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By the way Im not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did. | true |
Small businesses create 70 percent of the jobs in America. | true |
And as of today New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001. | true |
After filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island we reached an agreement with state agencies that resulted in more voters being registered in the first full month after our lawsuit than in the entire previous twoyear reporting period. | true |
Says Ron Paul doesnt believe in marriage licenses. | true |
I was one of about a dozen senators who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere. | true |
Says America spends over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12. | true |
Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States. | true |
Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming. | true |
Says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is the smartest guy that I know in terms of the economy and on finance I really mean this. | true |
Newt Gingrich teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming. | true |
Ive done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country. | true |
Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states. | true |
Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in unemployment foreclosures violent crime personal bankruptcy and divorce. | true |
Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is unAmerican. | true |
Says with Jon Corzine its the first time I think in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues. | true |
Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country. | true |
Sherrod Brown has been running for public office since Richard Nixon was president. | true |
Richard Cordrays nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau marks the first time in Senate history that a political party has blocked a nomination of someone because they didnt like the construction of the agency. | true |
Newt Gingrich has suggested building a mirror system in space could improve the Earths habitability. | true |
A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court. | true |
Says our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. Were over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government. | true |
The national debt increased $16000 every secondGeorge Allen served in theU.S. Senate. | true |
The United States is numberonein the world in energyresourcesRussia isnumber two. | true |
Last year we spent more than $40 billion on highways. And Lord knows we need that. But thats more than we spent on Amtrak in its entire 40year history. | true |
Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations. | true |
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollegeeducated. | true |
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office. | true |
The balancedbudget 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. | true |
Its legal to sign a recall petition against Gov. Scott Walker even if you have already signed another recall petition but only one signature counts | true |
Says Barack Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term. | true |
For the average middleclass family your taxes today are lower than when I took office. | true |
Says Mitt Romney flipflopped on a taxpayer protection pledge. | true |
We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis. | true |
Says Mitt Romney flipflopped on abortion. | true |
The U.S. would gainrevenue by cutting personal income tax rates in half and ending tax breaks. | true |
Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece. | true |
Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30000 engineers. | true |
Stimulus money went to critically important projects like studying ants in Africa. | true |
A Republicanled softening of firearms training rules means that untrained individuals would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit. | true |
When the national debt reaches $15 trillion it means that U.S. debttoGDP ratio will reach 99.7 percent of our debt and this is $47900 for every living American. | true |
The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close. | true |
The median income of a middle class family went down $2100 from 2001 to 2007. | true |
Says 51 percent of federal tax filers paid zero federal income tax. | true |
Torture is illegal by our laws. Its illegal by international laws. | true |
Georgia has had more bank failures than any other state. | true |
Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times. | true |
Ilana Shafran Mandels stake in Forest City Enterprises constitutes significantly less than 1 percent of the companys shares and any implication of a conflict of interest is legally incorrect. | true |
The problem with invasive species today in the Great Lakes isnt ballast water. | true |
A couple retiring today will pay about $119000 in lifetime Medicare taxes and receive about $357000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. ... about 3 bucks in benefits for every dollar in taxes. | true |
The average homeowner spends more than $2000 each year on energy costs more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance. | true |
Every day in the United States we are losing 15 factories. | true |
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. | true |
Says Mitt Romney has flipflopped on abortion rights. | true |
Says if elected he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd. | true |
Under a law proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker businesses that move into Wisconsin dont have to pay any taxes on their income for two years. | true |
Says Mitt Romney flipflopped on abortion. | true |
The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values. | true |
Says for every dollar the state spent on audits last year it delivered $64 in cost savings. | true |
Says judges get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state. | true |
Says 24 million people in this country cant find a fulltime job 50 million cant see a doctor when theyre sick 47 million people need government help to feed themselves and 15 million families owe more than the value of their home. | true |
Romneycare was model for Obamacare. | true |
Says his proposed payroll tax cut will mean an extra $1500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing. | true |
Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended. | true |
When we got the income tax in 1913 the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980 the top rate was 70 percent. | true |
The people in Massachusetts like the state health care plan by about a 31 margin. | true |
Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented people to use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply for and receive a RI drivers license. | true |
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. | true |
Says he came to the Republican Party sooner in age than Ronald Reagan. | true |
Our government right now. . . is spending 40 percent more than what we take in. | true |
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Its 35 percent. | true |
Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget. | true |
Legally it doesnt make any difference which state district you live in when running for Congress. | true |
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. | true |
A family of four can make up to $88000 a year and still get a subsidy for health insurance under the new federal health care law. | true |
Were. . . keeping and creating jobs in our state. From American Greetings to Wendys to Diebold weve gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in Ohio. | true |
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. | true |
Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving instate tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants. | true |
The federal government is spending $46000 a year per family or group of four and could balance its budget by dropping that to $30000. | true |
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. | true |
At nearly 19 million people the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined. | true |
We have 10000 baby boomers retiring every day. | true |
Says as a share of the US economy the governments support for research and development RD has fallen by nearly twothirds since the 1960s. | true |
The city of Atlanta has either the highest or secondhighest average water bills in the country. | true |
Toledo Mayor Mike Bell once lost his job as a firefighter because his city ran out of money. | true |
Says Rick Perry provided instate tuition... for illegal immigrants. | true |
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 fouryear public college. Today a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs. | true |
The state ethics commission took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. They were somewhere in the 7 percent range same as the governors office. | true |
Says that in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date. | true |
Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members. | true |
Ten years ago the Austin Water Utility used a total of 240.3 million gallons. Every summer since then our peak day of water use has been lower. | true |
Under President Barack Obamas jobs bill you can sue if you are unemployed and dont get the job and think you werent hired because you are unemployed. | true |
In writing his book Gov. Perry pointed out that by any measure Social Security has been a failure. | true |
The Republicancontrolled Wisconsin Assembly approved only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats in 2011. | true |
Over the past 10 years the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact Lower Manhattan has added more people over the last 10 years than Atlanta Dallas and Philadelphia combined. | true |
Two days of interest we pay to China is enough to buy one joint strike fighter jet. | true |
The day President Obama took office gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. | true |
Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees. | true |
Says the federal government is the largest energy user in the country. | true |
I became a Republican sooner in my life than Ronald Reagan did in his. | true |
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