If voters agree in November to approve a one-cent sales tax increase, that will give Hillsborough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties.


Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. It was to her presidential campaign.


President Bill Clinton did not sign NAFTA.


Gov. Scott Walker cut aid to local schools despite campaigning on trying to restore two-thirds state funding for education


On support for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryans Medicare reform plan


For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty.


Health reform will give every American the same opportunity to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.


Donald Trump rooted for the housing crisis, because he knew he could make money off of it.


The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents.


Wisconsin ranks 48th out of all 50 states in venture capital investment.


The CDC is spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening and massage therapy that could be redirected to Ebola.


When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it.


Savannah is home to the fastest-growing port in the nation.


If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because youve engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks.


In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation.


when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education.


My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years.


In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier.


Wisconsin is 38th in the country in terms of proficiency standards in student testing.


Sarah Palin and Craig Huey would ban a womans right to choose in every case


Six years after unionization, 20,000 fewer children in Illinois were being served by the Child Care and Development Fund program.


A government report shows that alternatives to the Keystone XL pipeline are worse for the environment.


John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years.


Justice Elena Kagan recused herself in many cases where she had little role as solicitor general, simply because of the appearance of a conflict of interest.


Democrats rang up a $1.42 trillion budget deficit in 2009 the single largest in American history.


Common Core expects English teachers to spend at least half of their reading instructional time at every grade level on informational texts.


If they made no changes whatsoever, the [state employees pension] plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next 16 years.


its an old wives story that Margaret Thatcher told George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly.


Oil companies haven't touched 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill.


President Barack Obama failed to stand up for the bipartisan debt solutions of the Simpson-Bowles Commission.


Phoenix, Arizona, Im told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City.


Congresswoman Kathy Castor voted to spend $2.6 million to teach prostitutes in China to drink responsibly.


On the main GOP presidential debate:Not one candidate on the debate stage has military experience


As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes.


As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes.


Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.


Georgia is one of three states that effectively have no regulations whatsoever on lobbyists giving to legislators.


Live cats have holes drilled into their skulls, posts put into their heads and coils put into their eyes, and some have had their ears cut off or are intentionally deafened or starved at UW-Madison labs that do research to improve hearing in humans.


Ron Johnson is benefiting from several super PACs, I am not.


One international flight a day in a wide-bodied jet ... one flight daily generates $150 million a year and approximately 2,300 jobs.


I didnt raise taxes once.


Mitt Romney did not endorse Ted Cruz, even though he said he is voting for Cruz and urged others to do likewise.


the health care law rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain.


Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that dont even mention the program and how to enroll in it and that dont mention the word insurance.


the Treasury Department says 41 percent of all business income reported on individual returns would be hit by the [millionaires] surtax that would harm small businessmen and women, the very people we are counting on to create new jobs.


I led the fight to require the Coast Guard to buy their engines from us, not foreign companies.


On Sandra Day O'Connor: I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience before she joined the Supreme Court.


PolitiFact says Amendment 4 will force counties and cities across Florida to raise taxes and fees.


In Massachusetts, half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients.


He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet.


U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland voted himself health care for life.


A proposed San Antonio ordinance will allow men into womens restrooms in the city.


John Cornyn backed his pal David Dewhurst for the U.S. Senate over Ted Cruz.


Since 1999, 440 people have been killed in attacks on church property in the United States.


Scott Walker runs a state government that bans employees from talking about climate change.


As a state senator, he (Obama) even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship!


We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers.


We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery.


The unemployment rate for folks whove never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have.


Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin, even though marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin.


As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country.


Oregon Rep. Tina Kotek, D-Portland, has never held a job nor run a business


Its estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - thats billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesnt have the resources.


The Rev. Wright compared the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior.


Nevada state Sen. Michael Roberson forced Common Core for Nevada schools.


In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million.


Social Security was advocated in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country.


I didn't say it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president.


There isnt a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas.


Langevin votes the party line about 98 percent of the time.


in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions.


The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.


I finished the controversyabout wherePresident Barack Obama was born.


There is no $30 million pot of money for redistricting issues, including defending redistricting lawsuits. Your tax dollars are not being spent on anything like that.


Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.


If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that theres something called the Geneva Convention were going to have to pull out of.


David Perdue opposes laws that provide equal pay protections for women.


A quarter of our workers make $18,000 per year.


Twenty-three million Americans suffer from addiction, but only 1 in 10 get treatment.


Reconciliation was used for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush.


We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops in Iraq.


We dont show people playing these games. We dont show them winning playing the video lottery games.


Weve got the highest corporate tax rate in the world.


The states tax burden has, according to census figures released today, cost our state another 190,000 residents in 2009.


Nonpartisan government analysts say Obamacare will cost our economy up to 2.5 million jobs.


A gas tax holiday would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28.


recent polls show Americans agree with Republicans that the federal debt ceiling should not be raised and the debt and deficit should be dealt with mostly by cutting spending.


New business startups are at the lowest levels in 30 years.


Florida is one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity.


Ken Cuccinelli supported a law that could allow people to carry missile launchers into airports.


U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says troops are leaving Iraq too fast.


Medicare has spent $172 million on penis pumps in the last five years at $360 a pop.


Ted Strickland stands in lockstep with Hillary Clinton and the abortion lobby in their desire to force Americans to pay for abortion on demand, up until the moment of birth, with their taxpayer dollars.


the top 20 percent of income earners pay nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes.


Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires.


Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns.


In the last two years, super PACs raised more than $180 million -- with roughly half of it coming from fewer than 200 super-rich people and roughly 20 percent from corporations.


House Republicans required the use of Styrofoam cups in House cafeterias that are part of Koch Industries.


ISIS is right now crucifying Christians in Iraq, literally nailing Christians to trees.


Research found that over the course of the existence of the Brady Bill ban, the use of assault weapons in crimes decreased by two thirds.


I have a record on the environment of creating green energy ... taking trash and turning it into cash.


Tyler Perrys plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta.


The Dallas Cowboys cant put a sticker on their helmets for the 5 police officers who were killed.


Richmond teachers have not gotten a raise for almost 10 years.


When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.


The fastest-rising expense in the U.S. Defense Department is health care.


Wisconsin state and local government workers pay $500, $600 or in some cases, $1,000 per year in union dues.


When you get a commercial pilots license, you learn to communicate in English no matter where you are in the world.


25,000 businesses have been created since (Scott) Walker took office.


Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country.


On the importance of an independent voting record


A 50-50 public-private split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would be much better -- in terms of the portion of the public financing -- than most of the other arena projects done around the country.


Right-to-work states have higher rates of income growth.


Americas gun-related homicide rate would be about the same as Belgiums if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S.


There are more pain clinics in Broward County than there are McDonalds in Broward County.


military commanders have said that if Donald Trump were elected, they would not follow his orders.


In her nearly decade and (a) half in Congress, Tammy Baldwin has sponsored 105 bills. Only three have been enacted into law.


Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are unable to visit Europe due to outstanding warrants.


Michelle Nunn ranks agriculture issues as the 18th most important items facing Georgia.


The market is making this decision. The market has driven down the cost of coal, so you have companies going bankrupt.


Alison Alter has exploited a campaign finance loophole to obtain over $64,000 in public dollars to fund her campaign.


In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs.


Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.


Thom Tillis has cut $500 million from public education.


Ted Cruz said: While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggars transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do to each other.


The WIC program is an incredibly cost effective program, serving nearly 10 million Americans each year and costing less than $100 per person. In my district, more than 18 percent of residents suffer from food insecurity and depend on WIC to make ends meet.


Puerto Ricos $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds.


During the last election, Democrats won over a million votes more than Republicans, but because of the way districts are designed, the Republicans got 33 more members of the House of Representatives than the Democrats did.


Barack Obama counted on Sandy Adams to approve stimulus spending.


Rep. Betty Sutton supports allowing welfare fund withdrawals from strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores.


the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.


The stimulus bill contains $20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers and $25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs.


he helped save the Olympic games.


Thanks to restrictive and anticompetitive ballot laws, candidates in November 2014 ran unopposed in nearly half of Wisconsins state representative races but in Michigan and Minnesota nearly all races had challengers.


This week liberal Bill White faced an ethics complaint about more than $83,000 he failed to report to the state Ethics Commission.


Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, Britishand Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.


Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them.


With his proposal to cut income and property taxes, Scott Walker is increasing the state deficit at a time when borrowing is already at record levels.


ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil.


The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent.


In Congress, (Cresent Hardy) voted to defund DACA.


After today, @GovJayNixon will have been overridden more times than all previous governors in #MO history #moleg


Patrick Murphy voted for Obamacare in 2010, yet he reversed himself and voted to delay the employer mandate and the individual mandate.


Rick Scott's former health care company, Columbia/HCA, committed fraud.


President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court.


Polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support requiring background checks for all gun sales.


We have almost 68,000 Georgia students who are required by law to attend a chronically failing school.


Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks.


You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government federal, state, local, or otherwise has never created one job.


Rhode Island has the highest dropout rate in New England at twenty-three percent.


Daniel Webster said he's out. Now he says he's in.


Under my platform, I will make no changes to the current (Medicare) system for current retirees and anyone approaching retirement.


The Greenest County in America.


El Paso was named Americas Safest Large City a year after San Antonio, Houston and Dallas had the nations highest crime rates.


The Pentagons survey about the Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy found that 92 percent of service members agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat without compromising mission readiness.


Since Volvo spurned Georgia for South Carolina in early May, some 3,455 jobs promising more than $800 million in investments have come to the Peach State.


Ben Carson is running for president to eliminate dependency on government. But he doesnt mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college.


We are taking Virginias investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealths history.


FDR was called a socialist and a communist.


Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of President George W. Bushs policies and the recession.


Weve had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and theyve never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected.


On his support for Donald Trump.


Donald Trump said at the Republican convention, I alone can fix it.


We are looking at 150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the Obama administration.


Barack Obamas recess appointment of Richard Cordray is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be the wrong thing to do.


This is the only state in the country that bypassed the General Assembly to authorize [in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants].


Of the 18 stadiums built from 2004 to 2013, 47 percent of the total cost came from public sources.


Pres. Obamas finance team is recommending a . . . 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution.


a new national poll shows the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard for U.S. currency.


Barack Obama is trying to slash funding for the Armed Pilots Program designed to prevent terror attacks.


Even our nuclear arsenal doesnt work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They dont know if it worked.


If you log into the governments Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can seize all of your personal and private information, and track your computer activity.


The oil and natural gas industry provides or supports 141,600 jobs in Georgia.


In 2009, the state Legislature passed more than $5 billion in tax increases.


under our current sentencing laws, about 75 percent of all convicted felons in Oregon do not go to prison.


Right now were the highest taxed country in the world.


Sotomayor has had her rulings thrown out by the court a troubling four times.


Todd Staples recently tried to woo his supporters and right-wing base by suggesting the Agriculture Commission cut programs intended to feed the elderly and disabled, many of whom are veterans.


In the first round of repayments from financial institutions that received TARP money, the government has actually turned a profit.


he has seen Border Patrol signs near the Mexico border in English, Spanish and Chinese.


George W. Bush was the least popular president in modern history.


Harry Reid, when asked about the Republican field, said the Republican he likes the best is Donald Trump, and he said, because I can work with him. Hell cut deals.


Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037.


The Green Bay Packers are a socialist organization.


The first installment of health care reform ... will raise the deficit by $250 billion.


Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash.


On tax breaks for businesses


Greg Abbott was charged with overseeing the state cancer research fund. But he let his wealthiest donors take tens of millions of taxpayer dollars without proper oversight. They showered Abbott with gifts and free vacations.


My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP was too.


over the last 48 years, every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature, with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003.


As speaker, Gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions.


It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you dont do this in an election year.


Obama Announces Plans For A Third Term Presidential Run


A hidden provision in the health care law taxes sporting goods as medical devices.


the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit for the first time in decades.


Barack Obama cut taxes for working families.


The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority concluded that light rail in Cobb County would more than double commute time and would therefore be unsuccessful in alleviating traffic congestion.


Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.


I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.


George LeMieux voted against the majority of Republicans and joined with Democrats to create a Task Force For Responsible Fiscal Action that looks strikingly similar to the Super Committee now being set up in Washington to justify massive tax hikes.


The Democratic health care bill will collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years.


A new manufacturing plant is slated to create about 3,000 jobs in central and northeast Georgia and create about a $3 billion infusion into the economy.


Since Gov. Nathan Deal office in 2011, the states rainy day fund has grown by 643 percent.


President Barack Obama built this $16 trillion debt.


The IRS is going to be in charge of our health care.


Im also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail.


You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record.


Obama is only president in history who has deliberately removed the words endowed by their Creator when referring to the Declaration of Independence.


Michael Bennet votes for President Obamas agenda 98 percent of the time. Hardly independent, hardly bipartisan.


The price tag amounted to nearly $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the state.


John McCain wants to privatize Social Security.


If you're over 65 years old in America today, you have no choice but to be in Medicare. Even if you want out of Medicare, you have to forfeit your Social Security to get out of it.


Although we have twice the population of Greece, the state of Florida employs three times fewer government employees.


Donald Trumps presidential victory was an electoral landslide.


Wisconsins rainy day fund is 165 times bigger than when we first took office.


In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation of the Hyde amendment.


the University of Wisconsin football program is spending almost all of its Bowl Championship Series payout on a Rose Bowl junket for politically connected officials


opponent Ted Cruz has not led businesses.


Donald Trump thinks stop-and-frisk is fine.


Mitt Romney has a pro-choice record.


This is a test of the Share the Facts widget.


Wisconsin bill grants drug companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from injuries and deaths caused by their products.


as Co-Chair of the Joint Ways Means Committee, I secured the key piece of funding for the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project bridge.


We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the NCAA no matter how minor the violations.


To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldnt have spent $1 trillion.


he has been able to attract independents and Democrats to win elections in Pennsylvania.


lawyer appointed by Eric Holder to investigate government leaks helped and donated to Obamas campaign, vetting vice presidential prospects.


The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land.


Families are paying $900, on average, in higher premiums because of uncompensated care.


Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check from a federal program that he voted against.


After the Texas cutoff of aid to womens health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, over 150,000 women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs.


There are legitimate and widespread anomalies, and widespread questions about the conduct of (the Wisconsin Supreme Court) election, most visibly in Waukesha County, but also in counties around the state.


As the Democrats finally maxed out their government spending credit card Monday, Kurt Schrader continued to stand with his party leaders in failing to offer any viable long-term solution.


Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?


Marilinda Garcia supports $150 billion in new taxes.


Virginia is headed towards another surplus this year, unlike most states.


Kasichs budget increases state spending from $50.5 billion to $55.6 billion. This is the second largest, two-year spending increase in Ohio history.


The deficit this year could pay all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years.


The city of Brookhavens ordinance could cause the Pink Pony to close, thereby putting 300 Pink Pony employees out of work in this economy.


The economic stimulus bill created a council that's modeled after the national board that controls Britains health system.


The city of Portland has won more national Constitution contests than any city in America.


U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson, John Lewis and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.


Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions on health care.


There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation.


in Washington, D.C., Sen. Richard Burr took millions from special interests, went there and cashed in, voted to cut (his) own taxes and raise taxes on working folks.


Oregon ranks 43rd in education.


Virginia is the biggest state that does not have a major league sports team.


Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life.


There are not, nor have there ever been, any boycotts encouraged by our organizations.


It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and cant afford its new science textbooks.


our taxes have doubled with Rick Perry in office.


Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24,657.50 legal bill.


Michelle Nunn spent most of her childhood in Perry, Ga.


On whether judges should be allowed to place children with gay couples who wish to adopt.


In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010.


Guantanamo detainees get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugsthey had honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf.


Mayor Barrett saved Milwaukee $25 million, thanks to Gov. Walkers reforms.


about 25 Texas cities and 39 states have banned texting while driving.


Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas.


Took on the Olympics and turned them around


85 percent of IDEA charter-school students come from low-income families and about 99 percent of its graduates go to college.


Gina Raimondo paid 70 million in taxpayer dollars to millionaire hedge fund managers.


on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later.


For the new state budget, Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding.


Unemployment rate dropped in every state that elected a Republican gov. in 2010


By any measure, New Jersey has one of the most segregated school systems in the country.


Texas will be majority Hispanic in six years.


The Bush tax cuts created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. Weve lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession.


They delayed my swearing-in here in Massachusetts for a couple weeks so they could ram (the health care law) through.


Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country out of 47 Muslim-majority countries where women cannot get licenses to drive.


If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees, they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector.


We had a debate on whether ObamaCare was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically.


ending the direct payment farm subsidy program could save up to $28.4 billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit.


Rhode Island: 3% bigger at low tide.


Immigrants start businesses at a faster rate; they seem to grow those businesses more successfully.


Marco Rubio said that people who essentially dont agree with him, ought to leave the country, like Keith Olbermann.


Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.


State Rep. Kathleen Peters has a 100 percent pro-abortion voting record even voting against a ban on sex-selection abortions.


Honduras bans citizens from owning guns and has the highest homicide rate in the entire world. Switzerland, with a similar population, requires citizens to own guns and has the lowest homicide rate in the entire world.


8.5 million Americans have gotten rebate checks because their insurance companies were spending too much money on executive bonuses and administrative costs and not enough on health care.


Texas ranks third in teen pregnancies... and it is No. 1 in repeat teen pregnancies.


Obamas flush with cash, returning to Wall Street for even more money. Wall Street sure supports President Obama.


I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table.


During the Reagan era, the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half.


Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way.


Edward Snowden could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower.


Mitt Romney suggested that employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.


Last year the (Medicaid Fraud Control Unit) in Virginia alone recovered over $200 million!


Jack Berry voted for a plan to cut $23.8 million from our schools.


the Republican Party platform says pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold while the Democratic Party platform says we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform.


As Washington debates cracking down on the big Wall Street banks, Ive passed legislation that does so.


In 2005 and 2007, Joe Straus received a 100 percent rating by NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League).


Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.


DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget than any local government in the Atlanta metro region.


Gov. Scott Walker signed abortion, sex education and discrimination bills in secret.


Rubio's tax swap proposal would have been a massive tax increase.


the mayors job is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we dont have, we dont say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to.


Eighty percent of the oil were discovering, were discovering in the deep Gulf of Mexico.


We had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in)all but 4 states.


In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster.


he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.


Rick Perry proposed a binational health insurance program with Mexico.


This generation, on average, is starting their careers, if theyve been to a four-year college, with just under $30,000 in debt.


TriMet spends $10.3 million in police contracts a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls


a CNN anchor said that Hillary Clinton has gotten a free ride so far from the media. Were the biggest ones supporting her campaign.


In the mid 1990s, in our state, (Florida was) No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida, who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds.


Scott Walkers listening sessions are invite-only and excluding the press.


The Obama White House recognizes a baby that has not been born for security purposes.


The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states.


The leader of ISIS was imprisoned by American troops and ordered released to Iraq by Obama administration in 2009.


Del. Ben Chafin took money away from Southwest Virginia schools while votingto build a politicians palace.


Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family.


Spending of government money is 17 percent less than it was a decade ago.


One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.


In 2009, the Small Business Entrepreneurship Council ranked Ohio 11th in the nation and 1st in the Midwest for overall business climate.


Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics.


...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads.


Under changes being debated, state employees in Wisconsin who earn $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year might have 20 percent of their income just disappear overnight.


North Korea has a substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world.


If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed.


Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he votes about 66 percent with his own party.


He has ushered in $3 billion in new investment.


Romney flip-flopped on abortion.


Secular Americans are the fastest-growing religious identification demographic in this country.


Our countrys got this huge debt, and (President Barack) Obama says raise taxes and keep spending more.


David Perdue supports Common Core


Hillary Clinton wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment.


Because of Obamacare peoples premiums ...are going up 35, 45, 55 percent.


When I go on Letterman the ratings go up.


The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child.


Eliminating earmarks would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit.


Joe Garcia voted to raise our utility rates.


Since Sherrod Brown and the Democrats rammed the economic stimulus bill through, Ohios unemployment rate has risen to 9.6 percent, above the national average.


President Barack Obama has announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated.


The Obama administration has even joined Islamist governments in sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would shred our First Amendment by threatening to make discussion of radical Islamism potentially illegal.


Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them.


Vagina. Because apparently, saying that word in the Michigan State House of Representatives can get you a two-day ban from speaking on the floor.


Mike Madigan made a fortune on tax appeals Saving his friends millions... Its an inside game played by people like Merry Marwig, Madigans hand-picked candidate. When Marwig thought her property taxes were too high she got them lowered at your expense. Saved so much she did it again. Marwig and Madigan: Profiting from the same corrupt system.


I was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney.


Barack Obama's plan gives a driver's license to any illegal who wants one.


Two-thirds of American families rely on the mothers income to stay above the poverty level.


After 9/11, Jim put us all first by serving for 23 months in Iraq, the wars longest tour.


Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high in 2010.


In the 80s, Democrats promised spending cuts, but delivered only tax hikes.


hewas one of the chief architects of balancing the federalbudget.


Only half of the murders in the city of St. Louis get solved.


The legislation ... that Senator McCain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille American citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that they're engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity.


indoor workers get less UV than outdoor workers, but they get more melanomas.


Im beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot.


A majority in every state favors path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.


We are one of the most expensive [bus] rides in New England.


In Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire has a Senator who was the deciding vote to pass Obamacare.


If Cory Gardner gets his way, youd better stock up on condoms.


for the duration of this recession not a single person in government middle management has lost (a) job or taken a pay cut.


Gov. Chris Christie has now come up with a new agenda for ethics reform in September 2011.


The Baucus health care bill could be used to ban guns in home self-defense.


Gov. Scott Walker received a $7,300 pay raise.


Tennessees grocery tax is one of the highest in the nation.


when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said something very similar to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that women have a legitimate role in date rape.


Michigan U.S. Senate candidateTerri Lynn Land said guaranteeing equal pay for women who do the same job as men is not a good idea.


he has repeatedly praised Chuck Hagels character, patriotism, bravery, and personal service defending our nation.


The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate approved a bill denying veterans the right to recover their medical costs for cancers they developed while serving their country.


The 48, 49 percent that supports President Barack Obama are people who pay no income tax.


Accuses Ed FitzGerald of pay-to-play and corruption politics.


The vast majority of our public school students are receiving less state support than their private voucher peers.


Ten percent of violent deaths in the U.S. each year are due to strangulation.


President Barack Obama is sending a much larger (force) to deal with Ebola than ISIS is getting.


U.S. Senate opponent Eric Hovde supported billions in stimulus for high-speed rail and billions more to bail out banks.


Young women, account for a shocking 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa.


U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on whether Senate Democrats would seat Roland Burris.


The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment.


The United States is numberonein the world in energyresources;Russia isnumber two.


In 2012, 123 African-Americans were shot dead by police. ... Same year, 326 whites were killed by police.


Marco Rubio was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it.


The ocean is now much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years.


Less than 1 percent of all the education dollars that we spend are spent on private (school) voucher programs.


Hillary Clinton wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.


We are at a 40-year low in our crime rate in our state.


The (New England) Patriots were led by an explosive offense that scored the second most points in the NFL.


New Jerseys tenure law has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure.


climate scientist James Hansen says we have until perhaps 50 years from now, or maybe a little longer and at that point, we are looking at 10, 20, 30 feet of sea-level rise.


In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who'd already made up their minds.


Everyone on Californias roads is properly licensed, tested and insured.


In some states, African-Americans are three times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites for the same crime.


GOP U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin voted twice to end Medicare.


More people are losing their insurance (due to Obamacare) than are becoming newly insured.


The immigration bill includes free Obamacars, motorcycles or scooters.


My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagans numbers were with Jimmy Carter.


Seventy bills [Kendrick Meek] authored, not one of them has passed.


In Florida, for eight years we cut taxes every year, totaling $19 billion.


Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions.


I have always said that I would be for drilling.


Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit.


he vetoed $250,000 from the budget for a program to learn how to catch rainwater.


In the event of a U.S. strike on Syria, the Russians will replace the weapons immediately. Theyve said it on the record. Theyve suggested they might even replace it with better stuff.


The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on.


The racial and ethnic makeup of the Gwinnett County Sheriffs Office mirrors the community it serves.


The city of Clarkston cant decriminalize marijuana. Only state legislators and Congress can do that.


I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.


Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, received 31,000 citations. Thats at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; theres virtually no industry there.


Californias proposed tobacco tax diverts 82 percent of the new taxes to line the pockets of wealthy special interests like insurance companies who dont have to help even one more patient.


A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country.


If you care about the environment, weve got record funding.


It was (Rob Portmans) job to stop Chinas illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing.


After Arizona banned smoking in all public places in 2007, admissions for acute myocardial infarction stroke, asthma, [and] angina decreased following the implementation of the ban.


Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on abortion rights.


A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail.


Joe Straus is the first Jewish speaker of the Texas House.


Fox News said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama.


We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses.


Charlie Bass supports Paul Ryan plan that forces seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care so millionaires can pay less in taxes.


Donald Trump is a guy who has called for privatization of the Veterans Administration.


Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low.


We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015.


$6 billion water bond program voters passed in 2011 has yet to be tapped.


about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount.


(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee.


Rick Scott gave a deposition in which he invoked the Fifth Amendment 75 times about his dealings as head of Columbia/HCA hospital chain


Immigrants have captured all of the nearly 9 million jobs created since 2000.


The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070.


Alabamians havent changed their opinion on same-sex marriage since voting to ban it in 2006.


All (Maryland) crabs are born in Virginia.


U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson opposes faster broadband internet in small towns and got nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom special interests.


Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ...shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon.


Texas legislation would allow teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed.


Every poll said I won the debate.


McCain said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us.


Forty percent of the country is going to be in states that are tolerant of gay marriage or at least civil unions.


The president is advocating a drone strike program in America.


Over the history of Austin, its always gotten more expensive.


Neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump has a plan to address the civil war in Syria.


a voter-adopted constitutional amendment instructed a state board headed by Jerry Patterson to put $300 million in investment earnings into a fund supporting public school operations.


There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trumps) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia.


The Greenlight Pinellas 1-cent sales tax is permanent, we never get to vote on this again.


state Rep. Fred Clark (D-Baraboo) ran a red light and seriously injured a bicyclist.


He's promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security...


The average person only pays about $1,800 in state taxes which is the lowest of all 50 states.


The Austin Independent School Districts graduation rate reached an all-time high of 82.5 percent in 2012.


Scott Brown voted with President Barack Obama 70 percent of the time in 2011.


ISIS lures women with kittens, nutella.


In the past six years alone, changes to the pension formula have saved over half a billion dollars.


Texas added 6,600 miles of highway from 2001-2012, more than any other state.


Premeditation, in murder cases like the Oscar Pistorius case, can be formed in the twinkling of an eye.


in the last five years Senate Republicans have placed a filibuster on every piece of legislation and every nominee.


Every major newspaper in Texas calls David Dewhurst a moderate.


six of the states 58 family planning centers had to close because of Gov. Chris Christies budget cuts.


Last year, Korea sold nearly half a million cars in our country. ... The United States, you know how much we sell to them? Six thousand. What kind of deal is that?


A married couple that use the same last name is rarer and rarer in our country.


Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.


The tax-cut deal adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act and about the same as health care reform.


Wrote that in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she didnt think capturing Osama bin Laden makes us any safer, but in 2011 called his killing historic.


Thanks to #ObamaCare, average E.R. wait in California is 5 hours.


Obama voted for ... $3-million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago.


It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces.


Rep. Justin Amash votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans.


Mitt Romney runs away from Ronald Reagan.


We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years.


John Kitzhabers proposed budget for upcoming biennium represents 8 percent increase over last


Undocumented immigrantspay $12 billion a year into Social Security.


Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina has the highest salary among Florida mayors. More than $260,000.


The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship.


raising the state income tax rate on millionaires to offset property taxes for other residents is not a tax increase. Its a tax shift.


Since 2000, Texas has reduced harmful pollutants in the air like nitrogen oxide by 62.5 percent, and ozone by 23 percent--a reduction that is 12 percent greater than the national average.


Californias Capitol building is second only to Disneyland, among visitor sites in the state.


Under current conditions, by 2023, the interest payments on the national debt will be $722 billion, larger than the projected defense spending of $696 billion.


President Obama hijacked the farm bill (and) turned it into a food stamp bill.


Wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get most of the deductions in the tax code.


there are actually more people in poverty now than there were when we started the War on Poverty.


Georgia has elected more African-American leaders than any other state in the country.


There are over 200 documented cases where (Obama) has lied.


Barack Obama never worked in the private sector before he was elected president.


Ive also offered a plan that can help (fix Social Security) thats supported by Robert Reich, secretary of labor previously, in a previous administration.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers actions are directly responsible for killing at least 15,000 jobs.


Gwinnett Medical Center is operating in the negative, in part, because of illegal immigrants.


47 percent of Americanscant pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards, without selling something or borrowing money.


House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks.


Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the Veterans Administration.


Under Ted Cruzs tax plan, businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees.


The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent dont agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate is caused by CO2.


While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches.


Steve Poizner increased his department's budget nearly 14 percent.


As a senator, Barack Obama supported an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program.


Ken Buck wants to outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.


While Mayor Kenney personally doesnt support DROP, he cant fault highly qualified city employees for appropriately utilizing a benefit thats available to them.


Republicans control the U.S. Senate with 54 seats, but those 54 senators were elected by only two-thirds the number of voters who elected the Democrats. In the Senate, the majority party represents a minority of the people.


Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.


Scott Walker enacted the biggest cuts to education in our states history.


Under the presidents plan, he cuts Medicare by $716 billion, takes that money out of the Medicare trust fund and uses it to pay for Obamacare.


Gov. Rick Scott cut nearly $1 million from mosquito control and closed down the states mosquito research lab a few years ago.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is denying Democrats the right to vote.


Lean, finely textured beef is the proper name [not pink slime], and it is a safe, widely used product.


When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus.


the new health care law delivers a $13 billion tax increase on families with special needs.


Every year air pollution protections are delayed, another 34,000 people will die prematurely.


The Tampa Bay Rays prices have been judged the most affordable in all of professional sports.


The property appraisers budget is $1 million less today than when I took office 16 years ago.


Let's pay attention to kids who are not going to college, which ends up being about 60 percent of the kids... and get them trained for the jobs that are there. Because, you know, there are auto mechanic jobs paying $50,000, $60,000 that they can't get filled. There are airline mechanic jobs paying a lot of money that can't get filled. Remarks at AFSCME forum 6/19/2007


I am every year the No.1 pick of all of the law enforcement agencies within Texas.


The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread of the virus.


Republicans fought to protect tax loopholes for corporations that send our jobs overseas.


We were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States.


her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax.


Two days of interest we pay to China is enough to buy one joint strike fighter [jet].


the average Ohio student graduates from a four-year college or university with nearly $27,000 in tuition debt.


A new federal program provides subsidized Obama phones with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.


Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups.


The U.S. had the opportunity with Israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures, and we turned them down.


If youre a terrorist you cant fly, but an assault weapon you can buy.


Not one penny of (Californias Prop 67) bag ban tax goes to the environment.


In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April.


Weve got to find 2 billion gallons (of water per day) between now and 2025.


in 2012 Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote.


On support for the Export-Import Bank


he didnt have an involvement withnutritional supplement company Mannatech.


The stimulus program cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people.


Gov. Bill Haslam is making our Economic Development department Sharia compliant by hiring a woman who specializes in Sharia compliance. Thats what her job is.


New Mexico moved up to sixth in the nation in job growth.


We worked together to enact ... the largest tax cut in Florida history.


Bill Nelson actually voted in favor of higher taxes 272 times.


he opposed $716 billion cut to Medicare.


We spend less than 2 percent more every year. That is the lowest increase in spending since they have been keeping numbers.


President Barack Obama said at the beginning of the negotiations that the basic approach was to dismantle Irans nuclear program in exchange for dismantling the sanctions.


The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent thats happening in Syria.


U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.


David Perdue did not support the 2014 farm bill that U.S. Sens. Isakson and Chambliss did.


South Carolina has the fastest-growing economy in the Southeast.


By the end of Governor Rick Perry's term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion he has been living in while the historic Governor's Mansion is repaired.


Obama suggested bombing Pakistan.


President Obama helped more than half a million veterans and military family members go to college through the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill.


In our proposal, we would have expanded school aid across the board Governor Christie slashed school aid in this budget, preferring instead to extend a tax break for millionaires over funding in the classroom.


From 2008 to 2011, the pages in the conforming bills have gone from 400 pages to 2,200.


Public employees receive something like 25 percent of the paychecks that are issued in Rhode Island.


The Iran Deal will facilitate and accelerate the nation of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.


As a Member of Congress, Chris Murphy was raking in $1 million in salary.


He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail.


If todays economy was rebounding at the rate of the Reagan recovery, it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.


Social Security doesnt contribute a penny to the deficit.


state Sens. Greg Evers, Nancy Detert and Charles Dean got a failing grade from conservatives.


When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent.


The average faculty member at UW-Madison brings in close to a quarter million dollars a year in grant money.


The DNC hack showed you that the Clinton campaign was working to schedule (primary) debates against (Bernie) Sanders, and the Clinton campaign is continuing this ploy against Donald Trump.


Bill McCollum served as a lobbyist whose clients enabled mortgages for illegal immigrants.


We have only one person on the (TVA) board, to my knowledge, who even has any corporate board experience.


John Oxendine is under a state ethics investigation because he illegally funneled more than $120,000 to his campaign from shady insurance political action committees in Alabama.


Gov. Scott Walker is cooking the books by releasing numbers he just dreamed up that show Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011.


Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies than Oregon and one of the most obvious differences is theyve invested in their schools.


Repeal of Obamacare would take away health care for 10.3 million Americans who have received coverage since Oct. 1, 2013.


because of Texas lawmakers choices, hundreds of thousands of women no longer have access to basic medical care, life-saving cancer screenings and contraception.


Under Gov. Scott Walkers public-school budgets, a student entering kindergarten will not enjoy the same state investment in his or her education as those that came before them until they are graduating from high school.


Ninety-four percent of small businesses will face higher taxes under the Democrats plan.


Obama has never submitted a budget, and Congress has worked for two years without passing one.


In one county alone in Ohio, President Obama received 106,258 votes. But there were only 98,213 eligible voters.


Every taxpayer owes about $130,000 to pay off the national debt.


Rick Perry has become a millionaire on the public payroll.


Mark Begich has taken campaign cash from the Kochs while Dan Sullivan hasnt.


I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country.


under the new health care law the patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated.


You can go to Georgia and make about $6,000 more a year as a teacher.


We have ten different tax brackets and if youre making $9,000, youre already in the top tax bracket.


For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.


Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years while it went up $5,000 under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts


The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent.


he has never voted for raising taxes.


Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL.


Austins Stop Abuse for Everyone has seen in its offices sexual assault survivors that report being attacked by their ridesharing drivers, at a rate of one per month.


The Affordable Care Act is not the law of the land.


Republicans bragged about how every bill was going to be paid for, right from the beginning and that the first vote, the repeal of health care reform, violated that rule.


Obama doubled funding for the Pell Grant.


Thousands (in China) owe their jobs to Mitt Romneys companies.


Mitt Romney refused to say whether hed sign the Lilly Ledbetter bill.


Chris Coons has Marxist beliefs.


The financial services regulatory bill will end taxpayer bailouts.


Less than 10 percent of Obamas Cabinet appointees have any experience in the private sector.


Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that do not exist.


According to the Congressional Budget Office, as many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-based insurance thanks to Obamacare.


The president has said the national security threat facing America, the top one, is global warming.


After merging with Tim Hortons of Canada, Burger King is not moving. Our headquarters will remain in Miami and (we) will continue to pay all of our federal, state and local U.S. taxes.


The economy is too weak to raise income levels.


John McCain's health care plan won't guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care.


Dick Cheney supported gay marriage soonerthan Hillary Clinton.


After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, there was a temperature drop while the airplanes werent flying, for the week afterwards.


A state reports projection is that approximately half of public employees would live outside municipal boundaries in a decade if the state bans local residency requirements.


The annual gross domestic product of metro Atlanta is bigger than 28 states in the union.


Per-student K-12 state funding for Portland Public Schools has dipped from $6,036 in the 2007-2008 school year to $5,644 in the 2010-2011 school year


Russ Feingolds campaign is powered by small-dollar contributions like ours.


Mitt Romney and George Allen would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a womans life is at risk.


In 2006, Charlie Crist opposed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.


In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a years full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice.


Sherrod Brown voted to cut Medicare by over $500 billion in order to fund government-run health care.


In Wisconsin, 6.2 percent of the population is black yet 24 percent of all state abortions are on African-Americans.


Rick Perry told students he couldnt attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day tweeted that hed just been running with his dog.


Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980.


In 1928 school boards sent home letters with children saying that if Al Smith is elected president, you will not be allowed to have or read a Bible.


Usually it's about $900 a month to get health coverage. (Florida's program has) reduced that, on average, to about $150 a month.


On same-sex marriage


Ohios judges, compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid.


Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade.


Compared to President Obama,President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.


Americans increasingly want (the Affordable Care Act) to be repealed.


I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce.


state Sen. Morgan Carrolls votes made it easier to sue doctors, small businesses, even nurses. Putting her own shady interests first.


the vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation.


A far different picture from the prior eight years, which saw 115 increases in taxes and fees.


Mexico receives approximately $24 billion a year in remittances from Mexican nationals working in the United States. The majority of that amount comes from illegal aliens.


Theres a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street.


The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade.


Barack Obama opposed a bill that would have saved Gianna Jessen's life.


In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt.


DeKalb County has been recognized in recent years as having one the best sheriffs departments in the nation.


Joe Straus was co-author of a bill that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to control public school sex education.


Glenn Nye voted in lock step with Nancy Pelosi 83 percentof the time.


I dont think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors.


his elections proposal would allow a potential of 168 hours (of early voting), which I think is the most weve ever had.


Members of the public are being charged $50 to hear Gov. Scott Walker and a dozen members of his administration talk about jobs and the economy at Lambeau Field.


Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had no increase.


Sen. Obama made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006.


Weve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.


half the Americans dont pay any income taxes.


In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria).


Hate speech is excluded from protection under the First Amendment.


The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government.


under Mitt Romney, 89 million Americans could be denied coverage if they have a pre-existing condition.


Obama spent $7 billion to bring electricity to Africa, failed miserably.


More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began.


You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.


The Rev. Rick Warren has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists.


Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes.


The Common Core was not put together by the Department of Education in Washington. It was put together by governors and by states.


Jeb Bush doesnt believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does.


The Medicare drug program resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right.


more than 8,000 people have supported her campaign as volunteers, donors and advisors and endorsers.


Re: (Marco) Rubios support of earmark ban: In 2002 alone, he requested 37 earmarks worth $43 million.


Rick Santorum reformed welfare.


The Seminole gambling compact offers $3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history.


There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study.


President Obama said 22 times he could not authorize immigration reform by executive order.


Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties.


#Business formation is still on the rise in Ohio! So far in 2011 weve assisted w/ 44,443 new business filings.


The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities at the last minute in midnight phone calls.


In 2008 (Mandel) was re-elected to a second term, representing a district with a 2:1 Democrat to Republican voter ratio.


Obama hasn't been to Iraq in years.


An audit of the last census found that over 370,000 people living in Texas were not counted, and our state lost an estimated $1 billion in federal funds as a result.


President Barack Obamasown administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment.


Every time we put a ballot issue on, it costs a million dollars.


Its a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight Democrats and Republicans.


city leadership is threatening to lay off police and emergency services personnel to balance the budget.


Cuts in local government and school funding in John Kasichs budget caused many communities to seek school levies, local tax increases, layoffs.


One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol.


The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues.


a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991.


A million people could get health insurance right away if Texas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare.


In Texas public schools, we spend an average of $12,000 per pupil per year.


A new Republican litmus test would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan.


MarkKirk called for the mass arrest of 18,000 African Americans andwas apparently fine with Trumps #StillTooRacist call for mass deportation.


Warren Buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction. And Greene was the first individual to use them.


Under Gov. John Kasichs budget proposal, the top one percent in Ohio will pay $10,000 less in income tax each year, but Ohios working and middle class families will pay more.


The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was his outreach to Muslims.


The average age of planes in the Qatar Airways fleet is about four years while Delta Air Lines flies planes that are 35 years old.


We put a lid on Irans nuclear program without firing a single shot.


Syrian refugees are not being vetted, and the FBI is not even being told where they are.


U.S. Embassy Celebrates Americas Independence on June 4th in Order to Accommodate Muslims.


The murder rate in Atlanta is on the rise this year.


More than 40,000 troops are still stationed in Afghanistan with no clear objective. Even in the best case, by the end of the year at least 10,000 American soldiers will still be on the ground.


Medicare premium support backed by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is not vouchers.


Even today part of Romneys fortune is invested in China.


On (Tom) Wolfs watch, taxes were high, killing 100,000 PA jobs.


The addition of a 1 percent sales tax would cost a typical household in Hillsborough County approximately $12 a month.


George Allencast the deciding votefor the 2003Bushtax cuts.


As governor of Florida I defunded Planned Parenthood.


German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s, which allowed the Nazis to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.


Texas has the nations highest rate and highest number of uninsured.


if Oregon had limited its budget growth to the rate of population growth plus the rate of inflation, the states all-funds budget would be about $27 billion today, not $60 billion.


McCain's energy plan is a single-answer proposition new domestic oil drilling.


Before this (federal health care) law was enacted, Florida parents ...were able to purchase inexpensive child-only coverage for their children. The laws consumer protections have now eliminated that choice in Florida.


there are more federal dollars in Gov. John Kasichs budget plan than in the previous state budget.


This Congressadjourned earliest of any time in congressional history before an election.


Forty-six cents of every dollar Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion is going to come from China or some other country that doesnt like us very much.


Challenger Tim Tuggey is a lobbyist who donated over $41,000 to Democrats who support abortion and same-sex marriage.


Congressman Nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the $5-10 billion the IRS needed toimplement health care legislation.


In contrast to President Barack Obama, who is not acting presidential, President Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on thats how much he revered the presidency.


The sequester is not something that Ive proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.


Over 32,000 people die from #GunViolence every year. Yet, (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is banned from researching ways to prevent this.


President Obamas education solution includes an effort to nationalize curriculum.


The cap-and-trade bill before Congress prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.


Greece has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.


David Dewhurst skipped nine candidate forums after announcing his U.S. Senate candidacy.


The American people say, dont touch Social Security, dont touch Medicare, dont cut defense. Thats 84 percent of the federal budget.


Trey Radel does not even qualify to drive a Lee County school bus at this point, yet he occupies a seat in Congress.


Many of the great scholars say that anchor babies are not covered by the 14th Amendment.


Obama's Ten Point Plan to 'Change' The Second Amendment.Ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.


Texans spend $2.5 billion gambling in our neighboring states every year.


Texas has outstripped the national poverty rate since at least 1959.


Weve had Muslims in America since George Washington.


Bernie Sanders opposes requiring all children to have a K-12 education.


As Alaskas attorney general, (U.S. Senate candidate Dan) Sullivan successfully fought to protect our Second Amendment rights and passed stand your ground.


To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle.


his political opponents brought 100,000 protesters into our state.


Rural schools face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries...


How do Jeb Bush and Donald Trump differ on immigration? Spoiler alert: They dont.


The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent.


Mike Gallaghers plan would cut Social Security benefits for two-thirds of seniors.


Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich vote as much as 80 percent of the time together.


Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California.


Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000.


The president gave the (auto) companies to the UAW.


The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population.


In the 1970s, the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter.


Earth has not warmed for the last 17 years.


Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made.


Even the employees union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law.


While Act 10 allowed (Milwaukee County) to save some money, it was millions short of what we needed to fill the hole left by the $28 million cut in state aid.


21-million Americans could have a four-year college scholarship for the money we've squandered in Iraq. 7.6-million teachers could have been hired last year if we weren't squandering this money.


Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before.


Federal law requires residents to participate in the U.S. governments American Community Survey.


I deployed the Texas National Guard to the Texas-Mexico border. And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent.


Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama.


Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it.


After a federal inquiry corroborated Hillary Clinton on Whitewater, the next day, there was nothing in the media about it.


The Democratic Party is the oldest continuous political party in the world.


The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians, and that they werent contributing economically. The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits.


Under the health care law, everybody will have lower rates, better quality care and better access.


Hillary Clinton wants to wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal.


All members of Congress are required to be in Obamacare, but Obama and members of his administration have their own gold-plated health care plans that theyre in.


Trumps Health Secretary Pick Wants a Medicare Phaseout by Summer 2017.


Health insurance companies deny 1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors.


The United States is no longer top nation in the globe on infrastructure, having fallen to 15th.


Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts.


Rhode Island could tell you who has a camper, but we couldnt figure out who has a gun.


the United States does not trade as much as other developed nations.


A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state employment commission reinstated the person.


If we increase fuel efficiency standards to 40, 45 miles a gallon, we would have to import zero oil from the Middle East.


U.S. Senate rival Eric Hovde refused to pay his property taxes until he was taken to court.


Ted Cruz was the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas.


Today, home sales are up nearly 50 percent from where they were in the worst of the crisis.


Polls on legalizing same-sex marriage are not dramatically changing.


The McCain campaign did not elaborate on Obama's ties to ACORN.


In the House health care bill, Something like 2 percent of the people would [be] eligible even to get the public option.


New Mexico is the second Hollywood because of tax incentives for the film industry.


Anywhere in the world, when someone uses a mobile phone, e-mail, the Internet or GPS, they are enjoying the benefits of the American miracle.


in Texas, Republican nominees get 40 percent of the Latino vote on average.


Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare $882-billion worth.


Oregons political tax credit is something every state should have and no other state does.


The United States doesnt have the highest murder rate among developed countries. You look at Russia, you look at Brazil, those are countries that have 3 to 5 times higher murder rates than what we have here in the United States.


President Barack Obamas policies have resulted in gas prices being reduced from $3.07 per gallon when he was sworn in in 2009 to $2.30 today.


When (Marcy) Kaptur fought for the Democrats prescription drug benefit for seniors, (Dennis) Kucinich voted no.


I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. You dont learn much in a tax return.


The Obama administration willfully leaked the existence of STUXNET (a computer worm used against Iran), allowing our enemies to learn more of our secrets and of our operations.


When Susan Rice spoke about Benghazi on Sunday news shows, she said that al-Qaida might be involved, or other al-Qaida affiliates might be involved, or non-al-Qaida Libyan extremists, which I think demonstrates that there was no effort to play that down.


Wisconsins effective unemployment rate is 20 percent.


The Milwaukee Police Department has seized nearly as many firearms this year as the much larger New York City Police Department.


Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen has long record of voting against VA backlog fixes.


Among his (Obama's) pet projects is a bill ... which would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid.


under President Obama, theres been a substantial increase in federal government jobs.


We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners.


$1,100 of the tuition paid by every Oregon university student annually goes just to pay the costs of PERS.


More than 32,000 Americans lose their lives to gun violence each year.


On transportation financing


A bill to cap carbon emissions could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs.


I am the only candidate for lieutenant governor to oppose in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.


When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote.


Obama has proposed 442 tax hikes since taking office.


Says Obama flip-flopped on a gas-tax holiday.


The Ukraine Orange Revolution in 2004 was the first color revolution.


McCollum admitted he didn't think that the subprime mortgage crisis was a big deal, telling reporters he thought that the subprime collapse had been exaggerated by the media and investors and that 'it's not the end of the world.'


Every month, another 50,000 U.S.-born Hispanics turn 18 and become eligible to vote.


The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research would be used by the government to ration care.


We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades.


Under Gov. Kasich, Ohio wages have increased by $10.3 billion.


New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by $17 billion every year and potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year.


Qataris dont really work.


New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little. They are the highest property taxes in the nation, more than double the national average.


New tax increases that went into effect on Jan.1, 2015, all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.


We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers, to bring the treatment plant on line.


PolitiFact Texas gave a David Dewhurst TV ad a Pants-on-Fire rating as an outrageous lie.


Just on the issue of immigration alone, it is next to impossible to find a policy difference between (Donald) Trump and Congressman (Joe) Heck.


Rob Portman said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio.


I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that.


Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea and they called it smog.


property insurance rates are going up because Rick Scott signed a bill preventing the state from regulating insurance.


$500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families.


John McCain said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president.


Michelle Nunn is for amnesty.


The federal government only ordered BP to pay to do one of those six segments of sand barriers for Louisiana.


The recently passed transportation funding bill is a billion-dollar tax increase for Georgians.


Austin is effectively imposing a ban on barbecue restaurants.


Ron Klein sponsored an amendment that specifically allows price gouging.


Female students at UVA have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted.


We reduced the government workforce by 13,000, 11 percent, during my eight years.


Federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay. So someone (who) doesnt have health insurance -- they can go to the hospital and get free care.


380 Americans have been killed in 294 mass shootings in 2015 alone.


Atlanta Tea Party co-founder Debbie Dooley wants gas taxes raised.


China owns more of our bonds than do Americans.


NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected.


Under the new health care law, the first person (a) patient has to go to is a bureaucrat. That is called a panel.


As a result of welfare reform, poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children.


Wisconsin wages are declining at double the rate of other states.


Barack Obama said black males are two times more likely to be shot by a law enforcement officer than white males and that is a lie because there is no data.


I said no to higher taxes and fees.


Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country.


I'm pro-life. He's not.


John Mica's brother is an oil lobbyist and his daughter represents the natural gas industry.


Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building.


The largest number of gamblers are from the poorest segments of the population.


Gov. Rick Scott cut state funding for PBS.


Attorney General Eric Holders own Justice Department precleared the voting changes in the 2011 law about early voting in Florida.


The city of Nelson, Ga., is quieter than Mayberry.


Chris Christie fired 6,000 teachers.


Currently, it takes up to 25 years to obtain U.S. citizenship legally but the Senate bill would allow immigrants who came to the United States illegally to obtain citizenship in just 13 years.


Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act.


Will Hurd cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park.


Attorney general candidate Brad Schimel is in cahoots with Wisconsin Right to Life to make abortion a crime in Wisconsin.


The founders of New Hampshire came up with the motto Live Free or Die.


Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds for 38 Studios.


Bill McCollum explained his lack of action on mortgage fraud by saying, You can't do everything.


The United States is behind many countries in Europe in terms of the ability of every kid in America to get ahead.


The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006.


we are overcharging students . . . to help pay for the health care law.


Ellen Rosenblum has said over and over again that this is a job where 80 percent of the job is being the governments lawyer.


New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York.


If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space.


The Super Bowl has one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country.


the reforms in state Issue 2 will save taxpayer dollars


Scott Walker said he wouldnt touch the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.


Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required universal building codes.


Senate Democrats have never held up a Supreme Court nomination.


Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... (Canadians) buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state.


Regarding the Iraq War, I was the one that said, Dont go, dont do it, youre going to destabilize the Middle East.


The Iran deal trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves.


More than three-quarters of the oil is gone.


Were the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border.


We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil.


Massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year.


Initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status has no effect on the contracts or the citys diversity goals.


More women were killed by their husbands or boyfriends since Sept. 11 than all the Americans who were killed by 9/11 or in Afghanistan and Iraq.


While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep.


Social Security took seven years before anybody got the first check.


In most Muslim countries, We cant have a church. Were not able to build synagogues. Its forbidden.


Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming.


award-winning Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off because Gov. Scott Walker cut state aid to education.


Marshawn Lynch is second all-time in terms of average yards per rush only to Terrell Davis.


When housing and transportation costs are combined, Atlantas cost of living -- typically perceived as relatively low -- ranks as 7th worst out of 51 metros nationally.


Over the last 10 years, Georgias public health has declined.


At his fathers bank, Alexi made tens of millions in risky loans to convicted mobsters. Then, the bank collapsed.


North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation.


The fact is 90-percent of Down Syndrome children were aborted in this country.


Over the past 35 years, Florida families have paid into the (National Flood Insurance Program) over $16 billion, four times more than the amount they have received in claim reimbursements.


President Barack Obama said when we got bin Laden, terrorism problem solved.


Every year there is a slightly smaller percentage of American households owning guns.


A World Health Organization report shows that more people are dying of TB.


More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.


Paul Ryans budget keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits.


Agriculture contributes $71 billion to Georgias economy annually, making it the states largest industry.


If Gov. Romneys plan goes into effect the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security.


Lloyd Doggett voted for the health care, stimulus and cap-and-trade bills.


Twenty four states have voter ID or comparable restrictions; before Barack Obama was elected, it was two.


On timing of right to work legislation


President Obamas refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring.


On whether Barack Obama was born in the United States.


The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make GSU one of the largest universities in the nation, with more than 54,000 students.


Hillary Clinton savaged the dignity of people who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment or assault and shamed them.


In Florida, we have the lowest in-state tuition of any state.


In Japan, permanent residency is not given to Muslims, the propagation of Islam is banned, one cannot import a Koran published in the Arabic language, and Muslims cannot even rent a house.


Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year.


Pasco County has the second highest population of homeless in all of Florida.


his Twitter account has 1.3 million followers.


You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if youre a white applicant than if youre black or Hispanic, even if you have the same credentials.


For six years, I served our community as a conservative state legislator. In every one of those years, I helped balance the state's budget.


The richest 1 percent of America will get a bigger tax cut through this bill than the family income of the average family here in Central Texas.


President Barack Obama gives students the right to repay (federal) loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years.


Since the beginning of the economic downturn in FY 2008, the state workforce has been reduced by 12.4 percent as part of overall cost savings measures to balance the budget to reduce revenues.


The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.


About 22 percent of adults in Rhode Island and approximately 30 percent of youth (ages 10-17) are considered obese.


Last year (the U.S. womens soccer team) generated $20 million more than the mens team and were paid almost four times less.


America is No. 1one in oil and gas.


Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood) pregnancy services were abortions.


There was no panhandling when I left office.


The Republican Party raffled off an AR-15 assault rifle at the 2010 Oregon State Fair.


The number of killings of citizens by police is at a two-decade high.


During the 2005 fight over Social Security, there were noisy demonstrations but they were outside the events, and opponents were not disruptive crowds booed lines they didnt like, but that was about it.


There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program.


Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is a career politician.


A new Rasmussen poll shows people oppose (Sotomayor's) confirmation. Only 37 percent support it.


We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012 with more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill.


states that passed anti-illegal-immigrant legislation also had few Hispanic legislators.


President Barack Obama (is) the first president in history to cut Medicare by $700 billion.


Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas.


We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression.


Sen. McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes.


scientists predict sometime in the future, an event that will kill somewhere between 80 and 90 million people.


Since 2008, U.S. crude oil output has increased by over 80 percent, an increase of over 4 million barrels a day. That is the fastest increase in U.S. history.


Missouri needs a voter I.D. law because theres over 16 people in the state of Missouri who have been convicted of some type of voter fraud.


The actual deportations from the interior of the country are way down under President Obama.


businesses already pay most of the taxes.


President Obamas health care law represents a government takeover of health care.


On taxes, President Barack Obama wants to raise the top rate to 44.8 percent.


Since the Fed was created in 1913, the U.S. Dollar has lost 98% of its purchasing power.


Milwaukee blacks have 55 percent male unemployment, 60 percent truancy, a 50 percent graduation rate, the worst reading scores and lead in infant mortality.


The health care law was a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments!


The Obama administration estimates the number of children at the border is going to increase to 150,000 to 200,000 next year.


Texas economy is about 30 percent larger than Australias.


Hair stylists are required to undergo more government scrutiny than foreclosure consultants.


Ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under 100 people, maybe even less than that.