Romney refused to pardon a decorated soldier returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.


The United States decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution.


Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue.


HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin.


Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a murder mill.


More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.


The conviction rate is almost exactly the same for whites and blacks who commit murder.


My plan actually gives the middle class the greatest break: $2,000 per family.


Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crists debt went up about $5 billion.


(New Jersey Network) is the only news station which covers New Jersey government.


The highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent.


Obamacare doesnt require members of Congress to abide by the same rules that all of the other Americans do.


She [Hillary Clinton] has also said unequivocally that she didnt receive classified documents.


Takes credit for reining in state spending when he was governor.


she is entering in the most diverse class ever, of U.S. Representatives


In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage.


Donald Trump hired illegal workers from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment.


state Sen. Steve Ogden was the driving force behind business income tax hurting small business, crafted the Robin Hood school finance scheme making property taxes skyrocket, wrote a budget that will result in a $14 billion deficit and voted against gun freedoms.


And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers.


On three occasions, judges had to stop Jason Kander from manipulating elections.


Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, theyve been deported.


We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.


Congressman Renacci is under FBI investigation.


In the past year alone, Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country.


Gov. Bob McDonnellsbudget plantakesmoney out of our classrooms to pave roads.


U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of Obamacare.


A YouGov.com poll shows 71 percent of Obama voters regret voting for him.


The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in.


Were the highest taxed nation in the world.


According to crime statistics, riding MARTA has been becoming more and more safe over the years.


Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions.


Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska.


Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America.


Rick Scott has heavily invested in a company that is geared to helping illegal aliens transfer money to family and friends out of the country.


President Obamas proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon.


the Obama administration invited Russia into Syria.


The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal.


state Senate recall challenger Sandy Pasch voted to cut school aid by nearly $300 million.


her actions as Wisconsin commerce secretary brought the state 84,000 more Wisconsin jobs than we have today.


Says she introduced a ban on dirty dancing.


Sen. Rubios (tax plan) would cut taxes for households making around $3 million a year by almost $240,000, which is way more than three times the earnings of a typical family.


More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock.


On bringing casino gambling and other gaming to Georgia


The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state...


Hillary Clinton has taken hundreds of millions from those countries where women are stoned, where women are killed for adulteryand women cant drive.


when she helped get $15 billion more for veterans care, Kucinich voted No.


Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts.


Russia and China are doing naval exercises together someplace.


Ron Oakleys conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats as theWater Management Districts budget decreased by 58 percent in the four years he served on the board.


Under the cromnibus law, taxpayers must guarantee incredibly risky derivatives deals made by the nations largest banks.


Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And theyll cost less thanks to John Kasichs tax cut.


This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time.


Seventy percent of all Texans are overweight or obese.


Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.


his plan would cut taxes without increasing the deficit.


The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldnt support repealing dont ask, dont tell because of the economy.


We have the third-lowest minimum wage of developed countries.


Big rooftop solars plan forces Nevada families who dont have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar.


Hillary Clinton said, with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump


An April 7, 2015 referendum would take the choice of chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court away from the people.


For NATO exercises, we dont have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Britsare spotting us choppers.


Mitch McConnell voted three times for corporate tax breaks that send Kentucky jobs overseas.


As a candidate, President Obama declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president.


Sean Duffy backed plan to privatize Social Security.


DonaldTrump proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his.


Ann Kirkpatrick walked out on constituents when questioned on the Affordable Care Act.


library district would come at no direct cost to the city budget.


Mark Warner has supported Harry Reid down the line.


The Iran deal violates promises the president made to the American people. ...It is not an anytime, anywhere inspection process.


Under a House Republican appropriations bill, 6 million seniors are deprived of meals.


The national debt is larger than our entire annual economy.


Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States.


Barack Obama put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments theyre going to receive.


Kendrick Meek claims hes the only candidate who saidSonia Sotomayor will make an excellent Supreme Court justice.


she heard more than 2,400 cases as a Wisconsin appeals court judge


In altered photo, says Barack Obama wants more of Texans private data via health care.


The states unemployment rate is fifth-highest in the country, a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our...neighboring states.


The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost Michigan over 50,000 jobs.


For my energy plan, my economic plan, and the other proposals you'll hear tonight, I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost.


There are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year.


Six convictions are connected to an allegation by prosecutors that Gov. Scott Walker is at the center of a criminal scheme.


Wisconsin is called the Badger State because our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.


by 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.


Florida retirees and families lost tens of thousands of dollars in deposits on failed Trump condo projects, but he pocketed their money and walked away.


Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average.


On the day that (the Republican) state leader resigned in disgrace, a Shred-It' truck rolled up to Republican headquarters.


Employers and schools have no right to conduct surveillance of a dorm room or a workers cubicle.


Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Jim Renaccis Republican majority.


my advocacy questioning contracting out in Parks delayed and altered the renewal of the Brooks contract, and reduced the number of contracted employees in Parks from over 100 to fewer than 40.


Texas ranks first in executions among the states.


Greg Abbott has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls.


The people that perpetrated that travesty in San Bernardino had never been to the Middle East.


Tax rates were significantly higher in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s.


he posted a win in the Republican Party of Wisconsin endorsement contest in the U.S. Senate primary.


Wisconsin requires, by law, a photo ID to vote.


North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers was the only Republican to vote against an amendment to prioritize the deportation of sexual criminals who are illegal immigrants.


Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years.


U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has never proposed, nor voted in favor of, a substantial cut in federal spending and has voted for many substantial increases in federal spending.


John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism.


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.


An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK.


U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson says hell do away with Medicare.


More than 12,500 service men and women have been discharged on the basis of sexual orientation since the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy was implemented, at a cost of over $360 million. Many of those forced out had special skills in high demand, such as translators, engineers, and pilots.


In Congress Tom Barrett voted to allow abortions through the ninth month, just moments before the baby is born.


Of the 13 (Bill) Clinton speeches that fetched $500,000 or more, only two occurred during the years his wife was not secretary of state.


When (Barack Obama) took office, 2.3 million people were out of work. Five-plus years later, we have 5 million-plus out of work.


in January 1992, George H. W. Bush probably had a 90 percent or even higher approval rating after the first Gulf War.


When LBJ started#WarOnPoverty, 14% of Americans lived in poverty. 50 yrs later, 14% still do. Theres a #BetterWay.


[Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Dohertys case, in a little over a week.


Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago.


no city comparable in size to Austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts.


In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day.


Responding to a major snow event in Atlanta would be like Kansas City, Mo., responding to a major earthquake.


Russian President Vladimir Putin calls me brilliant.


A $5-a-night hotel/motel tax thats part of the transportation bill will hurt Georgias convention business by adding extra costs for large groups coming to the state.


Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran.


In April 1997, there was a gas out conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.


Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was never sentenced to stoning.


The Georgia Lottery paid out $2.3 billion in prizes during the last fiscal year.


During the Reagan administration, Millions of people were thrown out of work.


Donald Trump supported impeachment of President (George W.) Bush.


student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1.


In New England, Rhode Island has the second highest number of police officers being assaulted.


My opponent, in 2008, had contributions investigated by the federal government.


In recent polling in battleground states, a majority of the people said Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy.


Weve had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare.


After not having any foreign trade offices overseas for the past decade, New Jersey opened offices in Shanghai and London in the past six months, and has seen an 18 percent increase in exports.


President Obama has added $4 billion in debt every day.


as a gubernatorial candidate, Chris Christie promised no school cuts.


Eighty percent of all U.S. communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online.


With her solution, terrorists can still today and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America.


Despite President Barack Obamas promise to cut healthcare costs, the average cost of a family policy is up $1,300.


the Texas Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase up to 300,000 promotional stress balls.


he didnt call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what some prolifers branded him.


Quotes Mark Cuban as saying,I worry that millions of millennials are voting Democrat this year because they fact-check everything.


A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol.


Half of all adults have a pre-existing condition that could affecttheir health care coverage.


In preparing a rules package for the 112th Congress, the GOP had no discussions with Democrats.


Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire countrys GDP.


The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion.


The United States has the most number of deductions available to corporations for the corporate income tax.


UPS left 15,000 employees spouses without health insurance and told them to, go on an exchange with no employer subsidy.


the goal of the Affordable Care Act was to get 30 million people insured, but it only got 7 million.


GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR: 59 PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY


We didnt have a development director for over seven months.


There is not one of the Muslim nations that doesnt have discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs.


GOP recall challenger Kim Simac was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.


Medicare spends $15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies.


while state leaders have cut funding for our schools and other basic priorities, the amount of money the state is projected to give away through tax breaks increased by a whopping $3.4 billion.


If youre born poor, youre more likely to stay poor than any time in American history.


Alex Sink supported higher sales taxes.


I delivered to you a budget that ... cuts taxes by $2 billion.


Sherrod Browns campaign attacked Josh Mandels military service


The city of Pembroke Pines doesnt have a vote in a plan to build a detention center in Southwest Ranches.


Theres no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic.


Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds.


The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined.


Gov. Rick Scott returned $1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law.


When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. Sherrod Brown, he is lying. He has accepted ZERO proposed debates.


he and his running mate are the only candidates that do believe in free trade.


he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.


The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness.


The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. Theyve demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases.


As chair of the Senate Education Committee, I led the charge to restore most of the education cuts from last session.


Bernie Sanders chose to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in 1988.


U.S. corporate tax rate is highest in the world at 35 percent.


Hillary Clinton took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.


Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks.


Discretionary spending went up 84 percent in the last two years


The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over.


Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools.


Mike Coffman is with Trump.


If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance.


In two terms in the Missouri General Assembly, Jason Kander passed ZERO bills that were signed into law.


Under President Barack Obama, income levels and unemployment numbers are worse now than just about ever for African-Americans.


The growth rate of women-owned businesses in Texas has nearly doubled that of the nation since President Obama has taken office.


Due to the sequester, people are going to be unsafe. Homes are going to burn.


I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit.


We are the only state in the country that state employees dont contribute [to their pensions].


Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist.


One year today since #GOP took control of the House and no new jobs.


the Georgia Dome would need up to $350 million in work over the next five to seven years.


McDonalds in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.


White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the right-hand man for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.


[A] 2009 USDA study found that 87 percent of chicken carcasses tested positive for generic E. coli ... just prior to packaging.


Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation.


she does the jobs of state auditor, secretary of state and lieutenant governor for less than the price of one of them in Washington state.


Under current policies, were going to reduce the overall debt of the United States by $3 trillion over the next 10 years.


I have always been focused on reining in the deficit.


We dont get a lot of calls from this White House I have, frankly, never had a call from them.


in fiscal year 2010, nearly 80 percent of women served in the Texas Womens Health Program received services from a provider other than a Planned Parenthood clinic.


Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included $277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin.


Credit agency says Rep. Gibbs recklessly caused downgrade, higher interest rates.


We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever.


Stimulus money went to office upgrades for politicians.


The average state pension, including managers, is $23,000 a year; and just $14,000 for local government workers.


The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has no congressional oversight.


He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights.


Jeb Bushs plan for Social Security is disastrous for seniors and raises the retirement age to 70.


I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point.


About 40 percent of Hispanic homeowners have subprime mortgages.


Lee Fisher once said, I never met a gun control bill I didnt like.


in 2000, Fox News broke the story of George W. Bushs drunk driving arrest. Who broke it? Fox News.


Barack Obama wants to nearly double the capital gains tax increasing taxes on mutual funds, 401(k)s for policemen, firemen, nurses.


George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.


Nevada Republicans didnt do one single thing to cut spending in 2015.


To comply with non-discrimination laws, the government is forcing people in business to make wedding cakes for anyone.


Democratic challenger for his N.C. House seat raised taxes on clothing, school supplies even baby diapers!


Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population.


I released all my emails.


I was the first member of Congress to contribute to Donald Trump.


''I have received more contributions than any other candidate in the race Republican or Democrat.''


The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases.


Were the Sunshine State, and were hardly doing any solar energy production.


In Hawaii, they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office.


New Hampshire has lost more jobs to China than any other state.


Gov. John Kasich incorrectly claimed Ohios economy was 38th in the nation when he took office. We were sixth in the nation in terms of economic job growth.


(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement.


Because of Gov. Scott Walkers budgeting, a greater percentage of general fund tax dollars is going to pay off debt than ever before in our history.


When I took office, the deficit was nearly 10 percent of our economy. Today, its approaching 3 percent.


Were 49th in the United States in new businesses created.


I was banned from talking about Bill Ayers during the 2008 presidential campaign.


Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagans policies.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker literally invented a $3.6 billion deficit.


We also have, in a park thats not far from here, an ability to build a reservoir that can hold a 30-day water supply for the city of Atlanta.


Virginia is home to more veterans per capita than any state in America.


Ohio is doing better right now than the national average on all the (economic) numbers.


It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually. Keep in mind that Amtraks Acela train in Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 million riders in 2010.


Our businesses have created nearly twice as many jobs in this recovery as they had at the same point in the last recovery, when there was no Obamacare.


We have about six school districts that are in school 140 to 150 days this year.


Gov. Jim Doyle and the DNR have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd; as a result the deer population has dwindled.


Today, there are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of Indiana.


No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous.


Today, you cant rely on (the retirement fund for public employees), its not funded.


his average federal tax rate was 36 percent.


President Barack Obama said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority to act as he did on immigration.


Nearly 45 percent of the women who receive health screenings through (the Womens Health Program) do so at a Planned Parenthood health center.


Last year, we produced 14 percent less oil on public lands than we did the year before.


Floridas regulations on the payday lending industry are stronger than almost any other state.


Congressman Bill Young voted to cut taxes for millionaires and end your Medicare.


On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country.


The Republican election platform was actually written with the help of a former lobbyist for AIG and a former lobbyist for Exxon-Mobil.


Alaska Sen. Mark Begich supported President Barack Obamas economic policies 97 percent of the time.


Seventy-five percent of the young adults in this country are not mentally or physically fit to serve.


David Dewhurst accused Cruz of being a Red Chinese Communist.


Less than 10 percent of President Barack Obamas Cabinet members have private-sector experience.


Federal law prohibits the growing of industrial hemp in the United States.


We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000.


Greg Abbott has benefitted from payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees.


Many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against Amendment 4 are recipients of a congressional bailout, in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year.


Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.


In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns 49 percent fewer women are shot and killed.


Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits.


Every poll you see, the overwhelming majority of people want [E-Verify].


Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules.


I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care.


Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate the governors mansion.


Donald Trump supports eminent domain and the Supreme Courts Kelodecision.


Tom Steyer is aCalifornia billionaire who stands to profit by blocking Keystone and is spending big to help Bruce Braley.


Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling offered unqualified support for a plan to end Medicare


On adoption by gay couples


In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes one of the worst records of any member of Congress.


Matt Patten kicked off his dirty campaign with thousands in dirty cash from guess who? (Frank) Russo and (Jimmy) Dimora.


43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance if the Texas House version of the state budget passes into law.


Women are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas.


$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crists political photo-op special session.


Of hospitals in Rick Scotts Columbia/HCA health care company, A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door.


The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic.


Fox News airs Stuart Scott R.I.P. tribute with picture of Stephen A. Smith.


Seventy percent of the people living in abject poverty are women.


On support for a military strike on Syria


after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!


Were 48th in K-12 funding and 50th in higher education.


Heres something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America.


When youre white ... you dont know what its like to be poor.


With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed.


Travis Countys unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.


Film and television productions generated a $6 billion economic impact for Georgias economy in the most recent fiscal year.


Nobodys addicted to marijuana.


President-elect Trumps immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting.


Gov. Scott Walker took away $1.6 billion from schools and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich.


The federal government can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget.


In Galveston, Texas, they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth.


On bipartisan redistricting.


Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.


Reps. Rush Holt, Frank Pallone and Bill Pascrell are willing to jeopardize seniors access to coverage by gutting $741 billion from Medicare to pay for a big-government healthcare takeover.


Keene, N.H., requested a military-grade armored personnel truck, citing their annual Pumpkin Festival as a possible target for terrorists.


President Barack Obama had the legal authority to strike Syria without a vote from Congress.


On the importance of judicial experience for Supreme Court nominees.


Horse racing could boost Georgias economy by $1 billion a year and create 10,000 to 20,000 jobs.


Russ Feingold voted against the law that protected our lakes and was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no.


the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house.


I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veterans service organizations.


Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals.


For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.


In the history of the United States, 168 presidential nominees have been filibustered, 82 blocked under President Obama, 86 blocked under all the other presidents.


Jeff Stone = Scott Walker.


Palin inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million.


Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.


After hiring a campaign manager in 2006, I got this $100 and something fee ... for hazardous materials.


In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map.


Obamacare is not a popular law.


Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it.


Rick Scott has destroyed over 100,000 jobs.


For every week that (state lawmakers are) able to cut off our timeline, it saves (Georgia taxpayers) approximately $100,000.


Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.


90 percent of fires in Arizona are human-caused.


Today 46 percent of all Floridians owe more on their home than it is worth.


when President Obama visited El Paso, he pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history.


Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.


Technically, (Ted Cruz is) not even an American.


Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today


Rubio's got more experience than Obama had.


More than 125 jobs have been created at the Milwaukee Job Corps Center.


a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.


The Ohio Democratic Party has raised $1.1 million since the November election. A very small percentage of that has come from organized labor.


a careless attitude and poor oversight by the Texas Department of Agriculture led to deaths and illnesses traced to a Texas peanut plant.


TheU.S. economyis three times asbig as Chinas.


Providence graduation rates are up.


Alex Jones said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.


no, youre wrong, responding to the assertion that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York.


The majority of revenue generated by a proposed Kenosha casino would be sent to the Seminole tribe in Florida.


I've got the most international experience here.


Gov. Rick Scott cut more government jobs than were created in the private sector in Florida in 2012.


Florida doesnt regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines. It doesnt require a permit to purchase a gun. It doesnt require any registration, whatsoever.


Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress.


Studies suggest the 2017 College Football Playoff Championship game will bring about 1,700 to 1,800 full-time jobs.


he did not exactly say that communities have the right to ban mosques.


Faced with $1 million in campaign debt, Scott Walker is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers.


George Allen had 40,000 earmarks while he was a senator.


We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain.


He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps.


Romney said we should ask Pakistan for permission to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.


More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap.


There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office.


The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing.


Marco Rubio has the worst voting record there is today.


Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate.


The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English.


Barack Obama is a hypocrite for criticizing President George W. Bushs drone attack program, then using it aggressively as president.


Measure 11 is one of the most significant reasons for decrease in violent crime.


160,000 kids stay home every day because they are afraid to go to school because of bullying.


We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent.


Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, the lowest in the country.


House Bill 2301 never had a public hearing


The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a tax-credit for consumers electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.


Theres no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester.


U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson said he wants to do away with Medicare.


The nation as a whole has created jobs at a rate that is two times the rate that we have created jobs here in Wisconsin under Gov. Walker.


I differed with my party on business legislation, on consumer protection, and on free trade agreements.


We will have the highest general revenue in state history next year. Conservative pro-growth policies work in our state.


Comic strip says government study shows Head Start has little or no impact on the children its supposed to help.


In 2013, Dan Patrick voted against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free.


A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty.


Pope Francis took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims.


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.


One-third of the gasoline is purchased by out-of-state people in Virginia


Obamacare is a massive, massive income redistribution with $250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure thats basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases.


The federal tax code has loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas.


The Republican from Georgia [U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston], he hasnt even been to a NASCAR race.


Kurt Schrader supports Obamas sequester but wont cut $1.6 million to fund new video games.


In the last year, Wisconsin ranked third in Midwest job growth.


The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota under Gov. Scott Walkers policies.


FIFA pressured Brazil into passing a so-called Budweiser bill, allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums.


Leticia Van de Putte voted to stop schools from removing teachers convicted of a felony.


Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460.


a state bill checks the spending habits of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors by bringing it in line with other county boards around the state.


Recently Rick Scott closed 30 womens health care centers across the state.


The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent.


federal health care overhaul will cost Texas state government upwards of $30 billion over the next 10 years.


President Barack Obama has put (up) a stop sign against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska.


Ive created over 40,000 jobs.


Passing a federal firearms background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds.


The debt-ceiling bill doesnt cut the debt. It will add about $7 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years.


Hillary Clinton has been a champion of globalist trade agreements. ... Worst of all, they are now pushing the disastrous 5,000-page Obamatrade the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.


Jeb Bush flip-flop-flip(ped) on immigration.


Ganley said that if elected, he wants to cut the dickens out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans benefits.


Marco Rubio opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families.


Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children.


The RESTORE Act started as an effort to dedicate as much BP fine money as possible towards Gulf Coast restoration but now could steer money to places like the Great Lakes and West Coast.


Countries with a higher minimum wage than the United States $7.25 an hour include Denmark at $21, Australia at$15.81, Germany at$11and France at$12.35.


Joe Morrissey has been a delegate in the General Assembly for eight years with no laws passed to help our black community with education or workforce.


Georgia lawmakers balanced the budget without raising taxes on residents.


Defends his vote to push retirement age to 70 by saying he is for a process that would not be fully implemented until around the turn of the century.


President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision.


The president has given 1,100 special waivers to his friends for Obamacare.


three of these five Republicans -- Ben Westlund, Rob Patridge, Max Williams, Lane Shetterly, Lynn Lundquist -- later became Democrats.


The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City.


Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean 2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts.


If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet.


Rick Scott doesnt have any ties to a lobbyist.


At my first Lets Get to Work Day we sold out; more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.


Glen Sturtevant is against smaller class sizes.


Congressional lawmakers earn their salaries FOR LIFE, which for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would add up to $803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical.


President Obamas proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions, but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.


I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona.


Starting in 2011, you will be required to pay taxes on the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company.


Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a referral service. They dont do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies.


Democratic recall opponent Tom Barrett is campaigning on lifting property tax limits.


Photo ID is not required for those who vote by mail.


We have the lowest per-capita spending of any state in the nation except for South Dakota.


Barack Obama was a trial attorney for ACORN.


When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None.


President Obama has the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year.


Milwaukee County has a parks capital budget thats bigger than its been in the last 10 years.


Charlie Crist wants felons who commit a heinous crime such as intentional permanent disfigurement of a child, you walk out of jail, you immediately get to vote.


700 jobs (were) lost because Allen Boyd voted for the health care bill.


Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence.


In 2009, we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years.


In every poll, John Cornyn always loses to any conservative the voters have heard about.


For the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget, and I think that context is important.


In Wisconsin, deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years.


Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!


there is a plan formulated by Chair (Lynn) Peterson and the cities in Clackamas County to further increase this fee in three years and split it up on projects between the county and cities.


For the state of Florida, there is not an additional cost with implementation of the Common Core standards.


Twenty-five or 24 million people are out of work or stopped looking for work.


Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,' is 'elusive' on accountability, and a 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'


Trump ties are made in China, not Colorado. Trump suits in Mexico, not Michigan. Trump furniture in Turkey, not Ohio. Trump picture frames in India, not Wisconsin.


Weve had about 3,000 murders in connection with lax border security.


Huckabee granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined.


The proposed transportation bill could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history.


The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a Star Trek training video.


While in Congress, Nathan Deal was a leader when it came to protecting our borders.


Florida's new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent.


The 2009 stimulus bill failed to get people back to work.


Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent.


Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma


Actually, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican.


We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that dont exist for procedures that didnt happen.


The University of Wisconsin System will be much more affordable than just about any other campus in America because going forward we have a cap on it tied to inflation.


Gov. Rick Perry used $3.2 billion in stimulus dollars for schools to plug other holes in his budget.


On immigration reform


The actions Im taking are the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half-century.


It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt.


Jon Corzine gave away 14 percent raises over 4 years and he stood on the front steps of the Capitol at a public-sector union rally and said, I will fight to get you a great contract.


Weve cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. Theyve grown.


Many dont know that Bill Young was once the minority leader in the Florida Senate...because he was the only Republican senator.


Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day.


Oregon is one of only three states that allow the use of gillnets on inland waters.


Obamacare is the biggest job-killer in this country -- millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work.


Donald Trump made a lot of money from outsourcing jobs thanks to NAFTA but never, ever raised his voice against it when Congress was considering it.


I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream.


he was a Marine during Vietnam.


AARP is endorsing the health care reform bill.


Mitt Romneys investments created zero jobs.


American Hustleshows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.


These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for.


Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are negotiating with the United Nations about doing a treaty that will ban the use of firearms.


The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs.


iPads and iPhones are built in the United States of America.


Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include $250,000 to provide digital television to the states inmate population.


The Pentagon itself says that we could eliminate 20 percent of U.S. bases.


I never called for a partition of Iraq.


In the history department at the University of Texas, out of 50 registered voters, only one is a Republican.


Said Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures during last months election


We got the highest vote count in the history of the Republican Party.


Metro Atlantans spend over an hour every day or five hours a week commuting, for a total of 260 hours a year.


In Cover Florida thousands already enrolled and climbing.


The Cathedral of Christ the King is one of the Archdiocese of Atlantas largest and fastest-growing parishes.


New Jerseys citizens are working at the highest rate in three years.


The money supply has doubled in the last year.


Oregons high minimum wage is the reason why by 2011, Oregons restaurants employed an average of only 13.8 workers, or 2.6 fewer employees than they did before the states minimum wage began rising above the federal level in 1997.


The president of the United States ... agrees with me that marriage should be between a man and a woman.


The debt ceiling deal will result in the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president.


The Climatic Research Unit e-mails show that the science behind climate change has been pretty well debunked.


President Obamas suggested reduction in spending for next year: $0.


Rick Perry ended full-day Pre-K for 100,000 Texas children.


PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years.


Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues.


Alex Sinks plans for governor include $12.5 billion in new spending.


Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his own words, can be killed.


Seventy percent of all uninsured live in households in which at least one person is working.


Recent data showed Nevada ranks 50th in the money received from the stimulus bill.


If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes.


Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today.


Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception five times.


I dont own a single stock or bond I have no savings accounts.


Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country entered the U.S. legally and overstayed their visa.


Just about half of rural hospitals operate in the red in Virginia. They operate at a loss.


Obama keeps talking about getting rid of all nuclear weapons. Hes already significantly reduced our capabilities there.


Milwaukee has seen an uptick in violence since 2010, and the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in.


The numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping.


The region I represent, both currently and in the future, has more automotive plants than the entire state of California.


Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on crime and hatred and that whites in America are ineradicably racist.


in U.S. Congress, members dont even have to be on the floor for debates or votes.


Gov. Rick Scott lost Florida 331,247 jobs.


North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it.


In the 1950s and 1960s, the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty.


Freddie Mac, electric co-ops and credit unions are all government sponsored enterprises.


Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of her state Senate district by a half a block.


When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy.


A strong majority of Americans support the Keystone XL pipeline.


A majority of Wisconsinites opposed the government takeover of health care. But Russ Feingold voted for it anyway.


The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash wasnt driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past.


Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris.


Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black


Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher.


Were now the No. 1 producer of oil in the world. Weve surpassed Saudi Arabia.


As Mayor of Wilsonville, I drove TriMet out of town and replaced their bloated transit system with our own local bus line that offers better service and has saved our businesses millions of dollars.


If Rhode Island applied a 1-percent sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax, ''the state would receive an additional $89,376,857.''


Did not vote for tax increases as a member of the West Miami City Commission.


Were going to be looking at $8 billion a day that were going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that were going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf.


Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger believed that people like me should be eliminated.


a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.


Under the current procedure, if someone on a terror watch list tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.


One of the first states in the union to pass a voter ID bill was Rhode Island, 85 percent Democratic legislature.


In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than in the Reagan recovery.


States with the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates.


I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one.


Likens Obamas predicament to 1982, saying, when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it.


Tom Barrett voted to ban 15 different kinds of guns, even a lot of common deer rifles.


The governor having a meeting ... isnt covered by the open meetings act.


he won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.


his proposed education spending is the highest state funding level in Florida history.


E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China.


94 percent of (Marco Rubios) constituents support a universal background check.


Tommy Thompsons tax plan amounts to an average tax cut of almost $87,000 for the top 1 percent.


Connie Mack takes two homestead exemptions, directly contrary to Floridas Constitution.


Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons.


220,000New Yorkers would have immediately benefitted had President Obamas executive action been affirmed.So almost a quarter million of our fellow New Yorkers who are hurting right now whose rights and opportunities were taken away by the Supreme Court.


The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit.


Barack Obama and the Democrats have proposed a tax for not having health insurance.


The priorities of more than three-quarters of Americans are to increase the minimum wage, create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and require background checks for gun buyers.


We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since Ive been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of Doyles time as governor.


One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance.


Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent.


We wiped out a $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes.


Mr. Hurt would re-open that darn (Medicare) doughnut hole.


Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.


all those who do not answer directly to the president, theyve said (repealing Dont Ask, Dont Tell) is a terrible idea.


There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades.


The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.


Six of the 10 richest counties in the United States surround Washington, D.C.


The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails.


About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money.


shes tried over 100 jury cases in Travis County courts.


Kelly Ayotte voted to give big oil more than $20 billion in tax breaks.


The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.


Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.


At the same time gas prices have increased, the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years.


Most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay.


African-Americans dont use drugs at a higher level than whites but wind up going to prison six times more.


On offshore oil drilling.


When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he could not have been traveling as a U.S. citizen.


No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month.


The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget.


President Barack Obamas proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.


The prosecution of state Sen. Don Balfour cost less than $100, excluding prosecutors salaries.


U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a completely government-controlled health care system that goes far beyond Obamacare and is a Medicare system for all.


You have to be a citizen to vote, but with same-day voter registration, you have places where people just walk in and vote.


Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country.


Texas AM University - Commerce offers counseling, safe spaces for students who are afraid of President-elect Trump.


Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.


Jerry Brown gave California state employees collective bargaining powers and now, state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life.


Obama has jumped the shark and ordered the ocean closed!


An image in a ChrisAbele TV ad depicts wealthy citizens who would benefit from a lake created by the controversial Estabrook Dam.


Donald Trumps plan to repeal the estate tax would mean the Walmart Walton family would get a $53 billion tax break.


In 2007, Ed Gillespie was paid $300,000 to be the frontman for a coalition that made the individual mandate the centerpiece of its health reform plan.


Only nine coalition nations with the U.S. are truly actively involved in fighting the Islamic State.


Hillary Clinton presided over $6 billion lost at the State Department, sold uranium to the Russians through (her) faux charity, illegally deleted public records, and murdered an ambassador.


Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon.


Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac.


When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position.


while his plan would narrow the time for early voting, it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in America.


The director of the FBI said that we cannot properly vet people coming from the Middle East.


his father-in-law, former Gov. Linwood Holton, integrated Virginia public schools.


Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt.


Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.


Hillary Clinton is for open borders.


the California flag was supposed to be apear, not a bear.


Texas Governor Rick Perrys voter ID law is a blatant effort to defeat Wendy Davis by disenfranchising tens of thousands of women voters.


The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this presidents term.


More than 3 million young adults ... have gained insurance under (the Affordable Care Act) by staying on their familys plan.


As governor of Massachusetts, Romney reduced unemployment to just 4.7 percent.


Rep. Paul Ryans budget proposal would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans.


On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.


In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.


Theres at least 7,500 addicted gamblers in Rhode Island, at least, it could be as high as 22,000.


U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher breaks earmark pledge.


female genital mutilation is a central African problem, not an Islamic problem, as Bill Maher suggested.


Because of the new health care law, Americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes.


tax revenue was lower than expected in May and thats basically a clear indication the governors counselors are probably right -- that we are still not out of the woods yet.


Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but zero on job creation.


1.53 million jobs are at risk (from potential defense cuts).


The Clinton Foundation took steps that went above and beyond all legal requirements and, indeed, all standard requirements followed by every other charitable organization.


Hillary Clinton once wanted a wall on the Mexican border.


Obama closed offshore tax safe havens.


Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who cant afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties.


On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was a step forward for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagans defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.


his tax plan wouldnt leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.


The presidents come out with rules that say, No new coal-fired power plants.


If the U.S. didnt borrow $1.2 trillion every year to fund government operations, that money would be available for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses.


Long-term federal investment in U.S. airports is urgent because there was a recent survey of the top airports in the world, and there was not a single U.S. airport that came in the top 25.


I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did.


The health insurance plan that (members of Congress) have is no different than any other federal employees in the United States government.


Since I was elected, crime rates have been at their lowest in over a decade.


U.S. Rep. John Barrows plan puts the IRS in charge of your health care.


In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them.


For every [coyote] they kill, the population will replace and usually multiply.


Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.


Its expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States.


The Books Sarah Palin tried to have banned.


unemployment would be at 10 percent if people who have quit looking for work were included in federal labor force calculations.


Colorado congressional candidate Morgan Carroll voted to allow welfare recipients to use your tax dollars at ATMs at strip clubs and pot dispensaries.


Georgia has the most restrictive ballot access laws in the country.


On whether the federal debt limit should be raised


When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, the percentage uninsured went down. Under his successor, Rick Perry, its gone up.


his book,The Art of the Deal,is the No. 1 selling business book of all time.


Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt to be more conservative.


Danny Tarkanian wants to defund Planned Parenthood and would outlaw a womans right to choose, even in cases of rape or incest.


Condemning violence against the police and urging support for the police is markedly absent from President Barack Obamas public remarks.


Florida leads the nation in elected officials charged with crimes.


Donald Trumps Make America Great Again caps are made in China.


Sherrod Brown has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time.


Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya.


Gun marketplaces on Facebook mean ANYONE can broker a deal on a gun online, meet the seller in a parking lot somewhere, and walk away with a weapon.


I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.


Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared.


Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world.


Debt doubled under Bush and now its tripling under Barack Obamas watch.


Since Florida passed the stand your ground law in 2005, deaths due to self-defense have jumped over 250 percent.


Washington cannot hide from the fact that Congress hiked the national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. They cannot hide from the fact . . . that the budget that theyre going forward with has more than a $5 trillion in debt in it over the next five years.


Republican House candidateMarilinda Garcia even opposes closing the loophole that allows dangerous criminals to get a gun without a background check.


Were bankrupt.


The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton.


Americans invented Pong, Space Invaders and the iPhone.


Russ Feingold got a memo in 2009 that outlined veteran harm at a Wisconsin VA facility and nothing was done.


she is saving ratepayers $6 million/year.


recall organizers started their website last November and began work on their effort before he even took office.


The rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent.


Since the salary for state lawmakers was raised to $79,500, that purchasing power has now been reduced to $53,000.


Distracted driving such as texting behind the wheel is behind a rise in traffic deaths on Georgia roadways this year.


in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date.


Bernie Sanders voted for what we call the Charleston Loophole.


We dont have any chess grandmasters in the United States.


Obama's plan for health care reform ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays.


The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents.


(Jeff) Atwaters bank was so weak that just a few months ago it was shut down by the FDIC.


As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators.


The State of Texas does not even use the E-Verify system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job.


57% of the jobs created in Austin from 2009 to 2013 do not pay families a living wage.


Says Texas General Land Office has earned the school children of Texas $451,932.89 on wind leases that haven't produced a watt of energy.


We are within the margin of error.


State support for local schools per pupil has decreased by at least 25 percent over the past decade.


Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black.


Hillary Clinton promised, running for the Senate years ago, 200,000 jobs for upstate New York. ... Not only didnt they come, but they lost so many jobs.


A couple of hundred American cities are infested by members of the Mexican cartels.


Barack Obama's health care plan is to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program.


Hollywood is #1 in Broward homicides in 2013. Thanks Chief Fernandez!


50 percentof murders in Texas have been linked to illegal aliens.


Paul Ryan cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for.


Among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, there look like very few women. Very few children.


Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein gave hundreds of thousands of campaign cash to control Crists appointments of key state judges.


Senator Robert Hurt voted for a bill thats raised your electric rates seven times.


Since 2004, there have been some 1,300 attacks (on rail targets). Four thousand people have died. Thousands of injuries.


Donald Trump said a woman should be punished for exercising her right to choose.


Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the stimulus bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money including AIG to hand out huge bonuses.


legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.


Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.


Decorated Marine, two-tour Iraq war vet.


If you make more than $250,000 a year you only really take home about $125,000.


Donald Trump said the U.S. should encourage Japan to get nuclear weapons.


We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth.


The Doherty Campaign, unlike the Cicilline Campaign, is funded mostly by individual donors -- not the big PACs that Cicilline relies on.


Since parole abolition, Virginias crime rate has fallen to third lowest in the country, our recidivism rate is down 20 percent and thats the second lowest in the country.


When you were casting your vote for Republicans, Brian Kemp was voting for Democrats.


I want to give every American a $5,000 refundable tax credit.


Hillary Clinton plans to massively increase admissions (of Middle East refugees) including a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country.


If you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector, its out of whack. The governments growing and the private economys shrinking.


The president and vice president cant be from the same state.


There are actual cities like Birmingham, England, that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply dont go in.


40 years ago, the U.S. placed Texas under Voting Rights Act for failing to print ballots in Spanish.


I campaigned on (the proposals in the budget repair bill for Wisconsin) all throughout the election. Anybody who says they are shocked on this has been asleep for the past two years.


[When I was mayor] Providence was one of the five renaissance cities of America, according to USA Today in those days. Money magazine said it was the fifth best city to live in in America. In addition to that, All Cities Almanac said in 1994, I believe, that it was the safest city in America.


If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldnt even begin to balance the budget.


The Obama administration went to court to keep one of these five in jail at Guantanamo just three years ago because he was such a huge risk.


Israel profiles based on ethnicity and does it very successfully.


Statistics show 2 to 3 Texas women per week have major complications and 10 women per week seek help at an ER after an abortion.


Under the new health care law, all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax


Sherwin-Williams is making lead paint and poisoning people around the world.


When the governor announced his jobs budget, 99 folks from the Department of Taxation were let go the next day.


If we use (Tax Increment Financing) funding, thats going to take funds from the general fund for Pinellas County, as it will take funds from the general fund for the city of St. Pete.


Illegal counterfeiting and piracy costs the U.S. economy $100 billion... every year.


Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen.


Texas public school funding grew three times the rate of enrollment from 2002 to 2012.


Indiana Gov. Mike Pence denies that theres such a thing as evolution.


Insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001.


Since the stimulus package was passed, Ohios lost over 100,000 more jobs.


When Jim Doyle was governor and Mary Burke was commerce secretary, Wisconsin saw billions in middle-class tax hikes on nursing home beds, gas, phones and garbage.


Barry Smitherman doesnt have enough legal experience to apply for most of the jobs at the attorney generals office.


Russ Feingold got paid $8,000 a lecture at Stanford University.


Connie Mack wrote a letter to the Department of Transportation in order to get $29 million in stimulus for his congressional district.


Texas ranks first among the states in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water.


The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs.


The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support.


Say Apples Tim Cook will not do business with Indiana.


Lindsay Parkhurst wants to take away programs like Social Security and Medicare that seniors have earned throughout their lifetimes.


By eliminating the public intervenors office, I was the first one to fire Kathleen Falk.


Rick Santorum voted to let convicted felons vote.


The costs for families (in the individual market) for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving would go down 14 percent to 20 percent.


he voted no on the Wall Street bailouts.


Seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage are going to see an average premium increase between $50 and $90 per month.


Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent.


a bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions was supported by Republicans and Democrats.


80 percent of the American people havent gotten a pay raise since the crash.


Assault rifles already are banned.


(Since 1990)every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world.


Colorado saw increased incidents of emergency room visits by young people and increased incidents of driving while under the influence of marijuana following the legalization of recreational pot.


On opposing legislation that would take away existing health care plans.


GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters.


a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.


As a sign of extraordinary progress, there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago.


Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage.


there have been some job gains in the McMansion State since Mr. Christie took office, but they have lagged gains both in the nation as a whole and in New York and Connecticut, the obvious points of comparison.


When Congressman Langevin took office, gas was around $1.70 per gallon, and now it is near $4 per gallon.


Planned Parenthood is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates.


More people have watched Morning Joe than CNN and HLN 5 years in a row.


The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes.


Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, has already been recalled.


Georgia lawmakers are now considering passing the most extreme gun bill in America.


In Congress right now, were doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature, but its still only 19 percent.


Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012.


A simple review of the Backrooms health code records will reveal that the restaurant already has a long-standing problem with rodent infestations.


$38 billion in spending cuts in federal budget compromise is less than $1 billion in real cuts.


Eighty-five percent of governments running right now. Only 15 percent of government spending is shut down.


The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations.


public education will get more money in 2012-13 though lawmakers cut $15 billion in overall spending.


We have completely turned our economy around.


Theres only three countries in the entire world wheretheres no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them.


An organized crime syndicate was extorting money from his (Tom Ganleys) business, threatening his family, but he fought back and won the FBIs highest civilian award


Attacks on Planned Parenthood come at a time when the poverty rate among women is the highest in nearly two decades and 1 in 5 women under 65 dont have access to health care.


I am the only candidate who ran in either primary who said, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.


By releasing only basic tax information, former U.S. Congressman Nathan Deal is hiding more than hes disclosed about his business dealing with the state.


22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of anti-deportation measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, I just changed the law.


A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army.


Since 2009, Georgias public schools have lost nearly 9,000 classroom teachers while the number of students has gone up.


The Republicans have never done anything really to balance the budget.


On privatization of Social Security.


Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions.


The number of people who believeinsocialism ...is increasing.


The Obama administration even proposed banning farm kids from doing basic chores!


U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson supports a plan for privatizing Social Security.


After years of 5.5 percent average tuition increases, we now have a two-year tuition freeze for the first time in the history of the UW System.


Make no mistake -- Sherrod Brown is one of the main D.C. politicians responsible for Ohio jobs moving to China.


The Iranians continue in the view of every objective observer continue to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons.


Were already bombing seven countries.


Ohio Republicans made significant gains during [Chris McNultys] time at the ORP, including the extremely successful re-election of President Bush in Ohio.


the federal government tells health insurance companies how much money theyre allowed to keep of what they receive in revenues -- 15 percent.


67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce.


Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent.


Hillary Clinton helped get done the Childrens Health Insurance Program.


Russ Feingold has not worked anywhere outside of politics.


Its taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio Erie) Canal.


As the number of vaccines administered to children has increased in the United States, so has the autism rate.


Scott Walker has even removed the 250,000 jobs promise from his website.


The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution.


After Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, both the unintended pregnancy and abortion rates dropped.


Only one out of five of the so-called Syrian refugees who went into Europe were actually Syrian.


Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., only needs about 40,000 to 50,000 votes to win election to Congress compared with the 120,000 votes King needs, because Waters has a higher immigrant population.


The New York Times had to retract its story that Hillary Clintons email handling had broken certain laws.


Judge Gonzalo Curiel is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican.


We expanded charter schools.


Very few men outlive their own fertility.


Our economy is so much stronger than when (Barack Obama and Joe Biden) took office. Nearly 15 million new private-sector jobs.


Women own just 1 percent of the worlds land.


Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum.


Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration.


Obamacare will question your sex life.


Ive taken on the federal government and won.


The Democrats' health care bill gives a new Health Choices Commissioner the right to look at an individual's tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for.


restoring Georgia pre-k to a 180-day program was a real result of his leadership.


Hillary Clintons health care plan from the 1990s had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.


The fact is voter fraud is rampant.


Wisconsins non-discrimination law doesnt protect members of the trans-gender community.


In 2008, Maggie Hassan voted against legislation to prevent sanctuary cities in New Hampshire.


As mayor, Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley, which now supports nearly 4,000 jobs in Wisconsin.


When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps.


most states, but not Texas, permit jurors to ask questions of witnesses in trials.


President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year.


56 percentof (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control.


At protests in Wisconsin against proposed collective bargaining changes, phony sick notes (were) passed out to excuse striking union members.


Since Rep. John Boccieris election, Ohio has lost 600,000 jobs and his districts unemployment has doubled.


I sponsored the amendment that expanded the hours of early voting so that people who have irregular work schedules could vote.


By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.


Obama plans a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year.


Half the kids coming out of college this year cant find a job, or a job thats consistent with a college degree.


Charlie Crist raised taxes in 2009 and wont rule out raising taxes again.


The payday loan industry does not exist in a state like Minnesota.


Heres the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats.


Rep. Charlie Bass, R-NH voted to raise his own pay eight times


Bruce Springsteen only had 8,000 tickets sold for a Greensboro show and canceled after they didnt get the ticket sales they wanted.


In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress.


The state Legislature attempted to outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union.


TheCBO saysthe cost of health care reform will rise to $1.8 trillion, increasing the price to far greater than the $900 billion originallyprojected.


Hillary Clinton has the only health care plan that covers every American.


the national heath care reform is a government takeover of health care.


In 40 years of broadcast, I have never endorsed any candidate.


There was serious voter fraud in Virginia.


In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, its 1 in 14.


Georgia spends in the top 10 nationally on education, yet, most of our education metrics hover in the bottom five.


Thanks to Washington, nearly everyone will pay more in taxes in 2013. Somehow people think its just the wealthy. Its not.


The 9/11 terroristsfriends, family, girlfriends in the United Stateswere sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.


The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett.


Mitt Romneys platform ...wont protect the mortgage interest (tax) deduction for middle-class families.


Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan viewISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And thats just one country.


New energy standards will take away our freedom of choice and selection in the light bulbs we have in our homes.


David Rivera received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Congressman Spencer Bachus, who is currently under House Ethics investigation for insider trading.


Georgia has more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona.


As Dane County executive, Kathleen Falk raised property taxes by millions of dollars every year and approved the second highest increase in the state in 2010.


More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percentincrease from 2014.


The financial penalties imposed on gay couples can cost us more than $300,000 compared with married heterosexual couples over a lifetime.


Forty percent of illegal immigrants are people coming legally on visas and overstaying their visas.


Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today.


Tommy Thompson pushed such strict laws that abortion providers faced potential life imprisonment and women were forced to cross state lines in order to receive attention for life-threatening issues.


Governor Christie, his idea of jumpstarting the economy is to propose a trickle-down income tax cut last year and in his budget address this year, he stated his support for it again.


In fact, oil spills from tankers are far more common than the very rare leaks from rigs or pipelines.


Youve got a medical report on me that meets the same standard as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.


In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects.


For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.


More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks.


On job creation numbers in the latest Start-Up NY report: This is a significant number of overcounts in the compilation that Ive looked at.


The omnibus spending bill has 9,427 pork barrel items.


In his very first budget, (Milwaukee) Mayor Tom Barrett broke his pledge to keep a lid on property taxes and has continued increasing taxes and fees ever since.


SayPresident George W. Bush borrowed $1.37 trillion of Social Security surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back.


The Benghazi victims were left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.


CEOs now earn 431 times what their workers earn.


When the auto industry was going under, car parts companies like Johnson Controls begged taxpayers for a bailout, and they got one.


We cut taxes 24 times.


Almost 1 million children ... have no health insurance in this state.


When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One.


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.


his budget plan would cut our deficits by $4 trillion.


I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 years -- so, no revolving door.


This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years.


Red light camera installed to promote public safety.


Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour.


Obamas stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War.


Janice Hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be gang-intervention specialists. She even helped them get out of jail, so they could rape and kill again.


According to Wikipedia, there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the United States in the distribution of our wealth.


Michelle Nunns foundation directed grants to an Islamic group tied to radical terrorists.


As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were too small, too poor or too dangerous for the president.


Marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco.


70 percent of Americans believe that we are on the wrong path.


Lincoln Chafee settled a union strike by giving the teachers a 19-percent-raise.


Pam Bondi refuses to take a position on the gay-adoption ban.


Under Obamacare, people who have a doctor theyve been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years, they wont be able to keep going to that doctor.


Rick Perrys proposal on driver licenses and high school dropouts has been state law since 1989.


Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.


A statewide poll showing 76 percent support and other surveys are a strong indicator of broad public support in Milwaukee County for a $10.10 minimum wage


HIV/AIDS is dramatically on the rise in the U.S. South.


Governor (Perry), you were a Democrat, having worked for Al Gore as his campaign manager...


Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about.


By 12th grade, more than 3 out of 10 girls have been pregnant at least once.


The Iraq war has been our longest war.


The United States is about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever.


[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.


The most realistic estimates for jobs created by Keystone XL are maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline.


When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 and Im not sure this number is right, but my mind says its about 180 gay marriages.


Illegal immigration costs Georgia $2.4 billion a year


Sen. Mark Pryor voted for special subsidies for lawmakers and staff in Congress so theyre protected from Obamacare.


Tom Barrett voted for the largest tax increase in history ... raising taxes on gas and Social Security.


California is home to the largest death row populationin the Western Hemisphere.


A private school tax break in the Wisconsin state budget is the most generous in the nation.


For every time the state gets paid a dollar in taxes (on gambling), somebody loses $6.


Giving money to politicians has paid off for Paul Workman. Workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects.


For decades before I was elected, governors tried and failed to get Minnesota out of the top 10 highest-taxed states in the country. I actually did it.


In the U.S., African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites on marijuana charges.


Harris County, Texas has some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world.


Repealing the health care law would save $95 billion in 2016.


A majority of drunk driving deaths and injuries are caused by drunk driving offenders with no prior convictions.


Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives.


Three years ago, John McCain said, Afghanistan we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded.


Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high.


On ISIS, (Michael Bennet) chose the (Washington) insiders over our generals.


You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years...


the state budget includes spending on commercials for Fortune 500 companies.


high-speed rail would have created 60,000 jobs.


IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could pay for health care reform.


Since President Obama took office, 2 million jobs. Gone.


Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student, among other things.


Health insurance premiums have almost doubled ... since 2000.


Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four.


To pay for government growth, leaders of both parties borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with todays $14 trillion debt.


except for Donald Trump, every other major party nominee for the past 40 years has released their tax returns.


Senate Bill 1070, simply, just mirrors federal law.


I helped write the Affordable Care Act.


Dolphins are rapists. Look it up.


The U.S. has 47 million people on food stamps. Thats 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over.


Republicans are trying to impeach our president.


Weve had a dramatic drop in violent crime since this law (stand your ground) has been in effect.


My recommended budget includes $1 billion in new state funding for education.


The pay-as-you-go law ... was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s.


In 1998, nearly half of Floridas fourth-graders were functionally illiterate. Today, 72% of them can read.


In the late 1980s, the U.S. was nearly the lowest-taxed nation in the world, and a quarter century later were nearly the highest.


Proposed federal regulations would affect every streetsign in the country


There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate. Fifty-seven of them, including Russ Feingold, are lawyers. There are zero manufacturers and one accountant.


Scott Maddox is a lobbyist.


A hundred percent of all the jobs lost during the recession have been reclaimed in Texas while the nation is at about 36 percent.


Democrats have said that even one hearing (on the stimulus bill) would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions.


Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi.


The National Science Foundation awarded $700,000 to fund a climate change musical.


Obamas Environmental Protection Agency sent emails for Hispanic Heritage Month with a photo of Che Guevara.


Morgan Griffith fought for a plan that would have taken money away from our schools and given it to Northern Virginia schools instead.


as Wisconsin governor he never raised taxes.


In the past decade in New York State more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing more than any other state.


Why didnt (uninsured Americans) buy insurance? Because of the expense.


Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. Thats 270 people a day and 87 dead.


Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars.


This census is also the shortest and least intrusive count in modern history.


Charlie Crist voted against minimum wage when he was in the Senate.


Soldiers Donating to Tea Party Now Face Punishment Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.


[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply.


I have disagreed strongly with the Bush administration on this issue of global warming.


Donald Trump has saidhewould be neutral between Israel and its enemies.


Dave Brat said the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more.


The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is considering implementing mandatory physical fitness testing for security staff.


Twenty-four percent of doctors in Virginia currently dont accept new Medicaid patients because the reimbursement rates are so low.


In the last six years of Ciancis administration violent crime was down in the United States. It was down in the region. It was down in Rhode Island. But it was up in Providence.


There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s.


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.


taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average.


John Boehner changed his position on extending Bush tax cuts.


New Jerseys poverty rate has increased since this governor took office and the number of New Jerseyans without health insurance has risen.


Obamas Clean Power Plan ... eliminates coal-fired power plants.


Estimates for adopting Obamacares Medicaid expansion show it will cost Virginia taxpayers $902 million through 2022.


Obamacare already has caused millions of hardworking Virginians to lose their health insurance.


More Tennesseans have hunting and fishing licenses than vote.


The federal government regulates the holes in Swiss cheese.


American troops have never been under the formal control of another nation.


We have a guy who is going to be speaker of the House in four years, and his name has been on the ballot one time.


We continue to see these isolated incidents of people trying to vote five, six times a day.


Seven of the 10 highest-income counties in the country ring the city of Washington D.C.


I sponsored and was the co-sponsor of the only legislation that ever passed that had E-Verify provisions in it back in 2010 when I served in the Legislature.


Texas is last in workers compensation coverage.


In annual surveys of Rhode Island communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm.