redasers/difraud huggingface dataset:
For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment).
The initial Portland plastic bag ban represented only a modest share of total single-use checkout bag use.
A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith.
A Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it "is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow."
Kim Myers voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters.
Sherrod Brown voted to cut Medicare by over $500 billion in order to fund government-run health care.
A trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.
Cobb is one of the largest school systems (in the nation) that is debt free.
Mitt Romney was clear that he would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy.
If you have a union job, youre making on average $950 a week. If you have a non-union job, youre making $750 a week.
Ken Cuccinelli would take money away from public schools to fund private schools.
She would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin and Donald Trump would cost Wisconsin 61,050 jobs.
Gwinnett County government has made significant cutbacks in staffing.
When Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education.
Obama flip-flopped on banning handguns.
DUI arrests dropped significantly in Tampa once Uber began operating here.
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.
If youre a terrorist you cant fly, but an assault weapon you can buy.
You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.
Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.
Georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college.
Donald Trump is going to go out and carpet bomb the Middle East.
Data on violent crime shows Wisconsin has become less safe than it was when Scott Walker took office.
Cory Gardner is sponsoring a bill to ban all abortions right now.
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.
I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... Weve got about 60 percent done in three years.
It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion.
Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families.
Since the time of the Civil War, weve made a distinction in this country between the availability and the ability to access for people who were in the military, versus the rest of us, to vote.
Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.
We were promised (the stimulus) would provide 'green jobs' for Americans, but 80% of the $2 billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in China!
98,184 Texans are now driving with temporary drivers licenses lacking their photos.
What difference, at this point, does it make? I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question, Why didnt you just pick up the phone and call the survivors (of the Benghazi attack)?
Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans.
Rick Perry has become a millionaire on the public payroll.
According to (Barack) Obamas newest unconstitutionally enacted law, health care professionals are now required to violate HIPAA privacy laws and submit medical data to the government, which is then used as justification for gun confiscation.
There is a Republican plan to end Medicare.
Kilmartin has helped pass laws to create a witness protection program.
Because of violence spreading from Mexico, youve got bullets hitting the city hall in El Paso. Youve got bombs exploding in El Paso.
Opponents of Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act) complain of state expense, yet their only cost is the paper, postage and manpower required to send copies of legislation to the federal government for review.
We have the lowest beer tax in the nation.
Jeff Reardon cut elementary school music classes, art instruction, teaching positions, basketball and volleyball programs, and he voted to raise school lunch prices.
, In the last four years weve cut $36 million in ongoing revenue.
Last weeks three most-viewed television programs wereSunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football.
, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door had no responsibility in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.
(John McCain) was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry.
Clackamas County Commissioners approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the countys contribution to TriMets Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million.
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele is a billionaire.
Lawmakers were paid for their off-season efforts to, for the first time, take the lead in drawing borders for two would-be cities.
We caught (the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale.
No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream.
Potential Democratic opponent Mary Burke implemented the policies of Jim Doyle. Those are the policies that, in his last term, saw the state lose more than 133,000 jobs.
According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in thefirst year and about 15,000 jobs afterfive years.
Donald Trump won more counties than any candidate on our side since Ronald Reagan.
State workers have not had across-the-board raises in six years.
Sherrod Brown failed to pay his own taxes three separate times.
No one claims the report vindicating New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the bridge scandal is conclusive.
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.
Donald Trump would engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security.
Gov. Scott Walkers proposed state budget contained 110 pages of errors -- an unusually high number -- and millions of dollars worth of mistakes that were corrected with a follow-up document.
[E]xcise tax increases drive commerce across state lines.
A bipartisan background check amendment outlawed any (gun) registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text.
Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'
Paul Ryan is still endorsing Trump.
He was a Marine during Vietnam.
A new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota makes college education more affordable for Wisconsin residents.
Nearly 30,000 federal employees in Oregon were furloughed during the government shutdown.
Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere."
Jeanne Shaheen got behind the idea of using the IRS to target American citizens for their political views.
In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks.
Health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001.
Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid.
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.
Now, in the House of Representatives, we have 40 different jobs bills that have passed and almost all of them have been bipartisan.
U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy is among seven Tea Party freshmen who spent an average of $15,000 on cars for themselves.
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Husseins forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis never paid us.
Texas proved in court that more than 200 dead people voted in the latest Texas election.
As district attorney, Susan Happ took $180,000 in a shady land deal from a man charged with multiple felony counts of sexual assault before she offered him a deferred prosecution.
Even hunters are restricted from using large capacity magazines: there is a five cartridge limit for large game hunting, and three for bird hunting.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked the Senate over 400 times.
At $587 apiece, USA would need to bring home about 33.1 BILLION gold medals to pay off our national debt.
The No. 2 owner of Fox News is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who said, A strong American Government is not good for us.
We have a 40 to 50 percent dropout rate in our inner-city schools.
He did the very best in a recent poll in Iowa matching up each of the major Republican presidential candidates against President Barack Obama.
Mercury is used in vaccines, and there is no safe level of mercury.
Georgia is the Saudi Arabia of pine trees.
A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will participate in the same kind of health plan that members of Congress do.
Race to the Top grants require participating states to adopt the Common Core standards as a condition for receiving federal funding.
Betty Sutton gutted Medicare by $500 billion with her vote for the presidents health care bill.
John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending.
China is trying to develop nuclear capability.
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.
He saw videotape of the people taking the money off the plane to pay ransom to Iran for hostages.
In the U.S. Constitution, theres a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
When the Republicans were in charge, they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program.
The stimulus bill promised to keep unemployment under 8%.
We have the third-lowest minimum wage of developed countries.
Hillary Clinton took money from kings of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Oman and Yemen.
The prosecutor who brought the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perryhas ties to Obama. He has ties to the Democrats.
California cut about $1.3 billion in child care (during the recession). Weve only reinvested about $300 million.
The tax burden on Virginia families was lower under Tim Kaine than under George Allen.
Georgia has "a dropout rate thats higher" than Alabama's.
Milwaukee has seen an uptick in violence since 2010, and the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in.
Hillary Clintons plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes.
Marco Rubio wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare because he said theyre bankrupting our country.
Because of the 2011 debt ceiling fight, the stock market lost 2,000 points.
PolitiFact Texas says Congressman Edwards attacks on Bill Flores are false.
Latinos in Nevada support Educational Savings Accounts, helping more than 450,000 students access better schools. But Catherine Cortez Masto is against it.
Floridas high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the right to health care ... means you believe in slavery.
Over 80 percent of the people want the shot to vote on whether to approve same-sex marriage, according to polls.
Health insurance companies deny 1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors.
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has not authored any legislation that has been adopted by Congress.
By 2014, there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States.
The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American workers wage rose just 2 percent.
Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq).
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies, an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus.
The Postal Services financial losses result from a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts.
Every time the Legislature suspended the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the states revenues.
Many just call him Lyin Ted. ... HisTV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air.
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."
During the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen, Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a five-star hotel on a trip costing nearly $10,000 per person.
One of the other inaccuracies ...is that we have raised taxes multiple times and run up the budget. Absolutely not true. One tax increase since Ive been in office. It was a quarter mill tax in the unincorporated area only.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.
We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.'
Hillary Clintons campaign hasnt been clear about when she wiped herserverof her work emails.
Two-thirds of Wisconsin corporations dont pay state income taxes.
Within just a few years, immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records.
During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."
In 2013, Dan Patrick voted against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free.
Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.
The Milwaukee County Boards staff grew from four workers to 38 over four decades and now costs taxpayers a lot more, while the total county workforce was more than cut in half in the same period.
As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes.
Abill he vetoed to give driver licenses to certain immigrants known as Dreamers would havechanged nothing.
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico.
In 2009, we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years.
Hillary Clinton wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. Thats what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week.
More than once, Ive actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance.
Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.
97 cents of every dollar played represents over $500 million dollars that is returned to Oregonians every year to help support job creation, schools, state parks and watersheds.
Democrats racked up a $1 billion state deficit, while Republicans under Bill OBrien balanced the budget.
The oil industry subsidies that President Barack Obama is attacking dont exist
A proposed ban on hollow-point bullets and bullets that expand upon impact essentially bans deer hunting.
Rick Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nations history.
This is a test of the Share the Facts widget.
Hillary Clinton plans to massively increase admissions (of Middle East refugees) including a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country.
Nevada lawmakers permanently cut taxes for over 95 percent of Nevadas businesses.
Donald Trump has outlined policies that read like a Kremlin wish list.
Student loan rates set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them.
At a minimum, 40 percent of those who view child pornography end up molesting children as a result.
The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave.
The barber regulation here in Missouri is 10,000 words long.the book of Revelation is (also) 10,000 words long.
President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations).
Ted Cruzswife Heidi will be the very first pro-life first lady.
Bill McCollum voted for higher taxes and fees 42 times while he was in Congress.
Irans regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war and has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nations capital.
The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.
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.
Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California.
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."
Weve had examples like in Yuma County, where weve been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish.
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.
Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!
If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes under the state income-tax cut, but it didnt show up in your paycheck.
Charlie Crist was pro-life, pro-gun and vehemently anti-tax.
Due to ... tax cuts and lower (property) values, 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes.
The policy mistakes that ... the Clintons made got us, in large degree, to the situation that we are in today with mass incarceration.
Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty.
Hillsboroughs Public Transportation Commission has a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean, please. Come on.
Vice President Joe Biden's meeting "with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public."
Gov. Scott Walker hasnt done a public event this entire year.
Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obamas Medicaid expansion.
Hillary Clinton voted to raise taxes on workers earning as little as $41,500.
She was never a member of the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans.
The Obama administration supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard.
Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states.
I have voted every year in Wisconsin.
Even our nuclear arsenal doesnt work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They dont know if it worked.
New Jerseys governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade.
Under Gov. Kitzhaber, unemployment rose 65 percent, state spending went up 57 percent and personal incomes declined compared to the rest of the country.
When Peppers tax was finally voted down, Pepper laid off cops and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets.
Since February 2009, the private sector has lost millions of jobs while the federal government has grown by hundreds of thousands of workers.
Early voting remains at 96 hours.
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point.
Pete Gallego went and lobbied after you fired him from Congress.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers estimate of a $3.6 billion state budget deficit is manufactured and a bogus figure.
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
Seventy percent of all Texans are overweight or obese.
In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'"
Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, was a member of Bill Clintons defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe.
General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again.
If upstate New York split from downstate the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country.
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college.
Obama will charge a 28 percent tax on all home sales.
Net immigration from Mexico last year was zero. Fact-check me.
From 1972 until 2011, the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total federal personnel decreased by 15 percent.
A pro-Democratic ad is false for saying that he allowed two disgraced staffers in 2012 to resign.
In the Paula Jones case, Bill Clinton paid an $850,000 penalty.
America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world.
There was a report that came out from the FBI a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays.
Large phone companies and their trade association have hired 35 registered lobbyists to influence and pass SB 271 (deregulation legislation).
Marco Rubio is the one for an open border.
Sheldon Whitehouses failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful...
The fact that one town has three lanes dedicated to it, that kind of gets me sauced.
In the House health care bill, "Something like 2 percent of the people would [be] eligible even to get the public option."
Congress will begin its recess without having allocated one penny to fight Zika.
Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state.
Obama tells Russia that hell turn over Americas defense system to them if re-elected.
Austin is effectively imposing a ban on barbecue restaurants.
Agriculture is the strongest industry in Ohio.
Sen. (Richard) Burr voted no on the Violence Against Women Act.
During his first year, President Obama said he was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez the worst actors in the world.
A majority of the American people opposed the health care law when it was signed and still oppose it today.
Mitt Romney, while he was in Arizona, said he believes the states SB 1070 immigration law should be the model for national immigration laws.
California has added twice as many jobs as Florida over the past year.
The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English.
Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world.
President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon.
It is truethat we know that ISIS is present in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)
If youre earning under $100,000 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.
Since Rep. John Boccieris election, Ohio has lost 600,000 jobs and his districts unemployment has doubled.
For every week that (state lawmakers are) able to cut off our timeline, it saves (Georgia taxpayers) approximately $100,000.
State Rep. Elena Parent supported Governor Nathan Deals plan to slash the HOPE scholarship.
Florida still averages more students in its classrooms than any other state in the Southeast.
It has been the law since the beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born ... abroad are American citizens by birth.
Most of the black scientists in this country dont come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools.
In head-to-head polls for the general election, I beat Hillary Clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points.
Most military experts say there is anywhere between 25 and 30 members of al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasnt taken any money from the government. They dont want any money from the government.
794 law enforcement officers have fallen in the line of duty since B.H. Obama took office, with no special recognition from the White House.
When he first ran for office in the late 1980s, there were still folks who didnt have phone service. Soon Id helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone.
The shutdown is projected to result in $10 billion in costs to the economy per week.
Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the federal government has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations.
Bill Gunter would drain millions from local public schools, and give our tax dollars to private, for-profit schools run by out-of-state corporations.
Rep. Frank Wolf voted to allow terror suspects to buy guns.
In three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.
Russia and China are doing naval exercises together someplace.
Corrupt political bosses. Money laundering. Fraud. Its just another day at the office for Vin Gopal.
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."
I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history.
Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.
...Over 30 years, federal spending on education has grown by 375 percent, but test scores remain flat.
President Obamas health care law represents a government takeover of health care.
The growth in health care costs has been reined in through the Affordable Care Act.
U.S. Senate opponent Ron Johnson is opposed to all government-assisted student loans.
The U.S. national debt has tripled during Rep. Greg Waldens time in Congress.
Democratic legislators this year dont want to cut your taxes under any circumstances.
Obamacare insurance cooperative failures should be expected because theyre like any business, and when you start businesses in America, at the fifth year, half of the businesses have closed.
John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."
The region I represent, both currently and in the future, has more automotive plants than the entire state of California.
President Barack Obama made unilateral changes to Obamacare 38 times.
Only 25 percent of what people buy is subject to Rhode Islands sales tax.
Barack Obama has gone from blaming George W. Bush to plagiarizing George W. Bush.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson opposes faster broadband internet in small towns and got nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom special interests.
If we had been on Obamacare and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment.
The nuclear agreement with Iran never sunsets. Theres no sunset in this agreement.
Ron Johnson voted five times for tax breaks that help companies ship Wisconsin jobs overseas.
Illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years.
Under Obamacare, when you turn Medicaid over to the states ... the money will be available up front for the expansion for a few years. Then, the money will go away.
The Republicans still want to privatize (Social Security). In fact, their whole idea is to turn over the Social Security trust fund to Wall Street.
She is saving ratepayers $6 million/year.
Combined inflation and unemployment rates in October 2011 were the highest since Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter.
$6 billion projected to accumulate in the states rainy day fund is already used.
David Perdue made tens of millions of dollars piling a firm with billions in debt.
If Austin voters reject Proposition 1, a completely new City-run criminal background check process will cost millions in processing fees, additional staff, and bureaucracy with taxpayers getting the bill.
This budget also reflects the smallest state government workforce per 1,000 residents in Florida in this century.
The high-speed rail project would create 60,000-plus jobs for Floridians.
In the last couple of days, notices were sent (by officials in Ukraine) to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews.
The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers are on some form of public assistance.
Alex Sink failed Florida homeowners by using predatory lending practices.
New Jerseys public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.
[A]n extra 8 million Americans [are] projected to join state Medicaid programs in the next few years.
The ABA's own criteria for a judicial nominee call for, among other things, at least 12 years' experience in the practice of law, and they mean actual practice of law.
Documents released from the Soviet Union show the Soviet Union started treating President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
Romney said we should ask Pakistan for permission to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.
Ed Gillespie supports a personhood amendment.
In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half.
Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan.
Because of the new health care law, 2.5 million young adults now have coverage.
Will Hurd tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record.
The high-speed rail project provides short-term jobs.
John Kasich says he won, despite 12 visits by a president, somewhere between $45 (million) and $50 million (spent against him,) 500 paid volunteers in here calling me every name in the book, former presidents, first ladies and God-knows-who-else.
Opposing the Paycheck Fairness Act is part of the Koch brothers agenda.
Soldiers Donating to Tea Party Now Face Punishment Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy.
As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers.
Joe Biden went to China and said that he sympathized and wouldnt second-guess their one-child policy of forced abortions and sterilizations.
Out of 588 school districts, we give 31 (former Abbott) districts 70 percent of the aid.
She [Hillary Clinton] has also said unequivocally that she didnt receive classified documents.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, was elected in a very low turnout race.
Scott Walker says he would ban stem cell research
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state employment commission reinstated the person.
Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina.
Essex County residents suffer the second highest property taxes in the nation.
The 2006 Massachusetts health care law has added (only) about 1 percent to our state budget.
We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country.
Rick Perry has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the Texas governorship three times in landslide elections.
In six years, (U.S. Rep. Gary) Peters introduced zero bills that became law.
We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down.
African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.
Mark Herring voted to allow sex offenders, including rapists, to serve shorter sentences.
Rick Perry turned down our invitation to meet President Barack Obama in El Paso.
By 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.
The mosquito population in South Florida is larger than it is in many other communities in the country.
Newt Gingrich has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal.
Despite what Donald Trump claims, there werent 15,000 people who turned out in Phoenix to see Trump speak.
Dan Patrick got caught not paying his taxes and pocketed his employees payroll taxes.
I am every year the No.1 pick of all of the law enforcement agencies within Texas.
Since I took office, over 319,000 new private sector jobs have been created in Georgia with nearly 93,000 of those coming in the past 12 months.
The federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail.
People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash.
Most people in New Hampshire want to raise the minimum wage. (State Rep. Marilinda) Garcia opposes it.
Under Ryan plan,those 54 and younger would receive the same kind of healthcare options now enjoyed by members of Congress.
Most Texans aren't millionaires.
The (Jackson) plan (for reforming Cleveland schools) lacks any data or methods proven to raise student achievement.
Amanda Fritz publicly claimed to be endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, both on her website and in the voters guide.
The port provides more than 297,000 jobs directly to the state of Georgia.
In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there.
Mitt Romney said he does not line up with the NRA.
Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, put into place socialized medicine.
In Chicago, we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A.
Gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years.
Marilinda Garcia supports $150 billion in new taxes.
In Syria, we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs lied when he said President Obamas birth certificate is posted on the Internet.
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.
Every (personhood) bill Ive ever support has either had language that says were conforming to the constitutional rulings of the Supreme Court or something to that effect.
They talk about this problem with binding arbitration. It doesnt make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from Los Angeles fly into Zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you ... and then theyre on the plane back to Los Angeles.
When ICE releases illegal immigrants, a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. Theyre from Iraq and Somalia and Russia.
Scott Walker said that forcing women facing abortion to get invasive ultrasounds was just a cool thing.
My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm.
John McCain's health care plan "won't guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care."
95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all.
Federal, state and local governments have subsidized the production of the Volt to the tune of estimates between $50,000 and $250,000 per vehicle sold.
In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate.
House Democrats have a two-to-one advantage money-wise against House Republicans.
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
People in Africa literally walk two and three hundred miles in order to vote.
When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund.
Gov. Scott Walker received a $7,300 pay raise.
We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015.
Mitt Romney says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation.
In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change.
Hillary Clinton will receive her congressional salary until she dies and the Secret Service pays her mortgage.
1,000 World War II veterans die every day.
A socially conservative group sponsored a prayer vigil to stop people from buying Girl Scout cookies because it thinks the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
Businesses pay roughly 60 percent of taxes in Texas.
80 journalists have been killed in Mexico in the last decade.
Right now, one third of all illegal aliens are going to California.
We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America.
Governing magazine has estimated that in the states that dont expand Medicaid, a minimum, they said of 40 percent of rural hospitals will close in those states...
Gross income tax receipts are exceeding the Administrations projections for this fiscal year prior to Sandy.
Obamacare passed by just one vote in the Senate. It wouldnt have passed without Mark Warners vote.
If Rhode Island raises the meal and beverage tax to 10 percent, it would be the fourth-highest in the nation.
Bill Nelson voted to raise our taxes 150 times.
Texas this fiscal year will have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined.
She is the subject of 60 books.
(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare.
Rep. Jon Runyan voted to redefine rape.
The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history.
The CBO now says the presidents health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021.
Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to repeal a 2008law that President George W. Bush signed and want to be on record as not wanting to protect children from ...sex trafficking.
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.
There is currently no ability to vet these people, referring to Syrian refugees.
McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."
AIDS was transmitted to humans because one guy had sex with a monkey and then started having sex with men.
We import more oil today than ever before.
Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years.
Chuck Hagels nomination as defense secretary has been publicly celebrated by the Iranian government.
Stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.
The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child.
Marco Rubio was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it.
Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists.
Hillary Clinton spent 30 days in the hospital in 2012 and appeared wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury.
In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, its 1 in 14.
Among Hispanics, support for immigration reform is close to universal.
Here in Florida, Ive slashed government by 10 percent. That's $7 billion.
Expanding the sale of full-strength beer and wine to grocery stores isgood for everybody.
[Federal] law says that you cant give in-state tuition to an illegal alien unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of their state of residence.
Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real.
The Islamic State is so small it couldnt fill a DoubleAballpark in Charleston, W. Va.
Virginia women earnonly 79 cents to each dollar earned by men...
You cant pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes.
Theres no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic.
McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq
Almost 88,000 United States service members are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to World War II.
In the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, none of the candidates mentioned the middle class or education.
Its estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - thats billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesnt have the resources.
Harry Reid says he does more for Nevada. Hes done more for unemployment. We were at 4.4 percent. Now were at 14 percent. Hes done more for the foreclosure rate. We have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. Hes done more for bankruptcy. We have the highest bankruptcy rate in the nation.
Weve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. Weve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. Weve made government smaller.
Forty aides who serve President Barack Obama owe $333,485 in back taxes.
Twenty-three million Americans suffer from addiction, but only 1 in 10 get treatment.
Baltimore spends the third highest per capita on its public schools.
Each Georgia taxpayer would have to send $5,000 to the treasury to cover the states debt.
One in five women in the military are receiving unwanted sexual contact, as are 3.3 percent of men.
As the Democrats finally maxed out their government spending credit card Monday, Kurt Schrader continued to stand with his party leaders in failing to offer any viable long-term solution.
Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000."
With the exception of slavery and the Chinese Exclusion Act, our laws have never barred persons from becoming citizens.
Rick Scotts Administration spent over $100,000 of taxpayer money during their first voter purge attempt in 2012.
Public display of a long rifle is perfectly legal in Texas.
A recent economic uptick appears to coincide with the expectation of a new Republican Congress.
Under President Barack Obamas leadership, since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs.
As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people.
The presidents own advisers have said theres a war on coal.
Russ Feingold was the only senator to vote against Homeland Security.
Donald Trump was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican.
U.S.-Mexico border has 1 million legal border crossings each and every day.
Clinton aides admit it (a gas tax holiday) won't do much for you but would help her politically.
The majority of people travelling to these destination resorts are not going for the primary purpose of gambling.
In the past three years, weve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.
Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago.
Ronald Reagan did amnesty.
Theyre paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years.
The recent process of awarding $3 billion worth of airport vending contracts was the most open and transparent procurement process in the citys history.
41,200 veterans in Florida dont have health care because Scott didnt expand Medicaid.
More people today are leaving Virginia than moving in.
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.
Jacky Rosen has refused to tell us whether she supports Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.
Gov. Chris Christie caused a 4.1 percent increase in property taxes in 2010, marking the highest increase since 2007.
Assaults on Wisconsin law enforcement officers are up 224 percent statewide since 2005
A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines.
I investigated Abramoff and people ended up in jail.
We spend in tax loopholes annually $1.1 trillion. Thats more than we spend on our defense budget in a year, on Medicare or Medicaid in a year.
90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers.
Things went wrong with the Medicare prescription D plan that George Bush rolled out.
We are about halfway to the presidents goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector.
The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation.
Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire.
President Barack Obama has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing.
Six people in Florida die as a result of (not expanding Medicaid) every day.
There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange.
Kurt Schrader voted to cut $500 billion from Medicare, threatening thousands of Oregon seniors and their access to their current coverage.
''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''
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.
If Milwaukee approves reducing its maximum forfeiture for marijuana possession to $50, the city would have 23 different bicycle violations that have a higher forfeiture.
Virginia state employees pay nothing toward their pensions.
After the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi,Libya,the ambassadors body was dragged through the street.
For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online.
Peyton Manning struggles in cold weather games.
Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years.
The U.S. Senate has one manufacturer thatd be me.
After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans.
Marco Rubio says Solo Ingles (English only).
There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s.
President Obama has cracked down on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president.
His budget plan would cut our deficits by $4 trillion.
Marco Rubio opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families.
George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.
I spent only $36.29 on my campaign for governor.
In the 1980s, The lowest income people had the biggest gains.
A United Nations arms treaty would almost certainly force the U.S. to create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
Neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump has a plan to address the civil war in Syria.
Clayton County offers the lowest operating millage rate in Metro Atlanta.
China is going to have twice the number of submarines we have in just over a decade.
The 9-0 decision last week was the 13th time the Supreme Court voted 9-0 that the president had exceeded his constitutional authority.