redasers/difraud huggingface dataset:
Maggie Hassan missed nearly every university system board meeting.
New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade.
Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression.
The Buffett Rule will bring in less than $5 billion per year. ... Enough to pay one weeks interest on the national debt.
Scott Walkers defunding of Planned Parenthood left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.
Except for foreign policy, Ron Pauls voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.
The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care.
This is not a mosque. Its a cultural center that has a prayer area.
Mark Pryor continues to insist that Obamacare is an amazing success.
The Justice Departments Fast and Furious gun-walking program started in the Bush administration.
Drone technology now allows an individual to be recorded in their homes by drones as small as birds and immediately uploaded to the internet.
He invested over $100 million in worker training.
I'll tell you what I can tell this country: If they want a president who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices.
TSA started off with 16,500 screeners and the agency has mushroomed to 67,000 employees with 3,590 administrative people ... making over $105,000 per year on average.
Rob Portmans plan to tax, slash and privatize Social Security would devastate Ohioans.
The cap-and-trade bill will mean 2 million jobs lost.
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.
Already in Wisconsin we have seen fewer people pursuing education as a career due to the Act 10 collective bargaining law.
Georgias CRCT set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation.
We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia.
This (parent trigger) legislation was drafted by President Obamas top advisers. It was drafted by President Clintons top advisers.
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.
Paid family leave is a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world.
Donald Trump says hed deport 16 million people.
$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state for a family.
Jason Carter has gotten David Axelrod to come down and be his campaign advisor.
Under Ted Cruzs tax plan, businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees.
Between 1980 and 2010, water usage in Georgia dropped even as the states population grew.
In Europe, church attendance rates (are) in the single digits because churches are supported by taxes.
Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination.
His promise of 250,000 new private sector jobs was a big goal.
Today we stand as the highest-performing urban school district in America.
There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment.
We have a fire marshal that said, Oh we cant allow more people ... And the reason they wont let them in is because they dont know what the hell theyre doing.
Sen. John McCain has taken more money from Wall Street than any other sitting senator.
Nevada Republican Senate nominee Joe Heck voted to criminalize abortion for rape victims.
The Bush administration pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead.
Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal govt wants to create a park, they must ask permission!
We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the NCAA no matter how minor the violations.
Hospitals, doctors, MRIs, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.'' health-care mitt-romney Former governor Massachusetts republican 34 32 58 33 19 a Fox News Sunday interview 9874.json barely-true Obamacare cuts seniors Medicare. health-care,medicare ed-gillespie Republican strategist Washington, D.C. republican 2 3 2 2 1 a campaign email. 3072.json mostly-true The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually. government-efficiency,transparency newsmax Magazine and website Florida none 0 0 0 1 0 an e-mail solicitation 2436.json mostly-true Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade. education alex-sink Florida democrat 1 2 2 4 0 figures cites on campaign website 9721.json 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. crime,criminal-justice,guns,legal-issues greater-wisconsin-political-fund Wisconsin none 3 3 3 1 1 a campaign TV ad 3627.json false Almost 37 percent of the total income from Planned Parenthood is from abortions. abortion ronald-renuart State Representative Florida republican 0 1 0 0 0 comments during a committee hearing 11900.json half-true The United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth. children,poverty bernie-s U.S. Senator Vermont independent 18 12 22 41 0 comments during the PBS Democratic debate 4611.json 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. civil-rights,homeland-security,immigration,public-safety,transportation,workers david-quiroa prresident, Guatemalan-American Alliance of Rhode Island Rhode Island newsmaker 0 0 0 0 0 a news release 3168.json pants-fire Illegal aliens cost the state of Rhode Island $400 million a year. census,crime,education,health-care,immigration,state-budget,taxes terry-gorman President, Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement Rhode Island newsmaker 1 0 0 0 1 a radio interview 6832.json pants-fire Says Eric Cantor voted to assure Congress would be paid if the government shut down and against guaranteeing troops would be paid. congressional-rules,federal-budget,military wayne-powell lawyer Virginia democrat 1 1 0 0 1 a debate. 5893.json mostly-true If Congress froze the current spending level and then cut it by 2 percent annually, we could balance the budget in five years. deficit,federal-budget jamie-radtke Virginia republican 1 1 1 2 0 a statement 3304.json true Every (Wisconsin) legislator that votes for this bill will have to give up the same amount of pay as other state employees. labor,state-budget jeff-fitzgerald Incoming speaker of state Assembly Wisconsin republican 2 0 1 2 2 an interview on the Fox News Channel 1638.json half-true Marco Rubio controlled funds that out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."
Latinos now make up the majority population in Texas.
The film and TV industry supports more than 24,000 direct jobs and pays local workers more than $1.68 billion in wages in Georgia.
In the past three years, state legislatures have enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined.
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele spent $100,000 of taxpayer money on a new luxury SUV.
Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.
Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."
Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share.
Ken Mercer wants Sean Hannity and James Dobson included in social studies texts.
In the 18th Congressional District, 100% of electric generation comes from coal.
Milwaukee is the most segregated city in America.
Wendy Davis, born into difficult circumstances, was the daughter of a single mother and a teenage mother herself.
Forty percent of illegal immigrants are people coming legally on visas and overstaying their visas.
Prop 56 cheats schools out of at least $600 million.
Jeb Bush doesnt believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does.
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."
Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nations leader in that area.
North Carolinas coast is possibly the best place in (the) U.S. for an offshore windfarm.
Matt Wand has sided with anti-choice activists to restrict access to reproductive health care services.
His political opponents brought 100,000 protesters into our state.
In June, jobless ranks were higher in nearly 90 percent of U.S. cities.
If Gov. Romneys plan goes into effect the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security.
The United States regulations are among the most difficult in the world.
Blue Cross headquarters has "a $30,000 granite table."
NASCAR fans are twice as likely as non fans to serve in the military and 37 percent of active servicemembers and veterans are NASCAR fans.
Rick Scott thinks employers should be able to deny women coverage for birth control.
James Langevin voted to spend $3 billion for a jet engine no one wants.
The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents more than twice as many as there were in 2004.
For thousands of public employees, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers budget-repair bill would take away any say they have in the workplace, and eliminate their union.
Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."
170,000 of the jobs created in Texas under Gov. Rick Perry were government jobs.
Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world.
Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016.
Taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average.
You go down to Miami and when its flooding at high tide on a sunny day, fish are swimming through the middle of the streets.
Obamas net neutrality proposalputs the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered.
Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin, even though marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin.
This year, were off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999.
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.
President Dwight Eisenhower moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country.
About 800 people refused to get a drug screening because they are out there on drugs.
13,000 Floridians are able to vote -- but their governor wont tell them.
In Iraq, civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year.
22 Countries Invaded by the U.S. in 20 Years.
The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.
President Obamas grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth.
Alex Sink supported more taxes on water and TV.
Secretary of State Jon Husted and former secretary Jennifer Brunner both have supported a provision in Senate Bill 47 that would limit the days organizers have to collect signatures for initiative and referendum petitions.
The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered.
The Super Bowl has one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country.
Due to the war in Iraq, 4,400 Americans are dead, 30,000 severely wounded and more than 100,000 are suffering from serious health problems related to post traumatic stress syndrome.
After Reagan took office, "we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. What we did was we cut taxes."
The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns 49 percent fewer women are shot and killed.
One of the main functions of the Department of Homeland Securitys SAVE database is checking voter registration citizenship status.
David Jolly refused to cut spending for a national greenhouse in D.C.
Thanks to our policies, for the first time in state history, we have put millions of dollars into our rainy day fund in consecutive years.
Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him.
Said the Washington Post argued that a failure to pass the START treaty this year would be no calamity, and that the Associated Press saidthe administration concedes the security risk is not immediate.
Sens. Isaksons, Chambliss Votes Against Unemployment Insurance Were Votes to Kill Nearly 6,000 Georgia Jobs.
U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of Obamacare.
Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle. When the car was extricated from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.
Our pension system is the only one in the country thats 100 percent funded.
56 percentof (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control.
About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money.
State Sens. Greg Evers, Nancy Detert and Charles Dean got a failing grade from conservatives.
My opponent supported policies that increased tuition by 18 percent.
The state of Georgia lost 16 percent of its employees last year, and that percentage has risen over the past three years.
In the last 15 years, weve witnessed a dramatic expansion in the jailing of immigrants, from about 70,000 people detained annually to about 400,000.
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts.
Welcome to Wisconsin road signs have always been made in Wisconsin,but Scott Walker is outsourcing themto an out-of-state company and paying more money for them.
More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, I took a higher percentage of the Republican voteand yet I also carried independents by 12 points.
Rubio's tax swap proposal "would have been a massive tax increase."
The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet.
By rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.
A Penn State University study found that electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes.
Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all.
President Barack Obama met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.
CEOs now earn 431 times what their workers earn.
The congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by a very partisan political committee in a way that related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics.
Rubio's "got more experience than Obama had."
Obamacare Medical Codes Confirm: Execution by Beheading To Be Implemented in America.
Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget.
Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, skipped an important VA reform hearing to attend three fundraisers.
Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a murder mill.
The United States Senate Democrats and Republicans (voted) to keep our government open.
I have fought for our shared values without being an ideologue or a partisan
A small business in my district needed 31 different permits and fees just to be able to expand.
A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists.
Charlotte Nash pretends to be a chicken farmer in order to get property tax exemptions.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture.
There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world.
Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars because of Arizonas immigration laws that drove outundocumented immigrants.
Every (U.S. Supreme Court) nominee since 1875 has received a nomination hearing.
If todays economy was rebounding at the rate of the Reagan recovery, it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment.
If public employees dont pay more for benefits starting April 1, 2011, the equivalent is 1,500 state employee layoffs by June 30, 2011 and 10,000 to 12,000 state and local government employee layoffs in the next two years.
Obama would "experiment with socialism."
The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on.
Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system than before.
Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Floridas investments? Alex Sink.
Greg Abbott did nothing to pursue reports of the sexual abuse of boys at a West Texas state-run school.
Hillary Clinton has donated every cent shes ever earned from speaking fees to charity.
Jennifer Carroll is the first African-American Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida.
The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined.
The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country.
Its highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940.
Paul Ryans budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Over 32,000 people die from #GunViolence every year. Yet, (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is banned from researching ways to prevent this.
''Both Democrats and Republicans are advocating for the use of student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness.''
In 2011, Carlos Lpez-Cantera staunchly supported a Florida bill modeled after Arizonas immigration law
Last year it was discovered that Rhode Islands public employees ranked 4th in average pay, while the private sector ranked 23rd.
(Dennis) Richardson wants to make drastic cuts to services we depend on: schools, home care for seniors, even public safety -- all so Richardson can keep more than $440 million in unspent funds for his political priorities.
I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated before deciding whether to endorse it.
People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database.
When Republican extremists tried to take away abortion rights Blake Rocap stopped them.
New provisions of the health care law bar the use offlexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs.
In Ohio, more than half the providers of safe and legal abortion have had to shut down since Gov. John Kasich took office in 2011.
Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!
I am the only candidate for lieutenant governor to oppose in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
Jason Carter supports using Georgia tax dollars to promote Obamacare
Weve outdrawn the Super Bowl for a little while now in the arenas and stadiums that weve followed them in for the Super Bowl. Weve gone in after [the NFL] and surpassed their ticket sales.
The national unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for a record 36 months.
In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party.
Bruce Braley took tens of thousands from his friends in the health insurance industry and gave them special favors by voting for Obamacare.
Under Lee Fisher Ohio has lost nearly 400,000 jobs.
Opponent Beto ORourke wants to legalize drugs.
Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination.
A Koch brothers group is going to college campuses, giving away free booze to try to bribe young folks out of getting health insurance.
Senate Democrats who left the state for weeks to delay a vote on union bargaining power exercised a Wisconsin filibuster provided by the states constitution.
President Barack Obama himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists.
Hillary Clintons plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs.
Weve had Muslims in America since George Washington.
Allen West helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an Iraqi detainee, then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong.
The state has less employees this year than we did last year.
Due to Obamacare, Arkansas has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already.
The state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida.
House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a vegetable for the purpose of school lunches.
The Arizona State Board of Educations failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student.
Congressman Renacci is under FBI investigation.
He voted for even stronger protections (in the Violence Against Women Act)than Obamas agenda will allow.
We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor.
As usual, Hillary the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games.
Under a bill before the legislature, youd have to go to court to fire an employee.
Earlier this year, the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified before Congress that implementation of Obamacare would cost 800,000 jobs.
Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are quite unpopular.
Russ Feingold has not worked anywhere outside of politics.
Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher.
When Democrats controlled Congress and the White House, federal spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product leapt from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 25.2 percent in 2009 -- the largest such increase in any eight-year period since World War II.
Dave Brat worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaines Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion.
No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons.
After how hard you work and how much you pay in taxes, New York City ends up getting the money. Im Chris Jacobs. I think its time we have someone in Albany thats making sure our region gets our fair share
Who would sign up to speak for a (Haitian) dictator? Rob Portman.
Candidates for governor routinely disclose their spouses tax returns.
Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinsons disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana.
Rick Scott is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions despite troubled power plants.
Romney outsourced call center jobs to India.
Ron Johnson helped companies ship jobs overseas.
The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a Star Trek training video.
I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA.
Eleven years ago, the city of Detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today, 53 percent of officers live outside of the city. If we want the tax base of Milwaukee to resemble the tax base of Detroit, this is the way to go.
Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.
Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice.
The president won the youth vote 3 to1, but his numbers have dropped 20, 30 percent among the youth.
Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government.
Wisconsins 6th congressional district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other in the nation.
Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap, which amounts to a $500,000 vagina tax over her working career.
As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs.
Many uninsured Americans are young.
78702 is the second-most gentrified ZIP code in the entire country.
29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting.
Felony crimes in the city of Atlanta are the lowest they have been since 1969.
The vast majority of our international commitments take effect without congressional approval.
This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River.
Oregonians for Food and Shelter proudly features board members from Monsanto and Syngenta and the (Oregon) Farm Bureau also receives funding from biotech companies.
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.
Hillary Clinton has been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight.
There are homes for sale on and around (Oswego Lake) right now for under $150,000 that anyone is welcome to buy.
8 years of the Clintons, major losses for Democrats across the nation.
Hes the only licensed firearms dealer in America running for Congress.
Volunteer firefighters and communities they serve in Georgia and elsewhere are being devastated by Obamacare.
Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight? FAA could cut other spending.
The Democrat-led Senate has failed to pass a budget for 750 days ... Senate Democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities.
President Barack Obama is absolutely a Muslim.
One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.
Opponent Holly Benson said that Just because youre poor doesnt mean youre unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running.
Im beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot.
Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking.
The Georgia Senate ethics resolution doesnt define cap.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison took 154 private flights all funded by taxpayers though commercial flights were readily available at a fraction of the cost.
Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years.
African-Americans dont use drugs at a higher level than whites but wind up going to prison six times more.
If you have a job in this country, (theres a) 97 percent chance that youre not going to be in poverty.
Hillary Clinton is proposing destroying Medicare for seniors.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said, quote, 'I can't stand John McCain.' "
It is a fact that the economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House.
Austin has gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested more congested than NYC.
The measles vaccine has killed 108 people in the last decade, while no one has died of measles.
The Obama Administration has fulfilled all of Texas requests for fire management assisting grants.
We have tougher standards holding toy gun manufacturers and sellers to account than we do for real guns.
Opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the districts debt load doubles with these new bonds.
In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)
State lawmakers have voted to spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times since the funds creation.
Texas has the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states.
Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been too many in too short a period of time.
Bill Nelsons vote for the Affordable Care Act cuts $500 billion from Medicare to pay for new government programs.
Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they dont meet suggested federal standards.
There is an upcoming vote to preserve benefits of Texas homestead exemption for seniors and the disabled.
This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent.
The Rev. Wright compared "the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior."
Barack Obama's plan calls for "mandates and fines for small businesses."
The number of Americans who receive means-tested government benefits -- welfare -- now outnumbers those who are year-round full-time workers.
The people that perpetrated that travesty in San Bernardino had never been to the Middle East.
Hillary Clintons rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans.
The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.
Gov. Scott Walkers plan to freeze pay for state employees includes a 5.4 percent raise for himself.
Medical-grade marijuana alonewill not get that patient high, no matter what level of THC, CBD or any other compound is found in the plant.
The Republican Party platform says pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold while the Democratic Party platform says we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform.
With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program.
When I left office, there was a $7-million surplus in Providence, but in 2008, the city had a $110-million deficit.
When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: Yeah, were open.
Since lawmakers acted, we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts.
As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies.
He has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.
Marco Rubio endorsed Obamacare for his own family.
In Hillary Clintons tax returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.
In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy.
Forty percent of people in this country, illegally, are overstaying visas.
One out of two Americans are living either in or near poverty. That means 150 million Americans, half of us.
There are $500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law].
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.
We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone.
Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.
Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children.
Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga.
There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think its a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy.
When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. Sherrod Brown, he is lying. He has accepted ZERO proposed debates.
Its been 4 and a half years since the United States Senate passed a budget.
Democratic runoff opponent Grady Yarbrough twice previously ran statewide as a Republican.
Jeb Bush -- not Charlie Crist -- signed legislation that let Duke Energy collect money for nuclear projects.
Just about half of rural hospitals operate in the red in Virginia. They operate at a loss.
The Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities.
As secretary of state she was reserving judgment about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and hoped it would be the gold standard.
It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces.
Mickey Mouse was registered to vote (in Florida).
It is a commitment voters take very seriously: The only incumbent in Ohio to break his Pledge and vote for Ted Stricklands income tax hike was defeated soundly on Tuesday.
Georgia lawmakers balanced the budget without raising taxes on residents.
For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.
The State of Rhode Island has the worst state-funded pension in the country.
John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming ... five years ago.
George Bush sent people to war without body armor.
Of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage.
When these same Republicans - including Mr. Boehner - were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down.
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, 75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon.
When it comes to taking cuts in tough budget times, Wisconsin state workers havent had to sacrifice.
In South Sudan, more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school.
When Colorado eased its medical marijuana laws, fatal accidents involving pot-using drivers soared while overall traffic fatalities decreased.
Mark Warner told PolitiFact Nationals Lie of the Year in 2013.
Fiorinas plan would mean slashing Social Security and Medicare.
Since the beginning of the year weve created a net increase of 45,000 jobs.
Polls on legalizing same-sex marriage are not dramatically changing.
Roy Blunt secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris into a national security bill while Blunts girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000.
TriMet now spends $1.63 in benefits for every $1.00 spent on wages.
We are living with a legacy of deficit-spending that began almost a decade ago.
We have completely turned our economy around.
Every 1 percent increase in the cost of health insurance today causes about 30,000 Georgians to be uninsured.
The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years."
Texas added 6,600 miles of highway from 2001-2012, more than any other state.
Theres a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us theres no tax.
Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens.
Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.
Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus spending -- Part II.
When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.
25 percent of our economy is the financial sector.
Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didnt envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death.
Sen. Clinton said "the surge of troops in Iraq was 'working.' Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge 'has failed' and that we should 'begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.'"
Paul Ryan voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasnt paid for.
Weve seen more anti-womens choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than weve seen in the last three General Assemblies.
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities "at the last minute in midnight phone calls."
About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home.
I have given $30,000 of my unused travel expenses over the years to supplement the school systems general budget.
Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's "concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted.
A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be within a days drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population.
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Rep. Charles Bass supports privatizing Social Security, risking trillions more on Wall Street.
The United States has experienced 40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher.
In an average grocery store, roughly 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget.
The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted.
Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the current one.
Phil Puckett voted no on sending the EPA a message that theyve gone too far not once, but twice.
This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes.
Rick Scotts per-pupil education spending is about $200 less than what it was under Charlie Crist during the recession.
Gov. Deal has the worst record on education in the history of this state.
Congressman Jon Runyan has a plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year.
The fiscal cliff deal increased spending.
There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.
The U.S. doesnt make television sets anymore.
President Obama hijacked the farm bill (and) turned it into a food stamp bill.
In April 1997, there was a gas out conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
Under Obamacare, premiums have doubled and tripled in Wisconsin.
The Greenlight Pinellas transportation plan involves a 300% tax increase.
For every dollar we put in unemployment, it pays back about $1.60.
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.
Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimers were it not for overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators.
The stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China.
Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level.
In Washington, Congressman Joe Heck supports privatizing (Social Security), turning our savings over to Wall Street and risking it on the stock market.
Crist sent his "top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal," then vetoed the bill.
Youve got more people wanting to go moose hunting in New Hampshire than want Obamacare.
For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three.
Rep. Justin Amash votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans.
The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire because its increased costs for employers.
When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did.
Lamar Smith sponsored the bill that funded Obamacare.
Weve got a personal tax system thats so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code.
Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."
Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration.
Shelby County donated Im sorry, gave 44 schools to the city of Memphis.
The Senate version of the health care reform bill allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill.
Terry McAuliffe cashed in, walking away with millions from the demise of Global Crossing.
More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.
Governor Deal has increased education spending every year hes been in office.
A judge took the Star Scientific tax case away from Ken Cuccinelli
Earlier this year, [John DePetro] was accused of sexually assaulting a female co-worker.
Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagans policies.
The Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes.
I said no to these big bank bailouts.
In 2012, 123 African-Americans were shot dead by police. ... Same year, 326 whites were killed by police.
(George) LeMieux never requested a single earmark and pushed to ban them all.
The majority of Americans are conservatives.
In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that by any measure Social Security has been a failure.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a late-night visit to Kinkos to forge President Barack Obamas birth certificate two days before Obama unveiled it to the media.
[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties.
Rabid animals from other states carry different strains of rabies that Florida vaccines and serums dont affect.
Jason Carter backed three of Nathan Deals budgets but accuses the governor of underfunding education.
Independent groups behind ads attacking Democratic candidates are front groups for foreign-controlled companies.
20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare).
Except for Virginia, the other 49 states keep raising their gas tax.
Four times, I said, he (John McCain)is a hero, but you know ... people choose selective pieces.
Nothing in Obamas $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation actually secures the border.
Of the four statewide races this century within a 300-vote margin, three have been overturned in a recount.
The estate tax is a threat to family farms.
Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, sent nearly $2 billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs, mostly in China
Millions of dollars in tax breaks were paid for by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs help.
African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids.
Scott Walker favors cutting up to 350,000 families and children off health care.
Legally, it doesnt make any difference which state district you live in when running for Congress.
My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us.
Thanks to restrictive and anticompetitive ballot laws, candidates in November 2014 ran unopposed in nearly half of Wisconsins state representative races but in Michigan and Minnesota nearly all races had challengers.
At some point in their lives, 99% of women use birth control.
The price of gasoline was at $1.85 a gallon when President Barack Obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies
Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.
The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.
Texas state funds were spent on a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating.
The U.S. Constitution provides for just compensation when land is taken under eminent domain.
U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo supported ending the Medicare guarantee.
My position hasnt changed on using executive authority to address immigration issues.
Shes voted for 60 tax increases, hurting the middle class and small businesses.
Obamas Clean Power Plan ... eliminates coal-fired power plants.
We get 30 percent of our oil from the Gulf (of Mexico).
There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.
John Boehner has called for repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people.
Algeria wanted to be taken off of the terror list at the time it made an unreported donation to the Clinton Foundation.
Under Rick Scott, there has been a historic $20 billion in funds for education.
Salaries for Virginias teachers are below the national average.
Lizbeth Benacquistos supporters would make (abortion) illegal in all cases, including rape, incest, even to save a womans life.
We are taking Virginias investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealths history.
Greenlight Pinellas wont take existing lanes from other vehicles.
Gov. Chris Christie cut spending (by) $1 billion and provided $850 million in new education funding.
Our kids cant openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.
We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years.
Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."
We will have the highest general revenue in state history next year. Conservative pro-growth policies work in our state.
More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.
If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDCs statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S.
This (Ebola) is not as bad as SARSwas in 2003.
Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world.
Rick Santorum voted to let convicted felons vote.
As state Commerce secretary, Mary Burke drafted, sponsored and promoted budgets that raised taxes by billions, created high structural deficits and raided funds to finance huge spending hikes.
22 veterans take their own lives each day.
Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama.
The DREAM Act the would give amnesty to over two million illegal aliens.