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Some politicians want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries.
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Georgia has some of the best maintained roads in America.
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Says every school will be negatively impacted if Education Stability Fund is not tapped.
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Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. It costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually.
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Israels per capita income is greater than probably threefourths of the rest of the world.
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Under Hosni Mubaraks rule Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel.
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Georgia is the secondfastest growing state for international tourists.
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The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes.
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Says the United States does not trade as much as other developed nations.
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Says there have been 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade was decided.
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Tailpipe emissions rules if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five onehundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050.
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There have been at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.
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Were borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend.
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The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy.
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The United States has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.
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Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up.
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The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.
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Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance.
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George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate.
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New England already has access to ample supplies of natural gas.
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Says hes the first Aggie governor of Texas.
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Some of the men serving in the Afghan armed forces have never driven a vehicle before.
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This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years.
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Whether you like to admit it or not half our general revenue goes to education.
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Says she condemned violence at a campaign stop in Arizona in March.
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Following the 2009 session Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was acknowledged and thanked for his tireless efforts by Planned Parenthood the nations premier abortion provider.
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Georgia lawmakers fuel up for the session by feasting on wild hogs.
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Says the person who Florida U.S. Rep. Allen West first hired as chief of staff told people attending a Tea Party rally that We will use bullets if ballots dont work.
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Our spending has caught up with us and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.
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New provisions of the health care law bar the use offlexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other nonprescription health needs.
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Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken an hour and 15 minutes longer to carry passengers across Ohio than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935.
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Its taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the Ohio Erie Canal.
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State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run.
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I stopped requesting earmarks in 2008.
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I never proposed privatizing the Milwaukee County airport.
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We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twentyone states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down.
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Proposed federal regulations would affect every streetsign in the country
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Texas children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching.
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House Speaker Dean Cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for onethird of the 120member House and that twothirds of the chamber have two years or less experience.
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Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.
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You can go to Georgia and make about $6000 more a year as a teacher.
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The Milwaukee business community did not speak about the facts and in support of train manufacturer Talgo as the MilwaukeeMadison rail link was being killed.
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Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included $277000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin.
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Every student paying outofstate tuition actually covers more than the cost of instruction.
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Says that in his first 17 months as president the United States doubled its worldleading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.
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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.
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Under the compromise tax agreement 99.7 of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax.
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The Atlanta Braves are the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America.
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A 5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump.
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In 2007 the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income which is more than the entire bottom 50 percent.
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I think a little less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year. ... We have people who are check kiters and dont pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen.
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Oregonians have an amazing nocost way to fight abortion with free political donations
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The national debt grew an estimated$15 billion last weekend.
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Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year some of them just to pay the inheritance tax.
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150000 oil spill claims have been filed by Floridians but only 40 percent of them have been paid.
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Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Floridas economy.
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Said Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures during last months election
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Hillsboroughs Public Transportation Commission has a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean please. Come on.
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The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled 100 percent in the last 10 years.
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In Wisconsin deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years.
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Historically Senate ratification of arms control treaties has been bipartisan.
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We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers to bring the treatment plant on line.
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Says the House Rules Committee is the only panel other than the Intelligence and Ethics committees not able to telecast proceedings in its main hearing room.
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More people hunt and fish in Texas in a given year than attend the... games of the Dallas Cowboys the Dallas Mavericks the Houston Texans and the Houston Rockets combined.
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Demand for transportation choice is on the rise with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year.
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Over the course of one fouryear term it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate the governors mansion.
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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.
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Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.
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The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody say at 30000 feet.
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Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116838763 to date for the Mahoning Valley and has an additional $27095000 pending in FY2010 spending bills.
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Nobody has played clips over and over ...of President Obama saying If they bring a knife to the fight well bring a gun.
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The federal debt is growing by more than $4 billion a day.
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Re Marco Rubios support of earmark ban In 2002 alone he requested 37 earmarks worth $43 million.
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We havent had control of the House for the last two years and its been malfunctioning. We had 109 sessions scheduled and held 49.
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Federal spending is the highest its been as a share of our economy in 60 years and revenue is the lowest its been as a share of our economy in 60 years.
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We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So weve taken 5 percent away from the private sector.
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Says that the federal gas tax has not been raised since 1993.
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As mayor Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley which now supports nearly 4000 jobs in Wisconsin.
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Electric utility FirstEnergys annual revenues are greater than the GDP of Haiti Kyrgyzstan Iceland or 15 African nations.
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Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.
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Says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings.
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Georgia has the secondhighest rate of childhood obesity in the United States.
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The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined.
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Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill when the stimulus was rushed into law.
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Sen. Harry Reid voted against declaring English our national language twice.
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Decorated Marine twotour Iraq war vet.
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Says Will Rasmussen falsely claimed he had lived in the West Linn district for about a year.
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Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect.
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As CEO of WWE Linda McMahon was caught tipping off a ringside physician about a federal investigation into illegally distributing steroids to wrestlers.
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Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.
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Says Scott Walker wants to make abortion illegal even in cases of rape incest or to protect the life of the mother.
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Says Lloyd Doggett voted for the health care stimulus and capandtrade bills.
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More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth.
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I am very proud as governor of Florida that we signed the first divestment act as it relates to Iran divesting any investments in companies that would invest in Iran.
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Says Marco Rubio said that people who essentially dont agree with him ought to leave the country like Keith Olbermann.
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Lizbeth Benacquisto broke election law 105 times hiding special interest contributors.
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Says Ron Johnson likes to say there are too many lawyers in the Senate 57. Hed be the 70th millionaire.
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Since 2000 when he entered politics Jon Husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices.
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Ken Buck wants to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
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His biography says he was the top ROTC officer in the nation.
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