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Says New Jerseys public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.
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Says Ron Paul insisted FEMA should be shut down.
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The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression.
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A national study of 2500 charter schools shows that maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference.
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Congressional Budget Office says 8 percent unemployment till 2014
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The health insurance plan that members of Congress have is no different than any other federal employees in the United States government.
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Weve had 11000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789.
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Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.
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The estimated savings of this debt ceiling deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bushera tax cuts for another decade.
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The United States death rate is twoandahalf times higher for those who do not have a high school education.
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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.
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The proposed transportation bill could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history.
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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.
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Hair stylists are required to undergo more government scrutiny than foreclosure consultants.
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The megarich 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.
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The governor having a meeting ... isnt covered by the open meetings act.
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Twentyfive states have lower unemployment than Texas which is tied with Mississippi for more minimumwage jobs than anywhere in the United States.
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One in four Texans lacks health insurance the highest proportion in the nation.
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Certainly were 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.
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Obamacare was patterned after Mitt Romneys plan in Massachusetts.
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Says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.
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There are cities and counties in Georgia that dont have websites and where elected officials dont have email addresses.
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One in every five families in the state of New Jersey has a loved one with a mental illness a serious mental illness and today we dont care.
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Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.
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Theres actually 600 abortions done after the 20th week of pregnancy every year in Ohio.
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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 $800000.
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Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia.
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Believe it or not consumer spending is up over the last eight months.
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The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent.
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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.
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The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office.
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Thirtyfour of the last 44 debt ceiling increases have been for less than a year. So this notion that shortterm is somehow the exception its actually the rule.
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The state of Georgia is near the bottom among states for SAT scores and graduation rates.
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President Reagan did it raised the debt ceiling 18 times. George W. Bush did it seven times.
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When the Republicans were in charge they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program.
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Says state Rep. Fred Clark DBaraboo ran a red light and seriously injured a bicyclist.
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Says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than theyve sent President Barack Obama and more than twice what theyve sent other Republican presidential candidates.
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Says in the Legislature Mary Nolan has been a partyline Democrat showing a 100 track record in harmony with the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Says that U.S. Rep. Allen West is a constituent of mine.
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Florida Democrats put my Social Security number and my wifes Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.
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Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of her state Senate district by a half a block.
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I did not vote to spend money to fight that Amendment 6 redistricting lawsuit.
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Says state Senate recall challenger Sandy Pasch voted to cut school aid by nearly $300 million.
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Less than onetenth of Atlantas transportation needs are covered in a referendum to levy a 1cent sales tax.
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The State Election Board has issued nearly $275000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws.
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The black unemployment rate has increased since the recovery has begun.
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Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector.
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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.
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There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when President Barack Obama took office.
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Were losing almost 6000 state jobs.
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Fiftyone percent that is a majority of American households paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada.
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Rhode Island spends 52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average.
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Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didnt serve.
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Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of marketbased solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.
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Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.
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Creeping defense commitments in the Middle East and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually.
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Says that as a gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie promised no school cuts.
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Says President Obama has fired more cruise missiles than all other Peace Prize winners combined.
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Says states that passed antiillegalimmigrant legislation also had few Hispanic legislators.
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The top 1 percent of income earners pay 40 percent of all state income taxes and those at the bottom pay little or nothing.
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Virginia spends $400000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnells political agenda.
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Providence is one of the busiest fire departments for its relative size in the country.
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Seventy of Ohios 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food.
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The U.S. is spending one out of every six Defense Department dollars on Afghanistan.
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Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... Canadians buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state.
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The righttowork states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states.
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A couple of hundred American cities are infested by members of the Mexican cartels.
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We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second Saudi Arabia is number three.
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Says the state budget includes spending on commercials for Fortune 500 companies.
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Says hes signed a pledge not to raise taxes four times.
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ThenSen. Barack Obama refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership.
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Taxpayers pay for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin And 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee
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The budget currently being debated significantly decreases the use of onetime resources.
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The average person will pay $6000 more a year under Rep. Paul Ryans Medicare proposal.
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We already have $23 billion worth of debt.
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The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks.
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Says six of the states 58 family planning centers had to close because of Gov. Chris Christies budget cuts.
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Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country.
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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.
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Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a murder mill.
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Says this months special session will cost the state $27300 a day just for legislators daily living expenses.
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It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party for kids.
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If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector.
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Abraham Lincoln once jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.
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Says Republicanapproved changes to make it more difficult to participate in Ohio elections include reducing inperson early voting from 35 days to six.
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Sometimes I was the only no vote on the entire board.
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For more than 30 years after World War II there was a steady reduction in U.S. debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.
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To give a sense of how families are struggling a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch.
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No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law
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If you take the population growth here in Virginia we are net zero on job creation since Bob McDonnell became governor.
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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.
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Says state lawmakers have voted to spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times since the funds creation.
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Says people who signed recall petitions against Wisconsin state Sen. Jim Holperin received harassing phone calls from outofstate telemarketers claiming to represent the Democratic Party and insinuating foul play by petition circulators.
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You cant give a child an aspirin in school without permission. You cant do any kind of medication but we can secretly take the child off and have an abortion.
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Failure to raise the debt limit does not force a U.S. default on debt payments.
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Were within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. Were in a perfect location.
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The substitute budget now adds in tax breaks and tax deductions for those who buy these prisons.
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The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.
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American oil production is at its highest level since 2003.
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When the governor announced his jobs budget 99 folks from the Department of Taxation were let go the next day.
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