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Says the Pentagon has never passed a financial audit. In fact the Pentagon is exempt from a federal law that requires all federal agencies to complete annual audits.
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Over 200000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred.
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Says the United States actually exports more gasoline diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since I think 1949.
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Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million.
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98 percent of American families make under $250000 a year.
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The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.
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An effort to repeal votingreform legislation would be the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum.
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Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close.
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We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year.
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To get out of the teachers union you pay 85 percent of $731. Then youre out of the union but youve got to pay it every year also required by statute. Thats called a representation fee.
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This is the only state in the country that bypassed the General Assembly to authorize instate tuition for undocumented immigrants.
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Says Barack Obama has played over 90 rounds of golf as president.
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More children die in agricultural jobs than in any other industry.
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Says streetcars carry more people than buses you attract more riders who dont ride transit now and actually the operating costs are not any greater than the bus.
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Last year Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.
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Says Gloria Steinem once called Kay Bailey Hutchison a female impersonator.
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Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.
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President Barack Obama reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011.
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The changes to Georgias tax and fee structure is an overall tax cut.
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The poorest in this country are women.
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Says a study shows that children who live with a biological parent and the parents boyfriend or girlfriend have a 20 times greater chance of being sexually abused.
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Every poll you see the overwhelming majority of people want EVerify.
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More than half of the births in Texas are paid for by Medicaid.
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New business startups are at the lowest levels in 30 years.
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When we passed the stand your ground law we said it portends horrific events when peoples lives were put into these situations.
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Says Romney flipflopped on abortion.
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New Jersey loses net that is minus those who come into the state 30000 students a year.
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More than 27000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.
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In 1950 the average American lived for 68 years and 16 workers supported one retiree. Today the average life expectancy is 78 and three workers support one retiree.
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There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt.
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There are 850000 Ohio jobs tied to the auto industry.
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Says there are four super PACs on the Republican side of the Texas U.S. Senate race.
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Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV.
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In the last two years super PACs raised more than $180 million with roughly half of it coming from fewer than 200 superrich people and roughly 20 percent from corporations.
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Says he cut taxes by more than $600 million when he wasgovernor.
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If we keep the minimum wage at the current level then singleparent families earning the minimum wage at a fulltime job will live in poverty in New Jersey.
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Says Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half but didnt.
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Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget is still below the level of state spending when I took office.
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Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of a college education increased 439 percent.
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The top 1 percent of income earners paid 36.7 percent of the taxes. ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent.
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Wisconsin is called the Badger State because our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.
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Pasco County schools have graduation rates substantially higher than the state average and dropout rates below the state average.
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In 2010 about 75 percent of child abuse and neglect reports in Oregon were made by those required to report by law.
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Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates.
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All travelers even babies arriving in the U.S. by air must have a passport.
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Rhode Island has the the secondmost heavily deployed National Guard in the United States.
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Sixteen million jobs were created under Ronald Reagans presidency.
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Says local Texas chambers of commerce were granted exemptions from paying property taxes on their headquarter properties.
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Says Mitt Romney said he does not line up with the NRA.
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Says Rick Santorum supported Arlen Specter over conservative candidates twice.
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Says half the Americans dont pay any income taxes.
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Florida ranks 45th in the nation for tuition.
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Our small staff of 51 is still fewer than we had a decade ago yet our caseload like that of other courts has grown.
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Says in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested for HIV.
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Florida is the largest dogracing state in the country.
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Over 40 percent of children born in America are born out of wedlock.
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Says 80 percent of the health care dollars are spent by 20 percent of the population.
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Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz opposes the DREAM Act which is supported by 85 of Latinos.
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Wrong precinct rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems and HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrongprecinct problem.
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Says Scott Walker enacted the biggest cuts to education in our states history.
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Florida unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent the secondlargest drop in the nation.
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Says a 1915 referendum on womens right to vote went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it.
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You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text.
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Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them.
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We arent the only state cutting back on public television.
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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.
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91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act which allows undocumented youth to attend college but Marco Rubio opposes it.
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A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.
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If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work or have just stopped looking the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent.
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Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country and many of them go uncounted each election.
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The Georgia Secretary of States Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud.
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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.
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The national debt is equal to $48700 for every American or $128300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy.
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Weve seen more antiwomens choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than weve seen in the last three General Assemblies.
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One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol.
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Today for the first time in fifteen years Master Locks unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.
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In 1992 Mitt Romney gave money to Democrats for Congress.
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In July 1996 Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
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Says the New York Giants train in New Jersey they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey.
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Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since fiscal 2009.
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Says Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies.
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Before this day is out 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives. That is the daily average it is intolerable and it has to stop.
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The United States is no longer top nation in the globe on infrastructure having fallen to 15th.
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Right now in Georgia nearly one in three leaving our prisons are reconvicted within three years.
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Sherrod Brown has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time.
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Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
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A typical married couple will contribute $119000 into Medicare but will receive $357000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.
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There are 86 languages spoken at Miami Dade College.
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Tennessees grocery tax is one of the highest in the nation.
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Says Newt Gingrichs contract was with the lobbyists at Freddie Mac.
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Under this tax cut middleclass families dont save enough for a weeks worth of groceries while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation.
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The top 10 most wellpaid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010 while the average American workers wage rose just 2 percent.
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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.
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Gov. Bob McDonnellsbudget plantakesmoney out of our classrooms to pave roads.
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My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False.
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Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.
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Federal law prohibits the growing of industrial hemp in the United States.
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Says hes proposed the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history.
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Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100000 pay.
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Georgias unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.
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