunked the D.C. bar exam.,true
John McCain said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president.,true
Hillary Clinton has the only health care plan that covers every American.,true
Senator Obama has in fact never had a serious Republican challenger.,true
Hillary Clinton starts off with 47 percent of the country against her.,true
Im the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions...,true
When I was in college we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel.,true
One man sacrificed for his country. One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didnt play politics with the truth. One man stands up to the special interests.,true
Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating.,true
In the Illinois Legislature Barack Obama voted present instead of yes or no on seven votes involving abortion rights.,true
John McCain has said the economy is not his strong suit.,true
John McCain was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry.,true
Hillary Clinton actually differed with John McCain by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions.,true
Hillary Clinton agreed with John McCain on voting for the war in Iraq.,true
Twothirds of our economy is a consumer economy.,true
Mitt Romney previously believed that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. Now he is prolife.,true