One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176,000 people: the United States government.


Says Texas ranks first in executions among the states.


Says Richard Burr "was one of only three senators who voted against a ban on insider trading for members of Congress. And he called that vote brave.


State "school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation.


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


Just last year," Miami-Dade Public Schools "had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.


A private company building a natural gas pipeline into Florida "is being forced to spend months under the review of six federal agencies.


A request for "an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House (during the presidency of George W. Bush), including the vice president's, for more than eight months, a resource request filled by President Obama in March.


Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year.


Did you know US population growth is at its lowest since the Great Depression?


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


Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office in downtown San Francisco.


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


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


The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together.


Americans spend more than $160 billion and 6 billion hours per year complying with the tax code.


I belong to the AFL-CIO.


Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.


98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.


There used to be 16 workers for every one person on Social Security. ... Now it's three.


The Democrat-controlled Senate, it hasn't passed a budget in more than 1,000 days.


Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget "will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done.


Many state and federal agencies have such 'navigators' involved in helping folks maneuver through the often complex processes associated with filing benefits claims, for example -- even buying health insurance.


Heroin .. pours across our southern borders.


In the stimulus, "$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165.


Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average --  would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined.


Since 1904, the Ohio victor has won the presidency 25 out of 27 times


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


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


Says the Trump administration transferred $10 million from FEMA to ICE.


Each day our nation pays communist China $73.9 million in interest on our debt.


The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.


My 2018 election was the first time Speaker Robin Vos has lost a Republican-held seat


The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure.


Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world, it still wouldn't add up to enough needed to pay down our nation's debt.


Wisconsin is a Top 10 state for health care coverage.


Georgia has recovered more than $60 million that was lost to Medicaid fraud


I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment.


A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis," including recreational and medical marijuana.


The VA negotiates prescription drug prices. Medicare doesn't do that.


Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years.


There are "approximately 20,000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island.


Twenty two years ago, when he was running for governor, Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House.


When we passed (the stand your ground law), we said it portends horrific events when people's lives were put into these situations.


Says "About 7 in 10 of Oregon's inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses.


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


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


The majority of Austinites rent" the places they live.


We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein, I think, or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries.


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


Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.


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


Witnesses have been part of "every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had.


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


Says taxpayer subsidy for the Oregon Convention Center hotel jumped $100 million in closed-door sessions


Studies show at the minimum wage, you can't rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment.


The property appraiser's budget "is $1 million less today than when I took office 16 years ago.


We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second; Saudi Arabia is number three.


Obama "won health care for 150,000 people.


Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget.


The cost for renovating the headquarters of the U.N. has doubled from the original estimate.


Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.


The Senate health care bill "would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage.


You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text.


We have lost more lives in the last two years" due to opioids "than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War.


Says that in 2011, Oregon had "the second fastest growing economy in the nation.


The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.


Since the week ending March 14, Wisconsin actually saw a drop in tourism spending compared to last year of $1.7 billion.


Says a Josh Hawley lawsuit "would take away important prescription drug coverage for seniors through Medicare and end all of the consumer protections under the ACA.


Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.


Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116,838,763 to date (for the Mahoning Valley) and has an additional $27,095,000 pending in FY2010 spending bills.


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


Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had "the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.


Ninety percent of the topsoil has inadequate moisture to grow crops.


Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living.


In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons. Many of those who were dropped showed up to vote and were told they could not.


Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, "we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year.


Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership.


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


In 2017, West Virginia's $43,469 median household income was $16,867 below the national average, ranking 50th.


Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016.


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


In some cases, a sex offender "who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry" would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft when ride-hailing is allowed upstate in July


Many law enforcement agencies didn't submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.


It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal.


Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.


There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.


We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security.


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


Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.


The United States spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay in France.


We created 800,000 new jobs, we cut the unemployment rate almost in half and today New York State has more private sector jobs than it has ever had in its history


Our state has fewer science, technology, engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state.


Polls show that 96 percent of New Jerseyans – and 95 percent of gun households in the state – support expanding background checks to keep guns away from those who shouldn't have them.


Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat.


Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree.


West Virginia "has the highest overdose rate per capita of any state in our nation.


South Florida ranks No. 1 in the gap between wages and housing.


It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison.


Nearly half of Hispanic voters in Arizona's last election supported four measures that were "very tough on illegal immigration.


Says Philando Castile "had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident.


More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.


Since 2011, the gap in high school graduation rates between African-American students and all students has been cut in half, from 6.4 percent to 3.1 percent.


WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don't vote for Donald Trump.


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


Says "a pack-a-day smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1,650 a year.


Says Donald Trump's proposed tax treatment of hedge fund managers "makes the current loophole even worse.


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


FUN FACT: West Virginia is home to zero billionaires.


There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850.


Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law.


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


Say that under state law, "systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment.


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


Says Texas is last in workers' compensation coverage.


The GOP's Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped.


Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.


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


If New York's proposed limits on natural gas in buildings take effect, the grid today can't handle the increased electric load.


If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of.


The Iranians are now saying that what we're saying the deal is and what they understand it to be are two different things.


Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years.


Says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obama's jobs bill.


For every extra year a girl goes to school, her income goes up 12 percent.


Since I took office, "Wisconsin ranks 11th in the nation in total business establishment growth compared to 47th in the years Mary Burke was Commerce secretary.


If you printed a $1 bill for the entirety of the $14.1 trillion national debt, the resulting pile of money would weigh more than 136 aircraft carriers.


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


In two years, Gov. McAuliffe has vetoed more bills that the previous three governors issued in each of their four-year terms.


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


Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.


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


Certainly we're going to be the most restrictive state in the land … in terms of who can get medical marijuana, how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace.


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


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


Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once.


An 11-year-old boy saved the lives of two people on the same day.


At Bain Capital, "we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.


Ronald Reagan did amnesty.


Says Holly Turner "failed to vote in five straight Republican primaries.


In Iowa, "since we have put a number of the voting laws into place over the last several years — voter ID is one of those — we've actually seen voter participation increase, even in off-election years.


The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020.


House Speaker Dean Cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for one-third of the 120-member House, and that two-thirds of the chamber have two years or less experience.


Says "51 percent of federal tax filers paid zero federal income tax.


Says Donald Trump's tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations "more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two.


California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state's wildfires "contained so much misinformation.


(Bill) McCollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation, even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs.


The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple.


Of the 25 wealthiest nations, we're the only one that doesn't provide basic health coverage.


Polls show "Hillary Clinton wins every time with Donald Trump" as her opponent.


There is "over 20 times more energy" in a proposed Southside uranium mining site than "there is in all the oil that's estimated to be off Virginia's coast


Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died.


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


We spend more on health care than any other country, but we're ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality.


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


Bill McCollum has "recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud.


Before "our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected.


U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf's trip to the Middle East.


We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.


More than half of Virginia's school buildings are older than 50 years.


The national debt "has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match.


Says spending in the fiscal 2009 budget was lower than spending in the fiscal 2014 budget


Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.


One in 10 babies born in this country is born in Texas.


The Keystone pipeline creates "35 permanent jobs" after construction, according to a government report.


Nearly 2,000 high schools - roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States - produce about half of the nation's dropouts.


Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.


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


President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent.


Crimea became part of Ukraine only in 1954. Crimea was historically part of Russia, and (Nikita) Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in a gesture that mystified some people.


Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone.


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


McCain is "raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed.


Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.


Currently, 23 percent of our military's infrastructure is graded as 'poor' while 9 percent is 'failing.'


Says Rick Perry "provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants.


I've taken on the federal government and won.


Rep. Ilhan Omar "voted yes" to "provide further funding for the 9/11 First Responders Victims Fund" while Sen. Rand Paul "voted no.


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


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


Barack Obama is "only the second Democrat in the last 75 years to win Ohio twice with more than 50 percent of the vote.


Seven years later, (Scott Walker) has not hit his first campaign promise of creating 250,000 jobs.


Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.


Says Charlie Crist rode on a jet that "belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water.


Since 2008, we have cut 5,000 positions" from Virginia public schools.


If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon.


It is legal in Ohio to fire an employee or evict a tenant just for being gay.


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


The people of Tiverton have historically supported [gambling measures] at a rate higher than the rest of the state.


Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states.


Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.


Virginia was named "best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child" while I was governor.


Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country.


Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning "as little as $17,000.


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


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


When we say 'one vote matters,' it's not just a saying – it has proven true 141 times in #Ohio over the last five years.


There have been "at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.


Says of the coronavirus threat, "there was not a single suggestion by anyone, a doctor, a scientist, a political figure, that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.


In Georgia, it's "illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place" and "punishable by up to a year in prison.


China account(s) for 90 percent of North Korean trade.


Says "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.


Says Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies.


Since 2000, when he entered politics, Jon Husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices.


There's no money" for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.


When I served as City Commissioner, we made great strides …we successfully fought for, and won, adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau.


Federal regulations required the changes to Georgia's driver's license renewal process.


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


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


Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident.


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


Says Amanda Fritz "manages less than 5 percent of city operations.


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


When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.


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


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said, quote, 'I can't stand John McCain.'


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


Says five Democratic state senators were for her bicycle tailgating bill "before they were against it.


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


The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.


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


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.


Travis County is "surrounded by red counties.


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


We've seen more anti-women's choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than we've seen in the last three General Assemblies.


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


Rhode Island's voter identification law was pushed by "a black Democrat in the House, a black Democrat in the Senate. That's a fact.


Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock.


The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children.


Cuyahoga County "passed a program to guarantee a college savings account for every single child who enters kindergarten in this county -- the first county in the United States to do so.


The U.S. has "5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the world's known prison population.


As president, Barack Obama has never visited Israel.


The NRA used to support expanded background checks.


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.


Wisconsin's dead last in Midwest job growth.


We have 80,000 abortions in Texas every year.


The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that.


Says Mitt Romney "has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures.


Florida Democrats "put my Social Security number and my wife's Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.


Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.


Says Donald Trump "started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans.


Poor people go to a "payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest.


I spent only $36.29 on my campaign for governor.


Says there's no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.


Says HB2 has hurt North Carolina's economy by "one-tenth of 1 percent of our annual GDP.


Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times. Most of it's been used by Republicans.


In his first TV interview as president, Obama said we "should talk to Iran.


If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last.


Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.


Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war.


We've been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression.


Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line.


The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance.


We spend three times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense.


For "the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office.


More than once, I've actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance.


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


Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts.


Says Dan Patrick "proposed Arizona-style show-me-your-papers legislation.


Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy.


The average person "will pay $6,000 more a year" under Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal.


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


The White House staff risks violating federal ethics rules if they participate in Donald Trump's "fake news awards.


Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.


The president campaigned against this type of legislation.


Says he has never voted for raising taxes.


Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi.


Obama has more czars than the Romanovs.


The United States has not completed a "top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.


Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate.


The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin.


More than one-quarter of America's young adults are too fat to serve in the U.S. military


More than 20 million people are at risk of dying from starvation within 6 months in 4 nations.


The New York State Senate "passed legislation allowing minors to race snowmobiles, get their own hunting licenses, and not be employed gathering or picking rags, cigar stumps, or collecting bones.


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


Says veterans' disability claims backlog doubled in Obama's first term.


On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails.


Before COVID-19, "more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history.


Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive


Every (Wisconsin) legislator that votes for this bill" will have to "give up the same amount of pay" as other state employees.


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


Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in 2006.


Florida's high school graduation rate falls well below the national average.


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


During three and a half years of campaigning," Lamar Smith "has never once appeared at a moderated debate to defend his positions on the issues.


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


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


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


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


2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces.


Says Ann Coulter said, "I am a settler. I am descended from settlers — not from immigrants.


Before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, "the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in Libya.


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.


A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit.


Rick Scott's even saying he wants more offshore drilling.


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


Did U know? Block Island Wind Farm would mean 40% est. drop in BI electric rates.


The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.


Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the '30s, they weighed 13.2 pounds.


Wisconsin (has) the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide.


Wisconsin's non-discrimination law "doesn't protect members of the trans-gender community.


Among the developed nations, we are the least economically and socially mobile country in the world.


Says Joe Biden "has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.


President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a third.


In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'


We have been able to cut New York's uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population.


Claims Ohio Gov. John Kasich says climate change is a problem.


We just don't want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops.


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


Says Republican presidential candidate and Gov. John Kasich has spent 177 days out of state and used $350,000 in taxpayer money on his "costly campaign.


Says over 90 percent of Travis County's eligible residents have registered to vote.


Says Donald Trump "wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.


A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax.


'Dark money' spending" in the 2016 election cycle "is 10 times what it was at the same point in the 2012 election cycle," when it topped $308 million.


In Rhode Island "there are 150 different pension plans for public workers.


Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million.


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


Says first eight chosen to draw Austin City Council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one Republican primary voter.


More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children.


98 percent of American families" make "under $250,000 a year.


The highest paid employee of the State of Rhode Island is a basketball coach.


Only about a third" of Texans who enroll in college graduate.


Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country.


New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement.


Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating.


African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids.


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


Says of Donald Trump, "He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms.


Just days ago, Iran's Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei, who will oversee implementation of this agreement, was calling Israel a 'rabid dog' and accusing the United States of war crimes.


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


The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren't contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits.


Says "in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested" for HIV.


Says she condemned violence at a campaign stop in Arizona in March.


Says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse.


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


Says the cartels are so bad in a Mexican border state that the U.S. government issued a 'Do Not Travel' warning -- the same warning it issued for Syria.


There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who've had no income interruption whatsoever.


When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent.


Wisconsin's archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states.


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


Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.


Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year, "more than double that held by the committee in any recent year.


A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so.


Sen. McConnell offered a fully paid two-month extension of unemployment insurance.


Pinellas County voters "elected me as their chief financial officer … (and) elected me as (their) governor four years ago.


Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.


Iran President Hassan "Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities" than members of Barack Obama's Cabinet.


Senator Cryin' Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal


We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis.


Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs.


Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world.


It's not currently "legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.


Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring 'third-world diseases.'


Says "Rep. Jim Weidner proposed a bill taking away health care for 80,000 of Oregon's children.


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


Pepper ... kicked off a jock tax, imposing a levy on the sports and entertainment industry.


In 2017, ICE "arrested more than 127,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or facing charges of breaking our nation's' laws," and removed nearly 5,000 gang members.


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


Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six "front-line" workers.


The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees.


The Koch network (is) spending more money (in a Senate race) in Ohio than anywhere else in the country.


I'm the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.


Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years' worth of Austin's water use.


The barber regulation here in Missouri is 10,000 words long….the book of Revelation is (also) 10,000 words long.


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


Apple and Amazon already operate in many states that require levels of voter ID.


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


Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education.


I am the only senator who turned down the state pension plan for part-time legislators.


I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities.


There's no real evidence in the last 20 years that" growth from tax cuts has made up lost revenue.


Says GOP Senate nominee Darryl Glenn said he wants to see Ted Cruz appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.


Says the New York Giants "train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey.


Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country.


Says most of Perry's chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.


Marco Rubio spent $400K of your tax dollars remodeling offices, and building a members-only lounge.


Says women care most about jobs and the economy


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.


I am now the No. 2 member of this House in terms of length of service.


More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.


Says Texas "either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.


Between 1980 and 2010, water usage in Georgia dropped even as the state's population grew.


During my eight years as county executive, we cut the number of county workers by 20 percent.


If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done.


Says the U.S. Senate is "dominated by millionaires" and that he is "not one of them.


The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city.


The estimated price of President Trump's border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers.


Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.


Romneycare was model for Obamacare.


The Railroad Commission of Texas has nothing to do with railroads.


Twitter is banned in Iran.


There is racism physically built into some of our highways.


Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment.


Virginia has "lagged behind other states when it comes to (covid-19) testing.


China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites.


Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.


No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power — a record unmatched by other fuels.


Scott Maddox is a "lobbyist.


Sarah Palin "already has more executive experience" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden "combined.


There isn't a system" for reuniting families separated under Trump's zero tolerance border policy.


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


Says Texas ranks among the nation's top five states for its high school graduation rate.


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


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


When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away.


The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.


A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration.


Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes.


Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama.


When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years.


[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred.


During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent.


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


Says "PTA meetings are now being conducted to help parents tell their kids" that if a guy with an AR-15 walks into their classroom, "you are supposed to create as much chaos as you possibly can. They want you to scream and yell and dance around and throw books and just keep moving.


America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes.


Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.


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


Replacing 100,000 old toilets with water-efficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.


John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.


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


2.1 million jobs have been created in the last six or seven years" in California


He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.


Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low.


Democrats have "lost more than 900 state legislators" since Barack Obama has been president.


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


New York state subsidizes private colleges "probably more than any other state except maybe one.


The substitute budget now adds in tax breaks and tax deductions for those who buy these prisons.


Central Health "is the only hospital district in Texas that spends taxpayer dollars on abortions.


We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country.


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


Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy.


Says his transportation plan "would make Virginia the first state in the nation to eliminate the state tax on gasoline.


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


In 1988, in response to Iran's attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts, President Ronald Reagan "destroyed half of Iran's Navy.


There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people.


Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.


We know mask mandates work. There's enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven't.


Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history.


The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the SAVE "database is not a foolproof means of verifying (citizenship on) the voter rolls.


Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.


An effort to repeal voting-reform legislation would be "the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum.


There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country.


If Wisconsin's governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do, "it would still leave (workers) better off than their private sector" counterparts.


Today, if you were raised poor, you're just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago.


Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.


Iran has stockpiled 10 times as much enriched uranium as it had" in 2016.


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.


For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting.


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


Overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021.


Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races, Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate.


More people now die in Wisconsin from drug overdoses than car crashes.


Says Scott Walker enacted "the biggest cuts to education in our state's history.


Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening.


Says "Rick Santorum supported (Arlen) Specter over conservative candidates twice.


It's now constitutional to ban [assault weapons] in Illinois. Yet, the Illinois General Assembly has failed to allow other cities to have that opportunity.


It's been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.


In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.


Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States.


Fox News uses photo of a married couple promoting 'traditional marriage' and the photo is actually of a same-sex couple.


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


If Roe is overturned, Wisconsin has a law on the books that would immediately make abortion a crime.


He's sued gun manufacturers. He was supportive of Brady. He was supportive of things like assault weapon bans.


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


There have been literally hundreds of new tax preferences and loopholes added to the code since 1986, last time we did this.


Says under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress.


Says Dick Cheney "supported gay marriage sooner" than Hillary Clinton.


President Obama has "stopped using the phrase 'war on terror.'


The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values.


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


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


An audit shows "there are 6.5 million people who have active Social Security numbers who are 112 years of age or older,


Fireworks have never been safer, and their use continues to increase each year.


Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.


Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me.


Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state.


Says for every dollar the state spent on audits last year, it delivered $64 in cost savings.


If you go back, you can see Wayne LaPierre, who runs the NRA, testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or 20 years ago.


Today's marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear.


... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.


The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns.


Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with.


Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program, 211,000 Floridians have lost their jobs.


The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget are health care expenses.


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.


Says Kelly Ayotte "voted again yesterday against a proposal to expand background checks -- (buyers) can continue to simply go online or to gun shows to purchase guns without background checks.


Says in Chicago, "we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A.


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


Says "only 18 percent of Portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to 83 percent nationally.


Trump supporters are heading to the border as the migrant caravan approaches.


More than 64 percent of minimum-wage earners are women.


One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.


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


Georgia has "more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona.


I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel.


Since 2014, there has been a 25% reduction in crime in communities at the Texas-Mexico border.


Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost.


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


There is "more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that's happened in nearly 20 years.


It cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open.


Electric car sales in Georgia have dropped dramatically since a $5,000 tax credit was eliminated and a $200 annual registration fee was imposed July 1.


North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall "has won more statewide races than probably anyone else alive.


Says he "fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003.


Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine.


Infertility is treated differently than other issues and "often excluded from insurance coverage


Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.


A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines' jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration.


The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel, including DNA.


A "fairly limited number of people, 25 million to 30 million," will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange.


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


The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America.


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


We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before.


John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.


Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K-12 education.


Austin is number one in Texas in startups, venture capital and patents.


The three wealthiest people" own "more wealth than the bottom half of the American people.


When Social Security first started, there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree.


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


Almost every state has offered an insurance plan on its health exchange that does not cover abortion.


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


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


Says Donald Trump's use of the term "fake news" to undermine journalism "seems (to have) inspired dictators and authoritarians.


A government shutdown "could disrupt ... veterans' benefits.


Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4


The last time people (created a Hollywood blacklist), people ended up killing themselves … They were accused, and they lost their right to work.