{"text": "Says a federal judge \"sanctions Tennessee 'birther' lawyer … for bringing a frivolous lawsuit.", "label": 0} {"text": "Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years.", "label": 0} {"text": "The President has decided to move forward with executive actions on immigration that he has said on numerous occasions that he didn't have the constitutional power to take.", "label": 0} {"text": "San Francisco had twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths last year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Colorado raked in $60 million in marijuana taxes and licensing fees in the past year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump \"was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn't asked for.", "label": 0} {"text": "For the second quarter in a row, my campaign has raised more money than any other challenger in the nation and brought our fundraising total to over $800,000.", "label": 0} {"text": "Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold\" as \"Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "90 percent of Americans \"support universal background checks\" for gun purchases.", "label": 0} {"text": "You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia has saved $20 million through changes in criminal sentencing.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. We're over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most Americans are ready to put it [marijuana prohibition] behind us and move on.", "label": 0} {"text": "John Raese's wife \"is registered to vote in Florida so she can't even vote for him.", "label": 0} {"text": "Federal law prohibits the growing of industrial hemp in the United States.", "label": 0} {"text": "Whole of Italy goes into quarantine.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either don't have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and they're still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on.", "label": 0} {"text": "Caution: Kissing and cuddling chickens can be hazardous to your health.", "label": 0} {"text": "You can almost pinpoint half of the gun violence deaths to two or three specific sections in the city. They are just areas of devastation, economically and otherwise.", "label": 0} {"text": "In my own state of Vermont, from the very first days of our state's history, what our Constitution says is that everybody can vote. That is true. So people in jail can vote.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in (St. Petersburg) are caused by people leaving their keys in the car.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'm one of the first guys to introduce a climate change bill, way, way back in '87.", "label": 0} {"text": "By the way, I'm not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Bill and Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trump's last wedding.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States is the only industrialized, modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.", "label": 0} {"text": "Herschel Walker misled about \"personally treating 4,500 veterans per year,\" about \"graduating from college\" and about \"working in law enforcement.", "label": 0} {"text": "The estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts for another decade.", "label": 0} {"text": "Romney refused to pardon \"a decorated soldier\" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia's unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.", "label": 0} {"text": "I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says out-of-state abortion clinics \"have marketed their services to minors\" in states with parental consent laws.", "label": 0} {"text": "Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget.", "label": 0} {"text": "California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way.", "label": 0} {"text": "The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon.", "label": 0} {"text": "So what sort of services does Romney's health care plan provide? Per the state Web site: $50 co-pay for abortions.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she is co-owner of Celilo Group Media.", "label": 0} {"text": "Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax.", "label": 0} {"text": "We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force \"does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain's health care plan \"won't guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers \"pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland.", "label": 0} {"text": "[Appalachian Power] wants another 10 percent rate increase. The compensation package for CEO Mike Morris rose 22 percent to $8.7 million in 2010.", "label": 0} {"text": "At General Motors, CEO Mary Barra \"took home almost 22 MILLION DOLLARS last year alone (295x your company's average employee).", "label": 0} {"text": "Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses\" of smallpox vaccine and \"I created enough\" to vaccinate \"every man, woman and child against smallpox in America.", "label": 0} {"text": "Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have over 300,000,000 weapons, firearms in this country. That's almost as big as the population.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt \"felt there wasn't a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people.", "label": 0} {"text": "Republican candidate for governor Ken Block was \"fined and had to admit that (he) funneled money illegally to the Moderate Party.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're already bombing seven countries.", "label": 0} {"text": "Many of the countries in question (in Trump's travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet.", "label": 0} {"text": "100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas General Land Office \"has earned the school children of Texas $451,932.89 on wind leases that haven't produced a watt of energy.", "label": 0} {"text": "Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year.", "label": 0} {"text": "After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine, the state \"reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure.", "label": 0} {"text": "In December of 2017, the Prince William board of supervisors had a meeting ... (Corey Stewart) skipped that meeting to go campaign in Alabama for Roy Moore to be a U.S. senator … You haven't disavowed Roy Moore's name yet.", "label": 0} {"text": "Congress can tell [the Supreme Court] which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Keene, N.H., requested a \"military-grade armored personnel truck,\" citing their annual Pumpkin Festival as \"a possible target\" for terrorists.", "label": 0} {"text": "States with \"the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have 650 people who move to Texas every day.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012.", "label": 0} {"text": "We've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector.", "label": 0} {"text": "In June 2012 \"we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tommy Thompson is the father of welfare reform, creating the groundbreaking Wisconsin Works program in Wisconsin that became the model for national and international reforms.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"in the Legislature, (Mary Nolan) has been a party-line Democrat, showing a 100% track record in harmony with the American Civil Liberties Union.", "label": 0} {"text": "47 - New provisions ObamaCare charges the IRS with implementing, according to the Government Accountability Office.", "label": 0} {"text": "America is No. 1 one in oil and gas.", "label": 0} {"text": "More college graduates are living at home than in decades.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rhode Island has the \"worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads [behind] Alaska.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Connie Mack \"wrote a letter to the Department of Transportation in order to get $29 million in stimulus for his congressional district.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas is \"the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide.", "label": 0} {"text": "The federal government is prohibited \"from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says states that passed anti-illegal-immigrant legislation also had few Hispanic legislators.", "label": 0} {"text": "When we moved into the White House, we had the lowest net worth of any family since Harry Truman.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.", "label": 0} {"text": "David Cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence  and child abuse.", "label": 0} {"text": "Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law, we will have delivered $2 billion\" in tax relief.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Barack Obama has played over 90 rounds of golf as president.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under a law proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, businesses that move into Wisconsin \"don't have to pay any taxes\" on their income for two years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game", "label": 0} {"text": "Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a \"pre-existing condition.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rhode Island's legislature is \"the strongest in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Even \"though men comprise 49% of the population, they hold 80% of the lawmaking power in the Legislature (144 of 181 seats).", "label": 0} {"text": "In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. … You're also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Paul Workman \"voted in the Democrat primary, supporting Democrats with his vote.", "label": 0} {"text": "Triggering leftists, Trump's reelection campaign is selling plastic straws.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. Harry Reid voted \"against declaring English our national language, twice.", "label": 0} {"text": "Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families.", "label": 0} {"text": "Contends that President Obama \"literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'", "label": 0} {"text": "We're growing union jobs faster than Illinois.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the Congressional Budget Office has estimated \"every penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt and entitlement spending by 2025.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fifty-one percent -- that is, a majority of American households -- paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada.", "label": 0} {"text": "Jason Carter backed three of Nathan Deal's budgets but accuses the governor of \"underfunding education.", "label": 0} {"text": "We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers, to bring the treatment plant on line.", "label": 0} {"text": "And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001.", "label": 0} {"text": "Police officers in this state have that right,\" to check the immigration status of people they arrest.", "label": 0} {"text": "Marco Rubio's \"income skyrocketed while his power increased.", "label": 0} {"text": "Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's \"No. 1 private contributor.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says it's illegal to hold an absentee-only election or mail ballots to every registered voter", "label": 0} {"text": "Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.", "label": 0} {"text": "Do you know that, statistically, when you take the SAT a second time, one third of the people that take the SAT, even if they've been studying, will get a lower score than they did the first time around?", "label": 0} {"text": "We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups.", "label": 0} {"text": "When it comes to fighting terrorism, \"Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says his proposed payroll tax cut \"will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "Even hunters are restricted from using large capacity magazines: there is a five cartridge limit for large game hunting, and three for bird hunting.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"Scott Walker wants to make abortion illegal, even in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.", "label": 0} {"text": "I have spent virtually every weekend since Memorial Day in the Panhandle.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Oregon, students are skipping math class to learn about the Bible.", "label": 0} {"text": "When people enter the service, there's not a mental health evaluation.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system.", "label": 0} {"text": "In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that … by any measure Social Security has been a failure.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"zero\" African Americans have presented to the House Budget Committee in 2019.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue.", "label": 0} {"text": "I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Rick Scott's \"hospital company stole millions, defrauding the military's health care program.", "label": 0} {"text": "Proposed rule would limit milk for WIC participants", "label": 0} {"text": "George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Twenty-seven percent of Californians, almost 11 million, \"were born in a foreign land.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.", "label": 0} {"text": "The federal American Rescue Plan will purchase more food from farmers for distribution.", "label": 0} {"text": "It costs us about $33,000 a year (on average nationally) to lock somebody up. In California it costs about $75,000 a year.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Georgia House passed a bill that \"makes it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line.", "label": 0} {"text": "It wasn't all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.", "label": 0} {"text": "McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs.", "label": 0} {"text": "From '05 to '09, we've had 1,100 soldiers commit suicide, one every 36 hours.", "label": 0} {"text": "As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, \"I created reserves of home heating oil.", "label": 0} {"text": "In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for \"the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV.", "label": 0} {"text": "My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state.", "label": 0} {"text": "These guys are now pretty much living up to the @BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the @MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.", "label": 0} {"text": "Mercedes said high taxes and the cost of doing business in New Jersey worked to Georgia's advantage in landing the company's USA corporate headquarters.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama worked with \"Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.", "label": 0} {"text": "We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families.", "label": 0} {"text": "As a former federal prosecutor, I prosecuted over 4,000 cases.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now.", "label": 0} {"text": "The proposed raises for the Norcross City Council would put it in line with other liked-sized communities.", "label": 0} {"text": "New business startups are at the lowest levels in 30 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them and we've never had an accident.", "label": 0} {"text": "There's almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and that's an all-time record number in our state.", "label": 0} {"text": "It is ironic that (First Energy Corp. is) going to have a name on our (football stadium) where we (Cleveland Public Power) supply the electricity.", "label": 0} {"text": "For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients, the delivery driver is \"the only human contact in their life from week to week.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. It's 35 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.", "label": 0} {"text": "Social Security \"was basically invented\" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; \"that's where Franklin Roosevelt got the idea.", "label": 0} {"text": "The president of the United States ... agrees with me\" that marriage should be between a man and a woman.", "label": 0} {"text": "My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.", "label": 0} {"text": "Last year, \"Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.", "label": 0} {"text": "American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.", "label": 0} {"text": "The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse.", "label": 0} {"text": "We are making the largest investment in education in our nation's history.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under current law, if you go on a dating website and you say you're 32 and you're actually 42, you've committed a misdemeanor.", "label": 0} {"text": "Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women, Amy and me.", "label": 0} {"text": "Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of a college education increased 439 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump mocked \"someone with a disability.", "label": 0} {"text": "I did not support the sequester.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"Danny Tarkanian … wants to defund Planned Parenthood and would outlaw a woman's right to choose, even in cases of rape or incest.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"80 percent of the health care dollars are spent by 20 percent of the population.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States \"spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy R&D.", "label": 0} {"text": "[Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our average private sector employee pays 23 percent for their health care. Our average city worker in Ohio pays 9 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the Senate will have a record number of female senators in 2013.", "label": 0} {"text": "The poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans -- it's been incredible, they've all reached their lowest levels in the history of our country.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 43 consecutive months, the longest stretch since the Great Depression.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's attorney general and state treasurer ordered the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson not to discuss climate change on state time.", "label": 0} {"text": "The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.", "label": 0} {"text": "A family of four can make up to $88,000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance\" under the new federal health care law.", "label": 0} {"text": "We reduced the government workforce by 13,000, 11 percent, during my eight years.", "label": 0} {"text": "For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "Americans \"say that what they want is a choice\" to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"streetcars carry more people than buses … you attract more riders who don't ride transit now, and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Sean Hannity told listeners of his radio show that \"Beto O'Rourke is asking for help in getting undocumented to vote.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama.", "label": 0} {"text": "The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse.", "label": 0} {"text": "Matt Rosendale supports plans that don't have to cover (pre-existing conditions).", "label": 0} {"text": "Gov. Rick Scott's sale of the state planes was \"not proper.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Texas, schools do not even have to teach sex education.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Walmart 'increased their starting wage to $11/hr & has given about $400 million in bonuses.'", "label": 0} {"text": "We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Stephen F. Austin and James Bowie promoted slavery.", "label": 0} {"text": "He even supports putting a female inmate in shackles during childbirth.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq.", "label": 0} {"text": "47 percent of Americans \"can't pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards, without selling something or borrowing money.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says county parties representing more than half the state's Republican voters approved resolutions \"demanding changes\" in Texas House leadership.", "label": 0} {"text": "There's actually 600 abortions done after the 20th week of pregnancy every year in Ohio.", "label": 0} {"text": "Providence is one of the busiest fire departments for its relative size in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "McCain got more money from Airbus' U.S. executives than any other politician.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Marco Rubio said that \"people who essentially don't agree with him, ought to leave the country, like Keith Olbermann.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most voters prefer zombies to the current U.S. Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "The health care bill will subsidize families of four that make more than $80,000 a year.", "label": 0} {"text": "If we got solar energy from \"an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Gov. Bob McDonnell's budget plan takes \"money out of our classrooms to pave roads.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming ... five years ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident.", "label": 0} {"text": "While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.", "label": 0} {"text": "Today almost half our debt is owned by foreigners.", "label": 0} {"text": "Israel's per capita income \"is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "@BernieSanders receives strong support from the conservative & most rural part of Vermont.", "label": 0} {"text": "I have never once raised the county tax levy -- not for seven straight years.", "label": 0} {"text": "If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change, Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is one of the few states that doesn't allow absentee ballots to be processed before Election Day.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he would be first CPA to serve as Texas comptroller.", "label": 0} {"text": "Every family health insurance policy has \"a $900 hidden tax\" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.", "label": 0} {"text": "Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are still tens of thousands of missing service members from previous and current conflicts that our nation is working to find and repatriate.", "label": 0} {"text": "After World War II, we tried, convicted, and, in some cases, executed Japanese soldiers for war crimes that included charges of waterboarding.", "label": 0} {"text": "The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 40 years of broadcast, I have never endorsed any candidate.", "label": 0} {"text": "About 95 percent of America's production of ethylene is produced on the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says 24 million people in this country \"can't find a full-time job,\" 50 million \"can't see a doctor when they're sick,\" 47 million people need government help to feed themselves and 15 million families owe more than the value of their home.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Scott Brown \"co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for birth control.", "label": 0} {"text": "Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Baucus bill \"contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. We're in a perfect location.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Hillary Clinton \"said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, that's not true.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's 2019-21 budget produced the first positive general fund balance since 2000, and the governor's proposed 2021-23 budget would return it to a deficit.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says New Jersey has gained \"143,000 new private-sector jobs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Gov. Kim Reynolds, touting $210 million for Iowa broadband, \"failed to mention these are actually federal funds approved by Rep. Cindy Axne and signed into law by President Joe Biden.", "label": 0} {"text": "George Allen voted to add $3 trillion to the federal debt, voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the No Child Left Behind Act while he was a senator.", "label": 0} {"text": "The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Ron Johnson \"opposes entirely a federal minimum wage,\" except perhaps for \"guest workers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says when he was governor, \"we expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "West Virginia \"has the highest overdose death rate in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel.", "label": 0} {"text": "We end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says abortions are decreasing.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney is proposing a \"tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Every poll you see, the overwhelming majority of people want [E-Verify].", "label": 0} {"text": "Some businesses in Oregon \"are having to shrink back their businesses as a result of the law.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Obama flip-flopped on warrantless wiretapping.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that under a new program jail \"time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.", "label": 0} {"text": "Research performed by economists has shown no consistent, positive impact on jobs, income or tax revenues arising from stadiums or sports franchises.", "label": 0} {"text": "With the ongoing pandemic, our State Park attendance is at the highest it's ever been.", "label": 0} {"text": "The facts show that approximately 40 persons on death row have had all of their appellate review completed and await only the governor's signature on a death warrant to end the case.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than they've sent President Barack Obama and more than twice what they've sent other Republican presidential candidates.", "label": 0} {"text": "The National Park Service has \"an annual budget that is less than the city of Austin.", "label": 0} {"text": "Federal law adopted \"under Tommy Thompson's watch\" prohibits the government from negotiating for \"better prices\" on prescription drugs for senior citizens", "label": 0} {"text": "The General Assembly \"has no explicit constitutional authority to impose income, sales, estate and the myriad of other taxes upon us.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2011 alone, 269 New Jerseyans were killed by gun violence.", "label": 0} {"text": "More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week \"than are born in Texas each week.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney \"had millions in a Swiss bank account.", "label": 0} {"text": "(Hillary Clinton's State Department) actually admonished one of her ambassadors because he wasn't using the proper server.", "label": 0} {"text": "Bill Young uses his campaign money for, among other things, a luxury car.", "label": 0} {"text": "During \"the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen, Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a five-star hotel on a trip costing nearly $10,000 per person.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Florida refused to allow the insurance commissioner to \"negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high\" under Obamacare.", "label": 0} {"text": "Granite Staters who hold individual policies from Anthem...can indeed renew their policies and keep their current doctors and hospitals\" in 2014.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fleeing Syria, \"a million children are now refugees.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most of Kathy Manning's donors are from out-of-state.", "label": 0} {"text": "You can't give a child an aspirin in school without permission. You can't do any kind of medication, but we can secretly take the child off and have an abortion.", "label": 0} {"text": "The city of Clarkston \"can't decriminalize marijuana. Only state legislators and Congress can do that.", "label": 0} {"text": "Thirty-four of the 47 men depicted in the famous \"Declaration of Independence\" painting were slaveholders.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ninety-five percent of Oregonians now have health insurance coverage, tens of thousands for the very first time.", "label": 0} {"text": "The coalition of Arab states against Libya's Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.", "label": 0} {"text": "During the Civil War, more than 300,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army -- more per capita than any other state.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "My Treasury team eliminated a 900-case backlog in the Crime Victim Compensation Program.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Barack Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term.", "label": 0} {"text": "Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. It costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under President Barack Obama's jobs bill, \"you can sue if you are unemployed and don't get the job and think you weren't hired because you are unemployed.", "label": 0} {"text": "Despite having their budget increased by over 40 percent since 2009 … pending claims for benefits with the (Department of Veterans Affairs) have increased from 391,000 to 890,000 under the Obama Administration.", "label": 0} {"text": "Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock's unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.", "label": 0} {"text": "My office sends federal \"money back every year.", "label": 0} {"text": "The federal government is spending $46,000 a year per family (or group of four) and could balance its budget by dropping that to $30,000.", "label": 0} {"text": "Insulin prices have \"gone THRU THE ROOF for patients/taxpayers bc of manufacturer, health plan & PBM biz practices.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're the only major gas-producing state in the US that doesn't have a severance tax.", "label": 0} {"text": "Hillsborough's Public Transportation Commission has \"a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean, please. Come on.", "label": 0} {"text": "Marco Rubio made it clear: Not only does he think Donald Trump is a con man, he went on to say he doesn't trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes.", "label": 0} {"text": "In fact, there's more state funding for education today than any other time.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 1978, college \"tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Deer baiting, planned for Block Island by DEM, is illegal in Rhode Island.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says 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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Small businesses \"create 70 percent of the jobs in America.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying \"software updates are likely coming.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says his time away from Washington coincides with a \"long planned renovation\" for the White House.", "label": 0} {"text": "Last year, 36 million Americans didn't have a prescription filled because they couldn't afford it.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession.", "label": 0} {"text": "Boston is just 60 minutes away and it's offering subsidies to developers who can charge higher rent than you can get in Providence while construction costs are more or less equal. As a result, the Boston skyline \"is completely dominated by the cranes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"a Republican hasn't won [an election] for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988.", "label": 0} {"text": "Miller Brewing is not a U.S. company any more. Neither is Anheuser-Busch.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Gloria Steinem once called Kay Bailey Hutchison a \"female impersonator.", "label": 0} {"text": "Virginia ranks \"in the bottom third of states\" in administering the COVID-19 vaccine.", "label": 0} {"text": "Greece \"has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.", "label": 0} {"text": "China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt, our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"in this next biennium, the cost of primary and secondary education is going to increase by more that $1000 per student. Half of that $1000 – $500 per student – is accounted for by the increased cost of PERS alone.", "label": 0} {"text": "House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks.", "label": 0} {"text": "Joe Biden was older on his first day as president than Ronald Reagan was on his last day.", "label": 0} {"text": "Northern Virginia is the most \"heavily trafficked place in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Right now, America has $1.1 trillion of student debt. That's more than credit card debt.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's driver licenses and identification (ID) cards are currently the most secure in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Only 2% of K-12 students would benefit from Iowa's school voucher bill.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Obama has flip-flopped on public campaign financing.", "label": 0} {"text": "Missouri ranks 45th in the nation in per capita state fiscal support for higher education and Missouri State is last among Missouri schools.", "label": 0} {"text": "It's been nearly three weeks since the president has commented\" on questions about possible hidden wait lists at veterans hospitals.", "label": 0} {"text": "Annual precipitation \"has increased in Rhode Island by over 12 inches in the last century.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nearly 20% of our residents\" are born abroad.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Department of Homeland Security is \"the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year\" by Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "As governor of Florida I defunded Planned Parenthood.", "label": 0} {"text": "Did you know that the U.S. is one of the very few nations in the world without an official language?", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is called the Badger State because \"our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Sen. Rand Paul's 2011 budget \"included a big cut in the CDC.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since taking office, Hochul has passed more than 400 new bills", "label": 0} {"text": "Says a new annual report shows that \"West Virginia's tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "I am the only member of Congress that voted for both inquiries -- the Clinton inquiry and now the Trump inquiry.", "label": 0} {"text": "At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugal's.", "label": 0} {"text": "The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean, a huge gulag.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have a retiree that is collecting a $17,000 paycheck a month . . . tax free.", "label": 0} {"text": "The state of Georgia has lost 200,000 total jobs and 50,000 construction jobs since May 2007.", "label": 0} {"text": "This year, Newt Gingrich \"has raised as much money as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "Just the last three weeks, on average about 23,000 women, children, men are coming over across the border illegally as family units or as unaccompanied children.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving in-state tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants.", "label": 0} {"text": "You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years...", "label": 0} {"text": "New York has \"among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Spectrum will provide free internet to students during coronavirus school closures.", "label": 0} {"text": "According to a recent poll, \"there are more young Republicans enrolled in their parents' (health insurance) plans than young Democrats.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rhode Island is \"almost dead last\" among Northeastern states in the length of time first-degree murderers must spend in prison before they're eligible for parole.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Associated Press called Charlie Crist's attacks \"over the top,\" \"out of context,\" and \"not true.", "label": 0} {"text": "I never proposed privatizing the (Milwaukee County) airport.", "label": 0} {"text": "Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented.", "label": 0} {"text": "We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says judges \"get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state.", "label": 0} {"text": "There's no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections.", "label": 0} {"text": "We now have about one-third of New York's population on Medicaid.", "label": 0} {"text": "The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states.", "label": 0} {"text": "Reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program \"for six years saves $1 billion\" and doing it for 10 years saves $6 billion.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities \"at the last minute in midnight phone calls.", "label": 0} {"text": "The annual gross domestic product of metro Atlanta is \"bigger than 28 states in the union.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he \"was the only Republican\" to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States.", "label": 0} {"text": "Failure to raise the debt limit does not force a U.S. default on debt payments.", "label": 0} {"text": "Polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members \"support requiring background checks for all gun sales.", "label": 0} {"text": "This election actually was not unusually close.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ed Schultz said Alan Grayson is \"what it's all about.", "label": 0} {"text": "Believe it or not, consumer spending is up over the last eight months.", "label": 0} {"text": "One man sacrificed for his country. One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth. One man stands up to the special interests.", "label": 0} {"text": "During a town hall meeting on health care, \"ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most research shows that (UW salaries) are a little behind, and (in) some areas we're behind more than others.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia residents file the most insurance claims for lightning strikes in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "We spend more per student than almost any other major country in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "Guantanamo detainees \"get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugs…they had honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf.", "label": 0} {"text": "Mental health provisions related to mass shootings \"got over 90 votes in the Senate.", "label": 0} {"text": "\\u201CThirty-four percent of Hispanics don\\u2019t have any health care at all, don\\u2019t have any health insurance.\\u201D", "label": 0} {"text": "If someone is in a room that has measles and leaves and you walk in two hours later, you could get measles from that person.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Milwaukee, \"The (homicide) rate has nearly doubled in the past two years.", "label": 0} {"text": "In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump's foundation \"took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.", "label": 0} {"text": "Right now we are spending at an all-time high, close to 25 percent of our GDP [is] being spent on the federal government. But our revenues are at an almost all-time low of about 15 percent [of GDP].", "label": 0} {"text": "Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2008, \"33.2 percent of those who voted early on the last Sunday before Election Day were African-American, while 23.6 percent were Hispanic.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"tenure still exists but it's been overhauled\" for teachers in New Jersey.", "label": 0} {"text": "Right now, Texas doesn't have an income tax and Oklahoma's lowering their income tax rates, and guess what their severance tax is? Sky high.", "label": 0} {"text": "In the Wisconsin State Assembly this session, more than 75% of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile, the GOP allowed less than 2% of Democratic bills to have a hearing.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin still ranks first among the 50 states in manufacturing jobs per capita.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 1968, \"more Americans have died from gunfire than died in … all the wars of this country's history.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says America spends \"over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter \"is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter.", "label": 0} {"text": "Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump not wearing a face mask in public.", "label": 0} {"text": "Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men, outstripping the next nine causes of death combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "A typical married couple \"will contribute $119,000\" into Medicare but will \"receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.", "label": 0} {"text": "I actually in 2005 ran on Medicare for all.", "label": 0} {"text": "The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is \"equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet.", "label": 0} {"text": "Higher education is one of America's strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities, (in the) 2018-19 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.", "label": 0} {"text": "The exodus of citizens from New York State has been growing.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he \"is the only candidate in the race for Clackamas County Chair who will refuse to join the Public Employees Retirement System.", "label": 0} {"text": "Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists\" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.", "label": 0} {"text": "She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action.", "label": 0} {"text": "Go look at other countries that went through exactly this, started to reopen, and then they saw the infection rate go back up again.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the \"last non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that #VoterID was necessary.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, \"so I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down.'", "label": 0} {"text": "A record number of immigrants not from Mexico are \"being apprehended at the border.", "label": 0} {"text": "No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval.", "label": 0} {"text": "We've had a 30% increase in suicides in this country in just 15 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "I stopped requesting earmarks in 2008.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the State Department spent $630,000 to get 2 million Facebook \"Likes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia is \"one of only about seven states in the country\" that has a AAA bond rating.", "label": 0} {"text": "Department of Education officials investigating Virginia Tech shootings \"have not once gotten into the car and driven down to Blacksburg to talk to the police chief or the university president or to anyone else.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Barack Obama \"promised he would cut the deficit in half\" but didn't.", "label": 0} {"text": "We spend less than 2 percent more every year. That is the lowest increase in spending since they have been keeping numbers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas \"high school graduation rates are at all-time highs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland \"voted to keep the shutdown going.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he has issued more pardons than \"any Wisconsin governor in contemporary history.", "label": 0} {"text": "While I was mayor of the city of Providence we had the lowest crime rate in 30 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac \"was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ronald Reagan \"raised taxes in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says 74% of people in Texas are \"crammed into 4% of the land.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Obama promised to cut the deficit in half.", "label": 0} {"text": "Foreign aid \"is less than 1 percent of our federal budget.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Oregonians for Food and Shelter \"proudly features board members from Monsanto and Syngenta and the (Oregon) Farm Bureau also receives funding from biotech companies.", "label": 0} {"text": "Joe Biden \"voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq.", "label": 0} {"text": "There has never been an alderman who has defeated an incumbent mayor in the history of this great city.", "label": 0} {"text": "The city of Portland has won more national Constitution contests than any city in America.", "label": 0} {"text": "Public display of a long rifle is perfectly legal in Texas.", "label": 0} {"text": "There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ronald Reagan was a verified Democrat until his mid-50s.", "label": 0} {"text": "Hillary Clinton \"has the only health care plan that covers every American.", "label": 0} {"text": "The GOP lawyer who helped Kanye West get on the ballot in Wisconsin is actively working for Donald Trump's campaign.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning.", "label": 0} {"text": "When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position.", "label": 0} {"text": "Al Sharpton went to Ferguson, Mo., and is \"declaring as a matter of fact that ... Michael Brown didn't use any deadly force or posed no deadly threat to the officer.", "label": 0} {"text": "The \"mega-rich\" pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class \"fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.", "label": 0} {"text": "The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"in our gun laws we're allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun. The loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun, no questions asked.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey.", "label": 0} {"text": "You can import as many hemp products into this country as you want...but we can't grow it.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.", "label": 0} {"text": "Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"94 percent of (Marco Rubio's) constituents support a universal background check.", "label": 0} {"text": "Probably less than 4 percent\" of Wisconsin residents \"are enjoying the subsidies\" from Obamacare.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says if you are on your bike in a crosswalk, all you have to do is dip your wheel into the road and cars must legally stop.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Florida, it's not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that \"unlike Texas, Missouri has a perfect AAA credit rating.", "label": 0} {"text": "Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of  \"her state Senate district by a half a block.", "label": 0} {"text": "NATO hasn't provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Cuyahoga County ... 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.", "label": 0} {"text": "Let's start with the premise that Rhode Island already has one of the 10 strictest [gun laws] amongst all the states.", "label": 0} {"text": "New York has passed \"the best paid family leave\" program in the United States of America.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"half the Americans don't pay any income taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter.", "label": 0} {"text": "West Virginia Department of Education reported over 10,000 children and youth have been identified as homeless for the 2018-2019 school year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama's tax plan cuts taxes \"for 95 percent of all working families.", "label": 0} {"text": "Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas\" which is \"tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seventy percent of Americans \"don't have a college degree.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Republican-approved changes to \"make it more difficult to participate in Ohio elections include reducing in-person early voting from 35 days to six.", "label": 0} {"text": "Uber and other ride-share firms are not required to carry auto insurance under Georgia law.", "label": 0} {"text": "We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000.", "label": 0} {"text": "You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas\" than find in-person voter fraud.", "label": 0} {"text": "By registration fewer than 20 percent of Florida voters are Independents.", "label": 0} {"text": "Barack Obama voted against \"born alive\" legislation in Illinois that was \"virtually identical to the federal law.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she is the subject of 60 books.", "label": 0} {"text": "Missouri \"had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "The only segment in the beer market that is growing is the craft beer segment.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he \"came to the Republican Party sooner in age\" than Ronald Reagan.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq).", "label": 0} {"text": "We had a No Child Left Behind — a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal law. And it's had a big impact here. It's improved schools.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2008, Charlie Crist '\"applauded the pick of Sarah Palin and said she would do 'a great job.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, \"three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island.", "label": 0} {"text": "Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage.", "label": 0} {"text": "Jeff Greene only moved from California to Florida in the last two years. In fact, he would not legally be allowed to run for any other statewide office because he has not lived here long enough to meet the residency requirement.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says more Austinites voted in the city's 1973 election featuring a mayor's race than in the city's most recent mayoral election.", "label": 0} {"text": "San Antonio is \"now the largest city in the United States ever to have an African American woman mayor.", "label": 0} {"text": "To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then you're out of the union, but you've got to pay it every year, also required by statute. That's called a representation fee.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Obama administration has put out \"more of these major rules than the Clinton administration or the Bush administration during comparable times.", "label": 0} {"text": "The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted -- an estimated 2.7 million people in the U.S.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.", "label": 0} {"text": "First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't.", "label": 0} {"text": "About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money.", "label": 0} {"text": "North Korea's missiles are \"not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon.", "label": 0} {"text": "Biden is \"one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.", "label": 0} {"text": "Three years ago, John McCain said, \"Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"MAX carries 30 percent of evening rush-hour commuters traveling from Downtown on the Sunset and Banfield freeways.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the United States does not \"trade as much as other developed nations.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education.", "label": 0} {"text": "In the last 15 years, we've witnessed a dramatic expansion in the jailing of immigrants, from about 70,000 people detained annually to about 400,000.", "label": 0} {"text": "After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.", "label": 0} {"text": "In New York, \"Average college debt - $30,000 per student.", "label": 0} {"text": "Taking into account inflation, the federal minimum wage is actually worth less than what it was worth 50 years ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nearly 2/3 of rural Missourians don't have access to broadband. That needs to change.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are actually only 30 countries that practice birthright citizenship.", "label": 0} {"text": "U.S. agricultural & food exports are expected to increase more than $2 billion annually under #USMCA", "label": 0} {"text": "At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia lawmakers fuel up for the session by feasting on \"wild\" hogs.", "label": 0} {"text": "The \"House-passed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe, slash more than $1.7 million in anti-terror funds for Ohio.", "label": 0} {"text": "The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era.", "label": 0} {"text": "The average family in America forks over more of their hard-earned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tom Reed \"has actually voted for every single trade deal that has ever come before him in any form.", "label": 0} {"text": "Liberty University students \"were mandated\" to attend Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential announcement \"or they would be fined.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she \"called for addressing risks of derivatives, cracking down on subprime mortgages and improving financial oversight\" early on in the financial crisis.", "label": 0} {"text": "It takes quite a while on Election Day to load those ballots, which is why we have the 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. ballot dumping in Milwaukee.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says President Donald Trump \"had a different opinion\" in 2013 than he does now about whether (Barack) Obama should have intervened in Syria after Obama's red line was crossed.", "label": 0} {"text": "New York leads the U.S. in population loss.", "label": 0} {"text": "For African American families in particular, the homeownership rate remains relatively unchanged since 1968, the year the Fair Housing Act was signed into law.", "label": 0} {"text": "West Virginia is poised to \"receive $25M for 160 orphaned well clean-up projects across the state.", "label": 0} {"text": "From the moment we passed that signature legislation, Mike (Bloomberg) called it a disgrace.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Bush tax cuts \"helped to create a substantial part of the deficit.", "label": 0} {"text": "You know, the approval rating of Congress is down to 13 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "The number of people in Atlanta dying from HIV and AIDS declined 59 percent between 2004 and 2012.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's \"rainy day fund\" is \"165 times bigger than when we first took office.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says $15-an-hour proposal in Cleveland is \"the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says people who signed recall petitions against Wisconsin state Sen. Jim Holperin received \"harassing phone calls from out-of-state telemarketers claiming to represent the Democratic Party and insinuating foul play by petition circulators.", "label": 0} {"text": "Risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism.", "label": 0} {"text": "You have to get a license to fish on our beaches.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Joe Manchin \"refused to commit to Kavanaugh until AFTER the Senate had the votes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says people convicted of felonies or under restraining orders \"can buy a firearm without going through a background check.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rick Perry doesn't think there should be a federal minimum wage.", "label": 0} {"text": "The filibuster was never an idea of the founding fathers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Jackie Evancho's album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her inauguration performance.", "label": 0} {"text": "Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didn't sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasn't tough enough.", "label": 0} {"text": "This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "The health insurance plan that (members of Congress) have is no different than any other federal employee's in the United States government.", "label": 0} {"text": "Only half of the murders in the city of St. Louis get solved.", "label": 0} {"text": "Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  \"take us into a recession and kill jobs.", "label": 0} {"text": "The poorest in this country are women.", "label": 0} {"text": "One\" Texas school \"district alone -- Austin ISD -- is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States has experienced \"40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher.", "label": 0} {"text": "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 wouldn't have spent $1 trillion.", "label": 0} {"text": "The extra point is almost automatic. … (The NFL) had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd\" attempts.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"A baby in Coos County is two times as likely to be born to a mother who is someone who used tobacco during her pregnancy as is the average baby born in Oregon or the U.S.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he \"paid one dollar for\" a sweater at Kohl's.", "label": 0} {"text": "The hour of sleep you lose during the change to daylight saving time might initially pose some health risks.", "label": 0} {"text": "Millionaires are eligible for food stamps, but \"Donald Trump came along and decided to put a stop to it.", "label": 0} {"text": "MikeHuckabee.com gets \"more hits than virtually any other presidential candidate.", "label": 0} {"text": "McCain \"said he was 'stumped' when asked whether contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV.", "label": 0} {"text": "The state's overall revenues only returned this year to 2007 levels.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says six of the state's 58 family planning centers had to close because of Gov. Chris Christie's budget cuts.", "label": 0} {"text": "Abraham Lincoln \"visited and some say even danced in (the Ohio Senate) chamber.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're spending millions for each individual\" held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.", "label": 0} {"text": "President Barack Obama \"had the legal authority\" to strike Syria without a vote from Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under President George W. Bush, \"we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama … we've added $6.5 trillion to the debt.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Ted Strickland \"in this campaign bragged about his A-plus rating with the NRA. ... He has said he has a mixed and spotty record on this issue and that he can be criticized for it. Those are his words, not mine. So I don't know where he is on this issue.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she got unions to agree to \"about $10 million in reduction\" of salaries and health benefits while serving as Dane County executive in Wisconsin.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops.", "label": 0} {"text": "California's prisons budget in 1970 \"was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it's 8.9 percent, about $12 billion.", "label": 0} {"text": "Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia.", "label": 0} {"text": "The GOP-controlled Legislature has \"refused to act on at least 150\" appointees of Gov. Tony Evers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Other Western countries have ended their \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policies.", "label": 0} {"text": "Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average. All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "We are picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida shelled out more money for drug testing than it saved by denying welfare benefits to people who tested positive for drugs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union.", "label": 0} {"text": "Over 3 million Americans are employed in the growing green-collar workforce,\" which is more than the number \"of people working in the fossil fuel industry.", "label": 0} {"text": "In fact New Jersey is a donor state, we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington. And interestingly Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to Washington.", "label": 0} {"text": "America has more governors who've worn blackface than black governors.", "label": 0} {"text": "99.4% of businesses in Wisconsin are small businesses,\" and they employ \"nearly half of our workforce.", "label": 0} {"text": "One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh.", "label": 0} {"text": "The state budget will include scholarship money for minority students as a concession to Senate Democrats for supporting the GOP-initiated transportation bill.", "label": 0} {"text": "President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"10% of U.S. children are Texans.", "label": 0} {"text": "On average, one person dies by suicide every 22 hours in West Virginia.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tax rates were significantly higher \"in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's 6th congressional \"district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other\" in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia is one of three states that \"effectively have no regulations whatsoever on lobbyists giving to legislators.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Republican presidential nominee hasn't won women since 1988.", "label": 0} {"text": "The unemployment rate for Wisconsin workers has reached historic lows. It's never been this low before, ever, ever, ever.", "label": 0} {"text": "On extreme-risk guns laws, \"This idea has passed Republican legislatures in other states and has been signed by Republican governors.", "label": 0} {"text": "Pot today is not the weed baby boomers were smoking.", "label": 0} {"text": "Kari Lake is opposed to red flag laws.", "label": 0} {"text": "In just a few decades, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, other mandatory spending programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.", "label": 0} {"text": "When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits,\" just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.", "label": 0} {"text": "Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ted Cruz has been to Iowa four times. Rio Grande Valley of Texas -- just once.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you \"already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Scott Walker's \"listening sessions\" are \"invite-only and excluding the press.", "label": 0} {"text": "After J.D. Hayworth \"was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist\" who was \"paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson \"called climate change 'bull----' during a record heatwave\" and \"raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States has a low voter turnout rate.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations.", "label": 0} {"text": "The state's unemployment rate is fifth-highest in the country, a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our...neighboring states.", "label": 0} {"text": "The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families \"who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you look at the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country, it is net zero. It's been that way now for almost two years.", "label": 0} {"text": "The fact is it's not amnesty.", "label": 0} {"text": "When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, \"When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists.", "label": 0} {"text": "The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled -- 100 percent -- in the last 10 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street.", "label": 0} {"text": "Mitt Romney \"gave away his father's inheritance.", "label": 0} {"text": "Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied\" by Hillary \"Clinton's State Department.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Dan Forest has \"missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic.", "label": 0} {"text": "Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.", "label": 0} {"text": "Hillary Clinton \"agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq.", "label": 0} {"text": "The labor force participation rate -- the share of the potential workforce that is actually working or looking for work-- currently stands below 63%, the lowest level since the 1970s.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're now the No. 1 producer of oil in the world. We've surpassed Saudi Arabia.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas \"children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching.", "label": 0} {"text": "Anyone can die of a toothache.", "label": 0} {"text": "Big pharmaceuticals pay off — they literally pay off — generics to keep the prices and the competition off the market.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fox News barely covered (the Duggar family) scandal until Megyn Kelly was able to secure this interview.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1982 that non-citizen children must get free K-12 education.", "label": 0} {"text": "Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate Cannon, Senate President-Designate Haridopolos and I stood up to Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his mismanagement of the party.", "label": 0} {"text": "That 5% (wealth tax) starts at $159,000 per family.", "label": 0} {"text": "My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False.", "label": 0} {"text": "Webster sponsored a bill to create a form of marriage that would trap women in abusive relationships.", "label": 0} {"text": "New York is \"leading the nation with the lowest imprisonment rate of any large state", "label": 0} {"text": "In New Orleans, nearly 100 percent of our kids are in charter schools.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she is \"entering in the most diverse class ever,\" of U.S. Representatives", "label": 0} {"text": "The omnibus spending bill has \"9,427 pork barrel items.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says about 25 Texas cities and 39 states have banned texting while driving.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election.", "label": 0} {"text": "Hillary Clinton's State Department sent three comedians to India on the 'Make Chai, Not War' tour.", "label": 0} {"text": "A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he has sued the Obama administration 25 times.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Georgia ranks \"near the bottom in per capita transportation spending.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas.", "label": 0} {"text": "The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the federal health care law upheld by the Supreme Court \"has improved or saved the lives of more than 4,000 Texans\" otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to pre-existing conditions.", "label": 0} {"text": "He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq.", "label": 0} {"text": "Forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.", "label": 0} {"text": "The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.", "label": 0} {"text": "With this reform, every insured American gets valuable consumer protections, and every uninsured American can become insured.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama \"said (the individual mandate) wasn't a tax.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says since he took office, the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7,000 new affordable housing units.", "label": 0} {"text": "We've had Muslims in America since George Washington.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 2008, Gwinnett County's population has grown 15 percent, while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated.", "label": 0} {"text": "In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is \"dead last in income growth\" among midwestern states during Gov. Scott Walker's term.", "label": 0} {"text": "We are at a 40-year low in our crime rate in our state.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in.", "label": 0} {"text": "He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service.", "label": 0} {"text": "During his tenure as mayor of New York City, \"street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that.", "label": 0} {"text": "In the past three years, state legislatures have \"enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.", "label": 0} {"text": "Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Georgia, \"25 percent of rural residents\" are \"without access to high speed internet.", "label": 0} {"text": "You can buy lobster with food stamps.", "label": 0} {"text": "Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under Donald Trump's tax plan, \"51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he was the only statewide elected official to speak in favor of a federal guest worker plan at the 2012 Republican Party of Texas convention.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida is 49th in per capita spending on mental health care.", "label": 0} {"text": "A congressional laundry closed due to the partial government shutdown.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway.", "label": 0} {"text": "The No. 1 cause of death for African-American males 15-34 is murder.", "label": 0} {"text": "Virginia House \"Republicans have had more African-Americans on key committees than when the Democrats were in control.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States is no longer \"top nation in the globe on infrastructure,\" having fallen to 15th.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says New Hampshire's second congressional district includes two counties where \"almost 5 percent if not more\" of residents are enrolled in the state's expanded Medicaid program.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ohio today has the \"fewest number of state employees since the Reagan administration.", "label": 0} {"text": "Three out of the 18 benchmarks of the (GAO) have been fulfilled. Even among Republican math, that is a failing grade.", "label": 0} {"text": "Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14,000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia ranks No. 9 in the rate of women murdered by men.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says American polling shows Russian President Vladimir Putin has \"an 80 percent approval rating.", "label": 0} {"text": "For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three.", "label": 0} {"text": "West Virginia has \"the nation's lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "FDR was called a socialist and a communist.", "label": 0} {"text": "There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians don't want our money.", "label": 0} {"text": "In South Florida, \"we've had nine inches of sea-level rise since the 1920s.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump \"wants to undo marriage equality.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Gov. Charlie Crist has called him \"a rock star.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salaries in 2010 for employees to \"participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college.", "label": 0} {"text": "Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They're buried beneath the ground.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says his elections proposal would allow \"a potential of 168 hours (of early voting), which I think is the most we've ever had.", "label": 0} {"text": "With only 67 bills or so passed into law, \"2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since we've been keeping record.", "label": 0} {"text": "Democrats have said that \"even one hearing (on the stimulus bill) would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'm proud to have had a 100 percent pro-life voting record.", "label": 0} {"text": "A bipartisan background check amendment \"outlawed any (gun) registry.  Plain and simple, right there in the text.", "label": 0} {"text": "Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate\" the governor's mansion.", "label": 0} {"text": "For only the second time since 2000, there are more job openings than Americans who are unemployed.", "label": 0} {"text": "The 2015 Legislature \"passed the fewest laws in 20 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you want to vote in\" Texas, \"you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isn't good enough.", "label": 0} {"text": "Crime is down in Arizona.", "label": 0} {"text": "The federal government has \"77 different means-tested social welfare programs.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock.", "label": 0} {"text": "What happens is people like Warren Buffett — and he says this himself...pay 15 percent on the millions of dollars that they earn from wealth income... while their secretary is paying a higher rate on her work income. It's not right.", "label": 0} {"text": "I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit.", "label": 0} {"text": "Three thousand felons voted in Rhode Island in 2008.", "label": 0} {"text": "Four (maybe five) Latinos have served on the Austin City Council.", "label": 0} {"text": "We can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn't have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Fran DeWine's made-from-scratch dinner rolls are a delicious favorite in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida ranks 45th\" in the nation for tuition.", "label": 0} {"text": "The truth is, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms. Planned Parenthood refers women to mammography providers, serving as the middlewoman, if you will.", "label": 0} {"text": "Black lung cases are at a 25-year high.", "label": 0} {"text": "$1 of every $3 (Ron DeSantis) spends comes from the federal government.", "label": 0} {"text": "The law says that mental health must be treated the same as physical health,\" but coverage by health insurers is unequal.", "label": 0} {"text": "The new 21st State Senate district was \"created in secret for Van Wanggaard. It was drawn within half a block of his house.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.", "label": 0} {"text": "I've given the religious schools in my budget more money than ever before in history.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States is the ONLY industrialized country without universal healthcare.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Kendrick Meek claims he's the only candidate who said Sonia Sotomayor \"will make an excellent Supreme Court justice.", "label": 0} {"text": "President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "In the last 10 years, Georgia's middle class income has dropped $6,500.", "label": 0} {"text": "Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sharron Angle \"would eliminate the Department of Education.", "label": 0} {"text": "Members of the military don't \"contribute toward their pension.", "label": 0} {"text": "(John McCain) was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry.", "label": 0} {"text": "Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and \"virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks.", "label": 0} {"text": "The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.", "label": 0} {"text": "New Castle County's unemployment rate has not almost doubled in the last two years.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'm for a three-state political solution in Iraq. (Romney) is not.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 1992, Mitt Romney \"gave money to Democrats for Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "The racial and ethnic makeup of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office mirrors the community it serves.", "label": 0} {"text": "Romney used to favor gun control, and said he didn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush.", "label": 0} {"text": "The entire state of Florida led the nation last year with the most prison inmates committing tax fraud.", "label": 0} {"text": "Because of U.S. Senate rules, Democrats need \"more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade.", "label": 0} {"text": "Newt Gingrich \"teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.", "label": 0} {"text": "Minneapolis \"city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs\" related to a Trump rally, \"more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama.", "label": 0} {"text": "Until this week, they [OSHA] weren't even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.", "label": 0} {"text": "I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor.", "label": 0} {"text": "Building a wall\" on the U.S.-Mexico border \"will take literally years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a \"murder mill.", "label": 0} {"text": "American oil production is at its highest level since 2003.", "label": 0} {"text": "The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 \"includes the largest pay raise in nearly 10 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2010, uninsured voters made up \"about 5 percent of the electorate.", "label": 0} {"text": "Will Hurd \"tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record.", "label": 0} {"text": "Do you know that New York State pays out way more than they ever get back?", "label": 0} {"text": "The truth is David Cicilline voted for tougher laws against child abusers, domestic abusers and abusers of the elderly.", "label": 0} {"text": "Half of the American women who are murdered are killed by their intimate partners.", "label": 0} {"text": "Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says 88 Texas constables have died in the line of duty.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Rep. John Katko \"promised he wouldn't vote to defund Planned Parenthood and since he's been in office he's done that four times", "label": 0} {"text": "Donald Trump is \"against marriage equality. He wants to go back.", "label": 0} {"text": "For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are \"legal refugees\" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.", "label": 0} {"text": "The cost to implement Florida's class size amendment so far has been \"$16 billion.", "label": 0} {"text": "Big soda has a lot of money. They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that we're trying to cure.", "label": 0} {"text": "Her opponent: zero times a judge, zero rulings, zero experience on the bench.", "label": 0} {"text": "Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers' comp system. That's the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.", "label": 0} {"text": "For now, we are still below average in the metro region.", "label": 0} {"text": "Warren (Buffett) still does support me.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Koch brothers are one of the biggest polluters in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children.", "label": 0} {"text": "As Dane County executive, Kathleen Falk raised property taxes by \"millions of dollars every year\" and approved the second highest increase in the state in 2010.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas law requires state agencies to give preference to goods produced and grown in Texas.", "label": 0} {"text": "Former U.S. Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson was a slave owner married to one of his slaves and father of two children with her.", "label": 0} {"text": "There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades.", "label": 0} {"text": "Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs.", "label": 0} {"text": "History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth.", "label": 0} {"text": "One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth.", "label": 0} {"text": "Contrary to popular belief, we actually don't have that many public employees…We are well below average in the number of public employees.''", "label": 0} {"text": "86% of Americans and 82% of gun owners support requiring all gun buyers to pass a background check.", "label": 0} {"text": "The graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years", "label": 0} {"text": "Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions\" on health care.", "label": 0} {"text": "Traditionally, the Speaker says: 'Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.' (Tonight) Speaker Pelosi said, 'Members of Congress, the President of the United States.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida.", "label": 0} {"text": "The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a tax-credit for consumers' electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.", "label": 0} {"text": "By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family.", "label": 0} {"text": "90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted.", "label": 0} {"text": "Electric utility FirstEnergy's annual revenues are greater \"than the GDP of Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Iceland, or 15 African nations.", "label": 0} {"text": "Crist sent his \"top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal,\" then vetoed the bill.", "label": 0} {"text": "Graduation rates in Buffalo's school district, which were \"around 48 percent are now up to 64 percent\" since Say Yes Buffalo launched.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he \"sued Obama's EPA seven times.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.", "label": 0} {"text": "According to Wikipedia, there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the United States in the distribution of our wealth.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the federal government is \"the largest energy user in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is the nation's top cranberry producer — in fact, our farmers harvest around 60 percent of the country's crop.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because you've engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says a change in law he carried stopped a $100 million tax increase in the Dallas school district.", "label": 0} {"text": "We ... sold the state airplanes as I had promised.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. \"tax rate on successful small businesses is 44.6 percent,\" while the business tax rate in Canada is 15 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Governor Carcieri has not been campaigning with me.", "label": 0} {"text": "Providence has \"the lowest crime rate in three decades.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP.", "label": 0} {"text": "One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nobody has played clips over and over ... of President Obama (saying), 'If they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun.' ", "label": 0} {"text": "Foxconn \"is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.", "label": 0} {"text": "The commission form of government is definitely losing favor in the United States.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the media distorted what happened with a baby at his rally.", "label": 0} {"text": "The hole in the earth that's going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.", "label": 0} {"text": "The last time Republican U.S. Senate candidates \"beat more than two (incumbents) was 1980.", "label": 0} {"text": "Before World War II, very few people actually had health insurance.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Afghanistan, \"over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.", "label": 0} {"text": "Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes.", "label": 0} {"text": "The health care plan for members of Congress \"is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices.", "label": 0} {"text": "We now do have evidence\" that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.", "label": 0} {"text": "About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old.", "label": 0} {"text": "The typical black family in this country has one-tenth the wealth of the typical white family.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 2014, \"each year, (NATO) nations have been increasing their contributions.", "label": 0} {"text": "We fixed a loophole in the (gun) background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer.", "label": 0} {"text": "You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on a taxpayer protection pledge.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Tennessee's higher education funding model \"is 100 percent outcomes-based\" and \"we are already seeing this model changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she \"is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "Farouk is on fire.", "label": 0} {"text": "A lawyer demanded \"several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons.", "label": 0} {"text": "The governor's budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"most\" NC legislators are in the \"high risk age group\" for coronavirus", "label": 0} {"text": "This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Hillary Clinton \"wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Thanks to you, in under one week we have the largest GOP (Facebook) page in the Governor's race!", "label": 0} {"text": "The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner.", "label": 0} {"text": "In nine Democratic debates, \"We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question.", "label": 0} {"text": "Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus \"have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers.", "label": 0} {"text": "The religious liberty bill proposed in the Georgia House of Representatives does not specifically exclude corporations, which means they can legally claim a religious exemption.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida's red flag gun law has been used \"about five times a day.", "label": 0} {"text": "Some politicians … want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries.", "label": 0} {"text": "(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California.", "label": 0} {"text": "Thirty-eight states -- Georgia not included -- have appointed, rather than elected, state school superintendents.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama spent \"40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'm the only candidate who has not accepted money from Carl Paladino nor LPCiminelli; two of the biggest developers in the city of Buffalo.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget \"is still below the level of state spending when I took office.", "label": 0} {"text": "I wake up every morning in a house (the White House) that was built by slaves.", "label": 0} {"text": "Decorated Marine, two-tour Iraq war vet.", "label": 0} {"text": "Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are \"quite unpopular.", "label": 0} {"text": "Illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is \"the lowest in 17 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2010 about 75 percent of child abuse and neglect reports in Oregon were made by those required to report by law.", "label": 0} {"text": "(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Virginia is the biggest state that does not have a major league sports team.", "label": 0} {"text": "In the last 6 years, there have been 420 elections for State Senator and State Representative. Only three incumbents have been defeated!", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should \"borrow money if you have to from your parents.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin property taxes, as a percentage of personal income, \"are the lowest that they've been since the end of World War II.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seven of America's 10 wealthiest counties are in the Washington, D.C., area.", "label": 0} {"text": "About 40 percent of Hispanic homeowners have subprime mortgages.", "label": 0} {"text": "Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg \"has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tennessee's grocery tax is one of the highest in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "More children die in agricultural jobs than in any other industry.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants.", "label": 0} {"text": "This year West Virginia produced more AmeriCorps members than any other state.", "label": 0} {"text": "Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions.", "label": 0} {"text": "The causation standard in Indiana is exactly the same as it is in Illinois.", "label": 0} {"text": "California's credit rating is \"the worst in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seventy of Ohio's 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since Oregon's prescription-only law took effect, meth lab incidents have dropped by 96 percent and meth-related arrests by 32 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Pasco County schools have graduation rates \"substantially higher than the state average\" and dropout rates \"below the state average.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says in the 2016 presidential election, \"I won that one by 42 points -- 42 points -- West Virginia.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our (Texas) graduation rate ranks 43rd out of 50 states.", "label": 0} {"text": "Charlie Crist \"bizarrely vetoed\" $9.7 million for a teaching hospital at the University of Florida \"despite having previously argued the budget request had merit.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Austin is the \"largest city in America without a congressional district anchored in it.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax, and it has \"the lowest threshold in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Ron Johnson \"likes to say there are too many lawyers in the Senate – 57. He'd be the 70th millionaire.", "label": 0} {"text": "It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces.", "label": 0} {"text": "We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses.", "label": 0} {"text": "We're. . . keeping and creating jobs in our state. From American Greetings, to Wendy's, to Diebold, we've gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in Ohio.", "label": 0} {"text": "I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream.", "label": 0} {"text": "No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle.", "label": 0} {"text": "Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists.", "label": 0} {"text": "The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost,\" since the stimulus bill was signed.", "label": 0} {"text": "General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration.", "label": 0} {"text": "The National Academy of Medicine points to a significant correlation between marijuana and psychosis, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders, particularly in teenagers where the risk of developing schizophrenia increases three fold.", "label": 0} {"text": "Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would put government-installed cameras in every single classroom to livestream school activities for parents to spy on teachers and children.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'll be the only economist in the (U.S.) House.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States is \"the oldest democracy\" in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas.", "label": 0} {"text": "TSA WILL ACCEPT DRIVERS PRIV CARDS FOR ID AT THE AIRPORT", "label": 0} {"text": "On Virginia's new marijuana law: \"You can have up to one pound with only a $25 fine.", "label": 0} {"text": "I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says all North Carolina teachers do not currently get a \"duty free lunch break.", "label": 0} {"text": "I have returned money every year since taking office.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Florida Legislature raised taxes and fees by almost $2 billion\" in the 2009 session.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under N.Y. State 'Assault Weapon' ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned", "label": 0} {"text": "The Clintons' foundation took millions from foreign governments\" including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.", "label": 0} {"text": "Gov. Crist has never wavered in his support of the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.", "label": 0} {"text": "Oregonians have an \"amazing no-cost way to fight abortion\" with free political donations", "label": 0} {"text": "Warren Buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction. And Greene was the first individual to use them.", "label": 0} {"text": "Before the pandemic, just over 40,000 were on continuing UI claims. Now, there are well over 100,000 on state or federal UI benefits.", "label": 0} {"text": "150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid.", "label": 0} {"text": "California has \"the highest poverty rate in the nation\" when considering the U.S. Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.", "label": 0} {"text": "The musical Mamma Mia! has \"been selling out for years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a 'successful' terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama's 2008 election.", "label": 0} {"text": "This week the House of Representatives voted to remove the word 'lunatic' from federal law.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million).", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nation's top-performing local economy.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country.", "label": 0} {"text": "People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.", "label": 0} {"text": "A report by the health insurance industry \"ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill.", "label": 0} {"text": "On the day that (the Republican) state leader resigned in disgrace, a 'Shred-It' truck rolled up to Republican headquarters.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump \"supports eminent domain\" and the Supreme Court's Kelo decision.", "label": 0} {"text": "There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"New Jersey's public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is #1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says immigrant military service members applying for U.S. citizenship \"are getting rejected at higher numbers than those who are not veterans.", "label": 0} {"text": "Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them.", "label": 0} {"text": "Under this tax cut, middle-class families don't save enough for a week's worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation.", "label": 0} {"text": "House Bill 991 \"could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores.", "label": 0} {"text": "A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. \"doesn't make television sets anymore.", "label": 0} {"text": "With the exception of baby formula, the federal government does not require any food to carry an expiration date, and state laws vary widely.", "label": 0} {"text": "Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide.", "label": 0} {"text": "Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected in 2014.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Affordable Care Act \"provided over 200,000 West Virginians with health care coverage.", "label": 0} {"text": "Virginia women are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to Virginia men.", "label": 0} {"text": "Jennifer Carroll is the \"first African-American Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida.", "label": 0} {"text": "As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney used a line-item veto to cut \"millions of dollars for firefighting equipment,\" including firefighters' \"coats, pants, helmets and boots.", "label": 0} {"text": "Why didn't (uninsured Americans) buy insurance? Because of the expense.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obamacare was patterned after (Mitt Romney's) plan in Massachusetts.", "label": 0} {"text": "The past president (Barack Obama) brought Al Sharpton into the White House something like 80 times.", "label": 0} {"text": "New York has the third lowest rate of gun-caused death in America.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney \"wants to end tax credits for wind producers.", "label": 0} {"text": "In its current state, this bill is the most restrictive voter ID legislation in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "There is already a mosque four blocks away.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Romney flip-flopped on abortion.", "label": 0} {"text": "Legally, it doesn't make any difference\" which state district you live in when running for Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "Cannabis reform \"is supported by the majority of the residents of our state, including a majority of Republicans.", "label": 0} {"text": "Polls show that Americans \"overwhelmingly\" support \"expanding background checks.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. Supreme Court has not traditionally asked a lot of questions during oral arguments.", "label": 0} {"text": "That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.", "label": 0} {"text": "Over the past five years, the American automobile industry has \"created about 500,000 new jobs.", "label": 0} {"text": "What Republicans call the \"death tax\" is the estate tax \"on the ultra wealthy\" which, in 2016, was paid by only \"two out of every 1,000 people.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says most of Austin's biggest parks have recycling though as \"many as 293 out of 300\" Austin city \"parks have no recycling, including almost every neighborhood park.", "label": 0} {"text": "One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176,000 people: the United States government.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas ranks first in executions among the states.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "State \"school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation.", "label": 0} {"text": "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", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "A private company building a natural gas pipeline into Florida \"is being forced to spend months under the review of six federal agencies.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Did you know US population growth is at its lowest since the Great Depression?", "label": 0} {"text": "In the U.S., \"African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites\" on marijuana charges.", "label": 0} {"text": "Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office in downtown San Francisco.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Massachusetts, \"half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients.", "label": 0} {"text": "A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together.", "label": 0} {"text": "Americans spend more than $160 billion and 6 billion hours per year complying with the tax code.", "label": 0} {"text": "I belong to the AFL-CIO.", "label": 0} {"text": "Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.", "label": 0} {"text": "98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000\" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.", "label": 0} {"text": "There used to be 16 workers for every one person on Social Security. ... Now it's three.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Democrat-controlled Senate, it hasn't passed a budget in more than 1,000 days.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget \"will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Heroin .. pours across our southern borders.", "label": 0} {"text": "In the stimulus, \"$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 1904, the Ohio victor has won the presidency 25 out of 27 times", "label": 0} {"text": "Saudi Arabia is \"the only Muslim country out of 47 Muslim-majority countries\" where women cannot get licenses to drive.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the Trump administration transferred $10 million from FEMA to ICE.", "label": 0} {"text": "Each day our nation pays communist China $73.9 million in interest on our debt.", "label": 0} {"text": "The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.", "label": 0} {"text": "My 2018 election was the first time Speaker Robin Vos has lost a Republican-held seat", "label": 0} {"text": "The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is a Top 10 state for health care coverage.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia has recovered more than $60 million that was lost to Medicaid fraud", "label": 0} {"text": "I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment.", "label": 0} {"text": "A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis,\" including recreational and medical marijuana.", "label": 0} {"text": "The VA negotiates prescription drug prices. Medicare doesn't do that.", "label": 0} {"text": "Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are \"approximately 20,000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island.", "label": 0} {"text": "Twenty two years ago, when he was running for governor, Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House.", "label": 0} {"text": "When we passed (the stand your ground law), we said it portends horrific events when people's lives were put into these situations.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"About 7 in 10 of Oregon's inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses.", "label": 0} {"text": "Every day in the United States, we are losing 15 factories.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The majority of Austinites rent\" the places they live.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "FIFA \"pressured Brazil into passing a so-called Budweiser bill, allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums.", "label": 0} {"text": "Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.", "label": 0} {"text": "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", "label": 0} {"text": "Witnesses have been part of \"every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had.", "label": 0} {"text": "If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says taxpayer subsidy for the Oregon Convention Center hotel jumped $100 million in closed-door sessions", "label": 0} {"text": "Studies show at the minimum wage, you can't rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment.", "label": 0} {"text": "The property appraiser's budget \"is $1 million less today than when I took office 16 years ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second; Saudi Arabia is number three.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama \"won health care for 150,000 people.", "label": 0} {"text": "Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget.", "label": 0} {"text": "The cost for renovating the headquarters of the U.N. has doubled from the original estimate.", "label": 0} {"text": "Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Senate health care bill \"would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage.", "label": 0} {"text": "You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have lost more lives in the last two years\" due to opioids \"than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that in 2011, Oregon had \"the second fastest growing economy in the nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since the week ending March 14, Wisconsin actually saw a drop in tourism spending compared to last year of $1.7 billion.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had \"the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ninety percent of the topsoil has inadequate moisture to grow crops.", "label": 0} {"text": "Close to half of the children\" in California are \"at or near poverty,\" when you consider cost-of-living.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, \"we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Then-Sen. Barack Obama \"refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2017, West Virginia's $43,469 median household income was $16,867 below the national average, ranking 50th.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "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", "label": 0} {"text": "Many law enforcement agencies didn't submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.", "label": 0} {"text": "It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the Texas Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase up to 300,000 promotional stress balls.", "label": 0} {"text": "Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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", "label": 0} {"text": "Our state has fewer science, technology, engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat.", "label": 0} {"text": "Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree.", "label": 0} {"text": "West Virginia \"has the highest overdose rate per capita of any state in our nation.", "label": 0} {"text": "South Florida ranks No. 1 in the gap between wages and housing.", "label": 0} {"text": "It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nearly half of Hispanic voters in Arizona's last election supported four measures that were \"very tough on illegal immigration.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Philando Castile \"had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don't vote for Donald Trump.", "label": 0} {"text": "Daniel Webster said he's out. Now he says he's in.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"a pack-a-day smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1,650 a year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump's proposed tax treatment of hedge fund managers \"makes the current loophole even worse.", "label": 0} {"text": "A far different picture from the prior eight years, which saw 115 increases in taxes and fees.", "label": 0} {"text": "FUN FACT: West Virginia is home to zero billionaires.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says troops are leaving Iraq \"too fast.", "label": 0} {"text": "Say that under state law, \"systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment.", "label": 0} {"text": "I was the first member of Congress to contribute to Donald Trump.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas is last in workers' compensation coverage.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 2009, Democratic Wisconsin state senators \"rammed through a billion-dollar tax hike in 24 hours with no public input.", "label": 0} {"text": "If New York's proposed limits on natural gas in buildings take effect, the grid today can't handle the increased electric load.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Iranians are now saying that what we're saying the deal is and what they understand it to be are two different things.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obama's jobs bill.", "label": 0} {"text": "For every extra year a girl goes to school, her income goes up 12 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "As mayor, Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley, \"which now supports nearly 4,000 jobs in Wisconsin.", "label": 0} {"text": "In two years, Gov. McAuliffe has vetoed more bills that the previous three governors issued in each of their four-year terms.", "label": 0} {"text": "State law says that once the state appraises a piece of property, they can only pay it a certain amount above appraisal.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family's incomes barely budged.", "label": 0} {"text": "When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up, Palin sent \"a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once.", "label": 0} {"text": "An 11-year-old boy saved the lives of two people on the same day.", "label": 0} {"text": "At Bain Capital, \"we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.", "label": 0} {"text": "Ronald Reagan did amnesty.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Holly Turner \"failed to vote in five straight Republican primaries.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"51 percent of federal tax filers paid zero federal income tax.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump's tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations \"more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two.", "label": 0} {"text": "California firefighters decided \"to speak out\" against President Trump because his tweet about the state's wildfires \"contained so much misinformation.", "label": 0} {"text": "(Bill) McCollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation, even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Of the 25 wealthiest nations, we're the only one that doesn't provide basic health coverage.", "label": 0} {"text": "Polls show \"Hillary Clinton wins every time with Donald Trump\" as her opponent.", "label": 0} {"text": "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", "label": 0} {"text": "Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died.", "label": 0} {"text": "Only \"18 percent of jobs are accessible by transit for metro Atlanta residents. 33 percent for those living in the city.", "label": 0} {"text": "We spend more on health care than any other country, but we're ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States has \"one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "Bill McCollum has \"recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf's trip to the Middle East.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than half of Virginia's school buildings are older than 50 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "The national debt \"has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says spending in the fiscal 2009 budget was lower than spending in the fiscal 2014 budget", "label": 0} {"text": "Romney said \"'No' to in-state tuition\" for illegal immigrants.", "label": 0} {"text": "One in 10 babies born in this country is born in Texas.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Keystone pipeline creates \"35 permanent jobs\" after construction, according to a government report.", "label": 0} {"text": "Nearly 2,000 high schools - roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States - produce about half of the nation's dropouts.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Harrisburg, I passed more bills than all the Democrats combined, in terms of legislation affecting the city.", "label": 0} {"text": "McCain is \"raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed.", "label": 0} {"text": "Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.", "label": 0} {"text": "Currently, 23 percent of our military's infrastructure is graded as 'poor' while 9 percent is 'failing.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Rick Perry \"provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants.", "label": 0} {"text": "I've taken on the federal government and won.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rep. Ilhan Omar \"voted yes\" to \"provide further funding for the 9/11 First Responders Victims Fund\" while Sen. Rand Paul \"voted no.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Senate Republican education plan is an unfunded mandate for local school districts.", "label": 0} {"text": "The region I represent, both currently and in the future, has more automotive plants than the entire state of California.", "label": 0} {"text": "Barack Obama is \"only the second Democrat in the last 75 years to win Ohio twice with more than 50 percent of the vote.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seven years later, (Scott Walker) has not hit his first campaign promise of creating 250,000 jobs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 2008, we have cut 5,000 positions\" from Virginia public schools.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, \"75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon.", "label": 0} {"text": "It is legal in Ohio to fire an employee or evict a tenant just for being gay.", "label": 0} {"text": "A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, \"We can take your competition off the streets for FREE.", "label": 0} {"text": "The people of Tiverton have historically supported [gambling measures] at a rate higher than the rest of the state.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.", "label": 0} {"text": "Virginia was named \"best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child\" while I was governor.", "label": 0} {"text": "Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning \"as little as $17,000.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "There have been \"at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "China account(s) for 90 percent of North Korean trade.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 2000, when he entered politics, Jon Husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices.", "label": 0} {"text": "There's no money\" for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Federal regulations required the changes to Georgia's driver's license renewal process.", "label": 0} {"text": "Currently, there is no one from South Austin on the (Austin City) Council!", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The deficit this year could pay \"all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Amanda Fritz \"manages less than 5 percent of city operations.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all.", "label": 0} {"text": "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid \"said, quote, 'I can't stand John McCain.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Says state Senate recall challenger Sandy Pasch voted \"to cut school aid by nearly $300 million.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says five Democratic state senators were for her bicycle tailgating bill \"before they were against it.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says state Rep. Fred Clark (D-Baraboo) ran a red light and seriously injured a bicyclist.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Travis County is \"surrounded by red counties.", "label": 0} {"text": "Oregon has never before tried to create a land-use plan for \"what it should look like for 50 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. has \"5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the world's known prison population.", "label": 0} {"text": "As president, Barack Obama has never visited Israel.", "label": 0} {"text": "The NRA used to support expanded background checks.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's dead last in Midwest job growth.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have 80,000 abortions in Texas every year.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Mitt Romney \"has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida Democrats \"put my Social Security number and my wife's Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Poor people go to a \"payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest.", "label": 0} {"text": "I spent only $36.29 on my campaign for governor.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says there's no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says HB2 has hurt North Carolina's economy by \"one-tenth of 1 percent of our annual GDP.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times. Most of it's been used by Republicans.", "label": 0} {"text": "In his first TV interview as president, Obama said we \"should talk to Iran.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last.", "label": 0} {"text": "Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.", "label": 0} {"text": "Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war.", "label": 0} {"text": "We've been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression.", "label": 0} {"text": "Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line.", "label": 0} {"text": "The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance.", "label": 0} {"text": "We spend three times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense.", "label": 0} {"text": "For \"the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than once, I've actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance.", "label": 0} {"text": "Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?", "label": 0} {"text": "Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Dan Patrick \"proposed Arizona-style show-me-your-papers legislation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy.", "label": 0} {"text": "The average person \"will pay $6,000 more a year\" under Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal.", "label": 0} {"text": "When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women.", "label": 0} {"text": "The White House staff risks violating federal ethics rules if they participate in Donald Trump's \"fake news awards.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.", "label": 0} {"text": "The president campaigned against this type of legislation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he has never voted for raising taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi.", "label": 0} {"text": "Obama has more czars than the Romanovs.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States has not completed a \"top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.", "label": 0} {"text": "Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had \"one of the worst attendance records in the Senate.", "label": 0} {"text": "The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than one-quarter of America's young adults are too fat to serve in the U.S. military", "label": 0} {"text": "More than 20 million people are at risk of dying from starvation within 6 months in 4 nations.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says veterans' disability claims backlog doubled in Obama's first term.", "label": 0} {"text": "On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails.", "label": 0} {"text": "Before COVID-19, \"more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history.", "label": 0} {"text": "Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive", "label": 0} {"text": "Every (Wisconsin) legislator that votes for this bill\" will have to \"give up the same amount of pay\" as other state employees.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rick Scott's former health care company, Columbia/HCA, committed \"fraud.", "label": 0} {"text": "Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in 2006.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida's high school graduation rate falls well below the national average.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Milwaukee Police Department has seized nearly as many firearms this year as the much larger New York City Police Department.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today", "label": 0} {"text": "I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one.", "label": 0} {"text": "Six justices\" on the U.S. Supreme Court have been \"confirmed in presidential election years since 1912.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years.", "label": 0} {"text": "2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Ann Coulter said, \"I am a settler. I am descended from settlers — not from immigrants.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rick Scott's even saying he wants more offshore drilling.", "label": 0} {"text": "We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil.", "label": 0} {"text": "Did U know? Block Island Wind Farm would mean 40% est. drop in BI electric rates.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the '30s, they weighed 13.2 pounds.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin (has) the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's non-discrimination law \"doesn't protect members of the trans-gender community.", "label": 0} {"text": "Among the developed nations, we are the least economically and socially mobile country in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.'", "label": 0} {"text": "We have been able to cut New York's uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population.", "label": 0} {"text": "Claims Ohio Gov. John Kasich says climate change is a problem.", "label": 0} {"text": "We just don't want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Democratic runoff opponent Grady Yarbrough twice previously ran statewide as a Republican.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says over 90 percent of Travis County's eligible residents have registered to vote.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump \"wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "'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.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Rhode Island \"there are 150 different pension plans for public workers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million.", "label": 0} {"text": "Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24,657.50 legal bill.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says first eight chosen to draw Austin City Council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one Republican primary voter.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children.", "label": 0} {"text": "98 percent of American families\" make \"under $250,000 a year.", "label": 0} {"text": "The highest paid employee of the State of Rhode Island is a basketball coach.", "label": 0} {"text": "Only about a third\" of Texans who enroll in college graduate.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating.", "label": 0} {"text": "African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids.", "label": 0} {"text": "Health insurance premiums \"have almost doubled ... since 2000.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says GOP U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn \"wants to eliminate the Department of Education\" and jeopardize college funding for 320,000 Coloradans.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested\" for HIV.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says she condemned violence at a campaign stop in Arizona in March.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who've had no income interruption whatsoever.", "label": 0} {"text": "When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin's archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seventy-five percent of the young adults in this country are not mentally or physically fit to serve.", "label": 0} {"text": "Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year, \"more than double that held by the committee in any recent year.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sen. McConnell offered a fully paid two-month extension of unemployment insurance.", "label": 0} {"text": "Pinellas County voters \"elected me as their chief financial officer … (and) elected me as (their) governor four years ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.", "label": 0} {"text": "Iran President Hassan \"Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities\" than members of Barack Obama's Cabinet.", "label": 0} {"text": "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", "label": 0} {"text": "We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis.", "label": 0} {"text": "Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs.", "label": 0} {"text": "Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "It's not currently \"legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Dan Patrick has \"called immigration into Texas an invasion\" and \"said immigrants coming into Texas bring 'third-world diseases.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"Rep. Jim Weidner proposed a bill taking away health care for 80,000 of Oregon's children.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Austin Independent School District's graduation rate reached an all-time high of 82.5 percent in 2012.", "label": 0} {"text": "Pepper ... kicked off a jock tax, imposing a levy on the sports and entertainment industry.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six \"front-line\" workers.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Koch network (is) spending more money (in a Senate race) in Ohio than anywhere else in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "I'm the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years' worth of Austin's water use.", "label": 0} {"text": "The barber regulation here in Missouri is 10,000 words long….the book of Revelation is (also) 10,000 words long.", "label": 0} {"text": "The United States \"decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution.", "label": 0} {"text": "Apple and Amazon already operate in many states that require levels of voter ID.", "label": 0} {"text": "Two days of interest we pay to China is enough to buy one joint strike fighter [jet].", "label": 0} {"text": "Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education.", "label": 0} {"text": "I am the only senator who turned down the state pension plan for part-time legislators.", "label": 0} {"text": "I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities.", "label": 0} {"text": "There's no real evidence in the last 20 years that\" growth from tax cuts has made up lost revenue.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says GOP Senate nominee Darryl Glenn said he wants to see Ted Cruz appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the New York Giants \"train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says most of Perry's chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.", "label": 0} {"text": "Marco Rubio spent $400K of your tax dollars remodeling offices, and building a members-only lounge.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says women care most about jobs and the economy", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "I am now the No. 2 member of this House in terms of length of service.", "label": 0} {"text": "More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas \"either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.", "label": 0} {"text": "Between 1980 and 2010, water usage in Georgia dropped even as the state's population grew.", "label": 0} {"text": "During my eight years as county executive, we cut the number of county workers by 20 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the U.S. Senate is \"dominated by millionaires\" and that he is \"not one of them.", "label": 0} {"text": "The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city.", "label": 0} {"text": "The estimated price of President Trump's border wall is the same as the cost of \"one and a half aircraft carriers.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says ExxonMobil \"fought to kill\" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.", "label": 0} {"text": "Romneycare was model for Obamacare.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Railroad Commission of Texas has nothing to do with railroads.", "label": 0} {"text": "Twitter is banned in Iran.", "label": 0} {"text": "There is racism physically built into some of our highways.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment.", "label": 0} {"text": "Virginia has \"lagged behind other states when it comes to (covid-19) testing.", "label": 0} {"text": "China is \"practicing how to blow up our satellites.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.", "label": 0} {"text": "No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power — a record unmatched by other fuels.", "label": 0} {"text": "Scott Maddox is a \"lobbyist.", "label": 0} {"text": "Sarah Palin \"already has more executive experience\" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden \"combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "There isn't a system\" for reuniting families separated under Trump's zero tolerance border policy.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald \"Trump supported impeachment of President (George W.) Bush.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Texas ranks among the nation's top five states for its high school graduation rate.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain \"said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says that as a gubernatorial candidate, Chris Christie \"promised no school cuts.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Food stamp spending \"doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama.", "label": 0} {"text": "When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years.", "label": 0} {"text": "[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred.", "label": 0} {"text": "During the recession, \"the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent.", "label": 0} {"text": "Huckabee \"granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.", "label": 0} {"text": "Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts.", "label": 0} {"text": "Replacing 100,000 old toilets with water-efficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.", "label": 0} {"text": "John McCain wants to \"give oil companies another $4-billion\" in tax breaks.", "label": 0} {"text": "Seventy percent of all uninsured live in households in which at least one person is working.", "label": 0} {"text": "2.1 million jobs have been created in the last six or seven years\" in California", "label": 0} {"text": "He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.", "label": 0} {"text": "Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low.", "label": 0} {"text": "Democrats have \"lost more than 900 state legislators\" since Barack Obama has been president.", "label": 0} {"text": "Six of the 10 richest counties in the United States surround Washington, D.C.", "label": 0} {"text": "New York state subsidizes private colleges \"probably more than any other state except maybe one.", "label": 0} {"text": "The substitute budget now adds in tax breaks and tax deductions for those who buy these prisons.", "label": 0} {"text": "Central Health \"is the only hospital district in Texas that spends taxpayer dollars on abortions.", "label": 0} {"text": "We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Congressmen Paul Ryan and Todd Akin co-sponsored legislation \"to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of 'forcible rape.'", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says his transportation plan \"would make Virginia the first state in the nation to eliminate the state tax on gasoline.", "label": 0} {"text": "The actual deportations from the interior of the country are way down\" under President Obama.", "label": 0} {"text": "In 1988, in response to Iran's attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts, President Ronald Reagan \"destroyed half of Iran's Navy.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "We know mask mandates work. There's enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven't.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the SAVE \"database is not a foolproof means of verifying (citizenship on) the voter rolls.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Today, if you were raised poor, you're just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago.", "label": 0} {"text": "Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.", "label": 0} {"text": "Iran has stockpiled 10 times as much enriched uranium as it had\" in 2016.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting.", "label": 0} {"text": "Cigarette butts \"poison babies and small children because of the nicotine in them.", "label": 0} {"text": "Overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021.", "label": 0} {"text": "Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races, Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate.", "label": 0} {"text": "More people now die in Wisconsin from drug overdoses than car crashes.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Scott Walker enacted \"the biggest cuts to education in our state's history.", "label": 0} {"text": "Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"Rick Santorum supported (Arlen) Specter over conservative candidates twice.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.", "label": 0} {"text": "Rhode Island has the \"the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fox News uses photo of a married couple promoting 'traditional marriage' and the photo is actually of a same-sex couple.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "If Roe is overturned, Wisconsin has a law on the books that would immediately make abortion a crime.", "label": 0} {"text": "He's sued gun manufacturers. He was supportive of Brady. He was supportive of things like assault weapon bans.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker.", "label": 0} {"text": "There have been literally hundreds of new tax preferences and loopholes added to the code since 1986, last time we did this.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Dick Cheney \"supported gay marriage sooner\" than Hillary Clinton.", "label": 0} {"text": "President Obama has \"stopped using the phrase 'war on terror.'", "label": 0} {"text": "The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values.", "label": 0} {"text": "In Galveston, Texas, they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says the top 20 percent of income earners pay nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes.", "label": 0} {"text": "An audit shows \"there are 6.5 million people who have active Social Security numbers who are 112 years of age or older,", "label": 0} {"text": "Fireworks have never been safer, and their use continues to increase each year.", "label": 0} {"text": "Too many\" tattoos \"on visible body parts\" keep some applicants out of the military.", "label": 0} {"text": "Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me.", "label": 0} {"text": "Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says for every dollar the state spent on audits last year, it delivered $64 in cost savings.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Today's marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear.", "label": 0} {"text": "... 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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget are health care expenses.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says in Chicago, \"we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A.", "label": 0} {"text": "The mosquito population in South Florida is larger than it is in many other communities in the country.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says \"only 18 percent of Portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to 83 percent nationally.", "label": 0} {"text": "Trump supporters are heading to the border as the migrant caravan approaches.", "label": 0} {"text": "More than 64 percent of minimum-wage earners are women.", "label": 0} {"text": "One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left\" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Georgia has \"more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona.", "label": 0} {"text": "I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel.", "label": 0} {"text": "Since 2014, there has been a 25% reduction in crime in communities at the Texas-Mexico border.", "label": 0} {"text": "Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost.", "label": 0} {"text": "North Korea has a \"substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "It cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall \"has won more statewide races than probably anyone else alive.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says he \"fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Infertility is treated differently than other issues and \"often excluded from insurance coverage", "label": 0} {"text": "Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough \"makes a huge difference\" in reducing transmission of the flu.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "A \"fairly limited number of people, 25 million to 30 million,\" will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange.", "label": 0} {"text": "Actually, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican.", "label": 0} {"text": "The federal tax code includes \"deductions for birds flying across America.", "label": 0} {"text": "Langevin votes \"the party line about 98 percent of the time.", "label": 0} {"text": "We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before.", "label": 0} {"text": "John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.", "label": 0} {"text": "Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K-12 education.", "label": 0} {"text": "Austin is number one in Texas in startups, venture capital and patents.", "label": 0} {"text": "The three wealthiest people\" own \"more wealth than the bottom half of the American people.", "label": 0} {"text": "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.", "label": 0} {"text": "Wisconsin was the \"first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.", "label": 0} {"text": "Almost every state has offered an insurance plan on its health exchange that does not cover abortion.", "label": 0} {"text": "50% of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college.", "label": 0} {"text": "By the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state.", "label": 0} {"text": "Says Donald Trump's use of the term \"fake news\" to undermine journalism \"seems (to have) inspired dictators and authoritarians.", "label": 0} {"text": "A government shutdown \"could disrupt ... veterans' benefits.", "label": 0} {"text": "Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4", "label": 0} {"text": "The last time people (created a Hollywood blacklist), people ended up killing themselves … They were accused, and they lost their right to work.", "label": 0}