Thirty-four percent of Hispanics don't have any health care at all, don't have any health insurance.


wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln.


The Obama administrations cap-and-trade plan would create a $1,761 yearly energy tax.


Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years


Women of childbearing age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men.


Hillary Clintons plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs.


Weve seen property taxes go down for the first time in 12 years on a median valued home.


Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures.


President Obamas health-care law will add trillions of dollars in debt.


About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine dont work.


When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, theyre still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job.


Women receive only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.


Research performed by economists has shown no consistent, positive impact on jobs, income or tax revenues arising from stadiums or sports franchises.


My border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime.


when I voted against [an increase in the minimum wage], it was in the 80s.


Rep. Betty Sutton would rather riot with Occupy (Wall Street) than stand up for Ohio families.


We spend $18 billion a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement agents. Thats more than DEA and the ATF and the FBI and all the other enforcement (agencies) combined.


Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.


Lyme disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States, and Rhode Island has the second-highest incidence of this disease in the country.


President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isnt a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax.


There are still more people uninsured today than when Obama was elected president.


The federal government owns tens of thousands of properties that are vacant or underused.


her representation of an ex-boyfriend who was then my friend in a family law case is something that lawyers do on a regular basis.


You dont know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s.


You cant pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes.


Hillary Clinton advocates a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no.


Our pension system is the only one in the country thats 100 percent funded.


We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977.


In 2010, everybody said you cant dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.


Newt Gingrich has been a proponent of selecting a president by popular vote instead of the Electoral College.


Barack Obama said he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad.


Every 1 percent increase in the number of Ohioans with bachelors degrees means economic activity growing the next year and for each year thereafter (by) $2.5 billion dollars.


, Since 1994 when VAWA was first passed, incidents of domestic violence have dropped more than 50 percent.


Illegal aliens are costing Georgia taxpayers over a billion dollars every year.


Gerald Daugherty is endorsed by the Austin American-Statesman.


Under Cuccinellis tax cut plan, school divisions across Virginia could be forced to fire over 8,000 teachers.


There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people dont have the skills for those jobs.


Rhode Island has invested less in tourism, economic development and economic development personnel than four nearby states.


President Obama has said he is going to cut veterans benefits.


Scott Walker is forcing some women to undergo a transvaginal probe to get an abortion.


Ninety percent of American workers dont own their own business.


Protesters caused $7.5 million in damage to the Wisconsin State House


The insurance industry is actually run by mostly Democrats.


a 9-year-old girl was recently raped in Austin, Texas, by a guy previously caught four times and released.


In a period of roughly 72 hours, a small group of angry black students managed to force the resignation of the two highest ranking officials at that school.


Weve doubled our use of renewable energy.


Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half.


In 2009, his first year as mayor, Julin Castro received a seven-figure referral fee that smells like a dirty financial gift from notorious personal injury lawyer Mikal Watts, a major Obama donor.


House Republican plan would increase costs for Oregon seniors by $6,000 with health care vouchers instead of Medicare


Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal.


In the recent House special election in Florida, Democrats got outspent in a Republican district.


a growing number of extremely premature babies survive into healthy childhood.


When mentioning Villanovas buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: I love those come-from-behind victories.


By 2014, there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States.


as we sit right now, Medicare, if we do nothing, will be gone in eight years, if we do nothing to it.


Howard Zinn, an anti-American Marxist, wrote the most popular textbook thats taught in our high schools in America.


Harry Reid has a better voting attendance record than these three Congressmen!


We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.


ISIS is now the predominantIslamist group in Benghazi.


As many as a quarter of our students arent even finishing high school.


In the Wisconsin health insurance exchange, the Society of Actuaries points out that therell be, according to them, an 82 percent increase in individual premiums over the next couple years under Obamacare.


Rick Perry is taking money away from hurricane victims and diverting it to remodel the Governors Mansion.


Given how expansive our program already was, expanding Medicaid in New Jersey due to Obamacare was a relatively small expansion.


The reason why Cubans dont have access to 21st century telecommunications like smart phones, like access to the Internet is because it is illegal in Cuba.


Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.


Barack Obamas approval rating is right in the average for second-term presidents at this point.


50% of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college.


On George Allens U.S. senate candidacy.


there are ample means to tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where theyre born, their birth certificates.


In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market.


Justin Amash is rated Michigans No. 1 conservative by National Right to Life.


Marcy Kaptur has attacked his military service and training in the Air Force, showing disrespect for veterans.


Emails released to the public show Hillary Clinton discussed the location of Ambassador Stevens, who of course was murdered, in Libya.


The city building code violations on my properties only involve exterior issues; within the households, its fine.


People can use food stamps for anything, including to go to Hawaii, and even millionaires can qualify.


You can hire lots of bureaucrats. Thats what the presidents done. Hes added 135,000 people to the government workforce.


The Milwaukee County Boards staff grew from four workers to 38 over four decades and now costs taxpayers a lot more, while the total county workforce was more than cut in half in the same period.


Under Rick Scott, there has been a historic $20 billion in funds for education.


President Barack Obama has launched twice as many strikes (on)countries that are predominantly Muslim than President George W. Bush.


Nine hundred people have been fired since I became secretary (of Veterans Affairs). Weve got 60 people that we fired who have manipulated wait times.


President Obamashealth care law is a government takeover of healthcare.


private-sector job growth in 2011 places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states.


In Rhode Island, Nearly 9 percent of covered employees go out on short term disability every year, with an average outage from work of almost 12 weeks each.


The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public museum, the airport and the zoo -- all on his own, without County Board approval


Sen. Obama wants to enact the single largest tax increase since the Second World War.


In 2011, Carlos Lpez-Cantera staunchly supported a Florida bill modeled after Arizonas immigration law


data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities suggest that the Texas budget gap is worse than New Yorks, about as bad as Californias, but not quite up to New Jersey levels.


Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female.


Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination.


Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies.


1 percent of candidates that (the National Rifle Association) endorsed in 2012 won.


Donald Trumps polling numbers show that hes the highest with Hispanics that any Republican has ever been.


Marco Rubio wants to raise the Social Security retirement age, and cut benefits.


Discretionary spending has increased over 20-some percent in two years if you dont include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, its over 80 percent.


The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has 2.8 students per faculty member, tied for second-lowest in its history since 1994.


Oregon Health Plan rations covered procedures under certain circumstances


On the Iran nuclear deal


Georgias unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.


On charging a toll for motorists to use Ga. 400 after it was slated to expire


A $10 million fire fee proposal in St. Petersburg was inspired by Gov. Rick Scott.


The startup rate of Hispanic businesses is three times the national rate.


He made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras.


he cut 'tax rates five times'


Bruce Starr was the only senator to vote for stronger ethics laws and greater accountability.


The Broward Republican Executive Committee had the liberal League of Women Voters Guide removed from the Broward Supervisor of Elections website.


Judge Sotomayor has said that policy is made on the U.S. Court of Appeals.


People on potshoot each other ...stab each other ...strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families.


Since taking office in January 2011, the rainy day fund has increased by 226 percent.


as Providences mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a world-class school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country.


Georgia crackdown on illegal immigration costs state farmers $400 million last year.


Americans now spend 100 days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves.


Ive shut down pill mills.


We defied the stand-down orders during the Benghazi attack.


In 2002, Iran was more or less an American ally.


About 30 percent of those released from Guantanamo have re-entered the fight.


his release of 33 years of tax returns is more than any presidential candidate in history.


He stood up to Barack Obama by passing legislation that prevents you from being forced to join government health plans or buy health insurance against your will.


I never proposed privatizing the (Milwaukee County) airport.


Before this day is out, 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives. That is the daily average, it is intolerable, and it has to stop.


Greg Abbott defended more than $5 billion in public school funding cuts in fighting hundreds of school districts in court.


The word progressive...was created as a substitute forcommunist.


(M)ore Georgians have jobs than at any other time since October 2008.


A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional.


When Standard Poors dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we dont have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.


We do know that Romney personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the IRS as part of the notorious Son of Boss tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history.


President Barack Obama has doubled the size of government since he took office.


The House of Representatives just voted 300-131 to remove country-of-origin labeling on chicken, pork, and beef sold in the U.S.


his administration has made progress on border enforcement by putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.


The Chinese are there in Syria.


Sen. Rand Pauls 2011 budget included a big cut in the CDC.


Youve seen where were now going from a $700 million surplus to getting into the next biennium with almost a $750 million deficit.


Russia has more diversity in its governmental representation than we do in Texas.


Russ Feingold wanted to get money out of politics. Now hes profiting from that same dark money.


DeWine took $1.9 million from big banks, supported legislation that helped Bernie Madoff make millions and protected predatory lenders while families lost their homes.


Bobby Jindals parents used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby.


The U.S. would gainrevenue by cutting personal income tax rates in half and ending tax breaks.


Detroit dumping a bunch of sewage in Lake Erie causes big problems for Ohio.


Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been forced to pay for abortions if the General Assembly had not recently intervened.


Patrick Murphy is the only candidate to have voted against every measure to fund Zika.


We had a No Child Left Behind a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal law. And it's had a big impact here. It's improved schools.


Classified material has a header which says top-secret, secret, confidential. Nothing, and I will repeat this and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice, none of the emails sent or received by me had such a header.


Were the seventh highest taxed state in America. And thats not just state, its local as well.


he predicts the weather better than Punxsutawney Phil.


stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.


Allen West called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and said this countrys got to get on sound footing by destroying it.


On eliminating the influence of money in policy campaigns


it wasnt until he and a Senate colleague were able to wrangle the actual streaming video from BP that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow.


A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple, and in some Milwaukee neighborhoods good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option


Under Virginia law, if you are a non-federally licensed (gun) dealer, you cannot get a background check even if you want one.


the GOP is helping pay for Justice Rebecca Bradleys campaign and she recently skipped court to attend an event paid for by Scott Walkers lobbyist friends.


Senator Webb was a reliable vote for President Obama and Senator Harry Reid.


he is the only candidate in the race for Clackamas County Chair who will refuse to join the Public Employees Retirement System.


92 million Americans arent working.


Homicides against blacks have tripled since Floridas stand your ground law has been in existence.


Donald Trump is the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election.


The downsizing of Pinellas County government resulted in about 1,200 people being laid off in a 12 percent unemployment market. I can tell you that every one of them was hired from the time that Ms. Latvala went into office in 2000.


Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac.


In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half.


Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression.


Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina.


In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has created a manufacturing-led jobs recovery. 30,000 new jobs were created this year, with 15,000 created in the struggling manufacturing sector.


Polls indicate that white people think that black people are less intelligent. They think theyre less trustworthy, less patriotic.


If every small business in our state, on average, was able to create one new job we would cut our unemployment rate in half.


Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.


About 40 percent of workers dont ... have a single paid sick day.


Ill be the only economist in the (U.S.) House.


Al-Qaida operatives, have said, Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.


Estimates say individuals who escaped these high tax states have taken with them around $2 trillion in adjusted gross income.


The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed.


An overwhelming majority of Americans support passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces.


Ohio Gov. John Kasich got lucky with a thing called fracking, which is why Ohio is doing well.


James Langevin has received almost $20 million from taxpayers and special interests to use at his own discretion to supposedly champion Rhode Islands needs.


The Associated Press called Charlie Crist's attacks over the top, out of context, and not true.


Were the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations.


7,000 millionaires gamed the system to pay no income taxes.


Barack Obama grew up in Kenya.


The state budget has actually grown by $4.6 billion under Gov. Scott Walkers actions.


90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted.


Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill.


you cant destroy the guns purchased in a (gun) buyback program as the city (of Memphis) wants to do.


Taxpayers pay for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin! And 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee!!!


New provisions of the health care law bar the use offlexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs.


Rick Scott cut Bright Futures scholarships in half.


The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles.


President Barack Obama appointed Eric Holder as attorney general. Eric Holder said he viewed his mission as brainwashing the American people against guns.


Patrick Murphy hasnt passed a single bill out of committee.


Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state.


No fracking waste is being dumped in New York State


We have the best schools in the United States.


Oak Grove is one of the largest cities in Oregon and is the biggest city in Clackamas County and its not a city.


Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100,000 pay.


Health proposal would create a 40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers.


Mitt Romney pays less tax than the guys who installed his car elevators.


Since January 2015, the majority of our Austin City Council meetings have extended past 10 p.m. and many of our meetings have gone past midnight.


Six out of 10 of the highest unemployment rates are also in so-called right to work states.


Under the Democratic health plan, families will be forced to spend an additional $2,100 a year to keep their current health care.


The city of Atlanta ranks 25th among U.S. cities with the highest crime rates.


Mitt Romney plans to fire Big Bird.


Greg Abbott has lost in court four times in just the past few days.


Study after study have shown that sanctuary cities do not lead to an increase in crime because of the presence of people that are undocumented.


Without representation, (the IRS) can increase taxes.


So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas, because Kerry was seen as supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League.


Its been 4 and a half years since the United States Senate passed a budget.


The Republicans' alternative health care plan will still let insurers raise premiums four times faster than wages.


A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen.


One out of every two kids who are graduating college right now cant find a job.


Wisconsin does not have a deficit. Thanks to Republican reforms, the 2014 budget will begin with a $443 million surplus.


The path to ObamaCare becoming law all started with Charlie Crist supporting President Obama's $787 billion stimulus.


The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department ... Meanwhile, the athletic budget for the current year is $97.7 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year.


Texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during Rick Perrys governorship. Also, the Texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during Barack Obamas presidency.


The CBO now says the presidents health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021.


We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush.


Buck wants to privatize Social Security.


In discussing the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya,Ms. Rice did say a terrorist attack. Its not that she put the whole thing on the video.


By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family.


The GOPs Pledge to America includes a 20 percent cut ... for education. ... Eight million kids would have their college aid slashed under this budget.


when he was governor, Wisconsin cut unemployment to 2.1 percent and the states unemployment rate was the lowest in the country for 40 consecutive months.


Josh Mandel bet against Ohio families


U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan promised to end health care for our seniors.


The Obama administrations own Environmental Protection Agency has said its Clean Power Plan will have a marginal impact on climate change.


13,000 Floridians are able to vote -- but their governor wont tell them.


Woodrow Wilson borrowed $30 billion to fund World War I in 1917. That money has not been paid back. And we are still paying interest on it.


credit rating agencies realize that our instability stems in large part from Oregons kicker system.


More than 1.5 million people moved into Georgia between the past two Census counts, and a majority consider themselves, African-American, Latino or Asian-American.


under the Romney-Ryan budget ... the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college tuition would be eliminated.


The higher the education level, the more likely they are to vote Democratic.


U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are at 20-year lows.


According to independent experts, Donald Trumps tax plan would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy.


he and President Barack Obama have the same position on gay marriage.


Democrats do not have a plan for extending the Bush tax cuts.


Then-Gov. Carl Sanders put 56 percent of the state budget into education, a figure that has not been achieved since.


President Barack Obama has lost more members of the House and more members of the Senate than any president ever has lost in modern times.


President Barack Obama supports immigration amnesty.


the federal government is the largest energy user in the country.


Tax dodging costs developing countries $200 billion every year.


The border security plan of Sens. McCain and Kyl called for 3,000 additional troops to keep us safe. President Obama says hell send 524.


Sherrod Brown has stood side by side with President Barack Obama, presiding over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years and hurtling toward the worst jobs record in the modern era.


Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.


one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.


Romney touted the Massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition.


The auditor [for the city of Providence] was not locked out of access to the citys finances.


he often appeared on The OReilly Factorand often was praised byBillOReilly.


There are more guns than there are people in the United States.


Since I took office, Wisconsin now has the 2nd highest health care quality ranking in the country.


The Obama Administration is suing a Wisconsin company for forcing employees to speak English.


McDonalds hamburgers are only 15 percent real beef. The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer.


The United States has 10,000 IRS agents making sure that you dont take an improper charity deduction, but to fight terrorism, it has less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home.


Throughout his time in elected office, Barack Obama has taken multiple positions on banning handguns and the D.C. handgun ban.


The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees holiday trees.


A Paul Ryan-Scott Walker (or Scott Walker-Paul Ryan) ticket for the White House in 2016 would be unconstitutional because both men live in Wisconsin.


One out of every three students currently today is ready for college before they go there.


Todays marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear.


In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined.


Texas women make an average of $8,355 less per year than men doing the very same job.


I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife.


Not a single segment of the proposed Beltline intersects the MARTA system at MARTA stations.


the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight.


Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.


Roughly 500,000 Georgians -- or about 5 percent of the states residents -- have gone through a background check to legally obtain a Georgia weapons carry license.


Under Scott Walker, right now, were 46th in the country in terms of new businesses started.


Sen. Luther Olsen, his recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors with no oversight.


We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, theyre considered employed.


Of the 25 wealthiest nations, were the only one that doesnt provide basic health coverage.


13 percent of Americans, the lowest ever, are without health care.


Romney supported a law that could have made most common forms of birth control illegal.


No other public or private business in America except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs in advance.


The most significant driver of out-migration [from Rhode Island] is the estate tax.


Congress is on vacation.


Scott Walkers school-aid cuts were so devastating that students are without chairs and a government survey found 47 kids in a classroom.


Attorney General Eric Holder recently revealed this idea to have government have gun owners wear special bracelets that would identify you as a gun owner.


Ed Schultz said Alan Grayson is what its all about.


AIG said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated.


if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get $150 billion.


New York State has been horribly, horribly hurt by NAFTA


For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes.


Im running the second-largest county district attorneys office at 1985 staffing levels.


The @nytimes states today that DJT believes more countries should acquire nuclear weapons. How dishonest are they. I never said this!


The CNBC debate was supposed to be three hours, and he renegotiated it down to two hours.


We bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over.


McDonalds workers in Denmark have a union. Earn $45,000/year.


Since 2009, weve cut homelessness (among veterans) by a third.


The cost-saving measures we put into place at Columbia/HCA drove down national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years.


We have no idea what is contained in [electronic cigarette] vapor.


new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office conclude the final price-tag for the health care law will exceed $2 trillion more than double what was initially reported.


Ruben Kihuen only managed in the minority to get one bill passed out of the eight to 10 he introduced during the 2015 legislative session.


This is the true picture of Milwaukees Renaissance after 12 years of Mayor Tom Barretts leadership.


President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he now is against earmarks.


Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.


There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think its a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy.


Texas state Reps. Dan Branch and Jim Pitts, lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus, are helping Democrat Ellen Cohen against her Republican challenger, doing events with her in her district.


he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House.


Unions did not create the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. Henry Ford did.


Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all.


As a percentage of our gross domestic product, the defense budget remains just 3.6 percent. This figure is low by all historical standards.


Last year, we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years.


It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life.


America spends over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12.


Connecticuts take on slot machines is 25 cents on the dollar. And the states take on table games: zero.


Bill Lynch told three lies in ten seconds


Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work.


Independent analysts say (Donald Trump) would add $30 trillion to the national debt.


Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once.


Unemployment has been on the rise throughout Wisconsin as Paul Ryan stepped up his advocacy of immigration increases.


Donald Trump was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006, Gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.


The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror.


The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state is clearly illegal. The Constitution says you cant take this stuff.


Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act.


Planned Parenthood raked in more than $300 million in profits over the past four years.


Mitt Romney has 15 homes.


Romney would add trillions to the deficit while Obama would cut the deficit by $4 trillion.


Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, living longer on average, and facing less income inequality.


The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined.


In Sauk City, Wisconsin, the ID office that provides identification for voting is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month -- a total of four days in 2016.


Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in unemployment, foreclosures, violent crime, personal bankruptcy and divorce.


Republican candidate for Georgia governor dabbled in birther conspiracy theories.


New Jersey has gained 143,000 new private-sector jobs.


The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.


Links jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Rep. C.W. Bill Young.


Wall Street megabanks that received bailouts in 2009 now get taxpayer-funded advantages not available to community banks in Ohio.


Rick Scott spent $800,000 of your tax dollars upgrading the Governors Mansion.


Prince William County has cut violent crime in half since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration.


the Ohio Consumers Council office employs 74 lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication.


Americans will spend more on taxes in 2015 than on food, clothing and housing combined.


I dont think Ive ever hired an illegal in my life.


Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas.


the Portland Childrens Levy holds its administrative expenses to less than 5 percent.


George Allen voted to end Pell Grants for 84,000 students.


School children can earn higher grades by studying Islam under a new nationwide Muslim outreach program announced by President Barack Obama.


Amajority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supportedamnesty.


Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus.


We went from $160 billion deficit spending in (President George W.) Bushs last year to $1.6 trillion the following year.


A proposed mine in Wisconsin is about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago.


President Barack Obama did not come into office with the economy in a free fall.


Rick Scotts proposed budget would lay off 20,000 teachers.


A bill supported by Gov. Scott Walker makes it so that drunk drivers who kill have an easier time of it.


There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.


[State Rep. Doug McKillips] donors deserve a refund.


President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country ... with a ban on one of the most-used assault rifle bullets.


Without U.S. Senate action, Texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state.


Gonzales losing campaign against me last spring was funded with more than $1 million from supporters and allies of Governor Bruce Rauner.


Over half of the foreign-born population in Rhode Island is white.


After hearing the frustrations parents and teachers have with the FCAT, next year we begin improving our testing system.


Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.


We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China.


There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there arent enough qualified applicants to fill them.


Last election, the Koch brothers spent three times what the top 10 unions spent combined.


Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury.


John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.


Say Bernie Sanders won Nevada after all.


Because of (U.S. Sen.-elect Ron) Johnsons leadership, Senate Republicans adopted a caucus ban on earmarks.


Every dropout costs us $72,000 for the life of that person.


Donald Trump is going to go out and carpet bomb the Middle East.


Most Americans want traditional marriage, as defined by the Defense of Marriage Act.


In 2012, 1 in 4 Wisconsin schools had a subpar score on the Department of Public Instructions recent report cards and are failing the children they serve.


We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.


We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country.


Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East.


NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide.


Cuba wants to let the Chinese drill in some of the very parts of the gulf that American producers are currently forbidden to touch, as close as 45 miles off the Florida coast.


On running for Senate if Jim Webb retires.


Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz demanded that Congress vote to increase the nations debt limit without making any spending cuts.


Last year, I was involved with an effort to to help prosecutors get their first pay raise in more than 10 years.


Ive either balanced every budget or we turned back a surplus.


One Texas city has a law that says that women can only have six dildos.


The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6.


When you look at the number of crashes before the cameras were installed compared to after, theyre virtually the same.


Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi.


U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted to continue Roe v. Wade.


Paul Ryans Medicare plan provides pretty much the same coverage that members of Congress receive.


We do not have an overcrowding problem. As a matter of fact, Rhode Island has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country.


Rep. Jim Renacci was trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut.


Rather than work to secure the border, (Marco Rubio) supported Obamas amnesty plan for illegal immigrants.


Hillary Clinton gave up 20 percent of Americas uranium supply to Russia.


Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughters college tuition on just two weeks wages.


On average, college students are taking six years to get a four-year degree.


In the state of Rhode Island 25 percent of our current physicians are graduates of for-profit medical schools.


Medicare will be bankrupt in nine years.


When it comes to being effective at creating jobs (Chris Christie has not had) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... Last year, New Jersey created no net new jobs.


Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama naive for saying he was would sit down and talk to the Iranians during the 2008 Democratic primary.


If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.


I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006.


the State Department spent $630,000 to get 2 million Facebook Likes.


In Romneys first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education.


We now have our kids go to school about a month less than most other advanced countries.


his office has already recovered over $2 billion from Wall Street for the workers, retirees, and investors who were harmed.


I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States.


Gov. Scott Walkers proposed reduction in university spending is about the size of the one under Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, but Democrats didnt treat Doyles cut as so dire.


The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks.


Republican challenger Bill Flores has never once voted in a general election in our district.


Hillary Clintons international travels included no serious diplomacy.


when he first ran for office in the late 1980s, there were still folks who didnt have phone service. Soon Id helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone.


This years state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.


the high-speed rail project provides short-term jobs.


Polls showHillary Clinton wins every time with Donald Trump as her opponent.


Peter Kilmartin has only three years experience in his own law practice.


During my administration, funding for education has increased by over $930 million.


As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bills lobbyist.


Daniel Webster thinks wives should submit to their husbands.


he fought for the repeal of a septic tank inspection program after Tallahassee pulled a fast one.


One-hundred times as many people worked their way from poverty into the American middle class during his presidency compared to Ronald Reagans presidency.


The new Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal was on time and on budget.


Scott Walker has given a $10,000 tax deduction to millionaires who send their kids to exclusive private schools.


Sheldon Whitehouse and 18 other senators voted to censor the internet.


We have a $2 trillion to $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. Weve got work that needs to get done. Weve got people that want to go to work.


Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce.


I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war (in Iraq), and yes, even before the war ever started.


The City of Milwaukee uses the building inspection area as a revenue base.


The cost ofa gas tank fill-up has risen$30 sinceBarack Obama became president.


College tuition costs have risen by 25 percent under the Democrats.


Obama said troops whine about bearing the costs of going to war.


Donald Trumps position isto roll back all of the financial regulations passed after the financial crisis.


Rep. Paul Ryans budget roadmap doesnt balance the budget until the 2060s and adds an unthinkable $62 trillion to the national debt between now and then.


Barack Obama said, If we keep talking about the economy, were going to lose.


Wendy Davis was just doing a fund-raiser in Chicago with the international socialists organization.


We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state.


Ted Cruzsaid I was in favor in Libya. I never discussed that subject.


With the auto rescue, President Barack Obama saved more than 1 million middle-class jobs all across America, including more than 28,000 in Wisconsin.


Barack Obama has the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt.


In June, jobless ranks were higher in nearly 90 percent of U.S. cities.


We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups.


there was a NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists.


In the past three years, state legislatures have enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined.


EPA wants to regulate the family BBQ.


Barack Hussein Obama will force doctors to assist homosexuals in buying surrogate babies.


He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens.


One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects.


In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. Youre also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents.


while President Barack Obama promised to work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year, his health care law raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family.


Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.


Twenty-seven out-of-state pharmaceutical companies have raised more campaign dollars (against a drug price control measure) than all other state ballot measures have raised to date, combined.


As part of efforts to rein in protesters, Republicans in Wisconsin have bolted windows inside the Capitol shut.


Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.


comprehensive immigration reform will add $700 billion to our economy.


(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California.


Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law.


Bernie Sanders voted for regime change with respect to Libya.


If you ask how many times did Ronald Reagan attend a fundraiser when he ran for re-election in 1984, the answer is eight times. If you say how many times did Barack Obama attend a fundraiser in 2012, the answer is 228 times.


Democrats failed to flip the Wisconsin state Senate because recall elections were in the deepest red districts in the state.


The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines.


TheHousebudget plan proposes the largest discretionary spending cut in history.


Ted Cruz is unknown to the vast majority of Texans.


Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.


When news broke that Ferguson 18-year-old Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery, MSNBC practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation.


People can't go fishing anymore because of Obama.


Congressional Budget Office says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!


top Clinton advisers were pressing birther movement stories very hard.


Things like having Friday classes have been shown to be very effective on college campuses in reducing drinking.


Walmart employees receive roughly $5,800 in public assistance per year.


When adjusted for inflation, (Texas) per-student spending has remained relatively flat over the past 16 years. Despite that trend, Texas schools in 2017 will receive $381 less per student than they did in 2003.


As Virginias governor, Allen cut spending and waste with bipartisan support.


My position hasnt changed on using executive authority to address immigration issues.


Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle. When the car was extricated from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.


Oregon schools receive millions of dollars per year in federal school lunch assistance and yet they are required to spend that money almost anywhere but Oregon.


Almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.


The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.'


First, Donald Trump said wages are too high, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage.


Dan Gelbers employment by BPs law firm could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General.


The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent.


I was never against same-sex marriage.


protesters at the Wisconsin state Capitol on the night the state Senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car.


You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show.


Bill Gunter would drain millions from local public schools, and give our tax dollars to private, for-profit schools run by out-of-state corporations.


Small businesses that have $250,000 in gross sales for the business. Theyre the ones that are looking at massive tax increases.


Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster than Mitt Romney.


Our children do not spend any time in school learning about our own U.S. Constitution.


Hillary Clintons rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans.


Every time weve cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown.


state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers.


President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria was going to be a pinprick.


Raising taxes on investment income has actually lowered the revenue received from the tax, while cutting capital gains tax rates has increased revenue.


Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour.


Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need.


Tim Pawlenty eliminated health insurance for 33,000 to 35,000 people when he was governor of Minnesota.


A public option for health care would end private insurance because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option.


Donald Trump saidas recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation.


his deficit plan made some adjustments to (Simpson-Bowles), and were putting it forward before Congress right now, a $4 trillion plan.


Jeb Bush appointed a guardian for the fetus of a rape survivor.


Thanks to actions by the Milwaukee County Board on the 2013 budget, the amount of county taxes on the average home in the city of Milwaukee would be a $19 decrease.


Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinsons disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana.


Sen. John McCain told dreamers that hell support the Dream Act, then he voted against it.


The Pell bridge is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge.


a portfolio managed by the Texas General Land Office earned 22 percent last year while the states emergency reserve account experienced a 1 percent gain.


Colorado food stamp recipients can use ATMs to get cash to buy marijuana.


The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to wash your hands at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.


When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, Republicans stood on the sidelines


Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men, outstripping the next nine causes of death combined.


Under Republican economic policies, the typical American family saw their incomes fall by about 6 percent.


Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party.


Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it.


Using a surcharge on the cigarette tax to help pay for a new downtown sports arena is not feasible under state law.


employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage.


Kendrick Meek was named one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.


Under Mayor Angel Taveras Providences bond rating was downgraded from A to BBB, two steps above junk-bond status.


using E-Verify is a fair amount of cost, about $20 per person that does not match.


There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts you should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.


Women in the United States are paid about 70 percent of what men earn for the same work.


Wisconsin has created just under 100,000 jobs since he took office.


In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting.


Were the most highly taxed nation in the world.


federal regulations adopted in 2011 increased the cost of each vehicle for his business by $10,000.


Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world, it still wouldnt add up to enough needed to pay down our nations debt.


A new law requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment.


under Oregon law, girls from 15 years of age and up are given complete control over whether to be sterilized or not.


In Afghanistan the (military) leadership has proposed a new medal, an award for 'Courageous Restraint' ... for 'NOT FIRING BACK.'


The Justice Departments Fast and Furious gun-walking program started in the Bush administration.


one of Austin City Council Member Randi Shades biggest contributors is the lobbyist for the Formula 1 racetrack planned outside Austin.


As unbelievable as it sounds, your tax dollars are funding the federal governments Zombie Apocalypse Plan. I kid you not.


Rob Portman is the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the (Mahoning) Valley and sent them to China.


Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled state legislature have added over $140 million in new special interest spending


When it comes to what little bit of job creation was happening in Massachusetts (when Mitt Romney was governor), it was happening in the public sector at six times the rate that it was happening in the private sector.


former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.


Eighty-seven percent of private insurance plans currently include (abortion) coverage.


Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average.


One estimate says there may be three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia.


he fought Obama at the Supreme Court and won.


actor Dwayne The Rock Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen.


There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally, it would create an economic recession for the state.


Tim Kaine supported higher energy costs for families.


Ending federal funding for National Public Radio would jeopardize 9,000 jobs.


Florida refused to allow theinsurance commissioner to negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high under Obamacare.


Rick Scott has said that he would do away with the Department of Community Affairs.


Oregons Umpqua Community College where the shooting occurred was a gun-free zone.


As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years.


Georgias CRCT set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation.


He's been endorsed by every major newspaper here in the state of Texas.


The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority.


Romney outsourced call center jobs to India.


To give a sense of how families are struggling, a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch.


Obama puts 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare, who are required to cut Medicare ... that will lead to denied care for current seniors.


President Barack Obama has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing.


Margaret Sanger wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman.


Virginia state employees pay nothing toward their pensions.


Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are responsible for leading America into a deal that will arm Iran.


95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all.


Florida is the largest dog-racing state in the country.


Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.


Vows to keep Georgias race for governor civil and focused on the positive.


We cut our deficits by more than half.


A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaids value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program.


Sen. Ted Cruz used to be in favor of birthright citizenship but is now against it.


40,000 veterans in Texas wont get health care because Perry rejected Obamacares Medicaid expansion.


U.S. unemployment among people ages 16 to 24 is 18.4 percent, which is a 60-year high.


U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit unlimited carbon pollution into our air


An overwhelming majority of Republican and Democrat law enforcement leaders have endorsed Brad Schimel.


What do Rutgers University, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, Stockton College, Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common? They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years.


Opponent Holly Benson said that Just because youre poor doesnt mean youre unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running.


Most of the people who have signed up through the Obamacare exchanges already had insurance.


a change in law he carried stopped a $100 million tax increase in the Dallas school district.


Weve recovered (from the recession) faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth.


Jeff Greene on why hewent Cuba.


Hillary Clinton isunder investigation with the FBI right now.


The average (public school) teacher in Wisconsins making $89,000 a year in salary and benefits.


(Chris Christie) has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system, and then states that the system is broke.


States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century.


Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike.


Mitt Romneys companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.


28 percent of Kentuckians dont have any online access.


We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation.


The Obama administration called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.


Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece.


On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasnt even written.


Hillary Clinton makes more per hour at a speaking gig than the average CEO does in a year.


Every time the Legislature suspended the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the states revenues.


Cuba has a lower child mortality rate than ours. Their life expectancy is now greater than ours.


Baltimore police are trained by Mossad and Shin Bet.


Wisconsin ranks No. 2 in economic growth, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.


he never voted for a tax increase.


When we lower tax rates, we generate more in revenues. That happened in 86 with the Reagan plan, happened in 2001, following the Bush plan.


The Atlanta areas water planning district is now the national leader in conservation.


The state of Wisconsin pays plumbers, engineers and other attorneys much, much more than it pays attorneys to represent poor people.


Peyton Manning struggles in cold weather games.


Under President Bush in eight years, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama, weve added $5.3 trillion to the debt in the 3.5 years hes been in office.


Minnesota has passed and Indiana has passed right to work laws making union membership and dues optional


Gov. Rick Scotts sale of the state planes was not proper.


The health care law is job killing.


Weve seen a remarkable reduction in the number of Americans being executed -- its down nearly two-thirds over the past generation.


Onthe Iran nuclear deal


Q: What do these Patriotic Americans have in common? A: They are all Draft Dodgers.


Outside of recall elections, theres never been a public official removed from office in Wisconsin for anything but malfeasance in office.


Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account.


theres no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.


The United States is 50th in life expectancy in the world.


Ebola is incredibly contagious, very transmissible and easy to catch.


In 2010, Betty Sutton voted to destroy Medicare.


Travis County residents trusted me to take on Tom DeLay and we won.


The turnout on May 14th was just 7 percent -- the lowest turnout in decades.


Eric Cantor voted to fully fund Obamacare in October.


On support for ethanol mandates


The fiscal cliff agreement was the largest tax increase in history.


On the mosque near ground zero.


Latin Americas economy is almost as big as the economy of China.


Obama has no experience or background at all in national security affairs.


Jim Marshall votes liberal in Washington ... and we arent fooled.


its not accidental that the villain in the Batman movie is named Bane.


White House spokesman Robert Gibbs lied when he said President Obamas birth certificate is posted on the Internet.


A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not entirely voluntary.


Scott Bruun still believes in the same old direction that George Bush had before, which is to privatize Social Security.


When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won't care about this.'


I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago.


Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma.


The labor participation rate is at an all-time low.


Mike Huckabee supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens.


For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion.


Virginia spends $400,000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnells political agenda.


Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americanscan get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill.


Cranstons 2014-2015 budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs.


the 2014-15 state budget cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs.


Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan.


Roy Blunt secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris into a national security bill while Blunts girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000.


Donald Trump mocked someone with a disability.


We rank below Ethiopia, Im told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea.


Bill Heller raises taxes. Property taxes. Small business taxes. He even wants to tax the Internet. Mr. Heller said no to balancing the federal budget, that puts more debt on our kids.


The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, many of whom are our enemies.


the state auditor found that 37 percent of the 428,000 students receiving free and reduced-price lunches are ineligible.


Barack Obama began his presidency going on a worldwide apology tour.


[My administration is] well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise.


President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan.


President Obama campaign surrogate Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago.


Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan.


Said he opposed every budget Republican and Democrat.


The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.


Only five Texas counties account for almost 90 percent of the (states) cattle industry.


President Barack Obama has allowed, each year hes been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... Theyve declined every year since President Bush left office.


Oregons budget has grown by 49 percent in just four years.


We've created or saved up to 1.6 million jobs, according to the CBO -- the Congressional Budget Office -- through the Recovery Act.


Matt Bevin has repeatedly failed to pay his taxes.


California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman contributed to, and campaigned, for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.


a Justice Department memo directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality.


Kasichs trade deals cost Ohio thousands of jobs - 49,000 jobs to Mexico, 91,000 to China.


with Jon Corzine, its the first time, I think, in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues.


Donald Trump brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans.


Tuition-free public universities and colleges are just a pipe dream. False. They were both free up until the Vietnam War.


Candidate Bill Byrne used campaign funds for work on his personal car.


Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldnt pay any taxes.


A construction worker whos making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldnt be paying higher tax rates than the guy whos making $50 million a year. And thats how its working right now.


We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our countrys history.


Theres never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens.


Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people in this country illegally are working.


Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still wont.


he never supported federal health care individual mandate.


the United States is in the worst recovery from an economic recession since World War II.


In 1940, only 7 percentof Germans were Nazis.


The recidivism rate is nearly 29 percent and has been climbing steadily since detainees began being released from Guantanamo.


Under Scott Walkers tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at least $1,400 per year.


You cant raise taxes in Ohio. We are one of the highest taxed states in the country.


Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.


president is spending $2.2 billion to give away ObamaPhones.


Obama has failed to pass a budget.


Did you know Wisconsins AFSCME union has lost 50%+ of its members since no longer requiring membership?


Joe Sestak voted to gut Medicare ... reducing benefits for 854,489 seniors and jeopardizing access to care for millions.


Democratic tax hikes led $70 billion of wealth to leave New Jersey between 2004 and 2008, and mainly relocate to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.


Wisconsins Government Accountability Board ignored their duties and did not regularly audit voters to remove felons for a span of 16 elections.


Florida had five sanctuary cities while Jeb Bush was governor.


Cover Florida is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month.


New Hampshire had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country during Maggie Hassans time in the state Senate.


On timing of announcement for president.


When the presidents spokesman was asked about (Anwar) al-Awlakis son, he said he should have chosen a more responsible father.


In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.


We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election.


Were destroying more businesses in the United States now than are being created for the first time in our history.


In Buffalos SolarCity project, Andrew Cuomo will create maybe 500 jobs if it ever happens at all, at about $1.5 million per job.


Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months.


Barack Obama has deported more people than any other president in this countrys history.


The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011.


fewer than 30 percent of Texas college students graduate in four years and only 58 percent graduate within six years.


In states where beer is unregulated, the per capita production is significantly higher.


The average kid comes out of Virginia colleges with about $25,000-plus in debt.


Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should borrow money if you have to from your parents.


In the state of Indiana, Ive signed more than $3.5 billion in tax relief.


Donald Trump never said that more nations should get nuclear weapons.


Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law.


Scott Walker couldnt get his own party to back more than a 500-student increase in Milwaukees school choice program, but in Indiana, Mitch Daniels voucher program is approaching 30,000 students two years after opening.


Rick Scott wants to take us back to the days of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.


Hillary Clinton laid the groundwork for getting chemical weapons out of Syria.


Newt Gingrich teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.


The Senate immigration bill unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. Were talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years.


a federal judge in San Antonio issued a ruling that not only could the students not pray at their graduation, if they used the word benediction, the word invocation, the word God, asked the audience to stand or asked for a moment of silence, he would put the superintendent in jail.


he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from extortion from a union because the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions.


Obama shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to thank them for their service.


And while (Ted) Strickland proposed cuts for services for children, he wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governors mansion.


In Rhode Island, only 5 percent of ozone pollution is from local or in-state sources. . . Ninety-five percent comes from outside of our borders, particularly the Midwest.


Weve had the same leadership in the Travis County DAs office for 30 years.


Do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood? Im not joking.


Mitt Romney says class sizes dont matter.


Roy Barnes voted against a bill in the state Senate that would have made it easier to convict child abusers.


Many just call him Lyin Ted. ... HisTV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air.


Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support massive cuts in Social Security for future generations.


We created a flat tax in the state of Utah.


We had no domestic attacks under Bush.


The White House has refused international help in dealing with the oil spill.


personal-injury trial lawyers have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade.


Ted Cruz never denied his father was photographedwith Lee Harvey Oswald.


The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment.


Our most important work has been creating and retaining almost 55,000 Ohio jobs.


Roy Barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that Americans will spend years paying off, and theyve done it without creating one job.


My office sends federal money back every year.


We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have concealed handgun licenses.


President Barack Obamas recent New York fundraising trip cost between $25 million and $50 million.


budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker.


hes the first Aggie governor of Texas.


On using Gov. Scott Walkers collective-bargaining limits to help balance the city of Milwaukee budget


A minor cannot get a tattoo without parental consent but can get an abortion without parental consent.


Daniel Webster is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home.


New Jerseys public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.


The citys 30 percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide -- not district by district


She created the Waste, Fraud and Mismanagement Hotline.... (that) has saved Wisconsin taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.


$65 million from ABC privatization will not pay for even an overpass in Tysons Corner.


This is the first time since Roe was decided in 1973 that a court has granted personhood status to the preborn.


Republican candidates in Oregon are advocating violence against gays.


We only have 2 percent of the oil reserves in the world, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a daily basis.


The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy.


Dave Aronbergs career legal experience is less than two years as Asst. AG/private attorney.


theres a 100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons.


Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to dramatic score increases on state tests.


On signing a no-tax pledge


the number-one source of illegal immigration is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again.


On opposing citizenship for illegal immigrants


Georgia is one of the 10 most tax-friendly states for retirees.


al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.


Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control in Massachusetts, hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets.


Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?


Members of Congress passed a pay raise for themselves of $10,000 over two years even as they voted not to raise Social Security benefits for 2010 and 2011.


Gov. Scott Walkers proposed budget would sell off Wisconsins state parks.


Kelly Ayotte voted to fix background checks.


the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nations as a whole.


The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates.


She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV.


The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.


If you look at our tax mix, the share of corporate revenues as a percentage of our overall revenue mix has declined by about half over the last 30 years.


On sharing power with Republicans


Women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men.


Georgia ranks near the bottom in per capita transportation spending.


allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances on a female sheriffs deputy were found by two separate judges to not have merit.


The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was #1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.


Some cardiologists estimate 70 percent of all males over 50 have some form of heart disease.


If every house in Florida had a solar-heated water tank, that would eliminate consumption by 17 percent.


The Koch brothers are the richest people in the world. Individually, theyre only fifth. Put them together theyre the richest in the world.


Shows in a television ad that police took evidence fromSolantic, Rick Scotts new health care company, after allegations emerged that the company was engaging in fraud.


Mexican government officials hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country.


Gov. Rick Perry failed to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities.


When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women.


Rep. Michele Bachmann said President Barack Obama might be to blame for the Fort Hood shootings.


Wisconsin was the first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.


By fiscal year 2013, the state is expected to wipe through [HOPE scholarship] reserve funds.


Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.


Under Rick Scott, homeowners are paying higher (home insurance) premiums for less coverage.


the number of Democrats who voted for the GOP measure allowing health plan renewals is close to the number who voted on GOP bills to delay mandates on employers and individuals.


Sharron Angle wants to wipe out Social Security.


For the first time in history, (Thors) hammer is being held by a woman.


Three or four countries out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition are providing military force.


(Koch Industries) is among the worst in toxic air pollution in the entire United States ... and churns out more climate-changing greenhouse gases than oil giants Chevron, Shell and Valero.


From 2000 to 2008, we averaged about five mass shootings a year. Were now averaging 15. So thats a three-fold increase.


Lloyd Doggett made millions off companies like Bank of America while they took taxpayer bailout money.


Residents could have received nearly $48M for Local Schools, Fire District, Sheriffs Dept. and Social Services.


Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates.


61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is solid evidence the earth is warming, ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is no solid evidence the earth is warming.


Romney wants to take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires.


President Barack Obama came into office very concerned about wiretappings but then he became president of the United States, he got all the briefings (and) he decided the balance is probably pretty appropriately struck.


You can be an NFL player with murder charges and not be suspended.


During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success.


This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of not wanting to offend anyone.BUT on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House.


The Tax Foundation figures Rhode Island as the 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. Were the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. Were the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes.


Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent.


Says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill won't actually stimulate the economy.


South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is an immigrant.


Tim Kaine doubled down in his support of devastating defense cuts, saying the the deal was the right thing to do.


I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights.


25 percent of all drug-related fatal vehicle accidents in the U.S. involve marijuana.


On support for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).


Kendrick Meek is the only candidate who has consistently been against expanded drilling.


The total unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino workers has increased from 10% to 10.3% between January 2009 and March 2012.


Today, the United States is the most respected country on Earth.


in the governors proposed budget the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget.


I don't answer hypotheticals.


On Tim Kaine: In exchange for campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission.


We are experiencing the worst economic recovery America has ever had.


When we look at the number of murders in the United States (in) 2009, we had 9,500 people murdered. When we look around the world, we see ... large countries, the U.K., Germany, Japan had 200 or less killed in a year.


The growth in health care costs has been reined in through the Affordable Care Act.


We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years.


The minimum wage in real terms right now is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office.


There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world.


hes proposed the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history.


While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.


A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don't know who's going to win this race.


New Jerseys job growth in May represents 25 percent of all the jobs created in the country.


President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any.


The United States has more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined.


As usual, Hillary the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games.


Louie Gohmert of Texas blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.


A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful.


Taxes went down under Jerry Brown.


China is practicing how to blow up our satellites.


A lot of the problems with forest fires ...is because of bad policy (not to clear out the forests) that was put in place by environmentalists.


Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a $525-billion tax increase on the middle class.


The Americans for Tax Reform pledge relates to new taxes that were going to be initiated by legislative action.


Bernie Sanders opposes the death penalty, and Hillary Clinton supports it.


Palin supports aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife.


Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.


It has been 269 days since (Hillary) Clinton has held a press conference.


he was the first local official to endorse Barack Obama


About $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the current state general revenue fund budget.


under President John F. Kennedy, government took up 27 percent of the economy, and today it consumes 37 percent.


President Obama has stopped using the phrase war on terror.


We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use.


Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years.


The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost, since the stimulus bill was signed.


After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true.


A typical married couple will contribute $119,000 into Medicare but will receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.


We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone.


Theres talk in Congress now about basically confiscating your private 401(k) or IRA plan and rolling it into Social Security to strengthen Social Security.


More than half of last years U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.


Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples.


832,000 people lost their job while (Charlie Crist was)governor.


AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!


Medicaid is close to 30 percent of the state budget and the biggest expenditure at the state.


President Barack Obama is responsible for pending defense cuts.


opponent Tammy Baldwin has had not one positive ad in the campaign for U.S. Senate.


Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings.


I didn't campaign on a public option.


More than half of all drivers licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens.


We just dont want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops.


Donald Trump and Marco Rubio opposed Cruzs efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.


Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector.


Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average


Rhode Island has the worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads [behind] Alaska.


The city of Richmond built the second richest team in the NFL a $14 million stadium.


A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court.


On whether he would put a missile shield in Poland.


Welcome to Wisconsin road signs have always been made in Wisconsin,but Scott Walker is outsourcing themto an out-of-state company and paying more money for them.


Russ Feingold cast the deciding vote for the largest tax increase in history


Washington, D.C., now has greater population than Wyoming and Vermont, more active duty military than 29 states, more tax revenue than 29 states (and) a larger domestic product than 27 states.


signers of recall petitions against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are at risk because of newly discovered provisions in state law.


in Canada, the number of CT scan machines per 1,000 people is like one-tenth of what we have here in this country. Thats why people have to wait.


Hillary Clinton wanted the wall.


Lake Erie contains more native fish than all the other Great Lakes combined.


There havent been tax cuts for the rich in Rhode Island.


On a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.


recent studies indicate that nationally, only 8 percent of white voting-age citizens but 25 percent of African-American voting-age citizens lack government-issued photo IDs.


Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy.


over 50 percent of U.S. job growth in June came from Wisconsin.


Less than 5 percent of registered users in states allowing medical marijuana have cancer or AIDS.


Kelly Ayotte has voted to defund Planned Parenthood six times.


When Deborah took office, the (Sellwood Bridge) project had languished for years, with only $11 million in funds. With her leadership the remaining funding was secured that got the project moving forward.


71% of WIs roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WIs bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.


Hillary [Clinton] wants to raise taxes by over a trillion dollars.


We are seeing dramatic rate cuts to Medicare that will affect seniors ability to keep their doctor, hospital and prevention services.


We had a press conference here that interestingly no one in the mainstream media covered.


As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, there were days where folks couldnt go outside. because of all the pollution in the air.


Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country.


By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance for the first time in 17 years.


If someone is in a room that has measles and leaves and you walk in two hours later, you could get measles from that person.


St. Pete Beachs local version of Amendment 4 resulted in seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the citys legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate.


Americans now support strikes (against ISIS) but the support for ground troops is not there. The support is very thin.


In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American.


While she was mayor, Lois Frankel took a police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party.


Texas lawmakers agreed to cut states rainy day fund in half, spending $4 billion from current $8 billion.


the Senate will have a record number of female senators in 2013.


We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets.


About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district.


a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms.


The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago.


She led the fight to stop health insurance rate hikes and saved Rhode Island families over $150 million.


Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt.


The Obama administration manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration.


Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson is a liberal who voted with Nancy Pelosi to fund sex study programs of San Francisco prostitutes and to regulate the sale of firearms.


Arizona congressional candidate Christine Jones called Hillary Clinton a capable and respected leader, and an effective secretary of state. ...Hillary Clinton effective? Christine Jones thinks so.


Virtually no Republican in Washington accepts climate change science.


I am the only U.S. Senate candidate who spoke out against bombing Syria, and who challenged Georgias governor and insurance commissioner over obstruction to the Affordable Care Act.


The economic impact of new Atlanta Braves stadium includes 9,241 new jobs and $295 million in wages.


In Oregon, women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar that men earn for doing the same job. Thats just wrong.


It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000.


Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks.


Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, was a member of Bill Clintons defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe.


Rhode Islands legislature is the strongest in the country.


We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low.


Look, we are at war with these people and they dont wear uniforms. This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now.


In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month.


In 2010, uninsured voters made up about 5 percent of the electorate.


The mayor said 'if you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status . . . then we welcome you here. We want you here. We'll protect you here.'


Marriage decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent.


Out of the total U.S. military budget, significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism.


it will cost $220 per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild Portland Public high schools.


It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party (for kids).


We spend more money on lobbying than we do on campaigns.


Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.


During her first four years in Washington Sen. Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers nearly 90 percent of the time.


When it comes to fighting terrorism, Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture.


The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is collecting financial information, monitoring financial information of millions of Americans without their knowledge and storing it for up to 10 years.


So far, the Recovery Act is responsible for the jobs of about 2 million Americans who would otherwise be unemployed. ... [And] the Recovery Act is on track to save or create another 1.5 million jobs in 2010.


At Texas AM University, only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years.


the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.


Minnesota is kicking butt relative to Wisconsin on everything from employment and job creation to school test scores, educated work force and a host of other factors and rankings


he didnt tell viewers that the Obama campaign hid news about the motives behind the attack in Benghazi because Obama was running for re-election.


Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants.


There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.


If Florida expanded Medicaid, some studies indicate it would create about 120,000 jobs.


One extra year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality rates among their children by up to 10 percent.


The debt limit deal allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money.


Oil money from federal leases can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling.


Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor.


The Fulton County vote count will be finished by 11:30 p.m. on election night.


Obamacare is the largest middle-class tax increase in history.


Wendy Davis raised money for a U.S. House Democrat who is a member of a Democratic socialists group.


On support for Common Core education standards


The failed economic policies of President Barack Obama, the Democrats and the Federal Reserve are making gas prices higher while Americas economy is running on fumes.


Mitch McConnell voted to raise Medicare costs for a current Kentucky senior by $6,000.


the president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent.


Im 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldnt get it replaced.


Texas children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching.


Marco Rubio made it clear: Not only does he think Donald Trump is a con man, hewent on to say he doesnt trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes.


The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is transparent.


Governor-elect Scott Walkers choice as transition team leader killed the release of a damaging report on Walkers record in the days leading up to the election.