the U.S. Postal Service has taken no taxpayer aid since 1971, funds operations entirely from the sale of stamps and related products and makes an operational profit year after year.


California has seen a 56 percent decline in the gun murder rate since the 1990s.


Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire.


Congressman Cicilline, when he was the mayor of Providence, espoused a sanctuary city.


his opponent Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions.


70 percent of Virginias Medicaid cost is for seniors in nursing homes.


[L]ess than one-tenth of Atlantas transportation needs are covered in a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax.


More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the presidents Central American Minors program werent actually minors at all.


Chris Abele, opponent in Milwaukee County executive race, failed to finish 3 separate colleges, dropping out all 3 times.


Obama Signs Bill Forgiving All Student Loan Debt.


AGallup report recently said that nearly 50 percent of small business owners arent hiring because of what they call regulatory uncertainty.


Mitt Romney, while he was in Arizona, said he believes the states SB 1070 immigration law should be the model for national immigration laws.


Toomey crossed party lines to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list.


Two-thirds of the people who start out in minimum wage are above the minimum wage within a year.


The state of Georgia lost 16 percent of its employees last year, and that percentage has risen over the past three years.


hes the only licensed firearms dealer in America running for Congress.


On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.


attorney general candidate Jon Richards went so far to say he would only enforce the laws with which he personally agreed.


The pass rate for a high school level test to join the military is 35 to 40 percent.


We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children.


Cicilline continues to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbyist, corporate PAC and insider money to fund his campaign.


Borrowing in my 2015-17 state budget is less than half that in my predecessors last budget and the lowest it has been in a decade.


the federal government mandates transexuals (sic) and homosexuals grabbing children in their stranger-danger zones in the name of airport security.


Every year since Gov. Walker and the Republicans have been in control of the Legislature weve created fewer jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


Claims Joe Biden said coal is more dangerous than terrorists.


An Obama campaign tactic for rallying voters is to offer them cell phones.


What is and isnt a Schedule I narcotic is a job for Congress.


Higher beer production and higher consumption go hand-in-hand.


We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime.


theres $4 billion in private investment along the streetcar.


Arkansas Republican Rep. Tom Cotton voted to provide Congress with taxpayer-funded health care for life.


Israels per capita income is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world.


Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households.


For his first interview as president, Barack Obama chose Arab TV for an apology.


Georgia is on track for 1,200 traffic fatalities this year, a reversal of nine years of declines.


More businesses are closing than opening in Virginia today.


We have record numbers of people living in poverty.


Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11.


Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year.


The media wont publish a real photo of Trayvon Martin with tattoos on his face.


Rand Paul supports Obamas negotiations with Iran.


For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years.


A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year in public assistance in Wisconsin.


Police in the United States are allowed to use tear gas even though it has been classified as a chemical weapon and banned in international conflict since 1993.


Hillary Clinton viciously attacked women abused by Bill Clinton.


A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them.


We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses.


Under the Iran deal: If Israel attacks Iran were supposed to be on Irans side.


Nobody suffered any lasting injuries from the CIA interrogation program.


Im not one for name calling.


Sen. Pat Toomey even tried to shut down the federal government in order to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.


Wisconsin has one of the most progressive tax codes in the country.


During the year Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard Law School's Office of Career Services, military recruiting actually went up.


ISIS reaches about 100 million people a day through social media.


Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state.


In the primary election, a right-wing group spent more than $100,000,000 to support Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley.


(Brendan) Doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for anyone born after 1960, with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations.


Sam Houston opposed slavery and as governor said Texas should not leave the union over slavery.


Our national debt is as low as it has been since World War II.


Every time [the people from Newport Tent] work in a city or town they have a whole different set of permits that they have to get in order to pitch a tent.


Debbie Jackow unlike her opponent ...WILL NOT de-fund the 20/20 land program.


The average age a child is trafficked into the commercial sex trade industry is between 11 and 14 years old.


99 percent of the time police officers arent charged when they kill young people of color.


Six justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been confirmed in presidential election years since 1912.


Property taxes are now 18% higher than when(Mark Sharpe)first took office.


The minimum number of infrastructure (needs) in Atlanta is $900 million.


The firefighter and police officer pension system is not headed for bankruptcy, far from it. Thats because New Jersey first responders -- fire fighters and police officers -- have never missed making payments to the retirement system.


The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.


Donald Trump said he intends to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling during the campaign.


Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel.


Students today take more years to get through college.


Rick Perry flip-flopped on gay marriage by first saying it was a states rights issue and then saying he was in favor of a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.


Congress decision to spend less around the world on embassy security contributed to tragedies like Benghazi.


The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout.


Under Barack Obama's plan, the government would spend $1-trillion more.


In 2011, NJ economy ranked 47th--at the bottom with Alabama, Mississippi Wyoming. Under Christie, NJ is falling behind.


Theres never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days.


Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in U.S. are illegals.


Oregon families pay an extra $1,400 a year on higher insurance premiums to cover those who do not have insurance.


As soon as Chris Christie was governor, he gave tax cuts to millionaires.


Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales.


Over 80 percent of our trade deficit today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners, that are not level playing fields for the United States.


Ken Cuccinelli wants to eliminate all forms of birth control.


A bill that would halt the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would help stop rising gas prices.


The measles vaccine has killed 108 people in the last decade, while no one has died of measles.


For our next two years in my state, we will end with a structural surplus of $499 million.


In Virginia there has been a billion dollars in surplus over the last three years. The legislature has spent less than 1 percent of that on roads.


Virginia women earnonly 79 cents to each dollar earned by men...


oil productions down where Obamas in charge.


Every other major country has family paid leave.


a picture he posted on Facebook of a man posing in front of five decapitated human heads is one of the subhuman mongrels our president set free.


during President Barack Obamas tenure, the United States has created 15 million new jobs.


The (national) debt really added up $75 trillion in 2010 and is on track to hit $99 trillion this year.


President Barack Obama ordered our military to enlist illegal aliens.


A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases.


This governor has cut funding repeatedly for people who have AIDS, who need drugs to save their life.


We have dozens of districts that go for 150 to 200 miles, splitting counties, splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common.


Congress gave an unelected board the power to deny care to seniors.


I never said I was on the Falkland Islands.


My state of Florida is now the third-largest state. We have surpassed New York in population.


The latest Quinnipiac poll found that nearly six-in-ten Americans oppose ObamaCare -- 30% support the law and 57% oppose it.


Wisconsin Senate recall candidate Jessica King voted to increase her pay with taxpayer dollars by 63 percent.


Barack Obama began his presidency with an apology tour.


A Texas law will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas.


The majority of the Hispanic population and the growth (of the population) is U.S.-born.


Barack Obamas administration has admitted that money from its Iran nuclear deal would go directly to terrorism.


No Bridge to Nowhere could occur.


When (Joe Kyrillos) had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care, not once, not twice, but six times, he voted against womens health care in our state.


When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clintons the decider.


Right now, Im polling at about 8 percent against Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.


Food stamps have gone up two-and-a-half times under Barack Obama.


In the 38 Studios deal, Wall Street investors took a risk, and went bust.


President Barack Obama broke his promise to keep a Wisconsin GM plant from closing.


The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... its fair to say the science is in dispute.


Mercedes said high taxes and the cost of doing business in New Jersey worked to Georgias advantage in landing the companys USA corporate headquarters.


State Department officials actually directed contracts for the Haitian recovery after the earthquake to friends of the Clintons.


The federal government is making the decision, whether we like it or not, to send 425 refugees to our state from Syria.


Beer drinking is not allowed in any Illinois state parks.


U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ran Medicare into the ground and nine years closer to bankruptcy.


On new dollar coins, In God We Trust is gone!


Freshman Rep. Bob Gibbs is spending his one year anniversary on vacation only working 6 days in all of January.


Early voting remains at 96 hours.


Obama flip-flopped on banning handguns.


I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate.


[T]he Georgia Dome has returned $10 billion in economic impact to the state of Georgia.


What happens is people like Warren Buffett and he says this himself...pay 15 percent on the millions of dollars that they earn from wealth income... while their secretary is paying a higher rate on her work income. It's not right.


Other Western countries have ended their Don't Ask, Don't Tell policies.


The U.S. is borrowing approximately $2.52 for every $1 of economic growth so far in 2012.


The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide.


The presidents own advisers have said theres a war on coal.


Because of the new health care law, 17 million kids can no longer be denied for a pre-existing condition.


Hillary Clinton is proposing destroying Medicare for seniors.


On supporting winner of Democratic primary with her superdelegate vote.


The IRS has been specifically forbidden ... from ever actually pursuing either civil or criminal remedies for people who dont purchase health insurance.


A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline is an earmark under House rules.


Rick Scott thinks employers should be able to deny women coverage for birth control.


Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!


Hillary Clinton wants to raise taxes on African-American owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than theyre paying now.


A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out theyre gay.


GOP U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn wants to eliminate the Department of Education and jeopardize college fundingfor 320,000 Coloradans.


The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.


Michael Bennet cast the deciding vote for the stimulus and the health care bill.


White people control almost 90 percent of the nations wealth.


200 consumer laws were destroyed in 2011 when Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 92.


Congress Approves Bill Offering Free Cars To Welfare Recipients.


Wisconsin is not walking away from a dime in federal funds by rejecting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.


in 2007, Oregon ranked 25th -- or 7th from the bottom -- in percentage of children with untreated decay compared to 32 other states with similar data.


, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door had no responsibility in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.


The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty.


The nine-day deer hunt contributes more than $1.3 billion in revenue to the state of Wisconsin.


Weve now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row.


George Bush sent people to war without body armor.


Jeff Brandes voted to allow state-run Citizens Property Insurance to dump policies onto out-of-state, unregulated private companies.


Ch Guevara wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent.


From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.


Hitler abolished unions and thats what Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is doing today.


Ted Kennedy sent a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov apologizing for Ronald Reagan and begging the Soviets not to overreact.


Page 92 of the House health care bill says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain.


Republicans went out of the way to praise (Eric) Holders nomination. ... Not a single Republican senator opposed Eric Holders nomination.


We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.


States still face a mandate to expand Medicaid coverage under President Obamas health care reform law.


Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.


Since President Obama took full control of Washington every single day, more than 1,500 of our jobs have been lost.


Nancy Pelosi said, Waiting long hours in the emergency room will allow you to make new friends!


The DREAM Act was written by members of both parties. When it came up for a vote a year and a half ago, Republicans in Congress blocked it. The bill hadnt changed. ... The only thing that had changed was politics.


former state Sen. Kelli Ward wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona.


70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone.


Betty Sutton and her fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.


Muslims attempted to establish the first Islamic Sharia court inside the United States in the town of Irving, Texas.


Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000.


Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color.


Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq.


the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail.


On the Cuba embargo.


Scott Walker rejected legislation to make college loan payments tax deductible and the result was to raise taxes on students.


Obamas position on nuclear arms is a march toward global zero.


Once people become citizens under the DREAM Act and turn 21, they can sponsor their illegal immigrant parents for legalization.


Wisconsin Manufacturers Commerces own 2014 survey revealed that just 15 percent of business executive respondents were in favor of Right-To-Work legislation.


The Capitol Police force is going so far as to use paramilitary equipment in dealing with singing protesters in Madison


Tens of thousands of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse.


When it comes to protesters in Madison, almost all are now from outside of Wisconsin.


Democratic runoff opponent Grady Yarbrough twice previously ran statewide as a Republican.


U.S. Rep. John Barrow left taxpayers on the hook for $950k study on genetic makeup of ants.


President Obamas recent plan to cut $100 million of waste within his administration wont actually save money because hes going to spend it elsewhere.


The estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts for another decade.


As Florida secretary of state, Kurt Browning allowed 1,800 illegal voters to register in Florida.


The only budget Ted Cruz ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it.


Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding.


Based on the August 2012 national jobs numbers, for every person who got a job, nearly four people stopped looking for a job.


On repealing the 17th Amendment


More than 90 percent of the gains have gone to the top 1 percent.


An aide acted on his own and was not representing the Thompson campaign when he sent an email criticizing the sexual orientation of U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin.


On immigration, what reports say President Barack Obama plans to do is roughly on the same scale as what President George H.W. Bush did.


Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldnt have been politically correct.


Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this.


That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things government spending on Cash for Clunkers they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter and the first-time home buyer thing.


Were $15 trillion now in debt, with a president thats racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined.


Twenty-two million jobs were created during Clintons two terms but only 3 million during Bushs.


In the New York 9th District, there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didnt support the president to begin with and dont support Democrats -- and its nothing more than that.


A government shutdown could disrupt ... veterans benefits.


A family of four can make up to $88,000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance under the new federal health care law.


An economic impact study found that for every $1 invested in pre-K in Pennsylvania, a total of $1.79 is generated in total spending within the state.


Last year it was discovered that Rhode Islands public employees ranked 4th in average pay, while the private sector ranked 23rd.


Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall absolutely makes sense.


state workers have not had across-the-board raises in six years.


When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel.


Ronald Reagan raised taxes in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987.


Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the right to health care ... means you believe in slavery.


Bernie Sanders health care plan would empower Republicangovernors to take away Medicaid,to take away health insurance for low-income and middle-income working Americans.


In 2006, Planned Parenthood performed more prevention services and cancer screenings than abortions, but in 2013, there were more abortions.


A proposed amendment allows a teenager to get a recommendation for medical marijuana without the consent of a parent.


nothing in Obamas $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation actually secures the border.


Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a pre-existing condition.


If youre earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax.


In Chile they have 72 percent of the GDP in savings.


There are 850,000 Ohio jobs tied to the auto industry.


The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country.


A sitting sheriff cannot be charged except by a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge.


Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been used for public education in the Commonwealth for kindergarten through 12th grade.


House Republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of Congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown.


Governor Christie also remains the only Governor since World War II, among both Democrats and Republicans, who failed to have his party win control of at least one legislative body over the course of his term.


Sixty-percent of the state retirees...dont get Social Security.


Over 73% of all donations raised (from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge) are going to fundraising, overhead, executive salaries, and external donations.


If you go strictly by the numbers, crime is down across the board. Last year we had a 10 percent decrease in the most serious crimes.


Sunday liquor sales could generate $3.4 million to $4.8 million a year in additional sales tax revenue for Georgia.


the 2010-11 New Hampshire budget ended with an $18 million surplus, while the Republican-led 2012-13 budget has a $40 million deficit.


Barack Obama was silent on Iran when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, (and) the Green Revolution occurred.


No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.


Inner-city crime is reaching record levels.


The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do.


Oklahomas Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed a new law which makes you pay a special fee. It will essentially fine people for the crime of using solar power.


Tampa mayoral opponent Bob Buckhorn supported forcing police officers to keep their guns locked in the trunks of their cruisers.


Millions could lose their health care coverage and be forced into a government pool under the new health care law.


A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, We can take your competition off the streets for FREE.


Only a few months ago the FBI arrested three Broward County Commissioners for accepting millions of dollars in trade for illegal favors.


Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the stimulus.


Thanks in part to our all-of-the-above strategy for American energy, the United States generates more natural gas than anybody.


State law says that once the state appraises a piece of property, they can only pay it a certain amount above appraisal.


Ted Cruz helps run two national organizations that have been leading the push to give amnesty to illegal immigrants.


Chris Christie created this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever.


Thanks to our reforms, the average family will have an extra $322 to spend.


Measles is one of the most common causes of child blindness worldwide.


When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up, Palin sent a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska.


he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.


Hillary Clintons top 10 donors are mainly banks, corporations and media, while Bernie Sanders top 10 donors are labor unions.


Portland Community College serves more students than all of the states universities combined.


If we dont spend money on a pier, then that money does wipe into the general funds of the city or the county, and if you send it to the county, you never see it again.


Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world.


Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid.


Barack Obama founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.


More than 70,000 job openings are listed on a state jobs website.


When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he said so himself after his capture.


When asked about bills in Congress important to the North Country, Derrick responded I just dont know enough about it.


Except for Virginia, the other 49 states keep raising their gas tax.


70,000 children have lost their Head Start slots because of the sequester.


On disaster aid offsets


(Strickland) raised taxes last year to the tune of $840 million.


Sarah Palin has more experience than Barack Obama.


A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours.


If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you cant find enough trucks to flee the Golden State.


The Congressional Budget Office has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion.


Oregons three largest employers, and 13 of the top 25, are health care providers.


We get 30 percent of our oil from the Gulf (of Mexico).


The Department of Energys Billion Ton Study has shown that wind and solar energy combined could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs.


the U.S. Constitution provides for just compensation when land is taken under eminent domain.


Mitt Romneys campaign has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run.


As we near the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we should not forget that some of the hijackers used New Jersey drivers licenses to board those aircraft.


For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated.


Although the governor doubled the beach fees . . . all the money, as we found out, is all going to an out-of-state company. The state isnt even getting the money for that.


Three presidents in the last century Harding, Kennedy and Reagan all cut taxes during recessions and produced rapid and dramatic economic recoveries, while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did the opposite.


The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.


John Barrow voted with Obama 85 percent of the time.


Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.


The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical familys incomes barely budged.


John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time.


he and Bernie Sanders have very similar views on trade


On (Rob Portmans) watch as Bushs trade czar, our deficit with China exploded and as Bushs budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit.


Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine voted to let the U.N. take OUR guns.


In just six years, Georgia has dropped from first in the nation from a business-friendly legal climate to 24th.


6.4 million more Americans living in poverty under President Obama.


Hillary Clinton is willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance.


We have less crime in the (Rio Grande) Valley than we do in other major Texas cities.


, In the last four years weve cut $36 million in ongoing revenue.


Financial conflict-of-interest laws dont apply to the president, right? So, the president doesnt have to have a blind trust.


nearly 1 million people are coming to town in the next 20 years.


The House health care bill pays for about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years.


It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding.


Kathryn Starkey joined forces with liberal Democrats on a historic sales tax hike.


Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up.


Texas has the nations most uninsured residents.


We are 49th in the nation for our graduation rate


Welcome to #Houston, the most #diverse city in #America.


The White House has three staff calligraphers making between $86,000 and $97,000 each, and just one National Security Director. She makes $55,000.


Maggie Hassan is the only female governor in the country.


Thomas Paine wrote that the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.


Weve dedicated more money from (Washington Countys) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County.


The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet.


If Fox News presidential debate rules had been in place during the1992 election,Bill Clinton wouldnt have beenon the stage.


U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was partly right that a womans body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesnt occur if shes raped.


The American Academy of Pediatrics supports banning guns.


Barbara Boxer voted to cut spending on Medicare benefits by $500 billion, cuts so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.


Global warming is a hoax.


we brought CHI Manufacturing, that had business in China, back to Texas.


This year, the Blackstone Valley Mayoral Academy became the first public school in Rhode Island history to have 100 percent of its elementary-age students proficient in reading on state assessments.


The cap-and-trade bill will mean 2 million jobs lost.


The new health care law crushes small businesses with billions in penalties.


The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''


Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect.


Europe and U.S. households waste 15 times more food than a person in Africa.


of a failed cloture vote on nominating Chuck Hagel for defense secretary: This is not a filibuster.


every school will be negatively impacted if Education Stability Fund is not tapped.


Virginia ranked 35th in job creation in 2009 under Gov. Tim Kaine, and moved up to third for 2010, while McDonnell has been in office.


I was the first member of Congress to call him (Barack Obama) a socialist...


Part of the increase in the cost (of higher education) has been because state support has dropped. We now spend, under Governor Walker, more on corrections than we do on higher education.


We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil.


Since I came into office we have increased the VA budget by 85 percent.


Sotomayor thinks that ones sex, race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench.


South Korea doesnt pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.


While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed tax cuts for hard-working families.


Every one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been in gun-free zones.


U.S. is giving seven Alaskan islands to Russia.


Rick Scott raised property taxes.


Mitt Romney said we should let foreclosures hit the bottom.


the military accounts for about 10 percent of Floridas economy.


Theres a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge.


The woman named Wisconsins 2010 outstanding teacher of the year was laid off by the Milwaukee Public Schools that year under seniority and tenure rules that were eliminated by his Act 10 changes.


Medicaid expansion could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year...


The Islamic State is so small it couldnt fill a DoubleAballpark in Charleston, W. Va.


There is no evidence that poor people abuse drugs more frequently than any other socio-economic group.


Wisconsin is #1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year.


The Democrats' health care bills would provide free health care for illegal immigrants.


[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify.


Some politicians want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries.


she never received nor sent any material that was marked classified on her private email server whilesecretary of state.


The United States won every major battle of the Vietnam War. Every single one.


When I was growing up as a kid in the city of Milwaukee, if we averaged 4 homicides a year in the entire city that was a record number.


gas costs $4.50 a gallon.


My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False.


Al Franken said almost exactly what Trump said about John McCains military record.


Veterans unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office.


In recent years, Rep. LaTourette has sponsored legislation that would increase spending by 551.6 percent.


Some city of Atlanta employees have not had raises in eight years.


Republicans approved 12 times larger tax breaks for people making over 350 grand than for the average middle-class person.


99% of NJ voters do NOT support hunting.


Forty aides who serve President Barack Obama owe $333,485 in back taxes.


U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson admitted that Washington, D.C., changed him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests.


Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades.


In New York City, murders are up.


Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that hes been in Congress.


Ronald Reagan repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the United States to be impaired in any kind of way.


We cut a record $15 billion from our state budget.


Now we have ISIS coming over the (U.S.-Mexico) border.


For every single scientist that tells you (global warming is) happening and that its our fault...I can stack up another group of reports that say just the opposite.


94 percent of Wisconsin employers think the state is heading in the right direction and a majority say they will grow their companies in 2012.


Hillary Clintons plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes.


Millions of Americans are paying more and getting less under Obamacare.


When he took office in 2009, President Barack Obama had the biggest Democratic majorities in Congress since Lyndon Johnson.


Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families.


Barack Obama is getting his nominees confirmed faster than President (George W.) Bush was at the same time in his second term.


Obama promised to cut the deficit in half.


In 2009, Democratic Wisconsin state senators rammed through a billion-dollar tax hike in 24 hours with no public input.


90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes.


Dozens of artists, including Justin Timberlake, Jay Z and Rihanna, are canceling Florida shows like Stevie Wonder in protest of stand your ground.


We have that program where immigrants come here and they have to bring a million dollars in order to get a green card if theyre going to create jobs.


Newt Gingrichs contract was with the lobbyists at Freddie Mac.


Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It's a bad idea today. Sen. McCain's campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age.


On deporting illegal immigrants.


The countrys bankrupt.


We spend a staggering amount of money on health care over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person.


Preventive care saves money.


Connie Mack IV co-sponsored a bill to take a third of the Social Security Trust Fund ... give it in individual accounts to the senior citizens, who then were to invest it in the stock market.


Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding.


Fulton County has successfully reduced the number of pregnancies among 15- to 19-year-olds.


the Texas House has a record number of new members joining our ranks.


Democrats cut $35 million from the state budget for Information Technology improvements.


Austins Pease Elementary is a school that was created as part of the Texas Constitution.


I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector.


The 30 percent tax rate called for under President Barack Obamas proposed Buffett Rule is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already -- not just for millionaires, for people making over $200,000.


U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho said African Americans should only be given three-fifths of a vote.


We dont need a separate (prescription drug) database ... Pharmacies already have a database in place.


A small business in my district needed 31 different permits and fees just to be able to expand.


The U.S. Department of Defense spends $80 million a year on prostate cancer research, $25 million a year on ovarian cancer research and $150 million a year on breast cancer research.


FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.


After J.D. Hayworth was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist who was paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on.


76 percent of doctors support the use of medical marijuana


Department of Education officials investigating Virginia Tech shootings have not once gotten into the car and driven down to Blacksburg to talk to the police chief or the university president or to anyone else.


We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law.


When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits, just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.


Damascus disincorporation would produce NO significant tax savings.


Scott Walker opposed a plan to help Wisconsin students refinance their student loans.


Lee Zeldin missed 2/3rds of Veterans Affairs Hearings


I have won more elections than any chairman since 1938.


500 percent more traffic here?


In Arizona, there are only one and a half (Border Patrol) agents per every 10 square miles.


(McCain) says we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq.


In Wisconsin, a woman only earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns.


Loranne Ausleys a financial train wreck for taxpayers -- pushing gas taxes, property taxes, taxes on seniors.


Grocery prices have risen significantly over the past year or so.


Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted.


I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren't actively fundraising here.


Canadian-born Ted Cruz has had a double passport.


Holly Turner failed to vote in five straight Republican primaries.


The White House budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.


The California governor says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in vaccines.


Donald Trump has outlined policies that read like a Kremlin wish list.


Congressmen Paul Ryan and Todd Akin co-sponsored legislation to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of forcible rape.


Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment.


Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription.


Said he is the only Democratic candidate for state attorney general who has represented the entire state of Georgia.


In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves.


During the past four years, average wages have barely budged.


Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trumps Rally.


Vladimir Putin said, President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or deliberately trying to destroy their own economy.


McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.


ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obamas policies.


Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.


under federal law we do not have any limitation on the number of guns and bullets we can buy.


Studies have shown that voter fraud is non-existent in Texas.


Extending current tax rates would average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires.


Over 22,000 unique Internet Protocol addresses -- in Wisconsin alone -- have downloaded child pornography.


Its factually correct to say that Jennifer Brunner inherited at least 18 lawsuits when she came into the office that were a result of Ken Blackwells mismanagement of the 2004 election.


The ACLU has filed a suit to end prayer from the military completely.


Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.


There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term.


were losing one voter every 13 minutes.


Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.


A data system that goes along with Common Core is designed to collect up to 400 data points on each child, which can include personally identifiable data.


Alison Alter got an F in attendance in 2016 as an Austin parks board member and was removed by a unanimous vote of the Austin City Council.


he got lobbied by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.


Florida shelled out more money for drug testing than it saved by denying welfare benefits to people who tested positive for drugs.


Illegal immigration is lower than its been in 40 years.


Ive got a 94 percent career voting record in Congress while Bill Nelson has a 92 percent voting record.


When I was secretary of state, I had a very high approval rating.


Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat.


House Republicans spent $50 million on 33 votes to repeal Obamacare.


Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history.


under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row.


Seventy of Ohios 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food.


Americanschools are more segregated than they were in the 1960s.


I was filibustered.


It was President Obama's inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor's plan to protect our marsh.


The Chinese last year probably stole $360 billion inintellectual property from the United States.


Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road would be from folks outside Missouri.


Greg Abbott said it would be a waste to expand pre-k to all Texas children.


It costs us, logistically, three times more to fight in Afghanistan than it does in any other place.


Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration.


Youre more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in Milwaukee than in 96 percent of the country.


The average person who gets the minimum wage in America is 35 years old.


The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers.


More people today are leaving Virginia than moving in.


With Rick Scott, there are more funds for preschool education.


The children coming across the southern U.S. border were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy.


The Mack Penny Plan for the federal budget would balance our budget by 2019 and continues to gain support.


Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's lawn is overgrown or if a dog is barking too loudly.


As a result of the House Republican bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to 10 percent.


Thomas Jefferson helped craft the Constitution.


U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a candidate for Senate, supports raising taxes by $858 billion.


Right now, here in Texas, wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels.


the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities.


Democratic challenger Russ Feingold was the deciding vote on Obamacare.


Florida has the most errors and exonerations from death row.


A recent economic uptick appears to coincide with the expectation of a new Republican Congress.


There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception. ... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist.


I was one of the few, very few, who voted `no on the Iran deal.


He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service.


Oregon has never before tried to create a land-use plan for what it should look like for 50 years.


On expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.


Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax hurts the middle class.


The House Zika bill limits access to birth control services needed to help curb the spread of the virus in Puerto Rico.


the claim that 40 percent of guns are sold without background checks traces to information gathered before background checks were even required.


Doctors kill about 250,000 people a year in botched surgeries.


The White House branded the memorial service for the Tucson shootings with a Together We Thrive logo and slogan.


Obama changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing.


By the end of this budget Im in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state.


JoAnne Kloppenburg has told us she thinks its her job to promote a more equal society.


President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion...[wrote a] letter of resignation to the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy.


25 percent of our economy is the financial sector.


Barack Obama has reversed on his commitment to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately.


Illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as theyve been in decades.


Between 2008 and 2014, criminal aliens accounted for 38 percentof all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York.


Repealing Obamacare saves our nation more than $2 trillion.


Statistics show that more people at this time telecommute than they ride carpools, mass transit, bicycle or walk.


We have constitutional amendment that says that there's a ban on drilling right off Florida's coast.


In President Barack Obamas 2015 State of the Union address, the words al-Qaida were never used, the first time those words have not been used in a State of the Union address since February 2001.


McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase.


Sen. Arlen Specters party switch could end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee.


only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving in-state tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants.


Oregon is the most trade-dependent state in the nation


In fact New Jersey is a donor state, we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington. And interestingly Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to Washington.


Barack Obama had huge majorities in Congress during his first two years in office and did nothing with them to create jobs in America.


Hillary Clinton is proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybodys jobs, including low-income African-Americans.


U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina has a labor shortage and wants more immigration.


110 people a day move to Austin.


One of the interesting things about the Recovery Act was most of the projects came in under budget, faster than expected, because theres just not a lot of work there.


Were spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system.


Austin has the lowest property tax rate by far of the five major cities in Texas.


I didnt support Sonia Sotomayor.


You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites and what Donald Trump saysabout Muslims is used to recruit fighters.


Chris Christie was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney.


General Electric hasnt really created any jobs in this country, doesnt pay any taxes, and theyre making historic profits.


the U.S. Attorneys Office said that neither I nor my campaign had any idea what was going on regarding my fathers illegal campaign contributions. And thats why they closed this case.


Iowas Republican caucus stopped mattering years ago. It in no way determines the party nominee.


both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say Planned Parenthood is terrificand that it should keep taxpayer funding.


In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes. In 2004, John Kerry missed close to 60 to 70 percent and Bob Graham missed over 30 percent of his votes.


Texans eat more catfish than residents of all other states combined.


Ted Cruz wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants.


January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded.


[W]hen adjusted for cost of living, Georgia ranks first nationally in teacher salary and benefits.


U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rewarded Wall Street executives with millions in bonuses.


his Act 10 reforms have saved the taxpayers some $3 billion.


the federal health care law upheld by the Supreme Court has improved or saved the lives of more than 4,000 Texans otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to pre-existing conditions.


About 3 percent of Gov. Nathan Deals appointments have been African-American.


And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001.


When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. Its now 17 percent.


John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem.


More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century.


The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman dont even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee. I just experienced that myself. Theyre not nearly as good.


Huckabee supported a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate.


The Senate Republican education plan is an unfunded mandate for local school districts.


Obama voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation.


With Obamacare,You have no options ..you cant get competitive bidding.


John McCain has said the economy is not his strong suit.


Weve seen highway fatalities actually decrease in Colorado since marijuana use was legalized.


I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican.


Gov. Rick Scott is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in Florida the right to the $60 million in rebates they have from their own HMOs.


Jason Carter actually opposed more funding for education in the Senate.


Every day in the United States, we are losing 15 factories.


About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage.


The Affordable Care Act is a major reason why weve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals.


After Patrick Murphys charges were dropped, Murphys father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation.


The current (agriculture) commissioner allowed tainted beef to be sent to school cafeterias.


Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And, Senator Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks.


The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy.


This week the House of Representatives voted to remove the word lunatic from federal law.


Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops, but 41 percent are on welfare.


the states budget shortfall is not that much different than it was in 2003.


Sen. Joe Biden, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, recommended partitioning Iraq into three separate entities.


The overwhelming number of school districts reported their staff stayed the same or grew after the 2011-13 state budget


Seventy percent of Missourians support voter photo ID legislation.


middle-class New York State residents will have the lowest tax rate in 70 years.


My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's.


Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.


Under President Obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high.


under U.S. Sen. Robert Menendezs watch the nations unemployment rate and debt doubled and the federal budget deficit quadrupled.


Seniors will see $500 billion in Medicare cuts to fund Obamacare.


Theres only one candidate under investigation -- Terry McAuliffe.


Annual water usage in 2010 was actually down more than 18 percent from usage in 2006.


Currently, there is no one from South Austin on the (Austin City) Council!


The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent, is 90 percent.


We have been focusing so much, especially the Texas Department of Transportation, on that 97 percent of people in single-occupancy vehicles.


There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment.


When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go.


Hillary Clinton will receive her congressional salary until she dies and the Secret Service pays her mortgage.


theres no proven instance where hydraulic fracking has polluted groundwater.


Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in (St. Petersburg) are caused by people leaving their keys in the car.


Obamas secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, has said publicly he wants us to pay European levels (for gasoline), and that would be $9 or $10 a gallon.


$100,000 in stimulus funds (were) used for a Martini Bar and Brazilian Steakhouse.


if labor force participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama became president, unemployment would be 11 percent.


There are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care; they rely on it for mammograms.


Under Obama's tax plan, 95 percent of you will get a tax cut.


It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation of a positive train control safety system. To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality.


Austin has over 1,000 city employees that make six-figure salaries.


Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience.


The state [food stamp call center] program is administered from foreign shores.


the acting chief of the IRS said he and the majority of IRS employees would rather stay with his current health plan than switch to Obamacare.


Florida is now the No. 1 state in the country for automobile accident fraud.


When I took office last year we faced historic budget deficits of $6 billion here in Virginia. And we closed those deficits by cutting spending.


All University of Texas student-athletes get an iPad.


There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010.


10 days after Hurricane Katrina, this chamber passed two separate bills amounting to $60 billion. It has been nearly two months since we had Superstorm Sandy, and nothing has passed.


President Barack Obamas budget threatens national security by proposing an Army of fewer personnel than we had before Pearl Harbor.


The extra point is almost automatic. (The NFL) had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd attempts.


under his tax plan, no matter where you are in the stratosphere, youre going to be getting a tax cut.


We have a governor whos vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut.


Milwaukee County buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago.


the average government worker wont be impacted in the first two years under the reform of state health benefits.


she voted for a statewide fracking ban.


Planned Parenthood is the only health care that a significant number of women get. About 30 percent of women, thats their health care.


The federal limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office.


Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today.


he was endorsed by theValley News newspaper.


John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops.


We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.


More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.


A new bill was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt.


President Barack Obama attacked potential terrorist targets in Syria in the middle of the night to minimize terrorist casualties.


Nevadans will have a double-digit hike in their Obamacare premiums for the year and 10 of Nevadas 16 counties will only have one Obamacare...exchange insurer


If Rhode Island raises the meal and beverage tax to 10 percent, it would be the fourth-highest in the nation.


the Austin chapter of the League of Women Voters has no Republicans among elected officers or on its debate committee.


Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14,000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.


While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free.


according to a report, the tech sector now drives more than one-quarter of Austins economy.


The form students fill out to get college financial aid is longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship.


In Harrisburg, I passed more bills than all the Democrats combined, in terms of legislation affecting the city.


Obama wants to give (Iran) nuclear weapons and Michael Bennet, he was all for it.


This year, Newt Gingrich has raised as much money as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee combined.


Over the last 40 years, real wage growth has been flatlined because of the policies of the Federal Reserve ... It was all driven by the Federal Reserve.


Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare.


she has bipartisan support, including 53 sheriffs throughout the state, Democrats and Republicans.


Hillary Clinton has been given tens of millions of dollars by countries that treat women horribly ...and countries that kill gays.


President Obama promised families making less than $250,000 a year would not see taxes go up, but Obamacare raises 18 different taxes.


In Texas, a faceless hospital panel can deny life-sustaining care, giving you only 10 days to find another facility for your mother, dad, or young child, even if the patient is conscious.


The polls show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life.


One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation.


On repeal and replace of federal health care reform.


Under the Obama economy ... utility bills are higher.


Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Dont believe the 5.6. Dont believe it.


House Republicans just passed a bill that makes it legal for single mothers to be fired by their employers.


This president has offered fewer executive actions than almost any other president preceding his presidency in recent history.


Barack Obama and his team are socialists in every respect of the word.


The (Jackson) plan (for reforming Cleveland schools) lacks any data or methods proven to raise student achievement.


Under Scott Walkers policies, the typical Wisconsin family has actually seen their real income drop by nearly $3,000 in the last four years.


Ronald Reagan got the Saudis to flood the market with cheap oil.


. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up.


People are five to seven times more likely to be murdered in workplaces that allow firearms than in those that prohibit it.


U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy voted to allow members of Congress to receive taxpayer-funded health care for life.


Under Floridas voting law, a requirement to turn in voter registrations within 48 hours makes it impossible to meet the deadline if youre working right to the end of the week.


There are a multitude of vaccines that do not prevent deadly and crippling diseases.


We dont have bars on campus in Texas. Its against the law... no alcohol allowed.


there have been well over 54 million abortions since 1973.


China holds 26 percent of the U.S. debt.


Portland has higher standards than feds on allowed police use of force.


Ed Perlmutter voted for Viagra for rapists paid for with tax dollars.


Cobb County businesses have already been awarded contracts worth $250 million on construction of a new Braves stadium.


A National Football League lockout would cost Atlanta $160 million in lost jobs and revenue.


Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries.


Vern Buchanan has been completely exonerated in a Federal Election Commission action.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers budget calls for raising property taxes by nearly $500 billion.


The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate.


the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.


President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.


this House processed and approved as many bills as previous Legislatures.


Biden was responsible for ending genocide in Bosnia.


The last three days of early voting happen to be the most populated days of voting that we have in early voting.


Repealing the sales tax on boats in Rhode Island has spawned 2,000 companies, 7,000 jobs and close to $2 billion a year in sales activity.


Newt Gingrich supports amnesty for illegal immigrants.


Last year, 244 suspected terrorists walked into gun shops and attempted to purchase a firearm; 223 were able to get the firearm.


Poll results from the past 35 years show that State of the Union speeches do not move presidential approval numbers.


Marco Rubio voted to deport young people known as Dreamers.


There's no rationing in any of these bills.


A bill backed by Sean Duffy and other House Republicans could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims who get an abortion.


Obamacare puts the federal government between you and your doctor.


The state-hired company that evaluates state-mandated student exams goes on Craigslist to get examiners to read our students essays.


Pinnacle Overlook in Southwest Virginia is closer to eight other state capitals than to Richmond.


Dan Gelber: On the record against scholarships to help our needy children attend Jewish private schools.


Saturdays shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died.


tax revenues are the lowest they have been since World War II.


Barack Obamas health care law will be the biggest job-killer ever.


The cost to implement Florida's class size amendment so far has been $16 billion.


Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.


Scott Walker cut funding to local governments in Wisconsin, contributing to the second-largest increase in violent crime in the Midwest.


U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas.


FCAT tests account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year.


according to one economist, $1 of unemployment benefits boosts the economy by $1.61.


The health care bill has six years of costs against 10 years of tax revenue.


Despite opposition from national Club for Growth, Club for Growth Wisconsin has endorsed him for U.S. Senate.


Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning.


Sen. John McCain has taken more money from Wall Street than any other sitting senator.


Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve.


Obamacare passed by just one vote in the Senate. It wouldnt have passed without Mark Warners vote.


Adam Hasners record includes requesting over $92.2 million in earmarks.


No one beta-tested healthcare.gov.


Susie Lee and her husband own 17 homes across the country and use their private jet to take vacations, and invest in companies like Walmart, Halliburton and GEO Group.


for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime


he sued Obamas EPA seven times.


A working woman will earn $7.70 on $10.


Even when all other state agencies took cuts, Gov. [Nathan] Deal increased education spending every year.


Georgia is now the eighth most populous state in the nation, moving from the number 10 position in just four years.


Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton has accepted $42,000 from strip-club interests and $10,000 from local alcohol distributors.


President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent.


If upstate New York split from downstate the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country.


since lawmakers acted, we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts.


When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to provide drivers licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said dont do it.


Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat.


Gas prices have doubled because Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump.


Californias credit rating is the worst in the country.


The price of gasoline was at $1.85 a gallon when President Barack Obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies


Lee Leffingwell has been mayor of Austin, Texas for about as long as Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska.


Just in the past 10 years, college tuition has increased 28 percent.


Gov. (Scott) Walker has yet to create a job, he gives away millions to his friends, and he raises taxes on working people.


Because of President Barack Obamas failure to push job creation, the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.


70 percent of the people who voted on June 5, 2012, just didnt feel comfortable with the recall of the governor, weakening any idea that Wisconsin is fully behind this Walker agenda.


A sign in Dearborn, Mich., for the Advancement of Islamic Agenda for America says, Allah be praised. America we will kill you all and nothing you can do to stop it.


Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border.


134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years.


if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that youve been arrested before an average of 10 times.


When it comes to taking cuts in tough budget times, Wisconsin state workers havent had to sacrifice.


Donald Trump has been talking about the option of using a nuclear weapon against our Western European allies.


McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.


the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldnt build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.


Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan.


The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the largest winery on the East Coast.


Only 18 percent of jobs are accessible by transit for metro Atlanta residents. 33 percent for those living in the city.


Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.


With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night.


I have the No. 1 show on NBC.


Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg agreed to use a technicality to give a convicted sex offender a new hearing because he didnt understand the charge.


According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola.


That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.


Thirty-five states have accepted high-speed intercity rail money.


Hillary Clinton completely ignored dozens and dozens of requests for more security for the Benghazi consulate.


There is no evidence to support the claim that Guantanamo is used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.


Obama has doubled the stock market from where we started when he was sworn into office


On supporting the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan


When I became governor, I inherited a large deficit. You know what? We just turned that into the largest surplus in Virginia history.


My support from young voters -- those 18 to 24 -- in November 2014 was largely unheard of for a Republican.


Obamacarerepresents the largest tax increase in the history of the world.


John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay.


Even a 100 percent tax on millionaires would only fund four months of government operations, failing to seriously address budget deficits and debt.


Thousands of Westerners and Americans are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq.


Claims Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she prefers the South African Constitution over the United States Constitution.


Hillary Clinton was literally present when we pressed the reset button with Russia just a few months after Russia had invaded Georgia.


Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years.


I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them.


The IRS filed an $11,000 lien against (Allen) West for back taxes. Three liens were placed on his home for unpaid bills, and a judge ordered West to pay over $5,000 for past due credit card bills.


we could have saved ourselves the cost of building the Powell Butte water reservoir.


he would have almost twice the actual experience practicing law Greg Abbott did on becoming attorney general of Texas.


Gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan supported 33 tax and fee increases as Senate Majority Leader.


challenger Dominic Chavez is a Rick Perry Republican lobbyist.


If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent.


A congressional laundry closed due to the partial government shutdown.


Scott Walker cut taxes for the wealthiest and raised taxes on 140,000 Wisconsin families.


If you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, you get out of poverty.


In one Colorado hospital, 50 percent of newborns tested had marijuana in their system.


Republicans included the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims.


under City Council Member Randi Shade, Austin had the highest city debt per person in Texas.


Gross income tax receipts are exceeding the Administrations projections for this fiscal year prior to Sandy.


Because of a local version of Amendment 4, the taxpayers of St. Pete Beach have had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal bills.


Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP say that health reform makes sense to do.


Barack Obama loves Che Guevara.


Betty Sutton and House Democrats gutted Medicare by $741 billion to pay for Obamacare.


One out of four corporations doesnt pay a nickel in (federal income) taxes.


Were one of the only communities in the country that didnt lose population in the last census.


I had five of my citizens that were killed last week because of border security problems.


There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.


the U.S. election system is rigged.


Oregon and the federal government now have more than one million acres of burnt land and millions of trees are being left to rot.


This (Independent Payment Advisory Board) board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending.


The cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys have entertained more troops in the world than Bob Hope.


Scary fact about our national debt. In 1791 it was $75 million. Today, it rises by that amount in about an hour.


he earned the highest possible credit ratings as state treasurer.


Fifteen years ago, you couldnt even get a pizza delivered in that neighborhood.


Romneycare is a top-down, government-run health care system.


The Capitol rotunda was actually made to invite the people in and to accommodate protests.


I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it.


he has yet to get a response from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.


More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty.


The health care reform law reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades.


Hillary Clinton erased all of her emails even though they were subject to recall and review by Congress.


Over 214,000 doctors opt out of Obamacare exchanges.


The 2011-13 state budget cuts overall funding for public schools by $1.6 billion


Americans havent had a raise in 15 years.


a $12.5 million incentive deal she approved for Abbott Laboratories contained strong protections for taxpayers if job creation goals were not met.


We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's and then somehow mysteriously disappeared.


The United States has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.


Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository.


Bill White is discriminating. Hes taking jobs from African Americans and giving them to his friends.


A legacy of taxing and borrowing crippled the economy we inherited two years ago.


The Arizona State Board of Educations failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student.


Law enforcement in the state of Arizona supports the state's new immigration law.


Charlie Crist bizarrely vetoed $9.7 million for a teaching hospital at the University of Florida despite having previously argued the budget request had merit.


Obama creates new tax on Christmas trees, fees get passed on to consumers.


That 59 divisions in Philly had no votes for Romney in 2012 is (a) mathematical and statistical impossibility.


About 70 percentof Republicans nationwide ...dont think Donald Trump is the right guy to take on Hillary Clinton in November.


Barack Obama has gone from blaming George W. Bush to plagiarizing George W. Bush.


Women still earn about 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for working the same job.


Donald Trump says all Mexicans are rapists.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it.


2008: Unions Spent $400 Million to Elect Obama.


Texas high school graduates must pass Algebra II to be eligible for automatic admission to states public universities.


Israel in the last three weeks haskilled more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006.


Our graduation rate is the highest it's ever been.


Terrorist detainees were not covered by the Geneva Convention. They were unlawful combatants. And under those circumstances, they were not entitled to the normal kinds of courtesies and treatment.


Patrick Murphy supports a gun ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms used for hunting, recreational shooting and self defense.


There are many studies that indicate that the longer people get unemployment insurance, it provides some disincentive to work.


Mary Burkes 2007-09 state budget had a tax hike of $1.8 billion -- costing every man, woman and child in the state an extra $310.


Under current law, if you go on a dating website and you say youre 32 and youre actually 42, youve committed a misdemeanor.


The proposed raises for the Norcross City Council would put it in line with other liked-sized communities.


There has never been a death caused by a [commercial nuclear] reactor in the United States, even when Three Mile Island failed in the 1970s.


Obama spent 40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians.


For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online.


Texas ranks last in the percentage of residents with high school diplomas.


The climate hasnt warmed in quite a few years. That is proven scientifically.


Bruce Springsteen played in 1975 at Seton Hall University in South Orange at Walsh gym.


In the fall of 2009, only 21 percent of Texas high school graduates enrolled in a four-year public university.


A North Carolina study proves that probably over a million people voted twice in (the 2012) election.


Tarpon Springs takes its homeless to St. Petersburg.


The overall fact about illegal immigration is that its not actually getting worse.


Hillary Clinton has been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight.


More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week than are born in Texas each week.


For more than 30 years after World War II, there was a steady reduction in U.S. debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.


While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.


The United States sends $300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes.


Our population has grown from about 1 million in the 1970s to almost 7 million today.


its estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America.


Since President Obama took office, gas prices have gone up 67 percent.


Rick Scott tried to slash school funding by $3.3 billion.


The health care reform bill would make it mandatory absolutely require that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner.


Before Act 10, the total cost of public sector employees employment was 29 percent higher than that in the private sector. After the act, its still 22 percent higher.


When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans, and when Medicare began, it was a small program.


The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office.


We paid down the debt for four years -- paid down $600 billion on the national debt.


A vast majority of the production in the United States comes from small independent oil and gas companies.


As part of legislative fights over abortion rights,Mike Coffman co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape.


An Army report stated Allen West performed illegal acts, merited court martial, faced 11 years in prison.


each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.


In this city, there hasnt been a stadium thats lasted more than 27 years.


When he served as governor, Schwarzenegger preserved more land than any other gubernatorial administration in Californias history.


More people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol. A recent roadside survey showed that 16 percent of the people tested, tested positive for illicit or licit drugs. Thats significantly higher than alcohol.


Florida U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, Alcee Hastings and Frederica Wilson are Socialists.


Rep. Peter Petrarca voted on two pieces of legislation that helped auto body shops ... and at that point I think there is a conflict of interest.


Hillary Clinton refuses to testify before Congress about the 2012 attack in Benghazi.


Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson appears to endorse world government.


Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore.


Texas is last in mental health expenditures.


Rob Portman even voted to allow people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns.


the Obama Administration has fulfilled all of Texas requests for fire management assisting grants.


federal debt doubled during the Bush administration.


The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year.


Offshore wind power is significantly less expensive than solar energy.


The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).


$800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators.


(Deborah) Ross defends those who want to burn the American flag, and even called efforts to ban flag-burning ridiculous, yet refused to help a disabled veteran fly the flag.


Texas agriculture is at 98 percent efficiency in water use and just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it.


An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.


Our president has labeled Americans as soft.


ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was released by Obama in 2009.


The NRA used to support expanded background checks.


Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated.


[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties.


The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old.


Ive been outspent by my opponents every time Ive run for U.S. Senate.


In the history of Republican primaries, Ive gotten the most votes in the history of the Republican party.


The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote,the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.


The federal health care plan costs Texas taxpayers $2.4 billion per year.


When the New Hampshire Legislature raised the gasoline tax, gas prices in the state were skyrocketing.


Social Security didnt cause the debt crisis. Social Security had nothing to do with the debt crisis.


in the U.S. House of Representatives weve had bipartisan support for the repeal of Obamacare for getting rid of cap and trade for building the Keystone Pipeline.


We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country.


The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing the top off the price of oil.


This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesnt happen in other places with this kind of frequency.


Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years.


A massive federal computer network will make your medical records available to millions of people with a complete lack of privacy and confidentiality, while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face stiff penalties.


Wrong precinct rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems (and) HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrong-precinct problem.


Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower.


Gov. Scott Walker has been rated Americas most factually-challenged politician.


Sharron Angle would eliminate the Department of Education.


An illegal immigrant who gains admission at a public college takes class space away from students who are legal residents.


On whether BPs $20 billion fund to compensate oil spill victims is a slush fund.


On in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.


Jacky Rosen has refused to tell us whether she supports Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.


The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October.


Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud.


In slashing $1.7 billion from Social Security, Rep. Jim Renacci may end up forcing the entire agency to ... shut down for a month, causing seniors to not get their benefits on time, halting claims processing, and forcing new retirees and disabled workers into a backlog.


Sen. Bill Nelson voted to spend $144,541 to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine.


What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats.


(President) Reagans second inaugural was moved inside the Capitol. It was. Because of a terrible snowstorm.


a poll shows that without a name attached, Democrats are just one point behind Gov. John Kasich.


There were more people at the Air and Space Museum than at a rally against the health care bills.


People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals estimates 200 animals will be spared annually as the result of former President Bill Clinton adopting a vegan diet.


Texas did not bail out a loan program he oversaw as state agriculture commissioner.


We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country.


Bruce Starr voted to throw 6,000 Oregonians off unemployment.


We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesnt support any of these ideas.


while serving in the city council, Rachel Zenzinger voted to use tax dollars to take a taxpayer-funded junket to China.


The governor is trying to take credit for recent actions taken by these companies. The problem is that for all three companies, the decision to move or stay in New Jersey happened before Chris Christie became governor.


My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state.


more than 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perrys watch.


He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that hes been in the United States Senate.


Canada does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States.


Lots of studies seem to indicate that minors find it very easy to get marijuana, easier than to get alcohol.


The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years, with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.


Russia has tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads 1,800, by the way where they expanded, and we didnt.


For every dollar we invest in Head Start, we get $5 to $7 back into our economy.


President Obamas decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump.


she is the subject of 60 books.


Seven out of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates (have) Republican governors That approach that Republicans are using is working.


In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that by any measure Social Security has been a failure.


The stimulus created zero jobs.


The health care law reduces the number of uninsured in America by 3 percent for how much money? $2 trillion.


We import more oil today than ever before.


Will Hurd tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record.


Chris Christie vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times over the course of his governorship.


Greece is not a big economy. Its about the size of metropolitan Miami.


Ive cut the budget of the (lieutenant governors) office by more than half.


Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children.


Cigarette butts poison babies and small children because of the nicotine in them.


One of the things I would immediately do is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didnt want to hear.


under his budget-repair bill, collective bargaining is fully intact.


Since I took office, over 319,000 new private sector jobs have been created in Georgia with nearly 93,000 of those coming in the past 12 months.


And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized...


Today in Selma, Ala., the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites.


President Obama was proposing pinprick strikes for military intervention in Syria.


there are no political prisoners in Cuba.


Illinois Democrat David Gill would end Medicare.


First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't.


last year the graduation rate for our combined six-district footprint jumped 5.5 percent.


President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'


When he (Donald Trump) asked Florida to have casino gambling, we said no.


Milwaukee police use deadly force at a rate that is among the lowest in the country.


When Sen. Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now.


Barbara Buono voted to raise her own pay 40 percent.


Texas has the most uninsured people of any state -- 6 million.


Ill be running against a career politician.


Multnomah County libraries are open 44 hours per week the lowest of any library in the four-county region.


Mike Huckabee appeared in diabetes infomercials to endorse cures and treatments that no health agency supports.


EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will endanger 575 Texas dairy facilities, 58 swine operations, 1,300 corn farms and 28,000 beef cattle operations.


Facebook has unveiled new rules to stop their users from creatingposts related in any way to religion.


The Democrats are very sly. (in New Hampshire) we have same day voter registration, and to be honest, when Massachusetts elections are not very close, theyre busing them in all over the place.


California has added twice as many jobs as Florida over the past year.


In the past two years in Congress, Ive written more bills, passed more amendments on the floor of the House and enacted more of my bills into law than any other member of the House.


Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty claims to have taken a pay cut, but for 2016, he voted to raise his salary by 19.6 percent.


The Employment Non-Discrimination Act discriminates against Christian daycare, Christian parents, Christian business owners, and the rights of religious freedom.


Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent.


Irans defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600 billion.


Brookhaven homeowners pay hundreds of dollars less in property taxes compared with owners of the same-value homes in unincorporated DeKalb County.


The mosquito population in South Florida is larger than it is in many other communities in the country.


health insurance premiums will rise under Obamacare.


Erv Nelson voted yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urgingCongress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country.


Virginia is the number one state per capita in screening out people with mental illness from gun purchases.


Missouri is the state with the lowest paid workers.