date edited_by job researched_by source state statement subjects truth 2013-08-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Scott Walker Wisconsin "In the Wisconsin health insurance exchange, ""the Society of Actuaries points out that there'll be, according to them, an 82 percent increase in individual premiums over the next couple years under Obamacare.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-08-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mike Huckabee Arkansas """America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S.""" ['Crime', 'Guns', 'Pundits'] 0 2013-08-29 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher League of Conservation Voters "Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit ""unlimited carbon pollution into our air""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Transportation'] 5 2013-08-28 Aaron Sharockman Rochelle Koff National Republican Congressional Committee """Congressman Patrick Murphy voted to keep the scandal-ridden IRS in charge of enforcing Obamacare.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2013-08-28 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Janet Napolitano "The 2010 DREAM Act failed despite ""strong bipartisan support.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Immigration'] 2 2013-08-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Steve Stockman Texas "Says U.N. arms treaty will mandate a ""new international gun registry.""" ['Guns'] 1 2013-08-28 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Mark Harris Wisconsin """I’ve got the spending down, I’ve got the debt down a little bit, I’ve got the reserves up.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Debt', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-08-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Doug Stoner Georgia """I fought hard for that (state Senate) seat. I only lost by four points. I raised over $700,000.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 2 2013-08-27 Angie Drobnic Holan None Louis Jacobson Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America Indiana "The book Little Red Riding Hood is something ""that’s been banned in America,"" but not assault weapons." ['Education', 'Guns'] 2 2013-08-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Julie Kliegman BookerFail """Three years after getting the $100 million (from Mark Zuckerberg), less than two-thirds of students in Cory Booker's Newark graduate.""" ['Education'] 2 2013-08-27 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas """I am every year the No.1 pick of all of the law enforcement agencies within Texas.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 1 2013-08-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Rene Garcia Florida "Miami-Dade County is the ""No. 1 donor county in the state.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-08-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Jack Kingston Georgia Says an illegal immigrant fraudulently claimed children who actually lived in Mexico on income tax forms to collect more than $29,000. ['Immigration', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-08-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Louis Jacobson Michael Bloomberg New York """New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been steeper than any other big city’s.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Urban'] 4 2013-08-26 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Ken Cuccinelli Virginia "Says Terry McAuliffe is ""the person who invented the scheme to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics', 'History'] 1 2013-08-26 Jim Tharpe Janel Davis, Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed """State law says that once the state appraises a piece of property, they can only pay it a certain amount above appraisal.""" ['City Government', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Sports'] 5 2013-08-25 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Steve Lonegan New Jersey "Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen ""violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row.""" ['Crime'] 3 2013-08-25 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Alberta Darling Wisconsin "Wisconsin’s criminal threshold for drunken-driving is ""way out of line"" with ""states surrounding us,"" which ""have the second offense as a felony.""" ['Alcohol', 'Criminal Justice', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 2 2013-08-25 Tim Murphy Activist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Steve Goreham Illinois """Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Government regulation', 'History', 'Science', 'Weather'] 3 2013-08-24 Dee Lane Republican Ian K. Kullgren Doug Whitsett Oregon "Says ""your Legislative Assembly was within one vote of enacting each of those bills into Oregon law.""" ['Guns'] 1 2013-08-23 Angie Drobnic Holan State official Amy Sherman Pam Stewart Florida "Florida’s ""high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates.""" ['Diversity', 'Education'] 3 2013-08-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Marco Rubio Florida "Says President Barack Obama could ""basically"" legalize all immigrants here illegally ""by the sign of a pen.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2013-08-22 Amy Hollyfield Republican Julie Kliegman Carly Fiorina California """There are only four countries in the world that ... legalize abortion after five months -- China, North Korea, Canada and the U.S.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2013-08-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Peter Barca Wisconsin "Under a new law regulating abortions, ""Even if you're raped, if you don't report it in the first 30 days, the Republicans will force you to have an ultrasound.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 3 2013-08-21 John Bridges Republican Sue Owen Barry Smitherman Texas "Says he ""sued Obama’s EPA seven times.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2013-08-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Bloggers "Obamacare provision will allow ""forced home inspections"" by government agents." ['Civil Rights', 'Health Care', 'Privacy', 'Public Health'] 0 2013-08-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mike Lee Utah "Says unions call Obamacare ""bad for workers.""" ['Health Care', 'Unions'] 4 2013-08-21 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Karen Handel """Only in Washington would politicians spend $27 million to teach Moroccans how to make pottery.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 2 2013-08-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois """We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Trade'] 5 2013-08-19 Aaron Sharockman Rochelle Koff Marijuana Policy Project "Marijuana is ""less toxic"" than alcohol." ['Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Marijuana'] 4 2013-08-19 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas """According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 2 2013-08-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Kasim Reed Atlanta now has as many visitors as Las Vegas, San Diego and Los Angeles. Orlando, Fla., and New York City still have more visitors. ['Tourism'] 4 2013-08-19 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Eric Cantor Virginia "Under Obamacare, ""The IRS will have access to the American people’s protected health care information.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2013-08-19 James B. Nelson Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says that in his first two years, ""Wisconsin has seen its best two-year job growth in a decade.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2013-08-18 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Mark Kelly """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.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-08-18 James B. Nelson Democrat Tom Kertscher Ron Kind Wisconsin """Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. health care spending grew at 3.9 percent for the last three years, the lowest growth rate in over 50 years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care'] 3 2013-08-18 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Langevin Rhode Island Under Obamacare, members of Congress are required to purchase their health insurance from the new exchanges. ['Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Health Care'] 5 2013-08-16 Bruce Hammond None Ian K. Kullgren Jim Francesconi Oregon "Says ""nearly half of Oregon's children are poor.""" ['Poverty'] 3 2013-08-16 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby George P. Bush Texas """60 percent of Texas 8th graders are not proficient in math. Only 26% have a teacher with a undergraduate major in math.""" ['Education'] 4 2013-08-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson, Julie Kliegman Organizing for Action Washington, D.C. "Sen. Marco Rubio ""refuses to accept the basic science"" on climate change and is ""a climate change denier.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Science'] 4 2013-08-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky "Many uninsured Americans are ""young.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2013-08-16 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby John Cornyn Texas According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 71.2 percent of Hispanic registered voters in Texas and over 86 percent of African American registered voters participated in the 2012 elections. ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2013-08-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Kathleen Sebelius Kansas Medicaid spending declined by 1.9 percent in 2012, the second such decline in 47 years. ['Medicaid'] 4 2013-08-15 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Wendy Davis Texas Says that each year, about 25,000 American women become pregnant through rape or incest. ['Abortion', 'Crime'] 3 2013-08-15 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """Why didn't (uninsured Americans) buy insurance? Because of the expense.""" ['Health Care', 'Poverty'] 5 2013-08-15 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky "Of the roughly 15 percent of Americans who don’t have health insurance, ""half of them made more than $50,000 a year.""" ['Health Care', 'Income'] 1 2013-08-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Kanye West I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. ['Pop Culture'] 2 2013-08-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Ted Cruz Texas "Says ""President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception"" to Obamacare." ['Congress', 'Health Care'] 1 2013-08-14 Aaron Sharockman Republican Julie Kliegman Bill Foster Florida """Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in (St. Petersburg) are caused by people leaving their keys in the car.""" ['Crime'] 5 2013-08-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Matt Bevin Kentucky "Says Mitch McConnell pushed ""the Wall Street bailout through the U.S. Senate"" and called it ""the Senate at its finest.""" ['Financial Regulation'] 4 2013-08-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitch McConnell Kentucky Says Matt Bevin has repeatedly failed to pay his taxes. ['Ethics', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-08-13 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "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.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Labor', 'State Budget', 'States', 'Unions'] 5 2013-08-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman Rick Kriseman Florida """For anybody who's trying to cross the street and has seen those signs that say you have to stop when pedestrians are in the crosswalk, that was a bill that I passed.""" ['Florida', 'States'] 4 2013-08-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman Bill Foster Florida "Says that while Foster was mayor, Rick Kriseman was ""ineffective"" in the Florida House of Representatives because ""there was no legislation that passed the House that had (Kriseman’s) name on it.""" ['Florida', 'States'] 3 2013-08-12 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson Al Sharpton New York "Says President Barack Obama ""has taken 92 days of vacation since he was sworn in,"" compared to 367 for President George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency." ['Bush Administration', 'Pundits', 'Recreation'] 4 2013-08-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Chain email "A United Nations working group has ""adopted a proposed agenda"" to enable member nations to ""disarm civilians within their borders.""" ['Guns'] 0 2013-08-12 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Ken Cuccinelli Virginia Says Virginia saved $300 million by rebidding a Metrorail construction project to exclude guaranteed union contracts. ['Transportation', 'Unions'] 3 2013-08-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus DuBose Porter Georgia Says there are half as many students in one Georgia technical college than there were two years ago. ['Education', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-08-11 Steve Liebman Caryn Shinske Rush Holt """We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas.""" ['Environment', 'Financial Regulation', 'Government regulation', 'Privacy'] 3 2013-08-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Ron Johnson Wisconsin "On average, college students ""are taking six years to get a four-year degree.""" ['Debt', 'Education', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-08-11 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Vincent Rhode Island Twenty four states have voter ID or comparable restrictions; before Barack Obama was elected, it was two. ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'History', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2013-08-10 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Ken Cuccinelli Virginia """Every (personhood) bill I’ve ever support has either had language that says we’re conforming to the constitutional rulings of the Supreme Court or something to that effect.""" ['Abortion', 'Human Rights', 'Voting Record'] 1 2013-08-10 Janie Har Democrat Yuxing Zheng Jeff Merkley Oregon "Says ""in Oregon today, the average debt upon college graduation is more than $24,000.""" ['Debt', 'Education'] 4 2013-08-09 Mark Vosburgh Republican Stephen Koff Mary Taylor Ohio """Ohioans can expect to pay up to 41 percent more for their insurance premiums when Obamacare takes effect next year.""" ['Government regulation', 'Health Care'] 3 2013-08-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Julie Kliegman Kathleen Ford Florida """If we use (Tax Increment Financing) funding, that's going to take funds from the general fund for Pinellas County, as it will take funds from the general fund for the city of St. Pete.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2013-08-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Julie Kliegman Bill Foster Florida """If we don't spend money on a pier, then that money does wipe into the general funds of the city or the county, and if you send it to the county, you never see it again.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2013-08-09 Janie Har Ian K. Kullgren Ellen Rosenblum "Says ""nearly 29,000 Oregonians — almost 5 percent of all homeowners — are 90 days or more delinquent on their mortgage.""" ['Housing'] 5 2013-08-09 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Jeb Hensarling Texas "Says ""the acting chief of the IRS said he – and the majority of IRS employees – would rather stay with his current"" health ""plan than switch to Obamacare.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-08-09 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Jim Hightower Texas "Says the U.S. Postal Service has taken no taxpayer aid since 1971, funds operations entirely from the sale of stamps and related products and makes an ""operational profit year after year.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'Government regulation'] 2 2013-08-09 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Federation for American Immigration Reform """Unemployment has been on the rise throughout Wisconsin"" as Paul Ryan stepped up his advocacy of ""immigration increases.""" ['Economy', 'Immigration', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-08-09 Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Mike Collins Georgia Says federal regulations adopted in 2011 increased the cost of each vehicle for his business by $10,000. ['Environment', 'Regulation'] 4 2013-08-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Kathleen Ford Florida """There is no planned air-conditioned restaurant out on the Lens.""" ['Recreation', 'Tourism'] 4 2013-08-08 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Becky Bowers Ted Deutch Florida "Says Florida refused to allow the insurance commissioner to ""negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high"" under Obamacare." ['Health Care', 'States'] 5 2013-08-08 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Ramey Ko Texas Says some Austin school district classrooms lack electrical outlets. ['Education', 'Technology'] 0 2013-08-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin """Obamacare … carries on even under a government shutdown.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Health Care'] 4 2013-08-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Jon Greenberg Jan Schakowsky Illinois """Half of all adults have a pre-existing condition"" that could affect their health care coverage." ['Health Care'] 4 2013-08-07 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Andra Lim Wendy Davis Texas """Texas women make an average of $8,355 less per year than men doing the very same job.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2013-08-07 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson Alan Krueger Washington, D.C. """Since the Affordable Care Act passed, 90 percent of job growth has been in full-time positions.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 5 2013-08-07 Aaron Sharockman Republican Louis Jacobson Susan Collins Maine """This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 5 2013-08-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis Nancy Gordeuk Georgia """The Georgia Department of Education has implemented a new policy beginning in August that states that public schools will no longer accept credits from home school entities or non-traditional education centers.""" ['Education'] 3 2013-08-06 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen ForAmerica Says Houston National Cemetery is preventing Christian prayers from being said at military funerals. ['Military', 'Religion'] 1 2013-08-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Michelle Nunn Georgia Says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage. ['Health Care', 'Veterans'] 5 2013-08-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Eric Cantor Virginia "The federal deficit is ""growing.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-08-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "Under Obamacare, people who ""have a doctor they’ve been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years, they won’t be able to keep going to that doctor.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2013-08-05 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Sean Gorman Terry McAuliffe Virginia A judge took the Star Scientific tax case away from Ken Cuccinelli ['Ethics', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2013-08-05 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Brian Schatz Hawaii """For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Weather'] 3 2013-08-04 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """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.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2013-08-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin "A Republican housing finance reform bill ""would eliminate a person’s ability to obtain 15- and 30-year mortgages.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'Housing'] 3 2013-08-04 Tim Murphy Democrat Elizabeth Roberts Rhode Island """They’ve seen employer-supported coverage increase in Massachusetts after this law (Romneycare) was implemented.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2013-08-02 Bob Gee Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lone Star Project Washington "Says Greg Abbott ""converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2013-08-02 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Dan Patrick Texas "Says the 2014-15 state budget ""cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration', 'State Budget'] 2 2013-08-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Tom Cole Oklahoma "Says about NSA data collection: ""Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Congress', 'Homeland Security', 'Privacy', 'Terrorism'] 4 2013-08-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Florida Democratic Party Florida "Rick Scott ""increased tuition at our state colleges and universities by double digits.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2013-08-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """This year, we're off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-08-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Journalist Janel Davis Don Lemon Georgia """A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year, a high school graduate makes $28,000 a year, a college graduate makes $51,000 a year.""" ['Education', 'Pundits'] 4 2013-08-01 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Rick Kriseman Florida """The fact is that red light cameras change driver behavior and cut down on the most dangerous types of accidents.""" ['Public Safety'] 3 2013-08-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Marco Rubio Florida """Even the employees’ union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law.""" ['Health Care', 'Unions'] 2 2013-08-01 Bruce Hammond Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Kari Chisholm Oregon "Says Oregon’s political tax credit is something ""every state should have and no other state does.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2013-08-01 Bob Gee Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom Pauken Texas """Our recent state budgets have far exceeded population and inflation growth.""" ['Population', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2013-08-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Harry Reid Nevada "The sequester has ""already lost 1.6 million jobs.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 1 2013-08-01 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio "Says the State Department spent $630,000 to get 2 million Facebook ""Likes.""" ['Deficit'] 5 2013-08-01 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island """The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade.""" ['Children', 'Congress', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Families', 'Immigration', 'Legal Issues', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 5 2013-07-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The minimum wage is ""lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Workers'] 4 2013-07-31 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Louie Gohmert Texas "Says a Justice Department memo ""directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality.""" ['Families', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2013-07-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "The ""most realistic estimates"" for jobs created by Keystone XL are ""maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Jobs'] 1 2013-07-31 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Tom Fanning Government subsidies for renewable energies such as wind and solar are 100 times greater than those given to gas and coal, and 50 times greater than what the nuclear industry enjoys. ['Energy'] 3 2013-07-30 Angie Drobnic Holan None Amy Sherman Dream Defenders Florida """Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nation's leader in that area.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Education'] 3 2013-07-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Bloggers Ninety million Americans either aren’t working or aren’t looking for work. ['Economy'] 2 2013-07-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg, Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska """I was banned from talking about"" Bill Ayers during the 2008 presidential campaign." ['Elections', 'Pundits', 'Terrorism'] 0 2013-07-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis Charles Kuck Georgia A provision of the Senate immigration bill would require you to have government permission to get a second job. ['Government regulation', 'Immigration', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-07-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Journalist Louis Jacobson Don Lemon Georgia """More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock.""" ['Children', 'Diversity', 'Families', 'Marriage', 'Pundits', 'Sexuality'] 5 2013-07-29 Bruce Hammond Ian K. Kullgren Oregon Catalyst "Says HJM 20 ""was the only bill not assigned to a House committee.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 1 2013-07-29 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """I was filibustered.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Congressional Rules'] 4 2013-07-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Marco Rubio Florida "Under Obamacare, ""75 percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Small Business'] 0 2013-07-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "President Barack Obama has ""announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-07-29 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Sean Duffy Wisconsin "The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ""collecting financial information, monitoring financial information of millions of Americans"" without their knowledge and ""storing it for up to 10 years.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Privacy'] 3 2013-07-28 Tom Curran Bill Wichert Rush Holt """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.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 5 2013-07-28 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Helio Melo Rhode Island """Rhode Island has the highest percentage of lawyers per capita in the country.""" ['Legal Issues'] 1 2013-07-27 Tim Murphy Democrat Teresa Tanzi Rhode Island """We have no idea what is contained in [electronic cigarette] vapor.""" ['Children', 'Consumer Safety', 'Government regulation', 'Legal Issues', 'Public Health'] 1 2013-07-26 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Leticia Van de Putte Texas Says residents of Texas and San Antonio can be fired or denied jobs because they are gay. ['City Government', 'Civil Rights', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-07-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Julie Kliegman Chain email """U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told banks -- in writing -- it may inspect safe deposit boxes without warrant and seize any gold, silver, guns or other valuables it finds inside those boxes!""" ['Homeland Security'] 0 2013-07-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders Republican Party of Florida "Rick Scott  ""invested $38 million in the Port of Jacksonville's vital Mile Point Project,"" which ""covered missing federal funds for the project.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-07-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Our businesses have created nearly twice as many jobs in this recovery as they had at the same point in the last recovery, when there was no Obamacare.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-07-26 Bruce Hammond None Ian K. Kullgren Portlanders for Water Reform Oregon "Says the reasoning behind Portland's high water and sewer rates is ""all kinds of ’pet projects’ unrelated to the core function of the water and sewer bureaus""" ['City Government', 'Government Efficiency', 'Water'] 2 2013-07-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Dave Hansen Wisconsin "The Republican-authored state budget includes a provision ""forcing people earning as little as $12,000 to buy private health insurance that could cost them as much as $4,000 per year.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 1 2013-07-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Karen Handel """The Senate immigration bill is … filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Immigration'] 5 2013-07-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says ""our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.""" ['Deficit'] 5 2013-07-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family’s incomes barely budged.""" ['Economy', 'Income'] 5 2013-07-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Americans for Prosperity "Patrick Murphy voted for Obamacare in 2010, ""yet he reversed himself and voted to delay"" the employer mandate and the individual mandate." ['Health Care', 'Voting Record'] 2 2013-07-25 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert Sheila Oliver New Jersey """Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires.""" ['Income'] 4 2013-07-25 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. BuzzFeed """In Providence, R.I., it's illegal to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Pop Culture'] 0 2013-07-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia """Gangs have increased by 40 percent since this president was elected.""" ['Crime', 'Pundits'] 3 2013-07-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Jesse Jackson Illinois """Homicides against blacks have tripled"" since Florida’s ""stand your ground"" law has been in existence." ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Diversity'] 1 2013-07-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says last year ""13 million (health insurance) rebates went out, in all 50 states. Another 8.5 (million) rebates are being sent out this summer, averaging around 100 bucks each.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-07-24 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus American Postal Workers Union """The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t run on your tax dollars. It’s funded solely by stamps and postage.""" ['Debt', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-07-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders Instagram posts "Dozens of artists, including Justin Timberlake, Jay Z and Rihanna, are canceling Florida shows like Stevie Wonder in protest of  ""stand your ground.""" ['Crime'] 1 2013-07-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida """The FL Guard has defended our freedom in Afghanistan, Iraq, and put their lives at risk; now the fed govt is going to cut their pay 20%.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Federal Budget', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 3 2013-07-23 John Bridges Republican Sue Owen Roger Williams Texas Says Obama policies contributed to gas prices rising from $1.89 in January 2009 to $3.51 today. ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 2 2013-07-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The president … by executive order"" could grant voting rights to illegal immigrants who are newly legalized under pending legislation." ['Elections', 'Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2013-07-23 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Chain email "A ""hidden"" provision in the health care law taxes sporting goods as medical devices." ['Health Care'] 0 2013-07-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitch McConnell Kentucky """The president has had 1,540 of his nominations confirmed, only four defeated.""" ['Legal Issues'] 3 2013-07-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jeffrey S. Solochek Will Weatherford Florida "New school testing standards ""will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students.""" ['Education'] 4 2013-07-22 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Democratic Party of Virginia Virginia """In his book, (Ken) Cuccinelli questions whether Medicare and Social Security should exist.""" ['Medicare', 'Social Security'] 2 2013-07-22 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Al Gore Tennessee "The ocean is now ""much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years.""" ['Animals', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'History', 'Population', 'Public Health', 'Science', 'Weather'] 3 2013-07-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Pink Pony "The city of Brookhaven’s ordinance could cause the Pink Pony to close, thereby ""putting 300 Pink Pony employees out of work in this economy.""" ['Legal Issues'] 3 2013-07-21 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin """We’re importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. We’re America’s Dairyland, but yet we don’t have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers.""" ['Agriculture', 'Economy', 'States'] 4 2013-07-21 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island "The oceans ""have become 30 percent more acidic.""" ['Animals', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'History', 'Public Health', 'Science', 'Weather'] 4 2013-07-20 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Terry McAuliffe Virginia "Says an investigative report concluded Ken Cuccinelli ""should have been prosecuted"" for disclosure violations, but Virginia's law was too weak." ['Ethics'] 0 2013-07-20 Bruce Hammond None Janie Har Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) Oregon "Portland Bureau of Transportation ""barely break(s) even"" ticketing motorists." ['City Government', 'Transportation'] 3 2013-07-19 Aaron Sharockman Republican Julie Kliegman, Katie Sanders Bill Foster Florida """Since I was elected, crime rates have been at their lowest in over a decade.""" ['Crime'] 4 2013-07-19 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Facebook posts """Texas ranks: #1 in worker deaths, #1 carbon emissions, #50 in high school graduates, #50 in funding for mental health patients.""" ['Climate Change', 'Education', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Health Care', 'States', 'Workers'] 3 2013-07-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Tom Cole Oklahoma "Food stamp spending ""doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama.""" ['Children', 'Deficit', 'Families', 'Federal Budget', 'Hunger', 'Poverty', 'Welfare'] 5 2013-07-19 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Nikema Williams Georgia """Georgia is nearly 50 percent Democratic and (the Republican majority) diminished our voting strength to 32 percent through gerrymandered maps.""" ['Redistricting'] 3 2013-07-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitch McConnell Kentucky "Says Barack Obama is getting his nominees confirmed ""faster than President (George W.) Bush was at the same time in his second term.""" ['Congressional Rules'] 1 2013-07-18 John Bridges Democrat Sue Owen Robert Reich California "Says in Texas ""it's legal to shoot someone who's committing a ‘public nuisance’ under the cover of dark.""" ['Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2013-07-18 Tim Murphy Democrat Gregory Smith Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island "Farming is ""one of the fastest growing areas of our economy.""" ['Agriculture', 'Economy'] 2 2013-07-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Tweets """In the 513 days between Trayvon dying, and today’s verdict, 11,106 African-Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans.""" ['Crime'] 2 2013-07-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers John Boehner Ohio """This is the same (farm) bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences.""" ['Agriculture', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2013-07-17 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Elliott Naishtat Texas "Says Austin is the ""largest city in America without a congressional district anchored in it.""" ['Redistricting'] 5 2013-07-16 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Kathleen Ford Florida """Private prison systems are calculating how many new beds (they will need) based on the ... number of third graders.""" ['Crime', 'Education'] 0 2013-07-16 Angie Drobnic Holan, Aaron Sharockman Jon Greenberg Americans for Prosperity Says health insurance premiums will rise under Obamacare. ['Health Care'] 3 2013-07-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus David Sutton "Says ""excise taxes are...disproportionately burdening middle- and lower-income consumers.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2013-07-15 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Terry McAuliffe Virginia """Women still earn about 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for working the same job.""" ['Jobs', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2013-07-15 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Republican Eric Stirgus Karl Rove Texas The Hispanic population in Gwinnett and Henry counties has increased by 153 percent and 339 percent, respectively, since 2000 while Republican presidential candidates are getting a smaller percentage of the vote in those counties. ['Elections'] 4 2013-07-14 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey """Guess what, governor? There’s no fried butter in Newark. Just 13 percent unemployment.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2013-07-14 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Patricia Morgan Rhode Island In Rhode Island, 9 percent of workers use the state's temporary disability insurance program each year while in New Jersey, the rate is only 3 percent. ['Disability', 'Labor', 'States', 'Workers'] 2 2013-07-13 Bruce Hammond Republican Janie Har Jeff Kruse Oregon "Says that in Curry County, ""if you make a 911 call you’re likely to wait for an hour for a response.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-07-12 Aaron Sharockman Katie Sanders Judicial Watch """A little-known unit of the Department of Justice, the Community Relations Service, was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 2 2013-07-12 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Gilberto Hinojosa Texas "Says if Texas abortion measure passes, ""someone living in El Paso would have to drive 550 miles each way to San Antonio for something as simple as cervical cancer screening.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 0 2013-07-12 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Becky Bowers Robert Menendez New Jersey Says Obama administration delay of health care law's employer mandate affects about 1 percent of the American workforce. ['Health Care'] 4 2013-07-12 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Dave Schwartz Virginia """Twenty-four percent of doctors in Virginia currently don’t accept new Medicaid patients because the reimbursement rates are so low.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 4 2013-07-12 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Janel Davis Larry Elder Paula Deen supported and campaigned for Barack Obama. ['Pop Culture'] 1 2013-07-12 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Rachel Campos-Duffy """Upwards of 90 percent"" of women seeking an abortion decide not to have an abortion after seeing an ultrasound." ['Abortion', 'Children', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 1 2013-07-12 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman Miami-Dade County Florida "Miami-Dade has ""the nation’s highest-rated tap water.""" ['County Budget', 'Environment', 'Water'] 1 2013-07-12 Jane Kahoun Democrat Brandon Blackwell Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "Says proposed anti-abortion legislation ""would force women facing the most personal of health decisions to endure a transvaginal ultrasound.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 3 2013-07-11 Aaron Sharockman Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians don't want our money.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 5 2013-07-11 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says a growing number of extremely premature babies survive into healthy childhood. ['Abortion', 'Children', 'Women'] 4 2013-07-10 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Jonathan Stickland Texas Says Texas has more than 80,000 abortions each year. ['Abortion'] 2 2013-07-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Allen West Florida """More Americans receive food aid than work in (the) private sector.""" ['Jobs', 'Poverty', 'Pundits', 'Workers'] 1 2013-07-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Jeb Bush Florida "Says ""Canada has one-tenth of our population—yet it issues far more high-skilled visas (more than 150,000) yearly than we do (65,000).""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Immigration'] 3 2013-07-10 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen Ken Cuccinelli Virginia """I’m the only candidate for governor who’s rolled out any policies so far.""" ['Elections'] 1 2013-07-10 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Bill Johnson Ohio "Most Americans want ""traditional marriage,"" as defined by the Defense of Marriage Act." ['Families', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2013-07-10 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Charlene Lima Rhode Island "Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes ""sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds"" for 38 Studios." ['Bankruptcy', 'Corporations', 'Debt', 'Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-07-10 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Eric Stirgus Americans for Prosperity Georgia chapter Electricity rates are 40 percent higher in states that have required utility companies to use a certain amount of renewable energy such as solar power. ['Energy'] 3 2013-07-09 Jane Kahoun Henry J. Gomez Rachel Maddow "Says Ohio budget item later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a  ""mandatory vaginal probe.""" ['Abortion', 'Pundits', 'Women'] 0 2013-07-09 Aaron Sharockman Katie Sanders Chain email "Obamacare ""will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.""" ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 0 2013-07-09 Angie Drobnic Holan None Louis Jacobson Dan Stein Washington, D.C. "The Senate immigration bill ""unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. … We're talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2013-07-09 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Phil Burress Ohio """Every major religion is opposed to same-sex marriage.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Religion'] 3 2013-07-09 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Jimmy Carter Georgia Women in the United States are paid about 70 percent of what men earn for the same work. ['Jobs', 'Women'] 2 2013-07-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Tony Perkins """We're already seeing bakers and florists and photographers forced to participate in same-sex marriages under the threat of law and in some cases even jail.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 3 2013-07-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Luis Gutierrez Illinois "Says under the Senate immigration bill, newly legalized immigrants will ""pay every tax possible, but you don’t get a single benefit"" for 10 years." ['Immigration', 'Welfare'] 4 2013-07-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers, Caroline Houck Gabrielle Giffords Arizona """In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2013-07-08 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Paul Begala Texas "Says Ken Cuccinelli ""attacked churches for helping the poor.""" ['Religion'] 1 2013-07-08 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Lynn Westmoreland """It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans’ phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so.""" ['Privacy', 'Terrorism'] 5 2013-07-07 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey Says spending in the fiscal 2009 budget was lower than spending in the fiscal 2014 budget ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2013-07-07 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin """Currently, it takes up to 25 years to obtain U.S. citizenship legally"" but the Senate bill ""would allow immigrants who came to the United States illegally to obtain citizenship in just 13 years.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2013-07-07 Susan Areson, Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Joseph McNamara Rhode Island "Rhode Island's graduated driving license ""has saved hundreds of lives.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Public Safety', 'Regulation'] 1 2013-07-05 Aaron Sharockman None Katie Sanders United Florida Horsemen Florida "Says Florida ""rubber-stamped phony horse racing.""" ['Gambling', 'Regulation'] 3 2013-07-05 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Abortion is the second-most conducted surgical procedure in this country.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 0 2013-07-05 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """About 95 percent of (Ohio’s) electricity comes from burning coal.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2013-07-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says President Obama has cracked down ""on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2013-07-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "In South Florida, ""we've had nine inches of sea-level rise since the 1920s.""" ['Environment'] 5 2013-07-03 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Sarah Ponder Texas Says $800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators. ['Abortion'] 4 2013-07-03 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen Ken Cuccinelli Virginia "Says Terry McAuliffe ""opposes"" Virginia’s right-to-work law." ['Labor', 'Legal Issues', 'Unions'] 1 2013-07-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer David A. Clarke Jr. Wisconsin """When I was growing up as a kid in the city of Milwaukee, if we averaged 4 homicides a year in the entire city that was a record number.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 1 2013-07-03 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis Edward Lindsey Georgia Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years. ['Marriage'] 5 2013-07-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Todd Young Indiana """Nearly 70 percent of all federal spending will go towards Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid"" in fiscal year 2014." ['Federal Budget', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 1 2013-07-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus National Republican Senatorial Committee Michelle Nunn has praised the Occupy movement. ['Occupy Wall Street'] 2 2013-07-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Louis Jacobson Bill Maher California "If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is ""going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet.""" ['Immigration', 'Pundits'] 5 2013-07-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2013-07-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Joe Manchin West Virginia """In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)""" ['Guns'] 4 2013-07-01 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman E.W. Jackson Virginia """In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families."" Today ""we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families...""" ['Families', 'Welfare'] 4 2013-07-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Jimmy Carter Georgia """(T)he United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 5 2013-06-30 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Not one tax has been raised since I've been governor.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2013-06-30 Susan Areson Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Raymond Gallison Rhode Island """Seventy-four percent of Rhode Islanders support [a] national popular vote [for president] because they, as I, believe in one person-one vote.""" ['Elections', 'History', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2013-06-29 Bruce Hammond Republican Janie Har Jason Conger Oregon "Says ""the mandate is 71 times that a child’s body will be injected with a disease"" for immunizations." ['Children', 'Public Health'] 1 2013-06-28 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Gene Green Texas Says student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1. ['Education'] 4 2013-06-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Patriot Majority USA "Says Arkansas Republican Rep. Tom Cotton voted to provide Congress with ""taxpayer-funded health care for life.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2013-06-28 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Wendy Davis, ""born into difficult circumstances,"" was the daughter of a single mother and a teenage mother herself." ['Abortion', 'Candidate Biography'] 3 2013-06-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Richard Durbin Illinois "Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to ""the evaporation of our Great Lakes.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Water'] 3 2013-06-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Jimmy Carter Georgia "The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago ""that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands.""" ['Religion', 'Women'] 2 2013-06-27 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Tony Evers "A private school tax break in the Wisconsin state budget is ""the most generous in the nation.""" ['Education', 'Income', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-06-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg Ted Cruz Texas "The Senate immigration bill ""has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Immigration'] 2 2013-06-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Jeff Sessions Alabama "The immigration bill ""has a specific provision that says that Secretary Napolitano does not have to build any fence if she chooses not to.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2013-06-27 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Jerry Patterson Texas "Says unsuccessful Texas abortion legislation ""was supported by a majority of"" Texans." ['Abortion', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2013-06-27 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Kris Jordan Ohio Says Delaware County has more waterfront property than any other county in the state of Ohio ['Environment', 'Water'] 5 2013-06-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, ""there were days where folks couldn't go outside. … because of all the pollution in the air.""" ['Environment', 'History', 'Public Health'] 4 2013-06-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Bloggers "The immigration bill includes free ""Obamacars,"" motorcycles or scooters." ['Immigration', 'Transportation', 'Welfare'] 0 2013-06-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Lauren Benedict Georgia "U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey wants public schools to teach women to ""stay in their place.""" ['Families', 'Marriage', 'Women'] 0 2013-06-26 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Tim Ryan Ohio """If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Income'] 4 2013-06-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Peter Barca Wisconsin "Under Republican-backed state budget, the state education agency estimates expansion of Wisconsin’s school voucher program ""could cost nearly $2 billion annually""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 0 2013-06-25 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Wendy Davis Texas Says 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider in 2008. ['Abortion'] 4 2013-06-25 Bruce Hammond None Ian K. Kullgren Portland Public Schools Oregon "Says proposed teacher contract ""would layer on more restrictive rules.""" ['Education'] 5 2013-06-25 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida Says Florida didn’t offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 0 2013-06-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Stephen Nodine Alabama Says he can be on the ballot for Congress while serving time in jail. ['Elections'] 4 2013-06-25 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Pete Gallego Texas "Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits ""are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible.""" ['Agriculture', 'Poverty'] 5 2013-06-24 John Bridges Republican Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Jodie Laubenberg Texas "Says a ""rape kit"" can be used to ""clean out"" women, ""basically like"" dilation and curettage." ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 0 2013-06-24 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Robin Vos Wisconsin "A study of private bail bond systems ""showed that Wisconsin has a higher no-show rate than other states"" of defendants skipping court appearances." ['Criminal Justice'] 1 2013-06-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Bloggers """There are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the U.K.,"" compared to ""466 violent crimes per 100,000"" in the United States." ['Crime', 'Foreign Policy', 'Guns'] 1 2013-06-24 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Ron Hood Ohio Says abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. ['Abortion'] 0 2013-06-24 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Andre Jacque "A monthly ""police and fire protection fee"" on all Wisconsin phone bills does nothing to support police and fire." ['Criminal Justice', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-06-24 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Ron Shipman Georgia Says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity. ['Energy'] 4 2013-06-23 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Lena Taylor Wisconsin """There is no statistical evidence that bail bonds increase the likelihood of those awaiting trial returning to court for their scheduled hearings.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 1 2013-06-23 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Stephen Sweeney """People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Health Care', 'Marriage', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Women', 'Workers'] 4 2013-06-23 Susan Areson Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. John Loughlin Rhode Island """We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-06-22 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Amalgamated Transit Union "Says TriMet spends ""$10.3 million in police contracts"" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls" ['Public Safety', 'Transportation', 'Unions'] 4 2013-06-21 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Perry Texas Says the 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth. ['State Budget'] 4 2013-06-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barbara Lee California "Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean ""2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts.""" ['Agriculture', 'Hunger', 'Welfare'] 4 2013-06-21 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Terry McAuliffe Virginia "The state GOP ticket ""says their top priority is a career-long mission to outlaw abortion in all cases and ban some common forms of birth control.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2013-06-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael McCaul Texas "Says the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to ""release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Immigration'] 2 2013-06-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ""is transparent.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Terrorism'] 0 2013-06-21 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis Jack Kingston Georgia """In the past four years, (the U.S. Senate) has only passed nine out of 48 appropriation bills.""" ['Congress', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2013-06-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Dana Rohrabacher California "On immigration reform, Marco Rubio ""all along has been saying, 'We have to have border security first' "" and then ""he gets on Spanish TV, he ends up saying, 'No, no. That will never get in the way.' """ ['Candidate Biography', 'Immigration'] 2 2013-06-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg, Caroline Houck Joe Biden Delaware """Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-06-20 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Florida Democratic Party Florida "A study ranked Florida ""No. 1 in government corruption"" under Gov. Rick Scott." ['Ethics'] 1 2013-06-20 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Chris Larson Wisconsin "The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. ""cannot account for creating one single job.""" ['Jobs'] 2 2013-06-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mike Rogers Michigan "The IRS scandal ""clearly showed some criminal behavior.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-06-19 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Perry Texas Says New York has ‘bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.’ ['City Government', 'Government regulation', 'Public Health'] 2 2013-06-19 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson John Nygren Wisconsin "The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is a ""proven job creator.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2013-06-19 Susan Areson Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Charlene Lima Rhode Island "Rhode Island ""didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 0 2013-06-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Jeb Bush Florida """Immigrants are more fertile.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2013-06-18 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Bill Nelson Florida "If Gov. Rick Scott activates ""the National Guard in anticipation of a federal disaster, the state’s costs, including the costs to recall any furloughed guardsmen, will be fully reimbursable by FEMA.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget'] 2 2013-06-18 Jane Kahoun Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio """Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies"" but want to cut food stamps." ['Agriculture', 'Federal Budget', 'Poverty', 'Welfare'] 5 2013-06-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Caroline Houck, Louis Jacobson Saxby Chambliss Georgia """The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Military'] 0 2013-06-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Johnny Isakson Georgia "Corporate tax holidays pushed by Presidents John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush brought ""billions"" of dollars back into the United States." ['Taxes'] 3 2013-06-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Peter Roskam Illinois """Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud.""" ['Crime', 'Government Efficiency', 'Medicare'] 4 2013-06-17 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Barry Bone Texas "Says that when the Rolling Stones performed in an Austin park, they paid $25,000 to the nearby city of Rollingwood ""for one night of inconvenience.""" ['City Government', 'Recreation'] 5 2013-06-17 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Morgan Griffith Virginia """The Government Accountability Office estimated (Obamacare) will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion.""" ['Deficit', 'Health Care'] 2 2013-06-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis Angela Bean Georgia A data system that goes along with Common Core is designed to collect up to 400 data points on each child, which can include personally identifiable data. ['Education', 'Privacy'] 2 2013-06-16 Suzanne Pavkovic Caryn Shinske Stephen Sweeney """Seventy percent of the people in the state of New Jersey want marriage equality.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 1 2013-06-16 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says the success of his economic agenda is supported by the fact ""we went from unemployment at 9.2 percent when I decided to run for governor four years ago to two points lower.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-06-16 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Harold Metts Rhode Island """Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Economy'] 4 2013-06-15 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kitty Rhoades "Wisconsin is ""not walking away from a dime"" in federal funds by rejecting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion." ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'State Budget'] 2 2013-06-15 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Oregon Republican Party "Says a group ""estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Immigration', 'State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 2 2013-06-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Jim Bridenstine Oklahoma """This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning.""" ['Climate Change', 'Federal Budget', 'Science', 'Weather'] 2 2013-06-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Aaron Sharockman Don Gaetz Florida """More than half of last year's U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.""" ['Education', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-06-14 Jane Kahoun Tom Feran Chain email A hidden provision in Obamacare taxes sporting goods as medical devices. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2013-06-14 Tim Murphy Republican Gregory Smith Bernard Jackvony Rhode Island """There hasn’t been a Republican in the legislature or the City Council in Providence in over 30 years.""" ['Elections'] 2 2013-06-14 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Pink Pony The Pink Pony club in DeKalb County has never been cited for any violation of an ordinance or state law. ['Legal Issues'] 5 2013-06-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson Mike Rogers Michigan """It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Terrorism'] 4 2013-06-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson Mark Udall Colorado "Currently, the intelligence community ""can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Terrorism'] 5 2013-06-13 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Doug Miller Texas "Says less than half of 1 percent of all the Texas legislators who ever served draw ""a benefit"" from pensions tied to the salaries of state district judges." ['Pensions'] 1 2013-06-13 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Christine Whitman New Jersey """We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator.""" ['Congress', 'History'] 4 2013-06-13 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Earl Blumenauer Oregon "Says ""Having organizations parading as being social welfare organizations and then being involved in the political combat harkens back to why the statute a hundred years ago said that they were prohibited.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Congress', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-06-12 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Perry Texas Says Texas law requires state agencies to give preference to goods produced and grown in Texas. ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2013-06-12 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty Wisconsin "Says Madison Mayor Paul Soglin's stated intent when proposing that city contractors disclose private political donations was to ""discourage contributions to organizations with which he disagrees.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 5 2013-06-12 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Dave Joyce Ohio """47 - New provisions ObamaCare charges the IRS with implementing, according to the Government Accountability Office.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-06-11 W. Gardner Selby None Sue Owen Progress Texas Texas Says two-thirds of groups targeted for IRS scrutiny were not conservative. ['Taxes'] 0 2013-06-11 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Rush Limbaugh """One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not"" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die." ['Children', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Pundits'] 2 2013-06-11 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Bill Nelson Florida "Says Gov. Rick Scott returned ""$1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2013-06-11 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Kirsten Gillibrand New York "The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military ""is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men.""" ['Military'] 4 2013-06-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Jason Carter Georgia """We (Georgia) collect fewer state taxes per capita than any other state … although state taxes are low, Georgia is the eighth-most-dependent state on the federal government.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2013-06-10 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman, Nancy Madsen Stephen Martin Virginia Says Democratic Party created Planned Parenthood ['History', 'Sexuality'] 1 2013-06-10 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Stephen Martin Virginia Says Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan. ['Civil Rights', 'History'] 1 2013-06-10 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton Bob Gibbs Ohio """If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2013-06-10 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus John Lewis Georgia """Black children constitute 18 percent of the nation's public school population but 40 percent of the children who are suspended or expelled.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Education'] 4 2013-06-09 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Our ranking in terms of the best and worst states to do business in was 43 four years ago, and we just moved up to 17 two weeks ago.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Small Business'] 3 2013-06-09 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske 13th District GOP slate New Jersey """New Jersey’s once-broken pension system is now solvent.""" ['Pensions', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-06-09 Tim Murphy Independent C. Eugene Emery Jr. Abel Collins Rhode Island """RIPTA has really some of the fullest buses for its transit agency size around the country.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Infrastructure', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-06-08 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Chain email "Says ""At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment"" under Affordable Care Act." ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 0 2013-06-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Tim Griffin Arkansas """There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2013-06-07 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Sullivan Texas "Says Texas lawmakers agreed to cut state's rainy day fund in half, spending ""$4 billion from current $8 billion.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2013-06-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my Republican predecessor.""" ['Legal Issues'] 3 2013-06-07 Jane Kahoun Democrat Henry J. Gomez Tom Letson Ohio "Says Gov. John Kasich implied that a portion of workers’ compensation rebates to employers ""should be directed back to him in the form of campaign cash.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Workers'] 0 2013-06-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus John Lewis Georgia """The violent crime rate in America is the same as it was in 1968, yet our prison system has grown by over 500 percent.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Criminal Justice'] 3 2013-06-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont """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.""" ['Economy', 'Income'] 5 2013-06-06 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas "Says Americans ""invented ‘Pong,’ ‘Space Invaders’ and the iPhone.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Patriotism', 'Science'] 3 2013-06-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Jim McDermott Washington state """During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted"" by the IRS, similar to recent targeting." ['Bush Administration', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-06-06 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. """Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine’s budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards.""" ['Debt', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-06-06 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Gina Raimondo Rhode Island """The average student comes out of college hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.""" ['Debt', 'Economy', 'Education'] 1 2013-06-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Kasim Reed My office is about a 300-step walk to the governor's office. ['City Government', 'Economy'] 4 2013-06-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Chuck Grassley Iowa "Says President Barack Obama is trying to ""pack"" the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals." ['Legal Issues'] 1 2013-06-05 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Keith Faber Ohio """During the Civil War, more than 300,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army -- more per capita than any other state.""" ['History'] 5 2013-06-05 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Harry Alford "The National Rifle Association was ""founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Guns', 'Religion'] 0 2013-06-04 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Derek Ryan Texas Says first eight chosen to draw Austin City Council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one Republican primary voter. ['City Government', 'Corrections and Updates'] 5 2013-06-04 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Democratic National Committee """Republicans actually doctored emails between administration officials about Benghazi. Then, they released them to the press, trying to pass them off as real.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 2 2013-06-04 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Karl Rove Texas "Says that in Texas, Republican nominees ""get 40 percent of the Latino vote on average.""" ['Elections'] 4 2013-06-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus National Republican Congressional Committee "U.S. Rep. John Barrow’s plan ""puts the IRS in charge of your health care.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2013-06-03 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """We cut taxes 24 times.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2013-06-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Carlos Curbelo Florida "In Miami-Dade County, ""we spend at our school system over $20 million every year"" educating recent immigrants." ['Education', 'Immigration'] 4 2013-06-03 Jane Kahoun Democrat Tom Feran Ed FitzGerald Ohio "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.""" ['Education'] 5 2013-06-02 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Mike Tate """A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple,"" and in some Milwaukee neighborhoods ""good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option""" ['Public Health', 'Welfare'] 4 2013-06-02 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Dale Kooyenga Wisconsin "Wisconsin has ""one of the most progressive tax codes in the country.""" ['Income', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-06-02 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Jon Corzine, elected governor. Teams up with Barbara Buono. $1.2  billion sales tax increase? Passed. Most spending in state history? Passed. After Buono named budget chair, taxes and fees increase 23 times in just two years. State debt? Up $13.4 billion. Unemployment? Doubled.""" ['Debt', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-06-02 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Frank Caprio Rhode Island "Since Gina Raimondo took office, investment fees on the state's pension portfolio ""have gone up from about $12 million annually to about $50 million.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Pensions', 'Retirement', 'State Finances', 'Wealth', 'Workers'] 3 2013-06-01 Bruce Hammond Janie Har National Republican Congressional Committee "Says  ""With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project.""" ['Climate Change', 'Congress', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Regulation', 'Voting Record'] 4 2013-05-31 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Perry Texas "Says 13 Texas universities ""have announced or implemented a $10,000 degree.""" ['Education'] 2 2013-05-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Alan Grayson Florida "A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline ""is an earmark"" under House rules." ['Climate Change', 'Congressional Rules', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Infrastructure'] 1 2013-05-31 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "The Obama administration has put out ""more of these major rules than the Clinton administration or the Bush administration during comparable times.""" ['Regulation'] 5 2013-05-31 Bruce Hammond Christian Gaston Oregon PTA "Says, ""Oregon has the third largest class size in the nation.""" ['Children', 'Education'] 5 2013-05-31 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Michael McKinney Peter Nightingale Rhode Island """The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Education', 'Guns', 'Public Safety'] 4 2013-05-31 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Charlie Smith Georgia The federal government could save $500 million annually by circulating $1 coins instead of $1 bills. ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-05-30 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Says the word ""Dhimmitude"" is on page 107 of the health care law and means ""Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance.""" ['Health Care', 'Religion'] 0 2013-05-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Aaron Sharockman Republican Party of Florida """Two weeks after signing a taxpayer protection pledge, (Charlie Crist) breaks it.""" ['Public Health', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-05-30 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Veronica Escobar Texas "Says El Paso is the ""safest city of our size in the nation.""" ['City Government', 'Crime', 'Immigration'] 3 2013-05-30 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Mark Pocan Wisconsin """Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote.""" ['Elections', 'Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 5 2013-05-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Steve King Iowa """Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 1986 amnesty act"" gave Barack Obama about 15 million additional Hispanic votes in 2012." ['Elections', 'Immigration'] 1 2013-05-29 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Bryan Long Georgia Fewer Democrats were on the Georgia general election ballot in 2012 than in more than 100 years. ['Elections'] 3 2013-05-28 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Terry McAuliffe Virginia """In our community college system (state) cuts have reduced funding per student by $1,908.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-05-28 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Mitch McConnell Kentucky "Says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told insurance companies ""they couldn't inform their policyholders of what they thought the impact of Obamacare would be on them.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Medicare'] 4 2013-05-28 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin "An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine ""because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK.""" ['Animals', 'Criminal Justice', 'Government regulation'] 2 2013-05-28 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen, Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Mark Warner Virginia "Says 70,000 children ""have lost their Head Start slots"" because of the sequester." ['Children', 'Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Poverty'] 2 2013-05-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Norcross City Council Georgia The proposed raises for the Norcross City Council would put it in line with other liked-sized communities. ['City Budget', 'City Government'] 5 2013-05-26 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Alberta Darling Wisconsin """18 percent of our land in our state right now is either federally, state or county owned for conservation purposes.""" ['Animals', 'Environment', 'Recreation', 'State Finances'] 5 2013-05-26 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey """To hear Gov. Christie tell it, everything in New Jersey is going just fine. Well I see another New Jersey with 400,000 unemployed. One of the worst jobless rates in the country. Working and middle class families have seen costs soar, from property taxes to college tuition.""" ['Education', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-05-26 Tim Murphy Organization Michael McKinney Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island Rhode Island """Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better.""" ['Health Care', 'Hunger', 'Poverty'] 2 2013-05-24 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Sander Levin Michigan "Says the inspector general for the IRS said there was ""no political motivation"" and ""no outside influence"" for targeting of tax-exempt applications from tea party groups" ['Taxes'] 4 2013-05-24 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says that since he took office, ""there have been no large-scale attacks on the United States.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Homeland Security', 'Terrorism'] 3 2013-05-24 Bruce Hammond Republican Ian K. Kullgren Greg Walden Oregon "Says ""we allow more people into America legally than all other countries on the planet combined.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2013-05-24 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Bill Ratliff Texas """We have one charter school that for seven years has been rated unacceptable.""" ['Education'] 2 2013-05-24 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Nathan Deal The state of Georgia lost 16 percent of its employees last year, and that percentage has risen over the past three years. ['Jobs', 'Workers'] 3 2013-05-24 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Bill Hammond Texas Says only 25 percent of Texas high school students graduate prepared for college or careers. ['Education'] 2 2013-05-24 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Carolyn Tomei "Says, ""In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 4 2013-05-23 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence Education Fund Maryland "A law that mandates fingerprinting for gun purchasers is ""a requirement that's reduced gun crimes in the five states where it's the law.""" ['Guns'] 2 2013-05-23 Tom Curran Organization Caryn Shinske AFL-CIO of New Jersey New Jersey """New Jersey's governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade.""" ['Corporations', 'Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-05-23 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Lynne Derbyshire Rhode Island """If you are black or brown, you are nine times more likely to be stopped and frisked"" in New York City." ['Civil Rights'] 4 2013-05-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Xavier Becerra California """We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.""" ['Elections', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-05-22 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Ron Maag Ohio """Forty-six cents of every dollar"" Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion ""is going to come from China or some other country that doesn’t like us very much.""" ['Debt', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-05-22 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Randy Forbes Virginia """The IRS doesn't have to prove something against you ... you've got the burden of proof.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-05-22 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida """This budget also reflects the smallest state government workforce per 1,000 residents in Florida in this century.""" ['Jobs', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-05-22 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Rand Paul Kentucky "Says Hillary Clinton ""was asked repeatedly to provide security in Benghazi on several occasions, including direct cables.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 2 2013-05-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Perry Texas Says Sam Houston opposed slavery and as governor said Texas should not leave the union over slavery. ['Gays and Lesbians', 'History'] 3 2013-05-22 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Leah Vukmir Wisconsin "A referendum ""gives the people the chance to decide"" on cutting the Milwaukee County Board budget by two-thirds" ['County Budget', 'County Government'] 1 2013-05-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Tim Echols Georgia There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia. ['Energy'] 3 2013-05-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Robert Deuell Texas "Says it's ""estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America.""" ['Children', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 4 2013-05-21 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Leticia Van de Putte Texas Says Texas high school graduates must pass Algebra II to be eligible for automatic admission to state's public universities. ['Education'] 2 2013-05-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota "The IRS is going to be ""in charge"" of ""a huge national database"" on health care that will include Americans’ ""personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets.""" ['Health Care', 'Privacy', 'Taxes'] 0 2013-05-20 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """We are already almost halfway to our 2010 goal of creating 700,000 new jobs in seven years.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-05-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota "The IRS is ""going to be in charge of our health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-05-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The IRS will have the ability potentially"" to deny or delay health care." ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-05-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus John Eaves Georgia Says Fulton County government hasn’t raised its millage rate since 1991. ['Taxes'] 4 2013-05-19 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin "A state report’s ""projection is that approximately half of public employees"" would live outside municipal boundaries in a decade if the state bans local residency requirements." ['City Government', 'Workers'] 2 2013-05-19 Steve Liebman Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2013-05-19 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island Historically, the Social Security tax has been assessed on about 90% of U.S. income. Now it captures 83% because there's been such a growth of income among the highest earners. ['Debt', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Social Security', 'Taxes', 'Wealth'] 2 2013-05-18 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Family Forward Oregon "Says paid family leave is ""a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Labor', 'Women', 'Workers'] 4 2013-05-17 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Terry McAuliffe Virginia """Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old.""" ['Education', 'Retirement'] 1 2013-05-17 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Tavern League of Wisconsin A 0.05 standard for drunken driving means having a glass of wine at dinner could make a person drunk. ['Alcohol', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-05-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Tom Price Georgia Says President Barack Obama’s proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion. ['Taxes'] 4 2013-05-17 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Barack Obama Illinois "Says that according to a report, ""the tech sector now drives more than one-quarter of Austin’s economy.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-05-17 Tim Murphy Talk show host C. Eugene Emery Jr. John DePetro Rhode Island "Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried ""not far"" from President Kennedy’s grave." ['Crime', 'History', 'Islam', 'Pundits', 'Religion', 'Terrorism'] 0 2013-05-16 Jane Kahoun Independent Tom Feran Ken Lanci Ohio Ken Lanci is a lifelong Clevelander ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2013-05-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California """The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-05-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Will Weatherford Florida """Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 3 2013-05-16 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske One New Jersey """Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires.""" ['Education', 'State Finances', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-05-16 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Jeff Wagner """The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to"" wash your hands ""at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.""" ['County Government', 'Food Safety', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care'] 3 2013-05-16 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lee Leffingwell Texas "Says nearly 1 million people are ""coming to town"" in the next 20 years." ['Population'] 2 2013-05-15 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned.""" ['Social Security'] 3 2013-05-15 Aaron Sharockman Republican Molly Moorhead Reclaim America PAC Florida "Says Kelly Ayotte voted to ""fix background checks.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Guns'] 3 2013-05-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Jason Chaffetz Utah """We had people that were getting killed (in Benghazi), we had people who are willing to risk their lives to go save them, and somebody told them to stand down.""" ['Military', 'Terrorism'] 1 2013-05-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of"" the Benghazi incident." ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 2 2013-05-14 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Georgia Lottery The Georgia Lottery paid out $2.3 billion in prizes during the last fiscal year. ['Lottery'] 4 2013-05-13 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Barack Obama Illinois "Says ""we"" have put more boots on the U.S.-Mexico border ""than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2013-05-13 Angie Drobnic Holan None Louis Jacobson Jay Carney District of Columbia "When Susan Rice spoke about Benghazi on Sunday news shows, she said ""that al-Qaida might be involved, or other al-Qaida affiliates might be involved, or non-al-Qaida Libyan extremists, which I think demonstrates that there was no effort to play that down.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 2 2013-05-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Kathy Castor Florida """70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Poverty'] 3 2013-05-13 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Ron Meyer Virginia """Only three in 10 young Americans under 30 -- 30 percent under 30 -- have full-time work.""" ['Jobs', 'Workers'] 3 2013-05-13 Jane Kahoun Democrat Robert Higgs Mike Foley Ohio Ohio’s lost more jobs in March than any other state in the nation. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-05-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Journalist Janel Davis Cokie Roberts Maryland Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000. ['Afghanistan', 'Debt', 'Iraq'] 3 2013-05-12 Suzanne Pavkovic Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-05-12 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Joee Lindbeck Rhode Island """Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department"" about residents in the state's sex offender registry." ['Children', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 3 2013-05-12 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Peter Palumbo Rhode Island In Cranston, it costs $5,000 to $6,000 to send out community notifications on just one Level 3 sex offender. ['Children', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 1 2013-05-11 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Portland Association of Teachers "Says ""Did you know that if you accepted the District's proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect.""" ['Education', 'Unions'] 2 2013-05-10 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Greg Abbott Texas Says he has sued the Obama administration 25 times. ['Civil Rights', 'Environment', 'Legal Issues', 'Redistricting'] 5 2013-05-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Fred Clark Wisconsin "A Wisconsin bill to limit use of food stamps for junk food would also ""prevent -- or limit --  the extent to which"" food stamps could be used for organic foods." ['Federal Budget', 'Poverty', 'States', 'Welfare'] 4 2013-05-10 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus National Republican Senatorial Committee "U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of ""Obamacare.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2013-05-10 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney Jack Reed Rhode Island "North Korea has a ""substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world.""" ['Congress', 'Military', 'Nuclear', 'Population'] 5 2013-05-09 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Gilberto Hinojosa Texas """The economy added more jobs during four years under Obama than it did in the entire eight years under George W. Bush.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-05-09 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 5 2013-05-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Tom Coburn Oklahoma """In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.""" ['Guns', 'Recreation'] 1 2013-05-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Richardson New Mexico Among Hispanics, support for immigration reform is close to universal. ['Immigration'] 4 2013-05-09 Suzanne Pavkovic Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-05-09 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Ken Tanner "Says ""The idea of one casino per tribe is a false one.""" ['Gambling'] 3 2013-05-08 Greg Borowski State official Tom Kertscher Kevin Reilly Wisconsin "University of Wisconsin System's reserves are in the ""mid- to low-range"" of comparable university systems." ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 3 2013-05-08 W. Gardner Selby Organization Sue Owen Jim Marston Texas Says Texas leads the nation in fatal industrial accidents. ['Labor'] 3 2013-05-08 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis Zell Miller Georgia Then-Gov. Carl Sanders put 56 percent of the state budget into education, a figure that has not been achieved since. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-05-07 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Fix Austin Schools "Says that under Rick Perry’s plan, ""Texas has cut funding for public schools by 25%.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-05-07 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Ron Maag Ohio "Employees in ""workplace freedom"" states make more money" ['Income', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 2 2013-05-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those who’ve stopped looking for work,  the unemployment rate ""actually went up last month to 13.5 percent.""" ['Jobs', 'Pundits', 'Workers'] 3 2013-05-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Marco Rubio Florida """We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2013-05-07 Angie Drobnic Holan None Louis Jacobson Martina Navratilova Florida """In 29 states in this country you can still get fired for not just being gay, but if your employer thinks you are gay.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Legal Issues', 'States', 'Workers'] 3 2013-05-07 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Chris Clark Georgia In just six years, Georgia has dropped from first in the nation from a business-friendly legal climate to 24th. ['Economy', 'Legal Issues', 'Regulation'] 2 2013-05-07 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Leticia Van de Putte Texas Says only about 250 Texans have been killed in action since 9/11. ['Afghanistan', 'Iraq', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 1 2013-05-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Bloggers """Pentagon confirms they may court martial soldiers who hold Christian faith.""" ['Military', 'Religion'] 2 2013-05-06 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Allison Tant Florida Says Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2013-05-06 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen George Lavender Texas Says state’s mandated tests come from an English company. ['Education'] 4 2013-05-06 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """Obama for President and Baldwin for Senate have kept their campaign offices up and running in Fox Valley, Eau Claire and La Crosse with their staffs preparing for the next battle.""" ['Elections'] 1 2013-05-06 Elizabeth Miniet, Lois Norder Republican Eric Stirgus Johnny Isakson Georgia """The port provides more than 297,000 jobs directly to the state of Georgia.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2013-05-06 Jane Kahoun Democrat Tom Feran Chris Redfern Ohio """Six out of 10 of the highest unemployment rates are also in so-called right to work states.""" ['Jobs', 'Workers'] 3 2013-05-06 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Ken Cuccinelli Virginia """We have never gone a year in Virginia -- ever -- without passing a budget -- ever.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2013-05-05 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Joe Sanfelippo Wisconsin "Says a state bill checks the spending habits of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors by ""bringing it in line with other county boards around the state.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'States'] 4 2013-05-05 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """We’re spending less money today, in upcoming fiscal year 2014 than the Corzine-Buono budget spent in fiscal year 2008.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-05-05 Tim Murphy Activist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Ed Doyle Rhode Island "Proposed gun control legislation ""will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database"" and make it ""nearly impossible"" to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon." ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Government regulation', 'Guns', 'Regulation'] 2 2013-05-04 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney David Cicilline Rhode Island """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.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-05-03 John Bridges Organization W. Gardner Selby League of Women Voters of the Austin Area Texas "Says opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the district’s ""debt load doubles with these new bonds.""" ['Debt', 'Education', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-05-03 John Bridges Organization W. Gardner Selby League of Women Voters of the Austin Area Texas "Says proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate ""among the Central Texas area school districts.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-05-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Broward Democratic Executive Committee Florida "Broward County was one of three counties in the nation ""pivotal to an Obama victory"" in 2012." ['Elections'] 2 2013-05-03 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Randy Forbes Virginia "The U.S. Army had a training program that put ""evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida.""" ['Military', 'Religion'] 2 2013-05-03 Jane Kahoun Democrat Tom Feran Ed FitzGerald Ohio """Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores.""" ['Economy', 'Income', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 4 2013-05-03 Elizabeth Miniet, Lois Norder Republican Janel Davis Lindsey Graham South Carolina South Carolina has a labor shortage, specifically in the meatpacking industry. ['Immigration', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-05-03 Elizabeth Miniet, Lois Norder Organization Janel Davis Dustin Inman Society Georgia "U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina ""has a labor shortage and wants more immigration.""" ['Immigration', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-05-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law ""is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-05-02 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Wayne Smith Texas """Science has not shown greenhouse gases to be a problem.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Weather'] 0 2013-05-02 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Leonard Lance """The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2013-05-02 Jane Kahoun Democrat Henry J. Gomez Ed FitzGerald Ohio """Ohioans want an end to pay-to-play politics.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Ethics'] 1 2013-05-02 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Oregon Health Authority "Says that in 2007, ""Oregon ranked 25th -- or 7th from the bottom -- in percentage of children with untreated decay compared to 32 other states with similar data.""" ['Children', 'Public Health'] 1 2013-05-01 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """Every Florida teacher gets a pay raise.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2013-05-01 Angie Drobnic Holan None Douglas Hanks, Patricia Mazzei, Amy Sherman Friends of Miami First Florida "The Dolphins stadium renovation will ""create more than 4,000 new local jobs.""" ['County Budget', 'Jobs', 'Sports', 'State Budget'] 3 2013-05-01 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Jack Ohman California "Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,""had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006.""" ['Crime', 'Economy', 'Public Safety', 'Public Service'] 1 2013-05-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Long-term federal investment in U.S. airports is urgent because ""there was a recent survey of the top airports … in the world, and there was not a single U.S. airport that came in the top 25.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-05-01 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Marina Dimitrijevic "The Milwaukee County Board approved a reform package by a 15-3 vote, ""meaning Board Supervisors’ salaries will be cut by 20 percent"" and ""the Board’s budget will be cut by 50 percent.""" ['County Government', 'State Finances', 'States'] 3 2013-05-01 Lois Norder Republican Eric Stirgus Renee Unterman Georgia Says state Senate leaders have accepted $142,400 in campaign contributions from dentists and pharmacists during the past two years. ['State Budget'] 3 2013-05-01 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen Bob Goodlatte Virginia "Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are ""down 40 percent"" under President Barack Obama." ['Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2013-04-30 Jane Kahoun Republican Henry J. Gomez Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. "Accuses Ed FitzGerald of ""pay-to-play and corruption politics.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Criminal Justice', 'Ethics'] 0 2013-04-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Ted Poe Texas "Says new Medicare billing guidelines ""have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys.""" ['Animals', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Regulation'] 5 2013-04-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson John McCain Arizona """Over half"" of science, technology, engineering and mathematics students ""receiving advanced degrees are not citizens of the United States of America.""" ['Education', 'Immigration', 'Science', 'Technology'] 3 2013-04-30 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Willoughby Mariano Tom Graves """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.""" ['Veterans'] 5 2013-04-30 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bee Moorhead Texas Says more Austinites voted in the city’s 1973 election featuring a mayor’s race than in the city’s most recent mayoral election. ['Elections', 'History'] 5 2013-04-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Kirsten Gillibrand New York """One in five"" women in the military ""are receiving unwanted sexual contact,"" as are ""3.3 percent of men.""" ['Crime', 'Military', 'Women'] 4 2013-04-29 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Chris Joyner, Karishma Mehrotra Rob Woodall Georgia """Do you know those former Soviet Bloc countries have all moved to flat taxes?""" ['Taxes'] 3 2013-04-29 Jane Kahoun None Tom Feran Ohio Oil and Gas Association Ohio """Nearly 40,000 new jobs have been created in the last year due to the new wells . . . right here in Ohio.""" ['Energy', 'Jobs'] 0 2013-04-29 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Texas State Employees Union """Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012.""" ['Economy', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Workers'] 5 2013-04-28 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman Susan B. Anthony List "New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics ""provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices.""" ['Abortion', 'Public Health', 'Regulation'] 0 2013-04-28 Greg Borowski Republican Thomas Content, Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin "A recent study of a proposed cap-and-trade policy’s effect on Wisconsin consumers showed it could ""raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent"" by 2030." ['Economy', 'Environment', 'Gas Prices'] 2 2013-04-28 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """If anyone should know irresponsible it should be Senator Buono. She’s the one, her budget left us with a $2 billion budget deficit in fiscal 10 that I had to fix. Her mistakes. And for fiscal year 2011 an $11 billion budget deficit. Her mistakes, along with her partner Jon Corzine.""" ['Debt', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-04-28 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'History', 'Science'] 3 2013-04-27 Bruce Hammond Yuxing Zheng Mark Johnson "Says ""Every legislative district in the state has at least one craft brewery and countless home brewers.""" ['Alcohol', 'Economy'] 1 2013-04-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Tom Cotton Arkansas """In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama,"" compared to zero ""in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush.""" ['Terrorism'] 2 2013-04-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Eric Cantor Virginia """Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight? FAA could cut other spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2013-04-26 Aaron Sharockman Katie Sanders Adam Schefter """Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad.""" ['Sports', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-04-26 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Bill Hammond Texas Says businesses pay roughly 60 percent of taxes in Texas. ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-04-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Mark Pocan Wisconsin """Not one dime gets added to the deficit because of Social Security.""" ['Deficit', 'Disability', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 2 2013-04-26 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Randy Forbes Virginia Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions. ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2013-04-25 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Charles Van Zant Florida """Abortionists have reduced our black population by more than 25 percent since 1973.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2013-04-25 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Leonard Lance """The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-04-25 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says he has ""yet to get a response"" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests." ['Immigration'] 0 2013-04-24 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Texas Association of School Boards Texas """Texas ranks 49th in per-pupil funding among the states.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 4 2013-04-24 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Dan Patrick Texas Says 315,000 mostly minority Texas students are enrolled in failing schools. ['Education'] 4 2013-04-24 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcia Fudge Ohio """Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man.""" ['Jobs', 'Women', 'Workers'] 4 2013-04-24 Janel Davis Janel Davis Randi Weingarten """Schools in some states are spending up to 100 days a year doing test-prep or actual testing.""" ['Education'] 2 2013-04-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Christopher L. Smith Florida "The election bill ""allows persons to correct an absentee ballot if they did not sign it and requires an extra two hours a day for early voting. Everything else in this bill is discretionary.""" ['Elections'] 3 2013-04-23 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Louie Gohmert Texas Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico. ['Drugs', 'Immigration', 'Terrorism'] 1 2013-04-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Peter King New York "The Boston Marathon bombing ""is the fifth case"" in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism ""and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders.""" ['Terrorism'] 4 2013-04-23 Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Vincent Fort Georgia About 3 percent of Gov. Nathan Deal’s appointments have been African-American. ['Civil Rights', 'Public Service'] 3 2013-04-23 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney Linda Finn Rhode Island "Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, ""they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2013-04-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Carlos Gimenez Florida "The Miami Dolphins ""are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes.""" ['County Budget', 'Sports', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-04-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Dianne Feinstein California """No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons.""" ['Guns', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 4 2013-04-22 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Georgia Department of Transportation Georgia """Demand for public transportation is reaching record levels in Wisconsin.""" ['State Budget', 'Transportation'] 1 2013-04-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus John Barrow Georgia Congress has spent 66 of the first 100 days of this term in recess. ['Congress'] 4 2013-04-22 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Dwight Jones Virginia "Says under his utility rate plan, ""An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills.""" ['City Budget', 'Water'] 4 2013-04-22 Jane Kahoun None Tom Feran Ohio Public Defender's Office Ohio """The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research that's out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety.""" ['Crime'] 4 2013-04-21 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico ""and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners.""" ['Abortion', 'Civil Rights', 'History', 'Human Rights'] 3 2013-04-21 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Michael Chippendale Rhode Island "If an individual is determined ""to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor"" because they will find a way." ['Guns', 'Public Health'] 2 2013-04-20 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Clean Water Portland "Says ""If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDC’s statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S.""" ['Public Health', 'Water'] 1 2013-04-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "A ""wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation"" on gun background checks." ['Guns'] 4 2013-04-19 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Bloggers "Proposed immigration legislation would give new immigrants ""a taxpayer-funded cellular phone.""" ['Immigration', 'Welfare'] 1 2013-04-19 Aaron Sharockman Organization Katie Sanders Associated Industries of Florida Florida "The ""working tax cut"" created ""over 40,000 new jobs in just the last four years.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2013-04-19 Jim Tharpe None Karishma Mehrotra David Furhman Georgia The decision to remove Chick-fil-A from Emory University was based solely on student feedback. ['Gays and Lesbians'] 3 2013-04-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "A bipartisan background check amendment ""outlawed any (gun) registry.  Plain and simple, right there in the text.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-04-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead National Rifle Association "The Manchin-Toomey amendment ""would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members"" to get government approval." ['Corrections and Updates', 'Guns'] 2 2013-04-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """The NRA used to support expanded background checks.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-04-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Gabrielle Giffords Arizona "Polls show that Americans ""overwhelmingly"" support ""expanding background checks.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-04-18 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Duncan Tennessee """Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Families', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2013-04-18 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Wendy Davis Texas "Says Texas ranks 49th nationally in ""what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 4 2013-04-18 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Gina Raimondo Rhode Island """Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.""" ['Economy', 'Income', 'Poverty', 'Wealth', 'Women', 'Workers'] 3 2013-04-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "Ché Guevara ""wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent.""" ['Diversity', 'History'] 2 2013-04-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen David Dewhurst Texas "Says Texas ""school systems"" lose 45 days a year on testing." ['Education'] 2 2013-04-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Marco Rubio Florida "The immigration proposal from the Gang of Eight ""is not amnesty.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2013-04-17 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Lenny Curry Florida """Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crist’s debt went up about $5 billion.""" ['Debt'] 3 2013-04-17 Greg Borowski Independent James B. Nelson MacIver Institute Wisconsin """Gov. Scott Walker (is) more than halfway to (his) 250,000 jobs goal.""" ['Jobs'] 0 2013-04-17 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Nelson Wolff Texas Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates. ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2013-04-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus The Tax Foundation """We Really Do Have the Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the World.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2013-04-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Jeff Sessions Alabama "Says President Barack Obama ""has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office.""" ['Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2013-04-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Arizona Citizens Defense League "Says a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to ""leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 3 2013-04-16 Aaron Sharockman Organization Katie Sanders Americans United for Life Washington, D.C. """In 2010 alone, 1,270 infants were reported to have died following attempted abortions and notably that is only one year.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2013-04-16 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mike Villarreal Texas Says Texas lawmakers in 2011 ordered school districts to test every student on their respiratory system and weight. ['Children', 'Education', 'Public Health', 'Recreation'] 4 2013-04-16 Angie Drobnic Holan None Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman American Bird Conservancy Virginia "A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature ""would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists.""" ['Animals', 'Crime'] 3 2013-04-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Arizona Citizens Defense League "Says a gun bill before the Senate ""is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Guns'] 1 2013-04-15 Bruce Hammond Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Nancy Nathanson Oregon "Says ""a pack-a-day smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1,650 a year.""" ['Public Health', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-04-15 Warren Fiske None Sean Gorman Virginia Society for Human Life Virginia "Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been ""forced to pay for abortions"" if the General Assembly had not recently intervened." ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-04-15 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Jodie Laubenberg Texas "Says Texas state funds were spent on ""a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating.""" ['Economy', 'Marriage', 'Pop Culture', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-04-15 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.""" ['Social Security'] 5 2013-04-15 Greg Borowski Columnist Tom Kertscher George Will Maryland "Wisconsin education agency ""urged white students to wear white wristbands ‘as a reminder about your (white) privilege.’ """ ['Children', 'Diversity', 'Education'] 2 2013-04-15 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia "Abortion coverage is a standard insurance benefit ""in nearly 90 percent of private plans sold in the U.S.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 2 2013-04-15 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Tom Graves "The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a ""Star Trek"" training video." ['Federal Budget'] 3 2013-04-15 Tim Murphy Organization Michael McKinney Ban the Box RI Rhode Island """In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Economy', 'Government regulation', 'Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Privacy', 'Public Safety'] 5 2013-04-14 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Robin Vos Wisconsin """In 2012, 1 in 4 Wisconsin schools had a subpar score on the Department of Public Instruction’s recent report cards"" and are ""failing"" the children they serve." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 0 2013-04-14 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske One New Jersey """Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'States'] 4 2013-04-14 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Eva Marie Mancuso Rhode Island When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out. ['Education'] 3 2013-04-13 Dee Lane Organization Christian Gaston Melvin Sickler New Jersey "Says Oregon’s high minimum wage is the reason why ""by 2011, Oregon's restaurants employed an average of only 13.8 workers, or 2.6 fewer employees than they did before the state's minimum wage began rising above the federal level in 1997.""" ['Labor', 'Workers'] 1 2013-04-12 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Cathy McMorris Rodgers Washington state """We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979.""" ['Economy', 'Labor'] 3 2013-04-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Joe Negron Florida "Says PETA ""is using this really fancy drone to follow hunters around in some places in other countries.""" ['Animals', 'Public Safety', 'Technology'] 3 2013-04-12 Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Elizabeth Colbert Busch South Carolina In South Carolina, women earn 76 cents on the dollar to men’s earnings. ['Jobs', 'Women'] 3 2013-04-12 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Caddy McKeown "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.""" ['County Government', 'Public Health', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-04-12 John Bridges Democrat Sue Owen Lon Burnam Texas "Says rejecting federal aid to expand Medicaid in Texas will ""send $9 billion in federal taxes paid by Texans to other states to insure their working poor.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-04-12 Jane Kahoun None Tom Feran Michele Walsh Ohio """Within the three miles surrounding the University Circle area, infant mortality exceeds some Third World countries.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health'] 5 2013-04-11 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire Says the 2010-11 New Hampshire budget ended with an $18 million surplus, while the Republican-led 2012-13 budget has a $40 million deficit. ['State Budget'] 4 2013-04-11 Suzanne Pavkovic Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """The people who were running the budget, in the Corzine years, decided to steal from the unemployment trust fund. … As did other Governors before. We simply don’t do that, haven’t done it, and won’t permit it.""" ['State Finances', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-04-10 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Dick Cheney "Says it’s ""an old wives’ story"" that Margaret Thatcher told George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly." ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Iraq'] 1 2013-04-10 Aaron Sharockman None Katie Sanders Brian Anderson Florida """Pasco County has the second highest population of homeless in all of Florida.""" ['Housing'] 4 2013-04-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Frederica Wilson Florida """Congresswoman Frederica Wilson successfully postpones closure of the North Perry airport tower.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 2 2013-04-10 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Facebook posts """Harvard Study Finds States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns', 'Public Safety'] 3 2013-04-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Sondy Pope Wisconsin """The vast majority of our public school students are receiving less state support than their private voucher peers.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-04-09 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Perry Texas "Says Obama called Medicaid ""broken"" four years ago." ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 4 2013-04-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Dannel Malloy Connecticut "Air travelers ""can’t get on a plane in the United States without someone doing a background check"" on them." ['Guns'] 3 2013-04-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Rahm Emanuel Illinois "Says in Chicago, ""we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 5 2013-04-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Paul Broun Georgia """In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-04-08 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs John Kasich Ohio """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.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-04-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Nadine Smith Florida """The financial penalties imposed"" on gay couples ""can cost us more than $300,000 compared with married heterosexual couples over a lifetime.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 4 2013-04-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Ted Cruz Texas """Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Poverty'] 1 2013-04-08 Jane Kahoun Republican Henry J. Gomez John Kasich Ohio "Says that his transportation budget and Ohio Turnpike plan ""would make sure we have lower tolls than we’ve had through the history of the turnpike.""" ['Transportation'] 0 2013-04-08 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis B. Heath Mitchell Georgia "The city of Nelson, Ga., is ""quieter than Mayberry.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 3 2013-04-08 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Bobby Scott Virginia "Paul Ryan’s budget ""keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits.""" ['Congress', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-04-08 Tim Murphy Journalist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Jim Taricani Rhode Island """No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Corporations', 'Economy', 'Transparency'] 3 2013-04-07 Greg Borowski Republican Erin Richards, Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Says that even if his budget is adopted, private schools in the choice program would be getting about half the per-pupil funds that public schools receive ['Education', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-04-07 Suzanne Pavkovic Caryn Shinske Jeff Tittel """A report by the US General Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008 found that the disposal of Katrina wastes by AshBritt in the south resulted in the creation of contaminated sites along the Gulf Coast and two new Superfund sites in New Orleans.""" ['Environment'] 0 2013-04-07 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Michael McKinney Susan Yoshihara Rhode Island "Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been ""shattered by the latest and best social science and research.""" ['Children', 'Diversity', 'Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 1 2013-04-06 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Ron Wyden Oregon "Says ""I've authored the first bipartisan tax reform bill in a quarter-century.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Congress', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-04-05 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jon Greenberg New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire "Preventive care coverage under the Affordable Care Act has already ""helped Granite Staters save money and live healthier lives.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-04-05 Aaron Sharockman Molly Moorhead Facebook posts "A new law ""requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Food Safety', 'Government regulation'] 3 2013-04-04 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lee Leffingwell Texas Says 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers. ['Guns', 'Regulation'] 5 2013-04-04 Aaron Sharockman None Katie Sanders Marion Hammer Florida "Says rabid animals from other states carry ""different strains of rabies"" that Florida ""vaccines and serums don’t affect.""" ['Animals'] 1 2013-04-03 Jane Kahoun Stephen Koff Bloggers "Forty aides who serve President Barack Obama ""owe $333,485 in back taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2013-04-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Fred Thompson Tennessee "Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, ""your insurance"" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost ""as much as a new Explorer.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2013-04-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Will Weatherford Florida """The average student in Florida, what they actually pay out of pocket at our major universities"" for tuition is as much or less than what they spend on cellphones." ['Education'] 4 2013-04-03 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kirk Watson Texas Says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters. ['Animals', 'Crime'] 5 2013-04-03 Greg Borowski Republican Kevin Crowe, James B. Nelson Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin """75 percent of the (air traffic control) towers the Obama Administration is closing are located in Republican Congressional Districts.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 1 2013-04-03 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Democrat Janel Davis John Lewis Georgia """Opponents of Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act) complain of state expense, yet their only cost is the paper, postage and manpower required to send copies of legislation to the federal government for review.""" ['Elections', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2013-04-03 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Bishop Thomas Tobin """Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 1 2013-04-02 Jane Kahoun None Tom Feran Progress Ohio Ohio """It is legal in Ohio to fire an employee or evict a tenant just for being gay.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Housing', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 5 2013-04-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Mark Kelly "Says ""94 percent of (Marco Rubio's) constituents support a universal background check.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-04-02 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Matt Mackowiak Texas Says the president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent. ['Education'] 1 2013-04-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Will Weatherford Florida """Almost 1,000 people a day"" are moving to Florida ""because they are more free here than they are in some other states.""" ['Economy', 'Population'] 2 2013-04-01 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Public Health', 'State Budget'] 2 2013-04-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Chain email "College students ""who are NOT U.S. Citizens and who get the PELL Grant"" plan to return to their home countries after getting free gas cards and child care." ['Education', 'Immigration', 'Welfare'] 0 2013-04-01 Jane Kahoun Republican Brandon Blackwell Bill Seitz Ohio Says that Secretary of State Jon Husted and former secretary Jennifer Brunner both have supported a provision in Senate Bill 47 that would limit the days organizers have to collect signatures for initiative and referendum petitions. ['Elections'] 3 2013-04-01 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Joe Barton Texas "Says U.S. greenhouse gas ""emissions are at 20-year lows.""" ['Climate Change', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Energy', 'Science'] 2 2013-04-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis William Perry Georgia Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed held not one conversation with the public about the new Falcons stadium project ['City Government', 'Transparency'] 3 2013-04-01 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Pete Snyder Virginia """A study by the University of Virginia pulls back the curtain on Medicaid’s tragically bad outcomes, including ‘increased risk of adjusted mortality.’""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 3 2013-03-31 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Sheila Oliver New Jersey """In 2011 alone, 269 New Jerseyans were killed by gun violence.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-03-31 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Deborah Gist Rhode Island When students leave our high schools and they go to the community college, 70-75 percent of them have to pay to take remedial math. ['Children', 'Education'] 4 2013-03-29 Bruce Hammond Republican Ian K. Kullgren Dennis Richardson Oregon "Says ""$1,100 of the tuition paid by every Oregon university student annually goes just to pay the costs of PERS.""" ['Education', 'Retirement'] 4 2013-03-29 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Patience Roggensack Wisconsin "Says she has bipartisan support, including ""53 sheriffs throughout the state, Democrats and Republicans.""" ['Elections'] 5 2013-03-29 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Cleta Winslow """In this city, there hasn’t been a stadium that’s lasted more than 27 years.""" ['City Government', 'Sports'] 3 2013-03-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Charles Cooper """Very few men outlive their own fertility.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Marriage', 'Science', 'Sexuality', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2013-03-28 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton, Molly Moorhead, W. Gardner Selby Jim Jordan Ohio "The national debt is ""larger than our entire annual economy.""" ['Debt', 'Economy'] 4 2013-03-28 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey """While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jersey's remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2013-03-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Ted Cruz Texas Says the Democrats told the Catholic Church that they’ll use federal powers to shut down church charities and hospitals if the church doesn’t change its beliefs. ['Health Care', 'Religion', 'Sexuality'] 0 2013-03-27 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Scott Henson Texas "Says Texas has ""11 different felonies you can commit with an oyster.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Food Safety'] 4 2013-03-27 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """Our debt now is about $140,000 per household.""" ['Debt', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-03-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Kathleen McGrory, Katie Sanders Carlos Trujillo Florida """This (parent trigger) legislation was drafted by President Obama's top advisers. It was drafted by President Clinton’s top advisers.""" ['Education'] 1 2013-03-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Sal Albanese New York "An annual income of $500,000 ""in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class.""" ['Economy'] 1 2013-03-27 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine """[A] 2009 USDA study found that 87 percent of chicken carcasses tested positive for generic E. coli ... just prior to packaging.""" ['Food Safety'] 3 2013-03-27 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill Jack Reed Rhode Island """Even Roger Williams National Memorial in my home state of Rhode Island attracted nearly 51,000 visitors in 2011, with non local visitors adding more than $3.2 million to the local economy.""" ['Congress', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Recreation'] 3 2013-03-26 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton Steve LaTourette Ohio """Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2013-03-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Wayne LaPierre "Says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says ""we can only have three bullets"" and ""the NRA wants firearms with nukes on them.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Civil Rights', 'Guns'] 3 2013-03-26 Bruce Hammond None Janie Har Portland Public Schools Oregon "Says ""PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years.""" ['Education', 'Pensions', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 5 2013-03-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Molly Moorhead Michael Bloomberg New York """If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-03-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis James Bell Georgia "Every day, ""about 100 people will be arrested for possession of marijuana in Georgia.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Drugs', 'Marijuana'] 2 2013-03-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Jeb Bush Florida """Already, a prototype driverless car has traveled more than 300,000 miles in the crowded maze of California streets without a single accident.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Public Safety', 'Technology', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-03-25 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Under my predecessor, they cut funding for education, but they didn't give them anything in return to make up for that,"" leading to ""less money"" for school districts" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-03-24 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Sean Duffy Wisconsin "The United States spends ""$2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes"" and pays for ""the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama.""" ['Agriculture', 'Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Poverty'] 3 2013-03-24 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Liberals Are Cool """Q: What do these ‘Patriotic' Americans have in common? A: They are all Draft Dodgers.""" ['Military', 'Patriotism'] 0 2013-03-24 Tim Murphy Democrat Tim Murphy Larry Valencia Rhode Island """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?""" ['Children', 'Education'] 5 2013-03-23 Bruce Hammond Republican Janie Har Bruce Hanna Oregon "Says, ""The Democrats' proposed budget is also balanced by using more in new tax revenue than in total PERS reform or savings.""" ['Pensions', 'State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Unions'] 1 2013-03-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Tweets While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises. ['Animals', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Science', 'Sexuality'] 4 2013-03-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Bloggers The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league. ['Families', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 1 2013-03-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Jeb Bush Florida """Nearly 65 percent -- almost two-thirds -- of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2013-03-22 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire Says of 80,000 people who were denied a firearm in 2012 due to a failed background check, only 44 were prosecuted. ['Guns'] 4 2013-03-22 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Battleground Texas Texas "In 2008, ""only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out.""" ['Elections', 'Population'] 4 2013-03-22 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Evan Goyke Wisconsin """The hole in the earth that’s going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.""" ['Environment'] 5 2013-03-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Jeff Mullis Georgia "Georgia loses ""millions of dollars of revenue because people go out of state to buy fireworks.""" ['Economy', 'States'] 4 2013-03-21 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """Under Gov. Kasich, Ohio wages have increased by $10.3 billion.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2013-03-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Ted Cruz Texas """We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Government regulation', 'Regulation', 'States', 'Supreme Court', 'Workers'] 5 2013-03-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada """In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2013-03-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Houston is ""home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Public Health'] 1 2013-03-21 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey "Said the year before he took office, the state lost 119,000 private-sector jobs, labeling them ""Corzine jobs losses of 2009.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2013-03-20 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Drew Springer Says bag litter increased after San Francisco banned single-use shopping bags. ['Environment'] 2 2013-03-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's"" were it not for ""overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators.""" ['Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Regulation', 'Science'] 0 2013-03-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Sarah Palin Alaska """Seven of the 10 highest-income counties in the country ring the city"" of Washington D.C." ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Pundits', 'Wealth'] 5 2013-03-20 Stephen Koff Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio Wall Street megabanks that received bailouts in 2009 now get taxpayer-funded advantages not available to community banks in Ohio. ['Financial Regulation'] 3 2013-03-20 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Jim Moran Virginia Says Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking. ['Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2013-03-20 Bruce Hammond Yuxing Zheng Gene McIntyre "Says we will pay the new chancellor ""a basic salary of nearly $300,000 a year ... an amount that does not include the costs of this public employee’s benefits, perks and living expenses for a lavish house, an upscale car, a spending allowance, and fine dining almost every day on the taxpayer dollar.""" ['Education', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-03-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Frank Keating Oklahoma """In the United States, 50 percent of social services are provided by the Catholic church.""" ['Poverty', 'Religion'] 1 2013-03-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Of every ""three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Poverty'] 0 2013-03-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Doug Holder Florida """Nearly 25 percent of all automobile accidents are caused by texting while driving.""" ['Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 2 2013-03-18 Warren Fiske Nancy Madsen National Association for Gun Rights "U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell ""wants gun owners in a federal registration system.""" ['Guns'] 0 2013-03-18 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Julian Bond """The incidents of threats against (President Barack Obama) are greater than for any other president in modern times.""" ['Public Safety'] 1 2013-03-17 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Gary Kelly """Taxes and fees amount to about 20 percent of a typical $300 round-trip domestic ticket. That’s higher than taxes on products like alcohol, tobacco and firearms.""" ['Government regulation', 'Homeland Security', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-03-17 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Jeff Tittel """DEP has 2,812 employees, the lowest level since the mid-’80s.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'State Budget', 'Workers'] 3 2013-03-17 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Michael McKinney SEIU Washington, D.C. """There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients.""" ['Health Care', 'Labor', 'Public Health', 'Unions'] 1 2013-03-16 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Joseph Levy "Says indoor workers get ""less UV than outdoor workers, but they get more melanomas.""" ['Children', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 2 2013-03-16 Tim Murphy Democrat Edward Fitzpatrick Joshua Miller Rhode Island """In the period from 2007 to 2011, the Office of Health Insurance Commissioner reported an 18 percent decline in the state’s total medical spending.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2013-03-16 Tim Murphy State official Tom Mooney Robert Kando Rhode Island Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards. ['Elections'] 3 2013-03-15 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead, W. Gardner Selby Paul Ryan Wisconsin """Our debt is already bigger than our economy.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2013-03-15 Bill Adair Republican Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """The Chinese government provides their people no access to the Internet.""" ['China', 'Technology'] 2 2013-03-15 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky "Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to ""develop a menu for when we colonize Mars.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Science', 'Space'] 4 2013-03-15 John Bridges Republican Sue Owen Steve Stockman Texas "Says president is ‘spending $2.2 billion to give away ""ObamaPhones."" ’" ['Federal Budget', 'Public Safety'] 2 2013-03-15 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Jamie Radtke Virginia "The transportation package passed by the General Assembly would impose the ""largest tax increase in Virginia’s history.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2013-03-15 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Will Weatherford Florida "Eighty-five percent of Floridians who will benefit from expanding Medicaid are ""single, childless adults.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 2 2013-03-15 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin "The fiscal cliff agreement was ""the largest tax increase in history.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-03-15 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis JoEllen Smith Georgia Cobb is one of the largest school systems (in the nation) that is debt free. ['County Budget', 'Debt', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-03-14 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Marco Rubio Florida """There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-03-14 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Jim Renacci Ohio """Raising taxes on investment income has actually lowered the revenue received from the tax, while cutting capital gains tax rates has increased revenue.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2013-03-14 Angie Drobnic Holan None Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Ron Book Florida """Super Bowl L by everybody's estimation is a $500 million economic impact to the state of Florida.""" ['Economy', 'Sports'] 1 2013-03-14 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Virginia Foxx North Carolina """There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-03-13 Jane Kahoun Republican Henry J. Gomez Bob Bennett Ohio "Ohio Republicans made significant gains during [Chris McNulty’s] time at the ORP, including the extremely successful re-election of President Bush in Ohio.""" ['Elections', 'States'] 4 2013-03-13 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Nancy Pelosi California """More than 64 percent of minimum-wage earners are women.""" ['Workers'] 5 2013-03-13 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Ed Fallone """The majority of my contributions have been from private individuals"" giving $125 on average, ""not from PACs, not from groups.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2013-03-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Donzella James Georgia Georgia has the most lax gun laws in the nation. ['Guns'] 1 2013-03-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers, Molly Moorhead Rand Paul Kentucky """When (John) Brennan ... was asked directly … ‘Is there any geographic limitation to your drone strike program?’ Brennan responded and said, ‘no, there is no limitation.’""" ['Civil Rights', 'Terrorism'] 5 2013-03-12 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire Says Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the N.H. Republican Party, owes $92,000 in back taxes. ['Taxes'] 4 2013-03-12 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Eric Cantor Virginia """Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-03-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Nan Orrock Georgia """More than 80 percent of Americans believe we need to have universal background checks.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-03-12 Bruce Hammond Christian Gaston Jackie Dingfelder "Says, ""I-205, six miles of which runs through my district, already carries more traffic than I-5.""" ['Environment', 'Infrastructure', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 5 2013-03-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Dianne Feinstein California """We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use.""" ['Government regulation', 'Privacy', 'Regulation'] 1 2013-03-11 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Dan Patrick Texas Says 100,000 are on waiting list to attend Texas charter schools. ['Education'] 4 2013-03-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Will Weatherford Florida "The Legislature needs to spend $500 million to ""shore up"" the pension fund this year and the next 28 years to keep it ""afloat.""" ['Pensions'] 3 2013-03-11 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Edward Flynn "Research found that ""over the course of the existence of the Brady Bill ban, the use of assault weapons in crimes decreased by two thirds.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 3 2013-03-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus David Ralston Georgia "The Georgia Senate ethics resolution ""doesn't define cap.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2013-03-11 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """There have been literally hundreds of new tax preferences and loopholes added to the code since 1986, last time we did this.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2013-03-10 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Vicki McKenna "A proposed ban on hollow-point bullets and bullets that expand upon impact ""essentially bans deer hunting.""" ['Guns', 'Recreation'] 4 2013-03-10 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey """Governor Christie, his idea of jumpstarting the economy is to propose a trickle-down income tax cut last year and in his budget address this year, he stated his support for it again.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2013-03-10 Bruce Hammond Janie Har National Republican Congressional Committee "Says ""Kurt Schrader supports Obama’s sequester … but won’t cut $1.6 million to fund new video games.""" ['Federal Budget'] 0 2013-03-10 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney Christopher Blazejewski Rhode Island """In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day.""" ['Elections', 'Public Service'] 5 2013-03-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Christopher L. Smith Florida "Florida is ""second in the nation in the uninsured.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 4 2013-03-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says Jeb Bush ""flip-flop-flip(ped) on immigration.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2013-03-08 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin """In Wisconsin, only half of all the adults with serious psychological distress received mental health treatment or medication.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-03-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Kasim Reed Says the Georgia Dome would need up to $350 million in work over the next five to seven years. ['Infrastructure', 'Sports', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-03-07 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """The president is advocating a drone strike program in America.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Terrorism'] 1 2013-03-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """When the president's spokesman was asked about (Anwar) al-Awlaki's son, … he said he should have chosen a more responsible father.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Homeland Security', 'Legal Issues', 'Military'] 3 2013-03-07 Jane Kahoun Democrat Brandon Blackwell Dan Ramos Ohio "Under Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal, ""the top one percent in Ohio will pay $10,000 less in income tax each year, but Ohio’s working and middle class families will pay more.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-03-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida """For the first time in eight years, our budget also increases funding for persons with disabilities by $36 million to help more disabled people receive community-based services.""" ['Disability', 'Medicaid', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-03-07 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske James Florio New Jersey """We have over 300,000,000 weapons, firearms in this country. That’s almost as big as the population.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-03-07 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney Linda Finn Rhode Island """Rhode Island could tell you who has a camper, but we couldn't figure out who has a gun.""" ['Guns', 'Regulation'] 4 2013-03-06 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Al Cardenas "Of $60 billion Congress approved in response to Hurricane Sandy, ""only 10 percent was for disaster relief.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2013-03-06 Bruce Hammond Republican Ian K. Kullgren Doug Whitsett Oregon Says if Oregon had limited its budget growth to the rate of population growth plus the rate of inflation, the state’s all-funds budget would be about $27 billion today, not $60 billion. ['State Budget'] 4 2013-03-06 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Garnet Coleman Texas Says Texas has the most uninsured people of any state -- 6 million. ['Health Care'] 2 2013-03-06 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Council for the National Interest The United States gives $8 million a day to Israel and gives that country a blank check. ['Federal Budget', 'Israel'] 4 2013-03-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Scott Florida "A ""legacy of taxing and borrowing … crippled the economy we inherited two years ago.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-03-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Florida Democratic Party Florida Says Gov. Rick Scott cut more government jobs than were created in the private sector in Florida in 2012. ['Jobs'] 0 2013-03-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Florida Democratic Party Florida "Says Rick Scott called education not a ""core function"" of the state." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2013-03-05 Angie Drobnic Holan None Louis Jacobson John Roberts Washington, D.C. """Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2013-03-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "Says his proposed education spending ""is the highest state funding level in Florida history.""" ['Education'] 3 2013-03-05 Angie Drobnic Holan None Charles Rabin, Amy Sherman Jeffrey Loria Florida "The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium ""came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers.""" ['Baseball', 'City Budget', 'County Budget'] 3 2013-03-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis Paul Howard Georgia """In Atlanta, since 1994 when the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ (mandatory minimum sentences) took effect, the violent crime rate has dropped 62 percent.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 4 2013-03-04 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead John Boehner Ohio """There's no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester.""" ['Federal Budget'] 0 2013-03-04 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks ""are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions.""" ['Government regulation', 'Jobs', 'Poverty', 'Welfare'] 4 2013-03-04 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill Carol Shea-Porter New Hampshire New Hampshire is currently the only state in the nation that does not have a full-service veterans hospital or equivalent access. ['Veterans'] 3 2013-03-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Sondy Pope Wisconsin "Under Gov. Scott Walker’s public-school budgets, ""a student entering kindergarten will not enjoy the same state investment in his or her education as those that came before them until they are graduating from high school.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2013-03-03 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2013-03-03 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Carolyn Medeiros Rhode Island """There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Economy', 'Poverty', 'Public Safety', 'Workers'] 2 2013-03-02 Bruce Hammond county commissioner Janie Har Diane McKeel Oregon "Says ""Studies show the average age of entry into prostitution is 12 to 14 years old.""" ['Children', 'County Government', 'Families'] 3 2013-03-01 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois Says a majority of Americans -- and Republicans -- support his approach for deficit reduction. ['Federal Budget', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-03-01 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Trey Martinez Fischer Texas Says that since 1975, redistricting by Texas lawmakers has always been found in violation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. ['History', 'Redistricting'] 3 2013-03-01 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Ami Bera California "Due to the sequester, ""people are going to be unsafe. Homes are going to burn.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2013-03-01 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Ken Cuccinelli Virginia "Virginia is ""the only state"" that has a tradition of attorneys general resigning if they run for governor." ['States'] 5 2013-03-01 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Arne Duncan Illinois """There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips"" because of sequestration." ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2013-03-01 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Greg Abbott Texas "Says the ""last non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that #VoterID was necessary.""" ['Elections'] 5 2013-03-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Duriya Farooqui Georgia """Of the 18 stadiums built from 2004 to 2013, 47 percent of the total cost came from public sources.""" ['City Government', 'Sports', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-03-01 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Michael McKinney Nancy Denuccio Rhode Island In annual surveys of Rhode Island communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm. ['Drugs', 'Education', 'Marijuana'] 4 2013-02-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Kevin McCarthy California "Says the federal government is earning more tax revenue now ""than any other time.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-02-28 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-02-27 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Joseph Testa Ohio """About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite"" when the sales tax was enacted in the '30s." ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-02-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Raymond LaHood Illinois """There's going to be a slowdown and delays in flights"" as a result of the sequester." ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2013-02-27 Bruce Hammond Republican Charles Pope Greg Walden Oregon "Says ""Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 2 2013-02-26 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Mallard Fillmore "Comic strip says government study shows Head Start ""has little or no impact on the children it’s supposed to help.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2013-02-26 Bill Adair Bill Adair My City Bikes """This is a test of the fact-checking widget.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2013-02-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Jimmy Carter Georgia """When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 4 2013-02-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed Felony crimes in the city of Atlanta are the lowest they have been since 1969. ['Crime'] 5 2013-02-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers, Molly Moorhead Bill Nelson Florida "In a budget deal struck in 2011 ""a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee was set up ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-02-25 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis Paul Broun Georgia Says that except for foreign policy, Ron Paul’s voting record and his voting record are virtually identical. ['Voting Record'] 5 2013-02-24 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Peter Barca Wisconsin """You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on,"" but ""you can bring a gun up there.""" ['Guns', 'States', 'Technology', 'Transparency'] 4 2013-02-24 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey """New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2013-02-24 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Gary Sasse Rhode Island "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.""" ['Corporations', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Small Business', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 5 2013-02-23 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Tim Knopp Knopp says he upheld a campaign promise not to join the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). ['Elections', 'Pensions', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Transparency'] 4 2013-02-22 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to ""let criminals go.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Federal Budget', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2013-02-22 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Ohio Republican Party Ohio """Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And they'll cost less thanks to John Kasich's tax cut.""" ['Food Safety', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-02-22 Angie Drobnic Holan None Katie Sanders Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops Florida """In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 2 2013-02-22 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says if Congress doesn’t avoid the sequester, ""tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Children', 'Congress', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Families', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-02-22 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman Eric Cantor Virginia """The National Science Foundation spent $1.2 million paying seniors to play World of Warcraft to study the impact it had on their brain.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Pop Culture'] 0 2013-02-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis Vincent Fort Georgia """What concerns me is there is only two sentences that have been written about minority business.""" ['City Government', 'Corporations', 'Jobs', 'Small Business'] 3 2013-02-22 Tim Murphy Michael McKinney Kenneth Block """More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot.""" ['Elections'] 4 2013-02-21 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio "Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing ""everybody a lot of money.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Poverty'] 4 2013-02-21 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "If the sequester hits, ""hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.""" ['Children', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 3 2013-02-21 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The sequester ""won’t consider whether we’re cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day. It doesn’t make those distinctions.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2013-02-21 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Sarah Eckhardt Texas Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Poverty'] 4 2013-02-21 Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Bill Jackson Georgia """There’s more murders with hammers last year than...shotguns and pistols and AK-47s.""" ['Guns'] 0 2013-02-21 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Jon Bramnick New Jersey "Says, ""when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar  - I call it mismanagement – deficit.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-02-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas "Says Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary ""has been publicly celebrated by the Iranian government.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 0 2013-02-21 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio "Federal spending on entitlements ""is projected to consume all revenue by 2045.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 4 2013-02-20 Jonathan Van Fleet Jake Berry David Cote """The only time in our history when the debt has been higher than this was the end of World War II.""" ['Debt'] 4 2013-02-20 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Wayne LaPierre "Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ""refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!""" ['Guns', 'Public Safety'] 2 2013-02-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Wayne LaPierre """The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2013-02-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman David Plouffe """The group that supported the president’s health care bill the most? Latinos.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2013-02-20 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin """Nobody in total is proposing cutting anything. We’re trying to reduce the rate of growth in government.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare'] 4 2013-02-20 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Paul Broun Georgia """There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.""" ['Guns'] 0 2013-02-20 Dee Lane Democrat Christian Gaston Bob Stacey Oregon "Says ""If Oregon’s Legislature simply authorizes $450 million for the CRC, it will … leave Oregon holding the bag for a great deal more cost responsibility.""" ['Debt', 'Economy', 'Environment', 'Infrastructure', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 1 2013-02-19 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson, Ciara O'Rourke Wayne LaPierre """Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world.""" ['Crime'] 1 2013-02-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Steny Hoyer Maryland """The majority of (the American people) voted for a Democratic House.""" ['Congress', 'Elections'] 4 2013-02-19 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton Dave Joyce Ohio """There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2013-02-19 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Pete Winstead Says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. without nonstop flights to Europe. ['Transportation'] 1 2013-02-19 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Eric Cantor Virginia """Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K-12 education.""" ['Education', 'Medicaid', 'State Budget'] 5 2013-02-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Katie Sanders, Eric Stirgus Barack Obama Illinois """Every dollar we invested in high-quality, early education programs can save more than $7 later on by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing crime.""" ['Children', 'Education'] 3 2013-02-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Sara Myers Donald Rumsfeld Says wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln. ['History', 'Sports'] 5 2013-02-18 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John Cornyn Texas "Says of a failed cloture vote on nominating Chuck Hagel for defense secretary: ""This is not a filibuster.""" ['Congress', 'Congressional Rules'] 2 2013-02-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """Agriculture has always required a significant workforce from abroad.""" ['Agriculture', 'History', 'Immigration', 'Workers'] 2 2013-02-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "The United States does ""not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S.""" ['Agriculture', 'Immigration', 'Workers'] 2 2013-02-18 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Ed Fallone "Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices are ""deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2013-02-18 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman Grover Norquist "In Virginia ""there has been a billion dollars in surplus over the last three years. The legislature has spent less than 1 percent of that on roads.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 1 2013-02-17 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Patience Roggensack Wisconsin Says she heard more than 2,400 cases as a Wisconsin appeals court judge ['Legal Issues'] 4 2013-02-17 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Cory Booker New Jersey "Says 2012 was the ""first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority.""" ['Census', 'Diversity', 'Population'] 3 2013-02-17 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Brian Patrick Kennedy Rhode Island "Employers and schools have no right to conduct ""surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle.""" ['Education', 'Government regulation', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Privacy', 'Technology', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2013-02-16 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Peter Courtney "Says, ""Statistics indicate that one in eight children, and one in 18 adults in Oregon suffers from mental illness.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-02-16 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney Edith Ajello Rhode Island """Lots of studies seem to indicate that minors find it very easy to get marijuana, easier than to get alcohol.""" ['Alcohol', 'Children', 'Drugs', 'Marijuana'] 1 2013-02-15 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas "Says he ""has repeatedly praised Chuck Hagel’s character, patriotism, bravery, and personal service defending our nation.""" ['Congress', 'Foreign Policy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Patriotism'] 3 2013-02-15 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois """The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years.""" ['Environment'] 5 2013-02-15 Greg Borowski Organization James B. Nelson Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Wisconsin "Wisconsin’s laws ""ranked the worst in the world for mining investment.""" ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-02-15 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis Paul Broun Georgia """I was the first member of Congress to call him (Barack Obama) a socialist...""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2013-02-14 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Says Texas is last in workers' compensation coverage. ['Labor', 'Workers'] 5 2013-02-14 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Keith Faber Ohio """Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states.""" ['Health Care', 'Income', 'Labor', 'Public Health', 'Workers'] 5 2013-02-14 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of (Medicare’s) health care costs.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2013-02-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois Says he and Mitt Romney agreed on tying minimum wage increases to inflation. ['Poverty', 'Workers'] 4 2013-02-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Caryn Baird, Katie Sanders Marco Rubio Florida """I still live in the same working-class neighborhood I grew up in.""" ['Housing'] 4 2013-02-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2013-02-14 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey """We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut.""" ['Jobs', 'Labor', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-02-13 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Says Texas ranks first among the states in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water. ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Public Health', 'Water'] 3 2013-02-13 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts"" to create a legal framework on counterterrorism." ['Legal Issues', 'Terrorism'] 1 2013-02-13 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Says Texas has the nation’s most uninsured residents. ['Health Care'] 2 2013-02-13 Jane Kahoun Democrat Henry J. Gomez Ed FitzGerald Ohio Says he was the first local official to endorse Barack Obama ['Elections'] 2 2013-02-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Janel Davis, Eric Stirgus Leah Ward Sears Georgia """I was never against same-sex marriage.""" ['Marriage'] 4 2013-02-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "Says ""overwhelming majorities of Americans"" support gun legislation ""like background checks.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2013-02-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Marco Rubio Florida Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obama’s idea. ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 3 2013-02-12 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says his administration has made ""progress"" on border enforcement by ""putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2013-02-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Louis Jacobson Marco Rubio Florida """Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2013-02-12 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2013-02-12 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Donna Howard Texas Says abortions are decreasing. ['Abortion'] 5 2013-02-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus EmpowerED Georgia Georgia State support for local schools per pupil has decreased by at least 25 percent over the past decade. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2013-02-11 Bruce Hammond Democrat Charles Pope Jeff Merkley Oregon "Says, ""Since 1994 when VAWA was first passed, incidents of domestic violence have dropped more than 50 percent.""" ['Congress', 'Women'] 5 2013-02-11 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin """When the Affordable Care Act was signed, 17 million American children"" had a pre-existing condition and were ""uninsurable.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Health Care'] 1 2013-02-11 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Texas high school ""graduation rates are at an all-time high—the third-highest in the nation—which represents a significant turnaround from just a few short years ago.""" ['Education'] 4 2013-02-11 Jane Kahoun Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available.""" ['Health Care', 'Income', 'Labor', 'Public Health', 'Workers'] 5 2013-02-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Markel Hutchins Georgia There are twice as many gun shops as McDonald’s in the United States. ['Guns'] 4 2013-02-11 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Richard Saslaw Virginia "Except for Virginia, ""the other 49 states keep raising their gas tax.""" ['States', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 0 2013-02-10 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Chris Matthews "Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, was elected in a ""very low turnout"" race." ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 3 2013-02-10 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey "Says ""right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2013-02-10 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney David Cicilline Rhode Island More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks. ['Guns'] 3 2013-02-08 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Lee Leffingwell Texas "Says Austin trains are ""full"" at rush hour and ""packed"" for special events." ['Transportation'] 4 2013-02-08 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Zoe Lofgren California """With the exception of slavery and the Chinese Exclusion Act, our laws have never barred persons from becoming citizens.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2013-02-08 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Sacramento Bee Editorial Board "Says Texas is ""last in mental health expenditures.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 4 2013-02-08 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Bob McDonnell Virginia """The brutal fact is, when it comes to education, America is slipping"" behind other nations." ['Education'] 2 2013-02-08 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Says Texas ranks first in executions among the states. ['Criminal Justice', 'Pundits'] 5 2013-02-08 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Says Texas ranks last in the percentage of residents with high school diplomas. ['Education', 'Pundits'] 5 2013-02-08 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Will Weatherford Florida "Florida has ""the second-lowest (campaign) contribution limit in the entire country.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 1 2013-02-08 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire """When total Sandy spending is added up, it's more than the annual budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And it's more than twice the annual budget of the U.S. Energy Department.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 4 2013-02-08 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Joyce Beatty Ohio Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded. ['Guns'] 4 2013-02-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Dan Becker """This is the first time since Roe was decided in 1973 that a court has granted personhood status to the preborn.""" ['Abortion', 'Children'] 1 2013-02-08 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Janet Freedman Rhode Island "Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen ""maybe about 10 inches since that time.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Science'] 4 2013-02-07 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin """We’re taxing our small businesses now at rates higher than corporations.""" ['Corporations', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 2 2013-02-07 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says the pension and health benefits reform ""eliminated collective bargaining for health benefits.""" ['Health Care', 'Unions'] 3 2013-02-07 Jane Kahoun Democrat Tom Feran Chris Redfern Ohio Says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education. ['Education', 'Guns'] 4 2013-02-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """Washington, D.C., now has greater population than Wyoming and Vermont, more active duty military than 29 states, more tax revenue than 29 states (and) a larger domestic product than 27 states.""" ['Elections'] 3 2013-02-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "Says his budget provides ""the highest state funding level in history"" for education." ['Education'] 3 2013-02-06 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Leon Young "Wisconsin state lawmakers worked seven days in 2012 but got ""paid for a whole year.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget', 'States'] 0 2013-02-06 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""in Katrina, they approved $60 billion within 10 days of the storm on a voice vote.""" ['Natural Disasters ', 'Weather'] 3 2013-02-06 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Says out-of-state abortion clinics ""have marketed their services to minors"" in states with parental consent laws." ['Abortion'] 5 2013-02-05 Bruce Hammond Ian K. Kullgren TriMet "Says ""MAX carries 30 percent of evening rush-hour commuters traveling from Downtown on the Sunset and Banfield freeways.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2013-02-05 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Democrat Janel Davis Barack Obama Illinois """A majority of Americans agree with"" a ban on assault weapons. ""And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-02-05 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Richard Saslaw Virginia """One-third of the gasoline is purchased by out-of-state people"" in Virginia" ['State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 1 2013-02-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin "40 percent of U.S. gun sales ""are occurring outside of"" licensed gun dealers." ['Criminal Justice', 'Government regulation', 'Guns', 'Public Health'] 3 2013-02-04 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Keith Faber Ohio """Ohio is doing better right now than the national average on all the (economic) numbers.""" ['Economy', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-02-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Rob Woodall Georgia """Forty-seven percent of (members of Congress) are millionaires.""" ['Congress'] 5 2013-02-04 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas Says the claim that 40 percent of guns are sold without background checks traces to information gathered before background checks were even required. ['Guns'] 3 2013-02-03 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mayors Against Illegal Guns "In 2009, the FBI ""referred more than 71,000"" cases of people failing background checks when trying to buy a gun to another federal agency, ""but U.S. attorneys ultimately prosecuted only 77 of them.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Government regulation', 'Guns'] 3 2013-02-03 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-02-03 Tim Murphy Democrat Michael McKinney Patrick Kennedy Rhode Island """Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana.""" ['Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Marijuana'] 3 2013-02-02 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Central Falls Police Department """Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years.""" ['Animals', 'Science'] 0 2013-02-01 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Earl Blumenauer Oregon "Says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program ""could save up to $28.4 billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit.""" ['Agriculture', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2013-02-01 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Texas Federation of Republican Women Says that 9 million to 50 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States. ['Immigration', 'Population'] 2 2013-02-01 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "Says his plan to raise car registration to $56 would still leave Virginia with a fee that’s ""equal to or lower than most states.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 0 2013-02-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Wayne LaPierre """As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 3 2013-02-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Georgia Lottery Odds of winning the Monopoly Millionaire instant win game are 1 in 3.27. ['Lottery'] 5 2013-02-01 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century.""" ['Guns', 'Health Care'] 4 2013-02-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Ted Cruz Texas "Says ""the jurisdictions with the strictest gun control laws, almost without exception … have the highest crime rates and the highest murder rates.""" ['Guns'] 1 2013-01-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Rush Limbaugh "Research shows that ""a vast majority of arriving immigrants today come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity, and that's what they support.""" ['Immigration', 'Pundits'] 2 2013-01-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Stephen King "Says since Australia passed tough gun laws, ""homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent.""" ['Crime', 'Government regulation', 'Guns', 'Public Safety'] 4 2013-01-31 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher David A. Clarke Jr. Wisconsin """I had to lay off 48 people last year,"" which has exacerbated the lack of law enforcement officers in the county that respond quickly to crime calls." ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 2 2013-01-31 Tom Curran Bill Wichert Rodney Frelinghuysen "Says ""the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy.""" ['Economy', 'Weather'] 4 2013-01-31 Jane Kahoun Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "Says the New Year’s Day ""fiscal cliff"" deal ""reduces the deficit.""" ['Congress', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-01-31 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Thomas Lindsay Texas """Approximately 43 percent of all college grades today are A's, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960.""" ['Education'] 5 2013-01-30 W. Gardner Selby Republican Louis Jacobson, Sue Owen Greg Abbott Texas Says according to the FBI, more people are killed each year with hammers and clubs than rifles. ['Crime', 'Guns'] 5 2013-01-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Kirsten Gillibrand New York """Today, about 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 3 2013-01-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Americans for a Strong Defense "Says Chuck Hagel has called for ""an end to our nuclear program.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Nuclear'] 2 2013-01-30 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Democrat Eric Stirgus Steve Henson Georgia """State revenue projections have missed the mark month after month.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2013-01-30 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcia Fudge Ohio """When George Bush became president of the United States, 17 million people were in poverty. When he left, 30 million people were in poverty.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Poverty'] 1 2013-01-30 Bruce Hammond None Janie Har Charlotte Lehan Oregon "Says Oak Grove is ""one of the largest cities in Oregon"" and is ""the biggest city in Clackamas County and it's not a city.""" ['Census', 'City Government', 'County Government', 'Population'] 3 2013-01-30 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Peter Palumbo Rhode Island "Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. ""An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch.""" ['Animals', 'Consumer Safety', 'Government regulation', 'Public Safety'] 3 2013-01-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Dianne Feinstein California """One out of every five law enforcement officers that's killed is killed with an assault weapon.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2013-01-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda Florida Says state workers have not had across-the-board raises in six years. ['State Budget'] 5 2013-01-29 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal """Since last year’s address, more than 10,000 jobs created -- many on the high end of the employment scale.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2013-01-29 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal "Since taking office in January 2011, ""the ‘rainy day’ fund has increased by 226 percent.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2013-01-29 Jim Denery, Lois Norder Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal """Spending of government money is 17 percent less than it was a decade ago.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2013-01-28 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Internet commenters Wisconsin A Paul Ryan-Scott Walker (or Scott Walker-Paul Ryan) ticket for the White House in 2016 would be unconstitutional because both men live in Wisconsin. ['Elections'] 1 2013-01-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Marco Rubio Florida """Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Drugs', 'Government regulation', 'Guns', 'Public Safety'] 3 2013-01-28 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """We just had someone last week in Neenah near a school kill someone with a bow and arrow.""" ['Guns'] 0 2013-01-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Tea Party member Janel Davis J.D. Van Brink Georgia The federal government owns 30 percent of the land in the 50 states, or about 650 million acres. ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-01-27 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Chris Larson Wisconsin "A Republican-sponsored Wisconsin mining bill ""will take at least seven years to create jobs.""" ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Jobs'] 2 2013-01-27 Tom Curran Bill Wichert Stephen Sweeney "Says Chris Christie ""vetoed"" a ""jobs package"" of ""30 bills.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2013-01-27 Tim Murphy Organization Michael McKinney National Organization for Marriage Rhode Island """Religious groups like Knights of Columbus have been forced to allow same-sex marriage ceremonies in their facilities, against their beliefs.""" ['Diversity', 'Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Legal Issues', 'Marriage', 'Religion'] 0 2013-01-26 Dee Lane Yuxing Zheng Gayle Atteberry "Says ""Abortion clinics in Oregon, as in most states, have no state oversight and are not held to basic health or safety standards.""" ['Abortion'] 2 2013-01-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Mike Ryan Florida "People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back ""automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database.""" ['Guns', 'Health Care'] 3 2013-01-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Sean Hannity "Under President Barack Obama, ""8.3 (million) fewer Americans are working today than there were four years ago.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Pundits'] 1 2013-01-25 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Maggie Hassan New Hampshire We have the fourth highest in-state tuition for public universities in the country. ['Education'] 5 2013-01-25 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lloyd Doggett Texas """The last time Republicans held hostage a resolution to ensure that our country’s bills were paid cost us more than $1 billion in added interest and slowed the economic recovery.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Debt', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2013-01-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Says U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., celebrates gun ownership even in the face of school shootings. ['Guns'] 0 2013-01-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Ron DeSantis Florida "The tax penalty that the government imposes if you don't buy health insurance ""is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2013-01-24 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Terry McAuliffe Virginia "Says Virginia economic development officials ""decided they didn’t want to bid on"" his company's electric automobile plant." ['Candidate Biography', 'China', 'Economy', 'Energy'] 1 2013-01-24 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele "The Milwaukee County Board’s staff grew from four workers to 38 over four decades and now costs taxpayers ""a lot more,"" while the total county workforce was more than cut in half in the same period." ['County Budget', 'County Government'] 4 2013-01-24 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says Chris Christie’s plan ""to kick-start our economy"" is to propose an ""income tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and...he's still proposing it.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2013-01-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Ted Strickland Ohio "Says Ohio’s economic recovery ""started in February 2010.""" ['Economy'] 4 2013-01-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Jackie Speier California """Even members of the NRA, when they were polled recently, were under the impression that everyone has a criminal background check.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2013-01-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont """Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high.""" ['Poverty'] 2 2013-01-23 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby George P. Bush Texas "Says Texas will be ""majority Hispanic in six years.""" ['Population'] 2 2013-01-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Jennette Gayer """Wind powers nearly 13 million homes across the country.""" ['Environment'] 4 2013-01-23 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Christopher Plante Rhode Island """The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Government regulation', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Marriage', 'Sexuality'] 4 2013-01-22 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Mike Polensek Ohio """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.""" ['City Budget', 'Energy', 'Infrastructure'] 5 2013-01-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Pink Slip Rick Florida "Says Rick Scott’s proposal for election reform ""only mandates 48 hours of early voting.""" ['Elections'] 4 2013-01-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida "Says his elections proposal would allow ""a potential of 168 hours (of early voting), which I think is the most we’ve ever had.""" ['Elections'] 5 2013-01-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Hank Johnson Georgia Social Security has nothing to do with the federal deficit. ['Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 2 2013-01-21 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren John Kitzhaber Oregon "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.""" ['Education'] 5 2013-01-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida Says a recent study shows Florida students are second in the world in fourth grade reading, behind Singapore. ['Education'] 4 2013-01-21 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Nearly a quarter of all adults in this state have some college credit without a degree.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Jobs'] 4 2013-01-21 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen David Toscano Virginia "Virginia ""spends less per student today than we did in 2008.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2013-01-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Keith Faber Ohio "Abraham Lincoln ""visited and some say even danced in (the Ohio Senate) chamber.""" ['History'] 5 2013-01-21 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lee Leffingwell Texas Says Austin’s treated wastewater, put into the Colorado River, is of higher quality than water the city takes from the lake for public use. ['Environment', 'Water'] 3 2013-01-20 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Thanks to Washington, nearly everyone will pay more in taxes in 2013. Somehow people think it's just the wealthy. It's not.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-01-20 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2013-01-20 Tim Murphy Organization Michael McKinney Protect Families First Rhode Island """The average age of first marijuana use is 12.""" ['Drugs', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Marijuana', 'Regulation', 'States'] 1 2013-01-19 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Kohl’s Department Stores in 2012 ""announced the creation of 3,000 new jobs.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2013-01-18 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har John Kitzhaber Oregon """It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison.""" ['Crime', 'Education', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget'] 5 2013-01-18 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Mark Shields Washington, D.C. "Since 1968, ""more Americans have died from gunfire than died in … all the wars of this country's history.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-01-18 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts "In 2011, more people were murdered with knives, ""hands or feet"" or ""clubs and hammers"" than with any type of rifle." ['Guns'] 5 2013-01-18 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran William G. Batchelder Ohio """I am now the No. 2 member of this House in terms of length of service.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Public Service'] 5 2013-01-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis College presidents In 2010, 2,694 young people were killed by gunfire. 1,773 were victims of homicide; 67 were elementary school-age children. ['Children', 'Guns'] 4 2013-01-18 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island "The state budget proposal has been submitted ""on time and [it's] the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'History', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2013-01-17 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """Gross income tax receipts are exceeding the Administration’s projections for this fiscal year prior to Sandy.""" ['State Finances'] 5 2013-01-17 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Tom Niehaus Ohio """Unlike the gridlock in Washington, more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2013-01-16 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says Texas public school funding grew three times the rate of enrollment from 2002 to 2012. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2013-01-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "The United States has ""an immigration system where only 6.5 percent of people who come here, come here based on labor and skill.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2013-01-16 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Club for Growth """In Minnesota, well over 6,200 election-day registrations from 2008 proved fraudulent.""" ['Elections', 'Legal Issues', 'States'] 1 2013-01-16 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Chain email "Members of Congress ""specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment"" ... (and) from the healthcare reform.""" ['Congress', 'Health Care'] 0 2013-01-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis, Eric Stirgus Phil Gingrey Georgia "U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was ""partly right"" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped." ['Abortion'] 1 2013-01-16 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Providence City Council """Semi-automatic weapons, whether pistol or rifle, were designed for use by the military on the battlefield.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Government regulation', 'Guns', 'Military', 'Public Health', 'Recreation', 'Regulation'] 1 2013-01-15 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Don Gaetz Florida """I sponsored the amendment that expanded the hours of early voting so that people who have irregular work schedules could vote.""" ['Elections'] 3 2013-01-15 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Kirk Watson Texas "Says in ""our region,"" 2011 was worst drought year ever recorded." ['Environment', 'Water', 'Weather'] 5 2013-01-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Tom Price Georgia "The fiscal cliff deal ""increased spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2013-01-14 Jonathan Van Fleet Jake Berry National Republican Congressional Committee """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.""" ['Debt'] 5 2013-01-14 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Vince Megna Wisconsin """200 consumer laws were destroyed"" in 2011 when Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 92." ['Consumer Safety', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2013-01-14 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Jordan Ohio Seven of America’s 10 wealthiest counties are in the Washington, D.C., area. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2013-01-14 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Hank Johnson Georgia """[W]e see America's prison population exploding, with America having a greater percentage of its people behind bars than any other nation in the world!""" ['Criminal Justice'] 4 2013-01-13 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin "Since the federal Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, ""cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Women'] 4 2013-01-13 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Bill Pascrell New Jersey "Says ""how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product"" is ""the lowest in 40, 50 years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2013-01-13 Tim Murphy Republican Michael McKinney Dawson Hodgson Rhode Island """The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 1 2013-01-11 Janie Har None Ian K. Kullgren BikePortland.org Oregon 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. ['Transportation'] 5 2013-01-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Florida "Says Chuck Hagel ""opposed sanctions against Iran.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2013-01-11 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Chain email "Members of Congress can ""retire with the same pay after only one term"" in office" ['Congress', 'Retirement'] 0 2013-01-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Tom Price Georgia "The fiscal cliff deal ""ultimately raised taxes.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2013-01-11 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Chain email Says 11 states have more people on welfare than employed. ['Welfare'] 0 2013-01-10 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Bob McDonnell Virginia "Says his transportation plan ""would make Virginia the first state in the nation to eliminate the state tax on gasoline.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 5 2013-01-10 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """A far different picture from the prior eight years, which saw 115 increases in taxes and fees.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2013-01-10 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Wendy Davis Texas "Says Texas is ""dead last in support for mental health.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2013-01-10 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Renacci Ohio "Obamacare includes ""a $63 charge every American will begin paying (in 2013) as a way to cover some of the increased costs associated with providing health insurance to those with pre-existing conditions.""" ['Health Care', 'Regulation'] 2 2013-01-10 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Bennett Rhode Island """Our numbers are going up at the airport.""" ['Economy', 'Tourism', 'Transportation'] 0 2013-01-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """In the four years before I became governor, we increased state debt $5.2 billion. We've paid it down $2 billion.""" ['Debt'] 3 2013-01-09 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Pardeep Kaleka """Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Government regulation', 'Guns'] 4 2013-01-09 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey "Says in fiscal year 2011, the state had ""a projected $11 billion deficit.""" ['Deficit', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-01-09 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Bill Seitz Ohio "Ohio's judges, ""compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid.""" ['Public Service', 'State Budget'] 4 2013-01-08 Angie Drobnic Holan None Amy Sherman Emergency Committee for Israel Washington, D.C. """While President Obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear Iran, Hagel says military action is not a viable, feasible, responsible option.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Military'] 2 2013-01-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says a federal plan to expand Medicaid would cost Florida taxpayers $26 billion over 10 years. ['Health Care'] 1 2013-01-08 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Texas Medical Association Says 31 percent of Texas physicians accept all new Medicaid patients, down from 67 percent in 2000. ['Medicaid'] 4 2013-01-08 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Tea Party member Eric Stirgus Amy Kremer Georgia U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss votes more with Democrats than with conservatives. ['Federal Budget', 'Voting Record'] 1 2013-01-08 Tim Murphy John Hill Kenneth Block """Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially.""" ['Elections', 'Government Efficiency'] 4 2013-01-07 Warren Fiske None Nancy Madsen Patrick Wales Virginia "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""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2013-01-07 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio "Says ""Detroit dumping a bunch of sewage"" in Lake Erie ""causes big problems"" for Ohio." ['Agriculture', 'Environment', 'Water'] 3 2013-01-06 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Our pension system is the only one in the country that’s 100 percent funded.""" ['Pensions', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 5 2013-01-06 Tom Curran None Caryn Shinske Environment New Jersey New Jersey """Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive Atlantic storm ever.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Weather'] 2 2013-01-06 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Facebook posts """Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!""" ['Crime', 'Government regulation', 'Guns', 'Military', 'Regulation'] 0 2013-01-04 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""last year the graduation rate for our combined six-district footprint jumped 5.5 percent.""" ['Education'] 3 2013-01-04 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 3 2013-01-04 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Lois Kolkhorst Texas "Says that according to ""many reports and even our own data,"" the state of Texas spent more through Medicaid on orthodontia than all other states combined." ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Public Health'] 3 2013-01-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "Taxpayers are ""on the hook ... for less than a third"" of the proposed new Atlanta Falcons stadium, and those funds are ""repaid from money that comes from outsiders.""" ['Sports', 'State Finances'] 3 2013-01-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Marcia Fudge Ohio "The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments ""for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare'] 4 2013-01-03 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Louie Gohmert Texas Says George Washington said a free people should be armed to guard against government tyranny. ['Government regulation', 'Guns'] 1 2013-01-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says ""10 days after Hurricane Katrina, this chamber passed two separate bills amounting to $60 billion. It has been nearly two months since we had Superstorm Sandy, and nothing has passed.""" ['Natural Disasters ', 'Weather'] 5 2013-01-03 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2013-01-02 Bill Adair Becky Bowers American International Group "AIG has fully repaid the federal government ""plus a profit of more than $22 billion.""" ['Corporations', 'Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation'] 4 2013-01-02 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Don Pridemore "Among Milwaukee Public Schools students, ""86 percent are behind in reading and 80 percent are behind in math.""" ['City Government', 'Education', 'Poverty'] 5 2013-01-02 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Terry Russell Ohio """Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 5 2013-01-02 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Republican Willoughby Mariano Jack Kingston Georgia """Connecticut has the fifth toughest gun control laws in the country, including an assault weapons ban that bans 35 different weapons.""" ['Guns'] 5 2013-01-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen David Dewhurst Texas Says that under Texas law, it takes six years to close a failing school. ['Education'] 1 2012-12-30 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin """Over $1 trillion"" was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to ""give every single poor American a check for $22,000.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2012-12-30 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""our economy in New Jersey gets $38 billion from the businesses at the Shore.""" ['Tourism'] 1 2012-12-29 Tim Murphy John Hill Deepwater Wind """Did U know? Block Island Wind Farm would mean 40% est. drop in BI electric rates.""" ['Energy', 'Infrastructure'] 5 2012-12-28 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Ginny Burdick """Even hunters are restricted from using large capacity magazines: there is a five cartridge limit for large game hunting, and three for bird hunting.""" ['Guns', 'Recreation'] 5 2012-12-27 Steve Liebman Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey """You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day"" by gunfire in America." ['Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2012-12-26 Greg Borowski State official Dave Umhoefer Kevin Reilly Wisconsin """Faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2012-12-26 Warren Fiske None Nancy Madsen Jimmy Barrett Virginia Says Virginia is the biggest state that does not have a major league sports team. ['Sports'] 5 2012-12-24 Warren Fiske Republican Tom Feran, Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia """The average kid comes out of Virginia colleges with about $25,000-plus in debt.""" ['Education'] 3 2012-12-23 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin """One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids don’t graduate.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Poverty'] 4 2012-12-23 Suzanne Pavkovic Republican Caryn Shinske Steve Lonegan New Jersey """The price tag amounted to nearly $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the state.""" ['Debt', 'Weather'] 2 2012-12-23 Susan Areson C. Eugene Emery Jr. Facebook posts """Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States.""" ['Crime', 'Government regulation', 'Guns'] 3 2012-12-21 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Zell Miller Georgia """[T]he Georgia Dome has returned $10 billion in economic impact to the state of Georgia.""" ['Economy', 'Tourism'] 1 2012-12-20 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman Lenny Curry Florida "Says Charlie Crist and Missouri Rep. Todd Akin ""hold same abortion views. No exception except the life of the mother.""" ['Abortion', 'Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-12-20 Bruce Hammond Democrat Ian K. Kullgren John Kitzhaber Oregon "Says the Nike bill ""is not a tax break ... this does not lower the taxes that Nike will pay nor does it prevent the Legislature from raising those taxes in the future.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-12-20 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "Northern Virginia is the most ""heavily trafficked place in the country.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2012-12-20 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Larry Kilgore Says Texas economy is about 30 percent larger than Australia’s. ['Economy', 'States'] 1 2012-12-20 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer The Campaign to Fix the Debt Washington, D.C. """If lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff, 18 percent of the federal money that is sent to the states will be eliminated.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 1 2012-12-20 Steve Liebman Democrat Caryn Shinske Barbara Buono New Jersey """I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-12-19 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas Says the Senate will have a record number of female senators in 2013. ['History', 'Women'] 5 2012-12-19 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Marina Dimitrijevic "Thanks to actions by the Milwaukee County Board on the 2013 budget, the amount of county taxes on the average home in the city of Milwaukee ""would be a $19 decrease.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-12-19 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Dan Saltzman Oregon "Says the Portland Children’s Levy holds its ""administrative expenses to less than 5 percent.""" ['Children', 'City Government'] 5 2012-12-18 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Texas secession petition Says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world. ['Economy', 'States'] 5 2012-12-17 Bill Adair Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida """This week the House of Representatives voted to remove the word ‘lunatic’ from federal law.""" ['Legal Issues'] 5 2012-12-17 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Jim Moran Virginia Says budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Pensions', 'Workers'] 5 2012-12-17 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Thomas Ratliff Texas Says Massachusetts has three state-mandated student tests and Finland just one. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Education', 'States'] 3 2012-12-17 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Mike Tate """Scott Walker has even removed the 250,000 jobs promise from his website.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 1 2012-12-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus ACLU Foundation of Georgia """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.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2012-12-16 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire "President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal ""couldn't get support from either party in the House or the Senate.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2012-12-16 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin "Wisconsin has created ""just under 100,000"" jobs since he took office." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 0 2012-12-16 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Lou Greenwald New Jersey """Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor'] 4 2012-12-16 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barack Obama Illinois """If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-12-15 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Sam Adams Oregon "Says, ""In the last four years we’ve cut $36 million in ongoing revenue.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government'] 1 2012-12-14 Bill Adair Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-12-14 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Sherry Sylvester Texas "Says personal-injury trial lawyers ""have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2012-12-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 5 2012-12-14 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Pew Environment Group """In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.""" ['Animals', 'Economy', 'Environment', 'Regulation'] 2 2012-12-13 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Robert Singer New Jersey """More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students.""" ['Income', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 2 2012-12-12 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Juan Hernández Texas Says Texas passed a state ‘Dream Act’ before any other state. ['Immigration'] 4 2012-12-12 Greg Borowski Organization Tom Kertscher One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin "Says state schools superintendent candidate Don Pridemore ""voted for the largest cuts to public education in our state history"" and for ""$2.3 billion in tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.""" ['Corporations', 'Education', 'Small Business', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-12-12 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Libertarian Party of Georgia The increase in the current state budget was greater than the inflation rate and the rate of population growth in Georgia. ['State Budget'] 3 2012-12-12 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio "Agriculture ""is the strongest industry in Ohio.""" ['Agriculture', 'Economy'] 5 2012-12-11 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Chain email Says the Obama administration plans to ban all weapons for U.S. citizens through international treaties. ['Foreign Policy', 'Guns'] 0 2012-12-10 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Our Oregon Oregon "Says that ""the state spends more money on tax giveaways than it receives in tax collection.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-12-10 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob Goodlatte Virginia """The Agriculture Department estimates that roughly 42 percent of the corn crop will be used to make ethanol -- more than the amount of corn used to feed livestock and poultry in the United States.""" ['Agriculture', 'Energy'] 3 2012-12-10 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Social Security has not contributed to the debt and the deficits. ['Social Security'] 2 2012-12-09 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Marina Dimitrijevic "Milwaukee County government employees pay ""much more"" for their health care than City of Milwaukee or State of Wisconsin employees." ['County Government', 'Health Care', 'Workers'] 3 2012-12-09 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Frank Lautenberg New Jersey """In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey.""" ['Jobs', 'Tourism'] 5 2012-12-09 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island """The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October.""" ['Economy'] 5 2012-12-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Ken Detzner Florida "November 2012 was ""a record year of turnout. More people voted before Election Day using absentee ballots and voting early than ever before in our history.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-12-07 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Mike DeWine Ohio """A man using bath salts reported that raccoons had set fire inside his home and stolen his cell phone.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Drugs'] 5 2012-12-07 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Alex Wan Georgia """The city of Atlanta has one of the highest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations per capita, ranking third among major American cities.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 3 2012-12-06 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Todd Hunter Texas Says real estate taxes were put in place to pay for Obamacare. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-12-06 Bill Adair Democrat Katie Sanders Alan Grayson Florida Says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker. ['Corporations', 'Medicaid', 'Welfare', 'Workers'] 4 2012-12-06 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Michael Doherty "Says a new state report ""confirms"" that red-light cameras ""lead to more accidents, more injuries and greater cost.""" ['Transportation'] 3 2012-12-06 Robert Higgs None Stephen Koff Anne Goodman Ohio Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment. ['Economy', 'Poverty'] 5 2012-12-06 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Mark S. Zaccaria Rhode Island "Public employees receive ""something like 25 percent of the paychecks that are issued in Rhode Island.""" ['Elections', 'Unions'] 1 2012-12-05 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren John Kitzhaber Oregon "Says that in 2011, Oregon had ""the second fastest growing economy in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-12-05 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Dan Micciche Texas """The poverty level in"" the Dallas school district ""is one of the highest in the country, higher than New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Newark.""" ['Education', 'Poverty'] 4 2012-12-05 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Sandy Pasch Wisconsin "Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly ""actually received 200,000 more votes statewide"" than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election" ['Elections'] 4 2012-12-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Saxby Chambliss Georgia Says he has never voted for raising taxes. ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-12-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Broward Republican Executive Committee Florida "The Broward Republican Executive Committee ""had the liberal League of Women Voters Guide removed from the Broward Supervisor of Election's website.""" ['Elections'] 3 2012-12-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says ""the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since"" 1964." ['Poverty'] 4 2012-12-02 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Says he first unveiled his new legislative agenda in Wisconsin, not in California as critics complain ['Education', 'Government regulation', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-12-02 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey "Says in January 1992, George H. W. Bush ""probably had a 90 percent or even higher approval rating after the first Gulf War.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2012-12-02 Tim Murphy Organization John Hill Association of Mature American Citizens Washington, D.C. """If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for ""violations’.""" ['Health Care', 'Retirement'] 0 2012-11-30 John Bridges Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Texas Values "Says legislation supported by gay rights activists would strip ""mother"" and ""father"" from future Texas birth certificates." ['Children', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2012-11-30 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren John Kitzhaber Oregon "Says the state is required ""pick up 70 percent of the cost"" of K-12 education." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2012-11-30 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Pam Bondi Florida """National studies are already showing the negative effects that the health care law is having on businesses and our economy. Businesses across the country are raising their prices … (or) cutting jobs as a result of the added cost.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 1 2012-11-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus National Association of Realtors "A ""foreclosure tax"" that would take effect in 2013 could mean a high tax bill for those facing foreclosure and millions of families who modified their mortgage or had a short sale through their lender." ['Housing'] 4 2012-11-30 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio """Our race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 36 years -- when Howard Metzenbaum defeated Robert Taft in 1976.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-11-30 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Technology'] 5 2012-11-29 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Raymond Bateman "Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had ""the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.""" ['Elections', 'States'] 5 2012-11-29 Robert Higgs None Henry J. Gomez Jobs Ohio Ohio """In the past year alone, Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-11-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen John Cornyn Texas Says veterans’ disability claims backlog doubled in Obama’s first term. ['Veterans'] 5 2012-11-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Michael Cannon "Operating a health care exchange would be ""illegal"" in Georgia and some states because of legislation passed in those states." ['Health Care'] 1 2012-11-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Steve Acenbrak Georgia """When you look at the number of crashes before the cameras were installed compared to after, they’re virtually the same.""" ['Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-11-26 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Ron Johnson Wisconsin "Says President Barack Obama ""did not come into office with the economy in a free fall.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-11-26 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey """For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-11-26 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby "Joseph ""Joe"" Deshotel" Texas """There is no evidence that poor people abuse drugs more frequently than any other socio-economic group.""" ['Drugs', 'Marijuana', 'Poverty'] 1 2012-11-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Emma Darnell Georgia "The ""error rates"" for the Fulton County elections department are ""well below the average.""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-11-26 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio "Says the tax code is effectively subsidizing ""the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as $19 billion over 10 years.""" ['Children', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-11-25 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jon Erpenbach Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker has ""led people to believe that if Wisconsin doesn’t implement a (health-care) exchange, Obamacare doesn’t happen here.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2012-11-25 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Frank Lautenberg New Jersey "Says because of Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City ""much of that boardwalk no longer exists -- just the pillars where the boardwalk used to be.""" ['Tourism', 'Weather'] 2 2012-11-25 Zack McMillin Democrat Bartholomew Sullivan Steve Cohen Tennessee "Says Delta Air Lines has ""once again broken a promise they made to me and to the people of Memphis.""" ['Government regulation', 'Regulation'] 5 2012-11-25 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Patricia Morgan Rhode Island """Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget.""" ['Elections', 'Government Efficiency', 'Medicaid', 'State Finances', 'Welfare'] 3 2012-11-22 Tom Curran None Caryn Shinske Paul Levesque Connecticut """We’ve outdrawn the Super Bowl for a little while now in the arenas and stadiums that we’ve followed them in for the Super Bowl. We’ve gone in after [the NFL] and surpassed their ticket sales.""" ['Pop Culture', 'Sports'] 4 2012-11-21 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry, Maryalice Gill Ann McLane Kuster New Hampshire "Says she is ""entering in the most diverse class ever,"" of U.S. Representatives" ['Congress', 'Diversity'] 5 2012-11-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Mike DeWine Ohio Says Fran DeWine’s made-from-scratch dinner rolls are a delicious favorite in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. ['Families'] 5 2012-11-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom Craddick Texas Says about 25 Texas cities and 39 states have banned texting while driving. ['Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-11-21 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Health First Wisconsin Wisconsin """Wisconsin is the only state that allows parents or guardians to purchase alcohol for their children – regardless of whether that child is seven or 20 years old – at bars and restaurants.""" ['Alcohol', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-11-21 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Chain email """Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-11-20 Aaron Sharockman Amy Sherman Facebook posts "A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has ""7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-11-20 Bruce Hammond Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says the initial Portland plastic bag ban represented ""only a modest share of total single-use checkout bag use.""" ['City Government'] 2 2012-11-19 Caryn Shinske None Erin O'Neill Big Gamble NJ New Jersey """In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million.""" ['Education', 'Gambling', 'State Finances'] 4 2012-11-19 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran We the People petition Ohio """In one county alone in Ohio, President Obama received 106,258 votes. But there were only 98,213 eligible voters.""" ['Elections'] 0 2012-11-18 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Freedom From Religion Foundation """Secular Americans are the fastest-growing religious identification demographic in this country.""" ['Diversity', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Religion'] 3 2012-11-18 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says New Jersey is ""50th in return of our federal tax dollars.""" ['States', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-11-18 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby County Line Says that under the new healthcare law, full- and part-time workers will be required to buy insurance costing $375 to $1,000 a month, starting in 2014. ['Health Care'] 3 2012-11-18 Steve Ahillen, Tom Chester Zack McMillin Lamar Alexander """More Tennesseans have hunting and fishing licenses than vote.""" ['Elections', 'Recreation'] 1 2012-11-18 Tim Murphy Newsmaker John Hill Carolyn Medeiros Rhode Island Three thousand felons voted in Rhode Island in 2008. ['Civil Rights', 'Criminal Justice', 'Elections', 'Public Safety'] 5 2012-11-16 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Maggie Hassan New Hampshire Says New Hampshire had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country during Maggie Hassan’s time in the state Senate. ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-11-16 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Libraries Yes! Committee Oregon "Says the Multnomah County Library system ""is the second busiest in the nation.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-11-16 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Terral Smith Says 40 years ago, the U.S. placed Texas under Voting Rights Act for failing to print ballots in Spanish. ['Civil Rights', 'Elections'] 3 2012-11-16 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Chris Redfern Ohio "Barack Obama is ""only the second Democrat in the last 75 years to win Ohio twice with more than 50 percent of the vote.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-11-16 Dee Lane Libertarian Janie Har John Charles Oregon """There is no reason to allocate 60 percent of bridge space to satisfy two percent of all travelers.""" ['County Budget', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-11-15 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mike White "Says that with President Obama's re-election, state and federal income tax rates for some taxpayers will rise ""to roughly 65 percent.""" ['Income', 'Jobs', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 1 2012-11-15 Suzanne Pavkovic Republican Caryn Shinske Caroline Casagrande New Jersey """Every American now is $51,000 in debt. That’s money I owe, that’s money my children owe before they even go to kindergarten, that’s their check to the federal government right now.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit'] 4 2012-11-15 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  ""take us into a recession and kill jobs.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-11-14 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Dan Patrick Texas "Says the state of Texas rates as ""unacceptable"" almost 500 of the state's 8,000 public schools." ['Education'] 5 2012-11-14 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Robin Vos Wisconsin "When it comes to income taxes, Wisconsin is ""one of the best places in the country to be poor"" but ""top 4 or 5 worst"" for middle-income earners." ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-11-14 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Steve Lonegan New Jersey """Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients.""" ['Medicaid'] 5 2012-11-14 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Clayton County Government Georgia """Clayton County offers the lowest operating millage rate in Metro Atlanta.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-11-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Chris Redfern Ohio "Says a poll shows that ""without a name attached, Democrats are just one point behind"" Gov. John Kasich." ['Elections', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 5 2012-11-13 Jim Tharpe Republican Janel Davis Brian Robinson Georgia Half the lottery directors across the country had not run a lottery before they were hired. ['Lottery'] 4 2012-11-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says under President Barack Obama, the United States has created ""five million jobs.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-11-12 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "Says Mike Dovilla supports a plan ""that could allow a foreign corporation to take over the Ohio Turnpike"" " ['Infrastructure', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-11-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Saxby Chambliss Georgia """Revenues are 15 percent of GDP — it’s still in the range of the lowest it’s ever been.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2012-11-12 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Jason Isaac Texas Says that over the past 20 years, Texas public school spending rose 142 percent and per-pupil spending more than tripled when adjusted for inflation. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2012-11-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin """Wisconsin still ranks first among the 50 states in manufacturing jobs per capita.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-11-11 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""I was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 0 2012-11-11 Steve Ahillen, Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Bill Haslam Tennessee "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.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-11-09 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kirk Watson Texas """Texas’ population is projected to double in the next 50 years or so, but our basic amount of water will remain about where it is now.""" ['Population', 'Water'] 4 2012-11-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Charlie Crist Florida "Says Jeb Bush ""extended early voting"" after seeing ""long lines.""" ['Elections'] 2 2012-11-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Priorities USA Action """Mitt Romney made over a hundred million dollars by shutting down (a Marion, Ind. paper) plant.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-11-05 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Larry Sabato """The higher the education level, the more likely they are to vote Democratic.""" ['Elections', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-11-05 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields William G. Batchelder Ohio """We have more hospitals that are children’s hospitals than any other state in the union."" " ['Health Care'] 1 2012-11-04 Steve Ahillen, Tom Chester None Zack McMillin Stand For Children Tennessee Tennessee "Says that ""Tennessee law requires that schools receive half of proceeds -- $31 million per year"" -- from a half-cent increase in the Shelby County sales tax." ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Education', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-11-03 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire Says Ovide Lamontagne wants to eliminate kindergarten. ['Education'] 2 2012-11-03 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. Gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan supported 33 tax and fee increases as Senate Majority Leader. ['Taxes'] 3 2012-11-03 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. People's Majority """Sheldon Whitehouse [got] a secret closed-door briefing, warning of the [2008 economic] crash.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Bush Administration', 'Candidate Biography', 'Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Corporations', 'Economy', 'Ethics', 'Financial Regulation', 'Government regulation', 'History', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning'] 0 2012-11-02 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Progressive Change Campaign Committee "Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson ""says he’ll do away with Medicare.""" ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-11-02 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher National Republican Senatorial Committee "Says U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin ""proposed a $3.9 trillion tax increase -- a tax increase so extreme"" that ""even Nancy Pelosi voted against it.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-11-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Angie Drobnic Holan, Aaron Sharockman Priorities USA Action "Says Mitt Romney ""was director of a company that stole millions from Medicare.""" ['Medicare'] 4 2012-11-02 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Michael Moore "Says during George W. Bush’s administration ""we were losing millions of jobs per month,"" while under Barack Obama we have ""three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-11-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Brittany Alana Davis Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack ""wrote a letter to the Department of Transportation in order to get $29 million in stimulus for his congressional district.""" ['Stimulus'] 5 2012-11-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Obama's Environmental Protection Agency sent emails for Hispanic Heritage Month with a photo of Che Guevara.""" ['Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-11-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida """After Patrick Murphy’s charges were dropped, Murphy’s father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-11-02 Angie Drobnic Holan None Louis Jacobson Planned Parenthood Action Fund Washington, D.C. "Says Mitt Romney wants to ""get rid of Planned Parenthood.""" ['Abortion', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 2 2012-11-02 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson Florida Democratic Party Florida "Says ""Romney supported a law that could have made most common forms of birth control illegal.""" ['Abortion', 'Sexuality'] 1 2012-11-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Betty Sutton Ohio "Says Jim Renacci has ""consistently voted"" for loopholes that ""encourage outsourcing of our jobs.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Taxes', 'Trade', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-11-02 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-11-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida """Bill Nelson actually voted in favor of higher taxes 272 times.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-11-01 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Majority PAC """Tommy Thompson made millions from corporations who outsource American jobs and now he's trying to lavish huge tax breaks on them.""" ['Corporations', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Workers'] 3 2012-11-01 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Brittany Alana Davis Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack was ""the only member of the Florida delegation that voted against a bill to help NASA.""" ['Space', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-11-01 Bruce Hammond None Ian K. Kullgren Taxpayer Association of Oregon Oregon "Says Mark Hass ""raised your taxes by $1 billion in a single day.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-11-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Michael McCaul Texas "Says U.S. corporate tax rate is ""highest in the world at 35 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-11-01 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Says that Sherrod Brown is an ""Obama rubber stamp"" for ""supporting the job-killing cap and trade plan.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-11-01 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Tere McCann Texas "Says opponent Chad Chadwell ""wants condom techniques demonstrated to your children.""" ['Education', 'Sexuality'] 2 2012-11-01 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen Voters First Ohio Ohio Says the NAACP's Ohio chapter has endorsed Issue 2. ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 2 2012-11-01 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island "Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a ""$525-billion tax increase on the middle class.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 0 2012-11-01 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Democratic Party of Oregon Oregon "Says Matt Wand has sided with anti-choice activists ""to restrict access to reproductive health care services.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Women'] 3 2012-10-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Adam Putnam Florida "An Obama campaign tactic for rallying voters is to ""offer them cell phones.""" ['Negative Campaigning'] 0 2012-10-31 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Becky Bowers, Maryalice Gill, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson House Majority PAC Washington, D.C. Says Charlie Bass supports Paul Ryan plan that forces seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care so millionaires can pay less in taxes. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says ""Mitt Romney’s plan rolls back regulations"" on banks." ['Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-10-31 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Sherrod Brown Ohio """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.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-10-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders C.W. Bill Young Florida "Says he ""opposed $716 billion cut to Medicare.""" ['Medicare'] 3 2012-10-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders Jessica Ehrlich Florida "Says Bill Young ""voted twice for the Ryan budget that ends the current Medicare system.""" ['Medicare'] 3 2012-10-30 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Janel Davis, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """There are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care; they rely on it for mammograms.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 3 2012-10-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney’s plan makes ""catastrophic cuts to education.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-10-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Clint Eastwood """We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China.""" ['China', 'Debt', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-10-30 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says she voted against the Medicare Part D prescription drug program ""because it was unfunded.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-10-30 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he ""had nothing to do with"" that provision in the law." ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-10-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama ""sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China"" at the cost of American jobs." ['China', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Workers'] 0 2012-10-30 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill David Cicilline Rhode Island """The truth is David Cicilline voted for tougher laws against child abusers, domestic abusers and abusers of the elderly.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-10-29 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Tim Kaine Virginia "Bill Clinton presided over ""the biggest expansion of the American economy since World War II.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2012-10-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack initially said he would have voted ""yes"" for the Paul Ryan budget plan, and then, ""you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-10-29 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Kevin Landrigan Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. Says Maggie Hassan pays zero property taxes on her $500,000 home. ['Taxes'] 2 2012-10-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Women in Barack Obama's White House are earning less than men.""" ['Jobs', 'Women'] 3 2012-10-29 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey Says New Jersey lost private-sector jobs between 2000 and 2009 because Democrats increased taxes, fees, regulations and state spending. ['Jobs'] 3 2012-10-29 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown ""voted six times to raise his own pay.""" ['Congress', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-10-29 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Donna Howard Texas """We’re talking right now about a $12 billion hole in our current, so-called balanced"" state ""budget.""" ['Education', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-10-28 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Tom Kean Jr. """New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade.""" ['Education', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-10-28 Steve Ahillen Republican Zack McMillin George Flinn Tennessee "Says that ""when Congressman (Steve) Cohen took office in 2007, the unemployment rate was at 4.8 percent. The unemployment rate in Shelby County has reached 9.7 percent.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-10-28 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mitt Romney Massachusetts Rhode Island has taken its federal Medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more cost-effectively than the federal government. ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Poverty'] 4 2012-10-26 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Libraries Yes! Committee Oregon "Says Multnomah County libraries ""are open 44 hours per week … the lowest of any library in the four-county region.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-10-26 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Libraries Yes! Committee Oregon "Says ""the typical homeowner will pay $4 more per month"" if library district passes." ['Taxes'] 5 2012-10-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Under President Obama: $4,000 tax hike on middle-class families.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-10-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ran Medicare ""into the ground"" and ""nine years closer to bankruptcy.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-10-26 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says when he was governor, ""most of the Democrats"" voted for his billion-dollar property-tax cuts, but U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin ""voted against it.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-10-26 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Keep Austin Healthy PAC "Says the Central Health district's tax rate is the ""lowest among the largest counties in Texas, and it will continue to be the lowest"" if voters approve a proposed tax increase." ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-10-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson ""personally made over $3 million"" from a federal contract granted to his healthcare company, but left  9/11 first responders ""without the care they were promised.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Terrorism'] 2 2012-10-26 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says ""Tammy Baldwin had the opportunity to vote to honor the victims of 9/11 and she voted against it.""" ['Patriotism', 'Terrorism'] 2 2012-10-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Johnny Isakson Georgia """One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176,000 people: the United States government.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 5 2012-10-26 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Mitt Romney Massachusetts """6,400 Ohioans ... lost manufacturing jobs in the month of September.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-10-26 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Bill Bradbury Oregon """If Buehler were elected, our vote-by-mail system would be at risk.""" ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-10-25 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Barack Obama Illinois """We got back every dime used to rescue the banks.""" ['Financial Regulation'] 4 2012-10-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Greenberg Let Freedom Ring Says GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China. ['China', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-10-25 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Gonzalo Barrientos Says 55 percent of council members have come from area where only 10 percent of Austinites live. ['City Government'] 4 2012-10-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida "Lois Frankel ""spent over $13,000 in taxpayer money on a marble shower in a private bathroom with her own toilet.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'City Budget', 'City Government', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-10-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida "While she was mayor, Lois Frankel took a ""police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'City Budget', 'City Government', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-10-25 Tom Curran Independent Caryn Shinske Jesse Ventura Minnesota """There’s 21 congressmen and senators that have been convicted of felonies that still get their retirement, even in jail. They don’t have to wait until they’re 65.""" ['Congress', 'Crime', 'Pensions', 'Retirement'] 4 2012-10-25 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Ted Strickland Ohio "Says Gov. John  Kasich incorrectly claimed Ohio’s economy was 38th in the nation when he took office. ""We were sixth in the nation in terms of economic job growth.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-10-25 Tim Murphy Business leader John Hill Diane Hurley Rhode Island """Connecticut's take on slot machines is 25 cents on the dollar. And the state's take on table games:  zero.""" ['Economy', 'Gambling', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2012-10-24 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Workers' Voice District of Columbia "Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson supports a plan for ""privatizing Social Security.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Social Security'] 1 2012-10-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.""" ['Debates', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 2 2012-10-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for. ['Debates', 'Military'] 5 2012-10-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack’s Penny Plan would cut ""over $200 billion out of Medicare, over $1 trillion out of Social Security. ... $3 trillion out of defense.""" ['Debates', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 4 2012-10-24 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Tim Kaine Virginia """As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2012-10-24 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin supports a ""tax increase that President Obama says"" would cost middle-class families $3,000 per year." ['Congress', 'Families', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-24 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey "Says Chris Christie was ""behind"" in the polls against Jon Corzine during the 2009 governor's race." ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2012-10-24 Robert Higgs Tom Feran, Dave Umhoefer Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Says Jim Renacci ""opposed increasing combat bonuses for our troops.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military'] 1 2012-10-24 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Promote Oregon Leadership PAC (Oregon House Republicans) Oregon "Says, ""Carl proposed a 'windfall' tax on real estate development when he was a Metro Councilor.""" ['Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-10-23 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "Says Romney said ""we should ask Pakistan for permission"" to take a shot at Osama bin Laden." ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 3 2012-10-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama was silent on Iran ""when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, (and) the Green Revolution occurred.""" ['Debates', 'Foreign Policy'] 2 2012-10-23 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and they’re rushing to build a lot more. They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Nuclear'] 4 2012-10-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""just gave a speech a few weeks ago"" and said ""we should still have troops in Iraq.""" ['Debates', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 4 2012-10-23 Mike Konrad Republican Danny Valentine Shirley Anderson Florida "Elizabeth Townsend runs the elections office that omitted a school board race on a ballot and gave a School Board candidate ""faulty advice.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-10-23 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Latin America’s economy is almost as big as the economy of China.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2012-10-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney was clear that he ""would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy.""" ['Debates', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-10-23 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Glenn Grothman Wisconsin "Says Tammy Baldwin introduced a bill that would require doctors and other health care workers to ask patients, ""including young children, whether they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or if they know their gender identity.""" ['Children', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Health Care', 'Sexuality'] 2 2012-10-23 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Veterans'] 3 2012-10-22 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I went to the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2012-10-22 Aaron Sharockman Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel.""" ['Debates', 'Israel'] 4 2012-10-22 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Debates', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2012-10-22 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration ""had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments', 'States', 'Women'] 4 2012-10-22 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Paul Hirschbiel Virginia """Virginia papers called (Scott) Rigell’s campaign ‘Mostly False.’""" ['Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-10-22 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Charles Bass New Hampshire "Ann McLane Kuster is ""for a government takeover of health care more radical than Obamacare. And she supports a $700 billion cut to Medicare for current retirees.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-10-22 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Ann McLane Kuster New Hampshire Says U.S. Rep. Charles Bass wants to privatize Social Security. ['Social Security'] 2 2012-10-22 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """Now remember, property taxes went up 70 percent in the 10 years before I became governor.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-10-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Larry Sabato Virginia’s educational level among whites is higher than Georgia’s. ['Elections', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-10-22 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin """Women who have miscarriages could be investigated by police"" under legislation supported by Republican state Senate candidate Rick Gudex." ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-10-22 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Betty Sutton Ohio """Jim Renacci tried to avoid paying taxes on nearly $14 million that he made.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-10-22 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen George Allen Virginia """The poverty rate amongst women is the worst it’s been in 17 years and the extreme poverty rate is the worst it’s ever been.""" ['Poverty', 'Women'] 5 2012-10-22 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island """There are more oil rigs in operation in the United States than the rest of the world combined.""" ['Corporations', 'Debt', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Gas Prices', 'Government regulation', 'Infrastructure'] 1 2012-10-21 Zack McMillin Republican Tom Humphrey Tennessee Republican Party Tennessee "Says House Democrats ""voted to use your tax dollars for abortions"" by voting against bill defunding Planned Parenthood." ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-10-21 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Leonard Lance "Says Barack Obama ""said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2012-10-21 Thomas Koetting Republican Dave Umhoefer Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says Tammy Baldwin ""voted to gut Medicare for seniors.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-10-21 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island """While I was mayor of the city of Providence we had the lowest crime rate in 30 years.""" ['Crime'] 5 2012-10-19 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Creative Advocacy Network Oregon "Says an arts tax would provide ""funding for certified arts and music teachers for every elementary school serving Portland residents.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-10-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg, Tom Kertscher, Sue Owen, Bill Wichert Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack voted to redefine ""rape"" as ""forcible rape.""" ['Abortion', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Debates', 'Women'] 3 2012-10-19 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Planned Parenthood "Says Mitt Romney and George Allen ""would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012', 'States', 'Supreme Court', 'Women'] 3 2012-10-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida """I’ve got a 94 percent"" career voting record in Congress while Bill Nelson has ""a 92 percent voting record.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-10-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.""" ['Abortion', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Debates'] 4 2012-10-19 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Linda McMahon Connecticut "As a Member of Congress, Chris Murphy ""was raking in $1 million in salary.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2012-10-19 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says fewer than 30 percent of Texas college students graduate in four years and only 58 percent graduate within six years. ['Education'] 5 2012-10-19 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Rob Moshein Texas Says the University of Texas can afford to build a medical school because it has a $7 billion endowment and its football program had a $50 million profit last year. ['Education', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-19 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Angie Drobnic Holan Ohio Republican Party Ohio """President Barack Obama (is) the first president in history to cut Medicare by $700 billion.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-10-19 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Gerald Daugherty Texas "Says he ""is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at MoPac and William Cannon.""" ['Transportation'] 2 2012-10-19 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Oregon Senate Republicans (The Leadership Fund) Oregon "Laurie Monnes Anderson ""voted to let violent criminals out of jail early.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-10-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack ""is protecting Chevron oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests.""" ['Congress', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2012-10-18 Bill Adair Republican J.B. Wogan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Regulations have quadrupled. The rate of regulations quadrupled under this president.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Regulation'] 1 2012-10-18 Jonathan Van Fleet Jake Berry Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Frank Guinta voted to make middle class taxpayers pay over a $1,000 more a year in taxes. ['Taxes'] 2 2012-10-18 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Shelley Adler "Says Rep. Jon Runyan ""voted to redefine rape.""" ['Abortion', 'Crime', 'Voting Record', 'Women'] 1 2012-10-18 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Crossroads GPS """Sherrod Brown supported President Obama's $453 billion tax increase.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-18 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Brendan Doherty Rhode Island "Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he ""votes about 66 percent with his own party.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Congress', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-10-17 Aaron Sharockman Republican Brittany Alana Davis Connie Mack Florida "Says Bill Nelson voted ""98 percent of the time"" with Barack Obama." ['Voting Record'] 4 2012-10-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack takes two homestead exemptions, ""directly contrary to Florida’s Constitution.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Debates', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Bill Nelson Florida "In 2012, Connie Mack missed 178 votes, ""one of the worst voting records"" in Congress." ['Candidate Biography', 'Debates', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-10-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida """Bill Nelson voted for higher taxes 150 times.""" ['Debates', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-10-17 Aaron Sharockman Republican Jon Greenberg, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead, Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida Says Bill Nelson voted to cut $700 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare. ['Medicare'] 2 2012-10-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Dave Umhoefer Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama has pension investments that include Chinese firms, and ""investments through a Caymans trust.""" ['China', 'Debates', 'Pensions', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-10-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says his administration put more border patrol agents on the U.S.-Mexico border than at ""any time in history, and the flow of undocumented workers across the border is actually lower than it's been in 40 years.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2012-10-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says his administration has created ""5 million jobs … over the last 30 months in the private sector alone.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-10-17 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "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.""" ['Debates', 'Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Sexuality', 'Women'] 5 2012-10-17 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Rob Zerban "Says Paul Ryan’s budget plan ""ends Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-10-17 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown ""failed to pay his own taxes three separate times.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-10-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson, W. Gardner Selby Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""called the Arizona law a model for the nation.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2012-10-17 Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama began his presidency ""with an apology tour.""" ['Debates', 'Foreign Policy'] 0 2012-10-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says President Obama waited two weeks to call the attack in Libya ""terror.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Debates', 'Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 3 2012-10-16 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers, Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois Says Mitt Romney refused to say whether he'd sign the Lilly Ledbetter bill. ['Debates', 'Women'] 4 2012-10-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Stephen Koff, Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he ""stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’""" ['Debates', 'Energy'] 5 2012-10-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers, Stephen Koff Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land.""" ['Energy'] 3 2012-10-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year. ['Immigration'] 5 2012-10-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "Says Patrick Murphy is trying to ""hide his drunken assault of a police officer.""" ['Alcohol', 'Candidate Biography', 'Crime'] 2 2012-10-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman Patrick Murphy Florida "An Army report stated Allen West ""performed illegal acts, merited court martial, faced 11 years in prison.'""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 3 2012-10-16 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware "Paul Ryan ""cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2012-10-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Nathan Deal The  Georgia Department of Economic Development assisted with the creation of 28,776 jobs, an increase of 29 percent from last fiscal year, and $5.97 billion in investments, a 32 percent increase. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-10-16 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Langevin Rhode Island """Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2012-10-15 Amy Sherman Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman, Dave Umhoefer Lois Frankel Florida "Says Adam Hasner ""gives the wealthy tax breaks worth $250,000 a year but hikes middle class taxes $2,000.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-15 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says six studies verify that the math adds up for Mitt Romney’s tax plan. ['Taxes'] 2 2012-10-15 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "As governor, ""Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times.""" ['Medicaid', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-10-15 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says the Obama administration ""watered down sanctions"" against Iran, delayed them and tried to stop Congress ""from putting the tough sanctions in place.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Nuclear', 'Terrorism', 'Trade'] 2 2012-10-15 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Mary Nolan Oregon "Says ""as Co-Chair of the Joint Ways & Means Committee, I secured the key piece of funding for"" the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project bridge.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-10-15 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says economists Harvey Rosen and Martin Feldstein have said that ""paying for (Mitt) Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2012-10-15 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Tommy Thompson Wisconsin Says opponent Tammy Baldwin ‘has had not one positive ad’ in the campaign for U.S. Senate. ['Elections', 'Negative Campaigning'] 3 2012-10-15 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey "Says ""when I voted against [an increase in the minimum wage], it was in the 80s.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Income', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-10-15 Elizabeth Miniet, Lois Norder None Janel Davis Senior Citizens League Virginia """ … if the Agreement goes into effect, the millions of Mexican citizens who will become eligible for Social Security benefits may have a far stronger claim to benefits and protection against cuts than U.S. citizens!""" ['Social Security'] 1 2012-10-15 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Ohio Republican Party Ohio """President Obama has worked to change Medicare for the worse"" by ""creating an unelected, unaccountable panel with the power to deny coverage of certain treatments.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-10-15 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Tim Kaine Virginia """The tax burden on Virginia families was lower under Tim Kaine than under George Allen.""" ['Families', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-15 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Marsha Blackburn Tennessee "Signs letter saying Consumer Product Safety Commission is acting ""without consultation or input from the company"" to stop the sale of Buckyballs." ['Consumer Safety', 'Government regulation', 'Public Safety', 'Regulation'] 1 2012-10-15 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Phil Roe Tennessee "Signs letter saying Consumer Product Safety Commission is acting ""without consultation or input from the company"" to stop the sale of Buckyballs." ['Consumer Safety', 'Government regulation', 'Public Safety', 'Regulation'] 1 2012-10-15 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Brendan Doherty Rhode Island """David Cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence  and child abuse.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Children', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Families', 'Public Safety', 'Women'] 5 2012-10-14 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says the U.S. Senate has passed ""a budget"" over the last three years ""called the Budget Control Act.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2012-10-14 Tim Murphy Organization C. Eugene Emery Jr. Coalition to Bring Jobs to R.I. Rhode Island """By voting to approve [Question 1], we can . . . save 900 jobs"" at Twin River." ['Economy', 'Gambling', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Workers'] 2 2012-10-13 Steve Ahillen None Richard Locker John G. Morgan Tennessee """Tennessee students now cover about 67 percent of the cost of their education at public universities, and some 60 percent at community colleges.""" ['Education'] 5 2012-10-13 Dee Lane Janie Har Carl Hosticka "Says Julie Parrish ""voted to divert $160 million from public schools to private for-profit schools.""" ['Education', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-10-12 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Kevin Landrigan Ovide Lamontagne New Hampshire "Under Maggie Hassan's leadership, ""we increased state spending in the middle of the great recession by 24 percent leading up to and following it.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2012-10-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican J.B. Wogan Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says Joe Biden ""went to China and said that he sympathized and wouldn't second-guess their one-child policy of forced abortions and sterilizations.""" ['Abortion', 'China'] 2 2012-10-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Joe Biden Delaware """There's not one Democrat who endorses"" the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan." ['Bipartisanship', 'Debates', 'Medicare'] 5 2012-10-12 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin """The Canadians — they (dropped) their tax rates to 15 percent. The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-10-12 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Joe Biden Delaware """We weren't told they wanted more security "" for diplomatic facilities in Libya." ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 2 2012-10-12 W. Gardner Selby Democrat W. Gardner Selby Karen Huber Texas "Says she’s never said ""don’t build"" Texas 45 Southwest." ['Transportation'] 3 2012-10-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin "The Obama administration ""called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2012-10-12 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Education Association Says that Josh Mandel voted to let insurance companies deny coverage for autism ['Education', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-10-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says Obama was in New York City the same day as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but went on a TV show instead of meeting with him. ['Debates', 'Foreign Policy', 'Israel'] 1 2012-10-11 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says the Obama administration spent taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland (and) windmills in China. ['Stimulus'] 2 2012-10-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Joe Biden Delaware "On ending the war in Iraq, ""Gov. Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left 30,000 troops there.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2012-10-11 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent. ['Jobs'] 2 2012-10-11 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware "Says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would ""eliminate the guarantee of Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-10-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman Barack Obama Illinois "Says his deficit plan ""made some adjustments to (Simpson-Bowles), and we're putting it forward before Congress right now, a $4 trillion plan.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-10-11 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Emergency Committee for Israel Washington, D.C. """When Congress voted to condemn Iran for sentencing a Christian pastor to death, (U.S. Rep. Lois) Capps was the only member who voted no.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Foreign Policy', 'Human Rights', 'Islam', 'Israel', 'Religion'] 2 2012-10-11 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Raymond Frank Texas Says Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton has accepted $42,000 from strip-club interests and $10,000 from local alcohol distributors. ['Campaign Finance', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 4 2012-10-11 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says Chris Christie created ""this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2012-10-11 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Jon Husted Ohio "A member of the redistricting commission proposed in Issue 2 ""could accept a bribe from somebody"" and ""couldn’t be removed from this commission.""" ['Elections', 'Legal Issues', 'Redistricting'] 1 2012-10-11 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen George Allen Virginia """Repealing and replacing Obamacare – that’s going to save $1 trillion over a 10-year period.""" ['Debt', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-10-11 Michelle Brence, Dee Lane Democrat Dana Tims Future PAC (Oregon House Democrats) Oregon """Newgard owed more than $13,000 for unpaid taxes on his $1 million Milwaukie apartment complex.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders American Crossroads "Says Bill Nelson sold agricultural land ""for home development, pocketing at least $1.4 million.""" ['Agriculture', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-10 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Since President Obama took office, there are over 450,000 more unemployed women.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Women'] 3 2012-10-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Priorities USA Action "Says Romney wants to ""take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid … to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-10-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders American Crossroads "Bill Nelson ""leased land that he owned for six cows, taking advantage of an agricultural tax loophole to dodge $43,000 in taxes just last year.""" ['Agriculture', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-10 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Bill Powers Texas """We confer more PhDs each year than any other university in America except Berkeley.""" ['Education'] 2 2012-10-10 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says Tammy Baldwin supports a law ""in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Privacy', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-10-10 Jim Denery Eric Stirgus Steven Teske High school students arrested on campus are twice as likely not to graduate and four times less likely to graduate if they’ve appeared in court. ['Criminal Justice', 'Education'] 4 2012-10-10 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Josh Mandel Ohio """We need a Senator who shows up to work. Sherrod Brown missed over 350 official votes.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-10-09 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney plans to ""fire"" Big Bird." ['Federal Budget'] 0 2012-10-09 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson American Crossroads "President Barack Obama’s ""spending drove us $5 trillion deeper in debt.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-10-09 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that ""could have been made here in America.""" ['China', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-10-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, Bartholomew Sullivan American Crossroads "Says Bill Nelson ""cast the deciding vote for Obamacare cutting Medicare spending by $700 billion and letting an unelected board decide what gets covered here.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-10-09 Dee Lane Ian K. Kullgren Amanda Fritz "Says she ""oversaw an audit that won the city $2 million in franchise fees.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government'] 4 2012-10-09 Bill Adair Becky Bowers American Crossroads """This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-10-09 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Patriot Majority USA "Gov. Nathan Deal ""has taken at least $15,600 from the (Koch brothers), their businesses, and their employees.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 1 2012-10-09 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Brendan Doherty Rhode Island """Congressman Cicilline, when he was the mayor of Providence, espoused a sanctuary city.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2012-10-08 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "The federal tax code has ""loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas.""" ['Debates', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-10-08 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois """In Romney's first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-10-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson American Future Fund "Under Barack Obama, the U.S. now has the ""lowest workforce since (President Jimmy) Carter.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-10-08 Warren Fiske Democrat Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman Wayne Powell Virginia "Eric Cantor ""took $5 million from Sheldon Adelson,"" a Las Vegas casino owner." ['Campaign Finance'] 2 2012-10-08 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Joe Straus Texas Says Texas lawmakers last year expanded public education’s share of state spending. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2012-10-08 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey """When (Joe Kyrillos) had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care, not once, not twice, but six times, he voted against women’s health care in our state.""" ['Health Care', 'Women'] 5 2012-10-08 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Dan Sebring Wisconsin Says opponent U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore ‘is Wisconsin’s most absent member of Congress, missing nearly 17 percent of the House votes in the second quarter of 2012.’ ['Voting Record'] 4 2012-10-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Chain email Less than 10 percent of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet members have private-sector experience. ['Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-10-08 Steve Ahillen, Zack McMillin Democrat Tom Humphrey Jim Kyle Tennessee """All legislative mail, from the content to the timing, is approved by the speaker's office.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Congressional Rules'] 1 2012-10-08 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Michael Riley Rhode Island """When Congressman Langevin took office, gas was around $1.70 per gallon, and now it is near $4 per gallon.""" ['Energy', 'Gas Prices', 'Government regulation', 'Transportation', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-10-07 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin Says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson favors raising taxes on small businesses. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-07 Steve Ahillen Democrat Zack McMillin Andy Berke Tennessee "Says Tennessee is providing ""millions of dollars"" to virtual school company for ""results at the bottom of the bottom.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-10-07 Tom Curran Republican Erin O'Neill Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey Says under U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s watch the nation’s unemployment rate and debt doubled and the federal budget deficit quadrupled. ['Candidate Biography', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-10-07 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island "U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ""rewarded Wall Street executives with millions in bonuses.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 0 2012-10-07 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Laurie Monnes Anderson Oregon Says she is a registered nurse. ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2012-10-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Joe Biden Delaware """If Gov. Romney's plan goes into effect … the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security.""" ['Social Security', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-05 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Debates', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Stimulus'] 1 2012-10-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois Says 50 million people would lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed. ['Debates', 'Health Care'] 2 2012-10-05 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says President Obama has ""doubled"" the deficit." ['Debates', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2012-10-05 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Kurt Schrader Oregon "Says ""tax revenues are the lowest they have been since World War II.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-10-05 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Frank Guinta New Hampshire """Carol Shea-Porter … wants to increase taxes on small business and job creators.""" ['Small Business'] 1 2012-10-05 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Pre-existing conditions are covered under my (health care) plan.""" ['Debates', 'Health Care'] 2 2012-10-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Stefani Carter Texas "Says black women are ""fastest-growing demographic group in ... Texas seeking concealed handgun licenses.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-10-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Massachusetts schools ""are ranked No. 1 of all 50 states.""" ['Debates', 'Education', 'States'] 4 2012-10-05 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Paul Sadler Texas """I never supported"" a state income tax for Texas." ['Taxes'] 0 2012-10-05 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""Portland has higher standards than feds on allowed police use of force.""" ['City Government'] 5 2012-10-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for. ['Debates', 'Military'] 5 2012-10-05 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget ""that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-10-05 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says Paul Ryan’s budget would turn Medicare into a ""voucher.""" ['Medicare'] 4 2012-10-05 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """We're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. We're actually, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, down 500 ... auto jobs in Ohio.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-10-04 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey "Says the United States has the ""highest corporate tax rate in the world.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-10-04 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Under Gov. Romney's definition ... Donald Trump is a small business.""" ['Debates', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-10-04 Bill Adair Democrat J.B. Wogan Barack Obama Illinois "Because of Obamacare, ""over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.""" ['Debates', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-10-04 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois "Romney’s Medicare plan was estimated to ""cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.""" ['Debates', 'Medicare', 'Retirement'] 3 2012-10-04 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead, Katie Sanders Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says Obama promised to cut the deficit in half. ['Debates', 'Deficit'] 5 2012-10-04 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Obama says he’s ""put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan.""" ['Debates', 'Deficit', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-04 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year.""" ['Debates', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-10-04 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """(Barack Obama) says he’s going to reduce the long-term debt and deficit by $4 trillion, doesn’t say how he's going to do it.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit'] 0 2012-10-04 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lee Leffingwell Texas "Says Austin voters can approve seven bond propositions ""without raising taxes.""" ['Elections', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-04 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen, Dave Umhoefer Wayne Powell Virginia Says Eric Cantor voted to assure Congress would be paid if the government shut down and against guaranteeing troops would be paid. ['Congressional Rules', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 0 2012-10-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """While Mandel's been busy traveling the country raising campaign money, he hasn't shown up for work.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning'] 3 2012-10-04 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney's plan ""calls for a $5 trillion tax cut.""" ['Debates', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-04 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers, Tom Feran, Angie Drobnic Holan, Willoughby Mariano, Amy Sherman Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama ""put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive.""" ['Debates', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-10-03 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We’re now spending 42 percent of our economy on government.""" ['Debates', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 4 2012-10-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois "Romney ""would turn Medicare into a voucher program.""" ['Debates', 'Medicare'] 4 2012-10-03 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """On Medicare for current retirees, he's cutting $716 billion from the program.""" ['Debates', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-10-03 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Promote Oregon Leadership PAC (Oregon House Republicans) Oregon Ben Unger supported a 15 percent property tax increase on Oregon seniors. ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Lois Frankel Florida Says Adam Hasner said he will never accept a pay increase, but he voted to raise his pay four times. ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-10-03 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent.""" ['Income', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-10-03 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Ohio Republican Party Ohio "Says Ohio's Issue 2 will create a redistricting commission that will ""have a blank check to spend our money.""" ['Elections', 'Government Efficiency', 'Redistricting', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-10-03 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Ann Coulter New York "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.""" ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 5 2012-10-03 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Ann Coulter New York """One of the first states in the union to pass a voter ID bill was Rhode Island, 85 percent Democratic legislature.""" ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 1 2012-10-02 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says President Barack Obama ""already passed all these Obamacare taxes. About a dozen of them hit middle-income taxpayers.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-10-02 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Michael Julian Bond Almost 400 arrests in the city last year for panhandling-related offenses involved just 78 suspects, an indication that the same people are panhandling over and over. ['Crime', 'Urban'] 4 2012-10-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Greenberg Americans For Tax Reform "The Obama administration’s ""green"" stimulus program ""funneled close to $2 billion dollars to overseas firms,"" creating thousands of jobs in China." ['China', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-10-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "Chinese tire imports threatened 1,000 American jobs, so President Obama ""stood up to China and protected American workers. Mitt Romney attacked Obama's decision.""" ['China', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Trade'] 4 2012-10-01 Bill Adair None Becky Bowers Workers' Voice District of Columbia Says Mitt Romney’s investments created zero jobs. ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-10-01 Dave Umhoefer Greg Borowski U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Says the ""public option"" considered in the health care law backed by U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin was ""wildly unpopular.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 1 2012-10-01 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says Ronald Reagan ""was behind in the polls in 1980 going into the debate with Jimmy Carter and then turned around 10 days later and won 40 states.""" ['Elections', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2012-10-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis National Women's Law Center """In every state, women are paid less than men.""" ['Income', 'Women', 'Workers'] 5 2012-10-01 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia "George Allen ""voted to end Pell Grants for 84,000 students.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-10-01 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Mike DeWine Ohio """Since the time of the Civil War, we've made a distinction in this country between the availability and the ability to access for people who were in the military, versus the rest of us, to vote.""" ['Elections', 'Military'] 3 2012-09-30 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says 7,000 millionaires ""gamed the system to pay no income taxes.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-09-30 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey """Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!""" ['Taxes'] 2 2012-09-30 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island "Brendan Doherty wants ""to repeal Obamacare, increasing drug prices for seniors.""" ['Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning', 'Poverty', 'Public Health'] 2 2012-09-30 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Brendan Doherty Rhode Island """The Doherty Campaign, unlike the Cicilline Campaign, is funded mostly by individual donors -- not the big PACs that Cicilline relies on.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Negative Campaigning'] 1 2012-09-29 Dee Lane Janie Har Our Portland, Our Schools Says it will cost $220 per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild Portland Public high schools. ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-09-28 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill, Amy Sherman Ann McLane Kuster New Hampshire "Says Rep. Charlie Bass, R-NH voted to ""raise his own pay"" eight times" ['Congress', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-09-28 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last 50 years.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-09-28 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson National Republican Congressional Committee "Says Illinois Democrat David Gill ""would end Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-09-28 Aaron Sharockman Amy Sherman YG Action Fund "Says Lois Frankel ""took a 40 percent pay raise"" as mayor while West Palm Beach ""lost jobs.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-09-28 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Val Demings Florida "Says Daniel Webster ""used taxpayer funds to build a lobbyist lounge.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-09-28 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Bill Clinton Arkansas "Says the government has ""gotten the TARP money back plus a profit.""" ['Financial Regulation'] 2 2012-09-28 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields Jon Husted Ohio """Had the online change of address been in place in 2008 an estimated 130,000 voters who cast provisional ballots could have changed their address online and voted a regular ballot.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-09-28 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin Deficit spending ‘exploded during the Obama administration’ to $5.3 trillion over four years, compared to $2 trillion in eight years under President George W. Bush. ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-09-28 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed "Says ""you cannot implement Paul Ryan’s plan without allowing for any increases in revenue.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2012-09-28 Zack McMillin Michael Collins Bob Corker """We haven’t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year.""" ['Congress', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2012-09-28 Tim Murphy Newsmaker John Hill Eugene McKenna Rhode Island """There’s at least 7,500 addicted gamblers in Rhode Island, at least, … it could be as high as 22,000.""" ['Gambling'] 4 2012-09-27 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Carol Shea-Porter New Hampshire """Tea Party Congressman Frank Guinta voted for billions in cuts to veterans programs.""" ['Veterans'] 2 2012-09-27 Dee Lane Janie Har Yes on 82 and 83 campaign Says Measures 82 and 83 authorize just one more casino. ['Gambling', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-09-27 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of"" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession." ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy'] 1 2012-09-27 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Government is Not God PAC """Barack Hussein Obama will … force doctors to assist homosexuals in buying surrogate babies.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Health Care', 'Religion'] 0 2012-09-27 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Paul Sadler Texas "Says Ted Cruz ""has pledged to eliminate"" the U.S. Department of Education, which would end federal aid to college students." ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-09-27 Bill Adair Molly Moorhead Government is Not God PAC "Says Obama is only president in history who has deliberately removed the words ""endowed by their Creator"" when referring to the Declaration of Independence." ['History', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-09-27 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Jennifer Beck """We have more people working in the state of New Jersey today than we've ever had in our history.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'States'] 1 2012-09-26 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Government is Not God PAC """Barack Hussein Obama will ... force local authorities to allow Occupy protesters to live in parks.""" ['Occupy Wall Street'] 0 2012-09-26 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders Government is Not God PAC """Barack Hussein Obama will ... force Christian schools to hire non-Christian teachers.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Religion'] 1 2012-09-26 Bill Adair Becky Bowers, Molly Moorhead Government is Not God PAC """Barack Hussein Obama will .. force Christian organizations to pay for abortions.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-09-26 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Government is Not God PAC """Barack Hussein Obama will ... force courts to accept Islamic Sharia law in domestic disputes.""" ['Islam', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-09-26 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio "Josh Mandel ""is lying about his own record. The rating of Ohio's investment fund has NOT improved.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-09-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders National Rifle Association "Bill Nelson voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, ""who signed a Supreme Court opinion saying Americans do not have an individual right to own firearms.""" ['Guns', 'Supreme Court'] 4 2012-09-26 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Stacey Campfield Tennessee "Says that ""you can’t destroy the guns purchased in a (gun) buyback program as the city (of Memphis) wants to do.""" ['City Government', 'Guns'] 1 2012-09-26 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer AFSCME "Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson ""supports massive tax cuts for corporations that outsource Wisconsin jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-09-26 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says there are ""fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president.""" ['Jobs'] 2 2012-09-26 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Joaquin Castro Texas "Texas is ""the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide.""" ['Elections', 'History'] 5 2012-09-26 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island A poll conducted in Egypt revealed that 80 percent of Egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the United States. ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy'] 5 2012-09-25 Dee Lane None Janie Har Yes on 79 Oregon "Says ""One of the state’s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-09-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida """President Obama decided not to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-09-25 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Americans For Tax Reform Says Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas. ['China', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 0 2012-09-25 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Debt'] 1 2012-09-25 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "College tuition ""costs have risen by 25 percent under the Democrats.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-09-25 W. Gardner Selby None Sue Owen John Sharp Texas "Says scientists predict ""sometime in the future, an event that will kill … somewhere between 80 and 90 million people.""" ['Public Health'] 3 2012-09-25 Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers Secure America Now "Says Obama adviser David Plouffe took ""large piles of cash"" from a joint venture partner of a company owned by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard." ['Candidate Biography', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-09-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Tom Kertscher, Amy Sherman National Rifle Association """Bill Nelson voted for a ban on millions of commonly owned firearms, which included many popular hunting and target rifles.""" ['Guns'] 1 2012-09-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis Karen Handel """The truth is, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms. Planned Parenthood refers women to mammography providers, serving as the middlewoman, if you will.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2012-09-24 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman Barack Obama Illinois """Fast and Furious"" began under the Bush administration." ['Guns'] 1 2012-09-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Romney tax plan ""could take away middle-class deductions for child care, mortgages and college tuition.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-09-24 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin """We have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-09-24 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill John Burzichelli "Says ""the governor is going around the state talking about [how] we should fund an income tax cut"" that benefits higher income earners and not lower income earners" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-09-24 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Karen Handel """Obamacare will provide coverage for abortions, despite the president’s commitment that it would not.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2012-09-24 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen George Allen Virginia """Tim Kaine announced he wants to raise taxes on everyone.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-09-24 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Molly Moorhead Republican Jewish Coalition Washington, D.C. "Barack Obama ""refuses to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel'] 4 2012-09-24 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Marsha Blackburn Tennessee "Says that in the U.S. House of Representatives ""we’ve had bipartisan support for the repeal of Obamacare … for getting rid of cap and trade … for building the Keystone Pipeline.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Climate Change', 'Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-09-23 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Rob Zerban "U.S. House opponent Paul Ryan supports ""cutting funding for veterans by 24 percent.""" ['Disability', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Housing', 'Veterans'] 1 2012-09-23 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Rob Andrews New Jersey "Says the ""number-one source"" of illegal immigration ""is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2012-09-23 Tim Murphy Republican John Hill Michael Riley Rhode Island "James Langevin ""has received almost $20 million from taxpayers and special interests to use at his own discretion to supposedly champion Rhode Island’s needs.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning'] 2 2012-09-21 Dee Lane Organization Janie Har It's Still a Bad Idea Oregon """Their New York casino deal was called ‘rigged’ and ‘corrupt.’""" ['Gambling'] 4 2012-09-21 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Progress Texas Texas "Says a voter-adopted constitutional amendment ""instructed"" a state board headed by Jerry Patterson to put $300 million in investment earnings into a fund supporting public school operations." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2012-09-21 Steve Ahillen Republican Michael Collins Chris Devaney Tennessee "President Obama campaign surrogate Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley ""acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-09-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Restore Our Future """Eight million Americans have dropped out of the work force since (Barack) Obama became president. ... The real unemployment rate is 19 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-09-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says President Barack Obama is responsible for pending defense cuts. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military'] 3 2012-09-21 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee "Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson ""admitted"" that Washington, D.C., ""changed"" him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests." ['Bush Administration', 'Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-09-21 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Maryalice Gill William O'Brien New Hampshire Says when Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010, New Hampshire’s tax rate for employers was 50th in the nation, and unemployment had more than doubled under Democrats. ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-09-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio "The national debt of $16 trillion, is ""enough to buy both the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds 1,918 times.""" ['Debt', 'Federal Budget', 'Sports'] 4 2012-09-20 Angie Drobnic Holan, Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama's comments indicate he ""believes in redistribution"" of wealth." ['Government Efficiency', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-09-20 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Redistribution"" has ""never been a characteristic of America.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-09-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois """Even today part of Romney’s fortune is invested in China.""" ['China', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-09-20 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman, Nancy Madsen George Allen Virginia """Tim Kaine doubled down in his support of devastating defense cuts, saying the ‘the deal was the right thing to do.’""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 3 2012-09-20 John Bridges Libertarian W. Gardner Selby Gary Johnson New Mexico """I am going to be on the ballot in all 50 states. There is no other third-party candidate that’s going to come close to achieving that.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-09-20 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Jon Runyan New Jersey "Says ""if we do nothing and continue to let Obamacare siphon off that $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-09-20 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Americans For Tax Reform """Since President Obama took office, over 88,000 Ohio workers have lost their jobs.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2012-09-19 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Seven times Obama could have stopped China's cheating. Seven times, he refused.""" ['China', 'Foreign Policy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Trade'] 3 2012-09-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg, Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida """President Obama has no plan to reduce the deficit, let alone pay down the debt.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-09-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Under Obama, families have lost over $4,000 a year in income.""" ['Economy', 'Income', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-09-19 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Romney and Ryan ""both backed proposals that would outlaw abortions even in cases of rape or incest.""" ['Abortion', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-09-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Janel Davis NAACP """Since 2000, only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud have been proven nationally.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-09-19 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt.""" ['Debt', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2012-09-19 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Based on the August 2012 national jobs numbers, ""for every person who got a job, nearly four people stopped looking for a job.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2012-09-18 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "The ""48, 49 percent"" that supports President Barack Obama are ""people who pay no income tax.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-09-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead, Charles Pope Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-09-18 Susan Areson, Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Brendan Doherty Rhode Island """The Providence Economic Development Partnership . . .which you [Cicilline] chaired, loaned $103,000 in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers. The worker never paid back the loan.""" ['City Government', 'Corporations', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2012-09-18 Dee Lane Organization Janie Har Education Action Group Michigan """Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PB&J sandwiches racist.""" ['Diversity', 'Education'] 0 2012-09-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers, Maryalice Gill, Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Fifty percent of kids coming out of school can't get a job.""" ['Education', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-09-18 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says President Obama promised ""he'd keep unemployment below 8 percent"" if the stimulus passed." ['Economy'] 2 2012-09-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus National Republican Congressional Committee "Says U.S. Rep. John Barrow ""left taxpayers on the hook for $950k study on genetic makeup of ants.""" ['Stimulus', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-09-17 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Louis Jacobson Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Says when Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation ['Jobs'] 3 2012-09-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Toluse Olorunnipa Rick Scott Florida The significant drop in Florida’s unemployment rate is a good economic sign. ['Economy'] 2 2012-09-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says he ""will protect your guaranteed benefits"" in Medicare while ""Mitt Romney would take away Medicare as guaranteed benefits.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-09-17 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "An aide ""acted on his own"" and ""was not representing the Thompson campaign"" when he sent an email criticizing the sexual orientation of U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin." ['Elections'] 0 2012-09-17 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Menendez Facts """Sen. Bob Menendez voted to enact a new tax on the sale of homes of 3.8%.""" ['Health Care', 'Housing', 'Income', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-09-17 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio Says  Sherrod Brown’s campaign attacked Josh Mandel’s military service ['Military', 'Negative Campaigning', 'Patriotism'] 2 2012-09-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia "Medicare ""premium support"" backed by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan ""is not vouchers.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-09-17 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Scott DesJarlais Tennessee "Defends his vote to push ""retirement age to 70"" by saying he is for ""a process"" that would not be fully implemented until ""around the turn of the century.""" ['Retirement', 'Social Security', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-09-17 Susan Areson Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Bernard Jackvony Rhode Island "David Cicilline is ""the 5th most liberal person in the House of Representatives.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2012-09-16 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Says Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy ""voted against paying our soldiers"" and ""against increasing combat pay"" while voting ""to protect his own pay.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military'] 1 2012-09-16 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Shelley Adler "Says Congressman Jon Runyan has a ""plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-09-14 Dee Lane Janie Har Yes on 84 "The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax ""is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-09-14 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Bill Hammond Texas "Says ""if current trends continue, by 2040, one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma.""" ['Education', 'Population'] 5 2012-09-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois Says that under Mitt Romney, 89 million Americans could be denied coverage if they have a pre-existing condition. ['Health Care'] 3 2012-09-14 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says five studies show his tax plan can cut rates and still bring the same revenue without raising taxes on the middle class. ['Taxes'] 2 2012-09-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts Under Obama, home values in Florida collapsed, construction jobs were lost and the state had a high foreclosure rate. ['Housing', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-09-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "After hearing ""the frustrations parents and teachers have with the FCAT,"" next year ""we begin improving our testing system.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-09-14 Steve Ahillen None Tom Humphrey Paul Summers Tennessee "Tennessee's appeals court judges ""were selected by a handful of party officials in Nashville"" before the system of ""merit selection"" was put into effect." ['Legal Issues'] 4 2012-09-14 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jennifer Granholm Michigan """With the auto rescue,"" President Barack Obama ""saved more than 1 million middle-class jobs all across America,"" including more than 28,000 in Wisconsin." ['Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Transportation', 'Workers'] 3 2012-09-14 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Phil Gingrey Georgia The U.S. unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 43 consecutive months, the longest stretch since the Great Depression. ['Jobs'] 5 2012-09-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcia Fudge Ohio """In Cuyahoga County ... 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-09-14 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Brendan Doherty Rhode Island "David Cicilline was ""required to provide key information about city finances to an independent outside auditor. The deadlines were clear -- yet [he intentionally] missed them by months"" until after the November 2010 election." ['Candidate Biography', 'City Budget', 'City Government', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Negative Campaigning'] 2 2012-09-13 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Bill Kennemer """We just don't want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops.""" ['Alcohol'] 5 2012-09-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman John Kerry Massachusetts "On U.S.-Israeli relations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ""set the record straight — he said, our two countries have 'exactly the same policy' (and) 'our security cooperation is unprecedented.'""" ['Israel'] 3 2012-09-13 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mark Strama Texas Says Rush Limbaugh made it clear he’d rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed. ['Bipartisanship'] 2 2012-09-13 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Jon Bramnick New Jersey """The president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that unemployment would go to 5.7 percent or 6 percent. Those were his words.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-09-12 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Charles Bass New Hampshire "Ann Kuster ""supports the government takeover of healthcare, which robs Medicare of over $700 billion.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-09-12 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Frank Guinta New Hampshire "$50,000. That's what every child owes today because Washington politicians have run up a huge spending tab and left our kids the bill.""" ['Debt'] 4 2012-09-12 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Jerry Patterson Texas "Says Sierra Club sued him to stop oil and gas activity on Texas coast, but ""we won"" and ""the turtles are fine.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2012-09-12 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Reid Ribble Wisconsin "Says President Barack Obama ""built this $16 trillion debt.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2012-09-12 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Leonard Lance """The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years, not a good budget, not a bad budget, no budget.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2012-09-12 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio """$16 trillion (the national debt) in $1 bills would cover the entire state of Ohio nearly 1.5 times.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2012-09-12 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Gilberto Hinojosa Texas "Says that if Texas, California and New York all voted for Democratic presidential nominees, ""it would be mathematically impossible for Republicans to elect a president.""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-09-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Organization Janel Davis American Civil Liberties Union the United States Voter identification laws make it complicated and expensive to get an ID, essentially instituting a modern-day poll tax. ['Elections'] 2 2012-09-11 Dee Lane Organization Janie Har It's Still a Bad Idea Oregon """This would be the largest casino in the United States.""" ['Gambling'] 0 2012-09-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says he and Mitt Romney ""always said that we agree with the 2014 deadline"" for leaving Afghanistan." ['Afghanistan', 'Foreign Policy'] 4 2012-09-11 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Chain email "On new dollar coins, ""'In God We Trust' is gone!""" ['Patriotism'] 1 2012-09-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders Kal Penn Says Obama doubled funding for the Pell Grant. ['Education'] 4 2012-09-11 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """We've doubled our use of renewable energy.""" ['Energy'] 2 2012-09-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Herb Garrett Georgia Says Georgia will send more state money per child to state charter schools and that budget cuts are not applied to those charter schools. ['Education'] 4 2012-09-10 Bridget Hall Grumet, Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois """After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2012-09-10 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Julián Castro Texas """We’re seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-09-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Bill Clinton Arkansas "The Obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements ""only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent.""" ['Welfare'] 5 2012-09-10 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Upendra Chivukula New Jersey "Says Republicans ""have declared that they’re going to convert the Medicare program into a voucher program.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 4 2012-09-10 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Eric Cantor Virginia "Wayne Powell has a ""stated position of having no objection to taking `In God We Trust"" off of U.S. currency.""" ['Religion'] 5 2012-09-10 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Janel Davis, Eric Stirgus Mike Berlon Georgia """We know there are more Democrats in Georgia than Republicans. We know that for a fact.""" ['Elections'] 2 2012-09-09 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Joe Biden Delaware """$500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Taxes', 'Wealth'] 4 2012-09-09 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Cory Booker New Jersey "Says the Republican Party platform says ""pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold"" while the Democratic Party platform says ""we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 5 2012-09-07 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill Ann McLane Kuster New Hampshire Says Charlie Bass forfeits right to equal cost for TV ads under FCC rules ['Negative Campaigning'] 1 2012-09-07 Dee Lane Ian K. Kullgren CNSNews "Says ""under Oregon law, girls from 15 years of age and up are given complete control over whether to be sterilized or not.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-09-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Barack Obama Illinois "Mitt Romney ""said it was 'tragic' to end the war in Iraq.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2012-09-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Bill Clinton Arkansas "Says President Barack Obama ""gives students the right to repay (federal) loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Education'] 4 2012-09-07 Steve Ahillen Democrat Tom Humphrey Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee "The ""Health Care Compact bill would end Medicare's guaranteed benefit for Tennessee's Medicare recipients and shift management of the federal health care plan to the state's TennCare program.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-09-07 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio """We've got 7.2 percent unemployment (in Ohio), but when you include the folks who have stopped looking for work, it's actually over 10 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-09-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois Says Romney called Russia our No. 1 enemy. ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2012-09-07 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois """I've cut taxes for ... middle-class families, small businesses.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-09-07 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says his budget plan ""would cut our deficits by $4 trillion.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-09-07 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island """The auditor [for the city of Providence] was not locked out"" of access to the city's finances." ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Debt', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Legal Issues', 'Transparency'] 2 2012-09-07 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney Anthony Gemma Rhode Island "Providence has ""amongst the highest tax rate(s) in the entire country.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-09-06 Bridget Hall Grumet Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-09-06 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Jennifer Granholm Michigan "Says that Mitt Romney's response to the crisis in the auto industry was, ""Let Detroit go bankrupt.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-09-06 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Charlie Crist Florida """Jeb Bush recently noted, Reagan himself would have been too moderate, too reasonable for today's GOP.""" ['History'] 3 2012-09-06 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson James Clyburn South Carolina "When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, ""Republicans stood on the sidelines""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-09-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Rahm Emanuel Illinois Says Mitt Romney asked for a waiver from federal welfare rules. ['Welfare'] 2 2012-09-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Ted Strickland Ohio "Ohio has ""created 45,000 new manufacturing jobs since 2010. And that's due in large part to the fact that the auto rescue has helped Ohio.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-09-06 Angie Drobnic Holan None Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson Bob King Michigan "Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, ""since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2012-09-06 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin "Says House Republicans ""tried to change the definition of rape.""" ['Abortion', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 2 2012-09-06 Bridget Hall Grumet Democrat Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Clinton Arkansas "Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for ""the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 5 2012-09-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "Says Charlie Crist ""was pro-life, pro-gun and vehemently anti-tax.""" ['Abortion', 'Candidate Biography', 'Guns', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-09-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Clinton Arkansas """In the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-09-06 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Lone Star Project Washington "Says that like Todd Akin, all Texas Republicans in U.S. House cosponsored a bill ""that attempts to distinguish between ‘forcible rape’ and other sexual assaults.""" ['Crime'] 3 2012-09-06 Tom Curran None Caryn Shinske Choose: New Jersey New Jersey """We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Science', 'Workers'] 5 2012-09-06 Bridget Hall Grumet Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Clinton Arkansas "The stimulus program ""cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-09-06 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Clinton Arkansas """Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million).""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-09-05 Bridget Hall Grumet Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Kamala Harris California "Mitt Romney said we should let foreclosures ""hit the bottom.""" ['Housing'] 3 2012-09-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen, Katie Sanders Diana DeGette "Women ""receive only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.""" ['Jobs', 'Women'] 4 2012-09-05 Bridget Hall Grumet Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Jack Markell Delaware "When it comes to jobless workers, ""Mitt Romney says he likes to fire people.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Workers'] 1 2012-09-05 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Kathleen Sebelius Kansas """Republicans would give seniors a (Medicare) voucher that limits what's covered, costing seniors as much as $6,400 more a year.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-09-05 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Joe Biden Delaware "Says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support ""massive cuts in Social Security for future generations.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 3 2012-09-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says she was misquoted and ""didn’t say"" that the Israeli ambassador said ""what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel.""" ['Israel'] 0 2012-09-05 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey Says Bruce Springsteen played in 1975 at Seton Hall University in South Orange at Walsh gym. ['Pop Culture'] 5 2012-09-05 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Julián Castro Texas """Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans.""" ['Health Care', 'History'] 4 2012-09-05 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry, Louis Jacobson Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire """Under President Bush in eight years, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama, we've added $5.3 trillion to the debt in the 3.5 years he's been in office.""" ['Debt'] 4 2012-09-05 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Julián Castro Texas "Says Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should ""borrow money if you have to from your parents.""" ['Economy', 'Small Business'] 5 2012-09-05 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Martin O'Malley Maryland "Says Mitt Romney has put forward a plan ""that would cut taxes for millionaires while raising them for the middle class.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-09-05 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Ted Strickland Ohio "Says Mitt Romney’s tax plans would ""give an additional $250,000 tax cut to millionaires and billionaires"" while raising taxes on the middle class." ['Taxes'] 3 2012-09-05 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney David Cicilline Rhode Island """We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Infrastructure', 'Military'] 1 2012-09-04 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Deval Patrick Massachusetts """By the time (Mitt Romney) left office, Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job creation.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'States'] 3 2012-09-04 John Bridges Democrat Sue Owen Julián Castro Texas Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nation’s top-performing local economy. ['Economy'] 5 2012-09-04 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey """The first (state) budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood...It resulted in the reduction of hours, the elimination of days, elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 5 2012-09-04 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Hank Williams Jr. Alabama Says Barack Obama is a Muslim. ['Candidate Biography', 'Religion'] 0 2012-09-04 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "In 2008, Charlie Crist ‘""applauded the pick of Sarah Palin and said she would do ‘a great job.’""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2012-09-04 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Bob McDonnell Virginia "The GOP platform that seeks further limits on abortion and is silent on an exception for rape ""has been there for more than 30 years.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2012-09-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Federal law adopted ""under Tommy Thompson's watch"" prohibits the government from negotiating for ""better prices"" on prescription drugs for senior citizens" ['Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 5 2012-09-03 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says Chris Christie was the ""first governor in America to endorse"" Mitt Romney." ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 1 2012-09-02 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says Gov. Chris Christie has embarked on a tour to ""demand that New Jersey’s Democratic legislature approve an immediate tax cut that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-09-02 Zack McMillin Democrat Richard Locker Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee "Says a federal judge ""sanctions Tennessee ‘birther’ lawyer … for bringing a frivolous lawsuit.""" ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 5 2012-09-02 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Anthony Gemma Rhode Island U.S. military uniforms are manufactured in China. ['China', 'Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Homeland Security', 'Military', 'Small Business', 'Trade'] 0 2012-09-01 Jim Denery, Angie Drobnic Holan, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Sam Olens Georgia "Says opponents of the health care law  ""prevailed on our two main arguments"" to the U.S. Supreme Court." ['Health Care'] 4 2012-08-31 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts "At Bain Capital, ""we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2012-08-31 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Under the ""Obama economy ... utility bills are higher.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-08-31 Aaron Sharockman None Katie Sanders Bob Buckhorn Florida "The unemployment rate is declining faster in Tampa ""than almost anywhere else.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-08-31 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Democratic Party of Oregon Oregon "Says ""Bruce Starr voted to throw 6,000 Oregonians off unemployment.""" ['Workers'] 3 2012-08-31 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill Barack Obama Illinois "Says under the Romney-Ryan budget ... ""the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college tuition would be eliminated.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-08-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """There is an increasing amount of evidence from public polling that the highest number of Americans ever identify themselves as pro-life.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2012-08-31 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby John Cornyn Texas Says that when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House, federal spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product leapt from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 25.2 percent in 2009 -- the largest such increase in any eight-year period since World War II. ['Debt', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-08-31 Daniel Finnegan Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen Crossroads GPS """When Tim Kaine was governor, spending soared, blowing holes in the budget every year.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2012-08-31 Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead, Katie Sanders Mitt Romney Massachusetts "In his first TV interview as president, Obama said we ""should talk to Iran.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2012-08-31 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Barack Obama began his presidency ""with an apology tour.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2012-08-30 Amy Hollyfield Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The majority of Americans now doubt that our children will have a better future.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2012-08-30 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Molly Moorhead Jeb Bush Florida """In Massachusetts, Gov. Romney narrowed the gap between students of different races.""" ['Education'] 3 2012-08-30 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Louis Jacobson Callista Gingrich Georgia "President Barack Obama has ""weakened the respect for America abroad.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2012-08-30 Dee Lane Janie Har Clackamas County Commission "Clackamas County Commissioners ""approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the county’s contribution to TriMet’s Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Debt', 'Transportation'] 1 2012-08-30 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Amy Sherman Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "President Obama’s education ""solution"" includes an effort to ""nationalize curriculum.""" ['Children', 'Education'] 2 2012-08-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Joshua Gillin Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack IV co-sponsored a bill to ""take a third of the Social Security Trust Fund ... give it in individual accounts to the senior citizens, who then were to invest it in the stock market.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2012-08-30 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Nikki Haley South Carolina "Says ""President Obama and his National Labor Relations Board"" sued Boeing over its decision to open a plant in South Carolina." ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Regulation'] 3 2012-08-30 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says the national health care law puts federal ""bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-08-30 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says the United States has ""the world’s greatest health care system.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2012-08-30 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Crossroads GPS "Says Sherrod Brown voted ""for the $1.17 trillion health care law that adds a new tax on Ohio manufacturers.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-30 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney Anthony Gemma Rhode Island "Says that as Providence’s mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a ""world-class … school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country.""" ['Education', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2012-08-30 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island """When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now we've had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-08-29 Bill Adair Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin "In Massachusetts under Mitt Romney, ""unemployment went down, household incomes went up,"" and the state ""saw its credit rating upgraded.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-08-29 Bill Adair Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says President Barack Obama broke his promise to keep a Wisconsin GM plant from closing. ['Jobs'] 1 2012-08-29 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Ryan Wisconsin "President Obama ""funneled"" $716 billion out of Medicare ""at the expense of the elderly.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-08-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman John Thune South Dakota "The Obama administration ""even proposed banning farm kids from doing basic chores!""" ['Agriculture', 'Government regulation'] 0 2012-08-29 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Jake Berry, Louis Jacobson Rob Portman Ohio "Barack Obama has ""never even worked in business.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2012-08-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Pam Bondi Florida Says women care most about jobs and the economy ['Abortion', 'Jobs', 'Women'] 5 2012-08-29 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "When his grandfather arrived in the United States, ""there were no government benefits for immigrants.""" ['Welfare'] 1 2012-08-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Eric Stirgus Stephanie Cutter Massachusetts """Mitt Romney’s platform ...won't protect the mortgage interest (tax) deduction for middle-class families.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-08-29 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Louis Jacobson Scott Walker Wisconsin """Last month, 44 of the 50 states saw an increase in the unemployment rate.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'States'] 3 2012-08-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get ""most of the deductions"" in the tax code." ['Income', 'Taxes', 'Wealth'] 4 2012-08-29 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Louis Jacobson Sher Valenzuela Delaware """A Gallup report recently said that nearly 50 percent of small business owners aren't hiring because of what they call ‘regulatory uncertainty.’""" ['Economy', 'Government regulation', 'Jobs', 'Regulation', 'Small Business'] 3 2012-08-29 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Ted Lyon Texas Says most Texas schools spend 45 out of 180 school days in mandated testing. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-08-29 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Becky Bowers Michele Bachmann Minnesota """A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-08-29 Robert Higgs None Reginald Fields Florida Wildlife Federation Florida Claims Ohio Gov. John Kasich says climate change is a problem. ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 5 2012-08-29 Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Michael Riley Rhode Island """President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare.""" ['Medicare'] 3 2012-08-28 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""taxes were raised 115 times in the eight years before I became governor"" and those increases were part of a ""path that led to wealth and jobs and people leaving our state.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-08-28 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says they said ""it was impossible to balance a budget at the same time, with an $11 billion deficit"" and ""we did it.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-08-28 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Artur Davis Alabama "The health care law imposes a federal mandate requiring middle-class Americans to buy health insurance ""whether they can afford it or not.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-08-28 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Louis Jacobson Chris Christie New Jersey "There has been ""$5 trillion in debt added over the last four years.""" ['Debt'] 4 2012-08-28 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says President Obama has waived ""the work requirement for welfare.""" ['Welfare'] 0 2012-08-28 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas Says our national debt is greater than our gross domestic product. ['Debt', 'Economy'] 3 2012-08-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Joshua Gillin Barack Obama Illinois "Says Paul Ryan ""tried to change the whole game"" for Social Security" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 3 2012-08-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin """Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years"" while it "" went up $5,000"" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-08-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Jeb Bush Florida """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.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2012-08-28 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Jerry Patterson Texas Says a portfolio managed by the Texas General Land Office earned 22 percent last year while the state’s emergency reserve account experienced a 1 percent gain. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2012-08-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Teresa Fedor Ohio Says Republicans supported legislation on early voting and in-person voting in 2005. ['Elections', 'Government regulation', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-08-27 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Reince Priebus Wisconsin "Mitt Romney ""gave away his father's inheritance.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Wealth'] 5 2012-08-27 Bridget Hall Grumet Democrat Louis Jacobson Stephanie Cutter Massachusetts "In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than ""in the Reagan recovery.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-08-27 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Maryalice Gill Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree.""" ['Education', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-08-27 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Lamar Smith Texas Says the top 20 percent of income earners pay nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes. ['Taxes'] 5 2012-08-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Charlie Crist Florida "Republicans included ""the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-27 Zack McMillin None Richard Locker billhislam.com Tennessee "Says that Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam ""has made it clear by his repeated actions that he will pursue a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology as long as he is governor.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Islam', 'Religion', 'Terrorism'] 0 2012-08-27 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Wayne Powell Virginia """This year, Eric Cantor has received more money from oil companies than any other member of Congress.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Energy'] 1 2012-08-27 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ""wants to give a new $265,000 tax cut to millionaires like himself while raising taxes on the middle class.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-27 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey """We've got the highest corporate tax rate in the world.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-08-27 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia The state government workforce grew when Tim Kaine was governor. ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Workers'] 2 2012-08-26 Bill Adair Republican Willoughby Mariano Bob McDonnell Virginia """Independent voters have a ten-point margin in favor of Mitt Romney right now.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 4 2012-08-26 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In 2008, candidate Barack Obama attacked John McCain for proposing cuts to Medicare.""" ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-08-26 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a ""completely government-controlled"" health care system that goes ""far beyond 'Obamacare'"" and is ""a Medicare system for all.""" ['Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Medicare', 'Public Health'] 4 2012-08-26 Steve Ahillen, Zack McMillin Tom Humphrey Bob Corker """We have only one person on the (TVA) board, to my knowledge, who even has any corporate board experience.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy'] 4 2012-08-26 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Poverty', 'Social Security', 'Taxes', 'Wealth'] 4 2012-08-24 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Barack Obama Illinois """His new running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a plan that would let Governor Romney pay less than 1 percent in taxes each year.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-08-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Paul Ryan Wisconsin "The Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare ""does not affect"" benefits for anyone 55 or older." ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-08-24 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund "The Obama administration ""willfully leaked the existence of STUXNET (a computer worm used against Iran), allowing our enemies to learn more of our secrets and of our operations.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military', 'Nuclear', 'Terrorism'] 3 2012-08-24 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Billboard The price of gasoline was at $1.85 a gallon when President Barack Obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies ['Gas Prices'] 2 2012-08-24 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jim Renacci Ohio "Says Betty Sutton and House Democrats ""gutted"" Medicare by $741 billion to pay for Obamacare." ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-08-24 Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Sonji Jacobs Georgia "Initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status ""has no effect"" on the contracts or the city’s diversity goals." ['Diversity'] 5 2012-08-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan ""could raise future retirees’ costs more than $6,000.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-23 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Nick Fish Oregon "Says ""cities save an estimated $38 in dental costs for every $1 invested in fluoridation.""" ['City Government'] 4 2012-08-23 Jonathan Van Fleet Jake Berry Friends of Democracy """Your Congressman, Charlie Bass, took over $166,000 from Big Oil.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 2 2012-08-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says Obama puts ""15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare, who are required to cut Medicare ... that will lead to denied care for current seniors.""" ['Medicare'] 2 2012-08-23 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """Mitt Romney says class sizes don’t matter.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-08-23 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bruce Elfant Texas Says 88 Texas constables have died in the line of duty. ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'History', 'Public Safety', 'Public Service'] 5 2012-08-23 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Crossroads GPS "Says U.S. Senate hopeful Tammy Baldwin voted for a $1 trillion stimulus bill that included a wasteful ""$800,000 to replace light bulbs.""" ['Energy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-08-23 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """I haven't raised taxes in the time I've been the governor of New Jersey.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-08-23 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Barack Obama Illinois "Says that as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney ""condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 4 2012-08-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Barack Obama Illinois """In Florida, they're already talking about how the Ryan-Romney plan will end Medicare and replace it with a voucher.""" ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-08-22 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund "The Obama administration ""leaked information, deliberately or otherwise, that led to the identification of the Pakistani doctor that helped us in achieving our goals and killing bin Laden.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 1 2012-08-22 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey "Says Congressmen Paul Ryan and Todd Akin co-sponsored legislation ""to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of ‘forcible rape.’""" ['Abortion'] 5 2012-08-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin """I led the fight to require the Coast Guard to buy their engines from us, not foreign companies.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military'] 2 2012-08-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Clayton County Schools Georgia """Clayton County Public Schools recently achieved a milestone that has eluded other metropolitan districts across the state"" by meeting federal guidelines for having a highly qualified staff." ['Education'] 5 2012-08-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Brittany Alana Davis, Katie Sanders Connie Mack Florida """A small business in my district"" needed ""31 different permits and fees just to be able to expand.""" ['Government regulation', 'Regulation'] 4 2012-08-21 Warren Fiske Nancy Madsen U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Tim Kaine supported ""higher energy costs for families.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-08-21 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney Gregory J. Costantino Rhode island "Rep. Peter Petrarca ""voted on two pieces of legislation that helped auto body shops ... and at that point I think there is a conflict of interest.""" ['Economy', 'Ethics'] 4 2012-08-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby John Carter Texas "Says an appointed board created under Obamacare ""will have the ability to come between you and your doctor in determining the best treatment options for you!""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-08-21 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Betty Sutton Ohio Says House Republicans spent $50 million on 33 votes to repeal Obamacare. ['Government Efficiency', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-08-20 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Under the president's plan, he cuts Medicare by $716 billion, takes that money out of the Medicare trust fund and uses it to pay for Obamacare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Tampa Bay 10 News'] 3 2012-08-20 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund """Days after the (Osama bin Laden) raid, Hollywood was invited into the White House so that they could receive a briefing"" that revealed intelligence sources and methods." ['Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 2 2012-08-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida "Says Bill Nelson ""voted to raise our taxes 150 times.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-08-20 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress. ['Elections'] 5 2012-08-20 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says Jon Corzine ""gave away 14 percent raises over 4 years and he stood on the front steps of the Capitol at a public-sector union rally and said, 'I will fight to get you a great contract.’""" ['Unions'] 4 2012-08-20 Tom Chester Democrat Zack McMillin Martavius Jones Tennessee """From a standpoint of the county government, neither school system has received an increase in funding over the past six years.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Education', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-08-20 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Paul Sadler Texas "Ted Cruz is ""unknown to the vast majority of Texans.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2012-08-19 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Marty Beil "Says Gov. Scott Walker ""raises the pay of inmates, but we don't raise the pay of staff in our correctional institutions.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Income', 'State Finances', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2012-08-19 Suzanne Pavkovic Bill Wichert National Republican Congressional Committee "Says Reps. Rush Holt, Frank Pallone and Bill Pascrell are ""willing to jeopardize seniors’ access to coverage by gutting $741 billion from Medicare"" to pay for a ""big-government healthcare takeover.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 0 2012-08-19 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island """Thirty percent of [Sheldon Whitehouse' campaign] money is coming from special interests.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-08-17 Jane Kahoun Democrat Tom Feran Chris Redfern Ohio """Paul Ryan got his start in politics, as a young staffer just out of college, working for then-Congressman John Kasich’s Budget Committee.""" ['Education', 'Guns'] 3 2012-08-17 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Ultraviolet Washington, D.C. "Paul Ryan would ""outlaw in vitro fertilization.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Women'] 3 2012-08-17 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Bill Zedler Texas """While (Barack) Obama preaches ‘we are our brother’s keeper,’ his brother and aunt live in real poverty in Kenya.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Poverty', 'Religion'] 4 2012-08-17 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Kate Brown Oregon "Says she does the jobs of state auditor, secretary of state and lieutenant governor ""for less than the price of one of them"" in Washington state." ['Government Efficiency'] 2 2012-08-17 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Kinky Friedman Texas Says Texas is 1st in business climate, 49th in education. ['Economy', 'Education'] 3 2012-08-17 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Austinites for Geographic Representation """Austin is the largest city in the U.S. or Texas with no geographic representation"" on its city council." ['Elections'] 5 2012-08-17 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Florida """13,000 Floridians are able to vote -- but their governor won't tell them.""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-08-17 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Barack Obama Illinois "Says ""Paul Ryan supports banning all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2012-08-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Steve Phelps """NASCAR fans are twice as likely as non fans to serve in the military and 37 percent of active servicemembers and veterans are NASCAR fans.""" ['Military'] 4 2012-08-17 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Claims Joe Biden said ""coal is more dangerous than terrorists.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-08-16 Steve Ahillen Democrat Michael Collins Arne Duncan Illinois """After one year, Tennessee’s students made their biggest single-year jump in achievement ever recorded in the state.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-08-16 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan ""want to turn Medicare into a voucher system.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 4 2012-08-16 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Eva Longoria "Says Paul Ryan ""wants to cut Pell Grant scholarships for nearly 10 million students.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-08-16 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Lou Greenwald New Jersey "Says ""about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount.""" ['Education'] 3 2012-08-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Joshua Gillin Americans for Prosperity "Says President Obama said of the national debt, ""If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition.""" ['Deficit', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-08-15 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama ""robbed Medicare (of) $716 billion to pay for ... Obamacare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History', 'Medicare', 'Retirement'] 2 2012-08-15 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Stephanie Cutter Massachusetts Says Paul Ryan's budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about. ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Retirement'] 5 2012-08-15 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""a Republican hasn't won [an election] for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988.""" ['Elections', 'States'] 5 2012-08-15 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney David Cicilline Rhode Island """(Brendan) Doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for anyone born after 1960, with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 1 2012-08-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Florida has ""more concealed weapons permits than any other state.""" ['Guns'] 5 2012-08-14 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""wants to end tax credits for wind producers.""" ['Energy'] 5 2012-08-14 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson American Future Fund "Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich ""spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 1 2012-08-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg, Amy Sherman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-08-14 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Warren Kampf Pennsylvania "Voter turnout for some groups in the 2008 presidential general election in Georgia ""was far greater than it should have been demographically.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-08-14 Jane Kahoun None Stephen Koff Workers' Voice District of Columbia Says Josh Mandel bet against Ohio families ['Debt', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-08-13 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rob Turner Florida Says Ronda Storms voted to fund the 'Taj Mahal' courthouse. ['Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget'] 4 2012-08-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Gloria Romero Roses Florida "Says Joe Garcia ""voted to raise our utility rates.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Energy', 'Government regulation', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-08-13 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Paul Begala Texas "Says Mitt Romney said at a January 2012 debate that under Paul Ryan’s tax plan, ""I’d have paid no taxes in the last two years.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-08-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg, J.B. Wogan Barack Obama Illinois """We do know that Romney personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the IRS as part of the notorious 'Son of Boss' tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history.""" ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-13 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Floridians for Ethics and Truth in Politics Florida Says state Senate candidate Aaron Bean voted to give health care subsidies to illegal immigrants. ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 1 2012-08-13 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Anna Little New Jersey """We actually made history in 2010. We came the closest in 24 years to defeating Frank Pallone.""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-08-13 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "The Obama administration is ""unwinding our nation’s welfare-to-work requirements.""" ['Welfare'] 1 2012-08-13 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown ""sent billions of our tax dollars to foreign countries.""" ['Congress', 'Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 0 2012-08-13 Shawn McIntosh, Elizabeth Miniet Republican Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Ron Stephens Georgia Georgia spends fewer tourism advertising dollars than any other state in the South. ['State Budget', 'Tourism'] 5 2012-08-13 Zack McMillin Democrat Bartholomew Sullivan Mark Clayton Tennessee "Says the federal government ""mandates transexuals (sic) and homosexuals grabbing children in their stranger-danger zones in the name of airport security.""" ['Privacy'] 0 2012-08-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert New Jersey Democratic State Committee New Jersey """(The Tax Policy Center) found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-08-12 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Dolores Gresham Tennessee """I didn’t try to push"" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students." ['Education', 'Lottery'] 1 2012-08-12 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mike Stenhouse Rhode Island "Rhode Island has ""the most burdensome level of health-insurance mandates in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'States'] 3 2012-08-11 John Bridges Journalist Sue Owen Gail Collins New York "Says Texas GOP platform calls for end to teaching ""critical thinking"" in public schools." ['Education'] 3 2012-08-10 Bruce Hammond Organization Ian K. Kullgren Multnomah County Library Foundation Oregon "Says library district would come ""at no direct cost to the city budget.""" ['City Budget', 'County Budget'] 1 2012-08-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Tomorrow's Vision of Florida Florida "Says Ron Saunders ""made the choice to stand with Rick Scott"" on expanding school vouchers, restricting scholarships and giving tax breaks to the wealthy." ['Candidate Biography', 'Children', 'Education', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-08-10 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Eric Hovde "Says Tommy Thompson favors Obama's health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson ""says we can't repeal 'Obamacare.'""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-08-10 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin """I have voted every year in Wisconsin.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-08-10 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson American Principles in Action Washington, D.C. "Says Barack Obama ""has deported more people than any other president in this country's history.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-10 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Eric Hovde "Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson is ""a big corporate lobbyist"" and has been ""lobbying during the middle of the campaign.""" ['Congressional Rules'] 3 2012-08-10 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate rival Eric Hovde ""refused to pay his property taxes until he was taken to court.""" ['City Government', 'Government regulation', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-08-10 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Peter DeFazio Oregon "Art Robinson says ""Social Security should be ended through attrition.""" ['Social Security'] 4 2012-08-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Joshua Gillin, Bill Varian Rob Turner Florida "The property appraiser's budget ""is $1 million less today than when I took office 16 years ago.""" ['County Budget'] 5 2012-08-10 Jane Kahoun Republican Reginald Fields Mike DeWine Ohio "Says the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force ""is the first task force of its kind in Central Ohio""" ['Crime'] 4 2012-08-10 Jim Denery, Shawn McIntosh Republican Willoughby Mariano Paul Broun Georgia "A United Nations arms treaty would ""almost certainly force"" the U.S. to ""create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.""" ['Guns', 'Human Rights', 'Trade'] 1 2012-08-09 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""paid only 14 percent in taxes — probably less than you.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Floridians for Ethics and Truth in Politics Florida Aaron Bean voted to give illegal immigrants in-state tuition. ['Immigration'] 4 2012-08-09 Angie Drobnic Holan None Molly Moorhead Jay Carney District of Columbia """Gov. Romney himself, with 28 other Republican governors, supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever.""" ['Welfare'] 1 2012-08-09 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Priorities USA Action Says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a woman’s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked. ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-08-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Joshua Gillin American Commitment "Bill Nelson’s vote for the Affordable Care Act ""cuts $500 billion from Medicare to pay for new government programs.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-08-09 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Salmon for All """This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River.""" ['Elections', 'Environment', 'Government regulation'] 3 2012-08-09 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Jeffrey S. Solochek Heather Fiorentino Florida "As Florida secretary of state, Kurt Browning ""allowed 1,800 illegal voters to register in Florida.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-08-09 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Upendra Chivukula New Jersey """One of the key things about Leonard Lance is that in 2008, when you look at [the] Project Vote Smart website, he was not for guns. Now he has gone too far to the right, saying that you can carry concealed weapons in national parks.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Guns'] 2 2012-08-09 Jane Kahoun Organization Joe Guillen Protect Your Vote Ohio Ohio """Thousands of politicians from across Ohio – along with their relatives, employees and friends – are still eligible to serve"" on the proposed redistricting commission." ['Congress', 'Elections', 'Redistricting'] 4 2012-08-09 Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Allen West Florida "In June 2012 ""we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Social Security'] 5 2012-08-08 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Eric Hovde "President Obama and Nancy Pelosi said ""Obamacare"" would save money because ""they factored in 10 years worth of tax revenue and only six and half years worth of expenses.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2012-08-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In June, jobless ranks were higher in nearly 90 percent of U.S. cities.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-08-08 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood. ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Sexuality', 'Women'] 5 2012-08-08 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin "Says he never voted for a ""tax increase.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-08-08 Jane Kahoun Republican Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio """Ninety percent of the topsoil has inadequate moisture to grow crops.""" ['Agriculture', 'States', 'Water', 'Weather'] 5 2012-08-08 Jim Denery, Shawn McIntosh Republican Eric Stirgus Fran Millar Georgia """We have reduced funding for education the least. They've suffered the least cuts.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-08-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Under Obama’s plan (for welfare), you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Welfare'] 0 2012-08-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Obama ""refuses to recognize Jerusalem"" as the capital of Israel." ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """As president, Barack Obama has never visited Israel.""" ['Israel', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-08-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Bill Nelson Florida "Says Connie Mack IV has been ""a promoter for Hooters with a history of bar room brawling, altercations and road rage.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Tampa Bay 10 News'] 4 2012-08-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Romney would add ""trillions"" to the deficit while Obama would ""cut the deficit by $4 trillion.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Debt', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-07 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen George Allen Virginia """When I left the Senate, we were on a trajectory towards a balanced budget.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-07 Shawn McIntosh, Elizabeth Miniet Eric Stirgus Stacey Abrams "Says Georgia ranks ""near the bottom in per capita transportation spending.""" ['State Budget', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-08-07 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email "Medicare insurance premiums will be rising to ""$120.20 per month in 2013 and $247.00 per month in 2014.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Poverty', 'Retirement'] 0 2012-08-06 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton Mitt Romney Massachusetts President Obama’s lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period. ['Elections'] 1 2012-08-06 Bruce Hammond Janie Har TriMet """Without Westside MAX, we’d need to add 2.9 lanes to the Sunset Highway.""" ['Infrastructure', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-08-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Alan Grayson Florida "Says Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed the ""Quiñones Plan"" because it was ""taxation without representation on a large scale.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-08-06 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada Says Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years. ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-08-06 Aaron Sharockman Brittany Alana Davis American Bridge 21st Century "Says U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV passed ""only one bill"" in seven years." ['Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-08-06 Steve Ahillen Republican Michael Collins Chuck Fleischmann Tennessee "Says that President Obama said that ""Small Businesses Succeed Because of Government.""" ['Government regulation', 'Infrastructure', 'Small Business'] 1 2012-08-06 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin """In her nearly decade and (a) half in Congress, Tammy Baldwin has sponsored 105 bills. Only three have been enacted into law.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Congress', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2012-08-06 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Frank Lautenberg New Jersey """Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-08-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal Says his plan to end the toll on Ga. 400 fulfills his campaign promise to commuters. ['Transportation'] 2 2012-08-05 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Eric Hovde "As a congressman, Mark Neumann ""voted four times to increase our debt.""" ['Debt', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-05 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Says Congressman Jon Runyan does not want to cut taxes for the middle class, but only for millionaires. ['Taxes'] 2 2012-08-05 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """An April study found that about 70 percent of ads in this election cycle have been negative [due to SuperPACs], up from only 9 percent through the same period in 2008.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Corporations', 'Elections', 'Negative Campaigning', 'Transparency', 'Unions'] 4 2012-08-03 Dee Lane Newsmaker Janie Har Steve Doell Oregon "Says ""About 7 in 10 of Oregon’s inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-08-03 Dee Lane Newsmaker Ian K. Kullgren Steve Doell Oregon "Says Measure 11 is ""one of the most significant reasons"" for decrease in violent crime." ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 4 2012-08-03 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby "Francisco ""Quico"" Canseco" Texas "Says the ""largest tax increase in American history is set to occur on January 1st unless President Obama and Congress can come to an agreement.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "Mitt Romney is proposing a tax plan ""that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-08-03 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia "Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning ""as little as $17,000.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-08-03 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate opponent Eric Hovde ""supported billions in stimulus for high-speed rail""  and ""billions more to bail out banks.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'Infrastructure', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-08-03 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Scott Garrett New Jersey """The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-08-03 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Sanford Bishop Georgia """There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now.""" ['Economy', 'Military', 'Veterans'] 5 2012-08-03 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Congressional Committee "In 2010, Betty Sutton ""voted to destroy Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-08-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Republican Jewish Coalition Washington, D.C. """One out of every two kids who are graduating college right now can't find a job.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-08-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Sandy Adams Florida "John Mica ""voted to borrow $10 trillion.""" ['Debt', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-08-02 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Sarah Palin Alaska Says 1 in 7 American families is on food stamps. ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Welfare'] 5 2012-08-02 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Shirley Turner New Jersey """The judicial system is the most underfunded in this state, able to only pay 52 percent of its obligations. Meanwhile, judges get some of the richest pensions of all public employees.""" ['Pensions'] 5 2012-08-02 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Under the Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors, Ohio dealerships were forced to close.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-02 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Michael Riley Rhode Island "The Congressional Budget Office ""has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-08-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Angie Drobnic Holan Americans For Tax Reform """U.S. Olympic medal winners will owe up to $9,000 to the IRS.""" ['Sports', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-08-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Bill Clinton Arkansas "It’s ""typical"" for a presidential candidate to release 10 or 11 years of tax returns." ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-08-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, Eric Stirgus Crossroads GPS "President Obama has ""added $4 billion in debt every day.""" ['Debt', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-08-01 John Bridges Democrat Sue Owen Julián Castro Texas Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nation’s top-performing local economy. ['Economy'] 5 2012-08-01 Steve Ahillen Tom Humphrey Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Scott DesJarlais's (TN-04) Republican Majority.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 0 2012-08-01 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Club for Growth Says U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has ‘no problem with raising taxes.’ ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-08-01 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says under federal law ""we do not have any limitation on the number of guns and bullets we can buy.""" ['Guns'] 5 2012-08-01 Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Michael J. Gardiner Rhode Island "After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, ""there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Weather'] 2 2012-07-31 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire """The president's first major foreign policy speech in Cairo was to apologize for our country.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2012-07-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Molly Moorhead Bernie Sanders Vermont """Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America.""" ['Economy'] 5 2012-07-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict ""only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada … We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Military'] 2 2012-07-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Dave Weldon Florida "Embryonic stem cell research is at a ""dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Science'] 2 2012-07-31 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher We Are Milwaukee "Says ""millions of dollars in tax breaks"" were paid for ""by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs' help.""" ['Corporations', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mike Huckabee Arkansas """The White House has three staff calligraphers making between $86,000 and $97,000 each, and just one National Security Director. She makes $55,000.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Homeland Security', 'Pundits'] 2 2012-07-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Gerard Robinson Florida "FCAT tests ""account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year.""" ['Children', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Education'] 1 2012-07-30 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Tommy Thompson Wisconsin """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.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Homeland Security', 'Public Health', 'Terrorism'] 5 2012-07-30 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-07-30 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan George Flinn Tennessee "Says his ""patents in ultrasound have revolutionized modern medicine.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2012-07-29 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia Says former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay. ['Voting Record'] 4 2012-07-29 Greg Borowski Republican Guy Boulton, Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will ""devastate Wisconsin"" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid." ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'State Budget', 'States'] 1 2012-07-29 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Dannel Malloy Connecticut "Says Chris Christie ""has refused to fund pensions by billions of dollars,"" and got legislative approval to begin ""properly funding pensions"" in 2018." ['Pensions', 'Retirement'] 4 2012-07-29 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry New Boston Republican Committee New Hampshire Says Democrats racked up a $1 billion state deficit, while Republicans under Bill O'Brien balanced the budget. ['State Budget'] 1 2012-07-29 Tim Murphy Democrat Edward Fitzpatrick Patrick Kennedy Rhode Island """The largest number of bankruptcies in our country are really as a result of health care.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Health Care'] 3 2012-07-28 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Lights For Liberty """The voting public had no say"" in the Atlanta region’s proposed transportation project list." ['Transportation'] 2 2012-07-27 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Wes Riddle Texas Says U.S. is giving seven Alaskan islands to Russia. ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2012-07-27 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Jefferson Smith Oregon "Says Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies than Oregon and ""one of the most obvious differences is they've invested in their schools.""" ['Economy', 'Education'] 4 2012-07-27 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Jeff Wentworth Texas Says Donna Campbell is pushing a 35 percent sales tax extending to medicine, groceries and real estate. ['Taxes'] 0 2012-07-27 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Priorities USA Action Says Romney had the uniforms for the 2002 Winter Olympic games made in Burma. ['Candidate Biography', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Sports'] 2 2012-07-27 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins Lou Ann Zelenik Tennessee """Diane Black voted to fund Obamacare.""" ['Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-07-27 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Texans for Accountable Government "Says PolitiFact ""validated and independently documented"" its ""criminal history"" claims about Adan Ballesteros." ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 2 2012-07-27 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Scott Keyes "Says U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy is among seven ""Tea Party freshmen"" who ""spent an average of $15,000 on cars for themselves.""" ['Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Government Efficiency', 'Transportation'] 0 2012-07-27 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Rush Holt """As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-07-27 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Vincent Fort Georgia Taxes on groceries and medicine will rise under a plan to improve roads and rail for metro Atlanta. ['Transportation'] 4 2012-07-27 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Mike Dovilla Ohio """Mike Dovilla’s big ideas like expanding the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, which helped bring films like ‘The Avengers’ to Cleveland, have helped make our state No. 1 in the Midwest for job creation.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-07-27 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Tim Kaine Virginia """I ended up my time as governor with a general fund budget that was smaller than the one I started with.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2012-07-27 Tim Murphy Organization C. Eugene Emery Jr. NARAL Pro-Choice America Washington, D.C. """In 2010, Mr. [Anthony] Gemma described himself as a 'pro-life' candidate. Now, he claims to be pro-choice.""" ['Abortion', 'Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Women'] 5 2012-07-26 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas Says he has seen Border Patrol signs near the Mexico border in English, Spanish and Chinese. ['Immigration'] 5 2012-07-26 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Obama was saying success ""is the result of government,"" not ""hard-working people,"" when he said, ""If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.""" ['Economy'] 1 2012-07-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida Twenty two years ago, when he was running for governor, Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House. ['Candidate Biography', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-07-26 Bill Adair Molly Moorhead Priorities USA Action "Says India ""gained jobs thanks to Romney.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-07-26 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Ted Cruz Texas "Says David Dewhurst ""explicitly advocated"" a guest worker program for all illegal immigrants." ['Immigration', 'Workers'] 4 2012-07-26 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson John Lehman Wisconsin "The new 21st State Senate district was ""created in secret for Van Wanggaard. It was drawn within half a block of his house.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-07-26 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """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.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2012-07-25 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Priorities USA Action """Thousands (in China) owe their jobs to Mitt Romney's companies.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-07-25 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""backed a bill that outlaws all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-07-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders John Mica Florida "Says Barack Obama ""counted on Sandy Adams"" to approve stimulus spending." ['Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus', 'Voting Record'] 0 2012-07-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Independent Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Michael Bloomberg New York """There's a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check … 40 percent of guns are sold that way"" at gun shows and over the Internet." ['Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 3 2012-07-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Dave Weldon Florida """This year in Congress (Connie Mack IV) has missed almost half of his votes.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-07-25 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin """Obamacare"" is the ""biggest tax increase in American history.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-25 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "The health care law includes ""a 3.8% sales tax"" on ""all real estate transactions.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-25 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Chain email "Says President Barack Obama ""doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year.""" ['Debt'] 0 2012-07-25 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed The state of Georgia has lost 200,000 total jobs and 50,000 construction jobs since May 2007. ['Transportation'] 5 2012-07-25 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Sherrod Brown Ohio """When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. Sherrod Brown, he is lying. He has accepted ZERO proposed debates.""" ['Elections', 'Negative Campaigning'] 0 2012-07-24 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Gov. Romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-07-24 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Greg Abbott Texas Says Texas proved in court that more than 200 dead people voted in the latest Texas election. ['Elections'] 2 2012-07-24 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Adan Ballesteros Texas "Says Michael Cargill was ""arrested and incarcerated in Bell County.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-07-24 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Woody Degan Tennessee "Gov. Bill Haslam is ""making our Economic Development department Sharia compliant"" by hiring a woman ""who specializes in Sharia compliance. That’s what her job is.""" ['Economy', 'Religion'] 0 2012-07-24 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Steve Brown Georgia A proposed tax to fund transportation projects would spend $90,000 to take a single vehicle off the road during the morning and afternoon commute. ['Transportation'] 1 2012-07-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """USA is #1 in gun violence.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-07-23 Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Stimulus dollars paid for ""windmills from China.""" ['China', 'Energy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-07-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. That's 270 people a day and 87 dead.""" ['Guns'] 4 2012-07-23 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin "Says ""Obamacare"" is ""the largest middle-class tax increase in history.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-23 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-07-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Paul Broun Georgia The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money. ['History'] 4 2012-07-23 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Jackie Cilley New Hampshire Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-07-22 Bridget Hall Grumet Lee Logan Rachel O'Connor "The Pasco County budget ""has doubled in the past three years.""" ['County Budget'] 1 2012-07-22 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Bill Pascrell New Jersey "Says President Barack Obama ""has not raised taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-07-22 Steve Ahillen, Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Charlotte Bergmann Tennessee """Obamacare"" represents ""the largest tax increase in the history of the world.""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-22 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Robert DiMuccio Rhode Island """Rhode Islanders pay among the highest auto repair bills in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Regulation', 'Small Business', 'States'] 5 2012-07-20 Aaron Sharockman None Katie Sanders Accountability in Government Florida "Says Jim Frishe wanted to ""tax us for doing our taxes"" through an accountant." ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-07-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Barack Obama Illinois "Says he could be ""the first president in modern history to be outspent.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'History'] 2 2012-07-20 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "The Obama administration ""has been outsourcing"" by sending money to ""solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the United States.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2012-07-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters. ['Energy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 1 2012-07-20 Aaron Sharockman None Katie Sanders Committee to Protect Florida Florida "Says Jeff Brandes voted to allow state-run Citizens Property Insurance to dump policies onto ""out-of-state, unregulated private companies.""" ['Housing'] 4 2012-07-20 John Bridges, Bob Gee Democrat W. Gardner Selby Daniel Rodriguez Texas Says no city comparable in size to Austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts. ['Congress', 'Redistricting'] 4 2012-07-20 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Aaron Sharockman Josh Mandel Ohio "The Affordable Care Act ""will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus John Watson Georgia The transportation sales tax would cost the average consumer an estimated $112 a year. ['Transportation'] 4 2012-07-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Republican National Committee Over the last six months, President Barack Obama has golfed 10 times and held 106 fundraisers, but his jobs council has never met. ['Campaign Finance', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Sports'] 5 2012-07-19 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Paul Sadler Texas "Says federal debt ""doubled during the Bush administration.""" ['Debt', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2012-07-19 Dee Lane Janie Har Cascade Policy Institute Unemployment among Oregon high school graduates aged 18 to 20 increased more than 200 percent from 2008 to 2011, while the U.S. average increased only 30 percent. ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 3 2012-07-19 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Lou Greenwald New Jersey "Says raising the state income tax rate on millionaires to offset property taxes for other residents is ""not a tax increase. It's a tax shift.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2012-07-19 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Ohio Republican Party Ohio """Sherrod Brown and his special interest allies in Washington are plotting to spend over $13 million"" to defeat Josh Mandel." ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 3 2012-07-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead, J.B. Wogan Rush Limbaugh "Says it's not ""accidental"" that the villain in the Batman movie is named Bane." ['Pop Culture', 'Pundits'] 0 2012-07-18 John Bridges, Bob Gee W. Gardner Selby Club for Growth "Every ""major newspaper in Texas calls"" David Dewhurst ""a moderate.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 2 2012-07-18 Steve Ahillen Republican Michael Collins, Tom Humphrey Julia Hurley Tennessee """If you have ever visited Nashville or Washington D.C. you will see MANY names and initials carved into ... desks.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 2 2012-07-18 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney’s carried interest income was a tax ""trick.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-07-18 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Mary Matalin "Says Debbie Wasserman Schultz ""has these offshore accounts"" like Mitt Romney." ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-07-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """When I was governor, not only did test scores improve – we also narrowed the achievement gap.""" ['Education'] 3 2012-07-18 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Reince Priebus Wisconsin "Says President Barack Obama promised a ""pathway to citizenship"" to undocumented immigrants and ""didn't deliver jack squat on any of it.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration'] 4 2012-07-18 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Lou Greenwald New Jersey "Says ""the money is in the budget"" to give a tax break to ""everyone,"" including people making more than $1 million." ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano Jeff Dickerson Georgia "According to a national survey, transit ""ridership"" among people age 16 to 34 increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2009." ['Transportation'] 3 2012-07-18 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """Eighty out of 82 counties in Ohio ... have an auto manufacturing facility.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-07-17 John Bridges Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Barack Obama Illinois "Mitt Romney ""says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2012-07-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says if labor force participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama became president, unemployment would be 11 percent. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-07-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-07-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders Chain email The media won’t publish a real photo of Trayvon Martin with tattoos on his face. ['Crime'] 0 2012-07-17 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus David Ralston Georgia Federal regulations required the changes to Georgia's driver’s license renewal process. ['Homeland Security', 'Regulation'] 5 2012-07-16 Dee Lane Janie Har TriMet The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project has created 1,525 direct jobs as of June 11, 2012. ['Jobs', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-07-16 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""had millions in a Swiss bank account.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-07-16 Bill Adair Journalist Louis Jacobson Steve Doocy New York """If you make more than $250,000 a year … you only really take home about $125,000.""" ['Pundits', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Marco Rubio Florida "The health care law ""adds around $800 billion of taxes on the American people. It does not discriminate between rich and poor.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-07-16 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire """Bill O'Brien's Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control.""" ['Abortion', 'Education', 'Health Care'] 2 2012-07-16 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Sean Duffy’s Republican Majority.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 0 2012-07-16 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-07-16 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman Eric Cantor Virginia "Because of the health care act, ""The people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to keep what they have.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-07-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Brian Robinson Georgia "Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will ""require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-07-16 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Bill Johnson Ohio """The state of Ohio has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and is leading the pack in terms of job creation.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-07-15 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says he ""never supported"" federal health care individual mandate." ['Candidate Biography', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-07-15 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey """We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-15 Tim Murphy Independent C. Eugene Emery Jr. "Vincent ""Buddy"" Cianci" Rhode Island "President Obama’s health care law says ""when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax.""" ['Health Care', 'Housing', 'Income', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-13 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Ovide Lamontagne New Hampshire """There are 60,000 fewer jobs today in this state than we had in 2008.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-07-13 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Maryalice Gill Charles Bass New Hampshire """America used to be the third easiest country to get established in a business. It's now number 17.""" ['Economy'] 2 2012-07-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Barack Obama Illinois """Mitt Romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy'] 3 2012-07-13 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Kelda Helen Roys "Says she ""stood up to"" Gov. Scott Walker on tax cuts ""for wealthy corporations"" while her congressional opponent voted with Walker." ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-07-13 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown’s approval rating ""has plummeted to 38 percent among Ohio voters"" in a poll by a Democratic pollster." ['Elections', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Negative Campaigning'] 4 2012-07-12 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Jeff Duncan South Carolina """83% of doctors have considered leaving the profession because of #Obamacare.""" ['Health Care', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 1 2012-07-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Secure America Now """For his first interview as president, Barack Obama chose Arab TV for an apology.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-07-12 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Eric Hovde "The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of ""more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Foreign Policy', 'Gas Prices'] 2 2012-07-12 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says New Jersey’s tenure law ""has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure.""" ['Education'] 1 2012-07-12 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Jim Renacci’s Republican majority.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Negative Campaigning'] 0 2012-07-11 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan American Commitment "The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, ""double what we were promised.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-07-11 Dee Lane Janie Har Multnomah County "Says ""Your kid just ate 16 packs of sugar.""" ['County Government', 'Public Health'] 5 2012-07-11 Bob Gee Republican W. Gardner Selby, J.B. Wogan Roger Williams Texas "Says the federal government is spending $765,828 to subsidize ""pancakes for yuppies"" in Washington." ['Federal Budget'] 3 2012-07-11 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Aaron Sharockman American Commitment "The health care law ""imposes the largest tax increase in history on the middle class.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-07-11 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman American Commitment """Bill Nelson was the deciding vote"" on the health care law." ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-07-11 Bill Adair Democrat Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Eric Holder Washington, D.C. Says recent studies indicate that nationally, only 8 percent of white voting-age citizens but 25 percent of African-American voting-age citizens lack government-issued photo IDs. ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2012-07-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Sean Duffy Wisconsin "President Barack Obama’s health care reform ""slashed $500 billion from Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Public Health'] 2 2012-07-11 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says as a result of the national health care reform, ""the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 trillion in savings in terms of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-07-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia "The health care law is ""the largest tax [increase] in the history of our country""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-11 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "Cuts in local government and school funding in John Kasich’s budget caused ""many communities to seek school levies, local tax increases, layoffs.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2012-07-11 Tim Murphy Republican Louis Jacobson, Tom Mooney John Robitaille Rhode Island """Unemployment rate dropped in every state that elected a Republican gov. in 2010""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'States'] 3 2012-07-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman MoveOn.org "Gov. Rick Scott ""tried to kick 180,000 people off the voter rolls.""" ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-07-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman MoveOn.org """Every one of the 67 supervisors of elections"" in Florida refused to carry out the effort to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls." ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-07-10 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Robert Gibbs "Says Mitt Romney ""has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-07-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Americans for Prosperity "Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is ""the largest recipient of lobbyist money.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-07-10 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Tom Price Georgia "Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be ""empowered to enforce"" the new health care legislation." ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-07-09 Bob Gee Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas """I've never supported a payroll tax.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-07-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """75 percent of the Obamacare tax falls on the middle class.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts """ ‘Obamacare’ puts the federal government between you and your doctor.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-07-09 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Jim Bohl Wisconsin "Toothpaste contains ""the poison substance of fluoride.""" ['Public Health', 'Science'] 2 2012-07-09 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Stephen Sweeney "Says ""tenure still exists but it's been overhauled"" for teachers in New Jersey." ['Education'] 5 2012-07-09 Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Barack Obama Illinois The federal government has made investments in science and technology inventing the products that led to the creation of Google. ['Technology'] 4 2012-07-08 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin "If the U.S. didn't borrow $1.2 trillion every year ""to fund government operations,"" that money would be available ""for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-07-08 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says state Sen. Paul Sarlo ""said in February on NJTV, ‘there will be no tax increases in this budget’"" and ""voted the other night in the Senate Budget Committee to raise income taxes $800 million.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-07-08 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Elizabeth Roberts Rhode Island """Two thirds to three quarters of people without [health] insurance in Rhode Island work.""" ['Health Care', 'Poverty', 'Public Health', 'Welfare'] 3 2012-07-07 Steve Ahillen Republican Michael Collins Nick Ciparro Tennessee """In the last 10 years, only one piece of legislation has been cosponsored and passed by"" John Duncan Jr." ['Voting Record'] 0 2012-07-06 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Julián Castro Texas "Says cuts by Gov. Rick Perry's administration left ""12,000 teachers without a job.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-07-06 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Our Oregon Oregon "Says ""while state leaders have cut funding for our schools and other basic priorities, the amount of money the state is projected to give away through tax breaks increased by a whopping $3.4 billion.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-07-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Jon Greenberg Nancy Pelosi California "Under the health care law, ""everybody will have lower rates, better quality care and better access.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-07-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "Says the Congressional Budget Office ""said if you’re going to buy your own policy with these (health care) exchanges you’ll be paying 10 percent more ... about $2,100 more for a family.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-07-06 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "States still face a ""mandate"" to expand Medicaid coverage under President Obama's health care reform law." ['Health Care'] 0 2012-07-06 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Robin Vos Wisconsin "Voter fraud provided ""a portion"" of the margin of victory of Democrat John Lehman over Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard in a state Senate recall election." ['Elections'] 1 2012-07-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "The Supreme Court said the individual mandate ""is a tax. So it's a tax.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-07-05 Dee Lane Janie Har Clackamas County Democrats "Says Clackamas County Measure 3-401 ""will hurt our county, cripple economic growth, and increase our taxes with excessive special elections.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Elections', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-07-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "The United States has ""the best health care delivery system in the world.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2012-07-05 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "By eliminating the public intervenor’s office, ""I was the first one to fire Kathleen Falk.""" ['Environment', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-07-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida "The Mack Penny Plan for the federal budget  ""would balance our budget by 2019"" and ""continues to gain support.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-07-05 Tom Curran Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """If you look at most of the polls, this is a margin-of-error race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president.""" ['Elections', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 5 2012-07-04 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer AFSCME "The Wisconsin Retirement System for public employees is ""a self-funded pension plan"" and ""it’s the money of the workers’ that funds it.""" ['Pensions', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 2 2012-07-04 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""our 12 month job increase was the sixth highest in the nation.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-07-04 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Bill Weimer Ohio """Fireworks have never been safer, and their use continues to increase each year.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Patriotism', 'Regulation'] 5 2012-07-03 Dee Lane Janie Har Don McIntire """We’re spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-07-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """In 1950, corporations paid $3 in taxes for every $1 by a worker. Today, they pay 22 cents for every $1 by a worker.""" ['Corporations', 'Income', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-07-03 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Tara Merrigan David Dewhurst Texas "Says he ""passed"" eight measures, including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar ""sanctuary"" cities in Texas." ['Candidate Biography', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration', 'Legal Issues', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-07-03 Bill Adair, Aaron Sharockman Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says Dow Chemical decided to build a plant in Saudi Arabia rather than Oklahoma due to the impact of environmental regulations on the supply of natural gas. ['Energy', 'Government regulation'] 1 2012-07-03 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Tea Party member Eric Stirgus Debbie Dooley Georgia """Statistics show that more people at this time telecommute than they ride carpools, mass transit, bicycle or walk.""" ['Transportation'] 3 2012-07-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders, Jeffrey S. Solochek Rick Scott Florida "A company with ""20 employees"" could go ""out of business"" because of health care law requirements to buy insurance." ['Health Care', 'Small Business'] 0 2012-07-02 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "The Medicaid expansion is ""going to cost Florida $1.9 billion a year.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-07-02 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Scott Florida Says the health care law rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain. ['Health Care'] 1 2012-07-02 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman Majority PAC "Tim Kaine ""made Virginia the best state for business four years in a row.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2012-07-02 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Ron Johnson Wisconsin """Before Act 10, the total cost of public sector employees’ employment was 29 percent higher than that in the private sector. After the act, it’s still 22 percent higher.""" ['Income', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 2 2012-07-02 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Albio Sires New Jersey """Just in the past 10 years, college tuition has increased 28 percent.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-07-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Dan Ramos Ohio "Lorain ""is the poorest urban school district in the state of Ohio.""" ['Education', 'Poverty', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-07-02 Jim Tharpe Chris Joyner Georgia Green Party "The transportation tax is regressive, and Emory University is ""literally getting its own transit line at virtually no cost to itself.""" ['Transportation'] 3 2012-07-02 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month.""" ['Animals', 'Environment', 'Food Safety', 'Government regulation', 'Public Health'] 3 2012-07-01 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mahlon Mitchell "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.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Labor', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 5 2012-07-01 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Jennifer Beck """New Jersey's citizens are working at the highest rate in three years.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-07-01 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia "President Obama's health care law is ""a government takeover of healthcare.""" ['Health Care', 'Regulation'] 1 2012-07-01 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr., Tom Mooney Helio Melo Rhode Island """People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash.""" ['Environment', 'State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Water'] 0 2012-06-30 Steve Ahillen Republican Tom Humphrey Ron Ramsey Tennessee """(Environmentalists) said ‘We’re only going to stop coal mining above 2,000 feet.’ ... Well guess where all the coal in the state of Tennessee is? Above 2,000 feet.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2012-06-30 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island "President Obama’s health-care law will ""add trillions of dollars in debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-06-29 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Ann McLane Kuster New Hampshire "Says Rep. Charles Bass ""supports privatizing Social Security, risking trillions more on Wall Street.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2012-06-29 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Ron Wyden Oregon """Oregon schools receive millions of dollars per year in federal school lunch assistance and yet they are required to spend that money almost anywhere but Oregon.""" ['Congress', 'Education', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2012-06-29 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Maryalice Gill Charles Bass New Hampshire Says Ann Kuster said the debate over America’s debt limit is not an important issue of the day. ['Debt'] 1 2012-06-29 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Becky Moeller Texas "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." ['Health Care'] 5 2012-06-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2012-06-29 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Obamacare … means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-06-29 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Austin Fund for Quality Healthcare Texas """Austin is the biggest city in America with a Tier One research university (UT-Austin) but without a medical school.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-06-29 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin "Says ""Barack Obama and his team"" are ""socialists in every respect of the word.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Religion'] 0 2012-06-29 Tom Curran Republican Erin O'Neill Jon Runyan New Jersey "Says there are ""$500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law].""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-06-28 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-06-28 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska "Obama ""said (the individual mandate) wasn't a tax.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-06-28 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman Rush Limbaugh """Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 0 2012-06-28 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson said he wants to ""do away with Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-06-28 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Michael Doherty """There is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in New Jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2012-06-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Barack Obama Illinois """Over the last few decades, the income of the top 1 percent grew by more than 275 percent -- to an average of $1.3 million a year.""" ['Economy', 'Income', 'Wealth'] 4 2012-06-27 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""TriMet's own analysis shows that YouthPass does not actually add to the transit agency's costs.""" ['City Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-06-27 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby John Carter Texas "Says the Constitution ""specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy,"" so Barack Obama lacks the authority to defer the deportation of young illegal immigrants." ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2012-06-27 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Wendy Davis Texas "Says because of Texas lawmakers’ choices, ""hundreds of thousands of women no longer have access to basic medical care, life-saving cancer screenings and contraception.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget', 'Women'] 3 2012-06-27 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The median income in America has dropped by 10 percent in the last four years.""" ['Economy', 'Income', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-06-27 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Paul Sarlo New Jersey """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.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2012-06-27 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jim Renacci Ohio "Obama has ""racked up more debt than any president in history — over $5 trillion.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-06-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Michael Opitz Georgia U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey gave the government the power to electronically spy on Americans without a warrant. ['Criminal Justice', 'Terrorism'] 2 2012-06-26 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Shawn Lindsay Oregon "Says, ""Yet in Salem they have traditionally waited until the money is almost gone to pay for the most important things in our state’s budget.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-06-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "The DREAM Act ""was written by members of both parties. When it came up for a vote a year and a half ago, Republicans in Congress blocked it. The bill hadn’t changed. ... The only thing that had changed was politics.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2012-06-26 Aaron Sharockman Bill Adair Chain email "Says ""a lip-reading instructor at the River School, a Washington, D.C., school for the deaf"" has determined that during 9/11 ceremonies, Michelle Obama said, ""All this for a damn flag.""" ['Patriotism'] 0 2012-06-26 Robert Higgs None Sabrina Eaton, Stephen Koff Workers' Voice District of Columbia Says Josh Mandel’s campaign is under FBI investigation ['Campaign Finance', 'Crime', 'Elections'] 1 2012-06-25 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Pat Kreitlow "Says GOP U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin ""voted twice to end Medicare.""" ['Medicare'] 0 2012-06-25 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Vincent Prieto "Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget is ""the biggest spending budget in the history of the state of New Jersey. It is the largest in the nation at this point in time.""" ['State Budget', 'States'] 1 2012-06-25 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Gerry Connolly Virginia "Ronald Reagan ""raised taxes in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987.""" ['Deficit', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-06-25 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Citizens for Transportation Mobility Georgia "Atlanta Tea Party co-founder Debbie Dooley ""wants gas taxes raised.""" ['Transportation'] 3 2012-06-25 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Christopher Blazejewski Rhode Island """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.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Pop Culture', 'Technology'] 5 2012-06-24 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Tommy Thompson Wisconsin Federal health care reforms amounted to ‘the government takeover of health care.’ ['Health Care'] 0 2012-06-24 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says New Jersey’s job growth in May represents ""25 percent of all the jobs created in the country.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-06-24 Bill Adair Zack McMillin Lamar Alexander """Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Regulation'] 5 2012-06-24 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island "Women ""earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in the same position.""" ['Income', 'Jobs', 'Poverty', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2012-06-22 Dee Lane Newsmaker Janie Har Steve Buckstein Oregon """Did you know Wisconsin's AFSCME union has lost 50%+ of its members since no longer requiring membership?""" ['Elections', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 4 2012-06-22 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan David Plouffe """Gov. Romney was very clear, he would veto the DREAM Act.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2012-06-22 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry Frank Guinta New Hampshire """Now, in the House of Representatives, we have 40 different jobs bills that have passed and almost all of them have been bipartisan.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-06-22 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Paul Ryan Wisconsin Says a national Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their state; Wisconsinites ranked second. ['History'] 2 2012-06-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Corrine Brown Florida "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.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-06-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Peter Barca Wisconsin """70 percent of the people who voted"" on June 5, 2012, ""just didn’t feel comfortable with the recall of the governor,"" weakening any idea that Wisconsin is ""fully behind this Walker agenda.""" ['Elections', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-06-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Chris Joyner Nathan Deal """Since the beginning of the economic downturn in FY 2008, the state workforce has been reduced by 12.4 percent as part of overall cost savings measures to balance the budget to reduce revenues.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2012-06-22 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman American Crossroads """As Virginia lost over 65,000 jobs, (Tim) Kaine put partisan ambitions first"" by serving as DNC chairman during the last year of his governorship." ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-06-22 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Renacci Ohio """My opponent, in 2008, had contributions investigated by the federal government.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 1 2012-06-22 Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Michael Chippendale Rhode Island "Rhode Island has the ""worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads [behind] Alaska.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-06-21 Bill Adair Jon Greenberg Facebook posts """Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in U.S. are illegals.""" ['Housing', 'Immigration'] 0 2012-06-21 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Women'] 2 2012-06-21 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas """Most of Ted Cruz’s money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 2 2012-06-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Dave Weldon Florida """There’s no wildlife"" in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." ['Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2012-06-21 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Eric Hovde "Since President Barack Obama took office, ""you have 1,700 employees just at the Department of Transportation"" earning over $170,000." ['Bush Administration', 'Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Transportation'] 1 2012-06-21 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """(Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that....They’re down on the ground. They’re sweating. They’re twitching. It’s ugly, ‘cause I keep saying no.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2012-06-21 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Congressman Renacci is under FBI investigation.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics'] 1 2012-06-20 Dee Lane Ian K. Kullgren Oregon Lottery "Says 97 cents of every dollar played ""represents over $500 million dollars that is returned to Oregonians every year to help support job creation, schools, state parks and watersheds.""" ['Lottery', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 0 2012-06-20 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops, but 41 percent are on welfare.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2012-06-20 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Marco Rubio Florida """A million people a year come into the U.S. legally. No other country even comes close to that figure.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2012-06-20 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Jim DeMint South Carolina "Says President Obama's new immigration plan ""is amnesty.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2012-06-20 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Corporations', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Elections'] 1 2012-06-20 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio Says that under President Obama, there’s been a substantial increase in federal government jobs. ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-06-20 Warren Fiske Nancy Madsen American Crossroads "Tim Kaine urged ""$500 billion in Medicare cuts.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-06-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Terry Lawler Georgia """There is no Plan B"" if the transportation referendum is not passed by voters." ['Transportation'] 2 2012-06-19 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Facebook posts """Vagina. Because apparently, saying that word in the Michigan State House of Representatives can get you a two-day ban from speaking on the floor.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2012-06-19 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2012-06-19 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Lou Greenwald New Jersey """In 2011, NJ economy ranked 47th--at the bottom with Alabama, Mississippi & Wyoming. Under Christie, NJ is falling behind.""" ['Economy'] 4 2012-06-18 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Jeff Merkley Oregon "Says, ""Less than half of all states have legal protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, despite the fact that LGBT Americans report employment discrimination and unemployment at much higher rates than the U.S. average.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Diversity', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 4 2012-06-18 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Barack Obama has ""provided guns to Mexican drug cartels.""" ['Drugs', 'Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2012-06-18 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ... (had) more debt per person than any other state in the country.""" ['Deficit', 'History', 'State Finances', 'States'] 3 2012-06-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Facebook posts """Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Immigration'] 2 2012-06-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal "The Americans for Tax Reform pledge ""relates to new taxes that were going to be initiated by legislative action.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-06-18 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia """Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.""" ['Education', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-06-18 Bill Adair Democrat Zack McMillin Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee "Says Mitt Romney has said ""we don't need 'more firemen, more policemen, more teachers.' """ ['Economy', 'Education', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-06-17 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Reince Priebus Wisconsin "Says President Barack Obama wants to raise ""the lowest (income) tax rate from 10 to 15 percent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-06-17 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Robert Menendez New Jersey "Says Joe Kyrillos ""voted to raid the state's pension funds by $2.8 billion that is costing New Jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly $15 billion dollars to repay that money.""" ['Deficit', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Pensions', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-06-17 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Marsha Blackburn Tennessee Says her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax. ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-06-17 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney John G. Edwards Rhode Island "Decriminalizing marijuana ""will save the state anywhere from $4 (million) to $11 million dollars.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Drugs', 'Government regulation', 'Legal Issues', 'Marijuana', 'Public Health', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-06-15 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry William O'Brien New Hampshire """The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted.""" ['Jobs'] 2 2012-06-15 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas Says he has nearly 200 delegates bound to support his candidacy at the Republican National Convention. ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-06-15 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Portland Public Schools Oregon Say Portland Public Schools' central administration makes up less than 4 percent of the staff. ['Education'] 4 2012-06-15 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Tim Kaine Virginia "Virginia women earn ""only 79 cents to each dollar earned by men...""" ['Women', 'Workers'] 4 2012-06-15 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown ""gave huge bonuses to executives.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus', 'Voting Record'] 0 2012-06-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Stephen Simpson Georgia U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has not authored any legislation that has been adopted by Congress. ['Congress', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-06-14 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman National Rifle Association "Says Barack ""Obama admits he’s coming for our guns, telling Sarah Brady, ‘We are working on (gun control), but under the radar.’ """ ['Guns'] 0 2012-06-14 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman National Rifle Association "Says Barack Obama is ""trying to slash funding for the Armed Pilots Program designed to prevent terror attacks.""" ['Guns'] 5 2012-06-14 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Chris Garrett and Bill Kennemer Oregon "Say ""this biennium, liquor sales account for nearly $1 billion in the state budget.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-06-14 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Maryalice Gill Barack Obama Illinois When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average, and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-06-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman 60 Plus Association "U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was ""the deciding vote for the health care law.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-06-14 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey "Says Robert Menendez is ""the king of raising money from Wall Street, over a million dollars, one of the leaders in the United States Senate. I haven’t raised any Wall Street money at all.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-06-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "Rob Portman shares ""radical, ideological views"" toward women." ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Voting Record', 'Women'] 1 2012-06-14 Dee Lane Organization Janie Har Stop Gillnetting Now Oregon "Says ""Oregon is one of only three states that allow the use of gillnets on inland waters.""" ['Environment', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Recreation'] 1 2012-06-13 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman National Rifle Association "Says Barack Obama’s regulatory adviser Cass Sunstein, ""wants to ban hunting and says animals should be represented in court.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-06-13 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman National Rifle Association "Says Barack Obama ""supported Ted Kennedy’s ammo ban to outlaw all deer-hunting ammunition.""" ['Guns'] 1 2012-06-13 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Louis Jacobson, Sue Owen Julián Castro Texas Says under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation. ['Jobs'] 3 2012-06-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Toluse Olorunnipa Rick Scott Florida "Citizens Property Insurance has ""over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus.""" ['State Budget', 'Weather'] 2 2012-06-13 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby John Cornyn Texas Says lawyer appointed by Eric Holder to investigate government leaks helped and donated to Obama's campaign, vetting vice presidential prospects. ['Legal Issues'] 5 2012-06-13 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Overwhelming Democrat and Republican votes"" in 2011 for legislation in two special sessions on jobs demonstrated the bipartisan nature of the Wisconsin Legislature." ['Bipartisanship', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-06-13 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """Giving the facts:  73,000 jobs created ... since '11.  Do you know how many direct jobs in the auto industry?  1,800.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-06-13 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Christopher Blazejewski Rhode Island Most tips left at Dunkin’ Donuts don’t go to employees. ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 1 2012-06-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson American Bridge 21st Century """As Governor: Romney did not keep public safety funding in line with inflation.""" ['History', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 2 2012-06-12 Angie Drobnic Holan Aaron Sharockman Chris Matthews "Under Florida’s voting law, a requirement to turn in voter registrations within 48 hours ""makes it impossible to meet the deadline if you’re working right to the end of the week.""" ['Elections', 'Pundits', 'Tampa Bay 10 News'] 1 2012-06-12 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Steve Brown Georgia "Portland, Ore., has ""never gotten over 12 to 15 percent ridership"" of its public transit system ""in the past 12 years.""" ['Transportation'] 3 2012-06-12 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Samuel Wurzelbacher Ohio """Marcy Kaptur voted against a ban which would have prevented the aborting of a baby girl for the sole reason that she's a girl.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-06-11 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""only 18 percent of Portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to 83 percent nationally.""" ['Education'] 5 2012-06-11 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """Romney outsourced call center jobs to India.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-06-11 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "As governor of Massachusetts, ""Romney reduced unemployment to just 4.7 percent.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'States'] 3 2012-06-11 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Bob McDonnell Virginia "Virginia ""is home to more veterans per capita than any state in America.""" ['Census', 'Military', 'Veterans'] 1 2012-06-11 John Bridges Republican Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Conservative Republicans of Texas PAC Texas "Says Jeff Wentworth, bending the rules, ""has used $211,743.96 in campaign contributions to lease luxury cars.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-06-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin """Minnesota has passed and Indiana has passed"" right to work laws making union membership and dues optional" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-06-11 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """When I was U.S. Attorney we wound up putting 10 percent of the state Legislature in jail during my seven years.""" ['Crime', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2012-06-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Paul Broun Georgia "A new manufacturing plant is slated to create about 3,000 jobs in central and northeast Georgia and ""create about a $3 billion infusion"" into the economy." ['Jobs'] 3 2012-06-11 Jane Kahoun Republican Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio """When I started in Ohio it was terrible. Now, we’re getting bipartisan support for our bills. And that’s called leadership.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 4 2012-06-11 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins Diane Black Tennessee "The United States has experienced ""40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-06-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Says ""Tommy Thompson's tax plan amounts to an average tax cut of almost $87,000 for the top 1 percent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-06-10 Zack McMillin Bartholomew Sullivan Lamar Alexander "Says ""we are overcharging students . . . to help pay for the health care law.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 3 2012-06-10 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Elizabeth Roberts Rhode Island """Massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Public Health'] 2 2012-06-08 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Wes Riddle Texas Says combined inflation and unemployment rates in October 2011 were the highest since Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter. ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-06-08 John Bridges Democrat Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Paul Sadler Texas Says Democratic runoff opponent Grady Yarbrough twice previously ran statewide as a Republican. ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography'] 5 2012-06-08 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire """We spend in tax loopholes annually $1.1 trillion. That's more than we spend on our defense budget in a year, on Medicare or Medicaid in a year.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2012-06-08 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """More Hispanics have fallen into poverty under Obama.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Poverty'] 3 2012-06-08 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'States'] 3 2012-06-08 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen E.W. Jackson Virginia """In Galveston, Texas, they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth.""" ['County Government', 'Retirement', 'Social Security', 'Workers'] 5 2012-06-08 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says Barack Obama has played nearly 100 rounds of golf as president. ['Recreation'] 5 2012-06-08 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Bill Clinton Arkansas """It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2012-06-08 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Roger Williams Texas Says Barack Obama is a socialist. ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2012-06-07 Dee Lane Janie Har John Ludlow "Says ""As Mayor of Wilsonville, I drove TriMet out of town and replaced their bloated transit system with our own local bus line that offers better service and has saved our businesses millions of dollars.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-06-07 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Chain email Says Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a late-night visit to Kinko’s to forge President Barack Obama’s birth certificate two days before Obama unveiled it to the media. ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2012-06-07 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman Alcee Hastings Florida "Florida election officials’ requests to some residents to submit proof of citizenship is a ""backdoor poll tax.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration', 'Poverty'] 3 2012-06-07 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob Marshall Virginia "Homosexual behavior ""cuts your life by about 20 years.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Health Care', 'Sexuality'] 1 2012-06-07 Tom Curran Erin O'Neill Loretta Weinberg "Says PolitiFact ""listed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin as the Governor who told the most lies"" and ""our own ‘untruthful’ Governor Chris Christie made it into Politifact's top five of ‘Lie - en Governors’.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2012-06-07 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Renacci Ohio """There is no record of congresswoman Betty Sutton ... ever holding a single in-person town hall meeting open to the general public.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2012-06-06 Bill Adair Libertarian Louis Jacobson Gary Johnson New Mexico """Right now, I’m polling at about 8 percent"" against Barack Obama and Mitt Romney." ['Elections', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2012-06-06 Aaron Sharockman Republican Darla Cameron, Katie Sanders Jack Latvala Florida """District 22 includes about 80% of the district I have represented since 2010. District 20 includes about 20% of the area I have represented since 2010.""" ['Redistricting'] 3 2012-06-06 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert New Jersey Democratic State Committee New Jersey "Says PolitiFact issued a True ruling on Paul Krugman calling ""Governor Christie a ‘fiscal phony.’""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-06-06 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Kasim Reed "The new Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal was ""on time and on budget.""" ['Transportation'] 0 2012-06-06 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Says he ""cut the budget.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-06-05 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson, J.B. Wogan Eric Fehrnstrom Massachusetts "Massachusetts under Gov. Mitt Romney initially ranked last among states in job growth, but by the end of his governorship, ""we were in the middle of the pack.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'States'] 3 2012-06-05 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson, J.B. Wogan David Axelrod "Under Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked ""47th in job creation.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'States'] 3 2012-06-05 Dee Lane Libertarian Ian K. Kullgren John Charles Oregon "Says ""TriMet now spends $1.63 in benefits for every $1.00 spent on wages.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2012-06-05 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Bill Nelson Florida """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.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-06-05 Aaron Sharockman Republican Molly Moorhead Ed Gillespie Washington, D.C. "When Mitt Romney was governor, ""the fact is that the average income for a family in Massachusetts went up by $5,500.""" ['Income'] 3 2012-06-05 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Pam Davidson Georgia "Georgia Public Service Commission member Stan Wise ""has received about 95 percent of his campaign money from the utilities he is supposed to be regulating.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 3 2012-06-05 Jane Kahoun Democrat Stephen Koff Ohio Democratic Party Ohio Rob Portman won the fewest votes of all Ohio U. S. Senate victors since 2000. ['Elections', 'Negative Campaigning'] 4 2012-06-04 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Tom Barrett Wisconsin """Scott Walker has a plan to privatize state lands"" and ""wants to sell our deer to the highest bidder.""" ['Recreation'] 0 2012-06-04 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Caroline Casagrande New Jersey """Women have come through the recession worse off than men … the numbers bear that out. We went from a 7 percent unemployment rate for women when he (President Barack Obama) was elected to an 8.1 percent now.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-06-04 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Jim Webb Virginia "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.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Veterans'] 5 2012-06-04 Jane Kahoun Democrat Joe Guillen Ron Gerberry Ohio "The last three days of early voting ""happen to be the most populated days of voting that we have in early voting.""" ['Elections'] 4 2012-06-04 Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano John Barrow Georgia """Forty years ago ... about half of congressional districts were genuinely competitive. Today, only about 10 percent of House races on Cook Political Report are listed as ‘toss-ups’ or ‘lean’ to one party.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'History'] 3 2012-06-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker made ""draconian cuts"" to public safety budgets that put police officers at ""greater risk of harm.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Crime', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-06-03 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Rodney Frelinghuysen """The U.S. is borrowing approximately $2.52 for every $1 of economic growth so far in 2012.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy'] 5 2012-06-03 Steve Ahillen, Tom Chester Organization Zack McMillin Memphis Police Association Tennessee "Says ""city leadership is threatening to lay off police and emergency services personnel to balance the budget.""" ['City Budget', 'Public Safety'] 1 2012-06-03 Tim Murphy Ocean State Tea Party in Action C. Eugene Emery Jr. Lisa Blais Rhode Island """We came out against Deepwater and everybody is now paying for [the project] in their electric bills.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 2 2012-06-01 Dave Umhoefer Republican Greg Borowski Scott Walker Wisconsin "The federal government ""reviewed and verified"" his administration’s numbers showing Wisconsin added 23,608 jobs in 2011." ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-06-01 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Figures cited by Gov. Scott Walker ""are not commonly used"" to measure job creation." ['Jobs'] 3 2012-06-01 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas "Ted Cruz ""helps run two national organizations that have been leading the push to give amnesty to illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2012-06-01 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says Tom Barrett plans ""to spend $100 million on a trolley that goes barely two miles on the east side of Milwaukee.""" ['City Government', 'Economy', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-06-01 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """We’ve seen property taxes go down for the first time in 12 years on a median valued home.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-06-01 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Maryalice Gill Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire Says the Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and ‘profits’ on the loans go to help pay for the health care law. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 2 2012-06-01 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin """No one on my staff has ever been charged with a crime.""" ['City Government', 'Crime', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2012-06-01 Jonathan Van Fleet Democrat Jake Berry Joe Biden Delaware Says in the last six months of the Bush administration, the U.S. lost 3.5 million jobs, including 760,000 jobs during January 2009 alone. ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2012-06-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Tim Lee "Candidate Bill Byrne used campaign funds for work on his ""personal car.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 3 2012-06-01 Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Dennis Algiere Rhode Island """The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios.""" ['Baseball', 'Corporations', 'Economy', 'State Finances', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-05-31 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Reince Priebus Wisconsin "Because of voter fraud, Republican candidates ""need to do a point or two better"" to win statewide elections in Wisconsin." ['City Government', 'Crime', 'Elections'] 1 2012-05-31 Aaron Sharockman Republican Brittany Alana Davis Lenny Curry Florida """More than 250 (voter registration) groups, ranging across the entire political spectrum, have filed with the state and are registering voters right now.""" ['Elections'] 3 2012-05-31 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Mary Nolan Oregon "Says Amanda Fritz ""manages less than 5 percent of city operations.""" ['City Government'] 5 2012-05-31 Greg Borowski Organization Tom Kertscher We Are Wisconsin Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker ""took away $1.6 billion from schools and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich.""" ['Corporations', 'Education', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-05-31 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas Says that from 1992 through 2010, every statewide candidate drawing over 43 percent of the vote in a Republican Texas primary won the resulting runoff. ['History'] 5 2012-05-31 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Martin O'Malley Maryland """When it comes to what little bit of job creation was happening in Massachusetts (when Mitt Romney was governor), it was happening in the public sector at six times the rate that it was happening in the private sector.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-05-31 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson, Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin "To help balance the 2011-13 budget, Gov. Scott Walker used ""a credit card"" approach that ""pushed over $500 million in debt onto our children and our grandchildren"" costing state taxpayers ""more than $150 million in interest.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2012-05-31 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "Thanks to our policies, ""for the first time in state history, we have put millions of dollars into our rainy day fund in consecutive years.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2012-05-31 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Paul Krugman "Says ""there have been some job gains in the McMansion State since Mr. Christie took office, but they have lagged gains both in the nation as a whole and in New York and Connecticut, the obvious points of comparison.""" ['Jobs', 'Pundits'] 5 2012-05-31 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Joe Guillen Josh Mandel Ohio "Says he ""earned the highest possible credit ratings as state treasurer.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-05-30 Susan Areson Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "An ""Obamacare slush fund"" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an ""anti-obesity campaign.""" ['Animals', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Health Care', 'Stimulus'] 1 2012-05-30 Bill Adair Democrat Alaina Berner, Christopher Connors, Louis Jacobson Michelle Obama Illinois """Only 2 percent of public high schools in the country offer PE classes.""" ['Education', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-05-30 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mahlon Mitchell "Access for 12,000 women to use Planned Parenthood -- ""not for the right to choose,"" but for ""basic health care"" -- was ""taken away"" by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch." ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Women'] 4 2012-05-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Dale Earnhardt Jr. """The Republican from Georgia [U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston], he hasn’t even been to a NASCAR race.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Sports'] 5 2012-05-30 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Says Sen. Sherrod Brown ""cast the deciding vote on the government takeover of health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-05-29 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Jim Moran Virginia """According to ATF data, 70 percent of firearms recovered and traced in drug cartel crimes in Mexico originated from the United States.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2012-05-29 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher National Rifle Association "Says Tom Barrett ""voted to ban 15 different kinds of guns, even a lot of common deer rifles.""" ['Animals', 'Guns', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Public Safety'] 2 2012-05-29 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """The region I represent, both currently and in the future, has more automotive plants than the entire state of California.""" ['Economy'] 5 2012-05-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano Citizens for Transportation Mobility Georgia "A government analysis shows under a proposed transportation tax, ""metro Atlanta will create or support an additional 200,000 new jobs, including jobs that are maintained year over year.""" ['Transportation'] 2 2012-05-29 Tim Murphy Democrat Tom Mooney Joseph McNamara Rhode Island """In the state of Rhode Island 25 percent of our current physicians are graduates of for-profit medical schools.""" ['Education', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-05-28 Greg Borowski Steve Schultze Chris Abele """While Act 10 allowed (Milwaukee County) to save some money, it was millions short of what we needed to fill the hole left by the $28 million cut in state aid.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-05-28 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey "Says under President Barack Obama there’s been ""the lowest discretionary spending we’ve had in decades in the United States.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2012-05-28 Robert Higgs Republican Peter Krouse Bob Gibbs Ohio """Water transportation is the most fuel efficient, least polluting, safest, and least expensive means of moving cargo.""" ['Economy', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-05-27 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Ron Ramsey Tennessee "Claims credit for food tax reductions that ""previous Democrat regimes refused to make.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2012-05-27 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Anastasia Williams Rhode Island In 2011, Alabama and Massachusetts passed legislation allowing non-citizens who are legal residents to vote in state and local elections. ['Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2012-05-25 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Jeff Wentworth Texas "Says he ""restored prayer and the pledge in our schools.""" ['Education', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Religion'] 3 2012-05-25 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Conservative Voters of Texas PAC "Says Larry Taylor gave ""in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 0 2012-05-25 Bruce Hammond Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Jefferson Smith Oregon "Says the city of Portland has one manager for every six ""front-line"" workers." ['City Government', 'Government Efficiency'] 5 2012-05-25 Bruce Hammond Democrat Charles Pope Suzanne Bonamici Oregon "Says ""one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.""" ['Crime', 'Women'] 5 2012-05-25 Jonathan Van Fleet Republican Jake Berry William O'Brien New Hampshire """There’s 400 more people working in health care today in New Hampshire than when we passed the budget.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-05-25 Bill Adair Molly Moorhead Crossroads GPS Says Obama broke his promise to help homeowners facing foreclosure. ['Economy', 'Housing', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-05-25 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Sylvia Romo Texas "Lloyd Doggett ""made millions off companies like Bank of America while they took taxpayer bailout money.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation'] 2 2012-05-25 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says Democratic legislators this year ""don't want to cut your taxes under any circumstances.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2012-05-25 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Corey Stewart Virginia "Prince William County ""has cut violent crime in half"" since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration." ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 2 2012-05-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Colleen Kiernan Georgia """For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2012-05-25 Zack McMillin Democrat Michael Collins Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee "Says U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher ""breaks earmark pledge.""" ['Congress', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-05-24 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says new figures he released showing Wisconsin job gains for 2011 are ""the final job numbers.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Workers'] 1 2012-05-24 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker is ""cooking the books"" by releasing numbers ""he just dreamed up"" that show Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 1 2012-05-24 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher, James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin Since Scott Walker took office as governor in January 2011, there has been an increase of 33,200 jobs in Wisconsin. ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-05-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman American Future Fund """Obama’s flush with cash, returning to Wall Street for even more money. … Wall Street sure supports President Obama.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-05-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "Says under Mitt Romney, ""Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2012-05-24 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ryan Downton Texas Says Paul Workman authored legislation providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. ['Immigration'] 3 2012-05-24 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Don Gaetz Florida "Says he fought for the repeal of a septic tank inspection program after ""Tallahassee pulled a fast one.""" ['Environment', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-05-24 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms John Bradley Texas "Says Williamson County Attorney Jana Duty ""has never prosecuted a single adult felony case.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2012-05-24 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Shelley Adler "Says Jon Runyan voted to ""end programs to aid homeless veterans.""" ['Veterans', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-05-23 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts "Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has ""accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history,"" because it's actually risen ""slower than at any time in nearly 60 years.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Stimulus'] 4 2012-05-23 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Gilberto Hinojosa Texas "Says ""large majority"" of Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim and not U.S.-born." ['Candidate Biography', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 1 2012-05-23 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Justin Hewlett Texas Says the majority of candidates in Texas’ 25th Congressional District live outside the district. ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-05-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano John Kennedy "Hartsfield-Jackson’s new international terminal is opening ""within budget.""" ['Transportation'] 0 2012-05-23 Tim Murphy Republican Tom Mooney Brendan Doherty Rhode Island """Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Pensions', 'Retirement'] 5 2012-05-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Mitt Romney Massachusetts National debt plus unfunded liabilities adds up to $520,000 per American household. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-05-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Colleen Kiernan Georgia """Right now, we have the lowest gas tax of anywhere in the country.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-05-21 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Crossroads GPS """Millions could lose their health care coverage and be forced into a government pool"" under the new health care law." ['Health Care'] 1 2012-05-21 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Ron Davis Texas "Says ""over 40 percent of recent county bonds are for Precinct One, northeast Travis County,"" because he ""is quick to identify projects that help make the East Side a desirable place to live.""" ['County Budget', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-05-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders U.S. Chamber of Commerce """Obamacare could cause 20 million people to lose their current coverage.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-05-21 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, ""we didn’t just slow the rate of growth of our government, we actually cut it.""" ['History', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-05-21 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Cory Booker New Jersey "Says New Jersey’s prison system is ""61 percent African-American even though our state is just 13 percent black.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 5 2012-05-21 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Kasim Reed "The recent process of awarding $3 billion worth of airport vending contracts was the ""most open and transparent procurement process in the city’s history.""" ['Transparency', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-05-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jim Renacci Ohio "Betty Sutton ""gutted Medicare by $500 billion"" with her vote for the president's health care bill." ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-05-20 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Jon Runyan New Jersey "Says ""as we sit right now, Medicare, if we do nothing, will be gone in eight years, if we do nothing to it.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-05-20 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin "Says Democratic recall opponent Mahlon Mitchell sent a letter ""encouraging folks to boycott more than 100 companies.""" ['Corporations', 'Labor', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 3 2012-05-20 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. John Matson Rhode Island """Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Legal Issues', 'Negative Campaigning'] 3 2012-05-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders U.S. Chamber of Commerce """A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-05-18 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Graeme Zielinski Wisconsin "Gov. Scott Walker is helping pay for the criminal defense of a man accused of ""boy rape.""" ['Crime'] 0 2012-05-18 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins, Tom Humphrey Beth Harwell Tennessee "Says in U.S. Congress, members ""don’t even have to be on the floor for debates or votes.""" ['Congress', 'Congressional Rules'] 3 2012-05-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Chris Joyner Brett Bittner Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip ['Transportation'] 2 2012-05-18 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Sherrod Brown Ohio Says Josh Mandel opposed federal loans to the auto industry. ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Negative Campaigning'] 1 2012-05-17 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Mark Neumann Wisconsin """Victory! Republicans by 2 to 1 vote to endorse Mark Neumann on first ballot at GOP convention.""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-05-17 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin "Says he posted a ""win"" in the Republican Party of Wisconsin endorsement contest in the U.S. Senate primary." ['Elections'] 4 2012-05-17 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Crossroads GPS "President Obama ""promised"" families making less than $250,000 a year would not see taxes go up, but ""Obamacare raises 18 different taxes.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-05-17 Aaron Sharockman Katie Sanders Crossroads GPS "Obama promised to cut the deficit by half by the end of his first term but he ""hasn't even come close.""" ['Deficit', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-05-17 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Craig James Texas """Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are negotiating with the United Nations about doing a treaty that will ban the use of firearms.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Guns'] 0 2012-05-17 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lloyd Doggett Texas Says he represents or has represented about half the San Antonio-rooted district in which he seeks election. ['Candidate Biography', 'Redistricting'] 4 2012-05-17 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker said ""no to equal pay for equal work for women.""" ['Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Women', 'Workers'] 1 2012-05-17 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Bill Pascrell New Jersey """New Jersey has the largest transit system in the entire country.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2012-05-17 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Bob Latta Ohio "Says that President Obama promised that with the stimulus plan, ""unemployment would never go above 8 percent. He even said it would be 6 percent by now.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-05-16 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers, Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "After they bought GST Steel, ""Mitt Romney and his partners loaded it with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-05-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "There are ""49 different federal job training programs that report to eight agencies.""" ['Education', 'Government Efficiency', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-05-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Connie Mack Florida Says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obama's jobs bill. ['Candidate Biography', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-05-16 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Chain email "Says President Barack Obama’s finance team is recommending a ""1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution.""" ['Social Security', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-05-15 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Katie Sanders U.S. Chamber of Commerce """20 million people could lose their current coverage"" … ""including our senior citizens who are on Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Tampa Bay 10 News'] 0 2012-05-15 Amy Hollyfield Aaron Sharockman U.S. Chamber of Commerce """Seniors will see $500 billion in Medicare cuts to fund Obamacare.""" ['Elections', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Tampa Bay 10 News'] 2 2012-05-15 Daniel Finnegan, Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia "George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate ""turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Deficit'] 3 2012-05-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Transportation Leadership Coalition "The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority ""concluded that light rail in Cobb County would more than double commute time and would therefore be unsuccessful in alleviating traffic congestion.""" ['Transportation'] 1 2012-05-15 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Samuel Wurzelbacher Ohio Says Marcy Kaptur has attacked his military service and training in the Air Force, showing disrespect for veterans. ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 0 2012-05-14 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children. ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-05-14 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Conservative Renewal PAC Texas """Tom Leppert pledged to make Dallas a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2012-05-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida """Sources show (Connie) Mack as a resident of California, living with his wife in Palm Springs.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-05-14 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Steve Rothman "Says in regard to providing ""more tax cuts for the rich,"" Bill Pascrell said, ""Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas.""" ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-05-14 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio Says the health care reform bill was paid for, in part, by taking money from students and the student loan system. ['Education', 'Health Care'] 3 2012-05-14 Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Joe Biden Delaware """When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2012-05-13 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Chain email "The salaries of Wisconsin’s best-educated public school teachers were ""slashed"" by Gov. Scott Walker through a recent administrative rule change." ['Education', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-05-13 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says in March New Jersey was ""one of only eight states in the nation to lose jobs"" and ""the state with the highest loss of jobs in the nation.""" ['Jobs'] 2 2012-05-13 Susan Areson Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Terry Gorman Rhode Island """When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, they're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job.""" ['Children', 'Civil Rights', 'Education', 'Human Rights', 'Immigration', 'Legal Issues', 'Poverty', 'State Budget', 'Welfare', 'Workers'] 5 2012-05-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "Florida has ""1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf.""" ['Sports'] 4 2012-05-11 Dee Lane Janie Har John Ludlow "Says ""I am happy to decline PERS so that the County can save over $68,000 over a four year term that would have been paid on my behalf.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Retirement'] 3 2012-05-11 Dee Lane Janie Har Mike Schaufler Says Jeff Reardon cut elementary school music classes, art instruction, teaching positions, basketball and volleyball programs, and he voted to raise school lunch prices. ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 2 2012-05-11 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Jennifer Williamson Oregon "Says ""One-third of our healthcare dollars go to wasteful insurance billing and bureaucracy.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health'] 4 2012-05-11 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Marco Rubio Florida "Democrats plan to keep student loan interest rates low  ""by raising taxes on small businesses, very small businesses … the kinds of small businesses that give jobs to graduates.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-05-11 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry Charles Bass New Hampshire """The expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts ... would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, about $4.6 trillion over 10 years.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2012-05-11 John Bridges Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Brigid Shea Texas "Says Lee Leffingwell ""raised property taxes 20 percent in three years.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-05-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says Democratic recall opponent Tom Barrett is campaigning on ""lifting property tax"" limits." ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-05-11 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Frank Lautenberg New Jersey """Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2012-05-11 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Betty Sutton Ohio "Jim Renacci ""voted repeatedly to end Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-05-11 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Tim Kaine Virginia "Says when he was governor, ""we expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent.""" ['Children', 'Education'] 5 2012-05-11 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Charlotte Bergmann Tennessee "Says George Flinn has been a ""no show"" at scheduled ""forums.""" ['Negative Campaigning'] 1 2012-05-11 W. Gardner Selby None Sue Owen Dominic Chavez Texas "Says since 2000, Austin’s ""tax burden"" rose more than 40 percent while family income rose more than 20 percent." ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-05-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Chris Joyner Charlie Flemming Georgia Georgia crackdown on illegal immigration costs state farmers $400 million last year. ['Immigration'] 2 2012-05-10 Dee Lane Ian K. Kullgren Oregon League of Conservation Voters "Says ""Schaufler was the only Democrat who voted to stop"" the state’s health care reform plan." ['Voting Record'] 2 2012-05-10 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Jamie Radtke Virginia "If Congress froze the current spending level and then cut it by 2 percent annually, ""we could balance the budget in five years.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2012-05-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-05-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Gwen Moore Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker approved a ""gutting"" of two tax credits that help the poor and elderly." ['Income', 'Poverty', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-05-10 Suzanne Pavkovic Democrat Caryn Shinske Lou Greenwald New Jersey "New Jersey has ""the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little. They are the highest property taxes in the nation, more than double the national average.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-05-09 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Joe Donnelly Indiana Says he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House. ['Voting Record'] 2 2012-05-09 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill Spelman Texas "Says challenger Dominic Chavez is a ""Rick Perry Republican"" lobbyist." ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2012-05-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Freedom PAC Florida "U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson ""chose to side with President Obama"" against the Keystone pipeline" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-05-09 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ben Wear Brigid Shea Texas Says Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac. ['Transportation'] 5 2012-05-09 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Shaun Ireland "Says no Austin City Council ""member lives south of"" Lady Bird Lake ""or north of 45th Street.""" ['City Government'] 4 2012-05-09 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate.""" ['Congress', 'Elections'] 5 2012-05-09 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Nia Gill New Jersey """There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades.""" ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-05-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Georgia Family Council Crime rises in communities with casinos. ['Crime', 'Gambling'] 3 2012-05-09 Robert Higgs Henry J. Gomez National Republican Congressional Committee "Says that Rep. Betty Sutton ""would rather riot with Occupy (Wall Street) than stand up for Ohio families.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Poverty', 'Wealth'] 0 2012-05-08 Bill Adair Molly Moorhead National Right to Life Committee "The Obama White House recognizes a ""baby that has not been born"" for security purposes." ['Abortion'] 2 2012-05-08 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney ""has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Civil Rights', 'Supreme Court', 'Women'] 4 2012-05-08 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "Mitt Romney has ""proposed cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million working families.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2012-05-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Joshua Gillin WrongWayRubio.com Florida "Says that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says troops are leaving Iraq ""too fast.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Iraq'] 5 2012-05-08 Dee Lane Janie Har John Ludlow "Says he ""is the only candidate in the race for Clackamas County Chair who will refuse to join the Public Employees Retirement System.""" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Workers'] 5 2012-05-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says Mitt Romney is proposing a ""tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-05-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Saxby Chambliss Georgia Each U.S. House member who voted to overhaul Social Security in 1983 was re-elected. ['Bipartisanship', 'Social Security'] 3 2012-05-08 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Mike Foley Ohio "Says Ohio law gives tax breaks ""to rich people who own private jets.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-05-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. (Creating 115,000 jobs, the total from April 2012) is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-05-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Louis Jacobson, Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman Rudy Moise Florida "The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a ""staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent.""" ['Children', 'Education'] 1 2012-05-07 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Jana Duty Texas Says Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley reduces 36 percent of felonies to misdemeanors and hands them off to her. ['Crime'] 2 2012-05-07 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Anthony Bucco New Jersey "Says ""an unchecked Democratic Majority in Trenton"" is responsible for ""years of diversions"" from the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund." ['State Budget'] 2 2012-05-07 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "The U.S. economy is ""recovering slower than Europe """ ['Economy'] 1 2012-05-07 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio Says the average Ohio student graduates from a four-year college or university with nearly $27,000 in tuition debt. ['Education'] 3 2012-05-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Hank Johnson Georgia """The United States imprisons more than any nation in the world.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 3 2012-05-06 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker ""has caused Wisconsin to lose more jobs than any other state in the country.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 3 2012-05-06 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Loretta Weinberg "Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal ""would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-05-06 Bill Adair, Tom Chester Democrat Zack McMillin A C Wharton Tennessee """We will not ask for a tax increase to run city government.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-05-06 Susan Areson Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Transportation'] 1 2012-05-05 Dee Lane None Janie Har Charlie Hales Oregon "Says ""I never billed a single hour of my time to the City of Portland in the last 10 years -- so, no revolving door.""" ['City Government', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-05-05 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Jefferson Smith Oregon "Says the mayor’s job ""is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we don’t have, we don't say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to.""" ['City Government', 'Government regulation', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Water'] 1 2012-05-05 Dee Lane Janie Har Eileen Brady Says we could have saved ourselves the cost of building the Powell Butte water reservoir. ['City Government', 'Government regulation', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Regulation', 'Water'] 1 2012-05-05 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Jefferson Smith Oregon "Says  ""I don’t agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics.""" ['City Government', 'Government regulation', 'Housing', 'Infrastructure', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-05-05 Dee Lane None Janie Har Charlie Hales Oregon "Say that under state law, ""systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment.""" ['Infrastructure', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-05-05 Dee Lane Janie Har Eileen Brady Says she is co-owner of Celilo Group Media. ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-05-04 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double.""" ['Education'] 1 2012-05-04 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Eric Hovde """The failed economic policies"" of President Barack Obama, the Democrats and the Federal Reserve ""are making gas prices higher while America’s economy is running on fumes.""" ['Gas Prices'] 2 2012-05-04 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Chain email "Says President Barack Obama ""added"" $6.5 trillion to the national debt in his first term, more than the $6.3 trillion added by the previous 43 presidents combined." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-05-04 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins Scott DesJarlais Tennessee """The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-05-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano Citizens for Transportation Mobility Georgia """When housing and transportation costs are combined, Atlanta’s cost of living -- typically perceived as relatively low -- ranks as 7th worst out of 51 metros nationally.""" ['Transportation'] 3 2012-05-04 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Bill Johnson Ohio Says the oil industry subsidies that President Barack Obama is attacking don’t exist ['Energy', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-05-04 Dee Lane Janie Har Amanda Fritz "Says she is ""saving ratepayers $6 million/year.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Water'] 1 2012-05-03 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Americans for Prosperity "Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as  ""tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-05-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Toluse Olorunnipa, Katie Sanders Jennifer Carroll Florida """We didn’t go out asking people"" to join the ""stand your ground"" task force." ['Crime', 'Public Safety'] 1 2012-05-03 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Americans for Prosperity "Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as ""half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 1 2012-05-03 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields Kevin DeWine Ohio Since 2009, the Ohio Republican Party has made more contacts with voters — nearly 6.6 million — than any other GOP state organization in the nation. ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2012-05-03 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mike Martinez Texas """Over the history of Austin, it’s always gotten more expensive.""" ['Economy', 'History'] 2 2012-05-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Frank Lautenberg New Jersey "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.""" ['Crime', 'Guns', 'Women'] 5 2012-05-03 Susan Areson State official Alex Kuffner David Dooley Rhode Island """We have to recognize that our salaries for faculty are the lowest in New England with the exception of the University of Maine.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-05-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee U.S. Rep. Allen West wants to bring back earmarks. ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget', 'Trade'] 2 2012-05-02 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Americans for Prosperity "Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as ""$1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Government Efficiency', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 0 2012-05-02 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kathleen Falk "Wisconsin women ""are paid 81 cents to the dollar of a man doing the same job.""" ['Economy', 'Labor', 'Legal Issues', 'Women'] 1 2012-05-02 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Barbara Buono New Jersey """Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2012-05-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Peter Krouse Sherrod Brown Ohio "Says excessive speculation is pushing up oil prices and a recent report estimates it ""adds 56 cents to every gallon of gasoline siphoned from the pump.""" ['Economy', 'Energy'] 4 2012-05-02 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Saxby Chambliss Georgia The fastest-rising expense in the U.S. Defense Department is health care. ['Health Care', 'Military'] 5 2012-05-01 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Mary Nolan Oregon "Says ""Amanda Fritz publicly claimed to be endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, both on her website and in the voter’s guide.""" ['City Government', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Women'] 3 2012-05-01 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson American Crossroads """After four years of a celebrity president … 85% (of recent college grads are) moving back in with their parents.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-05-01 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Lee Leffingwell Texas "Says ""Austin has the lowest property tax rate by far of the five major cities in Texas.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Housing', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-05-01 Bill Adair, Tom Chester Democrat Zack McMillin Joe Brown Tennessee """Nobody is leaving Memphis. That's a myth.""" ['Census', 'Population', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-05-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "Before the HOPE scholarship, ""70 percent of the high school students who made 1400 or above on their SAT left the state of Georgia. Now, 70 percent of those stay in the state of Georgia.""" ['Education'] 2 2012-05-01 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """Student loan rates set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-04-30 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois Says Mitt Romney's comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden. ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Terrorism'] 3 2012-04-30 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Pat Quinn Illinois "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget ""calls for raising property taxes by nearly $500 billion.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-04-30 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Steve Rothman "Says ""Bill Pascrell voted to eliminate all estate taxes for billionaires, and I voted no.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-04-30 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Chain email "Says the Department of Homeland Security has ordered ""enough rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to kill every man, woman and child in the United States,"" possibly to combat ""massive civil unrest"" or ""an invasion by a foreign power.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Military'] 2 2012-04-30 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Michael Turner Ohio "Some ""20,000 Delphi salaried retirees lost up to 70 percent of their pensions"" as a result of ""political favoritism and backroom deals.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 2 2012-04-29 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey """In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-04-29 Tim Murphy Alex Kuffner National Republican Congressional Committee "Gas prices have gone up 99 percent since Obama became president, ""the highest gas price increase since Carter.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 2 2012-04-27 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "The Wisconsin law repealed by Republicans, which allowed discriminated workers to sue in state court, ""was kind of a gravy train"" for lawyers." ['Civil Rights', 'Disability', 'Legal Issues', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2012-04-27 Dee Lane None Janie Har Charlie Hales Oregon "Says ""I worked with our Mayor and other commissioners to help save the school year when a budget crisis in Salem threatened to cut four weeks of the school year,"" including  negotiating with teachers to work for free." ['City Government', 'Education', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-04-27 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now.""" ['Economy', 'Workers'] 4 2012-04-27 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas """Just on Jan. 1 of this year, there were 40,000 new laws put on the books in one day.""" ['Legal Issues', 'States'] 1 2012-04-27 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts Says Mitt Romney’s top five donors are Wall Street firms, while Barack Obama’s top five are technology companies and universities. ['Campaign Finance'] 3 2012-04-27 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Medical Society Wisconsin Under a new law, doctors performing drug-induced abortions could be charged if women don’t return to them for follow-up care ['Abortion', 'Legal Issues', 'Women'] 1 2012-04-27 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Samuel Wurzelbacher Ohio Says President Barack Obama's parents were communists. ['Elections'] 1 2012-04-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Citizens for Transportation Mobility Georgia "The average Atlanta resident ""spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2012-04-27 Zack McMillin Republican Tom Humphrey Bill Haslam Tennessee """Personal income is growing faster in Tennessee on average than any other state in the country.""" ['Economy', 'Income'] 1 2012-04-27 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars. ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Human Rights', 'Israel'] 1 2012-04-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "In the ""Obama economy ... the youth unemployment rate is double the unemployment rate for all Americans.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-04-26 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Under Republican economic policies, ""the typical American family saw their incomes fall by about 6 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Families'] 3 2012-04-26 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Donna Howard Texas "Says legislative cuts mean Texas is ""spending on average $500 less per student.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-04-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman, Bartholomew Sullivan Tom Rooney Florida "A proposed U.S. Labor Department rule for children working on farms ""would even ban youth from operating a battery-powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose.""" ['Agriculture', 'Children', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Families', 'Labor'] 2 2012-04-26 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill R2RMerge "Says George Norcross said the ""TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$.""" ['Education', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-04-26 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """The Democrat-controlled Senate, it hasn't passed a budget in more than 1,000 days.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2012-04-26 Dee Lane Janie Har Amanda Fritz "Says ""my advocacy questioning contracting out in Parks … delayed and altered the renewal of the Brooks contract, and reduced the number of contracted employees in Parks from over 100 to fewer than 40.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2012-04-25 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen, Ben Wear Clay Dafoe "Says bus riders subsidize the ""expensive, romanticized"" Leander-to-Austin train." ['Corrections and Updates', 'Transportation'] 1 2012-04-25 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida """I have always said that I would be for drilling.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Climate Change', 'Energy'] 0 2012-04-25 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """Bank of America could create 878,300 jobs with benefits if they spent their 2010 bonuses on job creation.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Jobs', 'Occupy Wall Street'] 0 2012-04-25 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin "Says she made a ""cold call"" and persuaded an Illinois company to relocate to Wisconsin." ['Corrections and Updates', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-04-25 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Sheila Oliver New Jersey "Says ""$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state"" for a family." ['Families', 'Income'] 1 2012-04-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus H. Ford Gravitt Georgia """We don’t allow filming inside of the City Hall unless there is a specific reason.""" ['City Government', 'Transparency'] 1 2012-04-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Kim Wilmath Forbes blog """The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department ... Meanwhile, the athletic budget for the current year is $97.7 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year.""" ['Education', 'Sports', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-04-24 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The total unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino workers has increased from 10% to 10.3%"" between January 2009 and March 2012." ['Jobs'] 2 2012-04-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Bill Nelson Florida "At the same time gas prices have increased, ""the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years.""" ['Energy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Gas Prices'] 3 2012-04-24 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Jack Kingston Georgia "Under President Barack Obama’s watch, ""oil production on federal lands has decreased 14 percent over the past year.""" ['Energy'] 3 2012-04-24 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Mary Nolan Oregon Says more than 8,000 people have supported her campaign as volunteers, donors and advisors and endorsers. ['Message Machine 2012', 'Unions'] 3 2012-04-23 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "In the past three years, ""we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 5 2012-04-23 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Tavis Smiley California """One out of two Americans … are living either in or near poverty. That means 150 million Americans, half of us.""" ['Economy', 'Poverty', 'Welfare'] 3 2012-04-23 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Ted Nugent Texas """We’ve got four Supreme Court justices who … signed their name to a declaration that Americans have no fundamental right to self-defense.""" ['Guns', 'Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2012-04-23 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill John Wisniewski New Jersey """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.""" ['Income', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-04-23 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio "The Buffett Rule ""will bring in less than $5 billion per year. ... Enough to pay one week’s interest on the national debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-04-23 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Frank Wolf Virginia "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.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2012-04-23 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Michael Adams "Georgia’s HOPE scholarship is ""still the richest scholarship program in America.""" ['Education'] 3 2012-04-22 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Kathleen Falk "Says Gov. Scott Walker signed abortion, sex education and discrimination bills ""in secret.""" ['Transparency', 'Women'] 2 2012-04-22 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Raymond Bateman "Says ""Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line.""" ['History'] 1 2012-04-22 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Lee Logan Ron Oakley Florida "Ron Oakley's ""conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats"" as the Water Management District’s budget decreased by ""58 percent in the four years he served on the board.""" ['Taxes', 'Water'] 2 2012-04-22 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this president’s term.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Elections', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Small Business'] 3 2012-04-20 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """President Obama's suggested reduction in spending for next year: $0.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2012-04-20 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Chain email Says there is an upcoming vote to preserve benefits of Texas homestead exemption for seniors and the disabled. ['Elections', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-04-20 Dee Lane Janie Har Ellen Rosenblum Says Dwight Holton has never set foot in an Oregon courtroom. ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-04-20 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms David Dewhurst Texas Says that when adjusted for inflation and population growth, state general revenue spending has decreased 10.7 percent on his watch. ['State Budget'] 3 2012-04-20 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas "David Dewhurst ""has never once cut one penny from the state budget.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2012-04-20 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Tom Graves """The federal government owns tens of thousands of properties that are vacant or underused.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 5 2012-04-20 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Sara Stevenson Texas """The Austin school district calendar lists 64 different dates for either a state-mandated test or make-up test.""" ['Education'] 2 2012-04-20 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Mike Dovilla Ohio """Tourism accounts for 439,000 jobs in the state of Ohio, and visitors spend $36 billion annually.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Tourism'] 5 2012-04-19 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts """In 1993 the Republicans embraced a health platform that proudly features an individual mandate as its main component.""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-04-19 Dee Lane Janie Har Dwight Holton "Says Ellen Rosenblum ""has said over and over again that this is a job where 80 percent of the job is being the government’s lawyer.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-04-19 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas Says Ted Cruz represents a Chinese company found guilty of stealing blueprints from an American manufacturer. ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-04-19 Aaron Sharockman Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Stephen Koff, Molly Moorhead American Energy Alliance "Gas prices have doubled because ""Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Gas Prices', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-04-19 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, ""it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Iraq'] 1 2012-04-19 Zack McMillin Democrat Michael Collins Jim Cooper Tennessee """Congress as a whole is less popular than it’s been since polling was invented.""" ['Congress', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 5 2012-04-19 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Jennifer Beck """The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2012-04-19 Robert Higgs Aaron Marshall AARP """Large phone companies and their trade association have hired 35 registered lobbyists to influence and pass SB 271 (deregulation legislation).""" ['Government regulation'] 4 2012-04-19 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Chain email """The ACLU has filed a suit to end prayer from the military completely.""" ['Military', 'Religion'] 0 2012-04-19 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Jon O'Brien """Only 14 percent of Catholics agree with the Vatican's position that abortion should be illegal.""" ['Abortion', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Religion', 'Women'] 4 2012-04-18 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois """We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration.""" ['Bush Administration', 'China', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Trade'] 3 2012-04-18 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Jamie Radtke Virginia "George Allen ""voted for 40,000 earmarks.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-04-18 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer AFSCME "In labor negotiations with city employees, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett ""demanded concessions that went beyond those mandated"" by Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law" ['City Budget', 'Labor'] 2 2012-04-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Anonymous Flier "A proposed regional transportation tax will last ""a minimum"" of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer." ['Transportation'] 1 2012-04-17 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Scott Florida """We are at a 40-year low in our crime rate in our state.""" ['Crime'] 5 2012-04-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Greg Abbott Texas Says his Texas election fraud investigations have resulted in 50 convictions. ['Crime', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2012-04-17 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Lisa Tomasso Rhode Island """Rhode Island’s exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years.""" ['Economy', 'States', 'Trade'] 5 2012-04-17 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Mike Dovilla Ohio "Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant ""we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump.""" ['Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 1 2012-04-17 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Roger Williams Texas """The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded ObamaCare will cost the U.S. more than 800,000 jobs.""" ['Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-04-16 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Wayne LaPierre """By the time I finish this speech, two Americans will be slain, six women will be raped, 27 of us will be robbed, and 50 more will be beaten.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Crime'] 4 2012-04-16 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom Leppert Texas Says opponent Ted Cruz has not led businesses. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2012-04-16 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Joe Biden Delaware """The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon — other than these drug gangs taking on one another — end up being shot with their own weapon.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-04-16 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill BettyLou DeCroce """While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010.""" ['Income', 'Jobs', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-04-16 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet None Eric Stirgus Clarence Thomas Georgia The U.S. Supreme Court has not traditionally asked a lot of questions during oral arguments. ['Supreme Court'] 5 2012-04-15 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says his sons were ""targeted"" on Facebook ""by out-of-state protesters.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Privacy'] 3 2012-04-15 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Facebook posts """In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.""" ['Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 0 2012-04-15 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Barry Hinckley Rhode Island "The ""Buffett rule"" ""raises virtually no money, maybe a day and a half of our borrowing per year.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-04-15 Zack McMillin Bartholomew Sullivan Lamar Alexander """This rule could prevent children under 18 from using such tools as a power screwdriver, a milking machine or something as simple as a wheelbarrow on the family farm . . . """ ['Agriculture', 'Children', 'Labor'] 2 2012-04-15 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Republican Eric Stirgus Josh McKoon Georgia "Georgia is one of three states that ""effectively have no regulations whatsoever on lobbyists giving to legislators.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2012-04-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware "The 30 percent tax rate called for under President Barack Obama’s proposed Buffett Rule ""is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already -- not just for millionaires, for people making over $200,000.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-04-13 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Peter DeFazio Oregon 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. ['Federal Budget'] 5 2012-04-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Mary Ellen Klas, Katie Sanders Will Weatherford Florida """It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 4 2012-04-13 Bill Adair Becky Bowers Crossroads GPS "Says oil ""production's down where Obama's in charge.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Energy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2012-04-13 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Connie Mack Florida "Says Sen. Bill Nelson voted to spend ""$144,541 to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine.""" ['Drugs', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus', 'Tampa Bay 10 News'] 2 2012-04-13 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Bob McDonnell Virginia "Says a bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions ""was supported by Republicans and Democrats.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2012-04-13 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Kathleen Falk """Together we added more jobs than any other area"" while I was Dane County executive." ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-04-13 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Renacci Ohio """Since President Obama took office, our federal spending has increased by nearly 30 percent and our national debt has increased by almost 50 percent.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-04-13 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Willoughby Mariano Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network """[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 5 2012-04-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """What president has the worst record on female labor force participation? Barack Obama.""" ['History', 'Labor', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2012-04-12 Dee Lane Janie Har Ted Wheeler "Says the treasurer’s office has ""saved $37 million in management costs for the oversight of public investments.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 2 2012-04-12 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Susan Combs Texas The 2011 Legislature did not cut Texas public school funding. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 0 2012-04-12 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. "Says ""unemployment tripled"" in Dane County due to Kathleen Falk’s tax policies" ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-04-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey "Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek ""took us into arbitration.""" ['City Government'] 1 2012-04-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey "Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek ""froze all those monies during the toughest years in ‘08-’09"" and ""refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract.""" ['City Government'] 4 2012-04-12 Zack McMillin Republican Tom Humphrey Matthew Hill Tennessee "Says abortion doctors are ""flying into this state, performing abortions and flying out.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-04-12 Jane Kahoun Becky Bowers, Stephen Koff National Republican Senatorial Committee "Sen. Sherrod Brown’s vote helped pass ""Barack Obama’s job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-04-12 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mike Huckabee Arkansas President Obama's refusal to grant permits for offshore drilling is one reason gasoline prices are soaring. ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Gas Prices', 'Pundits'] 0 2012-04-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "About 78 to 81 House Democrats ""are members of the Communist Party. ... It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2012-04-11 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Elizabeth Ames Jones Texas Says she balanced a $10 billion budget shortfall without raising taxes. ['Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-04-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. "Mayor Tom Barrett’s policies drove unemployment up 27 percent in Milwaukee, pushing it to ""one of America’s 10 worst cities for unemployment.""" ['City Budget', 'Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-04-11 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey "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.""" ['Energy'] 5 2012-04-11 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2012-04-11 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Charlie Gonzalez Texas Says that Mitt Romney, while he was in Arizona, said he believes the state’s SB 1070 immigration law should be the model for national immigration laws. ['Immigration'] 1 2012-04-11 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Republican Willoughby Mariano Johnny Isakson Georgia "The Keystone oil pipeline ""would employ 20,000 people in the United States.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-04-10 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead, Adam Offitzer Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Women account for 92.3 percent of the jobs lost under Obama.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Jobs', 'Women'] 2 2012-04-10 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """98 percent of American families"" make ""under $250,000 a year.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-04-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin "President Barack Obama ""has doubled the size of government since he took office.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget'] 0 2012-04-10 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Jefferson Smith Oregon "Says ""at the state level we're spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety, health care and education combined.""" ['Education', 'Health Care', 'Public Safety', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-04-10 Martha M. Hamilton Becky Bowers Chain email """Why was there no news coverage of this raid on the Arizona border? … Seizure was just five days ago. Right on the Arizona border!""" ['Immigration'] 0 2012-04-10 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms David Dewhurst Texas """6.4 million more Americans living in poverty under President Obama.""" ['Economy', 'Poverty'] 3 2012-04-10 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kathleen Falk "Says Wisconsin women facing pay discrimination can't ""do something about it"" under bill passed by Republicans." ['Civil Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Women', 'Workers'] 1 2012-04-10 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Gary Black Georgia """Lean, finely textured beef is the proper name [not pink slime], and it is a safe, widely used product.""" ['Food Safety'] 4 2012-04-10 Jane Kahoun Democrat Reginald Fields Sandra Williams Ohio """99.97 percent of the kids live in poverty that attend Cleveland public schools.""" ['Education', 'Poverty'] 3 2012-04-09 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Becky Bowers Joe Biden Delaware """General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 1 2012-04-09 Zack McMillin Republican Elijah Herington Weston Wamp Tennessee """The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.""" ['Congress'] 5 2012-04-09 Warren Fiske Democrat Warren Fiske, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Under President Obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high.""" ['Energy'] 4 2012-04-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Vern Buchanan Florida "Says the Obama administration ""will no longer enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 3 2012-04-09 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """We gave every public employee in the state the freedom to choose whether or not they want to be in a union.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-04-09 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill John Burzichelli "Says in the governor’s proposed budget ""the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2012-04-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal """As the usage [of synthetic marijuana] has dramatically increased, instances of violence, bodily harm and even death have risen with it.""" ['Drugs', 'Marijuana'] 4 2012-04-09 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Morgan Griffith Virginia """On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.""" ['History', 'States'] 1 2012-04-09 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Eric Kearney Ohio "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.""" ['Elections', 'Government regulation'] 5 2012-04-08 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Eric Hovde "Says Obama health reform law denies millions ""access to affordable insurance.""" ['Health Care', 'Workers'] 1 2012-04-08 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Amy Handlin New Jersey "Says under the Affordable Care Act, New Jersey’s ""new (Medicaid) enrollees won’t qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before 2014.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 2 2012-04-08 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Jeffrey Hernandez Says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida. ['City Budget', 'Education', 'Florida'] 3 2012-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "Under the House Republican budget, ""if these cuts were to be spread out evenly … the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-04-06 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins James Durkan Tennessee "Adding ethanol to gas ""raises food costs.""" ['Agriculture', 'Energy'] 4 2012-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says Obama has failed to pass a budget. ['Federal Budget'] 2 2012-04-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Priorities USA Action """Mitt Romney’s pledged to protect (oil companies') record profits – and their billions in special tax breaks, too.""" ['Energy', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-04-06 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer AFSCME Says gubernatorial recall candidate Tom Barrett supported passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s bill stripping collective bargaining of state employees. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-04-05 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-04-05 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-04-05 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Lenny Curry Florida """Before this law, any group could go out anywhere, register voters, sit on the voter registration forms for unlimited amount of time.""" ['Elections'] 2 2012-04-05 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. """In his very first budget, (Milwaukee) Mayor Tom Barrett broke his pledge to keep a lid on property taxes and has continued increasing taxes and fees ever since.""" ['City Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-04-05 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """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.""" ['Education', 'Unions'] 5 2012-04-05 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Donna Campbell Texas Says Jeff Wentworth was the only Republican to vote against the Texas measure requiring women to have a sonogram before receiving an abortion. ['Abortion'] 4 2012-04-05 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown opposed blocking a new EPA emissions rule, ""despite acknowledging that the EPA's cap-and-trade regulations are ‘burdensome’ and could harm economic growth in Ohio.""" ['Economy', 'Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-04-05 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Doreen Costa Rhode Island """This is the only state in the country that bypassed the General Assembly to authorize [in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants].""" ['Education', 'Immigration', 'States'] 5 2012-04-04 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas Says Barack Obama has played over 90 rounds of golf as president. ['Economy', 'Poverty', 'Recreation'] 5 2012-04-04 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Says Ronald Reagan ""understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-04-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead, Aaron Sharockman Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama ""is the only president to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-04-04 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it ""would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2012-04-04 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen Chain email Says Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States. ['History', 'Military', 'States'] 0 2012-04-04 Amy Hollyfield Aaron Sharockman Facebook posts """Richard Hayne, president and CEO of Urban Outfitters … (is) a supporter of Rick Santorum and donated over $13,000 to him.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Families', 'Pop Culture'] 3 2012-04-04 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Donald Verrilli "Says when New Jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates ""doubled or tripled"" and enrollment dropped from 180,000 people to 80,000 people." ['Health Care', 'States'] 4 2012-04-04 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Scott Lingamfelter Virginia "Tim Kaine ""reduced higher education funding by 25 percent when he was governor, driving up tuition...""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2012-04-04 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Brigid Shea Texas "In ""the past 10 years, our (Austin) water rates have increased by 100 percent and we now have the highest water cost of the top 10 cities in Texas.""" ['Water'] 4 2012-04-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Rashad Taylor Georgia """More children die in agricultural jobs than in any other industry.""" ['Children', 'Labor'] 5 2012-04-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers, Adam Offitzer Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught.""" ['Education', 'History'] 1 2012-04-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence "The Florida Department of Agriculture’s website FreshFromFlorida.com can be used ""to get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house.""" ['Guns'] 1 2012-04-03 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Charlie Hales Oregon "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.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2012-04-03 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "Says Ohio Treasurer Josh ""Mandel first claimed bank fraud in June 2010 but did nothing for more than a year while raising money for his (Republican) Senate campaign.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 0 2012-04-03 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rosemary Lehmberg Texas "Says she ""created the first felony deferred prosecution program for nonviolent first-offenders"" in Texas." ['County Government', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Legal Issues', 'Public Safety'] 2 2012-04-03 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Stacey Abrams """We have the lowest per-capita spending of any state in the nation"" except for South Dakota." ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2012-04-03 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email """Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460.""" ['Congress', 'Elections', 'Stimulus'] 3 2012-04-02 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead American Energy Alliance """Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska.""" ['Environment', 'Gas Prices', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-04-02 Dee Lane Janie Har Tim Knopp "Says ""today unemployment has been running near 12 percent or more for the last four years"" and the Legislature hasn’t done much to lower it." ['Jobs'] 3 2012-04-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "Last year, ""Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy'] 5 2012-04-02 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "Says Barack Obama's health care law ""will be the biggest job-killer ever.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-04-02 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert New Jersey Republican State Committee New Jersey """And the #jerseycomeback keeps rolling! Thanks to @GovChristie NJ now has lowest corruption risk of any state.""" ['Ethics'] 1 2012-04-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Eric Johnson """Obama tells Russia that he'll turn over America's defense system to them if re-elected.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 0 2012-04-02 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """Last year, we produced 14 percent less oil on public lands than we did the year before.""" ['Energy'] 4 2012-04-01 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Frank LoBiondo "Says ""new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office conclude the final price-tag"" for the health care law ""will exceed $2 trillion — more than double what was initially reported.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-04-01 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Alex Kuffner John Elkhay Rhode Island "If Rhode Island raises the meal and beverage tax to 10 percent, it would be the ""fourth-highest in the nation.""" ['City Budget', 'Economy', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-03-30 Dee Lane Republican Ian K. Kullgren Jeff Kruse Oregon "Says ""for the duration of this recession not a single person in government middle management has lost (a) job or taken a pay cut.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 0 2012-03-30 Bill Adair Rob Feinberg, Louis Jacobson Andrew Napolitano "A bill that could restrict free speech when the president is nearby was signed by President Barack Obama ""in secret.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Legal Issues', 'Transparency'] 0 2012-03-30 John Bridges Democrat Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Charlie Baird Texas """We've had the same leadership in the Travis County DA's office for 30 years.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2012-03-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Lynn Westmoreland """There is not one single federal housing program yet that has not needed a bailout to survive.""" ['Housing'] 3 2012-03-30 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Marsha Blackburn Tennessee "Says President Obama and his allies in Congress gave ""power"" to control Medicare patients’ health care decisions to ""a commission of 15 unelected bureaucrats in Washington.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-03-29 Dee Lane None Janie Har Lars Larson Oregon """Every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds, your chances of dying are going to go up by about 5 percent. Peel three hundred pounds off – you’re 15 percent more likely to die in that car.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Regulation', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-03-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Polls show Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare, especially the individual mandate.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2012-03-29 W. Gardner Selby None Sue Owen Michelle Malkin Colorado "Says Gloria Steinem once called Kay Bailey Hutchison a ""female impersonator.""" ['Abortion', 'Congress', 'Women'] 5 2012-03-29 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Bill Pascrell New Jersey Says Congressman Steve Rothman voted against funding for President Barack Obama’s auto bailout and would have let automakers go bankrupt. ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-03-29 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Pat Boone """Medicare will be bankrupt in nine years.""" ['Medicare'] 1 2012-03-29 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Dolores Gresham Tennessee """Right now we have sufficient reserves to take care of Tennessee's lottery scholarship students for a few years more.""" ['Deficit', 'Lottery', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-03-28 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas. ['Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2012-03-28 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Graeme Zielinski Wisconsin "Says the Wisconsin Republican Party tweeted ""Happy International Women's Day! You ladies should get paid less and not be able to make health care decisions.""" ['Crime'] 0 2012-03-28 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "Says U.S. Rep. Connie Mack ""took seven and a half years to finish college.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Education'] 2 2012-03-28 W. Gardner Selby Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Chain email "Says a Barack Obama ""black imposter"" joke got a standing ovation at San Angelo rodeo." ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2012-03-28 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says Mitt Romney said ""we are going to have to live with high gas prices, it's a good thing because it will reduce consumption, we don't want to produce any more gasoline.""" ['Gas Prices'] 3 2012-03-28 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Steve Rothman "Says Congressman Bill Pascrell ""voted to remove the public option from the Affordable Health Care Act.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-03-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Nan Orrock Georgia """The state [food stamp call center] program is administered from foreign shores.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2012-03-28 Robert Higgs None Aaron Marshall Ohio Federation of Teachers Ohio """The (Jackson) plan (for reforming Cleveland schools) lacks any data or methods proven to raise student achievement.""" ['Education'] 2 2012-03-28 Tim Murphy Democrat Edward Fitzpatrick Harold Metts Rhode Island "Says when Rhode Island Lottery was proposed, ""state residents were enticed to vote for it with the promise that the money would be used for education.""" ['Education', 'Gambling', 'History', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-03-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Senate Republican Conference Washington, D.C. """Up to 80 percent of small businesses will be forced to give up their current plans due to new Obamacare regulations.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Small Business', 'Workers'] 3 2012-03-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "President Barack Obama ""reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-03-27 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Jimmie T. Smith Florida """It was found unconstitutional to drug test elected officials because it prevents us, as citizens, from having that First Amendment right.""" ['Drugs'] 1 2012-03-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Tom Price Georgia "New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul ""will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-03-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Senate Republican Conference Washington, D.C. "Says that while President Barack Obama promised to ""work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year,"" his health care law ""raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-03-26 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Amy Sherman Christopher L. Smith Florida "Since Florida passed the ""stand your ground"" law in 2005, deaths due to self-defense have jumped over 250 percent." ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 3 2012-03-26 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says when he was governor, Wisconsin cut unemployment to 2.1 percent and the state’s unemployment rate was ""the lowest in the country for 40 consecutive months.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-03-26 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey "Says under the new health care law ""the patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2012-03-26 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen, Molly Moorhead Robert Hurt Virginia "The CBO says the cost of health care reform will rise to $1.8 trillion, ""increasing the price to far greater than the $900 billion"" originally projected." ['Health Care'] 2 2012-03-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Brian Robinson Georgia "The changes to Georgia’s tax and fee structure ""is an overall tax cut.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-03-26 Jane Kahoun Democrat Peter Krouse Marcy Kaptur Ohio """The poorest in this country are women.""" ['Families', 'Poverty', 'Women'] 5 2012-03-25 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Glenn Grothman Wisconsin "Says a study shows that children who live with a biological parent and the parent's boyfriend or girlfriend ""have a 20 times greater chance of being sexually abused.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Families', 'Marriage'] 5 2012-03-25 Suzanne Pavkovic Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey Says he and President Barack Obama have the same position on gay marriage. ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 3 2012-03-25 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Peter Palumbo Rhode Island """Every poll you see, the overwhelming majority of people want [E-Verify].""" ['Immigration', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Workers'] 5 2012-03-24 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Elliott Naishtat Texas """Nearly 45 percent of the women who receive health screenings through (the Women’s Health Program) do so at a Planned Parenthood health center.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Women'] 3 2012-03-24 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Elliott Naishtat Texas """More than half of the births in Texas are paid for by Medicaid.""" ['Children', 'Medicaid'] 5 2012-03-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Dennis Baxley Florida """We’ve had a dramatic drop in violent crime since this law (‘stand your ground’) has been in effect.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 3 2012-03-23 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Peter DeFazio Oregon Says only seven percent of 2009’s stimulus bill went toward transportation projects, yet they created over one-third of the bill’s total jobs. ['Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-03-23 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Reince Priebus Wisconsin "According to the Congressional Budget Office, ""as many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-based insurance thanks to Obamacare.""" ['Health Care', 'Workers'] 3 2012-03-23 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry New Hampshire Republican Party New Hampshire Says former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter refused to host town hall meetings during her time in Congress. ['Job Accomplishments', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Transparency'] 2 2012-03-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says that in fiscal year 2010, ""nearly 80 percent of women served"" in the Texas Women’s Health Program received services from a provider other than a Planned Parenthood clinic." ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Women'] 3 2012-03-23 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Jim Moran Virginia """And the revenue generated by drilling off Virginia’s coast? $40 million over 10 years.""" ['Energy', 'State Finances'] 2 2012-03-23 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Sheila Oliver New Jersey "Says ""New Jersey has the most educated population of all the states in this country.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-03-23 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network "Metro Atlantans spend ""over an hour every day"" or ""five hours a week"" commuting, for a total of ""260 hours a year.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-03-23 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """New business startups are at the lowest levels in 30 years.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-03-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Arthenia Joyner Florida """When we passed (the stand your ground law), we said it portends horrific events when people's lives were put into these situations.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 5 2012-03-22 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead American Bridge 21st Century Says Romney flip-flopped on abortion. ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-03-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "The RESTORE Act started as an ""effort to dedicate as much BP fine money as possible towards Gulf Coast restoration"" but now ""could steer money to places like the Great Lakes and West Coast.""" ['Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2012-03-22 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Republican Sabrina Eaton, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Barack Obama is ""ending Medicare as we know it.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 0 2012-03-22 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Jefferson Smith Oregon "Says ""we got a chance to pass what I think is Oregon's first human trafficking bill which has increased by 66 percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline.""" ['Human Rights'] 2 2012-03-22 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Susan Cole """New Jersey loses net, that is minus those who come into the state, 30,000 students a year.""" ['Education'] 5 2012-03-22 Meghan Ashford-Grooms Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas Says gas costs $4.50 a gallon. ['Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 2 2012-03-22 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton, Rich Exner Marcy Kaptur Ohio Says Lake Erie contains more native fish than all the other Great Lakes combined. ['Environment', 'Recreation', 'Water'] 4 2012-03-21 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Bloggers "The administration has issued rules for ""$1 abortions in ObamaCare"" and ""requires all persons enrolled in insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage to pay"" an abortion premium." ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 1 2012-03-21 Bill Adair Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois """(GM and Chrysler) repaid their loans.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 3 2012-03-21 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Oregon Lottery """However, it took $19.5 million in Oregon Lottery funds for the Port of Newport to eventually land the new NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-03-21 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Ted Cruz Texas """Did you know ObamaCare will cost nearly twice as much as initially expected -- $1.8 TRILLION?""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-03-21 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher David A. Clarke Jr. Wisconsin "Says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele ""eliminated"" sheriff’s office funding for providing security for presidential and presidential campaign visits." ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Crime', 'Elections'] 3 2012-03-21 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Bill Pascrell New Jersey """Ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under 100 people, maybe even less than that.""" ['Jobs', 'Small Business'] 1 2012-03-21 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen Bob McDonnell Virginia """This bill allows Virginia to join about 23 other states that have an ultrasound procedure"" before an abortion." ['Abortion'] 4 2012-03-20 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Republican National Committee "Despite President Barack Obama's promise to cut healthcare costs, ""the average cost of a family policy is up $1,300.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-03-20 Bill Adair, Tom Chester Tom Humphrey, Zack McMillin The Tax Foundation Says Tennessee has some of the lowest beer excise tax rates in the country. ['Alcohol', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-03-20 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio """Make no mistake -- Sherrod Brown is one of the main D.C. politicians responsible for Ohio jobs moving to China.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Trade'] 0 2012-03-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Judson Hill """Every 1 percent increase in the cost of health insurance today causes about 30,000 Georgians to be uninsured.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-03-20 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Brendan Doherty Rhode Island """We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-03-19 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Rod Monroe Oregon "Says ""the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S. (for) women under 50 is being killed by their spouse or domestic partner.""" ['Crime', 'Families', 'Women'] 1 2012-03-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Because of the new health care law, ""Americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes.""" ['Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-03-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois "By the time Obama took office, ""The Bush administration had given the car companies $13 billion and the money was now gone.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-03-19 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Edward Flynn "Says 85 percent of Milwaukee shootings involve ""people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Crime', 'Guns'] 3 2012-03-19 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert John McKeon New Jersey "Says ""the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates, so in real dollars, our property taxes have gone up 20 percent.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-03-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed """We also have, in a park that’s not far from here, an ability to build a reservoir that can hold a 30-day water supply for the city of Atlanta.""" ['Water'] 4 2012-03-19 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton, Tom Feran Pat Boone "An independent payment advisory board created by the health care reform law ""can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-03-18 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Kathleen Falk "Says Gov. Scott Walker ""didn’t balance the budget"" so ""we now have a larger state deficit 14 months into (his) term than we did when he was elected.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2012-03-18 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Chris Smith "Says there have been ""well over"" 54 million abortions since 1973." ['Abortion', 'Supreme Court', 'Women'] 4 2012-03-18 Tim Murphy Republican Edward Fitzpatrick Barry Hinckley Rhode Island """More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.""" ['Economy', 'Energy'] 5 2012-03-16 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Because of the new health care law, ""17 million kids can no longer be denied for a pre-existing condition.""" ['Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-03-16 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Because of the new health care law, ""2.5 million young adults now have coverage.""" ['Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-03-16 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Dennis Richardson Oregon """While 9,000 state employees were added to the state’s payroll, Oregon’s revenue forecasts dropped by more than $4 billion.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-03-16 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman, Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Frank Wolf Virginia """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.""" ['Retirement', 'Social Security'] 5 2012-03-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Luis Garcia Florida "Says David Rivera ""allowed House Republican leaders to strip key provisions from the STOCK Act"" that would crack down on insider trading by members of Congress." ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics'] 2 2012-03-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Luis Garcia Florida "Says David Rivera ""received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Congressman Spencer Bachus, who is currently under House Ethics investigation for insider trading.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics'] 4 2012-03-16 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Texas Democratic Party Texas """In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Diversity', 'Elections', 'History'] 4 2012-03-15 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Pat Boone """This (Independent Payment Advisory Board) board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Retirement'] 0 2012-03-15 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "Says ""over 1 million signatures"" were submitted in attempt to recall Gov. Scott Walker." ['Elections'] 1 2012-03-15 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Joel Kleefisch Wisconsin The Wisconsin state Assembly chambers extend to the bathroom and the parlor, and rules allow members to vote for each other if the member is in the chambers. ['Ethics'] 4 2012-03-15 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Stephen Sweeney "Says ""my plan is a property tax cut.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-03-15 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen John Kasich Ohio """The total (state) payroll has gone down. The total amount of the number of workers in the state has gone down. I like the fact that the bulk of that is just by retirements.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-03-15 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Robert Jacquard Rhode Island """There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Gambling', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 5 2012-03-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia "Obama's secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, ""has said publicly he wants us to pay European levels (for gasoline), and that would be $9 or $10 a gallon.""" ['Gas Prices'] 4 2012-03-14 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Kathleen Falk Says Gov. Scott Walker cut aid to local schools despite campaigning on trying to restore two-thirds state funding for education ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2012-03-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "There are ""850,000 Ohio jobs tied to the auto industry.""" ['Economy', 'Elections', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-03-14 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Johnny Isakson Georgia "The ""Democrat majority in the Senate has failed to submit [a] budget in the past 1,000 days.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2012-03-14 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Chris Telfer Oregon "Says her accomplishments include ""a fiscally responsible budget agreement that controls state spending.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 0 2012-03-13 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Paul Sadler Texas Says there are four super PACs on the Republican side of the Texas U.S. Senate race. ['Campaign Finance'] 5 2012-03-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "President Barack Obama’s policies have forced ""many parts of the country to experience rolling blackouts.""" ['Energy'] 0 2012-03-13 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Kathleen Clyde Ohio """Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-03-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Hank Johnson Georgia """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.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 5 2012-03-12 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Shaun Donovan New York """It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets.""" ['Poverty'] 4 2012-03-12 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Cory Mason Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Assembly Republicans voted to repeal a law that ensures ""that women cannot get paid less than a man for doing the same job.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Income', 'Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2012-03-12 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Rush Holt """A clear majority of Americans support removing the cost-sharing requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage.""" ['Health Care', 'Women'] 4 2012-03-12 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia """Seven out of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates (have) Republican governors … That approach that Republicans are using is working.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-03-12 Leroy Chapman, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Ted Jackson Georgia "Georgia ranks ""last in job growth.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2012-03-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says 94 percent of Wisconsin employers think the state ""is heading in the right direction"" and a majority say they will ""grow their companies in 2012.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-03-11 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Steve Rothman """They're paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years.""" ['Taxes', 'Wealth'] 4 2012-03-11 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """A hundred percent of all the jobs lost during the recession have been reclaimed in Texas … while the nation is at about 36 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-03-11 Tim Murphy Republican Edward Fitzpatrick Stephen Laffey Colorado Giant companies like Toyota will not locate in a state that has not passed a right-to-work law ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 1 2012-03-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida "PIP fraud is ""$1 billion in fraud.""" ['States', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-03-09 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""traffic fatalities have fallen dramatically, even as population has risen. You are more likely to stay alive biking, walking and driving around Portland than you were before"" he took over the Portland Bureau of Transportation." ['Transportation'] 3 2012-03-09 Warren Fiske Republican Nancy Madsen George Allen Virginia "Says he ""cut taxes by more than $600 million"" when he was governor." ['Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-03-09 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Wayne DeAngelo """If we keep the minimum wage at the current level, then single-parent families earning the minimum wage at a full-time job will live in poverty in New Jersey.""" ['Poverty', 'Workers'] 5 2012-03-09 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Hank Johnson Georgia "A socially conservative group sponsored a ""prayer vigil"" to stop people from buying Girl Scout cookies because it thinks the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Parenthood." ['Abortion', 'Families', 'Religion', 'Women'] 2 2012-03-08 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Lenny Curry Florida "Says Barack Obama ""promised"" gasoline at $2.50 a gallon." ['Energy', 'Gas Prices', 'Transportation'] 1 2012-03-08 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Lenny Curry Florida "Says Barack Obama ""promised he would cut the deficit in half"" but didn’t." ['Federal Budget'] 5 2012-03-08 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields, Louis Jacobson Mike DeWine Ohio """The fact is 90-percent of Down Syndrome children were aborted in this country.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 2 2012-03-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "After President Barack Obama’s health care law takes full effect, ""100 percent"" of Americans will ""depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare'] 1 2012-03-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Social Security', 'Veterans'] 4 2012-03-08 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Gerry Connolly Virginia "Says Obama has ""doubled the stock market from where we started when he was sworn into office""" ['Bush Administration', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-03-08 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kathleen Falk "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn't make his calendar public -- ""he's on our dime and we don't know where he is.""" ['Transparency'] 3 2012-03-08 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget ""is still below the level of state spending when I took office.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2012-03-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """Today, you can't rely on (the retirement fund for public employees), it's not funded.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget', 'Workers'] 1 2012-03-07 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson David Axelrod """Tonight in Ohio, more people came out to vote for Barack Obama in an unopposed race than voted for (Mitt) Romney and (Rick) Santorum combined.""" ['Elections'] 1 2012-03-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of ""peace through strength"" is why ""the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'History'] 0 2012-03-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """If you look up the dictionary definition of happiness at the time of our founders … happiness was not doing what you want to do but doing what you ought to do.""" ['History'] 2 2012-03-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says the federal government ""tells health insurance companies how much money they're allowed to keep of what they receive in revenues -- 15 percent.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2012-03-07 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Gary Chiusano New Jersey "Says pension contributions under Gov. Chris Christie would represent ""75 percent of the total contribution made between the years 1995 and 2010. That's right, in 15 years, total state contribution was only $2.1 billion.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-03-07 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Silvestre Reyes Texas "Says opponent Beto O’Rourke ""wants to legalize drugs.""" ['Drugs', 'Marijuana', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-03-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Libertarian Eric Stirgus Gary Johnson New Mexico """Fifty percent of the graduating class of the year 2012 will have smoked marijuana or have done illegal drugs.""" ['Drugs', 'Marijuana'] 4 2012-03-07 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Glenford Shibley Rhode Island """Rhode Island is the only state where officers at state-supported [colleges] carry out their duties unarmed.""" ['Education', 'Guns', 'Public Safety', 'States'] 4 2012-03-07 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Ron Wyden Oregon """Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of a college education increased 439 percent.""" ['Education'] 5 2012-03-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """When my grandfather came to this country back in 1925, there were no government benefits.""" ['City Budget', 'County Budget', 'Families', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Pensions', 'Poverty', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'Veterans', 'Welfare', 'Workers'] 1 2012-03-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "Connie Mack's ""only real job in the real world"" was as ""‘events coordinator’ for Hooters!""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2012-03-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano Pat Stevens Georgia "The Atlanta area’s water planning district ""is now the national leader in conservation.""" ['Environment'] 2 2012-03-06 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Renacci Ohio """The top 1 percent (of income earners) paid 36.7 percent (of the taxes).  ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent.""" ['Income', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-03-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says in the 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama ""didn't even mention the deficit or debt.""" ['Deficit'] 0 2012-03-05 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Wisconsin is called the Badger State because ""our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.""" ['Environment', 'History', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-03-05 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Michael Doherty "Says State Comptroller Matthew Boxer ""pointed out that many towns are artificially lowering the real estate values that they report to Trenton"" in order to ""get hundreds of millions of dollars of additional school aid. This is the kind of fraud that needs to be addressed immediately.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-03-05 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "President Obama's ""budget would call for about $25 trillion in debt by the end of his term, if he was re-elected.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-03-05 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Marcy Kaptur Ohio """When (Marcy) Kaptur fought for the Democrats' prescription drug benefit for seniors, (Dennis) Kucinich voted no.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-03-05 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas "Says Ted Cruz slurred Republican senators including John Cornyn as ""graybeards"" and ""spineless jellyfish.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Congress'] 3 2012-03-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Charlotte Nash Georgia """[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-03-04 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Jeffrey S. Solochek Heather Fiorentino Florida "Pasco County ""opened 22 new schools over six years to keep pace with growth in student population and implement the class size amendment.""" ['Education'] 3 2012-03-04 Bridget Hall Grumet Republican Jeffrey S. Solochek Heather Fiorentino Florida "Pasco County schools have graduation rates ""substantially higher than the state average"" and dropout rates ""below the state average.""" ['Education'] 5 2012-03-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Christine Sinicki Wisconsin "While fighting a move to toughen penalties for workplace gender discrimination, state Sen. Glenn Grothman said ""he didn’t believe women belonged in the workplace"" but belonged ""at home, cooking and cleaning and having babies.""" ['Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Women'] 1 2012-03-04 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""we had to cut 13 billion dollars in state spending over two years.""" ['Deficit', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-03-04 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Bill Haslam Tennessee """In 2011, there were more than 28,000 new Tennessee jobs created and over $4 billion in capital investment. Our Jobs4TN plan is working.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-03-04 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Beatrice Lanzi Rhode Island """One out of four of our young people say they are victims of this (dating) violence.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Human Rights', 'Women'] 3 2012-03-03 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """[R]emember, the president proposed eliminating charitable deductions for higher-income taxpayers.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-03-02 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Laurie Monnes Anderson Oregon """In 2010 about 75 percent of child abuse and neglect reports in Oregon were made by those required to report by law.""" ['Children'] 5 2012-03-02 Angie Drobnic Holan None Katie Sanders American Civil Liberties Union of Florida Florida "There are ""a larger number of shark attacks in Florida than there are cases of voter fraud.""" ['Animals', 'Elections'] 4 2012-03-02 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Red, White and Blue Fund "Mitt Romney ""left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2012-03-02 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Red, White and Blue Fund """Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-03-02 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Democratic National Committee """Under President Obama, U.S. security funding for Israel is at an all-time high.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Military'] 3 2012-03-02 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage it’s $1,500 a year.""" ['States', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-03-02 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lee Leffingwell Texas """Invested $90 million in traffic fixes without raising taxes.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Transportation'] 3 2012-03-02 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades.""" ['Energy', 'Government regulation', 'Nuclear', 'Regulation'] 4 2012-03-02 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson John Axford Wisconsin All travelers -- even babies -- arriving in the U.S. by air must have a passport. ['Homeland Security'] 5 2012-03-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia Sixteen million jobs were created under Ronald Reagan's presidency. ['Jobs'] 5 2012-03-02 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island "Rhode Island has the ""the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Iraq', 'Military', 'States'] 5 2012-03-02 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Campaign for Primary Accountability Texas "Says Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur ""actually lives"" in ""a fancy condo in the Washington, D.C.  suburbs.""" ['Congress', 'Elections', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-03-02 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman, Molly Moorhead Eric Cantor Virginia "President Obama pushed through the stimulus ""based on the promise of keeping unemployment under 8 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2012-03-02 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Ron Paul Texas "Says he ""did the very best"" in a recent poll in Iowa matching up each of the major Republican presidential candidates against President Barack Obama." ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 4 2012-03-01 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Ron Paul Texas "Says Rick Santorum ""funded Planned Parenthood.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-03-01 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Barack Obama Illinois "The U.S. has a ""record number of oil rigs operating right now – more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined.""" ['Energy'] 3 2012-03-01 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Becky Moeller Texas Says local Texas chambers of commerce were granted exemptions from paying property taxes on their headquarter properties. ['Congress', 'Drugs', 'Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-03-01 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ron Paul Texas "Says Rick Santorum ""opposes right-to-work""" ['Labor', 'Workers'] 3 2012-03-01 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Cory Booker New Jersey """We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-03-01 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Marcy Kaptur Ohio "Says when she ""helped get $15 billion more for veterans care, Kucinich voted No.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Veterans', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-03-01 Dee Lane Janie Har Ken Allen """We have 395 inmates pushed into triple-bunked cells intended for two inmates and bunked in classrooms and areas supposed to be designated for inmate labor.""" ['Public Safety', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 1 2012-02-29 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says there’s no proven instance where hydraulic fracking has polluted groundwater. ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Public Safety'] 4 2012-02-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says Mitt Romney said he does not ""line up with the NRA.""" ['Guns', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-02-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson National Republican Congressional Committee """Since President Obama took full control of Washington,"" every day, 13,000 more people ""have been put on food stamps.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Poverty'] 3 2012-02-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says ""Rick Santorum supported (Arlen) Specter over conservative candidates twice.""" ['Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-02-29 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "Says Connie Mack ""failed to pay his child support.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Children', 'Families'] 1 2012-02-29 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says that Rick Santorum ""voted for the unions over FedEx.""" ['Corporations', 'Labor', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-02-29 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Reince Priebus Wisconsin """The national unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for a record 36 months.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-02-29 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Scott Garrett New Jersey "Says ""half the Americans don't pay any income taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-02-29 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia """The biggest contribution"" behind a decrease in U.S. unemployment ""was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-02-29 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Jon Husted Ohio """Every time we put a ballot issue on, it costs a million dollars.""" ['Elections'] 3 2012-02-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Paige Kreegel Florida "About 800 people refused to get a drug screening because they are ""out there on drugs.""" ['Drugs', 'Welfare'] 1 2012-02-28 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson National Republican Congressional Committee """Since President Obama took full control of Washington … every single day, more than 1,500 of our jobs have been lost.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-02-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Claims Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said ""she prefers the South African Constitution over the United States Constitution.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2012-02-28 W. Gardner Selby Katie Glueck Chain email A Dallas proof-of-insurance ordinance resulted in area tow lots mostly filling with the cars of illegal residents. ['Immigration'] 1 2012-02-27 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """(President Barack Obama) said unemployment was never gonna go over 8 percent if we passed the stimulus plan.""" ['Stimulus'] 2 2012-02-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college.""" ['Education'] 1 2012-02-27 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Amniocentesis, does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortion.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2012-02-27 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The president gave the (auto) companies to the UAW.""" ['Unions'] 1 2012-02-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Joshua Gillin, Kim Wilmath Denise Grimsley Florida """Florida ranks 45th"" in the nation for tuition." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-02-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "After prenatal diagnosis, ""90 percent of Down syndrome children in America are aborted.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 3 2012-02-27 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Chain email "Says Gov. Scott Walker is ""openly"" backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a 401(k)-style plan that will reduce pensions ""by at least a third"" for current and retired public employees" ['Pensions', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-02-27 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says private-sector job growth in 2011 ""places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-02-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Carol Hunstein Georgia """Our small staff of 51 is still fewer than we had a decade ago, yet our caseload -- like that of other courts -- has grown.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'State Finances'] 5 2012-02-27 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Janet Howell Virginia """It’s going to be harder to vote in Virginia than it is now to buy a gun...""" ['Elections', 'Guns'] 3 2012-02-26 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kathleen Vinehout "Says 21,000 Wisconsin residents got jobs in 2011, but ""18,000 of them"" were in other states." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'States'] 1 2012-02-26 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization"" of people with developmental disabilities ""in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey. """ ['Disability', 'Health Care'] 4 2012-02-26 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Silverman """There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled.""" ['Religion'] 1 2012-02-24 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "One estimate says there may be ""three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia.""" ['Energy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-02-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Marco Rubio Florida """The majority of Americans are conservatives.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2012-02-24 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Alissa Keny-Guyer Oregon "Says ""in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested"" for HIV." ['Public Health'] 5 2012-02-24 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Progress Texas Texas Without U.S. Senate action, Texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state. ['Criminal Justice', 'States'] 2 2012-02-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Maria Sachs Florida "Florida is ""the largest dog-racing state in the country.""" ['Animals', 'Gambling', 'Tourism'] 5 2012-02-24 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Over 40 percent of children born in America are born out of wedlock.""" ['Marriage', 'Sexuality', 'Women'] 5 2012-02-24 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Bill Pascrell New Jersey "Says ""sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills.""" ['Health Care', 'Small Business'] 1 2012-02-24 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia """You can’t put a gun rack in a [Chevrolet] Volt.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Guns'] 1 2012-02-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Marcy Kaptur Ohio """When Marcy Kaptur brought home $42 million for new manufacturing jobs, Dennis Kucinich voted 'no'.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Economy', 'Iraq', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-02-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """This president ... could have gotten crippling sanctions against Iran. He did not.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Nuclear'] 2 2012-02-23 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Ron Paul Texas """Today gasoline hit $6 a gallon in Florida.""" ['Energy', 'Gas Prices', 'Tourism'] 0 2012-02-23 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Alan Bates Oregon "Says ""80 percent of the health care dollars are spent by 20 percent of the population.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health'] 5 2012-02-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It's now 60 percent of the budget.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 3 2012-02-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It's now 17 percent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 4 2012-02-23 Zack McMillin Republican Tom Humphrey Frank Niceley Tennessee "Says the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency brought coyotes into the state ""to try to keep the deer population down.""" ['Agriculture', 'Animals'] 0 2012-02-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Bill Proctor Florida """Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-02-23 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske New Jersey Senate Democrats New Jersey """The governor is trying to take credit for recent actions taken by these companies. The problem is that for all three companies, the decision to move or stay in New Jersey happened before Chris Christie became governor.""" ['Corporations'] 4 2012-02-23 Warren Fiske Nancy Madsen U.S. Chamber of Commerce """As Virginia’s governor, Allen cut spending and waste with bipartisan support.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Regulation', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-02-22 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Bruce Starr Oregon Other states have considered or have sunset advisory commissions; the federal government has the ability, too. ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2012-02-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says in the last 20 years, the French have not ""stood by"" the United States on foreign policy." ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Military'] 0 2012-02-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Barack Obama Illinois """For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-02-22 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Connie Mack Florida """I have a very conservative voting record.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-02-22 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Chris Redfern Ohio "Says Mitt Romney supports a plan ""to slowly and gradually raise the retirement age of Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 4 2012-02-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Jan Jones Georgia """[W]hen adjusted for cost of living, Georgia ranks first nationally in teacher salary and benefits.""" ['Education', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-02-22 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Richard Morrison Rhode Island "After Arizona banned smoking in ""all public places"" in 2007, ""admissions for acute myocardial infarction … stroke, asthma, [and] angina decreased following the implementation of the ban.""" ['Public Health', 'Regulation', 'States'] 3 2012-02-21 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Winning Our Future "Mitt Romney ""supervised a company guilty of massive Medicare fraud.""" ['Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-02-21 W. Gardner Selby, Aaron Sharockman Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Angie Drobnic Holan Texas Democratic Party Texas "Says Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz ""opposes the DREAM Act, which is supported by 85% of Latinos.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2012-02-21 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mike Martinez Texas Says he banned texting while driving in Austin. ['City Government', 'Public Safety'] 3 2012-02-20 Daniel Finnegan Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia The cost of a gas tank fill-up has risen $30 since Barack Obama became president. ['Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 4 2012-02-20 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin "Says the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the ""connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail.""" ['Drugs', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Sexuality'] 4 2012-02-20 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Stephen Sweeney "Says ""67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce.""" ['Marriage'] 1 2012-02-20 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says he was ""exonerated in every single case"" in 1990s ethics violations charges." ['Ethics'] 0 2012-02-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Kathleen Clyde Ohio """'Wrong precinct' rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems (and) HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrong-precinct problem.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-02-20 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Myra Crownover Texas Says Texas legislators in 2011 increased state spending on education. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 0 2012-02-20 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. John G. Edwards Rhode Island """They're saying that 40 percent of the traffic that goes over [the Sakonnet River Bridge is from] out of state.""" ['State Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-02-19 Bill Adair, Tom Chester, Michael Erskine Republican Zack McMillin Chris Thomas Tennessee """Shelby County donated – I’m sorry, gave – 44 schools to the city of Memphis.""" ['Education', 'Infrastructure'] 3 2012-02-19 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Kathleen Falk "Says Scott Walker enacted ""the biggest cuts to education in our state’s history.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2012-02-19 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Steve Rothman """The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.""" ['Medicare', 'Retirement'] 1 2012-02-19 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Nicholas Kettle Rhode Island """If you look at states that are right to work, they constantly do not have budget deficits and they have very good business climates.""" ['Economy', 'Labor', 'States', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2012-02-17 Bill Adair None Ian K. Kullgren Doug Thomas Oregon "Says ""there are homes for sale on and around (Oswego Lake) right now for under $150,000 that anyone is welcome to buy.""" ['Housing'] 3 2012-02-17 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Lawrence O'Donnell "Says critics called the original GI Bill ""welfare.""" ['History', 'Pundits', 'Veterans'] 2 2012-02-17 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Paul Sadler Texas "Says in his years as a Texas legislator, ""we passed three pay increases for teachers and provided them with health insurance.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-02-17 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins John Duncan Tennessee """Fewer than 10 percent of those in the House are what anyone would classify as wealthy.""" ['Congress', 'Wealth'] 1 2012-02-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """We are poised to get rid of over 1,000 more regulations in 2012.""" ['Government regulation', 'Regulation'] 4 2012-02-17 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin A 10-year state program that created 202 jobs at a cost of $247,000 per job was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle. ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 0 2012-02-17 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Rob Portman Ohio Says unemployment would be at 10 percent if people who have quit looking for work were included in federal labor force calculations. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-02-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania Says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade. ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-02-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Romney adviser admits Romneycare was blueprint for Obamacare.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-02-16 Martha M. Hamilton Becky Bowers U.S. Chamber of Commerce """Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-02-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Scott Florida "Florida ""unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-02-16 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Loretta Weinberg "Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote ""went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it.""" ['Women'] 5 2012-02-15 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson U.S. Chamber of Commerce """Obamacare ... will kill jobs across America.""" ['Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-02-15 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Says the Congressional Budget Office said ""unemployment could top 9 percent in 2013""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-02-15 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Greg Walden Oregon You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text. ['Public Safety'] 5 2012-02-15 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Says U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a candidate for Senate, supports raising taxes ""by $858 billion.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-02-15 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey """Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2012-02-15 Robert Higgs None Aaron Marshall Patrick Johnston Ohio "Says abortion is ""the most common surgery in our country.""" ['Abortion'] 0 2012-02-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Restore Our Future "Newt Gingrich ""co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy.""" ['Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-02-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Amy Sherman Glee """The U.S. Census believes that by 2030 the majority of Americans will use Spanish as their first language.""" ['Census', 'Immigration', 'Pop Culture'] 0 2012-02-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida Says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law. ['Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2012-02-14 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Richard Licht Rhode Island """We aren't the only state cutting back on public television.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-02-13 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Ben Cannon Oregon "Says ""if we raise the number of third-graders who read at a third-grade level, we affect everything, from graduation rates to incarceration rates.""" ['Education'] 5 2012-02-13 Martha M. Hamilton Becky Bowers Wayne LaPierre "Says Barack Obama ""endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Guns'] 2 2012-02-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Jack Lew Washington, D.C. """You can't pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2012-02-13 Warren Fiske Democrat Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen Martin O'Malley Maryland "Maryland is ""creating jobs at 2 ½ times the rate that Virginia is.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-02-13 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher David A. Clarke Jr. Wisconsin "Says Milwaukee blacks have 55 percent male unemployment, 60 percent truancy, a 50 percent graduation rate, the ""worst"" reading scores and ""lead"" in infant mortality." ['Children', 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Urban'] 3 2012-02-13 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Joseph Kyrillos New Jersey """Senator Menendez said he would spend our money wisely. But our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-02-13 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob Marshall Virginia """You're supposed to throw away your shoes"" if mercury from a broken CFL light bulb gets on them." ['Energy'] 1 2012-02-13 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Republican Party of Georgia """[A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2012-02-12 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin "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." ['County Budget', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-02-12 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """Here's something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America.""" ['Education', 'Sports'] 1 2012-02-12 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says a federal judge in San Antonio ""issued a ruling that … not only could the students not pray at their graduation, if they used the word ‘benediction,’ the word ‘invocation,’ the word ‘God,’ asked the audience to stand or asked for a moment of silence, he would put the superintendent in jail.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Religion'] 3 2012-02-12 Tim Murphy Activist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barth Bracy Rhode Island "The polls ""show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life.""" ['Abortion', 'Children', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Public Health', 'Religion', 'Women'] 2 2012-02-11 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Kevin Cameron Oregon Oregon House Republicans’ jobs plan could generate more than 50,000 jobs over five years. ['Jobs'] 4 2012-02-10 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-02-10 W. Gardner Selby Republican Katie Glueck Rick Perry Texas Says he signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed. ['Abortion', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2012-02-10 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says that as Wisconsin governor he ""never raised taxes.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-02-10 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Barbara Buono New Jersey "Says ""as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.""" ['Jobs'] 2 2012-02-10 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island """The commercial property tax [in Providence] is second highest in the country behind Detroit.""" ['City Budget', 'Economy', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-02-10 Meghan Ashford-Grooms Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas "David Dewhurst has a ""record of promoting an income tax.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2012-02-10 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Twenty-five or 24 million people"" are ""out of work or stopped looking for work.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-02-10 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Nickie Antonio Ohio """Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws ... fatalities go up and abortions actually increase.""" ['Abortion', 'Government regulation', 'Women'] 2 2012-02-10 Zack McMillin Republican Richard Locker Ron Ramsey Tennessee """This year’s redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history.""" ['Redistricting'] 1 2012-02-09 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman Joe Biden Delaware """Nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-02-09 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen George Barker Virginia Says Gov. Bob McDonnell's budget would cut pre-kindergarten programs. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2012-02-09 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Presente.org """91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented youth to attend college,"" but Marco Rubio opposes it." ['Education', 'Immigration', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2012-02-09 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Chain email """This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.' BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House.""" ['Islam', 'Religion'] 2 2012-02-09 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Marc Schare Ohio "A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts ""to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.""" ['Education', 'Tourism'] 5 2012-02-09 Zack McMillin Republican Tom Humphrey Gerald McCormick Tennessee "The state constitution ""clearly says there’s not to be a state income tax in Tennessee.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-02-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Obama told people ""to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings.""" ['Economy', 'Tourism'] 2 2012-02-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """President Obama is shrinking our military.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 3 2012-02-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent.""" ['Stimulus'] 2 2012-02-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """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.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-02-08 Caryn Shinske None Erin O'Neill Committee for Our Children's Future New Jersey "Says Chris Christie ""inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region.""" ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-02-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says President Barack Obama ""has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by 25 cents a gallon.""" ['Environment'] 1 2012-02-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Katie Sanders Chain email """Private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do, which means more escaped prisoners in our communities.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-02-07 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Restore Our Future "Newt Gingrich ""was fined $300,000 for ethics violations.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-02-07 Warren Fiske None Sean Gorman Kitty Boitnott Virgina "Public education has been permanently cut ""by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2012-02-07 Dee Lane Janie Har Oregon Environmental Council-Oregon Business Association In the 2011 legislative session, DEQ's budget was cut 18.5 percent — a disproportionate cut compared to other natural resource agencies. ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-02-07 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill One New Jersey "Says New Jersey is ""down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak"" and with Gov. Chris Christie ""New Jersey has trailed the rest of America when it comes to unemployment"" for 12 consecutive months." ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-02-07 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Kathleen Clyde Ohio """Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election.""" ['Elections'] 5 2012-02-07 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email """If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Housing', 'Income', 'Retirement', 'Taxes'] 0 2012-02-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 4 2012-02-06 Martha M. Hamilton Becky Bowers Cecilia Muñoz """Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception.""" ['Families', 'Health Care', 'Religion'] 4 2012-02-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Pete Hoekstra Michigan """Since ObamaCare and the stimulus passed, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has increased.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-02-06 Meghan Ashford-Grooms Republican W. Gardner Selby Lamar Smith Texas """Illegal counterfeiting and piracy costs the U.S. economy $100 billion... every year.""" ['Congress', 'Criminal Justice', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2012-02-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Brian Kemp Georgia The Georgia Secretary of State's Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud. ['Elections'] 5 2012-02-05 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Fred Clark Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker ""made more than $70 million in cuts to job training programs through (Wisconsin’s) technical colleges.""" ['Education', 'Jobs', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-02-05 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Paul Sarlo New Jersey "Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to reduce state income taxes ""would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-02-03 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Tom Leppert Texas "Says ""we brought crime rate down by 30 percent"" when he was mayor of Dallas." ['City Budget', 'Crime', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2012-02-03 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Kurt Schrader Oregon 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. ['Federal Budget', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 5 2012-02-03 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says Mitt Romney’s campaign ""has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 1 2012-02-03 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Susan Combs Texas "Says she ""wiped out"" the state Agriculture Department’s inspections of eggs at retail sites like grocery stores." ['Agriculture', 'Regulation'] 1 2012-02-03 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman, Louis Jacobson Randy Forbes Virginia """The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy.""" ['Deficit'] 5 2012-02-03 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Jim Whelan """United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-02-03 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Armond Budish Ohio """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.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2012-02-03 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal """One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol.""" ['Alcohol', 'Drugs'] 5 2012-02-03 Tim Murphy Republican Alex Kuffner Joseph Trillo Rhode Island """We got [the Quonset Business Park] for free and we’re getting zero dollars out of it into the state coffers … other than the fact that it produces the jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Gambling', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-02-03 Bill Adair, Tom Chester Republican Zack McMillin Stacey Campfield Tennessee "AIDS was transmitted to humans because ""one guy"" had sex with ""a monkey"" and then started ""having sex with men.""" ['Education', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Health Care', 'History', 'Public Health', 'Sexuality'] 0 2012-02-02 Bill Adair, Steve Ahillen, Zack McMillin Michael Collins Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Congressman Scott DesJarlais ""is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January.""" ['Congress', 'Congressional Rules', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 0 2012-02-02 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says U.S. Senate Democrats ""have gone without any budget at all"" for more than 1,000 days." ['Federal Budget'] 4 2012-02-02 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Joe Pennacchio New Jersey "Says Pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of 3 percent and Delaware ""has no state income tax at all.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-02-01 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Newt Gingrich Georgia """Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day.""" ['Medicaid', 'Religion', 'Retirement'] 2 2012-02-01 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Barack Obama Illinois """Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.""" ['Jobs', 'Trade'] 5 2012-02-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Hank Johnson Georgia """Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-02-01 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman David Englin Virginia """A cashier earning $20,000 per year pays the same (Virginia) income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning $20 million per year.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2012-02-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia "Since President Barack Obama took office, ""2 million more Americans are out of work.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-01-31 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Newt Gingrich Georgia "In 1992, Mitt Romney ""gave money to Democrats for Congress.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 5 2012-01-31 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Newt Gingrich Georgia """The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Religion', 'States'] 2 2012-01-31 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Ron Paul Texas Says the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913. ['History', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-01-31 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Casey Cagle "Savannah is home to ""the fastest-growing port in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-01-31 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Jordan Ohio """Federal, state and local governments have subsidized the production of the Volt to the tune of estimates between $50,000 and $250,000 per vehicle sold.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Technology'] 3 2012-01-31 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island """Sheldon Whitehouse's failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful...""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-01-30 Louis Jacobson Louis Jacobson Chain email In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2012-01-30 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "Students today ""take more years to get through"" college." ['Education'] 2 2012-01-30 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Penny Bernard Schaber "A proposed mine in Wisconsin is ""about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago.""" ['Environment', 'Water'] 2 2012-01-30 Caryn Shinske None Erin O'Neill Committee for Our Children's Future New Jersey "Says with ""Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers"" New Jersey had ""the most job growth in 11 years.""" ['Jobs', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-01-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal Siemens has been unable to fill approximately 200 skilled trade positions in metro Atlanta. ['Economy', 'Education', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-01-29 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """We wiped out a $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-01-29 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says the New York Giants ""train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey.""" ['Sports'] 5 2012-01-29 Warren Fiske None Sean Gorman James Stegmaier Virginia """Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009.""" ['County Government', 'Jobs', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-01-29 Zack McMillin Republican Michael Collins Stephen Fincher Tennessee """Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon.""" ['Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 1 2012-01-29 Zack McMillin Democrat Michael Collins Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee """Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check"" from a federal program that ""he voted against.""" ['Health Care', 'Stimulus', 'Voting Record'] 4 2012-01-29 Tim Murphy Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, C. Eugene Emery Jr., W. Gardner Selby, Bartholomew Sullivan Travis Rowley Rhode Island """Martin Luther King was a Republican.""" ['Civil Rights', 'History'] 1 2012-01-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Housing'] 2 2012-01-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Mitt Romney Massachusetts """This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip.""" ['Israel', 'Terrorism'] 1 2012-01-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2012-01-27 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby True The Vote """Eric Holder is supportive of the NAACP's efforts to get the United Nations involved in our elections.""" ['Elections', 'Foreign Policy'] 0 2012-01-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2012-01-27 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia """We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2012-01-27 Warren Fiske Democrat Nancy Madsen Jim Moran Virginia """The U.S. gun homicide rate is 20 times the combined rate of other western nations.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 4 2012-01-27 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Chris Bollwage """Our jobless rate, our unemployment rate, is the lowest of all of the big cities in New Jersey.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2012-01-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Kasim Reed """We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone.""" ['Crime'] 3 2012-01-27 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio Says Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2012-01-26 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Winning Our Future """Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control"" in Massachusetts, ""hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-01-26 Louis Jacobson Louis Jacobson Bloggers Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes. ['Federal Budget', 'State Finances', 'States'] 4 2012-01-26 Angie Drobnic Holan None Amy Sherman No Casinos Florida Nevada is No. 1 in unemployment, violent crime, car theft, divorce, robberies and foreclosures. ['Crime', 'Economy', 'Gambling'] 4 2012-01-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitch Daniels Indiana Says Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill. ['Jobs'] 1 2012-01-26 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Rush Holt """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.""" ['Veterans'] 5 2012-01-26 Warren Fiske Democrat Warren Fiske, Nancy Madsen Donald McEachin Virginia "Gov. McDonnell's proposed budget ""is cutting"" public education." ['City Budget', 'County Budget', 'Education', 'Pensions', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-01-26 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country. ['Infrastructure', 'Transportation'] 1 2012-01-26 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Barack Obama Illinois """For the first time in 13 years, our dependence on foreign oil is below 50 percent.""" ['Energy', 'Ethics', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-01-25 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Marco Rubio Florida "Says Mitt Romney ""was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse"" Marco Rubio." ['Elections'] 3 2012-01-25 Bill Adair Republican Patricia Mazzei, Aaron Sharockman Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Newt Gingrich said ""Spanish is the language of the ghetto.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-01-25 Bill Adair, Zack McMillin Democrat Tom Humphrey Steve Cohen Tennessee "The United States is no longer ""top nation in the globe on infrastructure,"" having fallen to 15th." ['Infrastructure'] 5 2012-01-25 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitch Daniels Indiana """Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 0 2012-01-25 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Education', 'States'] 3 2012-01-25 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-01-25 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Democrats during the previous administration adopted ""double-digit tax increases.""" ['Corporations', 'Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-01-25 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal """Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 5 2012-01-25 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Ohio Republican Party Ohio "Sherrod Brown ""has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time.""" ['Voting Record'] 5 2012-01-25 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois """(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-01-24 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.""" ['Energy'] 4 2012-01-24 Bill Adair Democrat Jacob Geiger, Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil. ['Agriculture', 'Environment', 'Government regulation'] 5 2012-01-24 Dee Lane Janie Har Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rob Cornilles supports privatizing Medicare. ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-01-24 Bill Adair, Zack McMillin Michael Collins Bob Corker "A typical married couple ""will contribute $119,000"" into Medicare but will ""receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Deficit', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 5 2012-01-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Molly Moorhead, Katie Sanders Mitt Romney Massachusetts """When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy'] 3 2012-01-24 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years.""" ['Economy'] 3 2012-01-24 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Newt Gingrich Georgia There are 86 languages spoken at Miami Dade College. ['Diversity', 'Education', 'Immigration'] 5 2012-01-24 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Florida's economy ""became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008.""" ['Economy', 'Florida', 'Gas Prices', 'Housing', 'Oil Spill'] 2 2012-01-24 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate"" for health insurance." ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2012-01-24 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Katie Glueck Eddie Lucio, Jr. Texas Says Texas does not regulate the appearance of some kinds of imitation firearms sold in Texas. ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 4 2012-01-24 Bill Adair, Zack McMillin Democrat Richard Locker Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee """Tennessee’s grocery tax is one of the highest in the nation.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-01-24 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Tom Price Georgia """[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2012-01-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Robert Hagan Ohio """We never had an earthquake in Youngstown until John Kasich was elected Governor,""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Government regulation'] 3 2012-01-24 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Newt Gingrich’s contract was with ""the lobbyists at Freddie Mac.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2012-01-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We have 25 million Americans out of work.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2012-01-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jon Greenberg Newt Gingrich Georgia "Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are ""government-sponsored enterprises"" like Freddie Mac." ['Financial Regulation'] 0 2012-01-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia """When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2012-01-23 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan AFSCME """While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions.""" ['Corporations', 'Crime', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-01-23 Dee Lane Janie Har Oregon Republican Party Rob Cornilles has been endorsed by 20 local mayors, including Independent, Democratic and Republican. ['Bipartisanship'] 1 2012-01-23 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Richard Codey New Jersey """And by the way, when I was governor, I did make the payment into the pension fund.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 4 2012-01-23 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """More than one in five of veterans aged 20 to 24 can’t find a job to support their family or to ease the transition to civilian life.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Military', 'Veterans'] 4 2012-01-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus William Perry Georgia """Eleven states have enacted these pay-to-play reforms.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics'] 4 2012-01-23 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Ken Cuccinelli Virginia Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping. ['Animals', 'City Government'] 0 2012-01-23 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Charlotte Bergmann Tennessee """Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'History'] 1 2012-01-22 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Frank Lasee "Says that according to a study, under Obama’s health care initiative, ""nearly 90 percent of people"" in Wisconsin with health insurance ""will have their costs go up by more than 30 percent.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2012-01-22 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Lou Greenwald New Jersey """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.""" ['Income', 'Taxes'] 5 2012-01-22 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Efrain De La Fuente Texas Says most states, but not Texas, permit jurors to ask questions of witnesses in trials. ['Criminal Justice'] 3 2012-01-22 Tim Murphy Alex Kuffner National Republican Congressional Committee Rep. David Cicilline is responsible for the federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, the failed solar company ['Energy', 'Stimulus'] 0 2012-01-21 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Silvestre Reyes Texas "Says 282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of ""unprecedented fiscal challenges.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-01-21 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Rob Cornilles Oregon Suzanne Bonamici supports a plan that will cut choice for Medicare Advantage seniors. ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning'] 3 2012-01-20 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I didn't inherit money from my parents.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corrections and Updates'] 3 2012-01-20 W. Gardner Selby Republican Katie Glueck Rick Santorum Pennsylvania Rick Santorum says Rick Perry requested 1,200 earmarks as governor of Texas. ['Congress', 'Federal Budget'] 0 2012-01-20 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "President Obama has ""said he is going to cut veterans' benefits.""" ['Deficit', 'Veterans'] 3 2012-01-20 Sue Owen Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas "Says Barack Obama ""began his presidency going on a worldwide apology tour.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2012-01-20 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says Mitt Romney ""put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-01-20 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske James Florio New Jersey """Many types of fish and shellfish from waters across the state are labeled unsafe to eat.""" ['Environment', 'Food Safety'] 4 2012-01-20 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "Says proposal to boost teacher pension fund ""puts no mandate on local government.""" ['City Budget', 'County Budget', 'Education', 'Pensions', 'State Budget'] 1 2012-01-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Arne Duncan Illinois """One generation ago we led the world in college graduation. We're 16th today.""" ['Education'] 4 2012-01-20 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "The planned expansion of Savannah’s port is a ""jobs creating project.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2012-01-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia """Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-01-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty. ['Marriage', 'Poverty'] 1 2012-01-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says PolitiFact has said he ""kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules.""" ['Ethics', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-01-19 Robert Higgs Democrat Peter Krouse Dennis Kucinich Ohio """The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American worker’s wage rose just 2 percent.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Families', 'Income'] 5 2012-01-19 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Stephanie DeSilva Rhode Island """[Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Doherty's case, in a little over a week.""" ['Abortion', 'Women'] 3 2012-01-18 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Suzanne Bonamici Oregon PolitiFact Oregon gave Rob Cornilles a Pants on Fire for a claim about taxes and fees. ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 0 2012-01-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes', 'Transparency'] 3 2012-01-18 Louis Jacobson Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "The U.S. military is at risk of losing its ""military superiority"" because ""our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History', 'Military'] 0 2012-01-18 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kathleen Falk "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." ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 5 2012-01-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Judy Manning Georgia """When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 0 2012-01-18 Tim Murphy Talk show host C. Eugene Emery Jr. John DePetro Rhode Island """[The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Pundits', 'Religion', 'Sports'] 0 2012-01-17 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Restore Our Future "Says Rick Santorum ""voted to let convicted felons vote.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-01-17 Bill Adair, Zack McMillin Bartholomew Sullivan Corn Commentary "U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is ""the only working farmer currently serving in the House.""" ['Agriculture'] 1 2012-01-17 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2012-01-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Karen Harrington Florida """In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes — one of the worst records of any member of Congress.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Congress', 'Voting Record'] 3 2012-01-17 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia """More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Hunger', 'Welfare'] 3 2012-01-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Georgia Democrats Georgia """Republicans are attempting to remove Barack Obama from Georgia’s Presidential Ballot in 2012.""" ['Elections'] 3 2012-01-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-01-16 Caryn Shinske None Bill Wichert David Sciarra New Jersey "Says over the last two years, New Jersey Schools Development Authority employees ""have not started or completed one single school project, and I’m not talking about major school renovation. I’m talking about replacing boilers, roofs.""" ['Education'] 1 2012-01-16 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Freshman Rep. Bob Gibbs ""is spending his one year anniversary on vacation — only working 6 days in all of January.""" ['Congress', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 0 2012-01-15 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Donald McEachin Virginia "Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan takes ""money out of our classrooms to pave roads.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2012-01-15 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Club for Growth """Mayor Barrett saved Milwaukee $25 million, thanks to Gov. Walker’s reforms.""" ['City Budget', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 4 2012-01-15 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Sheila Oliver New Jersey """In 1958, there were 16 states in this country that prohibited -- prohibited -- an African-American and a Caucasian from being married.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 4 2012-01-15 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Angel Taveras Rhode Island """In Connecticut and New York, students at Achievement First schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages.""" ['City Government', 'Education'] 3 2012-01-14 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Suzanne Bonamici Oregon """My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False.""" ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning'] 5 2012-01-14 Bruce Hammond Republican Harry Esteve Rob Cornilles Oregon Rob Cornilles has disputed for two years a news story that said he said he would cut Social Security and Medicare programs before trimming the U.S. defense budget. ['Medicare', 'Social Security'] 2 2012-01-14 Bruce Hammond Republican Janie Har Rob Cornilles Oregon Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers. ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 5 2012-01-14 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Suzanne Bonamici Oregon Federal law prohibits the growing of industrial hemp in the United States. ['Agriculture', 'Marijuana', 'Small Business'] 5 2012-01-14 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Suzanne Bonamici Oregon """I also voted 98 percent of the time with Republicans in the Oregon Legislature.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-01-14 Bruce Hammond Republican Janie Har Rob Cornilles Oregon The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline is a bipartisan proposal. ['Bipartisanship', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] 4 2012-01-13 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Steny Hoyer Maryland Says up to a quarter of African Americans don’t have government photo ID. ['Elections'] 4 2012-01-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says Mitt Romney ""runs away from Ronald Reagan.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-01-13 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead Winning Our Future "Mitt Romney is worth ""at least a quarter billion dollars"" and the bulk of his wealth ""remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-01-13 Bill Adair Democrat Zack McMillin Steve Cohen Tennessee """The Republicans have never done anything really to balance the budget.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 0 2012-01-13 Zack McMillin Republican Bartholomew Sullivan Marsha Blackburn Tennessee "New energy standards will take away ""our freedom of choice and selection in the light bulbs we have in our homes.""" ['Energy', 'Government regulation'] 2 2012-01-13 Zack McMillin Republican Steve Ahillen Stacey Campfield Tennessee "Says a drug test can be performed for ""just $4 or $5.""" ['Drugs', 'Welfare'] 4 2012-01-13 Bill Adair Zack McMillin Kriner Cash "The education tax burden for Shelby County -- and Tennessee -- is ""one of the lowest in the country.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-01-13 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Craig James Texas Says Rick Perry cut taxes. ['Corrections and Updates', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-01-13 Martha M. Hamilton Becky Bowers Winning Our Future Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt. ['Candidate Biography', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-01-13 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders Ellyn Bogdanoff Florida "Tampa is ""the strip club capital of the world.""" ['Economy', 'Pop Culture'] 1 2012-01-13 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Winning Our Future "Mitt Romney’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were ""described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2012-01-13 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Winning Our Future "Mitt Romney is ""tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-01-13 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Frank Pallone New Jersey """One year today since #GOP took control of the House"" and ""no new jobs.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Jobs'] 1 2012-01-13 Tim Murphy Columnist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Einer Elhauge Massachusetts """In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm.""" ['Congress', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'History', 'Supreme Court'] 4 2012-01-12 Aaron Sharockman Angie Drobnic Holan Restore Our Future "Says Newt Gingrich ""co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy.""" ['Abortion', 'Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography', 'Children', 'China', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-01-12 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Winning Our Future Mitt Romney has 15 homes. ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-01-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Reed Gusciora New Jersey """Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 4 2012-01-12 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcia Fudge Ohio """More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 3 2012-01-12 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed """Five members of [the Common Cause Georgia] board accepted maximum campaign contributions.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics', 'Government regulation'] 3 2012-01-11 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2012-01-11 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Democratic Party of Oregon Oregon Rob Cornilles is a Tea Party candidate. ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Negative Campaigning'] 2 2012-01-11 Meghan Ashford-Grooms, John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas "Says that when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they ""doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2012-01-11 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers, Amy Sherman Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2012-01-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Huntsman Utah """What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-01-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """President Obama has raised taxes 19 times.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2012-01-11 Robert Higgs Republican Henry J. Gomez Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray ""is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be ‘the wrong thing to do.’""" ['Consumer Safety'] 3 2012-01-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida Says the state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida. ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-01-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida """In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-01-10 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Rob Cornilles Oregon """She’s voted for 60 tax increases, hurting the middle class and small businesses.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2012-01-10 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Scott Florida """My recommended budget includes $1 billion in new state funding for education.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2012-01-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican David DeCamp, Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """At my first ‘Let’s Get to Work Day’ … we sold out;"" more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m." ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 2 2012-01-10 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Ronald Rice New Jersey "Says in Newark ""we’re paying 80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 1 2012-01-10 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Nina Turner Ohio "Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, ""the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 2 2012-01-10 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia When Georgia tightened its voter identification laws, the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo IDs and made them for free. ['Civil Rights', 'Elections'] 2 2012-01-10 Tim Murphy Columnist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Thomas Sgouros Jr. Rhode Island """[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify.""" ['Economy', 'Immigration', 'Jobs', 'Labor'] 1 2012-01-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts """You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That’s what the president’s done.  He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce.""" ['Jobs', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Workers'] 3 2012-01-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "As a result of welfare reform, ""poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Poverty', 'Welfare'] 3 2012-01-09 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Bill Pascrell New Jersey """We haven't had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one.""" ['Guns'] 3 2012-01-09 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio Says federal spending has increased 21 percent over the past three years. ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2012-01-08 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms David Dewhurst Texas """Ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent was caused by"" weapons that were part of a federal arms trafficking operation." ['Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 1 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Bill Adair, Louis Jacobson Rick Perry Texas "Says President Barack Obama ""is a socialist.""" ['Government regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Patriotism'] 0 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Maryalice Gill Newt Gingrich Georgia "The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but ""didn’t know"" why it was cited." ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations. ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Trade'] 1 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides ""pretty much"" the same coverage that members of Congress receive." ['Congress', 'Medicare', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson, Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Jon Huntsman Utah "Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to ""the garbage can.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Regulation'] 0 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Huntsman Utah """I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-01-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Eliminating ""Obamacare"" ... ""saves $95 billion a year.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2012-01-08 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kelda Helen Roys "Says area near proposed northern Wisconsin iron ore mine is ""15 hours away"" from where public hearing on mining was held." ['Environment', 'Government regulation'] 1 2012-01-08 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Anna Little New Jersey """Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2012-01-08 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 2 2012-01-06 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Matt Wingard Oregon """Oregon’s per capita income is 9 percent below the national average and getting worse. This is a state that’s actually getting poorer.""" ['Economy', 'Income', 'Jobs', 'Poverty', 'Workers'] 3 2012-01-06 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas Says taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-01-06 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European.""" ['Economy'] 4 2012-01-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Matt Clary Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says he ""helped save"" the Olympic games." ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Sports'] 4 2012-01-06 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "Says he’s proposed ""the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history.""" ['Pensions'] 5 2012-01-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Becky Bowers Barack Obama Illinois "President Barack Obama ""put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil.""" ['Energy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2012-01-06 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated ""cancer screenings for uninsured women"" and offered ""no alternatives.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 0 2012-01-06 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio """We are now eighth in the nation in job creation . . . we are No. 1 in the Midwest.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 4 2012-01-06 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Tom Price Georgia "Congress gave an unelected board ""the power to deny care to seniors.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2012-01-06 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island """I think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years, we were at 100 percent"" when it came to contributing to the Providence pension fund." ['City Budget', 'Pensions', 'Retirement', 'Taxes'] 4 2012-01-05 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he ""closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2012-01-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state. ['Labor', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2012-01-05 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele Says Milwaukee County buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago. ['Crime', 'Transportation'] 2 2012-01-05 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years.""" ['Education'] 0 2012-01-05 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Says Rep. Jim Renacci was ""trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut.""" ['Social Security', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 1 2012-01-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas "Says a new national poll shows ""the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard"" for U.S. currency." ['Economy'] 1 2012-01-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Rick Santorum ""reformed welfare.""" ['Welfare'] 3 2012-01-04 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 3 2012-01-04 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin "Wisconsin’s monthly job reports have a ""margin of error"" of 75 percent and were ""way off"" in eight of first 10 months of 2011." ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor'] 3 2012-01-04 Steve Liebman Republican Bill Wichert Declan O'Scanlon New Jersey """Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100,000 pay.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2012-01-04 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jim Jordan Ohio """Eighty percent of all U.S. communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online.""" ['Economy', 'Government regulation', 'Transportation'] 4 2012-01-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Buddy Carter Georgia’s unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months. ['Jobs'] 5 2012-01-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jake Berry Rick Perry Texas """Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2012-01-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says he has ""been able to attract independents and Democrats to win"" elections in Pennsylvania." ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'History'] 3 2012-01-03 Steve Liebman Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """By the way, I'm not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2012-01-03 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio """The Social Security trust fund … is already facing imminent bankruptcy.""" ['Social Security', 'Taxes'] 2 2012-01-02 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sean Gorman Rick Perry Texas Says Rick Santorum voted for the Bridge to Nowhere. ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2012-01-02 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email """What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!""" ['Animals', 'Congress', 'History', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 0 2012-01-02 Steve Liebman Republican Erin O'Neill Steve Lonegan New Jersey """New Jersey taxpayers … will now face the highest tolls in the country.""" ['Transportation'] 1 2012-01-02 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton National Republican Congressional Committee "Says Rep. Betty Sutton supports allowing ""welfare fund withdrawals from strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores.""" ['Government regulation', 'Welfare'] 2 2012-01-01 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi David Cicilline Rhode Island "Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to ""expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.’’" ['Crime', 'Guns', 'Legal Issues', 'Public Safety'] 3 2011-12-30 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sue Owen Ron Paul Texas "Says there were only ""about eight or 10"" inflammatory sentences in his newsletters." ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2011-12-30 Bruce Hammond None Ian K. Kullgren Yes on 79 Oregon "Says constitutional amendment would ""help to stop unfair, double taxation on real estate.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2011-12-30 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Eric Cantor Virginia "Small businesses ""create 70 percent of the jobs in America.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Small Business'] 5 2011-12-30 Bruce Hammond Janie Har Judy Shiprack and Diane McKeel "Say ""in November 2010, voters overwhelmingly supported the idea of creating a (library) district.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2011-12-30 Leroy Chapman, Charles Gay Republican Willoughby Mariano Paul Broun Georgia """The latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly 315,000 Americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-12-29 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2011-12-29 Tim Murphy Democrat Alex Kuffner Eric Holder Washington, D.C. """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 two-year reporting period.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2011-12-28 Bill Adair Molly Moorhead Winning Our Future """Newt balanced the federal budget.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-12-28 Bill Adair Democrat Jake Berry Barack Obama Illinois """Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrich’s tax plan goes to the top 1 percent.""" ['New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-12-27 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Restore Our Future "Says Newt Gingrich ""supports amnesty for illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-12-27 Amy Hollyfield, Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Ellyn Bogdanoff Florida """Florida is considered the fourth-largest gambling state in the nation.""" ['Gambling'] 3 2011-12-27 Angie Drobnic Holan Molly Moorhead Restore Our Future """As speaker, Gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-12-27 John Bridges Journalist W. Gardner Selby Gail Collins New York Says Ron Paul doesn’t believe in marriage licenses. ['Marriage'] 5 2011-12-27 Susan Areson Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island """Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Government regulation', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-12-27 Daniel Finnegan Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia """I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2011-12-26 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Chain email """Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-12-26 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Kyleen Wright Texas Says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women. ['Crime', 'Women'] 2 2011-12-25 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Cory Booker New Jersey "Says America spends ""over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 5 2011-12-25 Tim Murphy Activist Alex Kuffner Anne Nolan Rhode Island """We have one of the highest percentages per capita of nonprofits in this state of any state in the union.""" ['Economy', 'Poverty'] 4 2011-12-23 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Jeff Merkley Oregon Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States. ['Agriculture', 'States'] 5 2011-12-23 Bill Adair, W. Gardner Selby Molly Moorhead Make Us Great Again Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming. ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2011-12-23 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher, James B. Nelson, Dave Umhoefer Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin Scott Walker’s school-aid cuts were so devastating that students are without chairs and a government survey found 47 kids in a classroom. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-12-22 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Richard Franklin III Texas Says a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall. ['County Government', 'Environment'] 2 2011-12-22 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says Mitt Romney raised business taxes 20 percent in Massachusetts. ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-12-22 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill National Republican Congressional Committee "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.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2011-12-21 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia """No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas.’""" ['Religion'] 0 2011-12-21 Bill Adair Molly Moorhead Restore Our Future "Newt Gingrich ""teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2011-12-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Steve Southerland Florida """The fact is, over 2.4 million jobs have been lost since the 'Stimulus' bill was signed into law in February of 2009.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-12-21 Susan Areson Republican Alex Kuffner Michael Chippendale Rhode Island """Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. """ ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Public Health', 'Public Safety', 'Science'] 1 2011-12-21 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Grover Norquist """[E]xcise tax increases drive commerce across state lines.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-12-20 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har, Ian K. Kullgren Ron Wyden Oregon Says Oregon canned blueberries will be cheaper in South Korea thanks to a trade agreement. ['Trade'] 4 2011-12-20 Tim Murphy Activist C. Eugene Emery Jr. Theresa Price Rhode Island """Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Government regulation', 'Housing', 'Poverty', 'States'] 1 2011-12-20 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "In a watershed 1958 decision, ""the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress.""" ['History', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2011-12-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jon Greenberg Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says Freddie Mac, electric co-ops and credit unions are all ""government sponsored"" enterprises." ['Financial Regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 0 2011-12-19 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Michelle Obama Illinois "Says President Obama ""helped more than half a million veterans and military family members go to college through the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Iraq', 'Veterans'] 3 2011-12-19 Bill Adair Jake Berry Democratic National Committee Says it cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100,000 when Mitt Romney and his staff purchased computer hard drives. ['Message Machine 2012', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-12-19 Martha M. Hamilton, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Perry Texas A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney. ['Health Care'] 2 2011-12-19 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin """I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Criminal Justice', 'History', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2011-12-19 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Michael Doherty """Following the catastrophic, cascading collapse of major investment banks on Wall Street in 2007.....Nobody was prosecuted, no hearings were held and no reforms were implemented.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Occupy Wall Street'] 1 2011-12-18 Greg Borowski Independent Tom Kertscher MacIver Institute Wisconsin """Wisconsin election officials to accept Mickey Mouse, Hitler signatures"" on recall petitions." ['Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2011-12-18 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Rush Holt "Says in 1944 ""we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-12-18 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says Texas did not bail out a loan program he oversaw as state agriculture commissioner. ['Agriculture', 'Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-12-17 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia "George Allen cast ""the deciding vote"" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts." ['Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 1 2011-12-16 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Creative Advocacy Network Oregon "Says 77 percent ""of Portland's students finish elementary school without taking even one art class.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-12-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Says Newt Gingrich ""made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2011-12-16 Dee Lane Ian K. Kullgren Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states. ['Environment'] 5 2011-12-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 2 2011-12-16 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida "Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in ""unemployment, foreclosures, violent crime, personal bankruptcy and divorce.""" ['Gambling'] 5 2011-12-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Newt Gingrich Georgia """I never lobbied under any circumstance"" for Freddie Mac." ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics'] 3 2011-12-16 Bill Adair Matt Clary Democratic National Committee """Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still won’t.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes', 'Transparency'] 4 2011-12-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Maryalice Gill Jon Huntsman Utah """In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 2 2011-12-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia """I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2011-12-16 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Boyd Richie Texas Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American. ['Elections', 'Poverty', 'Welfare'] 5 2011-12-16 Meghan Ashford-Grooms, John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says the Obama administration catches and releases nonviolent illegal immigrants. ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Immigration'] 3 2011-12-15 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-12-15 Meghan Ashford-Grooms, John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Charlie Gonzalez Texas """If Congress does not pass the renewal of the payroll tax cut before the end of the year, nearly 160 million working families will see their taxes go up by roughly $1,000.""" ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-12-15 Aaron Sharockman Katie Sanders Republican National Committee "DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz ""denied unemployment went up under Obama.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-12-15 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin """President Obama has increased the federal workforce 192,000 individuals -- about 10 percent since he’s taken office -- while we’ve lost 2 million jobs.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-12-15 Caryn Shinske None Bill Wichert Julia Sass Rubin New Jersey """(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-12-15 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Lloyd Doggett Texas Says that according to one economist, $1 of unemployment benefits boosts the economy by $1.61. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-12-14 Jane Kahoun Republican Henry J. Gomez Marisha Agana Ohio """The American Conservative Union gives [Rep. Tim] Ryan a dismal 0.0 percent rating for the billions he has contributed to our national debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-12-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican John Gregg Newt Gingrich Georgia """The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Islam', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Religion'] 1 2011-12-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws.""" ['Education', 'Labor', 'Poverty'] 2 2011-12-14 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Kathleen Falk "Since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker took office, ""we are losing jobs at rates not seen in decades.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-12-14 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Pat Roberts Kansas "Says with Jon Corzine, ""it's the first time, I think, in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues.""" ['History'] 5 2011-12-14 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Curtis Foltz """The study of the Savannah River Estuary . . . clearly demonstrates the project can be constructed and [environmental] impacts will be mitigated.""" ['Environment', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-12-14 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Alex Kuffner Eugene McKenna Rhode Island """Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country.""" ['Gambling', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-12-13 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Josh Mandel Ohio "Sherrod Brown ""has been running for public office since Richard Nixon was president.""" ['Congress', 'Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 5 2011-12-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jake Berry Jon Huntsman Utah """You look at defense … we're spending more than the rest of the world combined.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Military', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-12-12 Jane Kahoun Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "Richard Cordray’s 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 didn't like the construction of the agency.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Financial Regulation', 'Government regulation'] 5 2011-12-12 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Only one president has ever cut Medicare for seniors in this country . . . Barack Obama.""" ['Medicare'] 1 2011-12-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "In New York City, ""an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher.""" ['Education', 'Jobs', 'Labor'] 1 2011-12-12 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson David Brooks "Newt Gingrich ""has suggested"" building ""a mirror system in space"" could improve the Earth’s habitability." ['History', 'Science', 'Space'] 5 2011-12-12 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """They say teachers only make on average in New Jersey 60,000 dollars a year. They only work 180 days.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-12-12 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske George Allen Virginia """Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas.""" ['Energy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Trade'] 1 2011-12-12 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Republican Party of Texas Texas "More Hispanics ""have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket.""" ['History', 'Redistricting'] 4 2011-12-12 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """We've got a personal tax system that's so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2011-12-12 Jim Denery, Charles Gay, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano City of Atlanta A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court. ['Criminal Justice'] 5 2011-12-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, ""put into place socialized medicine.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-12-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Rick Perry Texas "Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate ""should be the model for the country""" ['Health Care', 'States'] 2 2011-12-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota "In 1993, Newt Gingrich ""first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating"" for it." ['Health Care'] 4 2011-12-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says that as Wisconsin governor, ""we ended welfare.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Welfare'] 4 2011-12-11 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Jay Webber New Jersey "Says ""our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. We're over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government.""" ['Jobs', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-12-11 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free. ['Hunger', 'Veterans'] 0 2011-12-10 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Suzanne Bonamici Oregon I differed with my party on business legislation, on consumer protection, and on free trade agreements. ['Bipartisanship', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Voting Record'] 1 2011-12-09 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Rob Cornilles Oregon Suzanne Bonamici votes with her party a partisan 98 percent of the time. ['Bipartisanship', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Voting Record'] 3 2011-12-09 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Our ""kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Religion'] 1 2011-12-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jon Greenberg Ron Paul Texas """The Fed created $15 trillion in the bailout process"" and $5 trillion went overseas." ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-12-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Club for Growth """[Former Georgia congressman] Bob Barr voted ... to raise his own pay.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Voting Record'] 3 2011-12-09 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen Ohio Right to Life Ohio """Ohio’s Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2011-12-09 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could ""pay for"" health care reform." ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Technology'] 3 2011-12-09 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Jon Stewart """When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'""" ['History', 'Pop Culture', 'Pundits', 'Religion'] 0 2011-12-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2011-12-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Maryalice Gill Jon Huntsman Utah """We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil.""" ['Energy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-12-08 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Tim Kaine Virginia The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-12-08 Warren Fiske Republican Warren Fiske, Jacob Geiger George Allen Virginia "The United States ""is number one in the world in energy resources; Russia is number two.""" ['Energy'] 5 2011-12-08 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says recall organizers ""started their website last November"" and began work on their effort before he even took office." ['Elections', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2011-12-08 Caryn Shinske None Erin O'Neill Bear Education and Resource Group New Jersey """99% of NJ voters do NOT support hunting.""" ['Animals', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 0 2011-12-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says the congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by ""a very partisan political committee"" in a way that ""related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Ethics'] 0 2011-12-07 Bill Adair Republican Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia """I never favored cap and trade.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] 1 2011-12-07 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Becky Bowers Florida Democratic Party Florida "Says Mitt Romney belittled middle-class tax cuts ""as nothing more than 'little Band-Aids.' """ ['Taxes'] 2 2011-12-07 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Chris Bowers "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making voting more difficult by closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices where ""low-income voters"" live." ['Elections', 'Poverty'] 1 2011-12-07 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio "Sen. Sherrod Brown ""has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2011-12-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia """The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 2 2011-12-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "President Barack Obama ""has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 2 2011-12-06 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Joshua Marquis Oregon Says 25 percent of Oregonians oppose the death penalty. ['Criminal Justice', 'States'] 3 2011-12-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Thomas Brown Georgia """Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-12-06 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Says Sen. Sherrod Brown ""voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes.""" ['Energy', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-12-05 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson David Axelrod Says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington. ['Bipartisanship', 'History'] 3 2011-12-05 Amy Hollyfield Republican Amy Sherman Karen Harrington Florida "U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz ""has blamed the Republicans for the creation of Hamas.""" ['Israel'] 1 2011-12-05 Daniel Finnegan Republican Sean Gorman Eric Cantor Virginia "The U.S. economy ""is three times as big as China's.""" ['China', 'Economy'] 4 2011-12-05 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Frank Lautenberg New Jersey """Last year we spent more than $40 billion on highways. And Lord knows we need that. But that's more than we spent on Amtrak in its entire 40-year history.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 5 2011-12-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Rick Santorum Pennsylvania Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated. ['Education', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-12-05 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Alan Simpson Wyoming Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2011-12-04 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin "The St. Norbert College/Wisconsin Public Radio poll has ""been wrong in almost every election.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 1 2011-12-04 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says Barack Obama had ""huge majorities"" in Congress during his first two years in office and ""did nothing with them to create jobs in America.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 0 2011-12-04 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas Says the Department of Defense changed its definitions of al-Qaeda and the Taliban making it so almost anybody can be loosely associated with the groups. ['Civil Rights', 'Criminal Justice', 'Terrorism'] 2 2011-12-02 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office. ['Job Accomplishments', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Transparency'] 5 2011-12-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican John Gregg Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "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.""" ['Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 5 2011-12-02 Dee Lane Janie Har Oregon Transformation Project Oregon has the sixth highest combined death tax rate in the country. ['Federal Budget', 'State Budget', 'States', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-12-02 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware "In Iraq, ""violence is down to an all-time low"" since the start of the war." ['Foreign Policy', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 4 2011-12-02 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby David Frum """Eighty percent of the net new jobs created in the state of Texas since 2009 went to the foreign-born.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-12-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers ""a new doorway to amnesty.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2011-12-02 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin "It’s legal to ""sign a recall petition (against Gov. Scott Walker) even if you have already signed another recall petition,"" but only one signature counts" ['Elections'] 5 2011-12-02 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Loretta Weinberg """(Chris Christie) has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system, and then states that the system is broke.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-12-02 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia "Says his 9-9-9 tax reform plan is not ""regressive.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2011-12-02 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Matt Mackowiak Texas Says Barack Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term. ['Deficit', 'Economy'] 5 2011-12-01 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia "People can use food stamps ""for anything,"" including ""to go to Hawaii,"" and even millionaires can qualify." ['Poverty'] 0 2011-12-01 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "For ""the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-12-01 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Rick Scott Florida "The Affordable Care Act is ""not the law of the land.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'States', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2011-12-01 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Media Trackers "Says signers of recall petitions against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are at risk because of newly ""discovered"" provisions in state law." ['Elections', 'Transparency'] 2 2011-12-01 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""out of 588 school districts, we give 31 (former Abbott) districts 70 percent of the aid.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-12-01 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Jim Jordan Ohio """President Obama's recent plan to cut $100 million of waste within his administration won't actually save money because he's going to spend it elsewhere.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-12-01 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt Rhode Island """Eighty-five percent . . . of Rhode Island tax returns that were filed for the year 2010 . . . were from individuals who earned $30,000 or less.""" ['Economy', 'Pensions', 'Poverty', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-11-30 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family.""" ['Income'] 4 2011-11-30 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney has changed his position on supporting the TARP program. ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2011-11-30 Dee Lane Republican Charles Pope Greg Walden Oregon "Says the federal stimulus program was ineffective because ""the number of jobs has actually decreased by 18,300 through July 2011.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-11-30 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Republican National Committee In Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama’s policies have increased unemployment 19 percent, led to the loss of 37,900 manufacturing jobs, and left 189,000 more people in poverty. ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Poverty', 'States'] 3 2011-11-30 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2011-11-30 Aaron Sharockman Amy Sherman Sean Hannity "Says U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson ""voted with the Democrats in Congress nearly 95 percent of the time.""" ['Pundits', 'Voting Record'] 3 2011-11-30 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Mike DeWine Ohio """At a minimum, 40 percent of those who view child pornography end up molesting children as a result.""" ['Children', 'Crime'] 2 2011-11-30 Tim Murphy Talk show host C. Eugene Emery Jr. John DePetro Rhode Island """For the past eight years, Gov. Carcieri and Mrs. Carcieri would host the lighting of the State House Christmas tree.""" ['Religion'] 1 2011-11-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Eric Gray Georgia Georgia is one of seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and has lost 8,200 jobs so far. ['Jobs'] 4 2011-11-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on a taxpayer protection pledge. ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-11-29 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagan’s policies. ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2011-11-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on an assault weapons ban. ['Guns', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-11-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Says Newt Gingrich ""has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2011-11-29 Jane Kahoun Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'States'] 5 2011-11-28 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney once supported President Obama’s health care plan but now opposes it. ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2011-11-28 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Democratic National Committee "Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on supporting ""the president's Recovery Act.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-11-28 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Democratic National Committee Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion. ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2011-11-28 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "In Chile ""they have 72 percent of the GDP in savings.""" ['Social Security'] 3 2011-11-28 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Education Association Council Wisconsin "State budget cuts for local schools resulted in ""nearly 4,000 educator layoffs""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-11-28 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey """While (Chris Christie) talks about job creation, we don't see jobs being created in this state.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2011-11-28 Jane Kahoun Republican Peter Krouse Rob Portman Ohio """We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners.""" ['Corporations', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-11-28 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Stacey Evans Georgia """By fiscal year 2013, the state is expected to wipe through [HOPE scholarship] reserve funds.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-11-27 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """The overwhelming number"" of school districts reported their staff stayed the same or grew after the 2011-’13 state budget" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-11-27 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske New Jersey Tea Party New Jersey """Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans – Obama’s strongest supporters – have lost their jobs.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2011-11-27 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Jack Reed Rhode Island "In Rhode Island, ""only 5 percent of ozone pollution is from local or in-state sources. . . Ninety-five percent comes from outside of our borders, particularly the Midwest.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Public Health', 'States'] 3 2011-11-26 Dee Lane Ian K. Kullgren Eileen Brady "Says she ""brought together business, labor and hospitals to give 94,000 Oregon children health care.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2011-11-25 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Mark Warner Virginia The U.S. would gain revenue by cutting personal income tax rates in half and ending tax breaks. ['Deficit', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-11-25 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mike Tate "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ""slashed"" pensions and benefits for public employees." ['Health Care', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 3 2011-11-25 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton 60 Plus Association "An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is ""like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs.""" ['Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-11-24 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Steve Rothman """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.""" ['Economy'] 5 2011-11-23 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 2 2011-11-23 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that ""if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Nuclear'] 1 2011-11-23 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "U.S. Rep. Connie Mack ""voted to raise his own pay several times.""" ['Congressional Rules', 'Federal Budget', 'Income'] 3 2011-11-23 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Our Oregon Oregon "Says ""we’re losing one voter every 13 minutes.""" ['Elections'] 4 2011-11-23 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin "A recall election for Wisconsin governor would cost ""$7.7 million -- $7.7 million that may already be allocated to merit raises for teachers or health care for the poor or school books for your kids.""" ['Education', 'Elections', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-11-23 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Armond Budish Ohio "Dem-controlled Ohio House voted ""to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution"" ... to ""take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries.""" ['Redistricting'] 1 2011-11-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Bill Adair Michele Bachmann Minnesota Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30,000 engineers. ['Foreign Policy', 'Government regulation', 'Immigration', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-11-22 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """When you sanction the Iranian central bank, that will shut down (Iran's) economy.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2011-11-22 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby National Taxpayers Union Virginia "President Obama plans to ""impose a tax of at least 23 percent on the Medicare prescription drug benefit for low-income beneficiaries.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-11-22 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama said, ""If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2011-11-22 Martha M. Hamilton Becky Bowers Democratic National Committee """House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a 'vegetable' for the purpose of school lunches.""" ['Education', 'Public Health'] 3 2011-11-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams.""" ['Immigration', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-11-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus D.A. King Georgia "Says Rick Perry ""proposed a binational health insurance program with Mexico.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2011-11-21 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson John Kerry Massachusetts Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal urged raising $2 trillion in new revenue. ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-11-21 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Facebook posts 1 percent of Americans are millionaires. 47 percent of House Reps. are millionaires. 56 percent of Senators are millionaires. ['Occupy Wall Street'] 3 2011-11-21 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jon Greenberg Newt Gingrich Georgia """Community banks … are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-11-21 Daniel Finnegan Sean Gorman Crossroads GPS """(Stimulus money) went to critically important projects like studying ants in Africa.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 5 2011-11-21 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Donna Seidel Wisconsin "A Republican-led softening of firearms training rules means that ""untrained individuals"" would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit." ['Guns', 'Regulation'] 5 2011-11-21 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Leonard Lance """When the national debt reaches $15 trillion, it means that U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 99.7 percent of our debt and this is $47,900 for every living American.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-11-21 Robert Higgs None Aaron Marshall Maurice Thompson Ohio "Says unemployment in Ohio ""is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and it’s always been that way.""" ['Economy', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 1 2011-11-21 Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano DeKalb County Georgia "A DeKalb sewer project ""will create up to 4,000 direct jobs per year at peak production, many of which will be set aside exclusively for DeKalb residents.""" ['Water'] 4 2011-11-20 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Michael Doherty Says the state auditor found that 37 percent of the 428,000 students receiving free and reduced-price lunches are ineligible. ['Education'] 1 2011-11-20 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Janie Har, Louis Jacobson Greg Abbott Texas """Obama has (a) new Christmas tree tax.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2011-11-20 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 5 2011-11-19 Daniel Finnegan Sean Gorman Crossroads GPS "Stimulus money went to ""office upgrades for politicians.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-11-18 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Tom Hughes Oregon Twenty percent of housing in Portland’s Pearl District is ‘affordable.’ ['Housing', 'Infrastructure', 'Taxes', 'Urban'] 4 2011-11-18 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman John Stemberger Florida "The largest number of gamblers are ""from the poorest segments of the population.""" ['Gambling', 'Poverty'] 2 2011-11-18 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Maryalice Gill Joe Biden Delaware """The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007.""" ['Income', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 5 2011-11-18 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Kurt Schuller Wisconsin Wisconsin law says all recall petition signers must sign in the presence of another person. ['Elections'] 1 2011-11-18 Robert Higgs Republican Henry J. Gomez Josh Mandel Ohio "Says that Sen. Sherrod Brown is ""out there egging on a lot of these protesters who are spitting on policemen and going to the bathroom on policemen’s cars at these protests on Wall Street and other places.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Economy'] 0 2011-11-18 Tim Murphy Labor leader C. Eugene Emery Jr. Philip Keefe Rhode Island """If they made no changes whatsoever, the [state employees pension] plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next 16 years.""" ['Pensions', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 1 2011-11-17 Dee Lane Republican Charles Pope Rob Cornilles Oregon "Says ""51 percent of federal tax filers paid zero federal income tax.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-11-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas Says President Barack Obama thinks Americans are lazy. ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2011-11-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Solyndra ""had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-11-17 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers David Plouffe "The loan guarantee program that helped Solyndra ""was a program that was supported by President Bush.""" ['Energy', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-11-17 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says 23 percent of ninth graders in Newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and ""we spend $100,000 on their education in those four years, more than is spent on any other set of students in the United States.""" ['Education'] 2 2011-11-17 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """One-third of our college grads leave Ohio within three years.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-11-16 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Public Notice """41 cents out of every dollar (the U.S. spends) is borrowed from places like China.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2011-11-16 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida "The United States' regulations ""are among the most difficult in the world.""" ['Economy', 'Environment', 'Health Care', 'Regulation'] 1 2011-11-16 Tim Murphy Labor leader C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Mellon Rhode Island """The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58.""" ['Crime', 'Pensions', 'Retirement', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 1 2011-11-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "After losing 750,000 jobs a month before this administration, the U.S. economy under Barack Obama has had 20 straight months of growth, has added 2.8 million jobs in the private sector and added ""millions of jobs in manufacturing.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-11-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jake Berry Rick Perry Texas "Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, ""federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called ‘green mandates’ are not complied with quickly enough.""" ['Energy', 'Government regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-11-15 Angie Drobnic Holan Becky Bowers, Shirl Kennedy Americans for Prosperity """(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the path to bankruptcy.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Corporations', 'Energy', 'Ethics', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-11-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ron Paul Texas """Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2011-11-15 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker received a $7,300 pay raise. ['State Finances'] 1 2011-11-15 Leroy Chapman, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia """[A]n extra 8 million Americans [are] projected to join state Medicaid programs in the next few years.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2011-11-14 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia "George Allen's flat tax ""plan would actually shrink revenues further than the Perry (flat tax) plan.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2011-11-14 Jane Kahoun Democrat Henry J. Gomez Robert Hagan Ohio """The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So you’re not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 4 2011-11-14 Dee Lane Republican Ian K. Kullgren Rob Cornilles Oregon "Says Suzanne Bonamici ""supports the $500 billion cut to Medicare passed last year.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-11-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead Newt Gingrich Georgia """By 2014, there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-11-14 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher John Birch Society "Under a Wisconsin bill, ""minor offenses such as violating pet leash laws, seat belt laws, parking infractions, etc., would now be arrestable offenses.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2011-11-14 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Lynn Westmoreland Georgia has had ʺmore bank failures than any other state.ʺ ['Bankruptcy'] 5 2011-11-14 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """We cut a record $15 billion from our state budget.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-11-14 Jane Kahoun Democrat Peter Krouse Marcia Fudge Ohio """More than half of the people on food stamps today are children.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Poverty'] 4 2011-11-13 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Mark Neumann Wisconsin "The federal ""limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-11-13 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Rodney Frelinghuysen "Says the Treasury Department ""says 41 percent of all business income reported on individual returns would be hit by the [millionaires’] surtax"" that ""would harm small businessmen and women, the very people we are counting on to create new jobs.""" ['Income', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-11-13 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi Kathleen Connell Rhode Island """Sixty-percent of the state retirees...don’t get Social Security.’’" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Labor', 'Public Service', 'Retirement', 'Social Security', 'State Finances', 'Workers'] 1 2011-11-12 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Jim Webb Virginia """Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times.""" ['Deficit'] 5 2011-11-11 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Clinton Arkansas "Solar and wind energy are ""both cheaper than nuclear right now.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2011-11-11 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "In April 2009 ""the Democrats were in control, and the congressional (approval) rating was 40 percent.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2011-11-11 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson State Tea Party Express """In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has created a manufacturing-led jobs recovery. 30,000 new jobs were created this year, with 15,000 created in the struggling manufacturing sector.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-11-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Sanford Bishop Georgia """No other public or private business in America"" except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs in advance." ['Federal Budget', 'Pensions'] 4 2011-11-10 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perry’s ""decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 2 2011-11-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """By 2015, we will be sending so much interest"" to China that ""we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army.""" ['China', 'Deficit', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 1 2011-11-10 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Amy Sherman Frank Ortis Florida The city of Pembroke Pines doesn't have a vote in a plan to build a detention center in Southwest Ranches. ['Crime', 'Immigration', 'Voting Record'] 2 2011-11-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead John Boehner Ohio """Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople.""" ['Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2011-11-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "A bill supported by Gov. Scott Walker makes it ""so that drunk drivers who kill have an easier time of it.""" ['Alcohol', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2011-11-10 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey """Governor Christie also remains the only Governor since World War II, among both Democrats and Republicans, who failed to have his party win control of at least one legislative body over the course of his term.""" ['Elections'] 1 2011-11-10 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio "Ilana Shafran Mandel’s stake in Forest City Enterprises ""constitutes significantly less than 1 percent"" of the company’s shares and any implication of a conflict of interest ""is legally incorrect.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Transparency'] 5 2011-11-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """The unemployment rate among (the) non-college-educated is well into the double digits in America. It's 4 percent or 5 percent for people who have college degrees.""" ['Jobs', 'Workers'] 3 2011-11-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "Under President Barack Obama, ""more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago.""" ['History', 'Poverty'] 3 2011-11-09 Dee Lane Janie Har, Louis Jacobson Bloggers Obama creates new tax on Christmas trees, fees get passed on to consumers. ['Agriculture', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-11-09 Sue Owen None W. Gardner Selby Progress Texas Texas """The Confederate battle flag never flew over Texas, but... you might soon see it on our license plates.""" ['History'] 3 2011-11-09 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Rainbow/PUSH Coalition "In Georgia, ""hard-earned lottery dollars are doled out to the scion[s] of wealthy families.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-11-09 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Steve LaTourette Ohio """The problem with invasive species today in the Great Lakes isn’t ballast water.""" ['Environment', 'Jobs', 'Transportation'] 5 2011-11-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Katie Sanders Rod Smith Florida """Today 46 percent of all Floridians owe more on their home than it is worth.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 4 2011-11-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says Mitt Romney ""is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception.""" ['Abortion', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2011-11-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican John Gregg Jon Huntsman Utah "The United States sends ""$300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes.""" ['Energy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-11-08 Bill Adair Bill Adair 18% of the American public """This is a test of the Share the Facts widget.""" ['Technology'] 5 2011-11-08 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Vincent Fort Georgia """If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it.""" ['Occupy Wall Street'] 0 2011-11-08 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio """A couple retiring today will pay about $119,000 in lifetime Medicare taxes and receive about $357,000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. ... about 3 bucks in benefits for every dollar in taxes.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 5 2011-11-07 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "The EPA ""wants to hire 230,000 new government regulators that will cost the taxpayer $21 billion.""" ['Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Regulation'] 1 2011-11-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Perry Texas """We spend half a trillion dollars a year in tax preparation.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2011-11-07 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Educational Fund """People are five to seven times more likely to be murdered in workplaces that allow firearms than in those that prohibit it.""" ['Guns', 'Workers'] 3 2011-11-07 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Carl Lewis New Jersey """You’re paying for...(state Sen. Diane Allen’s) health care, and she took yours away.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-11-07 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says that under his tax plan, ""no matter where you are in the stratosphere, you're going to be getting a tax cut.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2011-11-07 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Betty Sutton Ohio """Every day in the United States, we are losing 15 factories.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-11-07 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Johnny Isakson Georgia """The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance.""" ['Energy', 'Housing'] 5 2011-11-06 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson John Klenke Wisconsin Wisconsin ranks 48th out of all 50 states in venture capital investment. ['Jobs'] 1 2011-11-06 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "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.""" ['Elections', 'History', 'Redistricting'] 5 2011-11-06 Tim Murphy Labor leader C. Eugene Emery Jr. Paul Valletta Rhode Island "Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo ""raised the mortality rate from 65 to 87"" and ""used a 1994 annuity chart"" to create the pension crisis." ['Deficit', 'Pensions', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 2 2011-11-05 Martha M. Hamilton, W. Gardner Selby Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Perry Texas Says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on abortion rights. ['Abortion'] 5 2011-11-04 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske New Jersey Republican State Committee New Jersey """Corrupt political bosses. Money laundering. Fraud. It’s just another day at the office for Vin Gopal.""" ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2012'] 0 2011-11-04 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Repealing the health care law ""would save $95 billion in 2016.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-11-04 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Jefferson Smith Oregon Says if elected, he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd. ['Elections'] 5 2011-11-04 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Alan Hays Florida Proof of citizenship isn't necessary before you register to vote in Florida. ['Elections', 'Immigration', 'Redistricting'] 2 2011-11-04 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Association for Justice Wisconsin A state bill would end a longstanding requirement that local governments repair highways and sidewalks -- and block injured citizens from suing over neglected maintenance. ['County Government', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2011-11-04 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Taxpayer Association of Oregon Oregon "Says ""the City of Portland alone has 84 public relation representatives on payroll which cost taxpayers over $6.2 million (a year).""" ['City Government', 'Government Efficiency'] 1 2011-11-04 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Building a Better Ohio Ohio """Government employees make 43 percent more in wages and benefits"" than private-sector workers." ['Government Efficiency', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 2 2011-11-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2011-11-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Jake Berry Joe Biden Delaware "In Libya, ""America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life.""" ['Military', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-11-03 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Adam Putnam Florida "Says the giant African land snail ""carries human meningitis.""" ['Agriculture', 'Animals', 'Public Health'] 3 2011-11-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """Because of Barack Obama the mission in Iraq ended.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2011-11-03 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mahlon Mitchell "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." ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-11-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Robert Menendez New Jersey """New Jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 fiscal budget. This means more cuts in state and local spending for education, which means our kids are hurt.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-11-03 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby H204TEXAS PAC "Proposition 2 on November’s Texas ballot ""does not cost state taxpayers any money.""" ['Elections', 'Water'] 3 2011-11-03 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen John Kasich Ohio """They talk about this problem with binding arbitration. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from Los Angeles fly into Zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you ... and then they’re on the plane back to Los Angeles.""" ['Elections', 'Government Efficiency', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 0 2011-11-02 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Rachel Maddow "Says ""tanking"" Rick Perry’s federal tax plan has ""huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else.""" ['Pundits', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-11-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Huntsman Utah Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on gun control. ['Guns', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2011-11-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Molly Moorhead Barack Obama Illinois """Because of Barack Obama 32 million new people will have healthcare.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2012'] 4 2011-11-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Huntsman Utah Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion. ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 5 2011-11-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Herman Cain Georgia "China is ""trying to develop nuclear capability.""" ['China', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'Nuclear'] 0 2011-11-02 Greg Borowski Independent Tom Kertscher MacIver Institute Wisconsin "Says some Wisconsin state employee contracts ""gave some employees $4 for bringing in their own lunch.""" ['Labor', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-11-02 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Joseph Chiusolo New Jersey "Says ""Essex County residents suffer the second highest property taxes in the nation.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2011-11-02 Dee Lane county commissioner Janie Har Ann Lininger Oregon Says Measure 3-386 will cost a fortune for elections while Measure 3-388 will cost less. ['County Government'] 1 2011-11-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Peter Krouse Tim Ryan Ohio "Attacks on Planned Parenthood ""come at a time when the poverty rate among women is the highest in nearly two decades and 1 in 5 women under 65 don’t have access to health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Poverty', 'Women'] 4 2011-11-02 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island """If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’" ['Pensions', 'Public Service', 'Retirement', 'Workers'] 1 2011-11-01 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee "Says Mitt Romney’s housing policy is, ""Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.""" ['Housing', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-11-01 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... We've got about 60 percent done in three years.""" "['Job Accomplishments', ""PolitiFact's Top Promises""]" 1 2011-11-01 Amy Hollyfield Republican Becky Bowers, Angie Drobnic Holan Allen West Florida """In the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it was the Democrats who cut $500 billion from Medicare. And they also put in place the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 unelected bureaucrats, which will be making decisions about health care for our seniors and for all Americans.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2011-11-01 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Lloyd Doggett Texas Says the main Central Texas food bank is delivering 50 percent more food to the poor than three years ago. ['Economy', 'Poverty'] 4 2011-11-01 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Nina Turner Ohio """The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 5 2011-11-01 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har John Lee Oregon "Says ""Clackamas County has more urban renewal debt than all the other Oregon counties combined.""" ['County Government'] 3 2011-10-31 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 0 2011-10-31 Meghan Ashford-Grooms Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says that ""we brought CHI Manufacturing, that had business in China, back to"" Texas." ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-10-31 Amy Hollyfield, Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida """The Christian Coalition gave (Adam) Hasner an F.""" ['Gambling', 'Religion', 'Voting Record'] 3 2011-10-31 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer National Rifle Association "Wisconsin’s concealed-carry permit rules demand more proof than other states that safety training requirements are met, rendering ""all existing (training) certificates insufficient"" as part of the permit application" ['Government regulation', 'Guns'] 4 2011-10-31 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Americans for Prosperity: New Jersey "Says state Senate President Stephen ""Sweeney gave us the nation's highest income tax rates, driving out jobs.""" ['Income', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-10-31 Jane Kahoun None Aaron Marshall E. Gordon Gee Ohio """We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the NCAA no matter how minor the violations.""" ['Sports'] 3 2011-10-30 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Jim McGreevey New Jersey """After I had resigned or announced my resignation, I abolished -- I prohibited pay-to-play for people that had county or state contracts.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics'] 3 2011-10-30 Tim Murphy Talk show host C. Eugene Emery Jr. Helen Glover Rhode Island """The State of Rhode Island has the worst state-funded pension in the country.""" ['Deficit', 'Pensions', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2011-10-29 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Kate Brown Oregon Says for every dollar the state spent on audits last year, it delivered $64 in cost savings. ['Government Efficiency'] 5 2011-10-29 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Randy Forbes Virginia """1.53 million jobs are at risk (from potential defense cuts).""" ['Deficit', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012', 'Military'] 4 2011-10-29 Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sue Owen Republican W. Gardner Selby Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Rick Perry wrote a newspaper item saying he was ""open to amnesty"" for illegal immigrants in the United States." ['Immigration'] 3 2011-10-28 Martha M. Hamilton Molly Moorhead Rachel Maddow """A recent Department of Labor study guessed Wall Street fees cost a worker 28 percent of the value of your plan over the span of your career.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Retirement'] 2 2011-10-28 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jeb Hensarling Texas The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010. ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2011-10-28 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Bloggers Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to freeze pay for state employees includes a 5.4 percent raise for himself. ['State Finances'] 1 2011-10-28 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Chain email "Barack Obama is the ""First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.""" ['History', 'Space'] 0 2011-10-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida Says adding toll lanes on I-95 in Broward County improved rush-hour traffic for non-toll lanes from 25 mph to 45 mph. ['Transportation'] 4 2011-10-28 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia "Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obama’s health care bill created what ""would, in effect, be death panels.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-10-27 Jane Kahoun Republican Joe Guillen Josh Mandel Ohio "The STAR Ohio fund ""just received the highest possible credit rating one of these funds can receive.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-10-27 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to ""provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 0 2011-10-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Amy Sherman Jim Waldman Florida """You are prohibited from walking into the Capitol with a gun, but you can go after the County Commission or the School Board.""" ['Government regulation', 'Guns'] 2 2011-10-27 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sue Owen Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says Texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during Rick Perry's governorship. Also, the Texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during Barack Obama's presidency. ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-10-27 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says judges ""get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state.""" ['Pensions'] 5 2011-10-26 Jane Kahoun Republican Stephen Koff Steve LaTourette Ohio """For each $1 billion in infrastructure investment, 42,000 jobs are created.""" ['Economy', 'Infrastructure', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-10-26 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Leon Panetta California """After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Military'] 3 2011-10-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Becky Bowers Bill Nelson Florida "Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to ""wrangle the actual streaming video"" from BP that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow." ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 4 2011-10-26 Jody Seaborn, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """In Texas, we created over 1 million new jobs while the rest of the nation lost over 2 million.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 3 2011-10-26 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin """The largest category of people coming into the technical schools in Wisconsin are people with four-year degrees.""" ['Education', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-10-26 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske New Jersey Democratic State Committee New Jersey """Since Mayor Kennedy O’Brien took office Sayreville has issued 22,081 building permits! Now O’Brien is holding secret meetings with big developers.""" ['Elections'] 2 2011-10-26 Tim Murphy Lynn Arditi Occupy Providence """Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour.""" ['Corporations', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Government regulation', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-10-25 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Sue Owen Joe Biden Delaware """In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229.""" ['Crime'] 3 2011-10-25 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Facebook posts "Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but ""zero on job creation.""" ['Abortion', 'Congressional Rules', 'Economy', 'Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Government Efficiency', 'Guns', 'Labor', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Religion', 'Workers'] 0 2011-10-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Jim Tharpe Ron Paul Texas "GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain called Ron Paul’s followers ""ignorant.""" ['Negative Campaigning'] 1 2011-10-24 Martha M. Hamilton None Molly Moorhead Iowans for Some Semblance of Christian Decency Iowa "Herman Cain is a ""pro-choice candidate.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2011-10-24 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Maryalice Gill Ron Paul Texas Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11. ['Homeland Security', 'Military', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Terrorism'] 4 2011-10-24 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Alan Grayson Florida "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." ['Economy'] 5 2011-10-24 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Brett Hulsey "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s ""actions are directly responsible for killing at least 15,000 jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-10-24 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Cory Booker New Jersey "Says ""if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that you've been arrested before an average of 10 times.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 4 2011-10-24 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio """During Sherrod Brown’s past decade as a D.C. politician, more than one out of every four jobs that has left America, left from Ohio. ... Sherrod Brown will own these horrendous Ohio job numbers next year.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-10-24 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio """During Sherrod Brown’s past decade as a D.C. politician, more than one out of every four jobs that has left America, left from Ohio. ... Sherrod Brown will own these horrendous Ohio job numbers next year.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-10-23 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Tommy Thompson Wisconsin """During my tenure as governor, Wisconsin’s overall tax burden went DOWN.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-10-23 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says the national heath care reform is ""a government takeover of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-10-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """Our president has labeled Americans as soft.""" ['Economy'] 3 2011-10-23 Tim Murphy Labor leader C. Eugene Emery Jr. George Nee Rhode Island """This is the first time in our state, and one of the first times in the country, where benefit reductions . . . has happened to people who are retired.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Deficit', 'Economy', 'Labor', 'Legal Issues', 'Pensions', 'Public Service', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Taxes', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 3 2011-10-22 Bruce Hammond Democrat Janie Har Sam Adams Oregon Says there's $4 billion in private investment along the streetcar. ['City Government', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-10-22 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Anita Perry Texas """My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Pensions'] 4 2011-10-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Marco Rubio Florida "Says his parents ""came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover"" of Cuba." ['Candidate Biography', 'Immigration'] 1 2011-10-21 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jake Berry Rick Perry Texas """We cut property taxes by one-third in the state of Texas while I’ve been governor.""" ['New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-10-21 Daniel Finnegan Warren Fiske National Republican Senatorial Committee "The stimulus created ""zero jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 0 2011-10-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Frank Brogan Florida Says Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field. ['Education', 'Science'] 3 2011-10-21 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Perry Texas """Romneycare was model for Obamacare.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2011-10-21 Dee Lane Janie Har Eileen Brady "Says ""Many people I’ve talked to are angry that because of City Hall inaction we may have to spend a needless $500 million to cover and treat our pure drinking water.""" ['City Government', 'Water'] 1 2011-10-21 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Barack Obama Illinois "Says his proposed payroll tax cut ""will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-10-21 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""these ‘Jersey Shore’ folks, they’re from New York.""" ['Pop Culture'] 3 2011-10-21 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton, Rich Exner Dennis Kucinich Ohio """About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 4 2011-10-21 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Kent Georgia "The newly created state Immigration Enforcement Review Board ""can actually prosecute, and get them [violators] into jail, if we bring in the attorney general.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2011-10-21 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi Edith Ajello Rhode Island """Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.""" ['Abortion', 'Census', 'Children', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Women'] 5 2011-10-20 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada "With recent growth ""it is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-10-20 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Michele Bachmann Minnesota "President Obama’s uncle and aunt ""are illegal aliens ...  who've been allowed to stay in this country.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2011-10-20 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman No Casinos Florida Slot machines in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have generated 20 percent of the promised $500 million per year for schools. ['Education', 'Gambling'] 4 2011-10-20 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin Even a 100 percent tax on millionaires would only fund four months of government operations, failing to seriously address budget deficits and debt. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-10-20 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Langevin Rhode Island """Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.""" ['Children', 'Consumer Safety', 'Crime', 'Families', 'Financial Regulation'] 1 2011-10-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """We buy 35 percent of all Chinese exports.""" ['Trade'] 3 2011-10-20 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says more than 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perry’s watch. ['Jobs'] 3 2011-10-20 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Stephen Sweeney """New Jersey's poverty rate has increased since this governor took office and the number of New Jerseyans without health insurance has risen.""" ['Health Care', 'Poverty'] 3 2011-10-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-10-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.""" ['History', 'Military'] 1 2011-10-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens.""" ['Economy', 'Immigration', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-10-19 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Matt Gaetz Florida """A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol.""" ['Agriculture', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Science'] 4 2011-10-19 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Mark Miller Wisconsin """Nearly 14,000 Wisconsinites have lost their job since Governor Walker and the Republicans took over in January.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2011-10-19 Robert Higgs Republican Henry J. Gomez Dave Yost ohio """The city of Columbus would save $41 million a year if employees had to contribute to their own, guaranteed-check pensions.""" ['Jobs', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 4 2011-10-19 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Democrat Eric Stirgus Hank Johnson Georgia """Since 1970, the Clean Air Act has reduced toxic and health-threatening air pollution by 60 percent while our economy has grown more than 200 percent.""" ['Environment'] 4 2011-10-19 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert John Driscoll New Jersey """(Sen. Robert) Gordon cost us money, exempting the Newark sports arena from paying property taxes and sticking us with the bill.""" ['Message Machine 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Herman Cain Georgia "The 9-9-9 plan ""does not raise taxes on those that are making the least.""" ['Poverty', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-10-18 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2011-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers, Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, ""You took it out of your book.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, W. Gardner Selby Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had ""no increase.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2011-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin.""" ['Health Care', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'States'] 5 2011-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Fred Karger California """If a President Romney got a call from the president of the (Mormon church), he has no choice but to obey. It is obedience over family and country.""" ['Religion'] 0 2011-10-18 Bill Adair Republican John Gregg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says Barack Obama ""never worked in the private sector"" before he was elected president." ['Candidate Biography', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-10-18 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Mike Fasano Florida """Just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be."" A planned nuclear plant repair ""will only increase that percentage.""" ['Energy', 'Nuclear'] 4 2011-10-18 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead Joe Pitts Pennsylvania "The health care law was ""a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments!""" ['Health Care'] 3 2011-10-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia "The Department of Energy’s ""Billion Ton Study"" has shown that wind and solar energy combined ""could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs.""" ['Energy'] 1 2011-10-17 Martha M. Hamilton Activist Louis Jacobson Occupy Wall Street New York """94 percent of winning candidates in 2010 had more money than their opponents.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Occupy Wall Street'] 4 2011-10-17 Martha M. Hamilton Jake Berry David Axelrod Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent. ['Education', 'Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-10-17 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman No Casinos Florida """The (Florida) casino proposed by Malaysian gambling conglomerate Genting would be nearly double the size of the largest casino in the world.""" ['Gambling'] 4 2011-10-17 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Chris Abele "The Milwaukee County sheriff’s department  ""plays only a limited role as a traditional law enforcement agency"" and in 2009 reported far fewer crimes to the FBI than the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police did." ['County Budget', 'County Government', 'Crime'] 3 2011-10-17 John Bridges W. Gardner Selby Burnt Orange Report Says Texas Senate hopeful Donna Campbell doesn’t live in the district she’s hoping to win in 2012. ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2011-10-17 Robert Higgs None Peter Krouse Building a Better Ohio Ohio "Says the reforms in state Issue 2 ""will save taxpayer dollars""" ['Labor', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 4 2011-10-17 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Christine Whitman New Jersey """The proudest accomplishment (of my tenure) was leaving the state with a $1.2 billion surplus, which was the largest we’d ever had, and getting spending under control and a balanced budget.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-10-16 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer David A. Clarke Jr. Wisconsin "Says he’s ""never asked for more"" than inflationary budget increases in his 10 budgets as Milwaukee County sheriff" ['County Budget', 'Criminal Justice'] 1 2011-10-16 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Lynn Arditi David Quiroa Rhode Island """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 driver’s license.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration', 'Public Safety', 'Transportation', 'Workers'] 5 2011-10-16 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill, Caryn Shinske, Bill Wichert Tom Kean Jr. "Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, ""making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-10-15 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""There are now Occupy Wall Street camps in hundreds of cities across the United States.""" ['City Government', 'Occupy Wall Street'] 2 2011-10-14 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Michele Bachmann Minnesota Says Rick Perry increased spending in Texas by more than 50 percent. ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-10-14 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Louis Jacobson Alan Grayson Florida """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.""" ['Income', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Workers'] 5 2011-10-14 Aaron Sharockman Republican Jon Greenberg Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it ""can't build a factory in a non-union state.""" ['Labor', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-10-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Perry Texas """Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs.""" ['Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 2 2011-10-14 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Robert Kraig "Wisconsin bill ""grants drug companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from injuries and deaths caused by their products.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Consumer Safety', 'Corporations', 'Government regulation', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Public Health'] 4 2011-10-14 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Peter Palumbo Rhode Island """The Tax Foundation figures Rhode Island as the 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. We're the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. We're the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes.""" ['Economy', 'Small Business', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-10-14 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Ward Armstrong Virginia "Appalachian Power Company is making ""record profits.""" ['Energy', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-10-14 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia """Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 3 2011-10-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, ""the percentage uninsured went down."" Under his successor, Rick Perry, ""it's gone up.""" ['Children', 'Health Care', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-10-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … ""it's 30 percent today.""" ['Economy', 'Marriage', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-10-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Maryalice Gill Jon Huntsman Utah """The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer"" Obama’s health care mandate." ['Health Care', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 0 2011-10-13 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Herman Cain Georgia "Says someone earning $50,000 a year will fare better under his ""9-9-9"" plan than under the current tax system." ['Taxes'] 2 2011-10-13 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says he never called teachers ""thugs"" and has said nothing but ""great things"" about them during the fight over his curbs on unions" ['Education', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-10-13 Robert Higgs Republican Robert Farley, Tom Feran, Jacob Geiger John Boehner Ohio """Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the 'stimulus.' """ ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-10-13 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""any attempt to try to compare"" the Massachusetts health care law with the federal health care law is ""completely, intellectually dishonest. Governor Romney did not raise one tax in doing what he did.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-10-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Herman Cain Georgia """Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax.""" ['New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 2 2011-10-12 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Edd Houck Virginia """Bryce Reeves chaired a group bankrolled by a New York billionaire who fired hundreds of Virginia workers and sent their jobs to China.""" ['China', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2011-10-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida "Says U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner ""cited his efforts to weaken pro-life and school choice legislation as unequivocal proof that he’s a moderate.""" ['Abortion', 'Candidate Biography', 'Education'] 3 2011-10-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican W. Gardner Selby Michele Bachmann Minnesota Says Rick Perry co-chaired Al Gore’s campaign for president. ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 3 2011-10-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Massachusetts has ""less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas.""" ['Health Care', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'States'] 4 2011-10-12 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Alliance for America's Future Virginia """We just can’t afford to pay 100 percent of government employee benefits.""" ['Labor', 'State Finances', 'Unions'] 3 2011-10-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Willoughby Mariano Michele Bachmann Minnesota """These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans.""" ['Health Care', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2011-10-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Huntsman Utah """I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-10-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Rick Perry Texas "Says he ""came to the Republican Party sooner in age"" than Ronald Reagan." ['Candidate Biography', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 5 2011-10-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Molly Moorhead Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in.""" ['Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 5 2011-10-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "In the early 1960s, all levels of government were ""consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy,"" a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, ""we cease at some point to be a free economy.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Regulation'] 2 2011-10-11 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Sue Owen Jose Rodriguez Texas "Says El Paso was named America’s ""Safest Large City"" a year after San Antonio, Houston and Dallas had the nation’s highest crime rates." ['Crime', 'Immigration', 'Public Safety'] 2 2011-10-11 Amy Hollyfield Aaron Sharockman American Crossroads Says Bill Clinton opposes President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans. ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-10-11 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Occupied Wall Street Journal New York """More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Jobs', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Poverty', 'Workers'] 3 2011-10-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Eva Galambos """Not a single segment of the proposed Beltline intersects the MARTA system at MARTA stations.""" ['Transportation'] 1 2011-10-11 Dee Lane Janie Har Amanda Fritz "Says that ""In 2009, I saved ratepayers around $500 million by persuading the Council to pursue a less expensive compliance mechanism if the City is required to treat Bull Run drinking water.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Environment', 'Public Health', 'Water'] 4 2011-10-11 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas Says David Dewhurst accused Cruz of being a Red Chinese Communist. ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography'] 4 2011-10-11 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi Jorge Elorza Rhode Island """The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state...""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 1 2011-10-10 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Facebook posts Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1. ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Labor', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Workers'] 1 2011-10-10 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Matthew Rothschild "U.S. unemployment among people ages 16 to 24 is ""18.4 percent, which is a 60-year high.""" ['Jobs', 'Occupy Wall Street', 'Workers'] 4 2011-10-10 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen We Are Ohio Ohio """Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need.""" ['Jobs', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 2 2011-10-10 W. Gardner Selby Meghan Ashford-Grooms Libertarian National Committee "Says Rick Perry ""supported a guest worker program to help people who would otherwise be illegal aliens.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2011-10-10 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Rick Perry Texas "Coca-Cola’s CEO ""said he finds it easier to do work in China than in the United States.""" ['Government regulation', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-10-10 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill New Jersey Democratic State Committee New Jersey "Says Vince Polistina is ""collecting nearly $70,000 in taxpayer-funded salaries -- plus a government pension.""" ['Income', 'Pensions'] 2 2011-10-09 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin """We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. It’s 35 percent.""" ['Corporations', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-10-09 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Steve Lonegan New Jersey """Today, the Social Security system is broke.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2011-10-09 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Edward Fitzpatrick Nick Tsiongas Rhode Island """Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2011-10-07 John Bridges None W. Gardner Selby Ruben Navarrette Jr. California """Every month, another 50,000 U.S.-born Hispanics turn 18 and become eligible to vote.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration'] 4 2011-10-07 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The Arab Spring … ""drove up gas prices.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2011-10-07 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Michael Moore """Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008.""" ['Crime', 'Financial Regulation', 'Occupy Wall Street'] 4 2011-10-07 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Brian Newberry Rhode Island """Legally, it doesn't make any difference"" which state district you live in when running for Congress." ['Elections', 'Legal Issues', 'Public Service'] 5 2011-10-07 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Beverly Hall "Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to ""dramatic"" score increases on state tests." ['Education'] 1 2011-10-07 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen We Are Ohio Ohio "Says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees ""exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5.""" ['Elections', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 2 2011-10-06 Aaron Sharockman None Becky Bowers Critics of water fluoridation Florida Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews. ['Health Care', 'History', 'Public Health', 'Science', 'Water'] 0 2011-10-06 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont """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.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Occupy Wall Street'] 5 2011-10-06 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Tim Ryan Ohio """We have a $2 trillion to $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. We’ve got work that needs to get done. We’ve got people that want to go to work.""" ['Economy', 'Infrastructure', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-10-06 Caryn Shinske None Bill Wichert Committee for Our Children's Future New Jersey "Says Gov. Chris Christie ""cut spending (by) $1 billion"" and provided ""$850 million in new education funding.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-10-05 Martha M. Hamilton John Gregg David Axelrod """The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973"" and ""the average worker is making what they were making in 1996.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Workers'] 4 2011-10-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John Fleming Louisiana "Says Barack Obama is a ""hypocrite"" for criticizing President George W. Bush’s ""drone attack program,"" then using it aggressively as president." ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 1 2011-10-05 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Mark Miller Wisconsin """Republicans enacted the most drastic cuts to K-12 public schools of any state in the nation.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-10-05 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust. ['Environment'] 1 2011-10-05 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Chris Redfern Ohio "Says that to drive the length of the newly drawn 15th District ""you’d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 4 2011-10-05 Tim Murphy Talk show host Richard Salit Helen Glover Rhode Island """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." ['Health Care'] 5 2011-10-04 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says ""New Jersey's unemployment is significantly lower than it was when I got here. And we've created 50,000 new private sector jobs in the last 20 months after having lost 117,000 in the year before I got here.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2011-10-04 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Santorum Pennsylvania Says that in 2001, Rick Perry spoke favorably of binational health insurance between Mexico and Texas. ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 3 2011-10-04 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Bill O'Reilly "Says the federal government hosted a conference and ""ordered 250 muffins at 16 bucks a piece.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Pundits'] 2 2011-10-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Haley Barbour Mississippi "When he took office in 2009, President Barack Obama ""had the biggest Democratic majorities in Congress since Lyndon Johnson.""" ['History'] 1 2011-10-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """Last year, Korea sold nearly half a million cars in our country. ... The United States, you know how much we sell to them? Six thousand. What kind of deal is that?""" ['Economy', 'Trade'] 4 2011-10-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Rick Perry Texas """My home state since June of 2009 created 40 percent of the new jobs in America.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2011-10-03 W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby Ted Cruz Texas Says David Dewhurst skipped nine candidate forums after announcing his U.S. Senate candidacy. ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2011-10-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Martin O'Malley Maryland "Chris Christie has not been ""effective at creating jobs … (or have) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... New Jersey (has) one of the higher unemployment rates in the country at 9.4 percent.""" ['Jobs', 'States'] 3 2011-10-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Martin O'Malley Maryland """When it comes to being effective at creating jobs … (Chris Christie has not had) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... Last year, New Jersey created no net new jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'States'] 3 2011-10-03 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Earl Blumenauer Oregon "Says ""Every year air pollution protections are delayed, another 34,000 people will die prematurely.""" ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Public Health'] 4 2011-10-03 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher EMILY's List "Says Tommy Thompson ""pushed such strict laws that abortion providers faced potential life imprisonment and women were forced to cross state lines in order to receive attention for life-threatening issues.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2011-10-03 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """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.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-10-03 Leroy Chapman, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia """If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-10-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert John Wisniewski New Jersey "Says Gov. Chris Christie has ""now come up with a new agenda"" for ethics reform in September 2011." ['Ethics'] 2 2011-10-02 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey "Says his administration balanced ""two budgets with over $13 billion in deficits without raising taxes.""" ['Deficit', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-10-02 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Mike McCabe "Wisconsin's new state budget includes ""a 15 percent increase for road construction and yet we’ve got local towns tearing up"" paved roads and replacing them with gravel." ['Campaign Finance', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-10-02 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Lynn Arditi Terry Gorman Rhode Island """[Federal] law says that you can't give in-state tuition to an illegal alien … unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of their state of residence.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 2 2011-10-01 Dee Lane Democrat Janie Har Mary Nolan Oregon Says she helped lead the launch of curbside recycling. ['City Government', 'Environment'] 3 2011-09-30 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas Says the private sector in Texas created 1 million jobs over the past decade. ['Jobs'] 3 2011-09-30 Amy Hollyfield Becky Bowers Chain email """Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!""" ['Drugs', 'Poverty'] 1 2011-09-30 Bill Adair Democrat Molly Moorhead Harry Reid Nevada """President Obama has declared disasters in 48 of 50 states this year.""" ['Homeland Security'] 4 2011-09-30 Greg Borowski Organization James B. Nelson One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin 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. ['Jobs'] 5 2011-09-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Jennette Gayer """We have had over 40 days this summer where it was unsafe to breathe the air.""" ['Environment', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-09-30 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio "Says U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown ""promised that the first stimulus bill would fund the Brent Spence Bridge.""" ['Infrastructure', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-09-30 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Jim Whelan "Because of Jim Whelan, ""the 1990s are the only decade since the 1920s when the population of Atlantic City actually went up.""" ['Gambling'] 3 2011-09-29 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Save America's Postal Service "The Postal Service’s financial losses result from ""a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-09-29 Martha M. Hamilton Libertarian Jon Greenberg Gary Johnson New Mexico """It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-09-29 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says President Barack Obama failed ""to stand up for the bipartisan debt solutions of the Simpson-Bowles Commission.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-09-28 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving in-state tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants. ['Education', 'Immigration', 'States'] 5 2011-09-28 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois Says Texas wildfires are linked to climate change. ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 3 2011-09-28 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Mark Neumann Wisconsin 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. ['Federal Budget'] 5 2011-09-28 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus John Sherman The Atlanta Beltline paid nearly $3.5 million for less than a quarter-acre. ['Government Efficiency'] 1 2011-09-28 Jody Seaborn Republican Sue Owen Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says that illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-09-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Peter Krouse Dennis Kucinich Ohio """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.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation'] 5 2011-09-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia """If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2011-09-27 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be paying higher tax rates than the guy who’s making $50 million a year. And that’s how it’s working right now.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2011-09-27 Amy Hollyfield Republican Becky Bowers Rick Scott Florida """At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined.""" ['Diversity', 'Elections'] 5 2011-09-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Paul Broun Georgia Stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost 378,000 jobs and $28.3 billion in sales. ['Children', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-09-27 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """We have asked public employees to pay 10 percent of the costs of their guaranteed pension and 15 percent of the cost of their health care. ... The leadership of those public employees unions don't want to pay anything.""" ['Labor', 'State Finances', 'Unions'] 2 2011-09-26 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Despite opposition from national Club for Growth, Club for Growth Wisconsin ""has endorsed"" him for U.S. Senate." ['Elections'] 0 2011-09-26 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton, Jacob Geiger John Boehner Ohio """We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Social Security'] 5 2011-09-26 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas "Says ""our taxes have doubled"" with Rick Perry in office." ['Taxes'] 0 2011-09-26 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia """This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression.""" ['Economy'] 1 2011-09-26 Tom Curran Erin O'Neill Rush Holt "Says ""as a share of the US economy, the government’s support for research and development (R&D) has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Science'] 5 2011-09-25 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Democratic Governors Association "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ""is denying Democrats the right to vote.""" ['Elections'] 0 2011-09-25 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Keep Conservatives United North Carolina "Says Rick Perry is ""spending more money than the state takes in, covering his deficits with record borrowing.""" ['Deficit', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-09-25 Tom Curran Republican Caryn Shinske Chris Christie New Jersey """The water quality in the ocean is perfect. It’s been tested up and down every ocean shore in New Jersey.""" ['Environment', 'Water'] 4 2011-09-25 Tim Murphy Organization Lynn Arditi Rhode Island Retirement Security Coalition Rhode Island """In the past six years alone, changes to the pension formula … have saved over half a billion dollars.""" ['Labor', 'Legal Issues', 'Retirement', 'State Finances', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2011-09-24 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Ron Paul Texas "Says Rick Perry wrote a letter ""supporting Hillarycare.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-09-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sue Owen Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says Texas’ unemployment rate has doubled on Rick Perry’s watch. ['Jobs'] 3 2011-09-23 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Rick Perry Texas Says that Romney touted the Massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition. ['Health Care'] 2 2011-09-23 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says he ""got lobbied"" by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer." ['Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2011-09-23 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Perry Texas "Says he never said he wanted to move Social Security ""back to the states.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2011-09-23 Republican Michele Bachmann Minnesota """President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times.""" [] 0 2011-09-23 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida Says the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011. ['Economy', 'Oil Spill', 'Tourism'] 4 2011-09-23 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer National Republican Senatorial Committee Says U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is backing President Barack Obama’s plan to pass a $1.5 trillion tax increase. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-09-23 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Building a Better Ohio Ohio "Toledo Mayor ""Mike Bell (once) lost his job as a firefighter because his city ran out of money.""" ['Labor', 'Unions'] 5 2011-09-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Carla Smith The city of Atlanta has either the highest or second-highest average water bills in the country. ['Taxes', 'Water'] 5 2011-09-23 Dee Lane Janie Har Brent Barton Says credit rating agencies realize that our instability stems in large part from Oregon’s kicker system. ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2011-09-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Becky Bowers Rick Perry Texas """The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2011-09-22 Martha M. Hamilton Libertarian Becky Bowers Gary Johnson New Mexico """We're bankrupt.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-09-22 Jody Seaborn, W. Gardner Selby Republican Sue Owen Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says Rick Perry ""provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 5 2011-09-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Obama ""went around the world and apologized for America.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2011-09-22 Bill Adair Libertarian Maryalice Gill Gary Johnson New Mexico Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs. ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Drugs', 'Marijuana', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-09-22 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """Wisconsin is broke,"" and ""state government is $3 billion in debt.""" ['State Budget'] 0 2011-09-22 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done ""in the private sector, it would be called criminal.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2011-09-22 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Raymond Lesniak "Says ""New Jersey’s $1 billion horse racing industry … employs 13,000 individuals and ensures the preservation of 176,000 acres of horse farmland.""" ['Environment', 'Gambling', 'Jobs', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-09-22 Tim Murphy Democrat Edward Fitzpatrick Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """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." ['Education'] 5 2011-09-21 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Rob Portman Ohio """In the month of July alone, EU exports to South Korea increased by over 36 percent. A lot of that is our market share. Those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering.""" ['Trade'] 3 2011-09-21 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barbara Boxer California """Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-09-21 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Chris Joyner Nathan Deal """[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 governor’s office.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2011-09-21 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms. ['Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-09-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Henry J. Gomez Michael Skindell Ohio "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.""" ['Environment'] 5 2011-09-20 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration. ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-09-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Tea Party member Eric Stirgus Debbie Dooley Georgia """[Eighty-five percent] of the funds collected in each county will be redistributed elsewhere -- not spent in the county in which it is collected.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-09-20 Dee Lane Janie Har Brad Avakian "Says ""We do about 300 investigations a year into housing discrimination and in recent years have put about $150,000 of damages into the pockets of individuals who have been treated unfairly.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Housing'] 1 2011-09-19 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Rachel Maddow """Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged"" in recent years because of Social Security." ['Poverty', 'Pundits', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 4 2011-09-19 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Mary Taylor Ohio "Says that even if you have no children, ""under Obamacare, you would still have to carry insurance that covers pediatric, maternity and newborn care even though you do not need it.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-09-19 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Al Sharpton New York "One Wisconsin school district ""is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time.""" ['Education', 'Pundits', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-09-19 Jim Tharpe Organization Chris Joyner Chris McCalla Georgia """An amazing 5,400 jobs were lost in the first 12 months of the (smoking) ban’s implementation in Ohio’s hospitality industry alone.""" ['Public Health'] 1 2011-09-19 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert New Jersey Sierra Club "Says New Jersey is ""losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream.""" ['Environment', 'Housing'] 3 2011-09-18 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Scott Keyes """The Green Bay Packers are a socialist organization.""" ['Sports'] 2 2011-09-18 Caryn Shinske None Bill Wichert Hetty Rosenstein New Jersey """The average state pension, including managers, is $23,000 a year; and just $14,000 for local government workers.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-09-18 Tim Murphy Democrat Lynn Arditi David Cicilline Rhode Island "Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force ""does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Iraq', 'Legal Issues', 'Voting Record'] 5 2011-09-17 Dee Lane Janie Har Ted Piccolo Says that three of these five Republicans -- Ben Westlund, Rob Patridge, Max Williams, Lane Shetterly, Lynn Lundquist -- later became Democrats. ['Voting Record'] 1 2011-09-17 Jody Seaborn W. Gardner Selby Save Our Springs Alliance """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.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Water'] 5 2011-09-16 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota Says the vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation. ['Health Care'] 1 2011-09-16 Bill Adair Democrat John Gregg New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire """Two-thirds of Granite Staters oppose the Tea Party"" and its agenda on labor unions." ['Labor', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2011-09-16 Amy Hollyfield, Aaron Sharockman Democrat Becky Bowers, Aaron Sharockman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says CNN's Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say that ""the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans don't even pay any federal income tax.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2011-09-16 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """I asked the unions to pay into their own health care insurance ... and they said I was being unreasonable. I requested that they contribute toward their own pensions ... and they screamed it was unfair.""" ['Health Care', 'Labor', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2011-09-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano David Scott Georgia Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers. ['Jobs'] 3 2011-09-16 Tom Curran Caryn Shinske Jersey Central Power & Light "Hurricane ""Irene was the second-largest storm to hit North America in terms of power outages -- and the first hurricane to make landfall in New Jersey since 1904.""" ['Energy', 'Weather'] 4 2011-09-15 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Eric Cantor Virginia "The jobs bill includes ""President Obama's tax on soup kitchens""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 2 2011-09-15 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Sean Hannity "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.""" ['Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Pundits', 'Workers'] 5 2011-09-15 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Alan Grayson Florida """$360 million of our tax dollars went straight to ... the Taliban.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Government Efficiency', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 4 2011-09-15 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio """The majority last quarter of Sherrod Brown's campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 1 2011-09-15 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Valerie Vainieri Huttle New Jersey "Says ""160,000 kids stay home every day because they are afraid to go to school because of bullying.""" ['Crime', 'Education'] 2 2011-09-14 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "In the New York 9th District, ""there is a large number of people who went to the polls tonight who didn't support the president to begin with and don't support Democrats -- and it's nothing more than that.""" ['Elections'] 2 2011-09-14 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Ron Paul Texas "The U.S. military ""is in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 4 2011-09-14 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Ron Paul Texas """170,000 of the jobs"" created in Texas under Gov. Rick Perry ""were government jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Workers'] 3 2011-09-14 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Keep Conservatives United North Carolina "Says ""Rick Perry doubled spending in a decade.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2011-09-13 Bill Adair Journalist Angie Drobnic Holan Gail Collins New York "Mitt Romney ""drove to Canada with the family dog Seamus strapped to the roof of the car.""" ['Animals', 'Candidate Biography', 'Pundits'] 4 2011-09-13 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """In terms of the wealthiest Americans, we're at the lowest tax rate since the 1950s.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-09-13 Jody Seaborn Democrat W. Gardner Selby Jim Hightower Texas "Says Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature ""managed to slash the budget of the volunteer fire departments in our state by 75 percent in the last legislative session,"" reducing their abilities to fight recent wildfires." ['Natural Disasters ', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-09-13 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dan Ramos Ohio """Gov. Kasich and the Republican-dominated legislature have foregone the popular option of closing tax loopholes that amount to $7 billion annually in this state.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-09-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Johnny Isakson Georgia The premiums on Medicare’s prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began. ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-09-12 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Rick Perry Texas """The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 0 2011-09-12 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota """We know that President Obama stole over $500 billion out of Medicare to switch it over to Obamacare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2011-09-12 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Herman Cain Georgia """Today, when people retire in Galveston County, Texas, they retire making at least 50 percent more than they would ever get out of Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 3 2011-09-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says that in his book, Rick Perry said that ""Social Security is unconstitutional.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Social Security'] 4 2011-09-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Louis Jacobson, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Social Security is a ""Ponzi scheme.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2011-09-12 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that … by any measure Social Security has been a failure.""" ['Social Security'] 5 2011-09-12 Aaron Sharockman None Becky Bowers Bob Buckhorn Florida """One international flight a day in a wide-bodied jet ... one flight daily generates $150 million a year and approximately 2,300 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-09-12 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske George Allen Virginia "Takes credit for ""reining in"" state spending when he was governor." ['Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-09-12 Leroy Chapman, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia "Ben Bernanke has been the most ""inflationary"" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve." ['Economy'] 2 2011-09-12 Robert Higgs Republican Peter Krouse John Kasich Ohio """Since the beginning of the year we've created a net increase of 45,000 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-09-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Bill Pascrell New Jersey Says 600,000 to 700,000 government workers have been laid off in the last year and a half ['Jobs'] 4 2011-09-11 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Brett Hulsey "The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly approved ""only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats"" in 2011." ['Bipartisanship'] 5 2011-09-11 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """When you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created 1 million jobs in the state of Texas. At the same time, (the rest of) America lost 2.5 million.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-09-11 Caryn Shinske Independent Bill Wichert Michael Bloomberg New York """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.""" ['Housing', 'Terrorism'] 5 2011-09-11 Tim Murphy Independent Lynn Arditi "Vincent ""Buddy"" Cianci" Rhode Island """Mike Trainor...still owes $250,000 to the state.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2011-09-10 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Chain email The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is considering implementing mandatory physical fitness testing for security staff. ['Workers'] 0 2011-09-10 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Matt Wand Oregon "Says ""Every time the Legislature 'suspended' the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the state's revenues.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-09-09 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob Goodlatte Virginia "Thomas Jefferson expressed ""strong support"" for a balanced budget amendment in 1798." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 3 2011-09-09 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman Donna Shalala Florida """The academic achievements of our student-athletes are mentioned in the same breath and spirit as Notre Dame and Stanford.""" ['Education'] 2 2011-09-09 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tommy Thompson Wisconsin "Says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin ranks ""as the most liberal member of the House.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Voting Record'] 4 2011-09-09 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Tom Graves """Two days of interest we pay to China is enough to buy one joint strike fighter [jet].""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-09-09 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen We Are Ohio Ohio """Issue 2 makes it illegal for us to negotiate for enough firefighters to do the job.""" ['Elections', 'Labor'] 4 2011-09-09 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Jon Runyan New Jersey "The deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling will ""directly link a debt ceiling increase to spending cuts for the first time ever.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-09-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Perry Texas """Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster"" than Mitt Romney." ['Jobs'] 3 2011-09-08 Bill Adair Democrat Jake Berry New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire "Since Rick Perry became governor, ""Texas has gone from 46th in the country to 50th in the population that graduates from high school.""" ['Education', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-09-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 5 2011-09-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Huntsman Utah "Utah was ""the No. 1 job creator in this country during my years of service"" as governor, with a 5.9 percent increase in jobs." ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'States'] 3 2011-09-08 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Senatorial Committee "Sherrod Brown ""has stood side by side"" with President Barack Obama, presiding ""over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years"" and hurtling toward "" the worst jobs record in the modern era.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-09-08 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Tom Kean New Jersey Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees. ['Homeland Security', 'Terrorism'] 5 2011-09-08 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Daniel McKee Rhode Island """This year, the Blackstone Valley Mayoral Academy became the first public school in Rhode Island history to have 100 percent of its elementary-age students proficient in reading on state assessments.""" ['Children', 'Education'] 4 2011-09-07 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "The Massachusetts health care plan ""dealt with 8 percent of our population,"" far less than the ""100 percent of American people"" affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law." ['Health Care'] 0 2011-09-07 Martha M. Hamilton Newsmaker Angie Drobnic Holan SEIU Washington, D.C. """Republicans fought to protect tax loopholes for corporations that send our jobs overseas.""" ['Corporations', 'Jobs', 'Taxes', 'Trade', 'Workers'] 3 2011-09-07 Aaron Sharockman Becky Bowers Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Congressman Bill Young voted to cut taxes for millionaires and end your Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-09-07 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Joe Biden Delaware "Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal ""eliminates Medicare"" in 10 years." ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-09-07 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas "Rick Perry ""was the (campaign) chairman for Al Gore at one time, not too many years ago.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2011-09-07 Brenda Bell, Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Debra Medina Texas """Governor (Perry), you were a Democrat, having worked for Al Gore as his campaign manager...""" ['Elections'] 3 2011-09-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None M.B. Pell Yolanda Adrean Georgia """We [the city of Atlanta] are overbuilt on housing.""" ['Housing'] 3 2011-09-07 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio "Says the federal government is ""the largest energy user in the country.""" ['Energy'] 5 2011-09-06 Bill Adair Democrat Jon Greenberg New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire Says Jon Huntsman supports changes in Medicare that would deny guaranteed benefits to 980,000 New Hampshire residents. ['Medicare', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-09-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "A bipartisan payroll tax cut championed by the White House has meant that ""the average family has an extra $1,000 in their pocket"" this year." ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-09-06 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin """(U.S. Reps.) Paul Ryan, Sean Duffy and Reid Ribble are … shutting down town hall meetings, or making their constituents pay to attend them.""" ['Medicare'] 0 2011-09-06 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Chip Rogers Georgia "Rail ""doesn’t do a great job in lessening traffic.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2011-09-06 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """I became a Republican sooner in my life than"" Ronald Reagan did in his." ['History'] 5 2011-09-06 Robert Higgs Tom Feran, Charles Pope Bloggers "Say Ohio Reps. Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich are ""socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-09-05 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The United States ""won every major battle"" of the Vietnam War. ""Every single one.""" ['History', 'Military', 'Veterans'] 3 2011-09-05 Dee Lane, Jody Seaborn Charles Pope, W. Gardner Selby Bloggers Say Texas U.S. Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Sheila Jackson Lee are among open Socialists in Congress. ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-09-05 Tom Curran Independent Caryn Shinske Vincent Barrella New Jersey """Point Pleasant Beach does not own its beaches; they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as Jenkinson’s""" ['Environment', 'Income'] 4 2011-09-04 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "A new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota ""makes college education more affordable for Wisconsin residents.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'States'] 0 2011-09-04 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Richard Tomlins Rhode Island """Mayor Fung wants to punish our children's education by removing 12 million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school. Your taxes would increase by between 6 and 8 percent per year.""" ['Children', 'City Budget', 'Deficit', 'Education', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 0 2011-09-04 Jody Seaborn Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kinky Friedman Texas "Says Barack Obama’s ""favorability rating in Israel once clocked in at 4 percent.""" ['Israel', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2011-09-04 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill New Jersey Education Association "Says ""New Jersey's public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.""" ['Education'] 5 2011-09-03 Bill Adair Republican Kevin Landrigan Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year. ['Government Efficiency', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-09-03 Jody Seaborn None W. Gardner Selby Maureen Dowd New York Says Ron Paul insisted FEMA should be shut down. ['Federal Budget', 'Public Safety', 'Weather'] 5 2011-09-03 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia "Takes credit for ""substantially reducing the size of the state workforce.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-09-02 Bill Adair Republican Maryalice Gill Rick Perry Texas "Says that when President Obama visited El Paso, he ""pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history.""" ['Immigration', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-09-02 Aaron Sharockman Katie Sanders Bloggers Says Florida U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown, Alcee Hastings and Frederica Wilson are Socialists. ['Patriotism'] 0 2011-09-02 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Dennis Richardson Oregon "Says Oregon state employees received a ""catch-up"" pay raise in 1981 -- just two years after they agreed not to take a raise in exchange for a retirement benefit." ['Labor', 'Retirement', 'Unions'] 1 2011-09-02 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Sovereign Citizens United "U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson, John Lewis and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are ""socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-09-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Marcia Fudge Ohio """H.B. 194, the Voter Suppression Bill, invalidates a vote where a voter properly marks the ballot in support of a particular candidate, but also writes in the name of that same candidate.""" ['Elections'] 4 2011-09-01 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota "President Barack Obama ""has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 0 2011-09-01 Bill Adair Republican Gregory Trotter Rick Perry Texas Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects. ['Energy', 'Foreign Policy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 0 2011-09-01 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Robert Reich California """The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 5 2011-09-01 Aaron Sharockman Becky Bowers Ed Schultz """In (Sen. Marco) Rubio's state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty.""" ['Poverty', 'Pundits', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 3 2011-09-01 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton, Louis Jacobson Dennis Kucinich Ohio "Says that in 2009 ExxonMobil ""paid no federal income taxes, received a $156 million rebate.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-09-01 Dee Lane, Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill, Charles Pope, Bill Wichert Bloggers "Say New Jersey Reps. Donald Payne and Frank Pallone are ""socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-09-01 Tim Murphy Labor leader Lynn Arditi James Parisi Rhode Island "A national study of 2,500 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.""" ['Education'] 5 2011-08-31 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2011-08-31 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Club for Growth "Says potential GOP U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson supported ""Obamacare""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 3 2011-08-31 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby John Cornyn Texas "Congressional Budget Office ""says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-08-31 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe M.B. Pell People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals estimates 200 animals will be spared annually as the result of former President Bill Clinton adopting a vegan diet. ['Animals'] 3 2011-08-31 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton, Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor Kevin Coughlin Ohio "Says there’s not ""much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 1 2011-08-30 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Steve Southerland Florida """The health insurance plan that (members of Congress) have is no different than any other federal employee's in the United States government.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2011-08-30 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Martha M. Hamilton Bob Casey Pennsylvania "In Afghanistan, ""it is very, very rare that someone who is killed in action is not killed by an"" improvised explosive device, or IED." ['Military', 'Veterans'] 2 2011-08-30 Bill Adair Democrat Will Short Gorham Xavier Becerra California """We've had 11,000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789.""" ['Legal Issues'] 5 2011-08-30 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Jim Petro Ohio "Every 1 percent increase in the number of Ohioans with bachelor’s degrees ""means economic activity growing the next year and for each year thereafter (by) $2.5 billion dollars.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Income'] 4 2011-08-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Edward Lindsey Georgia """As governor, [Mitt Romney] balanced the budget without raising taxes and created jobs.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2011-08-30 Jody Seaborn, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says the national debt and President Barack Obama's ""refusal to control spending led to our nation's credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-08-29 Dee Lane Charles Pope Bloggers "Say Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer are ""socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2011-08-29 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Amy Sherman Scott Randolph Florida "Gov. Rick Scott ""is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in Florida the right to the $60 million in rebates they have from their own HMOs.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2011-08-29 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Club for Growth "Democrats in the Legislature in 2009 voted for various ""pork projects"" including ""a $5 million scoreboard for the Milwaukee Bucks.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-08-29 Warren Fiske Democrat Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman Bobby Scott Virginia """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.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-08-29 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican M.B. Pell Newt Gingrich Georgia """We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor.""" ['Federal Budget'] 0 2011-08-29 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.""" ['Baseball'] 5 2011-08-29 Tom Curran Democrat Erin O'Neill Joseph Cryan New Jersey "Says direct shipment of wine ""makes underage drinking as simple as a mouse click.""" ['Alcohol', 'Government regulation'] 2 2011-08-28 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Reince Priebus Wisconsin Public-employee unions spent $30 million in Wisconsin unsuccessfully trying to flip the state Senate to Democratic control. ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-08-28 Jody Seaborn None W. Gardner Selby Margaret Carlson District of Columbia "Rick Perry ""has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax.""" ['Medicaid', 'Social Security', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-08-28 Tom Curran Republican Bill Wichert Kevin O'Toole New Jersey """As we near the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we should not forget that some of the hijackers used New Jersey driver’s licenses to board those aircraft.""" ['Terrorism', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-08-28 Tim Murphy Labor leader Lynn Arditi Joseph Andriole Rhode Island "The Central Falls fire department is ""one of the lowest, if not the lowest, paid fire departments in the state and entire region.""" ['City Budget', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 4 2011-08-27 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, ""doesn’t even have a ZIP code.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2011-08-26 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Doreen Costa Rhode Island """The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money""" ['Children', 'Drugs', 'Economy', 'Families', 'Florida', 'Government regulation', 'Hunger', 'Marijuana', 'Poverty', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2011-08-26 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Regina Benjamin """The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education.""" ['Education', 'Health Care'] 5 2011-08-25 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Rick Perry Texas Says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform. ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-08-25 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Ron Kind Wisconsin """Before Medicare, only 51 percent of Americans 65 and older had health care coverage and nearly 30 percent lived below the poverty line. Today, thanks to Medicare ... nearly all seniors have coverage and 75 percent fewer struggle in poverty.""" ['Medicare', 'Poverty'] 3 2011-08-25 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio """We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Trade'] 3 2011-08-25 Tom Curran Erin O'Neill Michael Doherty "Says enrolling a student in a subsidized lunch program triggers an ""at risk"" designation, resulting in an extra $6,000 to $7,000 of state school aid per student." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-08-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """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.""" ['Social Security'] 5 2011-08-24 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. """Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared.""" ['Diversity', 'Economy', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-08-24 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Jonathan Steitz Wisconsin The 2009-11 state budget that Democrats approved left Wisconsin taxpayers $3.6 billion in debt. ['State Budget'] 1 2011-08-24 Jody Seaborn Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Mike Villarreal Texas "Says that before Rick Perry became governor, ""only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-08-23 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Thaddeus McCotter Michigan """When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home.""" ['Housing'] 4 2011-08-23 Dee Lane State official Ian K. Kullgren Michael Schrunk Oregon "Says ""under our current sentencing laws, about 75 percent of all convicted felons in Oregon do not go to prison.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 4 2011-08-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Chip Rogers Georgia """Recent international reports show the United States near the bottom among industrialized nations for k-12 academic achievement.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-08-23 Tom Curran None Bill Wichert Albert Papp Jr. New Jersey """Last year -- actually, this year in May -- we saw New Jersey Transit fares rise anywhere from 25 percent to 47 percent.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2011-08-22 Amy Hollyfield None Amy Sherman Florida voter Florida "Says Gov. Rick Scott is ""spending a quarter of a million of our tax dollars to robocall people.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-08-22 Amy Hollyfield None Amy Sherman Florida voter Florida Says Gov. Rick Scott cut state funding for PBS. ['State Budget'] 4 2011-08-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor Rick Perry Texas "Scientists are ""questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2011-08-22 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Sean Duffy Wisconsin "The Dodd-Frank financial-reform law’s hundreds of new rules will force small banks and credit unions to burn up ""an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Government regulation'] 2 2011-08-22 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio "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.""" ['Income', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-08-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus David Pennington Georgia "The proposed transportation bill ""could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2011-08-21 Tom Curran Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """Since I introduced my budget -- first budget -- in March of 2010, we've created 50,000 new private-sector jobs for the people of this state.""" ['Jobs', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-08-21 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Bob Ryan "Outside of recall elections, ""there's never been a public official removed from office"" in Wisconsin ""for anything but malfeasance in office.""" ['Alcohol', 'City Government'] 4 2011-08-21 Tom Curran Democrat Bill Wichert Gary Schaer New Jersey """Hair stylists are required to undergo more government scrutiny than foreclosure consultants.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Housing'] 5 2011-08-21 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Bennett Rhode Island "Providence's port is ""200 miles closer to Europe than any other Eastern port.""" ['Economy', 'Infrastructure', 'Trade', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-08-19 Jody Seaborn Democrat W. Gardner Selby Arne Duncan Illinois "Says Texas schools have had ""massive increases"" in class sizes with Rick Perry as governor." ['Education'] 1 2011-08-19 Bill Adair Republican John Gregg Jon Huntsman Utah "China is or soon will be ""the largest English-speaking nation"" in the world." ['China', 'Foreign Policy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-08-19 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry Jon Huntsman Utah "There are 500 million Internet users ""and 80 million bloggers who are driving discussions in China. … So you’ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent.""" ['China', 'Foreign Policy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-08-19 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Jeff Merkley Oregon "Says allowing the payroll tax holiday to expire would end up ""costing another estimated 900,000 jobs in 2012.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-08-19 Bill Adair Democrat Martha M. Hamilton Martin Frost Texas Says Rick Perry flip-flopped on gay marriage by first saying it was a state’s rights issue and then saying he was in favor of a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. ['Civil Rights', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'States'] 2 2011-08-19 Greg Borowski Democrat Craig Gilbert, Dave Umhoefer Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin "Democrats failed to flip the Wisconsin state Senate because recall elections were in the ""deepest red districts in the state.""" ['Elections'] 2 2011-08-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Beverly Hall "The results of Atlanta Public School’s 2010 and 2011 CRCT tests ""have not been questioned.""" ['Education'] 0 2011-08-19 Jody Seaborn Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools.""" ['Education', 'Science'] 1 2011-08-18 Martha M. Hamilton None Angie Drobnic Holan Warren Buffett Nebraska "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.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-08-18 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida """I started with a $3.7 billion budget deficit. Now we are projecting a $1.2 billion surplus.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-08-18 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Sean Gorman Democratic Party of Virginia Virginia "Virginia has made ""no progress on jobs"" since Bob McDonnell took office." ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2012'] 1 2011-08-18 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "Under Gov. Scott Walker, ""unemployment is increasing in Wisconsin at twice the rate it is nationally.""" ['Jobs'] 2 2011-08-18 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "U.S. debt is ""now equal to 100 percent of the GDP.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-08-18 Tom Curran Democrat Erin O'Neill, Caryn Shinske, Bill Wichert Sandra Cunningham New Jersey Says a Senate resolution would restore $140 in monthly general assistance payments and prevent people from committing crime. ['Crime', 'Poverty', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-08-18 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Lynn Arditi Stephen Lisauskas Massachusetts Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions. ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Disability', 'Government Efficiency', 'Labor', 'Public Safety', 'Retirement', 'Unions'] 1 2011-08-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """Our credit rating went up since I've been in office.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Financial Regulation', 'State Finances'] 1 2011-08-17 Jody Seaborn None Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Jay Carney District of Columbia "Says Rick Perry ""wanted to secede from the union.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Foreign Policy', 'History', 'States'] 1 2011-08-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia "Says that he did ""not exactly"" say that communities have the right to ban mosques." ['Islam'] 1 2011-08-16 Bill Adair Republican Josh Rogers Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says he worked with the Democratic legislature to balance spending with revenues so that ""at the end of my four-year term, the rainy day fund was established at more than $2 billion.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-08-16 Martha M. Hamilton, Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road. ['Agriculture', 'Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-08-16 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Ted Strickland Ohio """Josh Mandel used to be pro-choice, now he’s anti-choice. He used to be sympathetic towards gay and lesbians and now he’s [not].""" ['Abortion', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 3 2011-08-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Sam Olens Georgia """The governor having a meeting ... isn't covered by the open meetings act.""" ['Transparency'] 5 2011-08-16 Jody Seaborn Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lloyd Doggett Texas """Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas"" which is ""tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-08-15 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman """One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 5 2011-08-15 Jane Kahoun Tom Feran Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Credit agency says Rep. Gibbs recklessly caused downgrade, higher interest rates.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2011-08-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia "Tax increases could ""come into play"" as a result of the debt ceiling deal." ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-08-15 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert NJ-CAN New Jersey "Says the state’s pension and health benefits reform includes ""the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights.""" ['Health Care', 'Retirement', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-08-14 Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""of the 2,000 Portland households in the year-long (composting) pilot, 87 percent of participants reported being satisfied with the overall system.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2011-08-14 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor Tim Pawlenty """The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2011-08-14 Susan Areson Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Robert Barber Rhode Island Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population. ['Labor', 'Public Service', 'Retirement', 'State Finances'] 1 2011-08-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican W. Gardner Selby Mitt Romney Massachusetts Says a poll found him the only Republican candidate who could beat Barack Obama in Texas -- and by eight points. ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2011-08-14 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Nicholas Scutari New Jersey """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.""" ['Drugs', 'Government regulation', 'Marijuana', 'Public Health'] 5 2011-08-12 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota "When Standard & Poor's ""dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position"" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-08-12 Aaron Sharockman Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Says that under President John F. Kennedy, ""government took up"" 27 percent of the economy, and today it ""consumes 37 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 4 2011-08-12 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran Kevin DeWine Ohio """President Obama and Democrats' spending addiction has driven our national debt to historic proportions, maxed out our national credit card and has now led to the Democrat Downgrade of our country's AAA credit rating.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2011-08-12 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin "Says Republican recall challenger Jonathan Steitz ""failed to pay his taxes.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-08-12 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Kim Simac Wisconsin "Says Democratic state Sen. Jim Holperin ""voted against a property tax freeze"" in 2009 and then voted for a ""$1.5 billion property tax hike.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-08-12 Bill Adair Republican Becky Bowers Ron Paul Texas """The country's bankrupt.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-08-12 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson, Kevin Landrigan Jon Huntsman Utah """We created a flat tax in the state of Utah.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-08-12 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Ken Plum Virginia Virginia has a responsibility to fund 55 percent of public education and is paying just 41 percent. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-08-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Reince Priebus Wisconsin "The Republican National Convention ""is a Super Bowl times four.""" ['Economy', 'Elections', 'Tourism'] 1 2011-08-12 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We're inches away from no longer having a free economy.""" ['Economy', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-08-12 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson, Ciara O'Rourke Tim Pawlenty """Obamacare was patterned after (Mitt Romney's) plan in Massachusetts.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2011-08-12 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Bob Wirch Wisconsin "Says he ""helped bring"" Uline company to Kenosha area, ""creating 800 local jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'Workers'] 0 2011-08-12 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin "Says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac ""was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-08-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Sam Olens Georgia There are cities and counties in Georgia that don’t have websites, and where elected officials don’t have email addresses. ['Infrastructure', 'Technology'] 5 2011-08-11 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida High-speed rail would have cost Florida taxpayers $1 billion to build. ['Transportation'] 1 2011-08-11 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin """Two elections in a row (Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus) has screwed up counting the vote""" ['Elections'] 0 2011-08-11 Tom Curran Democrat Caryn Shinske Richard Codey New Jersey """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 don’t care.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-08-10 Jane Kahoun Democrat Stephen Koff Marcia Fudge Ohio "Says that voter identification laws ""keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting.""" ['Elections'] 3 2011-08-10 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Adam Hasner Florida """George LeMieux voted against the majority of Republicans and joined with Democrats to create a 'Task Force For Responsible Fiscal Action' that looks strikingly similar to the 'Super Committee' now being set up in Washington to justify massive tax hikes.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-08-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Maryalice Gill Ron Paul Texas """In the '80s, Democrats promised spending cuts, but delivered only tax hikes.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-08-10 Leroy Chapman, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Georgia Department of Transportation "The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties ""is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2011-08-09 Jane Kahoun Democrat Sabrina Eaton Tim Ryan Ohio """We’re only spending 2 percent of our GDP on our infrastructure, while China and India are spending 10 percent of their GDP reinvesting back into their country.""" ['Infrastructure'] 4 2011-08-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia Says his Twitter account has 1.3 million followers. ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2011-08-09 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Tom Kean New Jersey """I built the last nuclear plant — not only in the state, but in the country.""" ['Energy', 'Nuclear'] 3 2011-08-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jim DeMint South Carolina "The debt-ceiling bill ""doesn’t cut the debt. It will add about $7 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-08-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Jake Berry Jon Huntsman Utah "The United States has ""the longest surviving constitution.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-08-08 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers George LeMieux Florida "Says Adam Hasner’s record includes ""requesting over $92.2 million in earmarks.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2011-08-08 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Tim Grendell Ohio """You might be surprised to know that 137 billion gallons flows (into Lake Erie) every day. You might be surprised to know that only 86.3 billion gallons flow out. ... Leaving us a net surplus of approximately 50 billion gallons a day.""" ['Environment', 'Water'] 1 2011-08-08 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Saxby Chambliss Georgia "The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the ""largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2011-08-08 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Jack Conners """Almost 88,000 United States service members are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to World War II.""" ['Military'] 4 2011-08-07 Republican Caryn Shinske Alison Littell McHose New Jersey """Illegal immigration costs state taxpayers over $3 billion every year.""" ['Immigration', 'State Finances'] 1 2011-08-07 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Daniel McKee Rhode Island "Central Falls ""schools are overfunded by state money by as much as $8 million.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'City Budget', 'Education', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-08-06 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Texas has ""the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-08-05 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Sierra Club Wisconsin "Says state Sen. Alberta Darling is ""allowing mercury to harm our children"" because she voted against an electronics recycling bill." ['Environment'] 2 2011-08-05 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Club for Growth "Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch ""did nothing to stop"" people from scamming the Wisconsin Shares child-care subsidy program and voted against funding for fraud investigators." ['State Budget'] 2 2011-08-05 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Wisconsin """When Nancy Nusbaum was Brown County executive, spending went up nearly 50 percent.""" ['County Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-08-05 Aaron Sharockman None Patricia Mazzei, Amy Sherman Alberto Carvalho Florida """Today we stand as the highest-performing urban school district in America.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-08-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Gregory Trotter Buddy Roemer Louisiana Says Obama has never submitted a budget, and Congress has worked for two years without passing one. ['Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 3 2011-08-05 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Alberta Darling Wisconsin "Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch, her recall opponent, ""voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab for…Viagra.""" ['Health Care', 'Unions'] 0 2011-08-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Tom Coburn Oklahoma """The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-08-05 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Randy Forbes Virginia """As a percentage of our gross domestic product, the defense budget remains just 3.6 percent. This figure is low by all historical standards.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 4 2011-08-05 W. Gardner Selby None Meghan Ashford-Grooms Progress Texas Texas """Rick Perry ended full-day Pre-K for 100,000 Texas children.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-08-05 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Beverly Hall "Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were ""given under the strictest security possible.""" ['Education'] 1 2011-08-05 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik Kevin DeWine Ohio Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states. ['Elections'] 5 2011-08-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Fred Clark Wisconsin "Says Sen. Luther Olsen, his recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants ""not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors"" with no oversight." ['Energy', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-08-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Nancy Nusbaum Wisconsin "Says Sen. Robert Cowles, her recall opponent, supported the sale of state-owned power plants ""not to the highest bidder, but to the biggest donors"" with no oversight." ['Energy', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 0 2011-08-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Raul Labrador Idaho Tax increases under Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm led to state unemployment going from 6.8 percent to 15.3 percent. ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-08-04 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Jennifer Granholm Michigan """I cut more as a percentage out of government than any state in the country this past decade. And where is Michigan in terms of its economic growth? Cutting did not result in economic growth.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'States'] 4 2011-08-04 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Peggy Lehner Ohio """There’s actually 600 abortions done after the 20th week of pregnancy every year in Ohio.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2011-08-04 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey Says Democrats cut $35 million from the state budget for Information Technology improvements. ['State Budget'] 1 2011-08-04 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Barry Hinckley Rhode Island """There's no money in Social Security.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Social Security', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-08-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada "There was a ""loss of eight million jobs during the Bush eight years.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 0 2011-08-03 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman """The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Pundits', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2011-08-03 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin """One of the biggest polluters in our country is the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.""" ['Environment'] 1 2011-08-03 Leroy Chapman, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Elaine Boyer """[T]his breed (of pit bulls) is most often associated with aggressive behavior.""" ['Animals'] 4 2011-08-03 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik Jon Husted Ohio """#Business formation is still on the rise in Ohio! So far in 2011 we’ve assisted w/ 44,443 new business filings.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 4 2011-08-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Cory Booker New Jersey Says more than eight countries lead the United States in the percentage of college graduates. ['Education'] 4 2011-08-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The debt ceiling deal will result in ""the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 3 2011-08-02 Aaron Sharockman Republican Martha M. Hamilton, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """If the debt ceiling is surpassed, our nation will not go into default as some suggest.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-08-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor Eric Cantor Virginia """There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-08-02 Amy Hollyfield None Aaron Sharockman Ash Williams Florida """The (State Board of Administration) transparency issue got a great airing the last legislative session.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'State Finances', 'Transparency'] 1 2011-08-02 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Amy Sherman Patrick Murphy Florida """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.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 5 2011-08-02 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America A Waushara County school closed because of state budget cuts supported by Republican Wisconsin state Sen. Luther Olsen. ['State Budget'] 3 2011-08-02 Jody Seaborn Organization W. Gardner Selby Alliance for Retired Americans Washington, D.C. """Social Security doesn’t contribute a penny to the deficit.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 2 2011-08-02 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia "Under last year’s health care reform, ""a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2011-08-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Social Security didn’t cause the debt crisis. Social Security had nothing to do with the debt crisis.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Social Security'] 4 2011-08-01 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Ken Langone New York "In contrast to President Barack Obama, who ""is not acting presidential,"" President Ronald Reagan ""would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on — that's how much he revered the presidency.""" ['History'] 2 2011-08-01 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher National Republican Congressional Committee "Says U.S. Rep. Ron Kind’s ""stimulus cost taxpayers $278,000 per job.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-08-01 Jim Tharpe Chris Joyner La Raza Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia. ['Health Care'] 5 2011-08-01 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Bobby Scott Virginia (Rep. Bob Goodlatte's) balanced budget amendment does not require a balanced budget. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-08-01 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields, Louis Jacobson John Kasich Ohio """Believe it or not, consumer spending is up over the last eight months.""" ['Economy'] 5 2011-08-01 Caryn Shinske None Bill Wichert Joshua Henne New Jersey Says New Jersey has fewer jobs since Gov. Chris Christie took office. ['Jobs'] 1 2011-07-31 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin """The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-07-31 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Travis Rowley Rhode Island """The RI Board of Elections has heard official testimony from Providence residents who claim to have witnessed known illegal aliens voting in local elections.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration'] 2 2011-07-31 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom Leppert Texas "Says opponent David Dewhurst is a ""career politician.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2011-07-31 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Steven Goldstein """Polls now show a majority of Catholics favor marriage equality.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 4 2011-07-29 Aaron Sharockman Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Allen West Florida """This is the first time in the history that we've had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2011-07-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Bill O'Reilly "Since 1965, the United States has spent ""untold trillions"" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged." ['Federal Budget', 'History', 'Poverty', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-07-29 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Eric Cantor Virginia """Harry Reid’s plan is basically giving the president a blank check.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-07-29 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Judson Phillips """Our government has spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-07-29 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer We Are Wisconsin Wisconsin "Says Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling offered ""unqualified support"" for a plan to end Medicare" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 3 2011-07-29 Dee Lane None Janie Har Charlie Hales Oregon """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.""" ['Diversity'] 5 2011-07-28 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson, Kevin Landrigan Jon Huntsman Utah "Says that when he was governor of Utah, he worked with the state Legislature to create a flat tax that ""cut income taxes by 30 percent.""" ['New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-07-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "Says Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel ""supports allowing the United States to default on its obligations.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 0 2011-07-28 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Tim Pawlenty "Michele Bachmann's legislative record is ""offering failed amendments.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Voting Record'] 4 2011-07-28 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Republican Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "Says ""over 50 percent of U.S. job growth in June came"" from Wisconsin." ['Jobs'] 1 2011-07-28 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Burgess Texas Says stores will be barred from selling 100-watt light bulbs as of 2012. ['Energy'] 2 2011-07-28 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Leonard Lance """Recently we have seen our government debt grow by $3.4 trillion during the first 29 months of the Obama administration -- the equivalent of about $4 billion per day.""" ['Deficit'] 3 2011-07-27 Bill Adair Republican Josh Rogers Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "In Europe, ""church attendance rates (are) in the single digits"" because churches are supported by taxes." ['New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-07-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-07-27 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-07-27 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Sheila Harsdorf Wisconsin "Says Democratic recall opponent Shelly Moore ""opposes any limit on taxes.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-07-27 Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Chip Rogers Georgia """The state of Georgia is near the bottom among states for SAT scores and graduation rates.""" ['Education'] 5 2011-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, ""The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Government Efficiency'] 4 2011-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano Tom Price Georgia """The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now"" to pay interest to bondholders." ['Deficit', 'Economy'] 1 2011-07-26 Aaron Sharockman Republican Bill Thompson Cliff Stearns Florida """Active duty males in the military are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer than their civilian counterparts.""" ['Health Care', 'Military'] 4 2011-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "The House passed ""cut, cap and balance"" with ""bipartisan support.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times.  George W. Bush did it seven times.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-07-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jessica King Wisconsin "Says state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, unlike typical taxpayers, ""didn’t pay taxes""" ['Income', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-07-26 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Sam Olens Georgia """If you're from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2011-07-26 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Shirley Turner New Jersey "Says unemployment in Trenton is ""twice as much as what we see in every other area of the state"" and, as a result, ""we have seen an increase in crime.""" ['Crime', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-07-25 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry Ron Paul Texas """When the Republicans were in charge, they actually expanded government health care with the prescription drug program.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 5 2011-07-25 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Arianna Huffington """Most countries have no debt ceiling.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-07-25 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Becky Bowers Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-07-25 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jennifer Shilling Wisconsin "The 2011-13 state budget ""cuts overall funding for public schools by $1.6 billion""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-07-25 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Federal Transit Administration The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years. ['Transportation'] 0 2011-07-25 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas """This past (legislative) session, we passed out of the Legislature a resolution requiring Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the (U.S.) Constitution.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-07-25 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Raymond Lesniak "Says ""the most dangerous time for children"" is from ""3 to 6 p.m., during which time juvenile crime rates triple""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Education'] 3 2011-07-24 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Wisconsin Family Action Wisconsin Says state Rep. Fred Clark (D-Baraboo) ran a red light and seriously injured a bicyclist. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2011-07-24 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Gina Raimondo Rhode Island """The average 401(k) in America of a person who's 60 years old is under $100,000.""" ['Economy', 'Labor', 'Retirement', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-07-24 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey "Says the state budget ""doubled property tax credits for seniors and middle class New Jerseyans"" and had ""no tax increases for any New Jersey family for the second year in a row.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-23 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Ron Paul Texas 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. ['Campaign Finance'] 5 2011-07-22 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Says Ronald Reagan ""repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the United States to be impaired in any kind of way.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 4 2011-07-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Victoria Jackson Florida """A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army.""" ['Health Care', 'Military'] 0 2011-07-22 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Jack Bogdanski Oregon "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.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Voting Record'] 5 2011-07-22 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Randy Hopper Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Senate recall candidate Jessica King ""voted to increase her pay with taxpayer dollars by 63 percent.""" ['City Budget', 'Income', 'Voting Record'] 0 2011-07-22 Jody Seaborn, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas """The only growth sector that we’ve had in the last two years in America is government growth.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-07-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Chris Joyner Mike Males """There’s pretty much no question that [the curfew ordinances] aren’t effective in either reducing crime or preventing harm to young people.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 4 2011-07-22 Bill Adair Republican Dan Gorenstein Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay. So someone (who) doesn’t have health insurance --  they can go to the hospital and get free care.""" ['Health Care', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-07-22 Bill Adair None Caryn Shinske Dominick Marino New Jersey """The firefighter and police officer pension system is not headed for bankruptcy, far from it. That’s because New Jersey first responders -- fire fighters and police officers -- have never missed making payments to the retirement system.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-07-21 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Katie Sanders Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Says that U.S. Rep. Allen West is ""a constituent of mine.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 5 2011-07-21 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois Said his mother had to fight with health insurance companies for treatment because of a pre-existing condition. ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-07-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Allen West Florida "Florida Democrats ""put my Social Security number and my wife's Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.""" ['Negative Campaigning'] 5 2011-07-21 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson AFL-CIO "Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of  ""her state Senate district by a half a block.""" ['Redistricting'] 5 2011-07-21 Bill Adair Republican Jon Greenberg Newt Gingrich Georgia Says the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house. ['Housing', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-07-21 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia "Virginia state employees ""pay nothing"" toward their pensions." ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-07-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """We jumped 11 places since beginning this year in terms of being job-friendly.""" ['Economy'] 4 2011-07-21 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Richard Codey New Jersey """Every president has raised the debt ceiling.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-07-21 Tim Murphy Organization Richard Salit Ocean State Policy Research Institute Rhode Island """Dubious taxpayer-funded"" stimulus spending -- Part II." ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'State Finances', 'Stimulus'] 0 2011-07-20 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Bruce Hanna Oregon Says this House processed and approved as many bills as previous Legislatures. ['Government Efficiency'] 2 2011-07-20 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont """Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Poverty'] 3 2011-07-20 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Alan Hays Florida """Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people.""" ['Redistricting'] 1 2011-07-20 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Alan Hays Florida """The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6.""" ['Redistricting'] 2 2011-07-20 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Alan Hays Florida """I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit.""" ['Redistricting'] 5 2011-07-20 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Club for Growth "Says state Senate recall challenger Sandy Pasch voted ""to cut school aid by nearly $300 million.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2011-07-20 Bill Adair Republican Josh Rogers Mitt Romney Massachusetts "During his first year, President Obama said he ""was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez – the worst actors in the world.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-07-20 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas "Says President Barack Obama’s ""own economists say the stimulus cost $278K per job ‘created.’ """ ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 1 2011-07-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Mike Bodker """[L]ess than one-tenth of Atlanta's transportation needs are covered"" in a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax." ['Transportation'] 5 2011-07-19 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Grover Norquist """Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.""" ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-07-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ann Marie Buerkle New York "Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, ""even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-07-19 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Craig Miller Florida """I've created over 40,000 jobs.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-07-19 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Marco Rubio Florida """We have not had unemployment this high for this long since the Great Depression.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-07-19 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Kris Jordan Ohio """Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2011-07-19 Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Brian Kemp Georgia """The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws.""" ['Elections'] 5 2011-07-19 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton National Republican Congressional Committee Says a new report proves the stimulus supported by N.J. Democrats cost $278,000 per job. ['Stimulus'] 1 2011-07-18 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Marc Morial Louisiana """The black unemployment rate (has) increased since the recovery has begun.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Workers'] 5 2011-07-18 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Under our (2011-’13) budget, the average (Wisconsin) property taxpayer will save $700.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-07-18 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-07-18 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Josh Mandel Ohio """Sherrod Brown was just voted two years in a row the most liberal senator in the United States of America"" and is more liberal than Sen. Bernie Sanders." ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2011-07-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Jack Murphy Georgia "Georgia’s illegal-immigration legislation ""simply follows existing federal law.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2011-07-18 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Michael Doherty Says Planned Parenthood provides about 140 visits for prenatal care in each state. ['Health Care'] 1 2011-07-17 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Donna Seidel Wisconsin The $290 million structural surplus in the 2011-’13 Wisconsin budget is not real because it is based on the assumption that Congress will reinstate the estate tax. ['State Budget'] 1 2011-07-17 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Lois Kolkhorst Texas Says $500 billion in Medicare cuts are coming. ['Medicare'] 2 2011-07-17 Bill Adair None Caryn Shinske David Sciarra New Jersey """By any measure, New Jersey has one of the most segregated school systems in the country.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-07-17 Tim Murphy Democrat Richard Salit Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """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.""" ['Crime', 'Technology'] 5 2011-07-16 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Josh Treviño Texas Says recent polls show Americans agree with Republicans that the federal debt ceiling should not be raised and the debt and deficit should be dealt with mostly by cutting spending. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 4 2011-07-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-07-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-07-15 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Says the U.S. borrows ""42 cents of every dollar Washington spends today and about half of that comes from countries like China.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-07-15 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton John Boehner Ohio """POTUS’ economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per job.""" ['Stimulus'] 1 2011-07-15 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester, Angie Drobnic Holan Scott Rigell Virginia "Under Ryan plan, ""those 54 and younger would receive the same kind of healthcare options now enjoyed by members of Congress.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2011-07-15 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Shirley Franklin Georgia """95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-07-15 Bill Adair Libertarian John Gregg Gary Johnson New Mexico """New Mexico is the second Hollywood"" because of tax incentives for the film industry." ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-15 Jody Seaborn Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Eddie Rodriguez Texas Says Texas is the only state that exempts jet fuel from its state motor fuels tax. ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-07-15 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Sheila Oliver New Jersey """Numerous studies have shown that these so-called right-to-work laws do not generate jobs and economic growth.""" ['Jobs', 'Unions'] 3 2011-07-14 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Crossroads GPS """Our country's got this huge debt, and (President Barack) Obama says raise taxes and keep spending more.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-14 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Chain email Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law. ['Criminal Justice', 'History'] 0 2011-07-14 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Shelly Moore Wisconsin "Says state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf wants to ""eliminate Medicare"" as we know it." ['Medicare', 'Retirement'] 0 2011-07-14 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Kris Jordan Ohio """State agencies have not identified one single instance where groundwater has been damaged due to hydraulic fracking.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 4 2011-07-14 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Oregon Education Association Oregon House Bill 2301 never had a public hearing ['Education'] 4 2011-07-14 Caryn Shinske Democrat Erin O'Neill Cory Booker New Jersey Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime ['Afghanistan', 'Bush Administration', 'Corrections and Updates', 'Iraq', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-07-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 3 2011-07-13 Aaron Sharockman Republican Janet Zink Mike Haridopolos Florida "Florida’s proposed Health Care Freedom Act ""will allow Floridians to opt out of Obama’s govt. takeover of healthcare!""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'States'] 1 2011-07-13 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station""" ['Space'] 4 2011-07-13 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty "Says scientists are ""in dispute"" over whether being gay is a choice." ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Science'] 1 2011-07-13 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty """There's no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Science'] 4 2011-07-13 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Peter Barca Wisconsin "Says new GOP Wisconsin Assembly members ""voted to take funding away from their public schools in their districts to give it to private Milwaukee voucher schools.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-07-13 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Joseph Trillo Rhode Island """There are 30,000 people that have been killed with seat belts.""" ['Government regulation', 'Public Safety', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-07-13 Robert Higgs Mark Naymik Republican National Committee "Since President Obama took office, ""2 million jobs. Gone.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2011-07-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Ralph Long Georgia """The [Georgia] General Assembly took away the Atlanta Board of Education’s oversight of the superintendent.""" ['Education'] 2 2011-07-12 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus', 'Workers'] 4 2011-07-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida """I sponsored and was the co-sponsor of the only legislation that ever passed that had E-Verify provisions in it back in 2010 when I served in the Legislature.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2011-07-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Becky Bowers Rick Scott Florida """A recent study revealed that, across the nation, taxes would have to be increased by an average of $1,300 a year just to support the currently unsustainable public employee pension systems. In Florida, that dollar figure translates to $813 a year.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-07-12 Bill Adair Jeffrey Good Timothy Geithner "For people in the top 1 percent for income, ""your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money.""" ['New Hampshire 2012', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-12 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Steve Oroho New Jersey Because of Democratic tax hikes, New Jersey ended a decade with fewer private sector jobs for the first time in recorded history. ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-07-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska "Slim Jims ""just recently"" cost 99 cents but now cost $2.69." ['Agriculture', 'Economy'] 1 2011-07-11 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Paul Krugman """There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Jobs', 'Pundits', 'Workers'] 5 2011-07-11 Daniel Finnegan Republican Wes Hester Bob McDonnell Virginia """Our crime rate continues to plummet.""" ['Crime'] 4 2011-07-11 Jody Seaborn Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures. ['Homeland Security', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-07-11 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik Jim DeMint South Carolina "Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is responsible for ""over $14 trillion in debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-07-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Shirley Franklin Georgia "Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district ""significantly better than she found it.""" ['Education'] 0 2011-07-11 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Jim Whelan """In our proposal, we would have expanded school aid across the board … Governor Christie slashed school aid in this budget, preferring instead to extend a tax break for millionaires over funding in the classroom.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-07-10 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Says many public-employee unions falsely told their Wisconsin members his budget-repair bill sought 12 percent to 13 percent of their incomes for health insurance premiums. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-07-10 Bill Adair Republican Maryalice Gill Mitt Romney Massachusetts By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined. ['Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-07-10 Bill Adair Democrat Jake Berry New Hampshire Democratic Party New Hampshire """Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 4 2011-07-10 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Stephen Sweeney Says the average government worker won't be impacted in the first two years under the reform of state health benefits. ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-07-10 Tim Murphy Organization Richard Salit Ocean State Policy Research Institute Rhode Island """Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include … $250,000 to provide digital television to the state’s inmate population.""" ['Stimulus'] 1 2011-07-09 Jody Seaborn, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Eddie Rodriguez Texas """We’re losing almost 6,000 state jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-07-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John Cornyn Texas """Fifty-one percent -- that is, a majority of American households -- paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-07-08 Daniel Finnegan Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia """China owns more of our bonds than do Americans.""" ['China', 'Deficit', 'Economy'] 1 2011-07-08 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Gary Sasse Rhode Island "Rhode Island spends ""52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Government Efficiency', 'Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Poverty', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-07-08 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia "Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has ""exactly the same"" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid." ['History'] 2 2011-07-08 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Herb Conaway Jr. New Jersey """This governor has cut funding repeatedly for people who have AIDS, who need drugs to save their life.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-07-07 Amy Hollyfield Republican Becky Bowers Will Weatherford Florida """Let’s say (Republicans) take away half of our delegates. They’re worth more than Iowa’s, New Hampshire’s and almost South Carolina’s combined.""" ['Elections'] 3 2011-07-07 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth. ['Deficit', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-07 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn’t serve.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Military', 'Veterans', 'Workers'] 5 2011-07-07 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses.""" ['Economy', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-07-07 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Bill Kristol Washington, D.C. Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008. ['Elections', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 4 2011-07-07 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Lisa Hamler-Fugitt Ohio """Ohio currently ranks 50th out of all states in income growth.""" ['Economy', 'Income'] 4 2011-07-07 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey. ['Transportation'] 5 2011-07-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Shaun Donovan New York "Housing prices dropped for the 30 months prior to Barack Obama taking office, ""and they have stabilized, they've been about flat since the president came in.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 3 2011-07-06 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Steve Case """Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants.""" ['Economy', 'Immigration'] 3 2011-07-06 Greg Borowski Organization Tom Kertscher One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin "Says Gov. Scott Walker’s budget ""includes tax breaks for corporations and the rich that will cost the state of Wisconsin taxpayers $2.3 billion over the next decade.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-06 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Bob McDonnell Virginia """Under Gov. Rick Perry’s leadership [Texas] has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-07-06 Jody Seaborn W. Gardner Selby Better Austin Today Political Action Committee "Says that under City Council Member Randi Shade, Austin had the ""highest city debt per person in Texas.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government'] 1 2011-07-05 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson United for a Fair Economy Massachusetts From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster. ['Families', 'Income', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 4 2011-07-05 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "A year since the ""Recovery Summer,"" there has been been ""a fall, winter and spring of no recovery.""" ['Economy'] 2 2011-07-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano National Republican Congressional Committee "U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats ""went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2011-07-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby Roger Williams Texas Says U.S. House opponent Michael Williams does not live in and has never voted in the congressional district he’s seeking to represent. ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 1 2011-07-05 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey """Only the State of New York spends more money on Medicaid than the State of New Jersey.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-07-04 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Says that President Obama said, ""Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?""" ['Military', 'Veterans'] 0 2011-07-04 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Trade', 'Transportation'] 4 2011-07-04 Republican W. Gardner Selby Charles Perry Texas Says $6 billion projected to accumulate in the state’s rainy day fund is already used. ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 2 2011-07-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Nina Turner Ohio """Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14,000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.""" ['Elections'] 5 2011-07-04 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Jeff Tittel """One of the reasons that Budweiser stayed in New Jersey is the money they got from RGGI to put solar on their roof to save on their energy costs.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Corporations', 'Environment'] 1 2011-07-03 Tim Murphy Organization Richard Salit Friends of Plum Beach Lighthouse Rhode Island """Voted the ‘best specialty plate in America’""" ['Pop Culture', 'States', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-07-03 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin "Two years ago we had ""the largest structural deficit ever in Wisconsin.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-07-03 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Alberta Darling Wisconsin "Says the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit ""for the first time in decades.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2011-07-03 Bill Adair Democrat Jake Berry Richard Swett New Hampshire "Says that in 2009, Jon Huntsman ""said that the Recovery Act wasn't large enough and as governor he asked for $14.4 billion in federal stimulus funds. Now he's saying that he never supported it.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-07-03 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert New Jersey Democratic State Committee New Jersey "Gov. Chris Christie owes the state money ""for amenities like extra Gorgonzola cheese for his staff on these trips.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-07-02 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Mark Warner Virginia """If you look at our tax mix, the share of corporate revenues as a percentage of our overall revenue mix has declined by about half over the last 30 years.""" ['Corporations', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-07-01 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Becky Bowers Rod Smith Florida """Rick Scott has destroyed over 100,000 jobs.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2011-07-01 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Rick Scott Florida """In May we generated more jobs than all the rest of the country combined: 28,000 jobs in May for the state, 54,000 for the entire country.""" ['Jobs'] 3 2011-07-01 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Rick Scott Florida """Since I took office, we’ve created 76,800 jobs.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2011-07-01 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota """My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 1 2011-07-01 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Randy Forbes Virginia """The Federal Register - which houses all Washington regulations - is 34,000 pages in length and weighs in at more than 340 pounds.""" ['Regulation'] 3 2011-07-01 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher, Dave Umhoefer Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin’s 2011-13 state budget contains ""no fee increases""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 0 2011-07-01 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Renewable Fuels Association Washington, D.C. Ethanol reduced gas prices by 89 cents per gallon in 2010, and if ethanol disappeared, gas prices could rise by as much as 92 percent. ['Agriculture', 'Energy'] 2 2011-07-01 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says President Barack Obama’s overturning of the Mexico City Policy means federal tax dollars can be used ""to fund abortion all over the world.""" ['Abortion'] 2 2011-07-01 Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Robert Brown Georgia "Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the ""Brown Codes"" because of their similarity to the ""Black Codes"" governing blacks after the Civil War." ['History', 'Immigration'] 1 2011-07-01 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """Creeping defense commitments in (the Middle East) and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2011-07-01 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Stephen Sweeney "Says that as a gubernatorial candidate, Chris Christie ""promised no school cuts.""" ['Education'] 5 2011-06-30 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Dan Kapanke Wisconsin """Protesters caused $7.5 million in damage to the Wisconsin State House""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-06-30 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says the 2012-13 state budget ""leaves $6 billion in a rainy day fund.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-06-30 Bill Adair John Gregg Yard sign "Says President Obama ""has fired more cruise missiles than all other Peace Prize winners combined.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 5 2011-06-30 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jim Jordan Ohio """Only seven of 18 federal food assistance programs have been associated with positive health and nutrition outcomes, while the remaining 11 have not been effective.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-06-30 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Samuel DeMaio Says he can’t release his internal affairs record because there are Attorney General guidelines in place protecting it. ['Criminal Justice', 'Legal Issues', 'Transparency'] 1 2011-06-29 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'""" ['Government regulation', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-06-29 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """If you're a … wealthy CEO or a … hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are … lower than they've been since the 1950s.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-06-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota Says President Barack Obama said that if he doesn’t turn the economy around after three years in office, he’ll be a one-term president. ['Economy'] 4 2011-06-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John Boehner Ohio """The American people don't want us to raise taxes.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-06-29 Robert Higgs Democrat James Ewinger Tim Ryan Ohio """For every dollar we invest in Head Start, we get $5 to $7 back into our economy.""" ['Children', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-06-29 W. Gardner Selby Women On the Wall Says states that passed anti-illegal-immigrant legislation also had few Hispanic legislators. ['Immigration'] 5 2011-06-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia """On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagan’s staff quit.""" ['History'] 4 2011-06-29 Bill Adair Caryn Shinske Michael Doherty """The top 1 percent of income earners pay 40 percent of all state income taxes, and those at the bottom pay little or nothing.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-06-28 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson James Clyburn South Carolina """We do not want to raise anybody's tax rates. That's never been on the table.""" ['Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2011-06-28 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Will Weatherford Florida """There is no $30 million pot of money"" for redistricting issues, including defending redistricting lawsuits. ""Your tax dollars are not being spent on anything like that.""" ['Redistricting'] 1 2011-06-28 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Democratic Party of Virginia Virginia "Gov. Bob McDonnell launched a ""raid on public education to pay for roads.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2011-06-28 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jim DeMint South Carolina """We've got more revenue than we ever have.""" ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-06-28 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Rep. Jim Renacci’s plan to end Medicare also puts nursing home care for 3,000 seniors in the district in immediate jeopardy.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid', 'Medicare'] 2 2011-06-28 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Al Roker """(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement.""" ['Civil Rights', 'History'] 2 2011-06-28 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Frank Lautenberg New Jersey """Since 2004, there have been some 1,300 attacks (on rail targets). Four thousand people have died. Thousands of injuries.""" ['Terrorism', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-06-28 Tim Murphy State official Richard Salit Charles Odimgbe Rhode Island """We are one of the most expensive [bus] rides in New England.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2011-06-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'New Hampshire 2012', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-06-27 Bill Adair Republican Jake Berry Michele Bachmann Minnesota """If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.""" ['Economy', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 1 2011-06-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve.""" ['Energy'] 1 2011-06-27 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "In the first 24 to 36 hours of the operation in Libya, ""you saw $115 million go downrange because a Tomahawk cruise missile is a little over $1 million each.""" ['Military'] 4 2011-06-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada """Hispanic unemployment has been ticking down from an all-time high of 13.9 percent because of the policies we’ve implemented.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-06-27 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "There is a Republican ""plan to end Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-06-27 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "A ""substantial number"" of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to ""finish the work.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2011-06-27 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia "Virginia spends $400,000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnell’s ""political agenda.""" ['Abortion', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-06-27 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Tom Kean Jr. """The state’s tax burden has, according to census figures released today, cost our state another 190,000 residents in 2009.""" ['Census', 'Economy', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-06-26 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island "The WIC program ""is an incredibly cost effective program, serving nearly 10 million Americans each year and costing less than $100 per person. In my district, more than 18 percent of residents suffer from food insecurity and depend on WIC to make ends meet.""" ['Children', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Hunger', 'Poverty', 'Taxes', 'Women'] 0 2011-06-26 W. Gardner Selby Better Austin Today Political Action Committee """Under Randi Shade,"" Austin has ""had the highest cost of living of any large Texas city.""" ['Economy'] 2 2011-06-26 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Since June 2009, about 48 percent of all the jobs created in America were in Texas.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-06-26 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Piers Morgan "Says Gov. Chris Christie’s ""poll ratings have been going up.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 1 2011-06-25 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Martin O'Malley Maryland "Says Rick Perry of Texas was ""the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his state’s budget deficit in 2010.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-06-24 Bill Adair None Maryalice Gill Jay Carney District of Columbia "In the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, none of the candidates mentioned the ""middle class"" or ""education.""" ['Education', 'Families', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-06-24 Bill Adair Gregory Trotter Tim Pawlenty Says President Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half, but instead will at least double it. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'New Hampshire 2012'] 2 2011-06-24 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Republican Party of Virginia Virginia "Phil Puckett ""voted no on sending the EPA a message that they’ve gone too far not once, but twice.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Government regulation'] 0 2011-06-24 Aaron Sharockman Becky Bowers Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Vern Buchanan. His old business was caught illegally funneling over $60,000 in campaign donations to Buchanan to influence his election.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 4 2011-06-24 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Vern Buchanan Florida "Vern Buchanan ""has been completely exonerated"" in a Federal Election Commission action." ['Campaign Finance'] 2 2011-06-24 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Says critics who say he cut Medicaid are wrong; his budget added $1.2 billion to the program ['Medicaid', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-06-24 Tim Murphy Labor leader C. Eugene Emery Jr. Paul Doughty Rhode Island """Providence is one of the busiest fire departments for its relative size in the country.""" ['City Government', 'Government Efficiency', 'Public Safety'] 5 2011-06-24 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia "Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is ""waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it,"" totaling about $8 billion a year." ['Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 4 2011-06-24 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Roxanne Ross Oregon "Multnomah County’s food action plan ""clearly plans to disrupt the free market system in terms of food choices making it harder and more expensive for many residents to eat their food of choice.""" ['County Government', 'Government regulation'] 0 2011-06-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Seventy of Ohio's 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Hunger', 'Poverty'] 5 2011-06-24 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Loretta Weinberg """(New Jersey Network) is the only news station which covers New Jersey government.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-06-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Huntsman Utah "The U.S. is spending ""one out of every six Defense Department dollars on Afghanistan.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2011-06-23 Aaron Sharockman None Amy Sherman Common Sense Now Florida "Says Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina ""has the highest salary among Florida mayors. More than $260,000.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2011-06-23 Robert Higgs Tom Feran National Republican Senatorial Committee "Says that Sherrod Brown ""voted to cut Medicare by over $500 billion in order to fund government-run health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Voting Record'] 1 2011-06-23 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert Kim Guadagno After not having any foreign trade offices overseas for the past decade, New Jersey opened offices in Shanghai and London in the past six months, and has seen an 18 percent increase in exports. ['Economy'] 1 2011-06-22 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley David Axelrod When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 states in job creation. ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-06-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Peter Barca Wisconsin """Two thirds of the people in Wisconsin strongly disagree with this idea of permanently taking away people’s rights to collective bargaining.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-06-22 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Ron Amstutz Ohio """Most of the state budget isn't for state government doing things. ... 85 percent of the state budget is transferred to local communities for delivery of service.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-06-22 Dee Lane Stephen Koff, Charles Pope National Republican Congressional Committee """As the Democrats finally maxed out their government spending credit card Monday, Kurt Schrader continued to stand with his party leaders in failing to offer any viable long-term solution.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 1 2011-06-22 None W. Gardner Selby Nina Perales California "Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas ""gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991.""" ['Elections', 'Redistricting'] 4 2011-06-22 Bill Adair Democrat Caryn Shinske Cory Booker New Jersey The ACLU didn't call for an investigation (of the Newark police department), they called for an immediate federal monitor. ['Crime', 'Ethics'] 1 2011-06-21 Aaron Sharockman Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... (Canadians) buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state.""" ['Housing', 'Tourism', 'Trade'] 5 2011-06-21 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia """The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2011-06-21 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """When the union says I want to eliminate tenure, that’s not true.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 3 2011-06-20 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Jon Stewart """Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-06-20 Aaron Sharockman None Patricia Mazzei, Amy Sherman The Accountability Project Florida Says former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and current mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez  both drove fancy European cars at taxpayer expense. ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2011-06-20 Warren Fiske Jacob Geiger National Republican Senatorial Committee """President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2011-06-20 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Turn Right USA """Janice Hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be 'gang-intervention specialists.' She even helped them get out of jail, so they could rape and kill again.""" ['Crime'] 1 2011-06-20 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Sandy Pasch Wisconsin "State Sen. Alberta Darling ""voted to add more than $1 billion in additional spending"" while cutting programs such as education and health care" ['Education', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-06-20 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Judith Zaffirini Texas Says 11 percent of the nation’s fatal car crashes in 2009 were attributed to distracted driving. ['Public Safety'] 4 2011-06-20 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma ['Religion'] 2 2011-06-20 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Chris Widener Ohio "Says tax revenue was lower than expected in May and ""that's basically a clear indication the governor's counselors are probably right -- that we are still not out of the woods yet.""" ['Economy', 'State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-06-20 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Diane Allen New Jersey Says Ocean Spray is moving its Bordentown processing facility to Pennsylvania largely because of costs associated with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy'] 1 2011-06-19 Bill Adair Caryn Shinske New Jersey Education Association """As soon as Chris Christie was governor, he gave tax cuts to millionaires.""" ['Education', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-06-19 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Michael Cutler """A couple of hundred American cities are infested by members of the Mexican cartels.""" ['Crime', 'Drugs', 'Homeland Security'] 5 2011-06-18 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia """The tax on job creating businesses is 35 percent in the United States, second worst in the entire world.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-06-18 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Doug Whitsett Oregon The Medford Water Commission was fined $279,000 for dumping plain drinking water into a stream. ['Environment', 'Government regulation', 'Water'] 3 2011-06-17 Aaron Sharockman Amy Sherman Bloggers Says Allen West violated federal law by scuba diving with U.S. flag. ['Legal Issues', 'Patriotism'] 1 2011-06-17 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Herman Cain Georgia "Says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will ""retire with a whole lot more money"" than under Social Security." ['Retirement', 'Social Security'] 3 2011-06-17 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger George Allen Virginia """We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second; Saudi Arabia is number three.""" ['Energy'] 5 2011-06-17 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren John Kitzhaber Oregon """Creating 25 jobs in Umatilla County has the same impact as 500 jobs in the metro region.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-06-17 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """The president came in and campaigned against me 12 times.""" ['Elections', 'Job Accomplishments'] 2 2011-06-17 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke David Simpson Texas Says the state budget includes spending on commercials for Fortune 500 companies. ['State Budget'] 5 2011-06-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Ray Lewis """Do this research … watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football].""" ['Crime'] 1 2011-06-17 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey Democratic tax hikes led $70 billion of wealth to leave New Jersey between 2004 and 2008, and mainly relocate to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. ['Taxes'] 2 2011-06-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and funds Obamacare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2011-06-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-06-16 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Robin Vos Wisconsin "Milwaukee’s police chief can fire officers ""for basically no cause.""" ['City Government', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-06-16 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida "Says George LeMieux ""falsely attacked Marco Rubio.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2011-06-16 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Rob Portman Ohio """The Democrat-led Senate has failed to pass a budget for 750 days ... Senate Democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-06-16 Republican W. Gardner Selby Roger Williams Texas Says he's signed a pledge not to raise taxes four times. ['Taxes'] 5 2011-06-16 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Ted Ferrioli Oregon """The Public Employee Retirement System is making more millionaires than the Oregon state lottery.""" ['Public Service', 'Retirement', 'State Finances', 'Workers'] 3 2011-06-16 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert New Jersey Assembly Democrats New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie caused a 4.1 percent increase in property taxes in 2010, marking the highest increase since 2007. ['Taxes'] 3 2011-06-16 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Richard Salit Mike Stenhouse Rhode Island """It’s just crazy that the government will ... make it illegal to use the old [incandescent] bulbs.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2011-06-15 Aaron Sharockman Republican Becky Bowers Marco Rubio Florida """Anywhere in the world, when someone uses a mobile phone, e-mail, the Internet or GPS, they are enjoying the benefits of the American miracle.""" ['Science', 'Technology'] 4 2011-06-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "The Medicare drug program ""resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Retirement'] 3 2011-06-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania "Says President Barack Obama ""has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 1 2011-06-15 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Newt Gingrich Georgia """A large number of the uninsured earn $75,000 or more a year.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2011-06-15 Aaron Sharockman Republican Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida "Says George LeMieux ""even compared Marco Rubio to Barack Obama.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2011-06-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2011-06-15 Greg Borowski Organization James B. Nelson Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Wisconsin "Protesters ""attacked"" the group’s headquarters with ""graffiti on the sidewalk"" and ""stenciled images … smeared on the building and statue.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-06-15 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Steve Loomis Ohio Says the state’s new collective bargaining law effectively eliminates police unions' ability to negotiate. ['Public Safety', 'Unions'] 4 2011-06-15 Caryn Shinske Republican Erin O'Neill Chris Christie New Jersey """For a young man or woman who is entering the ninth grade in Newark this year, they have a 29 percent graduation rate.""" ['Education'] 1 2011-06-14 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Then-Sen. Barack Obama ""refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-06-14 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Humane Society Wisconsin "An amendment inserted by lawmakers into the state budget ""exempts scientific researchers from all state animal cruelty laws.""" ['Animals', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-06-14 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano Newt Gingrich Georgia "If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the ""Reagan recovery,"" it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year." ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-06-14 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida """China owns about 29 percent of (the U.S.) debt.''" ['China'] 1 2011-06-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley Tim Pawlenty """There was a recent report out that the premiums for Medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. So it is not financially solvent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 4 2011-06-14 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Aaron Sharockman Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-06-14 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Adam Hasner Florida """Earlier this year, the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified before Congress that implementation of Obamacare would cost 800,000 jobs.""" ['Health Care', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-06-14 Dave Umhoefer Republican Tom Kertscher Michelle Litjens Wisconsin """Taxpayers pay for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin! And 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee!!!""" ['Health Care', 'Medicaid'] 5 2011-06-14 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Gary Black Georgia Workers who pick produce in Georgia’s fields can make $12 to $18 an hour. ['Immigration'] 3 2011-06-14 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik Ron Amstutz Ohio "The budget currently being debated ""significantly decreases the use of one-time resources.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2011-06-14 Republican W. Gardner Selby Ted Nugent Texas "Rick Perry ""has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the Texas governorship three times in landslide elections.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2011-06-14 Bill Adair Democrat Caryn Shinske Joseph Cryan New Jersey "Says Gov. Chris Christie's decision to close the Elizabeth MVC ""saved no money.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-06-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida The Obama administration has cut taxes on small businesses 17 times. ['Health Care', 'Small Business', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-06-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Reince Priebus Wisconsin """We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-06-13 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Tim Ryan Ohio "The average person ""will pay $6,000 more a year"" under Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 5 2011-06-13 John Bartosek Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """We already have $23 billion worth of debt.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2011-06-13 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke David Dewhurst Texas Says 1,000 World War II veterans die every day. ['Veterans'] 3 2011-06-13 Bill Adair Republican Caryn Shinske Steve Oroho New Jersey """We have the highest per-pupil cost in the country.""" ['Education', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-06-12 Dave Umhoefer Organization James B. Nelson Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Wisconsin An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity. ['Jobs'] 4 2011-06-12 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kathie Tovo Texas "Says the Austin City Council ""may give $4 million a year to subsidize a race track.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Elections', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-06-12 Caryn Shinske Democrat Bill Wichert Lou Greenwald New Jersey "Because Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a 30-bill job creation package, ""New Jersey ranks 50th in the nation in job creation.""" ['Jobs'] 0 2011-06-12 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Roberto DaSilva Rhode Island """Ten percent of violent deaths in the U.S. each year are due to strangulation.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Legal Issues', 'Women'] 2 2011-06-11 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Randi Shade Texas "Says opponent Kathie Tovo ""believes that Austin invests too much in the cops, firefighters and paramedics that protect our families and neighborhoods.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Public Safety'] 4 2011-06-11 Warren Fiske None Jacob Geiger Peter Pantuso Washington, D.C. "Commercial buses in the United States have ""a stellar safety record, a safety record that exceeds that of any other commercial mode or surface transportation mode.""" ['Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-06-10 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Paul Krugman """The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Pundits'] 5 2011-06-10 John Bartosek Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Aaron Sharockman Mike Haridopolos Florida """Obamacare cuts $500 billion in future Medicare funding in order to fund the new constitutionally questionable government mandate, even going so far as to scuttle Medicare's most popular (and successful) part, Medicare Advantage.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2011-06-10 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Robert Hurt Virginia "Non-defense discretionary spending has increased ""by over 80 percent in the last two years.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2011-06-10 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Herman Cain Georgia """When I became president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, it was supposed to go bankrupt . . . We turned it around with common-sense business principles.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations'] 4 2011-06-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Sandy Pasch Wisconsin "Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan promised to ""end health care for our seniors.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 0 2011-06-10 Jim Tharpe M.B. Pell Kevin Bloye Roughly 700 Georgians die needlessly each year because they are too far from a trauma center. ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2011-06-10 None W. Gardner Selby Doug Otto Texas Says Rick Perry said there’s an administrator for every teacher in Texas public schools. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2011-06-10 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Kim Guadagno Says Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program. ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-06-10 Caryn Shinske Republican Bill Wichert Chris Christie New Jersey Out of 150,000 tenured teachers in the last 10 years, only 17 have been dismissed for incompetence. ['Education'] 4 2011-06-10 Caryn Shinske Bill Wichert New Jersey Sierra Club """Every year the state loses 8,000-10,000 acres of land in bear country.""" ['Environment'] 3 2011-06-10 Caryn Shinske Erin O'Neill Loretta Weinberg Says six of the state’s 58 family planning centers had to close because of Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts. ['Health Care', 'Women'] 5 2011-06-09 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Anonymous GOP critics "Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson ""appears to endorse world government.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2011-06-09 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans ""want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.""" ['Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2011-06-09 Stephen Koff Stephen Koff Brian Deese """We've seen 115,000 jobs created in the American auto industry since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-06-09 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Scott Rigell Virginia """The (national) debt really added up $75 trillion in 2010 and is on track to hit $99 trillion this year.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 1 2011-06-09 Warren Fiske Jacob Geiger Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Rep. Robert Hurt voted again today to end Medicare and raise health care costs for Virginia seniors.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-06-09 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.""" ['Drugs', 'Marijuana', 'Poverty'] 3 2011-06-09 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Armond Budish Ohio """Kasich’s budget increases state spending from $50.5 billion to $55.6 billion. This is the second largest, two-year spending increase in Ohio history.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2011-06-09 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Richard Salit Ian Lang Rhode Island """Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country.""" ['Alcohol', 'Drugs', 'Marijuana', 'Public Health', 'States'] 5 2011-06-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Elijah Cummings Maryland "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.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation'] 5 2011-06-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Janice Hahn California "Says that Sarah Palin and Craig Huey ""would ban a woman's right to choose in every case""" ['Abortion'] 3 2011-06-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Janice Hahn California "Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a ""murder mill.""" ['Abortion', 'Medicare'] 5 2011-06-08 W. Gardner Selby Tea Party member Waco Tea Party Texas Says the federal government threatened to impose a no-fly zone in Texas if state legislators bar airport security officials from performing pat-downs. ['Public Safety', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-06-08 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Tom Rooney Florida """For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 4 2011-06-08 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Wisconsin Professional Police Association Wisconsin Assaults on Wisconsin law enforcement officers are up 224 percent statewide since 2005 ['Crime', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-06-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia """I did not say that I would not have them [Muslims] in my Cabinet.""" ['Islam', 'Religion'] 0 2011-06-07 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Chain email Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011. ['Homeland Security', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 0 2011-06-07 John Bartosek Amy Sherman Marjorie Dannenfelser "Planned Parenthood ""raked in more than $300 million in profits over the past four years.""" ['Abortion'] 2 2011-06-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Charlotte Nash Georgia """We have the best schools in the United States.""" ['Education'] 2 2011-06-07 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen William G. Batchelder Ohio Says the Ohio Consumers’ Council office employs 74 lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication. ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-06-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska """Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, 'Hey, you're not going to succeed.' """ ['History', 'Pundits'] 2 2011-06-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Austan Goolsbee Illinois """Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-06-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Austan Goolsbee Illinois """Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-06-06 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Bob Graham Florida """We had (a bill) in Florida where we now are prohibiting doctors to talk -- particularly pediatricians -- to talk to their patients about gun safety in the home.""" ['Guns', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-06-06 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher National Republican Congressional Committee "U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., ""and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2011-06-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Robert Brown Georgia """We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process.""" ['Redistricting'] 2 2011-06-06 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Jeff Kruse Oregon "Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and ""could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there.""" ['Environment'] 0 2011-06-06 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Jason Isaac Texas Says this month’s special session will cost the state $27,300 a day just for legislators’ daily living expenses. ['Government Efficiency', 'State Finances'] 5 2011-06-06 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio """We’re the seventh highest taxed state in America. And that’s not just state, it’s local as well.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2011-06-05 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Fred Risser Wisconsin Says Wisconsin state Senate President Michael Elllis (R-Neenah) broke Senate rules during debate on a photo ID bill for voters. ['Elections', 'States'] 1 2011-06-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby Don Zimmerman Texas """Every time you buy an airline ticket, the federal government runs a background check on you.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Terrorism', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-06-05 Susan Areson Democrat Richard Salit John Tassoni Jr. Rhode Island "The Central Falls School system ""spent $100,000 on a time clock.""" ['City Budget', 'Education', 'Government Efficiency'] 0 2011-06-04 Dee Lane Democrat Charles Pope Jeff Merkley Oregon Oil companies are able to sell oil that costs no more to produce today than it did one year ago. ['Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 4 2011-06-04 Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Sullivan Texas Says public education will get more money in 2012-13 though lawmakers cut $15 billion in overall spending. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-06-04 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Bob McDonnell Virginia "Virginia is ""headed towards another surplus this year, unlike most states.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-06-03 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley National Republican Congressional Committee "Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz ""demanded that Congress vote to increase the nation’s debt limit without making any spending cuts.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-06-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2011-06-03 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Eric Cantor Virginia "The 2009 stimulus bill ""failed to get people back to work.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 1 2011-06-03 John Bartosek Republican Katie Sanders Mike Haridopolos Florida """No one thought we could get a bipartisan bill (Medicaid) passed. We did in the Florida Senate.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-06-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska """We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-06-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska "We are looking at ""150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after"" because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the Obama administration." ['Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'Regulation'] 2 2011-06-03 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Janet Napolitano """We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country’s history.""" ['Crime', 'Guns', 'Immigration', 'Marijuana'] 3 2011-06-03 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Wendy Davis Texas "Says ""for the first time ever,"" Texas lawmakers are not funding student population growth." ['Education', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 4 2011-06-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy.""" ['Economy', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-06-02 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Kathleen Passidomo Florida """It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party (for kids).""" ['Alcohol', 'Animals', 'Children', 'Crime'] 5 2011-06-02 Warren Fiske, Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Congressional Committee """Gerry Connolly and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-06-02 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Steny Hoyer Maryland """We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 3 2011-06-02 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Michael Rosen Wisconsin "Wisconsin’s technical college graduates ""have a higher employment rate and starting salaries"" than four-year college graduates nationwide." ['Education', 'Jobs'] 2 2011-06-02 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Texas House Democratic Caucus Texas """Some neighborhood schools are closing.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-06-02 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon The city’s 30 percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide -- not district by district ['Housing'] 1 2011-06-01 Bill Adair Robert Farley Tim Pawlenty "Medicare ""only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending.""" ['Medicare', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2011-06-01 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska """Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2011-06-01 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Congressional Committee "Says that PolitiFact Ohio confirms that Betty Sutton ""maxed out federal debt""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 0 2011-06-01 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Jim Moran Virginia "House Republicans required the use of Styrofoam cups in House cafeterias that are ""part of Koch Industries.""" ['Congressional Rules'] 0 2011-06-01 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would ""allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-06-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Charlotte Nash Georgia """Annual water usage in 2010 was actually down more than 18 percent from usage in 2006.""" ['Water'] 4 2011-05-31 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Congressional Committee """Betty Sutton and her fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-05-31 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Steve Moore """In the late 1980s, the U.S. was nearly the lowest-taxed nation in the world, and a quarter century later we're nearly the highest.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-05-31 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Anti-Defamation League "It is estimated that Arizona ""has lost more than $100 million in hospitality industry revenues since passage of the Arizona immigration laws.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2011-05-31 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Eric Cantor Virginia """If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees, they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-05-31 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Rob Eissler Texas """Obesity kills 34 children per hour.""" ['Children', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 0 2011-05-31 Susan Areson Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. E.J. Finocchio Rhode Island """Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals.""" ['Animals', 'Children', 'Crime', 'Public Safety'] 1 2011-05-30 John Bartosek Republican John Bartosek, Amy Sherman Adam Hasner Florida """Obama-Nelson economic record: Job creation ... at slowest post-recession rate since Great Depression.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-05-30 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Mark Miller Wisconsin """Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.""" ['History', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-05-30 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby None Ciara O'Rourke Jay Carney District of Columbia Says the Obama Administration has fulfilled all of Texas’ requests for fire management assisting grants. ['Natural Disasters '] 4 2011-05-30 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barbara Boxer California """There's a 1.5 percent to 2 percent overhead in Medicare. The insurance companies have a 20 percent to 30 percent overhead.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2011-05-30 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Todd Staples Texas "Says the Obama administration approved a major disaster declaration for Oklahoma in 2009, when nine of the state’s 77 counties burned for ""about three days,"" while Texas wildfires have been burning for longer without such a declaration." ['Natural Disasters '] 4 2011-05-30 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """We are in the bottom 10 in dollars in the classroom and the top 10 in dollars in the bureaucracy and red tape.""" ['Education', 'Government Efficiency'] 4 2011-05-29 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Wisconsin Corn Growers Association Wisconsin """Without ethanol, gas prices would be at least 15% higher. With gas at four bucks, that means you’re saving 12 bucks on a 20 gallon fill up.""" ['Agriculture', 'Gas Prices'] 3 2011-05-29 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby None Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Texas Public Policy Foundation Texas "Says that in the last five years, Texas ""created more jobs than all other states combined.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-05-29 Susan Areson, Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email "Members of Congress ""receive full pay retirement after serving one term.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Income', 'Public Service', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 0 2011-05-28 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Ward Armstrong Virginia Under Gov. Bob McDonnell, more jobs have been lost than created in Southside and Southwest Virginia. ['Corrections and Updates', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-05-28 Brenda Bell W. Gardner Selby Rush Limbaugh "Says Rick Perry is ""the guy that tracked"" down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003." ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Pundits', 'Redistricting'] 2 2011-05-27 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says he vetoed $250,000 from the budget for a program to learn how to catch rainwater. ['State Budget'] 4 2011-05-27 John Bartosek Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "The Democratic health care law ""added 12 years of solvency to Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2011-05-27 Republican W. Gardner Selby Joe Straus Texas "Says state budget deal between Texas House and Senate leaders ""funds nursing homes, our public schools and universities and provides financial aid for college students.""" ['Education', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-05-27 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Armond Budish Ohio "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.""" ['Elections'] 5 2011-05-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Eric Cantor Virginia "Says the United States is ""the Saudi Arabia of coal.""" ['Energy'] 4 2011-05-26 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Sergio Marchionne """Less than two years ago, we made a commitment to repay the U.S. . . .taxpayers in full, and today we made good on that promise.""" ['Corporations', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation'] 3 2011-05-26 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee Says that Tim Pawlenty eliminated health insurance for 33,000 to 35,000 people when he was governor of Minnesota. ['Health Care'] 3 2011-05-26 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Jeff Brandes Florida """Sometimes I was the only 'no' vote on the entire board.""" ['Voting Record'] 5 2011-05-26 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Fitzgerald Wisconsin "One of every two Wisconsin residents are ""on some kind of government handout.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 1 2011-05-26 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Randi Shade Texas Says that several times in the last 15 years, Austin City Council candidates have won seats after trailing by more than 4,000 votes in the election prompting the runoff. ['City Government', 'Elections', 'History'] 3 2011-05-26 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire"" because it’s increased costs for employers." ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-05-25 Martha M. Hamilton None Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson The Agenda Project New York "The Paul Ryan budget proposal would ""privatize Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 4 2011-05-25 Martha M. Hamilton None Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson The Agenda Project New York "The Paul Ryan budget proposal would leave the country ""without Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-05-25 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob McDonnell Virginia 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. ['Deficit', 'Economy'] 5 2011-05-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia "In the U.S. Constitution, ""there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.""" ['History'] 1 2011-05-24 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty """For decades before I was elected, governors tried and failed to get Minnesota out of the top 10 highest-taxed states in the country. I actually did it.""" ['History', 'State Finances', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-05-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Bartosek George LeMieux Florida """750 days since Bill Nelson & the Democrats in the Senate passed a budget. How can this be justified?""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-05-24 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Evan Longoria Florida Says his barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real. ['Baseball'] 0 2011-05-24 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley AmeriPAC "Compact fluorescent light bulbs are ""toxic"" and ""not environmentally friendly.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Energy', 'Regulation'] 3 2011-05-24 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Louie Gohmert Texas "Says Gov. Rick Perry has been ""begging"" for the federal government to send the Coast Guard to patrol two lakes on the U.S.-Mexico border." ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 1 2011-05-24 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia "The U.S. has ""47 million people on food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Hunger'] 4 2011-05-24 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen Amy Hanauer Ohio """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.""" ['Children', 'Economy', 'Families', 'Poverty'] 5 2011-05-24 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Angel Taveras Rhode Island "The Providence teacher contract ""is one of the longest in the country.""" ['Education', 'Labor', 'Unions'] 1 2011-05-23 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Kurt Browning Florida """Early voting remains at 96 hours.""" ['Elections'] 2 2011-05-23 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Crossroads GPS """Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare.""" ['Health Care', 'Unions'] 0 2011-05-23 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley AmeriPAC """The new light bulbs will cost roughly six times the cost of the light bulbs we now use.""" ['Energy', 'Regulation'] 2 2011-05-23 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Rich Zipperer Wisconsin Deregulation of the state’s telecommunications industry will create 50,000 jobs in Wisconsin. ['Jobs'] 2 2011-05-23 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Frank Wolf Virginia "The U.S. has ""over $62 trillion in unfunded liabilities.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2011-05-23 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Randi Shade Texas """The turnout on May 14th was just 7 percent -- the lowest turnout in decades.""" ['City Government', 'Elections'] 4 2011-05-23 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """A gallon (of gasoline) delivered to the front lines for our troops in Afghanistan cost more than $400.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Energy'] 4 2011-05-22 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Michael McAuliff """Tommy Thompson wanted to implant data chips in humans.""" ['Elections', 'Health Care', 'Technology'] 4 2011-05-22 Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Williams Texas """Gas prices have gone up $2 since Obama took office.""" ['Energy', 'Gas Prices'] 3 2011-05-22 Tim Murphy Organization Richard Salit Rhode Island ACLU Rhode Island """No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law""" ['Elections'] 5 2011-05-21 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Terry McAuliffe Virginia """If you take the population growth here in Virginia, we are net zero on job creation since (Bob McDonnell) became governor.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2011-05-21 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Ron Paul Texas """The Arab and the Muslim nations get twice as much money as Israel.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel'] 4 2011-05-20 Martha M. Hamilton Tea Party member Louis Jacobson Amy Kremer Georgia """We bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security', 'Taxes', 'The Colbert Report'] 3 2011-05-20 John Bartosek Republican John Bartosek, Katie Sanders Adam Hasner Florida """ 'Scary' fact about our national debt. In 1791 it was $75 million. Today, it rises by that amount in about an hour.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-05-20 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Chain email "Next year, ""you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs.""" ['Energy', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-05-20 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley AmeriPAC """The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Energy', 'Regulation'] 0 2011-05-20 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Ken Cuccinelli Virginia "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.""" ['Crime', 'Education'] 5 2011-05-20 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Rodney Ellis Texas "Says state lawmakers have voted to ""spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times"" since the fund’s creation." ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 5 2011-05-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal """The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising.""" ['Public Health'] 1 2011-05-19 Louis Jacobson Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "Promotes a chart saying that Barack Obama has ""increased the debt"" by 16 percent, compared to George W. Bush, who increased it by 115 percent." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 0 2011-05-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin "On taxes, President Barack Obama wants to raise ""the top rate to 44.8 percent.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-05-18 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Terry Moulton Wisconsin """Wisconsin is one of the few states in the country that do not currently require a photographic identification"" to vote." ['Elections'] 1 2011-05-18 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Terry McAuliffe Virginia """The $1.8 billion in [transportation] bonding, we don’t have a repayment mechanism.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Transportation'] 0 2011-05-18 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Kim Simac Wisconsin "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.""" ['Elections', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-05-18 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Jay Goyal Ohio Says there are more federal dollars in Gov. John Kasich's budget plan than in the previous state budget. ['State Budget'] 2 2011-05-18 Tim Murphy Organization C. Eugene Emery Jr. American Beverage Association Washington, D.C. """The new beverage tax will increase the cost of sodas, juice drinks, sports drinks, iced teas, and flavored water up to 50%.""" ['Health Care', 'Public Health', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-05-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California """In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration.""" ['Economy', 'History'] 1 2011-05-17 John Bartosek Republican Katie Sanders Steve Oelrich Florida """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.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 5 2011-05-17 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Janet Napolitano """Very, very, very few people get a pat-down"" when they go through airport security." ['Homeland Security'] 0 2011-05-17 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Chris Redfern Ohio """The Ohio Democratic Party has raised $1.1 million since the November election. A very small percentage of that has come from organized labor.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Labor'] 4 2011-05-16 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "President Barack Obama deserves to be called ""the most successful food stamp president in American history"" because ""47 million Americans are on food stamps.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Hunger'] 3 2011-05-16 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """The (border) fence is now basically complete.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2011-05-16 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Laura Ingraham "The Massachusetts health care plan is ""wildly unpopular"" among state residents." ['Health Care', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-05-16 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Randy Forbes Virginia Failure to raise the debt limit does not force a U.S. default on debt payments. ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-05-16 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke John Whitmire Texas "Says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of ""3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance.""" ['Crime', 'Health Care', 'Regulation'] 4 2011-05-16 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """Eighty-seven percent of private insurance plans currently include (abortion) coverage.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 4 2011-05-15 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson AFL-CIO """There are not, nor have there ever been, any boycotts encouraged by our organizations.""" ['Unions'] 2 2011-05-15 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Steve Ogden Texas "Says businesses ""already pay most of the taxes.""" ['State Budget', 'State Finances', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-05-15 Tim Murphy Democrat Richard Salit David Cicilline Rhode Island """Most military experts say there is anywhere between 25 and 30 members of al Qaeda in Afghanistan.""" ['Afghanistan'] 2 2011-05-14 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Charlotte Lehan Oregon If the Sellwood Bridge is not replaced, it will have to be shut down within eight years. ['Transportation'] 2 2011-05-14 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Leo Berman Texas Says judges are using Shariah law in Dearborn, Mich. ['Religion'] 1 2011-05-13 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Obama’s health care law ""represents a government takeover of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-05-13 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Jamie Radtke Virginia "George Allen ""had 40,000 earmarks"" while he was a senator." ['Federal Budget'] 1 2011-05-13 Robert Higgs Republican Rich Exner, Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """We're within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. We're in a perfect location.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-05-13 Meghan Ashford-Grooms None W. Gardner Selby Jay Carney District of Columbia "Says Rick Perry ""turned down our invitation to meet"" President Barack Obama in El Paso." ['Bipartisanship', 'Immigration'] 4 2011-05-13 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Matt Wingard Oregon Increasing the bottle deposit to 10 cents on a case of water bottles could literally double the price of that product in the store. ['Environment', 'Water'] 2 2011-05-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Carolyn Edds, Robert Farley George LeMieux Florida """(George) LeMieux never requested a single earmark and pushed to ban them all.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-05-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley George LeMieux Florida """(Bill) Nelson voted for billions in wasteful spending earmarks like the Bridge to Nowhere.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2011-05-12 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Sherrod Brown Ohio About two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, but they account for one-third of the program’s cost, while one-third are elderly, and they account for two-thirds of the cost. ['Children', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-05-12 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia "Virginia ranked near the bottom of the nation 50 years ago in per capita income but is in the top 10 today. It had a ""very low"" rate of higher education attainment but is now above the national average." ['Education'] 3 2011-05-12 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ""literally invented a $3.6 billion deficit.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget', 'State Finances'] 1 2011-05-12 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Matt Lundy Ohio """The substitute budget now adds in tax breaks and tax deductions for those who buy these prisons.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2011-05-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia """For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-05-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia "During his time as House speaker, ""unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent).""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 1 2011-05-11 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Under President Barack Obama, the United States has ""doubled our exports.""" ['Economy', 'Trade'] 1 2011-05-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "The Bush tax cuts ""created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-05-11 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent. ['Immigration'] 5 2011-05-11 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Jim Moran Virginia """American oil production is at its highest level since 2003.""" ['Energy'] 5 2011-05-11 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin """Two-thirds of Wisconsin corporations don't pay state income taxes.""" ['Corporations', 'Income', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-05-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Renee Unterman Georgia """Gwinnett Medical Center is operating in the negative,"" in part, because of illegal immigrants." ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 3 2011-05-11 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Nina Turner Ohio "When ""the governor announced his ‘jobs budget,’ 99 folks from the Department of Taxation were let go the next day.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Jobs', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-05-11 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Christopher Plante Rhode Island """The people of Rhode Island don't want same-sex marriage.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 0 2011-05-10 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2011-05-10 John Bartosek, Amy Hollyfield Republican John Bartosek, Laura Figueroa Marco Rubio Florida """The only people in this town that have voted to cut Medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of Obamacare. That’s a fact.""" ['Medicare'] 2 2011-05-10 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Silvestre Reyes Texas "The ""six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 4 2011-05-10 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Doris Kearns Goodwin Massachusetts "During the Eisenhower Administration, ""not a single soldier … died in combat.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Military'] 1 2011-05-10 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kathie Tovo Texas """Austin Energy is considering its first rate increase since 1994.""" ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Energy'] 4 2011-05-10 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Tom Petri Wisconsin "Says President Barack Obama’s debt commission recommended converting Medicare ""to a system where Medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-05-10 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen John Kasich Ohio """Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-05-09 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Bloggers "Wrote that in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said she didn’t think capturing Osama bin Laden ""makes us any safer,"" but in 2011 called his killing ""historic.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 3 2011-05-09 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Eric Cantor Virginia "There is ""a situation in this country where you're nearing 50 percent of people who don't even pay income taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-05-09 Greg Borowski Democrat Joe Carey Lena Taylor Wisconsin """Gov. (Scott) Walker has yet to create a job, he gives away millions to his friends, and he raises taxes on working people.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-05-09 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "Georgia is ""one of only about seven states in the country"" that has a AAA bond rating." ['State Finances'] 5 2011-05-09 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Garnet Coleman Texas Says close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was non-Anglo. ['Census', 'Redistricting'] 5 2011-05-08 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salaries in 2010 for employees to ""participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.""" ['County Government', 'State Budget', 'Unions'] 5 2011-05-08 Republican W. Gardner Selby Steve Ogden Texas "Rick Perry ""advocated to liquidate"" the state’s rainy day fund in 2007." ['State Budget', 'State Finances'] 3 2011-05-08 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Robert Watson Rhode Island """I'm well aware that medical marijuana is a recognized, medical, viable treatment for this sort of [pancreas] pain condition.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Marijuana', 'Public Health'] 1 2011-05-07 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Jack Latvala Florida "From 2008 to 2011, ""the pages in the conforming bills have gone from 400 pages to 2,200.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2011-05-07 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har John Lee Oregon The study that states that more than 70 percent of the traffic on the Sellwood Bridge is to/from Clackamas County has been thoroughly debunked by The Oregonian. ['Transportation'] 1 2011-05-07 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Hardcastle Texas "Benzene has ""never been proven to be harmful.""" ['Environment'] 0 2011-05-06 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke Ron Paul Texas """Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-05-06 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Tim Pawlenty "On the night of the Iowa caucuses, Obama ""promised the nation that he would do health care reform focused on cost containment, he opposed an individual mandate, and he said he was going to do it with Republicans.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2011-05-06 Bill Adair Libertarian Louis Jacobson Gary Johnson New Mexico """We have the highest corporate income tax in the world right now.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-05-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Mike Bennett Florida "Says people in Africa ""literally walk two and three hundred miles"" in order to vote." ['Elections'] 0 2011-05-06 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Herb Kohl Wisconsin """I’ve been through four campaigns and have not done any negative campaigning.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 4 2011-05-06 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Bobby Scott Virginia """Nearly 2,000 high schools - roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States - produce about half of the nation’s dropouts.""" ['Education'] 5 2011-05-06 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Willoughby Mariano Jim Durrett "According to crime statistics, ""riding MARTA has been becoming more and more safe over the years.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-05-06 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kathie Tovo Texas Says one of Austin City Council Member Randi Shade’s biggest contributors is the lobbyist for the Formula 1 racetrack planned outside Austin. ['City Budget', 'City Government', 'Ethics'] 2 2011-05-06 Therese Bottomly Democrat Charles Pope David Wu Oregon House Republican plan would increase costs for Oregon seniors by $6,000 with health care vouchers instead of Medicare ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 4 2011-05-06 Tim Murphy Democrat Richard Salit Stephen Ucci Rhode Island """A [bank] surveillance camera capturing a criminal’s face and other identifiable traits would certainly discourage robbery attempts and serve as a deterrent to robbers.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 1 2011-05-05 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton, Louis Jacobson Jim Renacci Ohio "The federal debt is more than $14 trillion, ""almost equal to the size of our entire economy,"" and ""every child born today inherits a $45,000 share of the national debt before they take their first breath.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-05-05 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Joe Gibbons Florida """Polls show that Floridians don't want to repeal the Affordable Care Act.""" ['Health Care', 'Polls and Public Opinion'] 2 2011-05-05 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 3 2011-05-05 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Gerry Connolly Virginia """America owns 3 percent of the world’s oil but consumes 25 percent of its global reserves.""" ['Energy'] 4 2011-05-05 James B. Nelson Democrat James B. Nelson Ed Garvey Wisconsin Says he has exposed plans by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to push legislation that would allow the state to declare financial martial law and take over municipal governments. ['City Government', 'Government Efficiency', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-05-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan David Stockman Connecticut "Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts ""nothing"" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and ""in three years, he does not cut one dime from the debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Military', 'Social Security', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2011-05-04 Tim Murphy Laura Figueroa, Eric Stirgus National Republican Congressional Committee """The federal government borrows $4 billion every day.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-05-04 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Adam Hasner Florida "In a lawsuit between private citizens, a Florida judge ""announced the decision was going to be based on Islamic Law.""" ['Florida', 'Legal Issues', 'Religion'] 4 2011-05-04 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Arianna Huffington "Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a ""shrinking of the actual labor force.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-05-04 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Eric Cantor Virginia """You’ve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs.""" ['Medicare', 'Social Security'] 5 2011-05-04 W. Gardner Selby Dick Armey """At Texas A&M University, only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years.""" ['Education'] 1 2011-05-04 Charles Gay Republican Willoughby Mariano Saxby Chambliss Georgia "Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire ""16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer"" to enforce the federal health care overhaul." ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-05-04 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will  ""immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.""" ['Economy', 'Energy'] 1 2011-05-03 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman John Thrasher Florida "Says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, ""we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans.""" ['Immigration', 'Terrorism'] 0 2011-05-03 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Terry McAuliffe Virginia """China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt, our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars.""" ['China', 'Deficit', 'Trade'] 5 2011-05-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Donald Trump New York """We don't have bridges being built"" in the United States." ['Infrastructure'] 3 2011-05-03 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman J.D. Alexander Florida "Says using E-Verify is ""a fair amount of cost,"" about $20 per person that does not match." ['Immigration'] 4 2011-05-03 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Dan Boren Oklahoma """A vast majority of the production in the United States comes from small independent oil and gas companies.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy'] 3 2011-05-03 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Max Nofziger Texas """Currently, there is no one from South Austin on the (Austin City) Council!""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2011-05-03 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """State employees are actually going to get a pay raise.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-05-03 Jim Denery, Angela Tuck Democrat Eric Stirgus Kathleen Sebelius Kansas """One of three patients hospitalized (is) harmed by the care they receive.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2011-05-02 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Bill Nelson Florida """55 percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot (in Florida) in the last presidential election -- their vote did not count.""" ['Elections'] 4 2011-05-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican M.B. Pell Herman Cain Georgia "Says ""in Canada, the number of CT scan machines per 1,000 people is like one-tenth of what we have here in this country. That's why people have to wait.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2011-05-02 Republican W. Gardner Selby Troy Fraser Texas Says it probably costs more than $300,000 to run for a seat on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors. ['Elections', 'Energy'] 0 2011-05-02 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Jon Husted Ohio "Says that while his plan would narrow the time for early voting, ""it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in America.""" ['Elections'] 0 2011-05-01 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Chris Larson Wisconsin "Republicans offered Wisconsin bar patrons ""free shots (of alcohol) to sign recall petitions against"" Democrats." ['Elections', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-05-01 C. Eugene Emery Jr. Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr., Angie Drobnic Holan David Cicilline Rhode Island """We just fought a Republican budget that ends Medicare as we know it.""" ['Medicare'] 2 2011-04-30 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Gerry Connolly Virginia "Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan ""lines the pockets of the private insurance companies,"" increases costs for seniors and does not reduce the deficit." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-29 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Chris Dorworth Florida "Says Florida is one of a few or perhaps the only state ""that has a statewide review of local land use and zoning decisions.""" ['Environment', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-04-29 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer JoAnne Kloppenburg Wisconsin """There are legitimate and widespread anomalies, and widespread questions about the conduct of (the Wisconsin Supreme Court) election, most visibly in Waukesha County, but also in counties around the state.""" ['Elections'] 2 2011-04-29 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio "The Bush tax cuts ""helped to create a substantial part of the deficit.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Deficit', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-04-29 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Victoria Taft Oregon """A $250 fine if you're caught with a plastic bag coming out of a store. Plastic bag police anyone?""" ['Environment'] 1 2011-04-29 None W. Gardner Selby Texans for Economic Development Texas """Texans spend $2.5 billion gambling in our neighboring states every year.""" ['Gambling'] 4 2011-04-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Barack Obama Illinois "Says ""we have now more Border Patrol officers … than we’ve had at any time in our history.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2011-04-28 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 1 2011-04-28 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Richard Corcoran Florida """90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2011-04-28 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Gordon Robertson Virginia "President Obama was ""raised Muslim.""" ['Religion'] 0 2011-04-28 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "President Barack Obama ""took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-04-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Joe Biden Delaware """We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-04-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Donald Trump New York "After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis ""never paid us.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Military'] 0 2011-04-27 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Leo Berman Texas Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there. ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2011-04-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Donald Trump New York """CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied.""" ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 0 2011-04-27 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Mike Haridopolos Florida "Says ""many states"" are floundering under crushing deficit spending." ['State Budget'] 1 2011-04-27 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Barack Obama Illinois "Says Paul Ryan ""voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Iraq', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-04-27 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields Cheryl Grossman Ohio """As far as standing committees, we have 10 fewer standing committees. So we’ve saved the state about a quarter-of-a-million dollars through the reduction of the standing committees.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-04-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None M.B. Pell Allie McCullen Georgia """The Georgia Lottery Corp. has only once in the past 16 years paid out the agreed upon 35 percent of proceeds to the account which funds the HOPE scholarship.""" ['Education'] 1 2011-04-26 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Miguel Diaz de la Portilla Florida "In early voting in Miami-Dade County, ""there is a trickle of two or three people a day at a very high cost to keep those public libraries and polls open.""" ['Elections', 'Florida'] 1 2011-04-26 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Eric Eisnaugle Florida """Mickey Mouse was registered to vote (in Florida).""" ['Elections'] 1 2011-04-26 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Tim Grendell Ohio """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.""" ['Education', 'Labor'] 5 2011-04-26 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Randy Forbes Virginia """Each day our nation pays communist China $73.9 million in interest on our debt.""" ['China', 'Deficit', 'Military'] 5 2011-04-25 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman """Large majorities"" of the public ""oppose major changes to Medicare"" and favor higher taxes on the wealthy." ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-04-25 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Donald Trump New York """Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia.""" ['Energy', 'Foreign Policy'] 4 2011-04-25 John Bartosek Republican John Bartosek, Laura Figueroa Stephen Wise Florida """Every person on death row was a foster kid.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Florida', 'Public Service'] 1 2011-04-25 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Dan Kapanke Wisconsin Says protesters at the Wisconsin state Capitol on the night the state Senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-04-25 Warren Fiske None Sean Gorman Kitty Boitnott Virgina Salaries for Virginia’s teachers are below the national average. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-04-25 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.""" ['Labor', 'Unions'] 5 2011-04-25 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal """Over the last 10 years, Georgia's public health has declined.""" ['Public Health'] 3 2011-04-24 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Mark Pocan Wisconsin Says salaries and benefits for Wisconsin state employee comprised 8.5 percent of the 2009-2011 state budget. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-04-24 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Barack Obama Illinois """Gov. (Rick) Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help, which he happily took, and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help.""" ['State Budget', 'Stimulus'] 4 2011-04-24 Tim Murphy Tea Party member C. Eugene Emery Jr. Colleen Conley Rhode Island """We are the most generous in New England and New England is known for its generosity toward its welfare recipients.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Poverty', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-23 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Portland Public Schools Oregon Per-student K-12 state funding for Portland Public Schools has dipped from $6,036 in the 2007-2008 school year to $5,644 in the 2010-2011 school year ['Education'] 3 2011-04-22 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Herman Cain Georgia China holds 26 percent of the U.S. debt. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy'] 1 2011-04-22 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Mark Warner Virginia """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].""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-04-22 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Adam Putnam Florida Says he couldn't keep a 42-inch redfish he caught because of fishing rules. ['Oil Spill'] 5 2011-04-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin Says Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, has already been recalled. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-04-22 W. Gardner Selby Ciara O'Rourke Rachel Maddow "Says Texas routinely gets ""a lot more federal spending"" than it pays in taxes." ['Federal Budget', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-04-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Kathleen Angelucci Georgia """It is a fact that it costs more to run the schools in August.""" ['Education'] 2 2011-04-21 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Republican Party of Virginia Virginia Tim Kaine broke a campaign promise not to raise taxes. ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-04-21 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Ronald Renuart Florida """Almost 37 percent of the total income from Planned Parenthood is from abortions.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2011-04-21 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Sarah Palin Alaska "Says $38 billion in spending cuts in federal budget compromise is ""less than $1 billion in real cuts.""" ['Federal Budget', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-04-21 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jean Schmidt Ohio """For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion.""" ['Abortion', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-04-21 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Michael Reese Oregon "If we had the same staffing ratio (of officers to residents) as Seattle, we'd have 300 more officers in our department.""" ['Public Safety'] 5 2011-04-21 Republican W. Gardner Selby Mitch Daniels Indiana "Says that in 41 states, government workers ""are better paid than the taxpayers who support them.""" ['State Budget', 'States', 'Workers'] 1 2011-04-20 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Bill Maher California Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care. ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-04-20 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare.""" ['Medicare', 'Retirement'] 0 2011-04-20 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Peter Nehr Florida "An Internet sweepstakes cafe is ""a legitimate business that has been vetted and found to be completely legal in the state.""" ['Gambling'] 3 2011-04-20 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Geraldine Thompson Florida """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.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 5 2011-04-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Marcy Kaptur Ohio "General Electric ""hasn't really created any jobs in this country, doesn't  pay any taxes, and they're making historic profits.""" ['Corporations', 'Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Tom Graves """America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-04-19 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Chris Hayes "According to David Cay Johnston, ""the average American pays about 22 percent of their income to federal taxes. The richest 400 Americans … pay about 16 percent of their income to federal taxes.""" ['Pundits', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Walsh Illinois """Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2011-04-19 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Ward Armstrong Virginia """[Appalachian Power] wants another 10 percent rate increase. The compensation package for CEO Mike Morris rose 22 percent to $8.7 million in 2010.""" ['Regulation'] 5 2011-04-19 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen John Kasich Ohio """In this bill that I’ve just signed, we don’t cut anybody’s salary. We don’t take away their pension. And we don’t destroy their health care.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-04-19 None W. Gardner Selby Mike Ford Texas "Says the fluoride Austin is putting in its drinking water is ""toxic waste.""" ['Public Health'] 1 2011-04-19 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Our Oregon Oregon "(Dennis) Richardson wants to make drastic cuts to services we depend on: schools, home care for seniors, even public safety -- all so Richardson can keep more than $440 million in unspent funds for his political priorities.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-04-19 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Paul Broun Georgia Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States. ['History'] 1 2011-04-18 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "The Republican budget plan ""says that 10 years from now, if you’re a 65-year-old who’s eligible for Medicare, you should have to pay nearly $6,400 more than you would today.""" ['Medicare'] 4 2011-04-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-04-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Reince Priebus Wisconsin """Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined.""" ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-18 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Hackers broke into Virginia's prescription-drug database (and) ... obtained more than 8.2 million patient records and a total of nearly 36 million prescriptions.""" ['Drugs'] 4 2011-04-18 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jesse Jackson Illinois "Milwaukee is ""the most segregated city in America.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-04-18 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Jim Keffer Texas """The costs of cancer and all affiliated issues are over $20 billion a year to this state.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2011-04-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano George Turner Georgia """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.""" ['Crime'] 5 2011-04-18 Robert Higgs Democrat James Ewinger Dennis Kucinich Ohio """What we have done with the PATRIOT Act, we've given the government enormous powers. We've given the government the right to reach deeply into people's private lives, into their business affairs, without a court order.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Terrorism'] 3 2011-04-17 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Kathy Nickolaus Wisconsin "Human error, such as skipping a community in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, ""is common in (the vote-tabulation) process." ['Elections'] 2 2011-04-17 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Bill Fischer Rhode Island """Full marriage equality [would provide same-sex couples] with about 1,700 rights.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 2 2011-04-16 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger George Allen Virginia "Tim Kaine proposed ""over $6 billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governor’s mansion until the time he left.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-16 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Jeff Cogen Oregon "Multnomah County has faced ""11 straight years"" of cuts" ['County Budget'] 3 2011-04-16 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke, W. Gardner Selby Joaquin Castro Texas """43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance"" if the Texas House version of the state budget passes into law." ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-04-15 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Brian Kilmeade Says Gov. Rick Scott's approval ratings are up. ['Polls and Public Opinion', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-04-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy Peter DeFazio Oregon """Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support.""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-04-15 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Jamie Radtke Virginia 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. ['Deficit', 'Education', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-04-15 None W. Gardner Selby Texas Department of Transportation Texas """A DWI costs $17,000.""" ['Alcohol', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-04-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Chris Van Hollen Maryland """The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. They've demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Science', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-04-15 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Marco Rubio Florida "To pay for government growth, leaders of both parties ""borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with today's $14 trillion debt.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-04-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Saxby Chambliss Georgia """When we lower tax rates, we generate more in revenues. That happened in '86 with the Reagan plan, happened in 2001, following the Bush plan.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-04-15 Tim Murphy None Richard Salit Online petition Rhode Island """For every [coyote] they kill, the population will replace and usually multiply.""" ['Environment'] 4 2011-04-14 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-04-14 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """By the end of this decade, the interest we owe on our debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2011-04-14 Warren Fiske Sean Gorman Campaign for America's Future "Says ""Congressman Eric Cantor wants to eliminate Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 0 2011-04-14 Robert Higgs Republican Rich Exner, Tom Feran Michael Turner Ohio "A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be ""within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population.""" ['Space', 'Tourism'] 3 2011-04-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Pence Indiana "A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will  ""participate in the same kind of health plan that members of Congress do.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2011-04-13 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Barack Obama Illinois """Foreign aid makes up about 1 percent of our entire budget.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy'] 5 2011-04-13 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Tim Pawlenty "President Obama has ""stopped using the phrase 'war on terror.' """ ['Homeland Security', 'Terrorism'] 5 2011-04-13 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida Education Association Florida """Politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how I want.""" ['Unions'] 1 2011-04-13 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida "Says unions ""take away"" hard-earned money of teachers, firefighters and police officers to play politics." ['Unions'] 1 2011-04-13 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Paul Broun Georgia "Says the federal government borrows ""almost $60 billion per week.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-04-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Donald Trump New York President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate. ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 1 2011-04-12 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Robert Hurt Virginia "A cap-and-trade bill would ""destroy over 50,000 jobs in Virginia.""" ['Environment', 'Jobs', 'Regulation'] 2 2011-04-12 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Tim Pawlenty """In 2009, we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2011-04-12 John Bartosek Democrat Katie Sanders Pink Slip Rick Florida Says Gov. Rick Scott lost Florida 331,247 jobs. ['Jobs'] 0 2011-04-12 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Sean Duffy Wisconsin """The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don’t even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee. I just experienced that myself. They’re not nearly as good.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-04-12 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio "There was ""some sort of informal commitment to build a (psychiatric) building in downtown Cleveland.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-04-12 Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano, Eric Stirgus Mark Warner Virginia """There used to be 16 workers for every one person on Social Security. ... Now it’s three.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-04-11 Therese Bottomly, Dee Lane Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Mark Hass Oregon """For every one ESD superintendent position, we can pay for three speech pathologists, or three special needs instructors, or three classroom teachers.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-04-11 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Donald Trump New York """Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya.""" ['China', 'Energy', 'Foreign Policy'] 1 2011-04-11 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Scott Randolph Florida """We have a guy who is going to be speaker of the House in four years, and his name has been on the ballot one time.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Redistricting'] 1 2011-04-11 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher MoveOn.org "The newly proposed House Republican budget ""abolishes Medicare within 10 years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-04-11 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger, Sean Gorman Jim Moran Virginia """Over the past decade, the big five oil companies --- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a total profit of nearly $1 trillion.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-04-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Saxby Chambliss Georgia "Says ""an average of $4 billion is added to the national debt"" every day." ['Federal Budget'] 4 2011-04-11 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields David Pepper Ohio """Many states without collective bargaining, such as Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, have far larger budget deficits than many that do, including Ohio.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-04-11 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Stefani Carter Texas Says the Beaumont school district’s superintendent is the highest-paid in the state. ['Education'] 3 2011-04-10 None W. Gardner Selby Meria Carstarphen Texas "Austin’s Pease Elementary ""is a school that was created as part of the Texas Constitution.""" ['Education'] 1 2011-04-10 Greg Borowski Talk show host Dave Umhoefer Charlie Sykes Wisconsin "Says JoAnne Kloppenburg’s side had a ""3-to-1 money advantage"" in the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign." ['Campaign Finance'] 0 2011-04-10 Tim Murphy Democrat Richard Salit Richard Licht Rhode Island "Proposed fees for Rhode Island beaches will still be ""less than some of the town beaches.""" ['Recreation', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-04-09 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Bob McDonnell Virginia """When I took office last year we faced historic budget deficits of $6 billion here in Virginia.  And we closed those deficits by cutting spending.""" ['Economy', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-04-09 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Michael Denbrow Oregon "Undocumented students who qualify for in-state Oregon tuition are ""actively working toward U.S. citizenship.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 2 2011-04-09 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Donna Howard Texas """Fifty percent of our students who enter higher education need to take remedial courses because they are not prepared for college-level work.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-04-08 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Kyl Arizona "Abortion services are ""well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.""" ['Abortion', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-04-08 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Donald Trump New York """I have the No. 1 show on NBC.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Pop Culture'] 3 2011-04-08 John Bartosek Organization John Bartosek, Laura Figueroa Broward County Medical Association Florida In Florida, it’s not illegal for an immediate family member of state officials to prosper from legislation supported by a spouse. ['Ethics', 'Florida', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2011-04-08 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Tim Ryan Ohio """A report in Navy Times said that 7.3 percent of Army, Navy and Marines have thought about attempting suicide.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Military'] 0 2011-04-08 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Herman Cain Georgia "Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to ""help kill black babies before they came into the world.""" ['Abortion'] 0 2011-04-08 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Tim Ryan Ohio """From '05 to '09, we've had 1,100 soldiers commit suicide, one every 36 hours.""" ['Military'] 5 2011-04-08 Tim Murphy Democrat Peter Lord Roberto DaSilva Rhode Island """We’re paying out-of-state residential facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more,"" to house children in state custody" ['Children', 'Families', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-04-07 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Donald Trump New York "Says President Obama's ""grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth.""" ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 1 2011-04-07 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """We’ve introduced a bill that includes $12 billion in cuts over the next week.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-04-07 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Tim Kaine Virginia "Virginia was named ""best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child"" while I was governor." ['Children', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Elections', 'Small Business'] 5 2011-04-07 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Armond Budish Ohio """Across the United States, 25 percent of voting age African Americans do not have the photo ID that this bill would require.""" ['Elections'] 3 2011-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Stabenow Michigan "A government shutdown ""could disrupt ... veterans' benefits.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Military', 'Veterans'] 5 2011-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "Under a House Republican appropriations bill, ""6 million seniors are deprived of meals.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Federal Budget', 'Hunger'] 3 2011-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Steve Moore "The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is ""an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Jobs', 'Labor'] 3 2011-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barbara Boxer California Says House Republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of Congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown. ['Ethics', 'Federal Budget', 'Voting Record', 'Workers'] 4 2011-04-06 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Reince Priebus Wisconsin """We’ve lost 26 million jobs … since (Obama’s) been president.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Jobs'] 0 2011-04-06 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin For the first time in U.S. history, a personal inaction will be deemed unlawful -- not purchasing a health-insurance plan ['Health Care'] 1 2011-04-06 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Mike Villarreal Texas """The only segment in the beer market that is growing is the craft beer segment.""" ['Alcohol', 'Regulation', 'Small Business'] 5 2011-04-06 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Roosevelt Rhode Island Three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional. ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2011-04-05 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Charles Rangel New York """Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Legal Issues', 'Military'] 3 2011-04-05 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Bob Graham Florida """Since 1990, in inflation-adjusted dollars, per-student funding of the (Florida) state university system from general revenue has dropped by about $4,000.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-04-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Newt Gingrich Georgia "Says ""some [states] with the largest reductions in crime have also lowered their prison population.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-04-05 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Jim Jordan Ohio "The federal government has ""77 different means-tested social welfare programs.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 5 2011-04-04 John Bartosek Republican Becky Bowers Marco Rubio Florida """Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-04-04 Martha M. Hamilton Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland """We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2011-04-04 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty """Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion.""" ['Deficit'] 4 2011-04-04 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman George Allen Virginia A majority of the American people opposed the health care law when it was signed and still oppose it today. ['Health Care'] 4 2011-04-04 Jane Kahoun Republican Tom Feran, Aaron Marshall William G. Batchelder Ohio "Says a photo ID voting law in Georgia didn't dissuade black voters from participating in voting. ""It hasn't, it doesn't, and apparently, if you do cause and effect in that state, it's been helpful.""" ['Elections'] 3 2011-04-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Sally Bethea """In three years we could find close to 50 million gallons per day through a toilet replacement program.""" ['Environment', 'Water'] 4 2011-04-04 Brenda Bell Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Jimmie Don Aycock Texas """Some of the colleges, including A&M, have already guaranteed that they will not increase their tuition.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-04-03 Tim Murphy Labor leader C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Cenerini Rhode Island "When you compare our state pension system ""to other systems throughout the country, our benefits are not gold-plated. They are not rich. They are actually average or below average.""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 3 2011-04-02 Greg Borowski None Joe Carey Jason Haas Wisconsin Milwaukee lost the headquarters for MillerCoors because the area lacks good transit. ['Jobs', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-04-02 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Rob Bovett Oregon Since Oregon’s prescription-only law took effect, meth lab incidents have dropped by 96 percent and meth-related arrests by 32 percent. ['Crime', 'Drugs'] 5 2011-04-02 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Sylvester Turner Texas """Ninety percent of Texans say they do not want the nursing homes to close. It polls higher than anything else.""" ['Health Care', 'Housing', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-04-01 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Donald Trump New York South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country. ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 1 2011-04-01 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Stone Wisconsin "Says Chris Abele, opponent in Milwaukee County executive race, ""failed to finish 3 separate colleges, dropping out all 3 times.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Education'] 4 2011-04-01 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Citizens for a Strong America Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg ""put an 80-year-old farmer in jail for refusing to plant native vegetation on his farm.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2011-04-01 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman John Buss Florida "Tallahassee is ""the ninth-rainiest (city) in the nation.""" ['Weather'] 4 2011-04-01 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Eric Cantor Virginia "Discretionary spending has ""increased over 20-some percent in two years if you don’t include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, it’s over 80 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-04-01 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Tim Pawlenty """From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21 percent. … we brought that down dramatically, to about 1.7 percent per year.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2011-04-01 Bill Adair Robert Farley Americans United for Change "Says Majority Leader Eric Cantor called for ""abolishing Social Security and Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 1 2011-04-01 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman J.D. Alexander Florida Says the Southwest Florida Water Management District has $850 million in reserves, enough money in savings to run without levying taxes for more than two years. ['Taxes', 'Water'] 1 2011-04-01 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher JoAnne Kloppenburg Wisconsin "PolitiFact Wisconsin ""concluded that the charge that Justice Prosser prejudges matters that come before the court is True.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2011-04-01 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson David Prosser Wisconsin Says Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg’s record as a state Justice Department lawyer consists only of the prosecution of cases regarding regulation of docks. ['Candidate Biography', 'Environment', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2011-04-01 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms John Cornyn Texas Says that during the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the U.S. detained people from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism on the southwestern border. ['Immigration', 'Terrorism'] 3 2011-04-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Johnny Isakson Georgia """There has never been a death caused by a [commercial nuclear] reactor in the United States, even when Three Mile Island failed in the 1970s.""" ['Nuclear'] 5 2011-03-31 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Morgan Griffith Virginia """Originally, Democrats promised that if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it. One year later we know that you need a waiver to keep your plan.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-03-31 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Social Security'] 1 2011-03-31 John Bartosek Republican John Bartosek, Laura Figueroa Rick Scott Florida """Before this (federal health care) law was enacted, Florida parents ... were able to purchase inexpensive 'child-only' coverage for their children. The law’s 'consumer protections' have now eliminated that choice in Florida.""" ['Children', 'Florida', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-03-31 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin Says David Prosser = Scott Walker. ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-03-31 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton John Boehner Ohio "Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains ""a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-03-31 Tim Murphy Labor leader Peter Lord George Nee Rhode Island """Public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors, I think, have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement.""" ['Labor', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2011-03-30 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty """Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation,"" the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 ""because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2011-03-30 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Free Market Florida Florida Says new EPA water regulations would force the state to make drainage canals every bit as clean as pristine Florida river systems. ['Environment', 'Water'] 4 2011-03-30 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Babur Lateef Virginia Since Corey Stewart became chairman in November 2006, unemployment is up 150% and average home price sales are down $150,000. ['Economy', 'Housing', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-03-30 Greg Borowski, Steve Schultze Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele Says Jeff Stone = Scott Walker. ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-03-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Calvine Rollins Georgia Georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment, do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions. ['Unions', 'Workers'] 2 2011-03-30 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "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.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-03-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota """One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill'] 0 2011-03-29 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 3 2011-03-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Karl Rove Texas """American troops have never been under the formal control of another nation.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 1 2011-03-29 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Larry Ahern Florida """We don't need a separate (prescription drug) database ... Pharmacies already have a database in place.""" ['Drugs', 'Health Care', 'Public Health'] 1 2011-03-29 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin As a prosecutor, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser did not investigate or file charges in a case involving 30-year pedophile priest, then participated in cover-up. ['Legal Issues'] 2 2011-03-29 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Young Americans for Liberty """Every taxpayer owes about $130,000 to pay off the national debt.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2011-03-28 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Chris Abele Says Milwaukee County Parks director Sue Black has not received a pay raise in five years. ['Labor'] 4 2011-03-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe M.B. Pell Joel Keehn The hour of sleep you lose during the change to daylight saving time might initially pose some health risks. ['Science'] 5 2011-03-28 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Dennis Richardson Oregon """Oregon is the only state out of the 50 states in the USA that continues to pay 100% of the medical benefits for its employees and their families.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-03-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio "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.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 5 2011-03-28 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Michael McCaul Texas "Says a Lubbock terror suspect’s alleged plan ""to use baby dolls to conceal chemical explosives"" is similar to a 1995 plot ""to blow up 12 jumbo jets over the Pacific Ocean.""" ['Terrorism'] 5 2011-03-27 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher JoAnne Kloppenburg Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser ""has prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court.""" ['Legal Issues'] 2 2011-03-27 Tim Murphy Democrat Peter Lord Jon Brien Rhode Island "Woonsocket needs a garbage-burning power plant because ""residents are paying through the nose for electricity that’s fueled by foreign oil, at prices that are skyrocketing.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2011-03-26 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Jim Moran Virginia Ending federal funding for National Public Radio would jeopardize 9,000 jobs. ['Jobs'] 1 2011-03-26 W. Gardner Selby Republican Wayne Christian Texas "Central Health ""is the only hospital district in Texas that spends taxpayer dollars on abortions.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2011-03-26 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Kim Thatcher Oregon "Oregon concealed gun applications include ""home phone numbers, home address, Social Security numbers, what kinds of guns you have in the house … whether you were dishonorably discharged from the military, what controlled substances you are taking and  were you ever accused of -- accused, mind you -- of stalking.""" ['Guns', 'Privacy'] 4 2011-03-25 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan WorldNetDaily """A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008.""" ['Abortion', 'Federal Budget'] 0 2011-03-25 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Grover Norquist """Withheld union dues fund half of Dem (Democratic) campaigns in Florida.""" ['Labor'] 0 2011-03-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "The HOPE scholarship ""has helped turn our University System into one of the best in the Southeast, with two institutions ranked in the top 20 of public universities in the country.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-03-25 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Armond Budish Ohio "Says ""legislation pending in the House would effectively limit or eliminate ‘time-and-a-half’ for people who work overtime.""" ['Labor', 'Small Business', 'Workers'] 4 2011-03-25 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Joseph McNamara Rhode Island """About 22 percent of adults in Rhode Island and approximately 30 percent of youth (ages 10-17) are considered obese.""" ['Children', 'Public Health'] 3 2011-03-24 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Lawrence O'Donnell """Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.""" ['Energy', 'Nuclear', 'Public Safety', 'Pundits'] 5 2011-03-24 Bill Adair Democrat Laura Figueroa Bill Nelson Florida """The entire state of Florida led the nation last year with the most prison inmates committing tax fraud.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Crime', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-03-24 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Fitzgerald Wisconsin "Wisconsin was embroiled in a ""constitutional crisis"" brought on by the Democratic senators fleeing the state for Illinois to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill." ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 2 2011-03-24 Robert Higgs Democrat James McCarty Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government.""" ['Energy', 'Federal Budget', 'Gas Prices', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-03-23 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Glenn Beck Says Allen West helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an Iraqi detainee, then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong. ['Candidate Biography', 'Iraq', 'Pundits'] 3 2011-03-23 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ted Poe Texas The U.S. gives foreign aid to Cuba and Venezuela, even though those countries are our enemies. ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy'] 1 2011-03-23 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Johnny Isakson Georgia """Since President Obama took office, gas prices have gone up 67 percent.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Gas Prices'] 3 2011-03-23 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Leticia Van de Putte Texas """Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children.""" ['Children', 'Consumer Safety'] 5 2011-03-23 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik John Kasich Ohio "Ohio Director of Job Creation ""Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didn't keep them.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-03-22 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Morgan Griffith Virginia """Not even expensive bottled water, like Perrier and Evian, are of good enough quality to pump out of mines in Southwest Virginia, according to the EPA regulation.""" ['Environment'] 2 2011-03-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Ann Coulter New York """There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts you should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.""" ['Nuclear', 'Pundits', 'Science'] 2 2011-03-22 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman John Thrasher Florida "Says taxpayer resources are being used ""to facilitate private political agendas"" through automatic payroll deduction of union dues." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-03-22 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Robin Wright Washington, D.C. 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. ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2011-03-22 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says the state’s budget shortfall is ""not that much different"" than it was in 2003." ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-03-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin """Eleven years ago, the city of Detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today, 53 percent of officers live outside of the city. If we want the tax base of Milwaukee to resemble the tax base of Detroit, this is the way to go.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget', 'Urban'] 4 2011-03-22 Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Hank Johnson Georgia Studies have shown that in the absence of federal reproductive health funds, we are going to see the level of abortion in Georgia increase by about 44 percent. ['Abortion'] 3 2011-03-21 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Ryan Wisconsin """The Congressional Budget Office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward, and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year 2037 because their computer simulation can't conceive of any way in which the U.S. economy can continue.""" ['Economy'] 3 2011-03-21 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years.""" ['Jobs', 'Trade'] 4 2011-03-21 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says a ""rather extraordinary amount of non-classroom employees"" were added by Texas school districts over the last decade." ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-03-21 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Chris Larson Wisconsin "Senate Democrats who left the state for weeks to delay a vote on union bargaining power exercised a ""Wisconsin filibuster"" provided by the state’s constitution." ['State Budget'] 2 2011-03-21 Warren Fiske Jacob Geiger Organizing for America "The GOP budget plan ""would cut nearly a million jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-03-21 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Tobias Read Oregon "Says Oregon is ""near the top or at the top of the list"" when it comes to capital gains tax" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-03-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Steve LaTourette Ohio """If you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector, it's out of whack. The government's growing and the private economy's shrinking.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-03-21 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Peter Lord Richard Ferruccio Rhode Island """What we have now is the most generous, in my opinion, 'good time' bill in the entire United States.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Legal Issues', 'Public Safety', 'States'] 1 2011-03-20 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Marla Stephens Wisconsin "The state of Wisconsin pays plumbers, engineers and other attorneys ""much, much more"" than it pays attorneys to represent poor people." ['Legal Issues', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-03-20 Tim Murphy Democrat Edward Fitzpatrick David Cicilline Rhode Island """When I took office in 2003, we had very little reserves.""" ['City Government'] 2 2011-03-19 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Charles Reed Texas "The Texas Constitution ""still contains Jim Crow provisions about the poll tax and restrictions on women having the right to vote.""" ['Legal Issues'] 1 2011-03-19 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2011-03-18 Bill Adair Robert Farley Anne Hathaway Says the majority of Americans support gay marriage. ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 4 2011-03-18 Warren Fiske Republican Sean Gorman Bob Goodlatte Virginia "The House budget plan proposes ""the largest discretionary spending cut in history.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History'] 4 2011-03-18 John Bartosek None Katie Sanders National Federation of Independent Business-Florida Florida """Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Government Efficiency'] 5 2011-03-18 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Milwaukee Police Association Wisconsin Says it has offered $12 million in savings through 2011 and $184 million in savings over the next 25 years in contract negotiations with the City of Milwaukee. ['City Budget', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-03-18 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says the state’s rainy day fund is ""our insurance policy against a major natural disaster.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-03-18 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Georgia state senators Georgia Say easing restrictions on selling alcohol on Sundays will result in more traffic crashes and fatalities. ['Alcohol'] 1 2011-03-18 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Betty Sutton Ohio """Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes.""" ['Economy', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Tourism'] 4 2011-03-17 John Bartosek Republican Robert Farley Matt Gaetz Florida Says his bill, HB 97, would prevent the use of taxpayer dollars on abortions. ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-03-17 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Jeff Wentworth Texas """We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have"" concealed handgun licenses." ['Guns'] 5 2011-03-17 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Eddie Rodriguez Texas Says Texas colleges and universities may opt to allow guns on campuses. ['Education', 'Guns'] 4 2011-03-16 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Andy Gardiner Florida "A proposed revenue smart cap ""gives Floridians a voice, requiring a 60 percent vote by citizens in order to impose a new tax, fee, license, fine, charge or assessment.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-03-16 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Bill Kristol Washington, D.C. """Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 4 2011-03-16 Robert Higgs Democrat James Ewinger Sherrod Brown Ohio "Says that Republicans ""bragged about how every bill was going to be paid for, right from the beginning"" and that the first vote, the repeal of health care reform, violated that rule." ['Health Care', 'Voting Record'] 4 2011-03-16 W. Gardner Selby Journalist Meghan Ashford-Grooms Gail Collins New York "Gov. Rick Perry ""used $3.2 billion in stimulus dollars for schools to plug other holes in his budget.""" ['Education', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-03-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano John Lewis Georgia Building and running the Atlanta Streetcar is projected to create 1,399 jobs. ['Transportation'] 1 2011-03-16 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Eric Cantor Virginia """Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-03-15 Martha M. Hamilton Columnist Angie Drobnic Holan George Will Maryland "Federal spending is ""all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2011-03-15 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcia Fudge Ohio """There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.""" ['Corporations', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-03-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high"" in 2010." ['Energy', 'History', 'Oil Spill', 'Regulation'] 3 2011-03-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'History'] 4 2011-03-15 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """2008: Unions Spent $400 Million to Elect Obama.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 1 2011-03-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'Trade'] 3 2011-03-15 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Crossroads GPS "In fighting collective bargaining changes, Democrats are trying to ""protect a system that pays unionized government workers 42 percent more than non-union workers.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-03-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal """Georgia still has one of the richest programs in terms of scholarships for students to go to college.""" ['Education'] 5 2011-03-14 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Marion Hammer Florida "The American Academy of Pediatrics ""supports banning guns.""" ['Children', 'Guns'] 4 2011-03-14 Robert Higgs None Stephen Koff Ohio Coal Association Ohio "Says that President Obama said in 2008 that his proposed greenhouse gas regulations ""will bankrupt"" anyone who wants to build a new coal-fired power plant." ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Environment'] 4 2011-03-14 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Fred Upton Michigan "A bill that would halt the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases would help ""stop rising gas prices.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Regulation'] 1 2011-03-14 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Robert Farley Bernie Sanders Vermont """We now work the longest hours of any people around the world.""" ['Labor'] 1 2011-03-14 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Stephen Wise Florida """Seven of the 10"" school districts with the lowest graduation rate for African-American boys in the country are in Florida." ['Education'] 3 2011-03-14 W. Gardner Selby Paul Krugman Says taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average. ['Income', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-03-14 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican M.B. Pell Alan Powell Georgia """Democrats have now become the party of the [Atlanta] metro area and of blacks.""" ['Elections'] 4 2011-03-13 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lee Leffingwell Texas "Says four-year terms for City Council members are ""the norm in most cities of our size.""" ['City Government'] 5 2011-03-13 Tim Murphy Organization C. Eugene Emery Jr. Patti Doyle Rhode Island "At Twin River, ""we're more than competitive"" with nearby casinos in slot machine payouts." ['Economy', 'Gambling'] 4 2011-03-12 Republican W. Gardner Selby Glenn Hegar Texas Texans eat more catfish than residents of all other states combined. ['Agriculture', 'Food Safety'] 1 2011-03-12 Therese Bottomly Democrat Charles Pope Jeff Merkley Oregon Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would immediately lower gasoline prices ['Energy'] 4 2011-03-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Fitzgerald Wisconsin "On the night of the Wisconsin state Senate vote on the budget package, ""a mob showed up and busted down the door and took over the Capitol.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 3 2011-03-11 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Morgan Griffith Virginia """A new ruling by the EPA would force dairy farmers to comply with the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Program when dealing with spilt milk -- the same regulations oil and natural gas producers must follow.""" ['Environment'] 1 2011-03-11 Republican W. Gardner Selby Dan Patrick Texas Says Texas school districts are the fifth largest employers in the world. ['Corporations', 'Education', 'Small Business', 'Workers'] 2 2011-03-11 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Larry Gause "Says Charlotte Nash ""pretends to be a chicken farmer"" in order to get property tax exemptions." ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2011-03-10 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Thad Altman Florida "Says students who receive free or reduced lunch are ""performing just as well"" as students who do not." ['Education'] 1 2011-03-10 John Bartosek Richard Danielson Rose Ferlita "Tampa mayoral opponent Bob Buckhorn ""supported forcing police officers to keep their guns locked in the trunks of their cruisers.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2011-03-10 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen John Kasich Ohio """Our average private sector employee pays 23 percent for their health care. Our average city worker in Ohio pays 9 percent.""" ['Jobs', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-03-10 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Michael Moore """Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.""" ['Economy', 'Poverty', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-03-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mike Huckabee Arkansas "Says it’s a ""statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death.""" ['Children', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Hunger', 'Income', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Marriage', 'Poverty', 'Women', 'Workers'] 2 2011-03-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Santorum Pennsylvania """Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his own words, can be killed.""" ['Abortion'] 0 2011-03-10 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Rick Scott Florida """We know that every 85 visitors create one Florida job.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Tourism'] 5 2011-03-10 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Carol Alvarado Texas Says women who need a sonogram in the eighth to 10th week of pregnancy have to get a transvaginal sonogram. ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 4 2011-03-10 Tim Murphy Organization Peter Lord Direct Action for Rights & Equality Rhode Island """Roughly 25% of RI has a criminal record""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Jobs', 'Labor', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2011-03-09 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Rod Smith Florida "Says Rick Scott's proposed budget ""would lay off 20,000 teachers.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-03-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John McCain Arizona "Says iPads and iPhones ""are built in the United States of America.""" ['Economy', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Trade'] 1 2011-03-09 Robert Higgs Tom Feran National Republican Senatorial Committee "Says Sen. Sherrod Brown admitted ""that his $787 billion stimulus law failed"" and ""after specifically attacking Republicans for wanting to lower Americans' taxes, (he) now claims that his stimulus bill 'didn't do enough' to lower taxes.""" ['Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-03-09 Warren Fiske Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman Virginia Lottery """Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been used for public education in the Commonwealth for kindergarten through 12th grade.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-03-09 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Bloggers "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s ""budget okays disposing of unclaimed pound dogs to university research facilities.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-03-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Libertarian Willoughby Mariano Loren Collins Georgia A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U.S. Constitution. ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 5 2011-03-08 John Bartosek Republican Katie Sanders Rick Scott Florida """I have asked the Division of Emergency Management to report directly to me.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-03-08 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida Says Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s cuts to education are the same as his proposed corporate income tax rate reduction. ['Education', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-03-08 John Bartosek Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Scott Florida "Bing Energy said it decided to move to Florida because of Gov. Rick Scott’s ""plan to eliminate the corporate tax.""" ['Economy', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-03-08 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """I delivered to you a budget that ... cuts taxes by $2 billion.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2011-03-08 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """We ... sold the state airplanes as I had promised.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2011-03-08 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """On my first day in office, I ordered a review of every regulation in the pipeline and every contract exceeding $1 million.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2011-03-08 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Sherrod Brown Ohio """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.""" ['Jobs', 'Labor', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2011-03-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-03-08 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Mike Huebsch Wisconsin Damage by protesters to the Wisconsin state Capitol will cost $7.5 million to repair. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-03-08 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Bob McDonnell Virginia In the past decade, K-12 funding has grown six times faster than the rate of enrollment. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-03-08 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Chain email State employees will have to pay 100 percent of their pensions and health insurance after 2012. ['Health Care', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-03-08 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Wisconsin state and local government workers pay ""$500, $600 or in some cases, $1,000"" per year in union dues." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-03-08 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Andy Brown Texas "Says nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perry’s proposal to ""serve up $10,000 college degrees"" is possible." ['Education'] 1 2011-03-07 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida "Says ""union bosses"" bused protesters to a Central Florida education protest." ['Education', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-03-07 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Anthony Weiner New York """Under the clear letter of the law, (Justice Clarence Thomas) must recuse himself"" from the case challenging the constitutionality of the health care law." ['Ethics', 'Health Care', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2011-03-07 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Anthony Weiner New York "Says Justice Elena Kagan recused herself in ""many cases where she had little role"" as solicitor general, simply because of the appearance of a conflict of interest." ['Legal Issues'] 3 2011-03-07 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "In slashing $1.7 billion from Social Security, ""Rep. Jim Renacci may end up forcing the entire agency to ... shut down for a month, causing seniors to not get their benefits on time, halting claims processing, and forcing new retirees and disabled workers into a backlog.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 2 2011-03-07 Warren Fiske Republican Louis Jacobson Ken Cuccinelli Virginia "The health care bill has ""six years of costs against 10 years of tax revenue.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-03-07 John Bartosek Democrat Trenton Daniel Frederica Wilson Florida """We closed that plant down. It was a $27 million-dollar plant, operating full steam, and we closed it down.""" ['Education', 'Environment'] 5 2011-03-07 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Journalist Ciara O'Rourke Gail Collins New York "Texas ""ranks third in teen pregnancies... and it is No. 1 in repeat teen pregnancies.""" ['Children', 'Health Care', 'Pundits'] 4 2011-03-07 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Sam Adams Oregon Says city of Portland has a one-time $22 million surplus ['Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-03-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials "Georgia legislation on immigration is a ""copycat"" of an Arizona immigration bill." ['Immigration'] 3 2011-03-07 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Travis Rowley Rhode Island """Last year it was discovered that Rhode Island's public employees ranked 4th in average pay, while the private sector ranked 23rd.""" ['Economy', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 3 2011-03-06 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Scott McCown Texas Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident. ['State Budget'] 5 2011-03-06 Tim Murphy Republican Peter Lord Kenneth McKay Rhode Island "Says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: ""Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-03-05 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Ward Armstrong Virginia A telephone company will no longer have to provide landline service to customers if there is an alternative provider, including wireless. ['Regulation'] 5 2011-03-05 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Ward Armstrong Virginia A telecom bill could keep the State Corporation Commission from getting rate-of-return information from electric utilities. ['Regulation'] 1 2011-03-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby Phyllis Schlafly Missouri "Says broken compact fluorescent light bulbs ""allegedly cause migraines and epilepsy attacks.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Environment', 'Public Health'] 1 2011-03-05 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Mark Hass Oregon Says Oregon recyclers can't recycle plastic bags ['Environment'] 3 2011-03-04 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Raymond LaHood Illinois """Thirty-five states have accepted high-speed intercity rail money.""" ['Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-03-04 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan, Tom Kertscher, Dave Umhoefer Progressive Change Campaign Committee "Under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals, ""Money is being taken away from workers, and the tax breaks given to major corporations. """ ['Corporations', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 4 2011-03-04 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Rand Paul Kentucky """The average (public school) teacher in Wisconsin’s making $89,000 a year"" in salary and benefits." ['Education', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-03-04 Greg Borowski Independent Tom Kertscher MacIver Institute Wisconsin "In 2011, ""the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools system will exceed $100,000.""" ['Education', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-03-04 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "As part of efforts to rein in protesters, Republicans in Wisconsin have ""bolted windows inside the Capitol shut.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-03-04 Bill Adair Robert Farley Glenn Beck Says Michelle Obama has 43 people on her staff; Nancy Reagan had just 3. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Pundits'] 0 2011-03-04 John Bridges Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon ""have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2011-03-04 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-03-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Burrell Ellis Georgia "DeKalb County has cut more money from its general fund budget ""than any local government in the Atlanta metro region.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 5 2011-03-03 Greg Borowski Republican Cary Spivak Scott Walker Wisconsin """We've seen local union after local union rush to their school boards, their city councils, their technical school boards and rush through contracts in the past two weeks that had no contributions to the pension and no contribution to health care.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-03-03 Bill Adair Democrat Martha M. Hamilton Betty McCollum Minnesota Says the Army is spending $7 million to sponsor a NASCAR team. ['Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2011-03-03 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Matt Miller California "Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget ""roadmap … doesn't balance the budget until the 2060s and … adds an unthinkable $62 trillion to the national debt between now and then.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2011-03-03 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Brian Moran Virginia "Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2010 ""did not even create enough jobs to keep pace with population growth"" in Virginia." ['Jobs'] 3 2011-03-03 Robert Higgs Democrat James McCarty Sherrod Brown Ohio """For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-03-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jennifer Shilling Wisconsin Says many local governments in Wisconsin already require employees to pay 20 percent, 30 percent or even 40 percent of their health insurance premiums. ['Health Care', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-03-03 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says the state share of Texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009. ['Education'] 3 2011-03-03 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Says the high-speed rail project provides ""short-term jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 4 2011-03-03 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """We’re broke. We don’t have any more money.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-03-03 Tim Murphy Democrat Peter Lord Peter Palumbo Rhode Island """There are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about 100,000 are unaccounted for.""" ['Children', 'Crime'] 2 2011-03-02 John Bartosek Democrat Katie Sanders Corrine Brown Florida "The high-speed rail project would create ""60,000-plus jobs for Floridians.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-03-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Deval Patrick Massachusetts "The 2006 Massachusetts health care law has ""added (only) about 1 percent to our state budget.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-03-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Huckabee Arkansas Says Barack Obama grew up in Kenya. ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 1 2011-03-02 Robert Higgs Republican JoEllen Corrigan, Tom Feran Jay Hottinger Ohio "Says Wendy’s founder ""Dave Thomas left the state literally on his deathbed to avoid the estate tax.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2011-03-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Scott Walker Wisconsin """Most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-03-02 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Tim Kaine Virginia """We’ve now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-03-02 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Liberal Blogger "Under a proposed Georgia law, ""women who miscarry could become felons.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2011-03-01 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Chain email "Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army ""put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Military'] 0 2011-03-01 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says Tri-Rail shows the potential problems with investing in high-speed rail. ['State Budget', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-03-01 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields Tom Niehaus Ohio """Unfortunately we have documented instances where people defecated in the (Statehouse) building.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-03-01 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Eddie Lucio, Jr. Texas """A miscarriage is considered an abortion.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2011-02-28 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Bill O'Reilly """The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do.""" ['Economy', 'Labor', 'Pundits', 'Workers'] 4 2011-02-28 Warren Fiske, Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley George Allen Virginia "The stimulus bill ""promised to keep unemployment under 8%.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-02-28 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jim Renacci Ohio "Says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost ""20 or 40 million"" dollars." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-02-28 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Jim DeMint South Carolina """From 2003 to 2006, 'Sesame Street' made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales.""" ['Children', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-02-28 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger George Allen Virginia """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." ['Jobs'] 5 2011-02-28 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Cliff Stearns Florida """The cost for renovating the headquarters of the U.N. has doubled from the original estimate.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2011-02-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Chuck Norris Texas """Some of our state's educational administrators joined the feds in seeking to mandate Arabic classes for Texas children.""" ['Education'] 2 2011-02-28 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Willoughby Mariano Don Balfour An illegal immigrant who gains admission at a public college takes class space away from students who are legal residents. ['Education', 'Immigration'] 4 2011-02-27 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Leo Berman Texas "Says the Hawaii governor ""can’t find anything that says (President Barack Obama) was born in Hawaii.""" ['Elections', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 1 2011-02-27 Tim Murphy Democrat Peter Lord Gina Raimondo Rhode Island The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions. ['Legal Issues', 'Pensions', 'Public Service', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-26 Warren Fiske Democrat Sean Gorman Tim Kaine Virginia "Under former President George W. Bush’s administration ""while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Economy', 'Jobs', 'Labor'] 4 2011-02-26 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Mark Hass Oregon """Twelve percent of the garbage collected in those SOLV cleanups, by volume, is plastic bags.""" ['Environment'] 4 2011-02-26 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Jeff Wentworth Texas """We don’t have bars on campus in Texas. It’s against the law... no alcohol allowed.""" ['Alcohol', 'Education', 'Guns'] 0 2011-02-25 Tom Kertscher Democrat Tom Kertscher Ed Garvey Wisconsin "Claims Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said: ""It is necessary to eliminate unions in order to balance future budgets.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-25 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "If public employees don’t pay more for benefits starting April 1, 2011, ""the equivalent"" is 1,500 state employee layoffs by June 30, 2011 and 10,000 to 12,000 state and local government employee layoffs in the next two years." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-02-25 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says Florida's pension plan faces the same long-term funding problems as Social Security. ['Retirement', 'Social Security', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-02-25 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Mark Pocan Wisconsin "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s estimate of a $3.6 billion state budget deficit is ""manufactured"" and a ""bogus figure.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-25 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Christopher Peace Virginia "Tim Kaine wants to thwart ""right-to-work reform measures in Midwest battleground states.""" ['Labor'] 1 2011-02-25 Robert Higgs Republican Jane Kahoun, Mark Naymik John Kasich Ohio """President Obama came to Ohio 12 times to try to defeat me and guess what? He didn't win.""" ['Elections'] 2 2011-02-25 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Republican Eric Stirgus Rob Woodall Georgia "One half of federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money ""borrowed from a foreign land.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-02-25 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Michael Sullivan Texas """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.""" ['Deficit'] 5 2011-02-25 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island The richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker ['Income', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-02-24 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """The things I said (during the prank call by a blogger posing as GOP contributor David Koch) are the things I’ve said publicly all along"" about the Wisconsin budget debate." ['Candidate Biography', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-24 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "If there’s a government shutdown, ""people don’t get their Social Security checks.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 2 2011-02-24 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman J.D. Alexander Florida "Gov. Rick Scott's sale of the state planes was ""not proper.""" ['Legal Issues', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-24 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin """Every (Wisconsin) legislator that votes for this bill"" will have to ""give up the same amount of pay"" as other state employees." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Ohio Democratic Party Ohio """FACT: the ‘special assistant’ in @johnkasich's office makes over three times more than an average #OH firefighter""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Public Service', 'State Budget', 'Workers'] 4 2011-02-23 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin "When it comes to protesters in Madison, ""almost all"" are now from outside of Wisconsin." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-23 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin The five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all rank below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranks 2nd. ['Education', 'Labor', 'Workers'] 1 2011-02-23 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "In 2009, Democratic Wisconsin state senators ""rammed through a billion-dollar tax hike in 24 hours with no public input.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-02-23 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Eric Bolling In Wisconsin, teachers make $89,000 in salary and benefits, compared to $48,000 for all other workers in the United States. ['Education', 'Labor', 'Pundits'] 2 2011-02-23 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Bill Posey Florida """The president promised to close the space gap, but he now seems intent on repeating the events that created the space gap in the first place -- putting in place a new rocket design and then trying to underfund the effort...""" ['Science'] 4 2011-02-23 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Garnet Coleman Texas "Says that in some Texas communities, ""our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-02-23 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet None Willoughby Mariano David Raynor Georgia "A federal system that verifies employees are authorized to work in the U.S. is inaccurate ""anywhere from 50 percent all the way up to in excess of 80"" percent of the time." ['Immigration'] 3 2011-02-22 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """I campaigned on (the proposals in the budget repair bill for Wisconsin) all throughout the election. Anybody who says they are shocked on this has been asleep for the past two years.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-22 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. """The (Wisconsin) governor has proposed tax giveaways to corporations.""" ['Corporations', 'Pundits', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-02-22 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida Department of Corrections worker Florida """State employees haven't received a raise in five or six years.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2011-02-22 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The president’s proposed budget ""will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2011-02-22 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Reince Priebus Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in his budget repair bill ""is showing that no stone goes unturned as he asks everyone to tighten their belts.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-02-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Lena Taylor Wisconsin "Hitler ""abolished unions and that’s what"" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is ""doing today.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-02-22 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Virginia "The House of Delegates budget bill ""cuts $50 million from education.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jon Erpenbach Wisconsin "When it comes to urgency on passing a budget repair bill, ""there’s no rush on this thing"" because the fiscal year doesn’t end until June 30, 2011." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-02-22 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Senatorial Committee "Since Sherrod Brown and the Democrats ""rammed"" the economic stimulus bill through, ""Ohio's unemployment rate has risen to 9.6 percent, above the national average.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-02-22 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Phil King Texas Says families now pay out 40 percent of their income to taxes. ['Income', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-02-22 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Organization Eric Stirgus Distilled Spirits Council of the United States Washington, D.C. Sunday liquor sales could generate $3.4 million to $4.8 million a year in additional sales tax revenue for Georgia. ['Alcohol'] 4 2011-02-21 Martha M. Hamilton Columnist Robert Farley George Will Maryland "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." ['Labor', 'Pundits', 'State Budget', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2011-02-21 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. """The  firefighters, the policemen and others who supported (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker) in his election bid ... don't have to worry about their collective bargaining rights.""" ['Pundits', 'State Budget', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 3 2011-02-21 John Bartosek, Doug Bennett Lee Logan Tom Scott "A 2005 gay pride vote ""had nothing to do with discrimination.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 1 2011-02-21 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Republican Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "At protests in Wisconsin against proposed collective bargaining changes, ""phony sick notes (were) passed out to excuse striking union members.""" ['Health Care', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-02-21 Robert Higgs Republican James McCarty William G. Batchelder Ohio """75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Small Business'] 4 2011-02-21 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Dan Flynn Texas """Our children do not spend any time in school learning about our own U.S. Constitution.""" ['Education'] 0 2011-02-21 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Lynn Westmoreland The federal government regulates the holes in Swiss cheese. ['Food Safety', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2011-02-20 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says some in Congress are trying ""to create a separate government for those with a drop of Native Hawaiian blood.""" ['Diversity', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2011-02-20 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Susan Sosnowski Rhode Island """Lyme disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States, and Rhode Island has the second-highest incidence of this disease in the country.""" ['Public Health', 'Public Safety'] 3 2011-02-19 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Bob McDonnell Virginia "Road construction bids ""are coming in at the lowest in the modern era.""" ['Infrastructure', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-02-19 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lloyd Doggett Texas """In Austin, I’ve got half-a-dozen or more schools on a list to be closed — one of which I presented a federal blue-ribbon award to for excellence. And several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-02-19 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Wesley Smith Oregon "Oregon Health Plan rations ""covered procedures under certain circumstances""" ['Health Care'] 3 2011-02-18 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says under his budget-repair bill, ""collective bargaining is fully intact.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-02-18 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Paul Ryan Wisconsin "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s move to limit collective bargaining rights has led to ""riots"" at the Capitol -- ""It's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-02-18 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Rachel Maddow """Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year.""" ['Labor', 'Pundits', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-18 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer Club for Growth "When it comes to taking cuts in tough budget times, Wisconsin ""state workers haven’t had to sacrifice.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-02-18 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota "The government will ""go out and buy my breast pump for my babies.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes', 'Women'] 1 2011-02-18 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Dan Patrick Texas """We have 80,000 abortions in Texas every year.""" ['Abortion', 'Corrections and Updates'] 5 2011-02-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Federation for American Immigration Reform Illegal immigration costs Georgia $2.4 billion a year ['Immigration'] 3 2011-02-18 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Shawn Lindsay Oregon Says John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget for upcoming biennium represents 8 percent increase over last ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-02-18 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio """One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 5 2011-02-18 Tim Murphy Peter Lord Chain email Welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima ['Economy', 'Poverty', 'Urban'] 0 2011-02-17 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman J.D. Alexander Florida """The Constitution doesn't allow the governor to not-spend appropriations funds.""" ['Ethics', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-02-17 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky "The federal government ""can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Military', 'Social Security'] 5 2011-02-17 Bill Adair Republican Lucas Graves Mitch Daniels Indiana """Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-02-17 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Ed Schultz "Under changes being debated, state employees in Wisconsin ""who earn $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year might have 20 percent of their income just disappear overnight.""" ['Labor', 'Pundits', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-17 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Alberta Darling Wisconsin "Limiting labor negotiations to only wages is ""how it is for the most part in the private sector.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-17 Greg Borowski Dave Umhoefer AFL-CIO "For thousands of public employees, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill would ""take away any say they have in the workplace, and eliminate their union.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-02-17 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Joe Negron Florida """For the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget, and I think that context is important.""" ['Florida', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-02-17 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Scott Rigell Virginia "The United states is ""borrowing more than 40 cents of every dollar we spend.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 5 2011-02-17 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Michelle Rhee "Americans, in the last 30 years, ""have more than doubled the amount of money we are spending per child (on education) … and the results have gotten worse, not better.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-02-17 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio Says there are Ohio Turnpike workers getting paid $66,000 a year to collect tolls that machines might collect. ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-02-17 W. Gardner Selby Talk show host Whoopi Goldberg New York "In Texas, ""sexting is a felony sex offense for teenagers — that can mean up to 10 years in prison.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Technology'] 3 2011-02-16 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois The White House budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-02-16 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually. Keep in mind that Amtrak's Acela train in Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 million riders in 2010.""" ['State Budget', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2011-02-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "The Obama administration ""actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2011-02-16 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Progressive Change Campaign Committee "Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ""has threatened to call out the National Guard if workers protest against"" changes to bargaining laws." ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-02-16 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Jamie Radtke Virginia """Senator Webb was a reliable vote for President Obama and Senator Harry Reid.""" ['Voting Record'] 5 2011-02-16 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan National Rifle Association """Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 1 2011-02-16 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton Jim Jordan Ohio """Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Trade'] 3 2011-02-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Libertarian Party of Georgia "A proposed immigration bill will ""bankrupt Georgia"" if passed." ['Immigration'] 1 2011-02-16 Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom DeLay Texas Says Travis County, home to Austin, is the most liberal county in the United States. ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 0 2011-02-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Workers'] 1 2011-02-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Under the White House’s budget proposal, ""we will not be adding more to the national debt"" by the middle of the decade." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-02-15 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin """The alternative"" to higher state worker pension and health care payments ""is to look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to 200,000 children who would be bumped off Medicaid-related programs.""" ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-15 Bill Adair Lucas Graves Glenn Beck "The Muslim Brotherhood has ""openly stated they want to declare war on Israel.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Israel', 'Pundits', 'Terrorism'] 1 2011-02-15 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Milele Coggs Wisconsin """In its current state, this bill is the most restrictive voter ID legislation in the nation.""" ['Elections'] 5 2011-02-15 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Herman Cain Georgia "The United States is ""the only developed country in the world that has not cut its corporate tax rate.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-02-15 W. Gardner Selby Republican Rick Perry Texas """Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state.""" ['Jobs'] 5 2011-02-15 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Matt Lundy Ohio """There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-02-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Donald Trump New York """The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Education', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2011-02-14 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Doonesbury "Since Sept. 11, 2001, ""270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.""" ['Guns', 'Pundits'] 4 2011-02-14 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Cenk Uygur Orrin Hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate. ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 5 2011-02-14 John Bartosek Republican Robert Farley, Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "The federal health care law is ""probably the biggest tax increase ever in the history of our country.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-02-14 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Jim Webb Virginia "The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing ""the top off the price of oil.""" ['Energy'] 2 2011-02-14 Greg Borowski, Steve Schultze Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele "Says Milwaukee County elected officials drive around in luxury cars ""on your dime.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-02-14 None W. Gardner Selby Get EQUAL Texas Texas """Between Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas over 8,000 same-sex couples are raising children.""" ['Children', 'Civil Rights', 'Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 3 2011-02-14 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Dan Lucas Oregon """Governor’s proposed budget raids K-12 school funds to grow DHS again.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-02-13 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Suder Wisconsin "Four state Assembly Democrats ""scored a death blow to northeast Wisconsin’s economy"" by killing hundreds of jobs at a potential Bass Pro Shops near Green Bay." ['Environment', 'Jobs'] 0 2011-02-13 None W. Gardner Selby Janet Mitchell Texas "Says 25 percent of Austin's public school buildings are ""underutilized.""" ['Education'] 3 2011-02-13 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Mark Daniels Oregon A 5-cent charge on paper bags is a tax. ['Environment', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-02-13 Tim Murphy Organization C. Eugene Emery Jr., Peter Lord Ocean State Policy Research Institute Rhode Island """The most significant driver of out-migration [from Rhode Island] is the estate tax.""" ['Economy', 'State Budget', 'States', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-02-12 John Bartosek, Doug Bennett Richard Danielson Dick Greco """Financed the largest parking expansion program without a rate increase.""" ['City Budget'] 2 2011-02-12 W. Gardner Selby Ciara O'Rourke John Oliver "Joe Straus is the ""first Jewish speaker of the"" Texas House." ['Religion'] 4 2011-02-12 Therese Bottomly Democrat Charles Pope Peter DeFazio Oregon Oregon families pay an extra $1,400 a year on higher insurance premiums to cover those who do not have insurance. ['Health Care'] 4 2011-02-11 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In the month of January, Canada created more new jobs than we did.""" ['Economy', 'Workers'] 5 2011-02-11 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada.""" ['Economy', 'Workers'] 1 2011-02-11 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware """If you shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, it's estimated you'd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic.""" ['Census', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-02-11 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Dwight Jones Virginia """Overall we currently have $981 million, almost a billion dollars in active development projects right here in the City of Richmond.""" ['Economy'] 2 2011-02-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Stone Wisconsin """I’m the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'County Budget', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Michelle Obama Illinois More than one-quarter of America’s young adults are too fat to serve in the U.S. military ['Military'] 5 2011-02-11 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jay Hottinger Ohio "Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax, and it has ""the lowest threshold in the nation.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-02-10 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets.""" ['Corporations', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-02-10 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Says his tax and fee cuts will save households ""$540 over two years.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-02-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jim Sullivan Wisconsin "When the Milwaukee County mental health facility is full, ""cops sit out there in their squad cars with a mentally ill patient""  and sometimes ""spend an entire shift out there doing that.""" ['County Budget', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-02-10 Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom DeLay Texas Says the foreman of the jury that convicted him was a Greenpeace activist. ['Bipartisanship', 'Criminal Justice', 'Environment'] 4 2011-02-10 Tim Murphy Organization Peter Lord National Organization for Marriage Rhode Island """Massachusetts public schools teach kids as young as kindergartners about gay marriage.""" ['Families', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage', 'Religion'] 1 2011-02-09 Bill Adair Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson Rachel Maddow "Fox News ""said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-02-09 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Chain email "Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. ""land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Trade'] 0 2011-02-09 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Pete Gallego Texas """In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... they don’t have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2011-02-09 Greg Borowski Steve Schultze, Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele Property tax exemptions can be granted to small businesses that move into Milwaukee County. ['Jobs', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-02-09 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Johnny Isakson Georgia If you tried to pay out $1 trillion by handing it out at $1 per second, it would take more than 31,000 years. ['Federal Budget'] 5 2011-02-09 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Robert Schoenberger Jim Renacci Ohio """For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . .""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2011-02-08 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Bill O'Reilly "The majority of people in polls do ""not support Obamacare.""" ['Corrections and Updates', 'Health Care', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'Pundits'] 3 2011-02-08 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Bill O'Reilly Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him. ['Bush Administration', 'Pundits'] 5 2011-02-08 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected ""the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.""" ['Health Care', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2011-02-08 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says he never said he would keep education funding the same. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-02-08 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Bill Posey Florida """Before this law was passed, Americans were told they could keep their current health care plans. After it became law, the administration issued regulations stating nearly half of Americans would lose their current plan.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2011-02-08 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Most state employees could pay twice as much toward their health care premiums and it would still be half the national average ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-07 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Americans Against Food Taxes Washington, D.C. """Some politicians … want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2011-02-07 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I lowered taxes over the last two years.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-02-07 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I didn't raise taxes once.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2011-02-07 Warren Fiske Independent Jacob Geiger Joe Morrissey Virginia "The military has spent $500 million enforcing the ""Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell"" policy regarding gays and lesbians in the military." ['Military'] 4 2011-02-07 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Lee Holloway Wisconsin "The city building code violations on my properties only involve exterior issues; ""within the households, it’s fine.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Housing'] 0 2011-02-07 Robert Higgs, Jane Kahoun Republican Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio "Says an EPA permit ""languished"" under Strickland but his new EPA director got it done in two days." ['Environment', 'Government Efficiency'] 2 2011-02-07 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Vance Smith Georgia Georgia has some of the best maintained roads in America. ['Transportation'] 5 2011-02-07 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Dave Hunt Oregon "Says ""every school will be negatively impacted"" if Education Stability Fund is not tapped." ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-02-07 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ron Paul Texas """The last Christians are about to leave"" Iraq." ['Iraq', 'Religion'] 0 2011-02-06 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin """United States students are achieving at number 25 out of 29 developing countries when it comes to science and math.""" ['Education'] 1 2011-02-06 Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Sullivan Texas Says the Texas Forest Service planted 6,000 trees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before the Super Bowl for unknown reasons at an unknown cost. ['Environment'] 3 2011-02-06 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Terry Gorman Rhode Island """Illegal aliens cost the state of Rhode Island $400 million a year.""" ['Census', 'Crime', 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Immigration', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 0 2011-02-05 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik William G. Batchelder Ohio "Says getting ex-cons to successfully return to society is important ""so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism, which is a big problem in the penitentiary today – in the 70 to 80 percent range.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-02-05 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Leticia Van de Putte Texas """Ten retired nuns were barred from voting in the 2008 Indiana Democratic primary.""" ['Elections'] 3 2011-02-05 Therese Bottomly Democrat Charles Pope Ron Wyden Oregon Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. It costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually. ['Taxes'] 5 2011-02-04 Bill Adair Robert Farley Glenn Beck Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. ['Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Pundits', 'Religion', 'Terrorism'] 3 2011-02-04 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rand Paul Kentucky "Israel's per capita income ""is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Israel'] 5 2011-02-04 Warren Fiske Jacob Geiger Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Congressman Robert Hurt has a plan to cut education by 40 percent. ['Education', 'Federal Budget', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-02-04 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Ross Douthat "Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, ""Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Pundits'] 5 2011-02-04 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Adam Putnam Florida """All the money the Department of Citrus has is paid for by the citrus growers. You don't save dollars by eliminating the Department of Citrus.""" ['Agriculture', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-02-04 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Jamie Radtke Virginia Federal Reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year. ['Agriculture', 'Energy', 'Hunger'] 2 2011-02-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jim Sullivan Wisconsin """We currently have one guy who is in charge of painting the entire Milwaukee County parks system.""" ['County Budget', 'Health Care'] 3 2011-02-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Lorraine Fende Ohio "Says that in Ohio ""right now, you could be 8½ months pregnant and have an abortion for no reason.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2011-02-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Willoughby Mariano General Beauregard Lee Georgia Says he predicts the weather better than Punxsutawney Phil. ['Weather'] 4 2011-02-03 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada "Nevada will be ""energy independent within the immediate future.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2011-02-03 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Steve Moore "In the 1980s, ""The lowest income people had the biggest gains.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Income', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-02-03 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Rachel Maddow """From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent"" while ""the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Income', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-02-03 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Ron Saunders Florida """The two worst counties for (Medicaid) fraud in the country -- not state -- are Dade and Broward county.""" ['Crime', 'Health Care'] 4 2011-02-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Blake Farenthold Texas """Despite claims that you can 'keep the health care plan you like,' the Obama Administration has predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan.""" ['Health Care', 'Workers'] 1 2011-02-02 John Bartosek Republican Trenton Daniel David Rivera Florida """In the past, President Obama has refused to meet with representatives from Cuban exile organizations.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2011-02-02 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Bill Janis Virginia """The New START treaty was passed despite significant concerns among some people in the State and Defense Departments.""" ['Military', 'Nuclear'] 2 2011-02-02 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Wisconsin employers have repeatedly said in surveys that our anti-business litigation climate is one of the most important factors affecting their expansion decisions. ['Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Small Business'] 1 2011-02-02 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren John Kitzhaber Oregon "Says his state budget will ""provide an increase in state funding for the 2011-12 school year.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-02-02 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mike Villarreal Texas Says that over the last decade, the state's population grew three times faster than the Texas state tax system. ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-02-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Chris Cummiskey Georgia Georgia is the second-fastest growing state for international tourists. ['Tourism'] 5 2011-02-02 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton, Angie Drobnic Holan Jim Renacci Ohio "Says there are ""a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go in place"" as a result of health care reform." ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2011-02-01 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Jason Brodeur Florida Says gun ownership information could be recorded and collected by the federal government and insurance companies as part of the federal health care law. ['Guns', 'Health Care', 'Privacy'] 1 2011-02-01 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Mark Warner Virginia The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes. ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-02-01 Greg Borowski Organization Tom Kertscher One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin """Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled state legislature have added over $140 million in new special interest spending""" ['Health Care', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 0 2011-02-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Paul Broun Georgia President Barack Obama supports immigration amnesty. ['Immigration'] 3 2011-02-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas Says there have been 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade was decided. ['Abortion'] 5 2011-02-01 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Says the United States does not ""trade as much as other developed nations.""" ['Economy', 'Trade'] 5 2011-01-31 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Sameh Shoukry "In the past 20 years, Egypt has made ""great strides"" in political and democratic reform." ['Foreign Policy', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2011-01-31 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Veterans can now download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse.""" ['Health Care', 'Technology', 'Veterans'] 2 2011-01-31 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Paul Broun Georgia Says government is a barrier to innovation and development. ['Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Regulation', 'Science', 'Technology'] 1 2011-01-31 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Wendy Davis Texas Says Texas ranks 44th nationally in education funding per pupil. ['Education'] 4 2011-01-31 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Stone Wisconsin Regulations on developers have thwarted construction on county-owned land in Milwaukee’s downtown Park East corridor. ['Candidate Biography', 'County Budget', 'State Budget'] 2 2011-01-31 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Hank Johnson Georgia """The economy we preside over today is better than the one we inherited.""" ['Economy'] 2 2011-01-31 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Oregon Senate Republicans (The Leadership Fund) Oregon In September, the Department of Business and Consumer Services enacted a sudden 39% workers' compensation premium assessment by rule with little notice to the public. ['Labor', 'Workers'] 2 2011-01-30 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Lee Holloway Wisconsin "Mitchell International Airport is the ""the third busiest airport in the world and the number one busiest in the country.""" ['Transportation'] 1 2011-01-30 Tim Murphy Democrat Peter Lord Peter Kilmartin Rhode Island "Secure Communities ""has a proven track record of enhancing public safety by focusing on violent offenders and those that pose a threat to our communities and our national security.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 3 2011-01-29 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Suzanne Devlin Oregon The Republican Party raffled off an AR-15 assault rifle at the 2010 Oregon State Fair. ['Guns'] 4 2011-01-29 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas """Last year, out of the 500,000 (in) population growth we had in the state of Texas, about 250,000 of the 500,000 came to Texas... from the other 49 states.""" ['Economy', 'Immigration'] 3 2011-01-28 John Bartosek, Doug Bennett Lee Logan Ed Turanchik """No one in the private sector gets unlimited accruals of vacation and sick leave.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Public Service', 'Retirement'] 3 2011-01-28 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky "Says President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he ""now is against earmarks.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2011-01-28 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Ken Cuccinelli Virginia """[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.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Transportation'] 5 2011-01-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Americans For Tax Reform "Recommendations for a major tax overhaul for Georgia are an ""overall tax hike.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2011-01-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican W. Gardner Selby Greg Abbott Texas "There have been ""at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration', 'Public Safety'] 5 2011-01-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio """Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation'] 1 2011-01-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Kent Conrad North Dakota """We're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend.""" ['Federal Budget', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2011-01-27 John Bartosek Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Kent Conrad North Dakota """The American people say, don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense. That's 84 percent of the federal budget.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Military', 'Social Security', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-01-27 John Bartosek Republican Craig Pittman, Aaron Sharockman Dennis Jones Florida Says required state septic inspections would cost septic tank owners $100 to $150 every five years. ['Environment'] 3 2011-01-27 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin """Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies, an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2011-01-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Paul Ryan Wisconsin "The health care law ""is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 2 2011-01-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History'] 3 2011-01-27 John Bartosek Republican Trenton Daniel Jeff Atwater Florida """Of the top five cities for staged automobile accidents, three are in Florida. … We rank No. 1 in the country in staged auto accidents.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Crime'] 4 2011-01-27 Greg Borowski, Steve Schultze Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele "Says he ""helped lead an outside audit that’ll save (Milwaukee County) taxpayers over $200 million.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-01-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican W. Gardner Selby Michele Bachmann Minnesota "The federal government ""now tells us which light bulbs to buy.""" ['Energy', 'Regulation'] 2 2011-01-26 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater.""" ['Environment', 'Government Efficiency', 'Water'] 4 2011-01-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota "The federal government ""may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-01-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2011-01-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Cory Mason Wisconsin """Republican (small business tax cut) bill spends $80 million for better Google searches, not job creation""" ['Small Business', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-01-26 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall William G. Batchelder Ohio "Says a ""Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2011-01-26 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mario Gallegos Texas Says that 98,184 Texans are now driving with temporary driver’s licenses lacking their photos. ['Crime', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2011-01-25 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson, Stephen Koff Paul Ryan Wisconsin """The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-01-25 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The United States has ""one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Taxes'] 5 2011-01-25 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """We are living with a legacy of deficit-spending that began almost a decade ago.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2011-01-25 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """As many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high school.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-01-25 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 5 2011-01-25 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Dean Cannon Florida """The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.""" ['Crime', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2011-01-25 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Joe Wilkinson Georgia A national organization says Georgia has one of America’s toughest ethics laws. ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics'] 1 2011-01-24 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Matthew Dowd Texas "Poll results from the past 35 years show that State of the Union speeches ""do not move"" presidential approval numbers." ['History', 'Polls and Public Opinion', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2011-01-24 John Bartosek Amy Sherman National Rifle Association "More people die from ""medical misadventures"" than firearm accidents nationally and in Florida." ['Guns', 'Health Care'] 4 2011-01-24 W. Gardner Selby Paul Krugman "Texas leads ""the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2011-01-24 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Lee Holloway Wisconsin """We’ve saved over $100 million of (health care) costs"" in Milwaukee County. ""I did that.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2011-01-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Dennis Kucinich Ohio Says the Defense Department shrink-wrapped $10.8 billion in American money, loaded it on 175 pallets and put it on a transport plane to Iraq where they passed out $100 bills and no one has any receipts. ['Government Efficiency', 'Iraq'] 2 2011-01-23 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Jamie Radtke Virginia George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16,400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate. ['Federal Budget'] 5 2011-01-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Lamar Smith Texas """Despite the administration telling us (health care reform) was going to reduce health care costs, they now acknowledge it's going to dramatically increase health care costs.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2011-01-23 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Victoria Taft Oregon "Says a Portland school gives Muslim students ""their own school provided prayer room, prayer rugs,"" and lets them ""out of class five times a day to pray to Allah.""" ['Religion'] 0 2011-01-23 Tim Murphy Democrat Peter Lord Jack Reed Rhode Island """New England already has access to ample supplies of natural gas.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2011-01-22 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Jefferson Smith Oregon A test last month at the MAX station at 162nd Avenue and East Burnside saw crime down 41 percent compared with December 2009 ['Crime', 'Transportation'] 4 2011-01-22 Warren Fiske Republican Jacob Geiger Bob McDonnell Virginia """It is estimated that every $100 million spent on construction generates 3,000 new jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Transportation'] 2 2011-01-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says the first word spoken from the moon was ""Houston.""" ['Space'] 1 2011-01-21 John Bartosek None Lee Logan Bob Buckhorn Florida """There was no panhandling when I left office.""" ['Crime', 'Poverty'] 1 2011-01-21 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Anthony Weiner New York The health care law includes tort reform. ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2011-01-21 Warren Fiske Democrat Jacob Geiger Brian Moran Virginia "The governor has made a ""commitment to billions of dollars in debt and new spending without any explanation of how he plans to pay that money back.""" ['Transportation'] 0 2011-01-21 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Mike Pence Indiana "The financial regulatory bill ""will kill jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation'] 2 2011-01-21 W. Gardner Selby Paul Krugman "Says that ""data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities suggest that the Texas budget gap is worse than New York’s, about as bad as California’s, but not quite up to New Jersey levels.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2011-01-21 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Chain email Gov. Scott Walker hired convicted Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget. ['Labor', 'State Budget'] 0 2011-01-21 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal "The impact of the 2010 federal health care legislation will be ""huge"" on Georgia." ['Health Care'] 4 2011-01-21 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran Jay Hottinger Ohio """Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death.""" ['History', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-01-20 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Eric Cantor Virginia "The health care law is ""job killing.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-01-20 Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Burgess Texas "Says 2010 was the ""worst year ever for America's doctors"" reimbursed by Medicare." ['Health Care'] 1 2011-01-20 John Bartosek Republican Louis Jacobson Steve Southerland Florida """92 percent"" of President Barack Obama's administration has ""never worked outside government.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2011-01-20 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin """We had a debate on whether ‘ObamaCare’ was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-01-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "Under federal law, Jared Loughner ""would not have been able to buy a gun"" had he been identified as mentally ill." ['Guns'] 4 2011-01-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson Chris Van Hollen Maryland "Between 2000 and 2006,  ""health insurance company profits quadrupled.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2011-01-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson Chris Van Hollen Maryland """Between the year 2000 and 2006, (insurance) premiums in this country doubled.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2011-01-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Jack Kingston Georgia "The nation's food supply is ""99.99 percent safe.""" ['Food Safety'] 2 2011-01-19 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says he’s the first Aggie governor of Texas. ['Education'] 5 2011-01-19 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Laurence Ehrhardt Rhode Island "If the Stamp Farm wind turbine is built, the ""health risk of 'flicker' impact created by shadows of blades of turbines poses real and significant health risks, particularly seizures.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2011-01-18 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Newsmax Florida """The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Transparency'] 4 2011-01-18 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin In Wisconsin, 98 percent of all small businesses will qualify for income-tax relief under my plan, freeing them to expand and create jobs. ['Small Business', 'Taxes'] 1 2011-01-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Phil Gingrey Georgia "Under current U.S. immigration policy, ""literally one person with a green card"" can, in the extreme, bring in more than 270 of his relatives." ['Immigration'] 1 2011-01-18 Tom Feran Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for health care. ['Health Care'] 4 2011-01-17 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before.""" ['Afghanistan'] 5 2011-01-17 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus John Eaves Georgia """This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years.""" ['Weather'] 5 2011-01-17 Therese Bottomly Republican Charles Pope Greg Walden Oregon """The incoming Republican freshman class – well, it’s no ordinary group: nearly half of its roughly 80 members have never served in elective office before.""" ['Public Service'] 2 2011-01-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Raging Elephants Texas """Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican!""" ['Bipartisanship', 'History'] 1 2011-01-17 Robert Higgs None Stephen Koff Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans Ohio Says Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is hypocritical for challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law. ['Health Care', 'Voting Record'] 1 2011-01-16 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Glenn Grothman Wisconsin """Recent studies have confirmed that any academic benefits of government funded preschool disappear by the fourth grade.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2011-01-16 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Robert Flanders Rhode Island """Every dropout costs us $72,000 for the life of that person.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-01-15 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Eric Cantor Virginia "The health care reform law ""offset[s] 6 years of benefits with 10 years of tax increases.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2011-01-15 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Lars Larson Oregon "TriMet is ""spending 4.2 million in fed funds to save $168K per year.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 4 2011-01-15 W. Gardner Selby Republican Todd Staples Texas """On average, Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Compare that to folks in Mexico, who spend 22 percent, China, 28 percent and Russia, 37 percent.""" ['Agriculture', 'China', 'Economy'] 4 2011-01-14 Warren Fiske Republican Bob McDonnell Virginia Virginia ranked 35th in job creation in 2009 under Gov. Tim Kaine, and moved up to third for 2010, while McDonnell has been in office. ['Jobs'] 3 2011-01-14 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin "Says 15,000 IRS employees ""have to be added to administer ‘ObamaCare’ and look at the tax implications.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2011-01-14 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Mike Haridopolos Florida """Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 5 2011-01-13 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Jeb Bush Florida """A record number of Hispanics were elected to the U.S House of Representatives...""" ['Diversity', 'Elections'] 4 2011-01-13 Bill Adair None Robert Farley Michelle Malkin Colorado "The White House ""branded"" the memorial service for the Tucson shootings with a ""Together We Thrive"" logo and slogan." ['Ethics', 'Pundits'] 1 2011-01-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Frank Lautenberg New Jersey """When we look at the number of murders in the United States (in) 2009, we had 9,500 people murdered. When we look around the world, we see ... large countries, the U.K., Germany, Japan had 200 or less killed in a year.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns'] 4 2011-01-13 Greg Borowski, Steve Schultze Dave Umhoefer Chris Abele """I have fought for our shared values without being an ideologue or a partisan""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2011-01-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska Says she condemned violence at a campaign stop in Arizona in March. ['Elections'] 5 2011-01-12 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Robert Hagan Ohio "Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million ""for the year"" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 3 2011-01-12 Republican W. Gardner Selby Talmadge Heflin Texas "Says the claims that Texas faces a $27 billion shortfall ""are flat-out false.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2011-01-11 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida """We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education.""" ['Education', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-01-11 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Members of Congress and their families and staff are exempt from repaying student loans. ['Congressional Rules', 'Education'] 0 2011-01-11 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Pierre Thomas """Saturday's shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died.""" ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Guns', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2011-01-11 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jim Doyle Wisconsin "Says he ""had to impose tougher cost controls on state employees than"" any previous Wisconsin governor." ['Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-01-11 Elizabeth Miniet None Jim Tharpe New Georgia Encyclopedia Georgia "Georgia lawmakers fuel up for the session by feasting on ""wild"" hogs." ['Agriculture'] 5 2011-01-11 None W. Gardner Selby Heidi Group Texas """Following the 2009 session,"" Texas House Speaker Joe Straus ""was acknowledged and ‘thanked’ for his ‘tireless efforts’ by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s premier abortion provider.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2011-01-10 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida 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 don't work.' ['Bipartisanship', 'Elections', 'Guns', 'Negative Campaigning'] 5 2011-01-10 Daniel Finnegan Democrat Warren Fiske Tim Kaine Virginia Obama’s mid-term approval ratings are similar to other presidents who went on to re-election. ['Polls and Public Opinion'] 3 2011-01-10 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Lee Holloway Wisconsin "The City of Milwaukee ""uses the building inspection area as a revenue base.""" ['City Budget'] 1 2011-01-10 Republican W. Gardner Selby Allan Ritter Texas """In my 12 years in the House, I have watched my district go from a solidly Democratic district to a heavily solid Republican district.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 3 2011-01-10 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff John Boehner Ohio """Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2011-01-09 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer National Federation of Independent Business-Wisconsin Wisconsin "Wisconsin’s lawsuit rules are so anti-business that the state’s system is ""one of the most promiscuous"" in America." ['Legal Issues', 'Small Business'] 1 2011-01-08 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Victoria Taft Oregon Portland spent nearly $1 million in federal stimulus money to install bike path signs where they already existed. ['Government Efficiency', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 1 2011-01-07 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Pat Mullins Virginia New provisions of the health care law bar the use of flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs. ['Health Care'] 5 2011-01-07 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Steny Hoyer Maryland In preparing a rules package for the 112th Congress, the GOP had no discussions with Democrats. ['Bipartisanship', 'Congressional Rules'] 1 2011-01-07 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin The state is able to sharply curtail contract bargaining rights for state employee unions. ['Jobs', 'Labor', 'State Budget'] 4 2011-01-07 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Ray McBerry """You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners,"" during the Civil War." ['History'] 0 2011-01-07 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Brent Larkin Ohio "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.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 5 2011-01-07 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lloyd Doggett Texas """The richest 1 percent of America will get a bigger tax cut through this bill than the family income of the average family here in Central Texas.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-01-06 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Gerry Connolly Virginia """There hasn't really been a lot of net growth in the federal workforce when you compare it to say, 1990.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Jobs'] 3 2011-01-06 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jim Sullivan Wisconsin "Says he ""led the effort to build a new (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) engineering campus in Wauwatosa.""" ['County Budget', 'Health Care'] 1 2011-01-06 Robert Higgs None Tom Feran Dan Moore Ohio """It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal.""" ['Recreation'] 5 2011-01-06 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal ""has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget', 'States'] 0 2011-01-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Kevin McCarthy California """The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2011-01-05 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin """More than 125 jobs have been created"" at the Milwaukee Job Corps Center." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 4 2011-01-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Michael McCaul Texas """I stopped requesting earmarks in 2008.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transparency'] 5 2011-01-05 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """Ohio has lost more population than every other state in the country except for two.""" ['Economy'] 1 2011-01-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano David Wyss State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run. ['Economy'] 5 2011-01-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Darrell Issa California """We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that don't exist for procedures that didn't happen.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Medicare'] 1 2011-01-04 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Stone Wisconsin """I never proposed privatizing the (Milwaukee County) airport.""" ['Transportation', 'Voting Record'] 5 2011-01-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Kasim Reed The city of Atlanta has $56 million in its reserves. ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2011-01-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Mike Polensek Ohio """We're worse than a Third World country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage.""" ['Environment', 'Infrastructure'] 3 2011-01-04 Tim Murphy Newsmaker C. Eugene Emery Jr. Marie Ghazal Rhode Island """Rhode Island has the highest percentage of uninsured adults of any state in New England.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Poverty'] 4 2011-01-03 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Jeb Bush Florida """In 1998, nearly half of Florida's fourth-graders were functionally illiterate. Today, 72% of them can read.""" ['Education'] 4 2011-01-03 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Pat Toomey Pennsylvania """We have the highest (corporate tax rates) in the world right now.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2011-01-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin """I represent the fourth-poorest (congressional) district"" in the nation." ['Census', 'Income', 'Poverty'] 1 2011-01-03 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Ted Strickland Ohio """We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 5 2011-01-03 Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus DeKalb County Georgia """The Greenest County in America.""" ['Environment'] 2 2011-01-03 None W. Gardner Selby Dean Wright Texas Says Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams has attended more than 150 tea party gatherings. ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography'] 1 2011-01-01 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske William Howell Virginia Proposed federal regulations would affect every street sign in the country ['Transportation'] 5 2011-01-01 W. Gardner Selby Texas Veterans Commission Says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran. ['Poverty', 'Veterans'] 2 2010-12-31 Dee Lane None Janie Har Mary Olson Oregon "Says ""there is a plan formulated by Chair (Lynn) Peterson and the cities in Clackamas County to further increase this fee in three years and split it up on projects between the county and cities.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2010-12-31 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Lamar Smith Texas """In the last five years, 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border.""" ['Crime', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-12-29 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """In 1981, Matagorda, Brazoria, and Galveston Counties all opted out of the Social Security program for their employees. Today, their program is very, very well-funded and there is no question about whether it’s going to be funded in"" years to come." ['Social Security'] 4 2010-12-27 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Bobby Scott Virginia "The tax-cut deal ""adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act"" and about the same as health care reform." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-12-26 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Mike Villarreal Texas "Texas ""children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-12-26 Susan Areson, Tim Murphy Independent C. Eugene Emery Jr. "Vincent ""Buddy"" Cianci" Rhode Island """Over 80 percent of the people want the shot to vote"" on whether to approve same-sex marriage, according to polls." ['Civil Rights', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 4 2010-12-25 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Rees Lloyd Oregon "Portland Public Schools invites ""well-paid, well-fed school bureaucrats, administrators, teachers, other staff, non-needy students, affluent parents of students, and other adults, including on the other extreme the adult homeless, illegal aliens, fanatical Muslim terrorists, or drug addicted street people, to enjoy cheap breakfasts in taxpayer-paid school facilities amidst school children.""" ['Education', 'Government Efficiency'] 2 2010-12-25 W. Gardner Selby Republican John Cornyn Texas """All but one of the 50 states already have some form of a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions.""" ['Federal Budget', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-12-24 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Ward Armstrong Virginia """The Governor did not consult members of his own party before he released his [transportation] plan.""" ['Transportation'] 1 2010-12-24 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Boyd Richie Texas "Says Texas Republican leaders ""have proposed laying off thousands of teachers.""" ['Education', 'Jobs'] 2 2010-12-23 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Dean Cannon Florida 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. ['Elections'] 5 2010-12-23 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Fitzgerald Wisconsin """We continue to see these isolated incidents of people trying to vote five, six times a day.""" ['Crime', 'Elections'] 1 2010-12-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Louie Gohmert Texas "Says that ""all those who do not answer directly to the president, they've said (repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell) is a terrible idea.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Military'] 1 2010-12-23 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Sam Adams Oregon Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city. ['Crime', 'Guns'] 5 2010-12-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Robert Farley George W. Bush Texas """Sen. Joe Biden, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, recommended partitioning Iraq into three separate entities.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2010-12-22 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire. ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Housing', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 0 2010-12-21 Morris Kennedy Newsmaker Laura Figueroa Ellen Freidin Florida """We have dozens of districts that go for 150 to 200 miles, splitting counties, splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common.""" ['Elections'] 4 2010-12-21 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Martin Kiar Florida """You can go to Georgia and make about $6,000 more a year as a teacher.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-12-21 Morris Kennedy Martha M. Hamilton Bumper Sticker """CEOs now earn 431 times what their workers earn.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Income', 'Workers'] 3 2010-12-21 Greg Borowski Talk show host Dave Umhoefer, Don Walker Charlie Sykes Wisconsin Says the University of Wisconsin football program is spending almost all of its Bowl Championship Series payout on a Rose Bowl junket for politically connected officials ['State Budget'] 0 2010-12-21 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas "Says that ""on average, Democratic congressional districts received 81 percent more stimulus funds than Republican districts.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2010-12-20 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Bob Marshall Virginia "Those who fail to buy health insurance under ""Obamacare"" face the threat of jail time." ['Health Care'] 0 2010-12-20 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Talgo Inc. "The Milwaukee business community ""did not speak about the facts"" -- and in support of train manufacturer Talgo -- as the Milwaukee-Madison rail link was being killed." ['State Budget', 'Transportation'] 5 2010-12-20 Republican Lamar Smith Texas "Once people become citizens under the DREAM Act ""and turn 21, they can sponsor their illegal immigrant parents for legalization.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2010-12-19 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher John McCain Arizona "Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included  ""$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin.""" ['Agriculture', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-12-18 Dee Lane None Charles Pope Lars Larson Oregon "Says Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will ""force you to stop using your cell phone"" while driving." ['Public Safety', 'Pundits', 'Technology', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-12-17 Daniel Finnegan None Warren Fiske Kitty Boitnott Virgina "Teachers ""are working their third consecutive year -- some longer than that -- without salary increases.""" ['Education'] 1 2010-12-17 Morris Kennedy Republican Aaron Sharockman John Mica Florida "TSA ""started off with 16,500 screeners and the agency has mushroomed to 67,000 employees with 3,590 administrative people ... making over $105,000 per year on average.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-12-17 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Robin Vos Wisconsin "Right-to-work states ""have higher rates of income growth.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2010-12-17 Charles Gay Willoughby Mariano James Jolly """Every student paying out-of-state tuition actually covers more than the cost of instruction.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2010-12-16 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Robert Hurt Virginia "The Democrats' health care reform law is a ""government takeover of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-12-16 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty """Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Workers'] 0 2010-12-16 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Steve Kagen Wisconsin """Already, the mayor of Green Bay is having ribbon-cutting after ribbon-cutting for economic development around the new VA center.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Veterans'] 0 2010-12-16 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby George W. Bush Texas Says that in his first 17 months as president, the United States doubled its world-leading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS. ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-12-15 Morris Kennedy Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """We are the only state in the country that state employees don't contribute [to their pensions].""" ['Retirement', 'State Budget'] 4 2010-12-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """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." ['Health Care', 'History', 'Legal Issues', 'Social Security'] 5 2010-12-15 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester George Allen Virginia "Sen. Jim Webb ""persists on negating"" Sen. Mark Warner’s votes" ['Voting Record'] 1 2010-12-15 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Paul Begala Texas "Says Lee Leffingwell has been mayor of Austin, Texas ""for about as long as Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Pundits'] 1 2010-12-15 Elizabeth Miniet Jim Tharpe Jane Kidd """[State Rep. Doug McKillip’s] donors deserve a refund.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 1 2010-12-15 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Mt. Hood Community College Oregon Mt. Hood Community College is No. 1 on average and top faculty pay and benefits. ['Education', 'Income'] 4 2010-12-15 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "The tax cut deal is giving ""$700 billion to millionaires and billionaires.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-12-14 Morris Kennedy Republican Aaron Sharockman John Mica Florida """On the question on the DREAM Act, no -- no to granting lower tuition to illegals.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-12-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Tom Coburn Oklahoma """One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled.""" ['Disability', 'Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 4 2010-12-14 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Robert Farley Bernie Sanders Vermont "Under the compromise tax agreement, ""99.7% of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2010-12-14 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "Governor-elect Scott Walker’s opposition to high-speed rail ""killed 13,000 Wisconsin jobs""" ['Jobs', 'Transportation'] 0 2010-12-14 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Beaverton Oregon "Beaverton ""enjoys the most diverse population (by percentage of population) among Oregon cities.""" ['Diversity'] 1 2010-12-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Teresa Fedor Ohio """Toledo … is fourth in the nation behind much bigger cities — Miami, Las Vegas, Portland — in number of human trafficking arrests and rescues.""" ['Crime', 'Human Rights'] 2 2010-12-14 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Atlanta Braves "The Atlanta Braves are ""the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-12-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Jim DeMint South Carolina "The Obama-GOP compromise ""raises taxes, it raises the death tax.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-12-13 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Matthew Dowd Texas """Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'History', 'Housing', 'Income', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 3 2010-12-13 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """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.""" ['Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 5 2010-12-13 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Herb Kohl Wisconsin """I have always been focused on reining in the deficit.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-12-13 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Donna Garner Texas "Says Joe Straus ""was co-author of a bill that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to control public school sex education.""" ['Education', 'Health Care'] 0 2010-12-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Jack Kingston Georgia """Sixteen [federal] programs exist to fight homelessness"" and some of them are duplicative." ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-12-13 Jane Kahoun Sabrina Eaton Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Says Jim Renacci ran against the Washington establishment in the election, but is now ""hypocritically embracing it with big money, special interest fundraisers.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 3 2010-12-12 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Bryan Kennedy Wisconsin "State employees in Wisconsin earn ""about 8 percent less"" than if they worked in the private sector." ['State Budget'] 1 2010-12-12 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says federal health care overhaul will cost Texas state government ""upwards of $30 billion over the next 10 years.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-12-12 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mark Brodeur Rhode Island Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism. ['Economy', 'State Budget', 'States', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-12-11 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Jim Moran Virginia "The Bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and ""work-force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000.""" ['Jobs', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-12-11 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas "You ""can't check out a library book without a photo ID.""" ['Legal Issues'] 2 2010-12-10 Bill Adair Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont """Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-12-10 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Bill Montford Florida "The state has ""less employees this year than we did last year.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 4 2010-12-10 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont "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.""" ['Economy', 'Poverty', 'Workers'] 5 2010-12-10 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin "Eliminating the state tax on health savings accounts will ""make it easier for small business owners to provide health insurance to their employees.""" ['Health Care', 'Small Business', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-12-10 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Oregon Right to Life PAC Oregon "Oregonians have an ""amazing no-cost way to fight abortion"" with free political donations" ['Abortion', 'Campaign Finance'] 5 2010-12-10 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano The Walking Dead In the case of a catastrophic event, the Atlanta-area offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will self-destruct. ['Health Care', 'Pop Culture'] 0 2010-12-10 Brenda Bell W. Gardner Selby Organizing for America """An overwhelming majority of Americans support passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces.""" ['Education', 'Families', 'Immigration', 'Military'] 3 2010-12-10 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik John Kasich Ohio """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 don't pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-12-10 Tim Murphy Cynthia Needham Bloggers "Sheldon Whitehouse and 18 other senators ""voted to censor the internet.""" ['Criminal Justice'] 1 2010-12-09 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida """The cost-saving measures we put into place at Columbia/HCA drove down national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-12-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Tom Coburn Oklahoma "There are ""10 or 20 deaths a year from foodborne illness"" in the United States." ['Agriculture', 'Health Care', 'Regulation'] 1 2010-12-09 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Mark Warner Virginia The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend. ['Deficit', 'Economy'] 5 2010-12-09 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Alberta Darling Wisconsin "When it comes to the state deficit, Wisconsin is ""proportionally in as much trouble as the State of California.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2010-12-09 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Randy Leonard Oregon Cities like Seattle have decided to ban food carts. ['Food Safety', 'Regulation'] 2 2010-12-09 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Jim Zehringer Ohio """Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax.""" ['Agriculture', 'Economy', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-12-08 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida """150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid.""" ['Oil Spill'] 5 2010-12-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, ""it only affected widows and orphans,"" and when Medicare began, ""it was a small program.""" ['Children', 'Disability', 'Health Care', 'History', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 1 2010-12-08 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "The U.S. ""had the opportunity with Israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures, and we turned them down.""" ['Israel', 'Terrorism', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-12-08 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Ted Poe Texas "Under the DREAM Act, after two years of higher education or military service ""you are eligible for citizenship. Once a citizen, this paves the way to bring the rest of (your) extended family to the United States.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2010-12-08 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """They tried to give us $400 million to build a high-speed train that goes 39 miles an hour.""" ['Infrastructure', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-12-07 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy. ['Economy', 'Military'] 5 2010-12-07 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think it's a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2010-12-07 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Bobby Scott Virginia "Republicans ""created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 4 2010-12-07 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jim Doyle Wisconsin """It’s illegal for a state to say we’re simply going to cut off (union contract) negotiations. There’s a legal requirement that you are involved in good faith bargaining.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2010-12-07 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio """Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 4 2010-12-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano CQ Press City Crime Rankings, 2010-2011 The city of Atlanta ranks 25th among U.S. cities with the highest crime rates. ['Crime'] 3 2010-12-06 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Vern Buchanan Florida """In Florida, illegal immigration costs taxpayers nearly $4 billion (a year). This amounts to $700 for every household in Florida.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-12-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Harry Reid Nevada """The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldn't support repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' because of the economy.""" ['Economy', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Military'] 3 2010-12-06 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Wesley Clark Arkansas "The Pentagon's survey about the ""Don't Ask, Don't Tell"" policy found that 92 percent of service members ""agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat"" without compromising ""mission readiness.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-12-06 Bill Adair Robert Farley RightMarch.com "The DREAM Act the ""would give amnesty to over two million illegal aliens.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-12-06 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Pro-Life Wisconsin Wisconsin "In Wisconsin, ""6.2 percent of the population is black yet 24 percent of all state abortions are on African-Americans.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2010-12-06 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Dennis Kucinich Ohio """We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Food Safety', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-12-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus NFL Players Association A National Football League lockout would cost Atlanta $160 million in lost jobs and revenue. ['Workers'] 1 2010-12-05 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jeff Fitzgerald Wisconsin """In 2009, Jim Doyle and the Democrats rushed through a budget repair bill with billions in tax increases and held no public hearings.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-12-05 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Louis Jacobson, Ciara O'Rourke Howard Dean Vermont """Barack Obama's health care bill is nothing new. Mitt Romney signed one just like it four years before.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-12-05 Tim Murphy Republican Edward Fitzpatrick Donald Carcieri Rhode Island "Measures taken by my administration ""have saved taxpayers $1 billion.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2010-12-04 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kirk Watson Texas "Says more than $3.5 billion in state revenue that is supposed to be dedicated to basic needs and functions is being diverted to ""make the books look balanced.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2010-12-04 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Beaverton Oregon Last year, Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students ever recorded in Oregon. ['Education', 'Housing'] 1 2010-12-03 John Bartosek, Doug Bennett Richard Danielson, Janet Zink Dick Greco """Refinanced $232.6 million in bonds, resulting in reduced debt service for the City.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Infrastructure', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-12-03 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske William Howell Virginia """There’s talk in Congress now about basically confiscating your private 401(k) or IRA plan and rolling it into Social Security to strengthen Social Security.""" ['Retirement'] 0 2010-12-03 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson National Association of Manufacturers Washington, D.C. Says the CBO estimates that fully extending the Bush tax cuts would add 600,000-1.4 million jobs in 2011 and 900,000-2.7 million jobs in 2012. ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-12-03 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Michael Steele Maryland """I have won more elections than any chairman since 1938.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 3 2010-12-03 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Lee Holloway Wisconsin Says he got twice as much money from the sale of County Grounds land than Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker was willing to accept. ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-12-03 Jim Denery Jim Tharpe National Review Said Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures during last month’s election ['Elections'] 5 2010-12-03 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Todd Staples Texas "In ""the fall of 2009, only 21 percent of Texas high school graduates enrolled in a four-year public university.""" ['Economy', 'Education'] 3 2010-12-03 Robert Higgs Mark Naymik Glenn Beck """This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasn’t taken any money from the government. They don’t want any money from the government.""" ['Economy', 'Families', 'Jobs', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-12-03 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Angel Taveras Rhode Island "Providence teachers ""can go five or six years without an evaluation.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-12-02 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """The American people spoke pretty loudly. They said stop all the looming tax hikes....""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-12-02 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Ronda Storms Florida "Hillsborough's Public Transportation Commission has ""a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean, please. Come on.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 5 2010-12-02 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska """Pls refer to Jan.1 tax changes appropriately: they're OBAMA TAX HIKES & they'll slam every American's savings, investments & job opportunity""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-12-02 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Bob McDonnell Virginia """The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled -- 100 percent -- in the last 10 years.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-12-02 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Gwen Moore Wisconsin "In Wisconsin, ""deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years.""" ['Crime', 'Families'] 5 2010-12-02 Robert Higgs Stephen Koff National Republican Senatorial Committee "Says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep ""an extreme, job-killing Internal Revenue Service paperwork mandate.""" ['Jobs', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-12-01 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Bloggers New food safety legislation will regulate backyard gardening. ['Agriculture', 'Food Safety', 'Regulation'] 0 2010-12-01 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Dave Obey Wisconsin A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch. ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-12-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Elaine Boyer "Low-flow toilets ""can cost homeowners up to $1,000 each.""" ['Environment'] 3 2010-12-01 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Oregon Healthy Kids Oregon """No family earns too much to qualify"" for Oregon Healthy Kids program." ['Children', 'Health Care'] 4 2010-12-01 Tim Murphy Newsmaker Cynthia Needham Steven Brown Rhode Island """Over half of the foreign-born population in Rhode Island is white.""" ['Census', 'Immigration'] 3 2010-11-30 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Mike Mullen Virginia """Historically,"" Senate ratification of arms control treaties ""has been bipartisan.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-11-30 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Jon Kyl Arizona "Obama's position on nuclear arms is a ""march toward global zero.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Nuclear'] 4 2010-11-30 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida """The Republican plan for tax cuts is to give each millionaire -- the top 1 percent of income in this country -- $83,347 a year in tax cuts.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2010-11-30 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """The Madison-Milwaukee (high-speed) train line is dead.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-11-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Democratic Party of Georgia """[Georgia] Republicans have mismanaged unemployment benefits.""" ['Jobs'] 1 2010-11-30 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """Ohio ranks 46th in the country in putting dollars in the classroom.""" ['Education', 'Government Efficiency'] 4 2010-11-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Kyl Arizona "Said the Washington Post argued that a failure to pass the START treaty this year would be ""no calamity,"" and that the Associated Press said ""the administration concedes the security risk is not immediate.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 3 2010-11-29 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jim Doyle Wisconsin Wisconsin’s projected state budget shortfall is now as low as $1.5 billion ['State Budget'] 1 2010-11-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus City of Atlanta "Red light camera installed to ""promote public safety.""" ['Transportation'] 2 2010-11-28 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Glenn Grothman Wisconsin "The payday loan industry ""does not exist in a state like Minnesota.""" ['Financial Regulation'] 1 2010-11-28 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Joe Barton Texas """Eighty percent of the oil we're discovering, we're discovering in the deep Gulf"" of Mexico." ['Energy'] 2 2010-11-28 Tim Murphy State official Edward Fitzpatrick Jamie Samons Rhode Island """We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers, to bring the treatment plant on line.""" ['Environment'] 5 2010-11-27 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Oregon Food Bank Oregon """Oregon, once again, remains among the top five hungriest states in the nation.""" ['Hunger'] 3 2010-11-27 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Joe Straus Texas "Says the Texas House has ""a record number of new members joining our ranks.""" ['Elections', 'States'] 3 2010-11-26 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Eric Cantor Virginia Letting the Bush tax cuts expire would raise taxes on small businesses. ['Economy', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-11-26 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Armond Budish Ohio """We (Democrats) have made steady progress creating jobs and improving our schools.""" ['Education', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2010-11-25 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Boehner Ohio 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. ['Government Efficiency', 'Transparency'] 5 2010-11-25 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Todd Staples Texas """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.""" ['Environment', 'Recreation'] 5 2010-11-24 John Bartosek Republican Lee Logan Mike Fasano Florida """Seven more people will die each and every day until the Legislature ratifies these (pain clinic) rules that are being approved by the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health.""" ['Drugs'] 4 2010-11-24 Warren Fiske Wes Hester Virginia Tea Party Patriots "Since the Fed was created in 1913, ""the U.S. Dollar has lost 98% of its purchasing power.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Income'] 3 2010-11-24 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Reince Priebus Wisconsin Says President Obama has grown the federal government payroll by 141,000 workers and wants to add 125,000 more. ['Federal Budget', 'Jobs'] 3 2010-11-24 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen Ohio Department of Transportation Ohio """Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Infrastructure', 'Transportation'] 5 2010-11-23 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Bobby Scott Virginia "The health care reform law ""reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-11-23 Dee Lane None Janie Har Carole Smith Oregon Rebuilding three high schools will benefit 40 percent of Portland Public School students. ['Education'] 0 2010-11-22 John Bartosek Republican Lee Logan Rick Scott Florida "Regulations are an ""endemic weakness in government -- so old that Thomas Jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the King of England in the Declaration of Independence.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'History'] 3 2010-11-22 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio "More than 10 years of free trade ""has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit.""" ['Economy', 'Trade'] 4 2010-11-22 Greg Borowski Republican Craig Gilbert, Dave Umhoefer Republican Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin """Because of (U.S. Sen.-elect Ron) Johnson’s leadership, Senate Republicans adopted a caucus ban on earmarks.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-11-21 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Bob Wirch Wisconsin """Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate"" the governor’s mansion." ['State Budget'] 5 2010-11-21 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Joe Barton Texas "Says you can buy four light bulbs for $1.99 at Walmart, while a single compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) costs ""$10 a pop.""" ['Energy', 'Regulation'] 2 2010-11-21 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """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.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-11-20 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Mike Villarreal Texas Says Gov. Rick Perry's administration has proposed ending immunizations for 113,000 kids. ['Children', 'Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-11-19 John Bartosek Democrat Lesley Clark, Amy Sherman Frederica Wilson Florida The U.S. House rule barring members from wearing hats while in session dates back to the 1800s and can be waived by the speaker. ['Congressional Rules'] 3 2010-11-19 Robert Higgs None Aaron Marshall Pari Sabety Ohio """The (Ohio) economy is on the mend. … It is in better shape than it was when we took office.""" ['Economy', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-11-19 Warren Fiske Wes Hester Virginia Tea Party Patriots "The dollar ""has fallen over 44% since Bernanke began pumping money into the system beginning back in 2002.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-11-19 Dee Lane None Ian K. Kullgren Crime Victims United of Oregon Oregon Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate. ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice'] 5 2010-11-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Atlanta Sports Council The economic impact of Atlanta's 2000 Super Bowl was $292 million. ['Economy'] 1 2010-11-19 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island """Rhode Island is one of only six states"" to use E-Verify." ['Immigration'] 1 2010-11-18 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Dean Cannon Florida "The Florida Supreme Court has ""no express authority in the Florida Constitution"" to remove questions from the ballot proposed by the Legislature." ['Florida Amendments', 'Supreme Court'] 2 2010-11-18 Morris Kennedy Republican Morris Kennedy Richard Lugar Indiana """Eliminating earmarks does not reduce spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-11-18 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman John Pistole "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.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Science', 'Transportation'] 5 2010-11-18 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton John Boehner Ohio """It’s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 1 2010-11-18 Greg Borowski Organization Dave Umhoefer One Wisconsin Now Wisconsin In his first meeting with University of Wisconsin System officials, Republican Governor elect Scott Walker told them to prepare for cuts. ['Education', 'State Budget'] 1 2010-11-18 Brenda Bell None John Bridges, W. Gardner Selby Art Acevedo Texas "Texas leads ""the country in drunk driving fatalities.""" ['Drugs', 'Public Safety'] 4 2010-11-18 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """Since the first of the year, 153 businesses at last count had moved out of California to Texas.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-11-17 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Small businesses that have ""$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases.""" ['Small Business', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-11-17 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman "A proposal to reduce the deficit ""involved large tax cuts for the top bracket.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-11-17 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Tim Ryan Ohio """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.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-11-17 John Bartosek Talk show host Amy Sherman Joyce Kaufman Florida """Nobody has played clips over and over ... of President Obama (saying), 'If they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun.' """ ['Candidate Biography', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-11-17 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """The (federal) debt is growing by more than $4 billion a day.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-11-17 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Bob McDonnell Virginia """We’ve been able to create about 60,000 net new jobs"" in Virginia since February." ['Jobs'] 4 2010-11-17 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Marvin Pratt Wisconsin "Milwaukee’s problems include ""52 percent black male unemployment.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 1 2010-11-17 Elizabeth Miniet Jim Tharpe Republican state senators "Said they reached a  ""power-sharing agreement"" with Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle" ['Elections'] 0 2010-11-17 Tim Murphy Catharine Richert Chain email "The cap-and-trade bill before Congress ""prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy'] 0 2010-11-16 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman "A recent report from the president's deficit commission was ""completely empty"" on controlling health care costs." ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-11-16 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Steven Schale Florida """Re: (Marco) Rubio's support of earmark ban: In 2002 alone, he requested 37 earmarks worth $43 million.""" ['Federal Budget', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-11-16 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Mike Haridopolos Florida """This is the first time a party has picked up multiple seats during a regular election since the mid 1980s, making this the largest majority of any party in more than 25 years.""" ['Elections', 'History'] 4 2010-11-16 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester George Allen Virginia "President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi passed a ""$1.2 trillion stimulus bill.""" ['Stimulus'] 0 2010-11-16 Greg Borowski None Dave Umhoefer Jim Bohl Wisconsin "Sewer backups into basements caused the ""vast majority of the damage to homes and buildings"" in Milwaukee’s July floods, but federal flood insurance doesn’t cover them." ['Environment'] 3 2010-11-16 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen William G. Batchelder Ohio """We haven’t had control of the House for the last two years and it’s been malfunctioning. We had 109 sessions scheduled and held 49.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 5 2010-11-15 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Jeb Bush Florida """Rick Scott got a majority of the Hispanic vote in Florida.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration'] 2 2010-11-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Kent Conrad North Dakota "Federal spending is ""the highest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years (and) revenue is the lowest it's been as a share of our economy in 60 years.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-11-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So we've taken 5 percent away from the private sector.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-11-15 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Sierra Club "If the state turns down money for high-speed rail, it will ""kill nearly 10,000 permanent Wisconsin jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'Transportation'] 2 2010-11-15 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas "Says Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas, is ""the largest military installation in the free world.""" ['Military'] 3 2010-11-15 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik John Kasich Ohio "John Kasich says he won, despite ""12 visits by a president, somewhere between $45 (million) and $50 million (spent against him,) 500 paid volunteers in here calling me every name in the book, former presidents, first ladies and God-knows-who-else.""" ['Elections'] 3 2010-11-14 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Mark Warner Virginia "$65 billion ""would be added to the deficit if we keep the cuts for people on the highest incomes.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-11-14 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Democratic Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin "Says Governor-elect Scott Walker’s choice as transition team leader ""killed the release of a damaging report on Walker’s record in the days leading up to the election.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-11-14 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2010-11-14 Susan Areson Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island "Experts say the property tax ""is the most harmful to economic growth and . . . the sales tax is least harmful.""" ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-11-13 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Richard Saslaw Virginia "$65 million from ABC privatization will not pay for ""even an overpass in Tysons Corner.""" ['Alcohol', 'Transportation'] 2 2010-11-13 Therese Bottomly None Ian K. Kullgren Portland Community College Oregon Portland Community College serves more students than all of the state’s universities combined. ['Education'] 1 2010-11-12 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson George W. Bush Texas """My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP"" was too." ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-11-12 Daniel Finnegan Republican Warren Fiske Bob McDonnell Virginia Has created 60,000 net new jobs since taking office. ['Jobs'] 4 2010-11-12 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Rachel Maddow """The Republican who was just elected governor of the great state of Florida paid his campaign staffers, not with money, but with American Express gift cards.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'Pundits'] 3 2010-11-12 Robert Higgs Aaron Marshall Americans For Tax Reform """It is a commitment voters take very seriously: The only incumbent in Ohio to break his Pledge and vote for Ted Strickland's income tax hike was defeated soundly on Tuesday.""" ['Elections', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-11-12 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Michael Murphy Wisconsin """Mequon and Milwaukee have the highest disparity of income in the country.""" ['Income'] 1 2010-11-12 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Sonny Perdue Georgia's high school graduation rate topped 80 percent in 2010. ['Education'] 3 2010-11-12 Brenda Bell Libertarian W. Gardner Selby Kathie Glass Texas Says over 25 percent of the Texas budget funds services to non-U.S. citizens. ['Economy', 'Immigration'] 0 2010-11-12 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Allen Alley Oregon Oregon’s budget has grown by 49 percent in just four years. ['State Budget'] 4 2010-11-12 Susan Areson Janie Har Chain email """Pres. Obama's finance team is recommending a . . . 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution.""" ['Deficit', 'Economy', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-11-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 1 2010-11-11 Bill Adair Democrat Warren Fiske Tim Kaine Virginia "Republican plan to extend Bush tax cuts ""would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-11-11 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff George Voinovich Ohio Says that the federal gas tax has not been raised since 1993. ['Infrastructure', 'Jobs', 'Taxes', 'Transportation'] 5 2010-11-11 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Tom Barrett Wisconsin "As mayor, Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley, ""which now supports nearly 4,000 jobs in Wisconsin.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 5 2010-11-11 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Greg Abbott Texas "Says he's arrested more criminals, ""including thousands of child predators and sex offenders,"" than any previous Texas attorney general." ['Crime', 'Criminal Justice', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Public Safety'] 4 2010-11-11 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Safe Routes to Schools Oregon Half of children struck by cars near schools are hit by parents driving children to school. ['Transportation'] 1 2010-11-10 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Pam Bondi Florida """We're the only system of federalism in the world.""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'States'] 1 2010-11-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska "Grocery prices ""have risen significantly over the past year or so.""" ['Agriculture', 'Economy', 'History'] 2 2010-11-10 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Marcy Kaptur Ohio "Electric utility FirstEnergy's annual revenues are greater ""than the GDP of Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Iceland, or 15 African nations.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Infrastructure'] 5 2010-11-10 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """One of the interesting things about the Recovery Act was most of the projects came in under budget, faster than expected, because there's just not a lot of work there.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2010-11-10 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Bob Donovan Wisconsin "In 2011, Milwaukee Public Schools ""will provide 77 cents in employee benefits for every dollar it spends on wages.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-11-10 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Friends of Voter Owned Elections Oregon It’s hard to get people in Portland to vote yes on ballot measures, especially when there’s opposition. ['Campaign Finance', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-11-10 Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Robert Brown Georgia """Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.""" ['Crime'] 5 2010-11-10 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """I had five of my citizens that were killed last week"" because of border security problems." ['Immigration'] 3 2010-11-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Pence Indiana """Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.""" ['Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-11-09 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Bill Nelson Florida """The amount of the revenue required by the state (for the construction of high-speed rail) is around 10 percent.""" ['Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 4 2010-11-09 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton John Boehner Ohio Says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings. ['Consumer Safety', 'Financial Regulation'] 5 2010-11-09 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester George Allen Virginia "The debt is ""nearly $6 trillion more than when President Obama was sworn into office.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2010-11-09 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Independent Eric Stirgus Michael Bloomberg New York Georgia and other states with weak gun laws have more crime. ['Guns'] 4 2010-11-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Rand Paul Kentucky """The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-11-08 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Jim Doyle Wisconsin About 1 in 10 public school teachers in Wisconsin would have been laid off without federal stimulus funds. ['Education', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-11-08 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Washington's reach extends to ""even telling us what kind of light bulb we can use.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Regulation', 'Technology'] 2 2010-11-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Children's Healthcare of Atlanta """Georgia has the second-highest rate of childhood obesity in the United States.""" ['Children'] 5 2010-11-07 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Eric Cantor Virginia """The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-11-07 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Paul Ryan Wisconsin """Discretionary spending went up 84 percent in the last two years""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-11-06 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Bob Tiernan Oregon "Says ""6 percent more Republicans across the state voted than Democrats.""" ['Voting Record'] 3 2010-11-06 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas "Says the federal government restricts ""how much salt we can put on our food.""" ['Food Safety'] 1 2010-11-05 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Bobby Scott Virginia """If all of the [Bush-era] tax cuts expire on schedule, the budget will be close to being balanced in four years.""" ['Deficit', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-11-05 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Tim Kaine Virginia "When Obama took office ""the economy of the United States was actually shrinking for the first time in about 70 years.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-11-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Barry Garner The Fulton County vote count will be finished by 11:30 p.m. on election night. ['Elections'] 4 2010-11-05 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Chris Gregoire Washington "Says Washington state has ""consistently ranked in the top five in the Forbes list of best states to do business — ahead of Texas.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 3 2010-11-05 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Democratic Party of Oregon Oregon """In fact, 85 percent of Oregonians voted in 2008.""" ['Voting Record'] 1 2010-11-04 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2010-11-01 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Scott Rigell Virginia """Congressman Nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the $5-10 billion"" the IRS needed to implement  health care legislation." ['Health Care'] 1 2010-11-01 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Mike Prendergast Florida """Congresswoman Kathy Castor voted to spend $2.6 million to teach prostitutes in China to drink responsibly.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Stimulus'] 0 2010-11-01 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff John Boccieri Ohio """Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government.""" ['Negative Campaigning', 'Trade'] 3 2010-11-01 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin Says Russ Feingold voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-11-01 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says ""Scott Walker wants to ban common forms of birth control, including the pill.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-11-01 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas "Says that under Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have had ""standing orders"" not to inquire into the immigration status of people unless they're under arrest." ['Immigration', 'Public Safety'] 3 2010-11-01 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas Says he has a track record of not raising taxes. ['Taxes'] 1 2010-11-01 Therese Bottomly None Natalie Fuelner Livable Damascus Oregon Says Steve Spinnett has court judgments against him for trespass and harassment. ['Ethics'] 3 2010-10-31 Warren Fiske Michael Martz Sierra Club Robert Hurt supported a bill that helped the uranium industry after taking contributions from the industry and because his father had a stake in it. ['Energy', 'Negative Campaigning'] 2 2010-10-31 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Manchin West Virginia "Says John Raese said he wants ""1,000 laser systems put in the sky, and we need it right now.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Military', 'Technology'] 3 2010-10-31 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill ""when the stimulus was rushed into law.""" ['History', 'Stimulus'] 5 2010-10-31 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """(John) Kasich was the architect who balanced the budget, cut spending, created a surplus, igniting record job creation.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-31 John Bartosek Becky Bowers, Aaron Sharockman Protect Your Vote """Liberal out-of-state special interests are spending millions on 5 and 6 to change the way Florida draws its congressional and legislative districts.""" ['Elections', 'Florida', 'Florida Amendments', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Redistricting'] 3 2010-10-31 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Valinda Bolton Texas """Paul Workman wants to raise the sales tax.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-10-31 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Matt Wand Oregon Says Nick Kahl made it harder for many families to cover basic health care expenses. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-10-30 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """The Republican leader of the Senate said his main goal after this election is simply to win the next one.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Economy'] 3 2010-10-30 Warren Fiske Democrat Wes Hester Tom Perriello Virginia """Senator Robert Hurt voted for a bill that’s raised your electric rates seven times.""" ['Energy'] 1 2010-10-30 Bill Adair Republican Wes Hester Robert Hurt Virginia """Congressman Perriello voted in lock step with Nancy Pelosi 90 percent of the time.""" ['Voting Record'] 3 2010-10-30 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Jason Isaac Texas "Patrick Rose ""voted to explore a state income tax.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 0 2010-10-30 Greg Borowski Organization Tom Kertscher Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Wisconsin "Says four Democratic state senators voted to ""raise taxes on Wisconsin workers by another $510 a month so freeloaders can get free state-run health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-10-30 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson National Republican Congressional Committee "Democratic U.S. House candidate Julie Lassa pushed for a ""Canadian-style government takeover of health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-30 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Taxpayer Association of Oregon Oregon "Says ""Richard Devlin raised your taxes by $1 billion in a single day.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2010-10-30 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Georgia House Democratic Caucus on behalf of Elena Parent "State House incumbent Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, ""personally profits from taxpayer money.""" ['Ethics'] 1 2010-10-30 Tim Murphy Independent Karen Lee Ziner Robert Healey Rhode Island """Of the states that have a lieutenant governor, many are currently discussing the need for such an obsolete office.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 2 2010-10-30 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Elizabeth Roberts Rhode Island "She ""led the fight to stop health insurance rate hikes and saved Rhode Island families over $150 million.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-10-29 Warren Fiske Wes Hester Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Rigell's car dealership made over $400,000 off the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ bailout.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2010-10-29 John Bartosek Amy Sherman Committee for Florida's Education """Dan Gelber: On the record against scholarships to help our needy children attend Jewish private schools.""" ['Education'] 0 2010-10-29 John Bartosek, Sheldon Zoldan Democrat Rachel Revehl Kevin Rader Florida "Lizbeth Benacquisto's supporters ""would make (abortion) illegal in all cases, including rape, incest, even to save a woman's life.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Women'] 4 2010-10-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Crossroads GPS """North Dakota's economy is reeling.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'States'] 0 2010-10-29 John Bartosek Democrat Becky Bowers Charlie Crist Florida """The Recovery Act saved 60,000 jobs among law enforcement officials, firefighters in the state of Florida, plus another 20,000 educators.""" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-10-29 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Sharron Angle Nevada "Sen. Harry Reid voted ""against declaring English our national language, twice.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-29 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Josh Mandel Ohio """Decorated Marine, two-tour Iraq war vet.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Iraq', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Military', 'Public Service', 'Veterans'] 5 2010-10-29 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Tom Perriello Virginia """Mr. Hurt would re-open that darn (Medicare) doughnut hole.""" ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson National Republican Congressional Committee Blames Mike McIntyre and Nancy Pelosi for the second straight year of no cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries. ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-10-29 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Advancing Wisconsin "Says Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker ""increased his own pay by $50,000.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-29 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas """Of those 850,000 (new Texas) jobs, most were public-sector jobs and minimum-wage jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 2 2010-10-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus, Jim Tharpe Roy Barnes and Nathan Deal "Vows to keep Georgia's race for governor ""civil"" and focused on the ""positive.""" ['Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-29 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Promote Oregon Leadership PAC (Oregon House Republicans) Oregon Says Will Rasmussen falsely claimed he had lived in the West Linn district for about a year. ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics'] 5 2010-10-29 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Christopher Little "Says Peter Kilmartin has ""only three years experience in his own law practice.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-10-28 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """We have empowered state insurance commissioners to review the rate hikes that are taking place in states. And in some states like North Carolina, they have already used it and rolled back premium increases by 25 percent.""" ['Children', 'Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-10-28 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Before we even passed health care, 4 millions kids got health insurance that didn't have it before, through the Children's Health Insurance Program.""" ['Families', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-10-28 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Stabilizing the recent financial crisis ""will cost less than 1 percent of GDP,"" which is less than the 2.5 percent to fix the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s." ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Regulation'] 3 2010-10-28 Bill Adair Democrat Martha M. Hamilton Barack Obama Illinois """Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 5 2010-10-28 John Bartosek, Heather Urquides Republican David DeCamp Jeff Brandes Florida "Bill Heller ""raises taxes. Property taxes. Small business taxes. He even wants to tax the Internet. Mr. Heller said no to balancing the federal budget, that puts more debt on our kids.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-10-28 John Bartosek, Heather Urquides Republican David DeCamp Jeff Brandes Florida "Company may close, ""all because government essentially says if they don't hire a lifeguard to watch their workers, they can't stay open.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Jobs', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Small Business'] 3 2010-10-28 John Bartosek Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rick Scott Florida """Most"" of the newspapers that endorsed Alex Sink also endorsed Barack Obama." ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 4 2010-10-28 Bill Adair Democrat Warren Fiske Rick Boucher Virginia """Morgan Griffith fought for a plan that would have taken money away from our schools and given it to Northern Virginia schools instead.""" ['Education', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-10-28 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "The health care bill ""cuts the deficit by over $1 trillion dollars.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-10-28 Warren Fiske Republican Wes Hester Morgan Griffith Virginia "Rick Boucher ""helped write"" the cap-and-trade bill" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2010-10-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Ted Strickland Ohio """Congressman Kasich wants to use our tax dollars to give secret bonuses to his corporate friends.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'Transparency'] 0 2010-10-28 Greg Borowski None Tom Kertscher Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin "Says Republican candidates in key Wisconsin Assembly races ""side with those who want to privatize Social Security -- and risk our retirements on Wall Street.""" ['Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-28 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson American Federation for Children "Says state Senate candidate ""Monk Elmer voted to exceed the (school district property tax) spending caps.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-10-28 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Basic Rights Oregon Oregon "Says Republican candidates in Oregon are ""advocating violence"" against gays." ['Gays and Lesbians'] 1 2010-10-28 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Lloyd Doggett Texas """Donna Campbell has called for ending all federal funding for education""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-10-28 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. John Loughlin Rhode Island "Tells David Cicilline, ""94 percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Science'] 1 2010-10-27 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida Of the more than 1.3 million temporary mortgage modifications, over half have defaulted. ['Housing'] 3 2010-10-27 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee "As CEO of WWE, Linda McMahon ""was caught tipping off a ringside physician"" about a federal investigation into illegally distributing steroids to wrestlers." ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-27 John Bartosek Becky Bowers Chain email """Many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against Amendment 4 are recipients of a congressional bailout, in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year.""" ['Florida', 'Florida Amendments'] 3 2010-10-27 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Robert Dold Illinois "Dan Seals has been running for office ""since before there were, like, iPods.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-27 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Eric Cantor Virginia "In the past two years, Democrats have ""spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History'] 0 2010-10-27 Tim Murphy Cynthia Needham Americans for Common Sense Solutions """As a state representative, David Cicilline argued against Megan's Law and voted against mandatory registration of sex offenders.""" ['Children', 'Criminal Justice', 'Negative Campaigning', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-10-27 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Reid Ribble Wisconsin """I lost my health insurance and my doctor because of Obamacare.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-10-27 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Back to Basics Texas "Rick Perry is ""taking money away from hurricane victims"" and diverting it to ""remodel the Governor's Mansion.""" ['Ethics', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 1 2010-10-27 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Matt Patten Ohio """Unfortunately everyone needs to cut back in these tough economic times. That's why I voted to cut my own pay along with the pay of our state employees.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget', 'Voting Record'] 1 2010-10-27 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal Roy Barnes voted against a bill in the state Senate that would have made it easier to convict child abusers. ['Children', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-10-27 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Jeff Merkley Oregon Says Scott Bruun supports allowing corporations to secretly funnel millions of dollars to front groups to finance attack ads. ['Campaign Finance'] 3 2010-10-26 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Alex Sink Florida "Rick Scott ""has said that he would do away with the Department of Community Affairs.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2010-10-26 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan American Action Network "Ed Perlmutter voted for ""Viagra for rapists"" paid for with tax dollars." ['Crime', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-26 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Financial Regulation', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2010-10-26 John Bartosek Democrat Michael C. Bender, Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida "The lawyer who brought the case against NationsBank said ""publicly that Alex Sink had nothing to do with the case, had nothing to do with the situation and didn't know about the problems.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Financial Regulation', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2010-10-26 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson National Republican Senatorial Committee """Michael Bennet cast the deciding vote"" for the stimulus and the health care bill." ['Health Care', 'History', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-10-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Michael Steele Maryland """When President, then candidate, Obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign, they refused to do it.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Transparency'] 1 2010-10-26 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """In Congress Tom Barrett voted to allow abortions through the ninth month, just moments before the baby is born.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says ""Scott Walker wants to make abortion illegal, even in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-26 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Donna Campbell Texas Says Lloyd Doggett voted for the health care, stimulus and cap-and-trade bills. ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-26 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Jim Renacci Ohio "Since Rep. John Boccieri’s election, ""Ohio has lost 600,000 jobs"" and his district’s ""unemployment has doubled.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 0 2010-10-26 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Concerned Taxpayers of America Oregon Says Peter DeFazio votes with Nancy Pelosi 86 percent of the time. ['Message Machine 2010', 'Voting Record'] 3 2010-10-26 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Mark Butler Darryl Hicks had seven ethics violations and didn't pay most of the fines. ['Ethics'] 3 2010-10-25 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Kendrick Meek Florida """The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Terrorism'] 0 2010-10-25 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California """More private-sector jobs were created in the first eight months of 2010 than in the eight years of the Bush administration.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-10-25 Bill Adair Democrat Michael Martz Tom Perriello Virginia "Says Robert Hurt ""supports the tax loopholes that send American jobs overseas.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-10-25 Bill Adair Republican Wes Hester Scott Rigell Virginia "Says Glenn Nye voted ""in lock step with Nancy Pelosi"" 83 percent of the time." ['Message Machine 2010', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-10-25 Bill Adair Republican Michael Martz Robert Hurt Virginia "Says Tom Perriello voted ""to give tax breaks to foreign companies creating jobs in China.""" ['China', 'Energy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-10-25 Bill Adair Democrat Warren Fiske Glenn Nye Virginia "Says he ""voted no on the Wall Street bailouts.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-25 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy Florida "Says PolitiFact says Amendment 4 ""will force counties and cities across Florida to raise taxes and fees.""" ['Florida Amendments'] 0 2010-10-25 Greg Borowski None Patrick Marley, Dave Umhoefer Greater Wisconsin Committee Wisconsin "Says ""Scott Walker favors cutting up to 350,000 families and children off health care.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-25 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Roy Barnes Georgia """Georgia had the worst job losses in state history under GOP watch.""" ['Jobs'] 4 2010-10-25 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth.""" ['Economy', 'Jobs'] 5 2010-10-25 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee Ohio """Matt Patten kicked off his dirty campaign with thousands in dirty cash from guess who? (Frank) Russo and (Jimmy) Dimora.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Negative Campaigning'] 1 2010-10-25 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Future PAC (Oregon House Democrats) Oregon "Says Julie Parrish is ""one of Sarah Palin’s mama grizzlies.""" ['Elections'] 2 2010-10-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida "Charlie Crist ""attacks me for positions he held, like, six months ago, (when) he was running in the Republican primary.""" ['Families', 'Health Care', 'Immigration', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-10-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Kendrick Meek Florida """Middle-class families throughout America (would) have to pay $6,000 per year"" to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy." ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-10-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Becky Bowers Charlie Crist Florida """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.""" ['Florida', 'Foreign Policy'] 5 2010-10-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Becky Bowers Charlie Crist Florida "Says Marco Rubio said that ""people who essentially don't agree with him, ought to leave the country, like Keith Olbermann.""" ['Pundits', 'Voting Record'] 5 2010-10-24 Sergio Bustos None Amy Sherman Yes on 8 Florida """There currently are 825,000 student stations sitting empty across Florida in every district and at every grade level.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Florida Amendments'] 4 2010-10-24 John Bartosek None Amy Sherman Vote NO on 8 Florida """What is the maximum number of students allowed in your classroom? ... 30 or more!""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Florida Amendments'] 3 2010-10-24 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin "Says Gov. Jim Doyle and the DNR have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd; as a result ""the deer population has dwindled.""" ['Environment', 'Recreation'] 2 2010-10-24 John Bartosek, Andrew Jarosh Democrat Pat Gillespie Kevin Rader Florida "Lizbeth Benacquisto ""broke election law 105 times, hiding special interest contributors.""" ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-24 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham David Cicilline Rhode Island "Says ""John Loughlin voted to let people accused of domestic violence keep their guns.""" ['Criminal Justice', 'Guns', 'Voting Record'] 4 2010-10-23 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jim Sullivan Wisconsin "Says Leah ""Vukmir supports allowing people to carry concealed weapons into day care centers, churches, health care clinics and playgrounds.""" ['Guns', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-23 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Jim Sullivan Wisconsin "Says he ""stood up to his own party by voting against the budget to stop runaway government spending.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-10-23 Brenda Bell Libertarian W. Gardner Selby Kathie Glass Texas "Says Rick Perry recently said he ""wanted another (Texas) business tax.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-10-23 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Chris Dudley Oregon Says John Kitzhaber wants a sales tax so people without jobs pay taxes. ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-10-23 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill James Langevin Rhode Island """In Rhode Island, there were thousands of jobs that were created"" by the federal stimulus program" ['Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-10-22 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Dan Coats Indiana "The new health care law will ""force seniors into Barack Obama's government-run health care program.""" ['Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Retirement'] 0 2010-10-22 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barbara Boxer California """Fiorina's plan would mean slashing Social Security and Medicare.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-10-22 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Meg Whitman California "Jerry Brown ""gave California state employees collective bargaining powers"" and ""now, state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'Workers'] 3 2010-10-22 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin """There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate. Fifty-seven of them, including Russ Feingold, are lawyers. There are zero manufacturers and one accountant.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Russ Feingold Wisconsin "Says Ron Johnson ""likes to say there are too many lawyers in the Senate – 57. He’d be the 70th millionaire.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-10-22 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas """Rick Perry has become a millionaire on the public payroll.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-22 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Maryellen O'Shaughnessy Ohio """Since 2000, when he entered politics, Jon Husted has been on the ballot six times for three different political offices.""" ['Elections'] 5 2010-10-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Roy Barnes Georgia Republican candidate for governor Nathan Deal fought to weaken Georgia's rape shield law. ['Criminal Justice', 'Women'] 3 2010-10-22 Therese Bottomly Republican Janie Har Bruce Starr Oregon Bruce Starr was the only senator to vote for stronger ethics laws and greater accountability. ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-21 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida Says Alex Sink's plans for governor include $12.5 billion in new spending. ['Education', 'Government Efficiency', 'State Budget', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-10-21 Morris Kennedy Newsmaker Louis Jacobson SEIU Washington, D.C. """You worked hard for your money and you paid your taxes when you earned it. Now, (Indiana Republican congressional candidate) Todd Young wants to tax it again when you spend it.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Retirement', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-10-21 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barbara Boxer California """Carly Fiorina, she's against banning assault weapons.""" ['Guns', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-21 Robert Higgs Tom Feran Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Tom Ganley has ""two F's from the Better Business Bureau"" and ""over 160 complaints in just three years.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Negative Campaigning'] 3 2010-10-21 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher, Patrick Marley Scott Walker Wisconsin """Scientists have shown us (that) the greater possibilities, the real science movement, has been with adult stem cell research. It has not been with embryonic.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-10-21 Brenda Bell W. Gardner Selby Chain email Says Texas voters are being asked to act this November on a proposed constitutional amendment affecting property taxes. ['Elections', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-10-21 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Chuck Riley Oregon Says Bruce Starr broke the law by letting lobbyists wine and dine him in Maui. ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-20 Morris Kennedy Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Says Marco Rubio sold a home to a chiropractor who had been lobbying him on automobile insurance legislation and ""once he sold the home, for $380,000 cash, the speaker's position on the issue changed.""" ['Ethics'] 2 2010-10-20 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Sestak Pennsylvania "Pat Toomey ""still supports privatizing Social Security.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Regulation', 'Social Security'] 3 2010-10-20 Robert Higgs Republican Jane Kahoun, Mark Naymik Ohio Republican Party Ohio "Says Maryellen O’Shaughnessy ""accepted campaign cash from indicted politician Jimmy Dimora.""" ['Negative Campaigning'] 1 2010-10-20 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Dino Rossi Washington "The Seattle Times called Patty Murray ""a 'prolific sponsor of earmarks.' Patty even defended the 'Bridge to Nowhere.' """ ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-20 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Mark Kirk Illinois "As state treasurer, Alexi Giannoulias ""lost $73 million in our kids’ college savings.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-20 Greg Borowski Cary Spivak Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee "Says Republican Reid Ribble says stimulus bill failed to jumpstart the economy, but his ""roofing company made almost $300,000 off stimulus funded projects.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-10-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Casey Cagle """We refused to balance the budget on the backs of our children.""" ['Education'] 2 2010-10-20 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Dwayne Bohac Texas Says the Annie's List political group supports third-trimester abortions on demand. ['Abortion'] 1 2010-10-20 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Bob Stacey Oregon Says Tom Hughes supports paving over thousands of acres with over-development and sprawl. ['Environment', 'Housing'] 1 2010-10-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John Raese West Virginia "Under the new health care law, ""the first person (a) patient has to go to is a bureaucrat. That is called a panel.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-19 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran John Kasich Ohio """Ted Strickland destroyed Ohio jobs when he busted the budget.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 1 2010-10-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Alexi Giannoulias Illinois """Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment’s not that big an issue.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Military', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-10-19 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Jack Conway Kentucky "Rand Paul wants ""to end all federal faith-based initiatives, and even end the deduction for religious charities.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Religion', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-10-19 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin Says Russ Feingold supported a stimulus plan that allowed a company to create 3,000 jobs in China. ['Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus', 'Trade'] 2 2010-10-19 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Scott Bruun Oregon "Says Kurt Schrader ""cast the deciding vote that failed to extend tax cuts for Oregon’s middle-class families and small businesses.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-10-19 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Austin Scott Georgia Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, sent nearly $2 billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs, mostly in China ['Environment', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-10-19 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill Edwin Pacheco Rhode Island "Says Christopher Little has ""a history of working against environmental protection by defending the worst types of corporate polluters""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Environment', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-10-18 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Jennifer Carroll Florida "Rick Scott ""doesn't have any ties to a lobbyist.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2010-10-18 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """I've also offered a plan that can help (fix Social Security) that's supported by Robert Reich, secretary of labor previously, in a previous administration.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2010-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Michael Bennet Colorado "Ken Buck wants to ""outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan U.S. Chamber of Commerce "The new health care law crushes small businesses ""with billions in penalties.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Small Business'] 1 2010-10-18 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Christine O'Donnell Delaware """We haven't yet taken out a negative ad.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'This Week - ABC News'] 0 2010-10-18 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Jobs'] 1 2010-10-18 John Bartosek Democrat Laura Figueroa Dan Gelber Florida """Pam Bondi told a group of lobbyists she’ll side with corporate special interests as attorney general.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-18 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher Planned Parenthood "Says ""Scott Walker tried to pass a law to allow pharmacists to block women’s access to birth control.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Women'] 2 2010-10-18 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Hank Gilbert Texas "Says Texas has so few gas-pump inspectors in the field, ""the HEBs of this state, the Brookshires of this state, they're calibrating their own gas pumps. The (Texas Department of Agriculture) just sends them the stickers and they calibrate them.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Energy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2010-10-18 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Kurt Schrader Oregon Says more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Wall Street bailouts. ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation'] 1 2010-10-18 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Eric Stirgus Nathan Deal """Roy Barnes proclaimed Mexican workers good for Georgia.""" ['Economy', 'Immigration'] 3 2010-10-17 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin "Says ""Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-17 Tim Murphy Republican Cynthia Needham John Robitaille Rhode Island His biography says he was the top ROTC officer in the nation. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-10-16 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Lee Fisher Ohio """If you want to see the jobs that I've saved and created in this storm he helped create, go anywhere in Ohio.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-10-16 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Says he's so bipartisan that ""12 of my bills were signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-10-16 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har John Kitzhaber Oregon John Kitzhaber created 128,000 new jobs while governor. ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-10-16 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Hank Gilbert Texas Says gas pumps in different parts of Texas are missing state inspection stickers and/or their inspections are out of date--and that's cheating consumers. ['Consumer Safety', 'Crime', 'Energy'] 3 2010-10-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Blanche Lincoln Arkansas """John Boozman is excited about putting a 23 percent national sales tax on everything you buy.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-10-15 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Kendrick Meek Florida "Marco Rubio says ""Solo Ingles"" (English only)." ['Immigration'] 1 2010-10-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada """Sharron Angle voted to protect sex offenders.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Public Safety'] 4 2010-10-15 John Bartosek None Laura Figueroa Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy Florida """Amendment 4 will reduce Florida’s economic output by $34 billion annually.""" ['Economy', 'Elections', 'Florida Amendments'] 2 2010-10-15 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says Scott Walker ""eliminated his own office of economic development in the middle of this recession.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-15 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Jason Isaac Texas "Says state Rep. Patrick Rose votes 90 percent with liberals, backed the state's largest tax increase, proposed nearly $15 billion in government spending and supported ""Obama-style government-run health care system for Texas.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-10-15 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Eric Stirgus Casey Cagle Georgia lawmakers balanced the budget without raising taxes on residents. ['Taxes'] 4 2010-10-15 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har John Kitzhaber Oregon Says Chris Dudley thinks Oregon’s minimum wage is too high. ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-15 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Betty Sutton Ohio "Says Tom Ganley has been ""sued over 400 times, for fraud, discrimination and more,"" and ""a judge called Tom Ganley's business practices ""deceptive and unconscionable.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-14 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Christine O'Donnell Delaware "Chris Coons has ""Marxist beliefs.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy'] 0 2010-10-14 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Chris Coons Delaware New Castle County's unemployment rate has not almost doubled in the last two years. ['Economy'] 5 2010-10-14 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Jeff Atwater Florida "Loranne ""Ausley's a financial train wreck for taxpayers -- pushing gas taxes, property taxes, taxes on seniors.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-10-14 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Manchin West Virginia "John Raese's wife ""is registered to vote in Florida so she can't even vote for him.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-10-14 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Josh Mandel Ohio """Boyce gave (a lobbyist’s) wife a sensitive job in the treasurer’s office, a job Boyce admitted he only made available at their mosque.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-14 John Bartosek Republican Trenton Daniel David Rivera Florida """Joe Garcia raised utility rates on families.""" ['Energy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-14 Greg Borowski Tom Kertscher National Republican Congressional Committee "Says Steve Kagen ""promised us jobs, voting for the $787 billion stimulus. Cost: another 77,000 jobs lost.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 0 2010-10-14 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas "Says Rick Perry told students he couldn't attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day ""tweeted that he'd just been running with his dog.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2010-10-14 Therese Bottomly Republican Dana Tims Rob Cornilles Oregon "Says David Wu has presided over ""137 months"" in which ""Oregon's unemployment rate has been above the national average.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-10-14 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Frank Caprio Rhode Island "Says Lincoln Chafee ""settled a union strike by giving the teachers a 19-percent-raise.""" ['Economy', 'Education'] 3 2010-10-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Christine O'Donnell Delaware """One man (New Castle, Del., County Executive, Chris Coons) thought property taxes should be hiked almost 50 percent.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-10-13 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Loranne Ausley Florida """(Jeff) Atwater's busy helping his friends and wasting our tax dollars -- $48 million for a government building so lavish it's dubbed the 'Taj Mahal,' $100,000 for a golf musuem, and $110 million to build a private prison to help a big contributor.""" ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 1 2010-10-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Christine O'Donnell Delaware "Delaware Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons ""thought that a 911 call should be taxed.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Public Safety', 'Taxes', 'Technology'] 2 2010-10-13 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """(Strickland) raised taxes last year to the tune of $840 million.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2010-10-13 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Julie Lassa Wisconsin "Says ""Sean Duffy was a no-show"" as Ashland County District Attorney while he was on the campaign trail" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-13 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """Houston suffered $1.7 billion in operating losses under Mayor Bill White.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-10-13 Therese Bottomly None Janie Har Planned Parenthood PAC Oregon John Kitzhaber is the only pro-choice candidate in the race for governor. ['Abortion'] 2 2010-10-12 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Pat Quinn Illinois "Says Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady's first priority after winning the primary ""was to sponsor a bill that would mass-euthanize sheltered dogs and cats in gas chambers.""" ['Agriculture', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-12 Bill Adair Columnist Robert Farley George Will Maryland "Just like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ""the AFL-CIO receives dues from foreign entities associated with it.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Corporations', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Transparency'] 3 2010-10-12 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Armond Budish Ohio """Never once did they (House Republicans) actually cut spending or reduce the state budget. Even when they cut taxes in 2005, they increased spending.  They never paid for their tax cuts.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-10-12 John Bartosek Democrat Michael C. Bender, Aaron Sharockman Florida Democratic Party Florida "Taking the Fifth Amendment in a deposition about the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he founded ""means a truthful answer to the questions that (Rick Scott) was asked would incriminate him.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-12 John Bartosek Democrat Michael C. Bender, Aaron Sharockman Florida Democratic Party Florida Says Rick Scott gave a deposition in which he invoked the Fifth Amendment 75 times about his dealings as head of Columbia/HCA hospital chain ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-12 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Florida Democratic Party Florida Shows in a television ad that police took evidence from Solantic, Rick Scott's new health care company, after allegations emerged that the company was engaging in fraud. ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-12 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Florida Democratic Party Florida In ad attacking Rick Scott, says three executives of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he ran were indicted. ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-12 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Russ Feingold Wisconsin """According to independent analysis, unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over 64,000 jobs in Wisconsin ... But Ron Johnson favors those deals.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Trade'] 3 2010-10-12 Jim Denery, Angela Tuck Democrat Willoughby Mariano Mary Squires Georgia "Said state insurance commissioner candidate Ralph Hudgens ""fights hard"" to strip women of life-saving coverage such as mammograms." ['Health Care', 'Women'] 3 2010-10-12 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Chet Edwards Texas """When Washington liberals wanted to take away our guns, Chet said no.""" ['Guns', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-11 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Corporations', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-10-11 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Since the stimulus package was passed, ""Ohio’s lost over 100,000 more jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 5 2010-10-11 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Allen Boyd Florida """Steve Southerland did not pay his taxes in '05, '06, '07, '08 or '09.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-10-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Leah Vukmir Wisconsin """For the first time in history, Wisconsin has more government jobs than manufacturing jobs.""" ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-11 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Leah Vukmir Wisconsin "In 2009, ""the state Legislature passed more than $5 billion in tax increases.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-10-11 Jim Denery Democrat Jim Tharpe Jim Marshall Georgia "Said he ""opposed every budget Republican and Democrat.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-10-11 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Hank Gilbert Texas Says the Texas Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase up to 300,000 promotional stress balls. ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-10-11 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Future PAC (Oregon House Democrats) Oregon Say Matt Wand cut Troutdale police, created a slush fund for himself. ['Crime', 'Ethics', 'Public Safety'] 0 2010-10-10 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says ""Scott Walker says he would ban stem cell research""" ['Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-10 John Bartosek, Sheldon Zoldan Brian Liberatore Debbie Jackow "Debbie Jackow ""unlike her opponent ... WILL NOT de-fund the 20/20 land program.""" ['County Budget', 'Environment'] 1 2010-10-10 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mark S. Zaccaria Rhode Island "Says James Langevin voted to spend ""$3 billion for a jet engine no one wants.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Military', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-10-09 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Patrick Rose Texas "Says Republican opponent Jason Isaac is peddling a plan meaning Texans ""would pay the highest sales taxes in America, up to 14.5 percent.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-10-08 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Sharron Angle Nevada "Harry Reid ""voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for convicted child molesters and sex offenders.""" ['Crime', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-08 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-10-08 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Jack Conway Kentucky "Rand Paul ""wants us to pay $2,000 just to get Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-08 Bill Adair Robert Farley Susan B. Anthony List "Sen. Barbara Boxer ""voted against immigration reform to permit (Hispanic immigrants) people to come here legally to work.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-08 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin "Says ""Russ Feingold cut Medicare by $523 billion.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Jill Chambers Georgia Says campaign contributions to her rival for a state House seat was money intended for schoolchildren. ['Campaign Finance'] 0 2010-10-08 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton National Republican Congressional Committee "Says that ""93 percent of the time John Boccieri voted with Nancy Pelosi.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-10-08 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Blue Oregon Oregon "Says ""Rep. Jim Weidner proposed a bill taking away health care for 80,000 of Oregon's children.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-10-07 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Lloyd Doggett Texas """I said no to these big bank bailouts.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Voting Record'] 5 2010-10-07 John Bartosek Democrat Louis Jacobson, Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida "Dan Webster ""would force victims of rape and incest to bear their attacker's child.""" ['Abortion', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Women'] 4 2010-10-07 Joe Guillen Republican Joe Guillen Jon Husted Ohio """O’Shaughnessy even voted for her own personal stimulus package -- a taxpayer-funded pay raise for herself.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Public Service'] 1 2010-10-07 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Adam Kinzinger Illinois """Since Debbie Halvorson has been in politics, Illinois has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-10-07 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Raymond LaHood Illinois """It’s coming. Nobody can stop this train.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Infrastructure', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-10-07 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Back to Basics Texas "Says ""the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole.""" ['Economy', 'States', 'Stimulus', 'Workers'] 4 2010-10-07 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Chris Dudley Oregon Says Oregon ranks 43rd in education. ['Education'] 4 2010-10-07 Tim Murphy Republican Cynthia Needham Erik Wallin Rhode Island "Says Peter Kilmartin voted ""in favor of expanding the 'good behavior' statute to sex offenders.""" ['Crime', 'Voting Record'] 1 2010-10-06 John Bartosek Democrat Louis Jacobson, Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida "Daniel Webster ""is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Religion', 'Women'] 2 2010-10-06 John Bartosek Democrat Louis Jacobson, Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida """Webster sponsored a bill to create a form of marriage that would trap women in abusive relationships.""" ['Marriage', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Women'] 5 2010-10-06 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio ""wants to raise the Social Security retirement age,"" and ""cut benefits.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 3 2010-10-06 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Party of Florida """Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Florida's investments? Alex Sink.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Retirement', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-10-06 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran Ohio Democratic Party Ohio """Tom Ganley supports a 23 percent national sales tax that would raise taxes on the middle class while giving a huge tax break to millionaires like himself.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2010-10-06 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson National Republican Congressional Committee "Arkansas Democratic congressional candidate Chad Causey ""was a Washington, D.C. bureaucrat.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-06 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Franklin Graham "In most Muslim countries, ""We can't have a church. We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Religion', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-10-06 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Scott Walker Wisconsin "Since being elected in 2002, Scott Walker has ""given back over $370,000 of his salary to the county.""" ['County Budget', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-10-06 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Lynn Howe Oregon Says Sal Esquivel wants a 5 percent state sales tax on groceries. ['Taxes'] 0 2010-10-06 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. John Robitaille Rhode Island """Rhode Island has a very generous unemployment compensation rate compared to most other states.""" ['Economy', 'States', 'Workers'] 5 2010-10-05 Robert Higgs Tom Feran American Crossroads "Says Lee Fisher ""wanted a $1.1 billion tax increase which could have driven countless jobs out of state.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-10-05 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Commonsense Ten "Says Roy Blunt ""secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris"" into a national security bill while ""Blunt's girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Homeland Security', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-10-05 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Alex Sink funneled three quarters of a million dollars in no-bid contracts to Bank of America.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-05 John Bartosek Amy Sherman We Love USA PAC "Ron Klein ""sponsored an amendment that specifically allows price gouging.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-10-05 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer, Don Walker Ron Johnson Wisconsin """A majority of Wisconsinites opposed the government takeover of health care. But Russ Feingold voted for it anyway.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Voting Record'] 1 2010-10-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Greg Abbott Texas """More lives have been lost because of the war with the drug cartels in Juarez alone, just a few blocks from the United States of America, than have been lost in the war in Afghanistan.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Crime', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-10-05 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Jimmy Carter Georgia Said that his batting average with Congress is higher than every other president since Dwight D. Eisenhower except Lyndon Johnson. ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-10-05 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Promote Oregon Leadership PAC (Oregon House Republicans) Oregon Says Will Rasmussen supported a sales tax as recently as last spring. ['Taxes'] 1 2010-10-04 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Crossroads GPS """Barbara Boxer voted to cut spending on Medicare benefits by $500 billion, cuts so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Retirement'] 2 2010-10-04 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson Patriot Majority PAC Washington, D.C. "The Chilean ""privatization scheme"" that Sharron Angle supports ""has resulted in hidden fees, fewer benefits, and millions of people with no coverage.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-10-04 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida Police Benevolent Association Florida """Rick Scott's prison plan would cut Florida's prison budget in half, close prisons, and release tens of thousands of prisoners early -- murderers, rapists, sex offenders, armed robbers, drug dealers.""" ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-04 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Scott Hassett Wisconsin "Says Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen ""knew about (the Ken Kratz sexting) case for nearly a year and did nothing about it.""" ['Crime', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-10-04 Therese Bottomly Democrat Ian K. Kullgren Kurt Schrader Oregon "Says Scott Bruun supports ""cutting the Department of Commerce and eliminating NOAA.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-10-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Phil Gingrey Georgia The federal government can tell General Motors what to charge for its automobiles. ['Bankruptcy', 'Financial Regulation'] 1 2010-10-04 Libertarian W. Gardner Selby Mark Hinkle California """Exit polls indicate that Democrats get over 70 percent of LGBT votes in federal elections.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Elections', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 5 2010-10-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher, Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin "Says ""the headlines … tell the story"" of how Walker has ""mismanaged"" Milwaukee County" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-03 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Back to Basics Texas """Perry pushed for a law that lets insurance companies raise homeowners’ rates without having to justify the increase.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Consumer Safety', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-10-03 Steve McQuilkin, Sheldon Zoldan Timothy Engstrom Tammy Hall "Jobs incentive program ""created over 1,200 high-wage jobs since 2009.""" ['County Budget', 'Economy'] 1 2010-10-03 Susan Areson Republican Cynthia Needham John Loughlin Rhode Island """Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2010-10-02 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Scott Bruun Oregon "Says Kurt Schrader voted to cut $500 billion from Medicare, threatening ""thousands of Oregon seniors and their access to their current coverage.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-02 Therese Bottomly Democrat Charles Pope Kurt Schrader Oregon "Says Scott Bruun ""still believes in the same old direction that George Bush had before, which is to privatize Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 3 2010-10-02 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill Flores Texas "PolitiFact Texas says ""Congressman Edwards' attacks on Bill Flores are false.""" ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-10-02 Susan Areson Democrat Cynthia Needham David Cicilline Rhode Island """The Republican candidate [John Loughlin] has talked about privatizing Social Security ... so we know where he stands on the issue.""" ['Social Security'] 3 2010-10-01 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin "As Milwaukee County executive, Scott Walker ""eliminated the waiting list for long-term care for older adults through the Family Care program.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-10-01 W. Gardner Selby None Ciara O'Rourke Lone Star First Texas "Rick Perry thinks ""injecting 11- and 12-year-old girls with a controversial drug (the HPV vaccine), without a parent's consent, is a good idea.""" ['Children', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-10-01 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Libertarian Eric Stirgus Chuck Donovan Georgia "U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson ""has never proposed, nor voted in favor of, a substantial cut in federal spending"" and has voted for ""many substantial increases in federal spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-10-01 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Zack Space Ohio A bill to save teacher jobs is completely paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes. ['Poverty', 'Voting Record'] 0 2010-10-01 Therese Bottomly Janie Har Chain email "Peter DeFazio ""will sneak in a 1 percent tax on all banking transactions.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2010-09-30 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "The Republican election platform ""was actually written with the help of a former lobbyist for AIG and a former lobbyist for Exxon-Mobil.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2010-09-30 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Alex Sink Florida "When Tallahassee politicians and bureaucrats tried to run our schools, ""I've stood up to them to protect local control.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Florida', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-09-30 Chris Quinn Republican JoEllen Corrigan, Sabrina Eaton Tom Ganley Ohio """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""" ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-09-30 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas "Texas has ""a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states.""" ['Economy'] 4 2010-09-30 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """We now have our kids go to school about a month less than most other advanced countries.""" ['Education'] 3 2010-09-30 Dee Lane Republican Janie Har Jim Huffman Oregon """Twice as much (federal) money is going back to Hawaii, Virginia and Alaska than is coming home to Oregon.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-09-29 Greg Borowski Talk show host James B. Nelson, Don Walker Mark Belling Wisconsin "Says the Feingold garage ad ""is a fake: He’s not standing in front of his house.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-09-29 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan, Ian K. Kullgren American Crossroads "Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., ""voted for the pork-filled stimulus bill -- $1.9 million to study ants in Africa, $39 million for office upgrades for politicians.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-09-29 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Tom Barrett Wisconsin When each faced a pension funding crisis, Tom Barrett made tough choices and smart cuts while Scott Walker passed $400 million in pension debt to the next generation. ['Jobs', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-09-29 Joe Guillen Republican Joe Guillen Dave Yost ohio """Pepper ... kicked off a jock tax, imposing a levy on the sports and entertainment industry.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-09-29 Bruce Hammond Democrat Brad Schmidt Sam Adams Oregon "Says ""$30 million gap"" in stadium funding forced the Portland Beavers to leave." ['Baseball'] 3 2010-09-28 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Crossroads GPS "Says Joe Sestak ""voted to gut Medicare ... reducing benefits for 854,489 seniors"" and jeopardizing ""access to care for millions.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-28 John Bartosek Republican Becky Bowers J.D. Alexander Florida """It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2010-09-28 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley David Axelrod "Independent groups behind ads attacking Democratic candidates are ""front groups for foreign-controlled companies.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-09-28 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida Says Daniel Webster wants to make divorce illegal, even for abused wives. ['Marriage', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Religion', 'Women'] 3 2010-09-28 Chris Quinn Republican JoEllen Corrigan, Sabrina Eaton Tom Ganley Ohio Says he took down the mob in Northeast Ohio ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-28 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida Says Daniel Webster thinks wives should submit to their husbands. ['Candidate Biography', 'Marriage', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-09-28 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher Rebecca Kleefisch Wisconsin """The Wisconsin Legislature raised taxes more than $5 billion in 2009.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-09-28 Therese Bottomly Democrat Jeff Merkley Oregon Says with the ongoing economic downturn, child abuse is on the rise. ['Children', 'Economy', 'Families'] 4 2010-09-28 Republican W. Gardner Selby Todd Staples Texas Says the U.S. Constitution provides for just compensation when land is taken under eminent domain. ['History', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Supreme Court'] 5 2010-09-27 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson David Axelrod "The GOP's ""Pledge to America"" includes ""a 20 percent cut ... for education. ... Eight million kids would have their college aid slashed under this budget.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-09-27 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman George Pataki New York """Florida seniors are exempt"" from losing Medicare Advantage under the federal health care bill." ['Medicare'] 1 2010-09-27 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Steve Southerland Florida """Over the past year ... our 16 counties have hemorrhaged more than 6,000 jobs with no apparent end in sight.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-09-27 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "On Lee Fisher’s watch, ""almost nine out of 10"" jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, ""not to other countries.""" ['Economy'] 4 2010-09-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Jack Conway Kentucky Says Rand Paul thinks drug-dealing, theft, burglary and prostitution should be decriminalized. ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-09-27 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Americans for Job Security "Says Zack Space voted for budgets and debt, energy taxes and the stimulus, and ""we still lost more than 2.5 million jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 3 2010-09-27 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Steve Kagen Wisconsin """Politician Reid Ribble wants to phase out Social Security, forcing Wisconsin seniors to fend for themselves.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 0 2010-09-27 Bill Adair Republican Charles Pope Scott Bruun Oregon """The size of our federal government has more than doubled since the year 2000.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2010-09-27 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas "A defense bill ""includes language that would require military hospitals to provide abortions on demand.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2010-09-26 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher, Ben Poston Tom Nelson Wisconsin "A $300 million stimulus allocation to Wisconsin ""has led to the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in every corner of this state.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-09-26 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Peter Kilmartin Rhode Island "Kilmartin has helped pass laws to ""create a witness protection program.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime'] 4 2010-09-25 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kendra Yarbrough Camarena Texas """Austin politicians want to cram more kids into classrooms so they don't have to make the tough decisions to balance the budget.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-24 Heather Urquides None David DeCamp Bob Hackworth Florida """The downsizing of Pinellas County government resulted in about 1,200 people being laid off in a 12 percent unemployment market. … I can tell you that every one of them was hired from the time that Ms. Latvala went into office in 2000.""" ['County Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 1 2010-09-24 Heather Urquides None David DeCamp Susan Latvala Florida """One of the other inaccuracies ... is that we have raised taxes multiple times and run up the budget. Absolutely not true. One tax increase since I’ve been in office. It was a quarter mill tax in the unincorporated area only.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 1 2010-09-24 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Allen West Florida """If you look at the application for a security clearance, I have a clearance that even the president of the United States cannot obtain because of my background.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Military'] 0 2010-09-24 Robert Higgs Republican Jane Kahoun, Aaron Marshall John Kasich Ohio State government spending will be increase 10.7 percent this year. ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-09-24 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "Says John Boehner ""admits 'we are not going to be any different than we’ve been' "" by returning to ""the same failed economic policies"" that ""wrecked our economy.""" ['Economy'] 0 2010-09-24 Dee Lane Republican Ian K. Kullgren Delia Lopez Oregon "A bill by Earl Blumenauer would ""mandate GPS tracking devices on all our vehicles.""" ['Privacy', 'Transportation'] 0 2010-09-24 Bruce Hammond Democrat Brent Walth John Kitzhaber Oregon Says more than 2 million Oregonians have received important medical services because of his health plan. ['Health Care'] 3 2010-09-24 Therese Bottomly Republican Harry Esteve Chris Dudley Oregon """Under Gov. Kitzhaber, unemployment rose 65 percent, state spending went up 57 percent and personal incomes declined compared to the rest of the country.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-09-24 Therese Bottomly Republican Ian K. Kullgren Jim Huffman Oregon "Says Ron Wyden spent $2 million ""to study exotic ants.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Science', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-09-24 Therese Bottomly Democrat Janie Har Future PAC (Oregon House Democrats) Oregon Says Julie Parrish wants to add a sales tax to everything we need to buy including food, clothing, medicine and school supplies. ['Taxes'] 2 2010-09-24 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Scott Walker Wisconsin """Our county now has the fastest growing airport in America, attracting nearly 1,000 new private sector jobs.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-09-24 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio tried to insert ""$1.5 million for a rowing institute"" into the state budget." ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'Voting Record'] 0 2010-09-24 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. "Candidate for governor Roy Barnes has been ""fighting hard"" to let illegal immigrants vote." ['Immigration'] 0 2010-09-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """We've created more than 850,000 jobs, more than all the other states combined.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-09-23 John Bartosek Mary Ellen Klas Republican Party of Florida "State pension fund staffers ""lost billions. Then Sink gave them bonuses.""" ['Economy', 'Florida', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Retirement'] 2 2010-09-23 Morris Kennedy None Louis Jacobson Citizens for the Republic Virginia Children born today will carry a $30,000 share of the national debt. ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Marriage', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-09-23 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Clinton Arkansas """We paid down the debt for four years -- paid down $600 billion on the national debt.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-09-23 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "It's ""not true"" that since he's been the president, executions in Iran have increased by four times." ['Crime', 'Human Rights', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-09-23 Robert Higgs Republican Tom Feran, Mark Naymik Rob Portman Ohio """Under Lee Fisher Ohio has lost nearly 400,000 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-09-23 Greg Borowski Republican Cary Spivak Ron Johnson Wisconsin "Washington politicians ""run Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-09-22 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Ted Ankrum Texas """More people were killed in the United States last year by tainted food than U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Food Safety', 'Iraq'] 1 2010-09-22 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ""was never sentenced to stoning.""" ['Crime', 'Human Rights', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-09-22 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """The total number of dollars that passes through the Department of Development is like $900 million and like $650 (million) of it has nothing to do with development, which is breathtaking when you think about it.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-09-22 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "The Bush administration had been ""giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-09-22 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman AFL-CIO "Marco Rubio ""opposes extending unemployment benefits.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-09-22 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-09-22 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Regulation'] 5 2010-09-22 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer Tom Barrett Wisconsin """Under Tom Barrett’s leadership, violent crime in Milwaukee has decreased by over 20% -- to its lowest levels in more than 20 years.""" ['Crime', 'Job Accomplishments'] 0 2010-09-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Sarah Copelin-Wood """I have given $30,000 of my unused travel expenses over the years to supplement the school system's general budget.""" ['Education'] 3 2010-09-21 John Bartosek Democrat Laura Figueroa Alex Sink Florida """Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-09-21 Robert Higgs Democrat Tom Feran, Stephen Koff Ted Strickland Ohio """Kasich’s trade deals cost Ohio thousands of jobs - 49,000 jobs to Mexico, 91,000 to China.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Trade'] 1 2010-09-21 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying.""" ['Ethics', 'Government Efficiency'] 0 2010-09-21 Greg Borowski Republican James B. Nelson Sean Duffy Wisconsin """Julie Lassa willingly took a hefty pay raise at a time when people throughout her district and the state were losing their jobs.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2010-09-21 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says Bill White ""didn't pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy.""" ['Taxes', 'Transparency'] 1 2010-09-21 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. "Roy Barnes ""made Georgia dead last in education"" and Georgia ""led the nation in job losses.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-09-20 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan, Aaron Sharockman 60 Plus Association "The new health care law ""will cut $500 billion from Medicare. That will hurt the quality of our care.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-20 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Republican Party of Florida "Loranne Ausley ""voted six times to tax your savings.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-09-20 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton Betty Sutton Ohio """Ganley said that if elected, he wants to ‘cut the dickens’ out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans’ benefits.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Military', 'Social Security'] 0 2010-09-20 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Russ Feingold Wisconsin """I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 0 2010-09-20 Jim Denery Jim Tharpe Republican Party of Georgia """Barnes opposed the creation of the HOPE Scholarship and campaigned against Zell Miller on the issue.""" ['Education'] 2 2010-09-20 Republican W. Gardner Selby Steve Munisteri Texas Says the Austin chapter of the League of Women Voters has no Republicans among elected officers or on its debate committee. ['Bipartisanship'] 3 2010-09-19 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin """Wisconsin is one of the highest taxed states in the nation.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2010-09-19 W. Gardner Selby Ciara O'Rourke Chain email "After Hurricane Katrina, ""Dallas and San Antonio took in 5,000 to 10,000 refugees each, but (Bill) White brought in 250,000 and put them up in his 'buddies' empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years. They did not return to New Orleans, most of them are on welfare.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Natural Disasters '] 1 2010-09-19 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Peter Palumbo Rhode Island "Rhode Island gives undocumented pregnant women health insurance, plus a cash card ""with $400 a month on it"" and ""$250 a month or $275 a month to spend on food.""" ['Health Care', 'Immigration', 'Poverty'] 2 2010-09-18 Greg Borowski Democrat Dave Umhoefer, Don Walker Russ Feingold Wisconsin Says Ron Johnson’s company got government loans and a grant to help expand his business ['Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-09-17 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "Ron Klein ""repeatedly voted in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2010-09-17 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Louis Jacobson Bill Maher California """Do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood? I'm not joking.""" ['Energy', 'Pundits'] 1 2010-09-17 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Barbara Boxer California """As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Workers'] 4 2010-09-17 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Sharron Angle Nevada "Harry Reid has voted ""to give special tax breaks to illegal aliens.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-09-17 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Sharron Angle Nevada "Harry Reid has voted ""to give illegals Social Security benefits even for the time they were here illegally.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-09-17 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Ted Strickland Ohio About $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the current state general revenue fund budget. ['State Budget'] 1 2010-09-17 John Bartosek Republican Becky Bowers, Shirl Kennedy Rick Scott Florida """The stimulus has not created one private sector job.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 0 2010-09-17 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Jerry Brown California """Taxes went down under Jerry Brown.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-09-17 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. "Tom Barrett ""voted for the largest tax increase in history ... raising taxes on gas and Social Security.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-09-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Bill Flores Texas Says he created more than 500 American jobs. ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus J.B. Powell Horse racing could boost Georgia's economy by $1 billion a year and create 10,000 to 20,000 jobs. ['Economy', 'Gambling'] 2 2010-09-17 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Patrick Lynch Rhode Island """Deepwater's own testimony . . . is they said they'll create six jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Energy'] 3 2010-09-16 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida "Ed Schultz said Alan Grayson is ""what it's all about.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-09-16 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman National Republican Congressional Committee """700 jobs (were) lost because Allen Boyd"" voted for the health care bill." ['Education', 'Elections', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-16 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Julie Lassa Wisconsin """She created the Waste, Fraud and Mismanagement Hotline.... (that) has saved Wisconsin taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-09-16 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Rob Portman Ohio "Says a ""Pro-Stimulus economist admits it is not working … """ ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 0 2010-09-15 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Ron Klein Florida "Allen West called Social Security a ""Ponzi scheme"" and said ""this country's got to get on sound footing by destroying it.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 1 2010-09-15 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik John Kasich Ohio """You can’t raise taxes in Ohio. We are one of the highest taxed states in the country.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-09-15 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley John Dennis California Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office in downtown San Francisco. ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-09-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. Roy Barnes is like Barack Obama because they're both doing a lot of apologizing. ['Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-09-15 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher J.B. Van Hollen Wisconsin """Over 22,000 unique Internet Protocol addresses -- in Wisconsin alone -- have downloaded child pornography.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-09-15 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Chet Edwards Texas Says opponent Bill Flores helped run a company that laid off over 3,000 workers and paid off executives with millions. ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-09-14 Morris Kennedy Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland """Over 10 years, (extending tax cuts for the wealthy) would add less to the deficit than Obama added with the stimulus in one year.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Pundits', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-09-14 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Alex Sink Florida """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.""" ['State Budget'] 5 2010-09-14 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Ohio Democratic Party Ohio "DeWine ""took $1.9 million from big banks,"" ""supported legislation that helped Bernie Madoff make millions"" and ""protected predatory lenders while families lost their homes.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-09-14 Greg Borowski Republican Tom Kertscher, Don Walker Ron Johnson Wisconsin "Russ Feingold ""has not worked anywhere outside of politics.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-09-14 W. Gardner Selby David Axelrod "Says Texas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions said the GOP's goal is to ""go back to the same exact policies that were in place before this president took office... policies that crashed the economy.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Economy'] 2 2010-09-14 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Mickie Williams Clayton County has employed 1,300 people over the past seven months through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. ['Economy', 'Housing'] 3 2010-09-13 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Austan Goolsbee Illinois "John Boehner has called for ""repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people.""" ['Stimulus', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-09-13 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Austan Goolsbee Illinois "Extending current tax rates would ""average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires.""" ['Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-09-13 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Robert Gibbs Says John Boehner changed his position on extending Bush tax cuts. ['Taxes'] 2 2010-09-13 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman John Thrasher Florida """We will be the first party to elect a bald guy to governor.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'History'] 1 2010-09-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole ""that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas.""" ['Corporations', 'Taxes', 'Trade'] 3 2010-09-13 Robert Higgs Democrat Sabrina Eaton John Boccieri Ohio """I don’t understand what Republicans are doing against this. It was their idea. John McCain introduced cap and trade legislation three times.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change'] 5 2010-09-13 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson American Federation for Children """Senator Jeff Plale saved my job"" -- and some 300 others at Bucyrus International." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Trade'] 2 2010-09-13 Greg Borowski None James B. Nelson Citizens for a Progressive Wisconsin Wisconsin """While many of his colleagues turned down a $2,500 pay raise ... (Jeff) Plale pocketed the extra money.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-09-13 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano John McCain Arizona "Federal stimulus money went to a Georgia Tech project that will ""apparently involve the professor jamming with 'world-renowned musicians' to 'hopefully also create satisfying works of art.'""" ['Stimulus'] 2 2010-09-12 Greg Borowski Democrat James B. Nelson Tom Barrett Wisconsin """Walker says he’s for lower taxes. But Milwaukee County spending has gone up by $349 million.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-09-12 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Porter Texas "Jeff Weems' ""legal record is one of defending BP, Enron and just about every big oil company against the working man.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Energy'] 3 2010-09-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Mark Neumann Wisconsin Scott Walker supported the same transportation bill he’s attacking me for. He said at the time it would save the taxpayers money. ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Transportation'] 2 2010-09-11 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Jim Sensenbrenner Wisconsin Like me, Scott Walker opposed the 1998 transportation bill and the $9 billion of wasteful spending. ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-09-11 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Ron Paul Texas "Due to the war in Iraq, ""4,400 Americans are dead, 30,000 severely wounded and more than 100,000 are suffering from serious health problems related to post traumatic stress syndrome.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2010-09-11 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Steven Costantino Rhode Island """He's the only candidate who's balanced budgets and brought jobs to Providence.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'State Budget'] 4 2010-09-10 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ann Coulter New York """There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Homeland Security', 'Military', 'Pundits', 'Terrorism'] 3 2010-09-10 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Adam Putnam Florida """We've got to find 2 billion gallons (of water per day) between now and 2025.""" ['Environment', 'Infrastructure'] 4 2010-09-10 John Bartosek Democrat Trenton Daniel Kendrick Meek Florida """I’m the only one who's fought against developers draining the Everglades!""" ['Environment', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-09-10 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson National Taxpayers Union Virginia "Proposed tax changes are a ""handout"" to BP." ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Foreign Policy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-09-10 Greg Borowski James B. Nelson Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee """Sean Duffy backed plan to privatize Social Security.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 0 2010-09-10 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Maryellen O'Shaughnessy Ohio """It's factually correct to say"" that Jennifer Brunner inherited at least 18 lawsuits when she came into the office that were a result of Ken Blackwell’s ""mismanagement of the 2004 election.""" ['Elections', 'Government Efficiency'] 1 2010-09-10 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Roy Barnes Georgia """I can put 10,000 people to work. Electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers -- by retrofitting all of the state buildings for energy independence or efficiency.""" ['Energy'] 3 2010-09-10 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Larry Gonzales Texas Says state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers. ['Campaign Finance', 'Workers'] 5 2010-09-10 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Peter Kilmartin Rhode Island """When the mayor of Providence's brother wrote over 100 grand in bad checks to the city, Joe Fernandez didn't have the guts to prosecute him. He let him off the hook.""" ['Crime', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-09-10 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Joseph Fernandez Rhode Island "I ""kicked crooked cops and government officials off the public pension rolls.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Ethics', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-09-09 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """When these same Republicans –- including Mr. Boehner –- were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-09-09 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida Hometown Democracy Florida """For every dollar a county gets in taxes from new development, it costs us 40 to 50 percent more to provide services.""" ['Florida Amendments'] 3 2010-09-09 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Lukas Pleva Susana Martinez New Mexico "The Richardson-Denish administration ""gave"" 50,000 driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in New Mexico." ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-09 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Lee Fisher Ohio """On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded"" and ""as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'History', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Trade'] 3 2010-09-09 Greg Borowski Republican Lee Bergquist, Dave Umhoefer Scott Walker Wisconsin Says Mark Neumann = Nancy Pelosi ['Federal Budget', 'Infrastructure', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Transportation', 'Voting Record'] 1 2010-09-09 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke Republican Party of Texas Texas Says State Rep. Kristi Thibaut was an ACORN lobbyist. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-09-08 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley Jan Brewer Arizona """Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2010-09-08 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John Boehner said the jobs of ""teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters"" are ""'government jobs' that weren't worth saving.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'States'] 2 2010-09-08 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Pam Bondi Florida """By the year 2015 (Medicaid will) take up half our budget.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2010-09-08 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Bloggers Lindsey Graham endorsed Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate. ['Elections'] 0 2010-09-08 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Jim Renacci Ohio """Boccieri voted to spend a billion dollars an hour, every hour, for his first 50 days in office""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 2 2010-09-08 Greg Borowski Republican Cary Spivak Daniel Mielke Wisconsin """Close to 30% of our federal prison population consists of  illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-09-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Emil Runge "By releasing only basic tax information, former U.S. Congressman Nathan Deal is ""hiding more than he's disclosed"" about his business dealing with the state." ['Taxes'] 3 2010-09-07 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Mary Jordan Washington, D.C. """The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate.""" ['Elections', 'History', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-09-07 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Mary Jordan Washington, D.C. "Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, ""when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 4 2010-09-07 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Kevin Boyce Ohio """Our most important work has been creating and retaining almost 55,000 Ohio jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 0 2010-09-07 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Mark Neumann Wisconsin """My supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 4 2010-09-07 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Stephen Kretzmann "Georgia's U.S. senators voted for legislation that would ""gut clean air protections and increase oil dependence.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2010-09-07 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Michael J. Gardiner Rhode Island """It costs us, logistically, three times more to fight in Afghanistan than it does in any other place.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Federal Budget', 'Iraq', 'Terrorism'] 1 2010-09-06 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Yvette McGee Brown Ohio "Ohio today has the ""fewest number of state employees since the Reagan administration.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-09-06 Republican W. Gardner Selby Republican Party of Texas Texas "Jim Dunnam ""has not lived in the district he represents for years now.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2010-09-05 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. John Loughlin Rhode Island "After Ronald Reagan cut taxes in 1981 the U.S. enjoyed ""exponential growth.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-09-04 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Michael McCaul Texas "Says the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid will disburse $803 billion in benefits this year, making ""it larger than all but 15 of the world's economies.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-09-03 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barbara Boxer California """I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 0 2010-09-03 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Jennifer Carroll's an ""outsider.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 3 2010-09-03 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Jennifer Carroll is the ""first African-American Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 5 2010-09-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Cary Spivak Russ Feingold Wisconsin "Ron Johnson is ""willing to hand over the Great Lakes to the oil companies.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-09-03 Greg Borowski Republican Dave Umhoefer Ron Johnson Wisconsin """Both the state and federal governments make more per gallon in gas taxes than the oil companies make themselves for doing all the work.""" ['Energy', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-09-03 Greg Borowski Republican Lee Bergquist Scott Walker Wisconsin """Since being elected, (Tom Barrett) has dumped 8.2 billion gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan.""" ['Environment'] 2 2010-09-03 Greg Borowski Democrat Tom Kertscher Barack Obama Illinois "Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett ""has held the line on property taxes.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-09-03 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Dave Yost ohio """When Pepper’s tax was finally voted down, Pepper laid off cops and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-09-03 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas Says Rick Perry is a 25-year incumbent. ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-09-03 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham John Lombardi Rhode Island """80 to 85 percent of my campaign funds go to donations to various organizations throughout the City of Providence.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 0 2010-09-02 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """Charlie Crist has six different positions on ObamaCare.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-09-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Lukas Pleva Michael Bennet Colorado """Buck wants to privatize Social Security.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 3 2010-09-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley, Lukas Pleva Blanche Lincoln Arkansas "John Boozman supports ""privatizing Social Security""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-09-02 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Dan Webster supports ""privatization of Social Security, deep cuts in Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2010-09-02 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Alex Sink wants to ""cut Medicare.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2010-09-02 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio """More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more.""" ['Economy'] 4 2010-09-02 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Randi Weingarten """The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country.""" ['Education', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-09-01 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada "Sharron Angle ""would eliminate the Department of Education.""" ['Education', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010', 'States'] 5 2010-09-01 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Charlie Crist Florida """Florida is enjoying its lowest crime rate in 39 years.""" ['Crime'] 4 2010-09-01 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Steven Schale Florida "Charlie Crist's ""personal approval numbers are plummeting.""" ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 2 2010-09-01 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Sestak Pennsylvania """Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes.""" ['Corporations', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-09-01 Jane Kahoun Democrat Robert Higgs Dennis Kucinich Ohio """The Great Lakes Compact has a loophole. And the loophole is that while you cannot remove the water in a big transport, you can remove it in containers of 5.7 gallons or less.""" ['Environment'] 4 2010-09-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Chip Rogers Georgia """Congress and President Obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first 200 years of the United States existence.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2010-09-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Greg Abbott Texas Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border. ['Crime', 'Drugs', 'Homeland Security'] 5 2010-08-31 Bill Adair Robert Farley Jamie Oliver McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S. ['Education', 'Food Safety', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-08-31 John Bartosek Democrat Lee Logan Alan Grayson Florida """When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-08-31 John Bartosek Independent Amy Sherman Bud Chiles Florida """Florida is 49th in per capita spending on mental health care.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2010-08-31 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. """Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 4 2010-08-31 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff John Boehner Ohio "Under the new health care law, ""if a landscaper wants to buy a new lawnmower, or a restaurant needs a new ice-maker, they have to report that to the feds.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-08-31 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Michael Thurmond Georgia "Michael Thurmond ""authored major legislation that has provided more than $250 million in tax relief to Georgia’s senior citizens and working families.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2010-08-31 Republican David Dewhurst Texas """We spend more money on health care per capita in the United States than any other country in the world. Of the 30 developed countries in the world, we spend 2 1/2 times more than the average. Of the country that spends the second most per capita, Switzerland, we spend 175 percent more.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-08-31 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Frank Caprio Rhode Island """1 in 4 Rhode Islanders under the age of 65 does not have health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-08-30 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Louis Jacobson Arne Duncan Illinois """In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate.""" ['Education', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-08-30 John Bartosek Democrat Laura Figueroa Ron Klein Florida """The IRS filed an $11,000 lien against (Allen) West for back taxes. Three liens were placed on his home for unpaid bills, and a judge ordered West to pay over $5,000 for past due credit card bills.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-08-30 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ann Marie Buerkle New York """The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014,"" including ""each individual’s Body Mass Index.""" ['Health Care', 'Privacy'] 1 2010-08-30 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """We have 50 state lobbyists that just lobby the Legislature for money every year.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 4 2010-08-30 Martha M. Hamilton Lukas Pleva Glenn Beck """The federal government is now on track"" for the second-largest budget deficit ""in 65 years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-08-30 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Mike DeWine Ohio "The DeWine campaign is ""receiving money from so many more people. (Cordray's) money is coming almost exclusively from the party, labor unions, and special counsel that he has given business to.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections'] 3 2010-08-30 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas Says most of Perry's chiefs of staff have been lobbyists. ['Ethics'] 5 2010-08-30 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. "Kernan ""Kerry"" King" Rhode Island "In Rhode Island ""there are 150 different pension plans for public workers.""" ['Economy', 'Public Service', 'Retirement', 'State Budget', 'Workers'] 5 2010-08-29 Tim Murphy C. Eugene Emery Jr. Kenneth Block """(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy', 'Families', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Poverty'] 5 2010-08-28 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Back to Basics Texas "Gov. Rick Perry ""has overseen the highest Texas unemployment in 22 years.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-08-27 Doug Bennett None Bill Varian Sam Rashid Florida "The sales tax increase, if approved, will cost taxpayers ""up to $300 million per year, in perpetuity, to finance a rail system for the City of Tampa.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 2 2010-08-27 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Glenn Beck """The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-08-27 Bill Adair Democrat Lukas Pleva Barack Obama Illinois "Republicans ""don't think it's a good idea"" to make the child care tax credit ""stronger.""" ['Children', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-08-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Loranne Ausley Florida """(Jeff) Atwater's bank was so weak that just a few months ago it was shut down by the FDIC.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Financial Regulation', 'Housing', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-08-27 Robert Higgs Sabrina Eaton, Jane Kahoun AFSCME """Jim Renacci cheated on his income taxes"" and is a ""deadbeat citizen.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-08-27 Jim Denery, Charles Gay Democrat Eric Stirgus Russell Edwards Georgia """Paul Broun Jr. sides with sexual deviants to support sale of 'crush videos.' """ ['Voting Record'] 1 2010-08-26 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan 18% of the American public President Obama is a Muslim. ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate', 'Religion'] 0 2010-08-26 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Franklin Graham """The seed of Muslim is passed through the father.""" ['Religion'] 2 2010-08-26 Martha M. Hamilton Independent Robert Farley Michael Bloomberg New York """There is already a mosque four blocks away.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Religion'] 5 2010-08-26 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Anthony Gemma Rhode Island """Bill Lynch told three lies in ten seconds""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 4 2010-08-25 Bill Adair Martha M. Hamilton, Lukas Pleva Mark Tapscott """Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War.""" ['Economy', 'Iraq', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-08-25 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Lee Fisher Ohio "Rob Portman is ""the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the (Mahoning) Valley and sent them to China.""" ['Economy'] 1 2010-08-25 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Kendrick Meek Florida "Kendrick Meek claims he's the only candidate who said Sonia Sotomayor ""will make an excellent Supreme Court justice.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Supreme Court'] 5 2010-08-25 John Bartosek Democrat Lukas Pleva Alan Grayson Florida "The United States is ""50th in life expectancy"" in the world." ['Health Care'] 4 2010-08-25 Tim Murphy State official C. Eugene Emery Jr. Keith Stokes Rhode Island """One of the things we found very clearly and consistently is that [video gaming] is a growth industry.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 2 2010-08-24 Jane Kahoun Republican Sabrina Eaton, Louis Jacobson, Stephen Koff, W. Gardner Selby John Boehner Ohio """Since February 2009, the private sector has lost millions of jobs while the federal government has grown by hundreds of thousands of workers.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-08-24 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Pat Toomey Pennsylvania """Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-08-24 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas """Taxpayer money will provide iPod Touch devices to high school students in Utah, BlackBerry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in East Africa.""" ['Stimulus'] 4 2010-08-24 Charles Gay, Elizabeth Miniet Republican Eric Stirgus Brian Robinson Georgia """Roy Barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that Americans will spend years paying off, and they've done it without creating one job.""" ['Stimulus'] 2 2010-08-23 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Al Hunt """This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area.""" ['Religion', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-08-23 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Under the new health care law, ""all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax""" ['Health Care', 'Regulation', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-08-23 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Debbie Riddle Texas """Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally.""" ['Children', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Immigration', 'Terrorism'] 1 2010-08-23 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus National Republican Congressional Committee "U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) refuses to return $37,000 in ""dirty"" campaign contributions from U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)" ['Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-08-22 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas Says Bill White is refusing to debate. ['Elections'] 0 2010-08-21 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke Jerry Patterson Texas Says Barack Obama didn't keep his promise to have an immigration bill in his first year. ['Immigration'] 5 2010-08-20 Morris Kennedy None Lukas Pleva Tamara Holder Illinois """The Republicans have 2 percent of the Muslim vote.''" ['Religion'] 4 2010-08-20 Doug Bennett Republican Bill Varian Josh Burgin Florida "Property taxes ""are now 18% higher than when (Mark Sharpe) first took office.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-08-20 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman Jeff Greene Florida """Seventy bills [Kendrick Meek] authored, not one of them has passed.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-08-20 John Bartosek None Aaron Sharockman Florida First Initiative Florida """Reporters have uncovered another Scott company accused of criminal acts. But Scott won't come clean.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-08-20 Robert Higgs Republican Joe Guillen Josh Mandel Ohio """In 2008 (Mandel) was re-elected to a second term, representing a district with a 2:1 Democrat to Republican voter ratio.""" ['Elections'] 4 2010-08-20 John Bridges Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas Says Rick Perry's proposal on driver licenses and high school dropouts has been state law since 1989. ['Children', 'Crime', 'Families'] 3 2010-08-20 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Liberal Bloggers "Republican candidate for Georgia governor ""dabbled"" in birther conspiracy theories." ['Obama Birth Certificate'] 4 2010-08-20 Tim Murphy Republican Cynthia Needham John Robitaille Rhode Island """Mr. Caprio is a career politician who has never worked in the private sector.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-08-19 John Bartosek Democrat Laura Figueroa Kendrick Meek Florida """There’s a mosque inside of the Pentagon.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Religion'] 1 2010-08-19 Doug Bennett Republican Bill Varian Mark Sharpe Florida """Mark Sharpe has lowered property taxes by 17 percent.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-08-19 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Rick Lazio "A New York imam wants to ""have a mosque at Ground Zero.''" ['Homeland Security', 'Patriotism', 'Religion'] 2 2010-08-19 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Florida """U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf’s trip to the Middle East.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Religion', 'Terrorism'] 5 2010-08-19 Robert Higgs Mark Naymik AFSCME """Jim Renacci supports a national sales tax of 23 percent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-08-19 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Holly Benson Florida """Most AGs don't go to court..""" ['Public Service'] 4 2010-08-19 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Kevin Brady Texas """Over 80 percent of our trade deficit today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners, that are not level playing fields for the United States.""" ['Trade'] 4 2010-08-19 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Stephen Archambault Rhode Island "Rhode Island is ""at the top of the country for alcohol-related fatalities.""" ['Crime'] 4 2010-08-18 Morris Kennedy Democrat Lukas Pleva Tim Kaine Virginia Republicans tried to block the deficit commission. ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-08-18 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Bill McCollum ""backed Jim Greer's effort to hide financial irregularities.""" ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Transparency'] 1 2010-08-18 John Bartosek Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Kendrick Meek Florida """Warren Buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction. And Greene was the first individual to use them.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-08-18 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Some Republican leaders in Congress"" are ""pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2010-08-18 John Bartosek Republican Cristina Silva Rick Scott Florida """We have over 700,000 illegal immigrants in the state. They're costing us billions of dollars and they're taking legal residents' jobs.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2010-08-18 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Steve LaTourette Ohio """Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know who's done OK and who's not complaining today? The public sector. We've gained 590,000 public sector jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2010-08-18 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Mike Keown Georgia """It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-08-17 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Laura Tyson California "The United States is ""number 14, number 15"" in college graduation rates, and ""we're leading the world in high school dropout rates.""" ['Education', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-08-17 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa John Stemberger Florida "Pam Bondi ""refuses to take a position on the gay-adoption ban.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 1 2010-08-17 Morris Kennedy Democrat Lukas Pleva Eddie Bernice Johnson Texas """In 1935, more than 50% of the elderly population lived in poverty. Today that poverty rate stands officially at 9.4%.""" ['Social Security'] 5 2010-08-17 Robert Higgs Republican Reginald Fields John Kasich Ohio """We didn’t have a development director for over seven months.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 1 2010-08-17 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Laura Tyson California """Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-08-17 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Barack Obama Illinois """The unemployment rate for folks who've never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have.""" ['Economy', 'Education'] 5 2010-08-17 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano, Jim Tharpe Roy Barnes Georgia "Said he won the Democratic primary ""without one ... negative TV spot.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Negative Campaigning'] 4 2010-08-16 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Carol Browner """More than three-quarters of the oil is gone.""" ['Oil Spill'] 3 2010-08-16 Morris Kennedy Independent Louis Jacobson Matthew Dowd Texas Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.' ['Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-08-16 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Courtney Combs Ohio """Phoenix, Ariz., is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2010-08-15 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Lamar Smith Texas """We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-08-15 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Esquire magazine "This year, Newt Gingrich ""has raised as much money as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee combined.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 5 2010-08-15 Susan Areson C. Eugene Emery Jr. Democratic Governors Association "Lincoln Chafee ""voted with President George W. Bush and the conservative leadership 76% of the time.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-08-14 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rebecca Bell-Metereau Texas "Ken Mercer ""wants Sean Hannity and James Dobson included in social studies texts.""" ['Education'] 2 2010-08-13 Bridget Hall Grumet None Jodie Tillman Committee to Protect Florida Florida "Kathryn Starkey ""only attended half of those meetings.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Environment', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-08-13 Bridget Hall Grumet None Jodie Tillman Committee to Protect Florida Florida "Kathryn Starkey ""aided and abetted the continued taxation on residents’ properties over 70 percent of the time by seconding motions and voting to keep the millage rate the same.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Environment', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-08-13 Bridget Hall Grumet None Jodie Tillman Committee to Protect Florida Florida "Kathryn Starkey ""joined forces with liberal Democrats on a historic sales tax hike.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Environment', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-08-13 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "Republicans are now ""taking credit"" for provisions of the health care bill ""that they had tried to derail.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-08-13 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley, Erin Mershon Barney Frank Massachusetts The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent. ['Afghanistan', 'Federal Budget', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 3 2010-08-13 Susan Areson Democrat Cynthia Needham Elizabeth Dennigan Rhode Island """We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain.""" ['Afghanistan'] 4 2010-08-13 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "A bill to aid state and local governments ""is fully paid-for by closing costly corporate tax loopholes.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Families', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'States', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-08-13 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Bob Gibbs Ohio "Cap and trade legislation that Zack Space supported ""would cost the average household approximately $1,761 per year in increased energy rates.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change'] 0 2010-08-13 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Todd Staples Texas "Says Democrat Hank Gilbert ""has a criminal conviction for theft, has multiple years of unpaid taxes, has multiple tax liens and fines, unsafe driving convictions (and) has recently been accused of taking a bribe and is on record lying to the press this year about his criminal record.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime'] 3 2010-08-12 Bill Adair, Martha M. Hamilton Lukas Pleva Rachel Maddow """We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-08-12 Martha M. Hamilton Alex Holt Rachel Maddow """The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse.""" ['Immigration', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-08-12 Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Liz Carter Georgia "Hank Johnson voted against legislation to help ""first responders, teachers, vets and troops.""" ['Voting Record'] 3 2010-08-12 John Bridges Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas """The state budget has gone up over 80 percent under Rick Perry.""" ['State Budget'] 4 2010-08-11 John Bartosek Republican Caryn Baird Jeff Kottkamp Florida """I've taken on the federal government and won.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-08-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """The border security plan of Sens. McCain and Kyl called for 3,000 additional troops to keep us safe. President Obama says he'll send 524.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-08-11 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Lukas Pleva J.D. Hayworth Arizona McCain opposed the border fence. ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-08-11 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Pam Bondi Florida I've shut down pill mills. ['Crime', 'Health Care'] 2 2010-08-11 Robert Higgs Democrat Joe Guillen Kevin Boyce Ohio """I’ve even cut my own salary -- twice.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-08-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Hank Johnson Georgia "Exporters are using a federal loophole to ""deceptively sell products made from cat and dog fur"" to U.S. consumers." ['Trade'] 5 2010-08-10 John Bartosek Republican Lukas Pleva Rick Scott Florida """Bill McCollum voted for higher taxes and fees 42 times while he was in Congress.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-08-10 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley George Packer Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day. ['Energy', 'Infrastructure', 'Iraq', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-08-10 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-08-10 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-08-10 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Gen. Peter Chiarelli "About 106,000 soldiers had ""a prescription of three weeks or more"" for pain, depression or anxiety medication." ['Health Care', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-08-10 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff George Voinovich Ohio """Last year, we borrowed $1.4 trillion -- or 41 cents of every dollar we spent. Over half of this debt is held by foreign investors.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-08-10 Jim Denery None Willoughby Mariano Michael Tyler Georgia """[U]nlike every other major transit system in the nation, MARTA has never received any significant, dedicated funding from the state of Georgia.""" ['Transportation'] 2 2010-08-10 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby John Carter Texas "Says the United States is the only nation that affords citizenship to anyone born here, ""whether you are here legally or illegally.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-08-09 John Bartosek Republican Lukas Pleva Bill McCollum Florida """Police officers in this state have that right,"" to check the immigration status of people they arrest." ['Civil Rights', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration'] 5 2010-08-09 Robert Higgs Republican Aaron Marshall Mike DeWine Ohio """There are currently delays of up to six months in the processing of DNA evidence at the state run crime lab.""" ['Crime', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2010-08-09 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says Bill White ""profiteered in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.""" ['Ethics', 'Infrastructure', 'Transparency'] 1 2010-08-08 Republican W. Gardner Selby Pete Sessions Texas """Over the time that President Obama has been in office, we have lost 2.5 million free enterprise system jobs, and, yet, 500,000 federal government jobs have been added.""" ['Economy'] 2 2010-08-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Johnny Isakson Georgia "Allowing all Bush income tax cuts to expire on Dec. 31 ""will amount to the largest tax increase in the history of America.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2010-08-08 Susan Areson Republican Cynthia Needham Donald Carcieri Rhode Island Repealing the sales tax on boats in Rhode Island has spawned 2,000 companies, 7,000 jobs and close to $2 billion a year in sales activity. ['Economy', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-08-06 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Bill McCollum Florida """In my attorney general's office, we've cut the budget 18 percent.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2010-08-06 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Lindsey Graham South Carolina """People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave.""" ['Health Care', 'Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2010-08-06 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska Democrats do not have a plan for extending the Bush tax cuts. ['Taxes'] 1 2010-08-06 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Lee Fisher Ohio "Rob Portman has taken more than $125,000 from ""Big Oil.""" ['Elections'] 4 2010-08-05 John Bartosek Republican Lukas Pleva Holly Benson Florida """Florida is now the No. 1 state in the country for automobile accident fraud.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Crime'] 4 2010-08-05 Susan Areson C. Eugene Emery Jr. Chain email """Obama admits he is not a citizen.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2010-08-05 Bill Adair Independent Erin Mershon Michael Bloomberg New York """Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs.  We set aside 6 percent.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-08-05 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Erin Mershon Sharron Angle Nevada """Harry Reid says he does more for Nevada. He's done more for unemployment. We were at 4.4 percent. Now we're at 14 percent. He's done more for the foreclosure rate. We have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. He's done more for bankruptcy. We have the highest bankruptcy rate in the nation.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Housing', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-08-05 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Bill O'Neill Ohio """In recent years, Rep. LaTourette has sponsored legislation that would increase spending by 551.6 percent.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Voting Record'] 0 2010-08-05 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Republican National Committee Georgia has lost more than 124,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has increased since the stimulus passed ['Stimulus'] 4 2010-08-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Because of violence spreading from Mexico, ""you’ve got bullets hitting the city hall in El Paso. You’ve got bombs exploding in El Paso.""" ['Crime', 'Drugs', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration'] 3 2010-08-05 Susan Areson Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. James Langevin Rhode Island """The Congressional Budget Office estimates that for every $1 we spend on unemployment benefits, $1.90 is put into our economy.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-08-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska """Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2010-08-04 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Lukas Pleva Randy Neugebauer Texas """Ninety-four percent of small businesses will face higher taxes under the Democrats' plan.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-08-04 Robert Higgs Democrat Mark Naymik Ted Strickland Ohio """In 2009, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council ranked Ohio 11th in the nation and 1st in the Midwest for overall business climate.""" ['Economy', 'Small Business'] 4 2010-08-04 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Alex Holt Charles Schumer New York """Eight of the nine justices in the Supreme Court decision (on campaign finance) said that not only is it constitutional for Congress to require disclosure of the special interest money, but they recommend we do it.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Supreme Court'] 4 2010-08-04 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal "Republican candidate for governor ""Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Negative Campaigning'] 4 2010-08-03 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "House Democrats ""have a two-to-one advantage money-wise"" against House Republicans." ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-08-03 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Jeff Greene Florida """Kendrick Meek was named one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-08-03 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years.""" ['Economy', 'History'] 1 2010-08-03 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. """Ohio lost 400,000 jobs on his (Ted Strickland’s) watch.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Jobs'] 3 2010-08-03 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman "The Bush administration ""pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Iraq', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-08-03 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Sam Olens Georgia """In Cobb County, every meeting opened with a prayer. The ACLU objected. Sued ... [Sam] Olens took on the ACLU and won!""" ['Legal Issues', 'Religion'] 3 2010-08-02 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Pam Bondi Florida "Mortgage fraud is ""up 400 percent in the last five years.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Housing'] 4 2010-08-02 John Bartosek Democrat Cristina Silva Florida Democratic Party Florida """(Bill) McCollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation, even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs.""" ['Disability'] 5 2010-08-02 Martha M. Hamilton Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland "During the recession, ""the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent.""" ['Economy', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-08-02 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "A bill to cap carbon emissions ""could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy'] 2 2010-08-02 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Lee Fisher Ohio """As President George W. Bush’s trade representative, Portman failed to address China’s currency manipulation, which was inflated to as much as 40 percent in 2006.""" ['Economy'] 2 2010-08-02 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Republican Party of Texas Texas Says President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isn't a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-08-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Preston Smith Georgia """We have my opponent Sam Olens to thank for [the Arizona immigration ruling] since he was on the team that got Clinton elected.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration'] 0 2010-08-02 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Catherine Taylor Rhode Island """There's nothing in the voting instructions that we've been getting in the last several elections that lets you know"" about the limitations of the master lever." ['Elections'] 1 2010-08-01 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Kasim Reed When Atlanta Police Chief George Turner was interim head of the department, overall crime fell 14 percent and violent crime dropped 22.7 percent. ['Crime'] 2 2010-08-01 Republican W. Gardner Selby Michael Sullivan Texas Says the director of NASA says its main mission is Muslim outreach. ['Space'] 3 2010-08-01 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Bill Lynch Rhode Island "Cicilline ""continues to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbyist, corporate PAC and insider money to fund his campaign.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 2 2010-07-31 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Gordon Quan Texas "Some cardiologists estimate ""70 percent of all males over 50 have some form of heart disease.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-07-30 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Kendrick Meek Florida """Jeff Greene can buy anything"" ...  he owns two mansions." ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-07-30 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Jeff Kottkamp Florida """Only a few months ago the FBI arrested three Broward County Commissioners for accepting millions of dollars in trade for illegal favors.""" ['Crime'] 1 2010-07-30 Martha M. Hamilton Alex Holt Chain email When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he could not have been traveling as a U.S. citizen. ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2010-07-30 Martha M. Hamilton Alex Holt Chain email A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen. ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2010-07-30 Martha M. Hamilton Alex Holt Chain email Justice Antonin Scalia agreed for the Supreme Court to hear a case about whether Barack Obama is eligible to be President. ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate', 'Supreme Court'] 0 2010-07-30 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Ted Strickland Ohio """In renewable and advanced energy manufacturing projects, Ohio now ranks first among the 50 states.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Science'] 3 2010-07-30 John Bartosek Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Kendrick Meek Florida """Warren Buffett called (Jeff) Greene's scheme 'financial weapons of mass destruction.' """ ['Candidate Biography', 'Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-07-30 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Yvette McGee Brown Ohio """The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city.""" ['Baseball'] 5 2010-07-30 Republican W. Gardner Selby Jeb Hensarling Texas """Today almost half our debt is owned by foreigners.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'History'] 5 2010-07-30 Jim Denery Democrat Jim Tharpe Chris Carpenter Georgia """Nobody’s invited us"" to the Obama events in Atlanta." ['Elections'] 0 2010-07-30 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Peter Kilmartin Rhode Island "For every $1 spent on afterschool programs, ""we can save over $5, almost $6, in crime costs down the line.""" ['Crime', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Poverty'] 3 2010-07-29 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Bill McCollum Florida """There's no negative advertising in my campaign at all.""" ['Elections'] 0 2010-07-29 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Dave Aronberg Florida "Dave Aronberg ""was the first to demand that BP create a billion-dollar fund to pay for the devastation.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-07-29 Martha M. Hamilton Democratic Farmer-Labor Erin Mershon Mark Dayton Minnesota """Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-07-29 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Tim Pawlenty """I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-07-29 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The president's budget ""would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Military'] 4 2010-07-29 Robert Higgs None Joe Guillen Progress Ohio Ohio """In 2009, Yost spent 2.5 times more money than it took to run the (prosecutor’s) office before he got there.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-07-29 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Lukas Pleva Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. "Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent ""have grown."" Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, ""they've seen their wages stagnate.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-07-29 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Dave Aronberg Florida """There are more pain clinics in Broward County than there are McDonald's in Broward County.""" ['Drugs'] 5 2010-07-29 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Sanford Bishop Georgia "Claims that Rep. Sanford Bishop votes similar to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are ""inaccurate.""" ['Voting Record'] 1 2010-07-28 John Bartosek Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Kendrick Meek Florida "Democratic candidate Jeff Greene ""ran for Congress as a California Republican.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-07-28 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Dan Gelber Florida "Dave Aronberg's career legal experience is ""less than two years as Asst. AG/private attorney.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2010-07-28 Robert Higgs Republican Mark Naymik Rob Portman Ohio Since the Democrats’ stimulus went into effect last year, Ohio has lost about 150,000 Jobs. ['Economy', 'Jobs', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-07-28 Martha M. Hamilton None Louis Jacobson David Gregory Washington, D.C. """25 percent of our economy is the financial sector.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Pundits'] 2 2010-07-28 Robert Higgs Democrat Stephen Koff Lee Fisher Ohio "Rob Portman’s ""plan to tax, slash and privatize"" Social Security ""would devastate Ohioans.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Economy', 'Trade'] 2 2010-07-28 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Erick Erickson "Republican candidate for governor Nathan Deal ""explicitly voted to fund abortions ...""" ['Abortion', 'Women'] 1 2010-07-27 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Jeff Greene Florida "Kendrick Meek was ""#1 in Florida in taking tobacco cash and then opposed a tax on cigars that would have helped pay for children's health care.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography'] 2 2010-07-27 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island """I remember one of [Curt Schilling's] teammates said he painted his sock, the bloody sock.""" ['Baseball', 'Economy', 'Pop Culture'] 1 2010-07-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Marc Morial Louisiana The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate. ['Diversity', 'Economy', 'Workers'] 5 2010-07-27 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Stephen Hayes "People in the top tax bracket, ""these so-called wealthy, most of them are small-business owners.""" ['Small Business', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-07-27 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Lukas Pleva Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire """For every dollar we put in unemployment, it pays back about $1.60.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-07-27 Martha M. Hamilton Lukas Pleva Timothy Geithner """We've seen six months of positive job growth by the private sector.""" ['Economy', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-07-27 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Ted Strickland Ohio """Ohio’s electricity rates are 10 percent below the national average.""" ['Economy', 'Elections', 'Energy'] 4 2010-07-27 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Austin Scott Georgia "Jim Marshall ""votes liberal in Washington ... and we aren't fooled.""" ['Voting Record'] 2 2010-07-27 Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Leticia Van de Putte Texas "Says Bill White's program to bring dropouts back to school was ""so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated"" it." ['Education'] 3 2010-07-26 John Bartosek Republican John Frank, Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """My 7-step plan"" creates 700,000 jobs in 7 years." ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'State Budget', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson Stephen Hayes "Shirley Sherrod ""was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this.""" ['Agriculture', 'Diversity', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Americans for Job Security """Jane Norton supported the largest tax hike in Colorado history.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'States', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan Americans for Job Security "The ""state bureaucracy"" Jane Norton managed ""grew by $43 million in just three years.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget', 'States'] 3 2010-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jane Norton Colorado """Ken Buck's (District Attorney's) office? His spending skyrocketed by 40 percent.""" ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010', 'States'] 4 2010-07-26 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Susana Martinez New Mexico "In New Mexico, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish ""spent federal stimulus funds on campaign Christmas cards.""" ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-07-26 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Richard Cordray Ohio "Says his office ""has already recovered over $2 billion from Wall Street for the workers, retirees, and investors who were harmed.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 3 2010-07-26 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Melanie Crozier "Karen Handel ""would have felt like it was OK to go in and abort"" Sarah Palin's son Trig, who has Down syndrome." ['Abortion'] 0 2010-07-26 W. Gardner Selby John King """Sometime in the next decade, there will be more Latinos in the state of Texas than there are Anglos. That will happen sometime in the next five to eight to ten years.""" ['Census', 'Immigration'] 5 2010-07-25 Robert Higgs Republican Stephen Koff Rob Portman Ohio "Says that Lee Fisher once said, ""I never met a gun control bill I didn’t like.""" ['Crime', 'Guns'] 1 2010-07-25 Elizabeth Miniet Jim Tharpe Georgia politicians "Georgia is ""the Saudi Arabia of pine trees.""" ['Energy'] 2 2010-07-25 Robert Higgs Democrat Rich Exner, Stephen Koff Sherrod Brown Ohio Twenty-two million jobs were created during Clinton’s two terms but only 3 million during Bush’s. ['Bush Administration', 'Economy'] 5 2010-07-25 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Wendy Davis Texas """We caught (the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale.""" ['Environment'] 3 2010-07-25 Tim Murphy Republican Cynthia Needham John Robitaille Rhode Island Because of union rules, cooks helpers moved into DMV jobs they were not trained for ['Government Efficiency'] 3 2010-07-24 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton, Catharine Richert Tom Ganley Ohio """The Arizona law basically parrots the federal immigration law.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2010-07-24 Robert Higgs Democrat Reginald Fields Yvette McGee Brown Ohio """Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-07-24 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs Bob Gibbs Ohio """In the 18th Congressional District, 100% of electric generation comes from coal.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy'] 5 2010-07-23 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley Bill O'Reilly """Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges"" against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Elections', 'Pundits'] 1 2010-07-23 John Bartosek Democrat Trenton Daniel Maurice Ferre Florida """I think it is unacceptable for the Chinese today to be larger in wind power and in solar panels and photovoltaic manufacturing than all of Europe put together -- forget the United States.""" ['Energy'] 3 2010-07-23 Bill Adair Republican Alex Holt John McCain Arizona """Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-07-23 John Bartosek Aaron Sharockman Rachel Maddow "Marco Rubio's ""economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Federal Budget', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-07-23 Robert Higgs Republican Sabrina Eaton, Angie Drobnic Holan John Boehner Ohio """The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvania to set up a new high-risk insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 1 2010-07-23 Robert Higgs Democrat Aaron Marshall Ted Strickland Ohio """In Ohio, we invested in our children, raising school funding by 5.5 percent in the last budget.""" ['Education'] 1 2010-07-23 Jane Kahoun Republican Robert Higgs John Kasich Ohio """Since 1904, the Ohio victor has won the presidency 25 out of 27 times """ ['Elections', 'History'] 5 2010-07-23 Martha M. Hamilton Louis Jacobson American Crossroads """Recent data showed Nevada ranks 50th in the money received from"" the stimulus bill." ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-07-23 Mark Vosburgh Democrat Robert Higgs, Louis Jacobson Dennis Kucinich Ohio """The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure.""" ['Afghanistan', 'History', 'Military'] 5 2010-07-23 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano, Jim Tharpe Karen Handel "GOP candidate for governor Nathan Deal ""is a former Clinton Democrat.""" ['Voting Record'] 2 2010-07-23 Brenda Bell Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Stephen Colbert """It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and can't afford its new science textbooks.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-07-23 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Jeremy Kapstein Rhode Island "The lieutenant governor has the power to be an ""economic ambassador"" and ""negotiate"" on economic development" ['Legal Issues'] 3 2010-07-22 Martha M. Hamilton Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland "Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt ""to be more conservative.""" ['History', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-07-22 Martha M. Hamilton Lukas Pleva Bloggers "Obama's dog has his ""own plane""" ['Transportation'] 1 2010-07-22 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Mike Pence Indiana """Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-07-22 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children "By 12th grade, ""more than 3 out of 10 girls have been pregnant at least once.""" ['Families', 'Women'] 3 2010-07-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """We have more kids take the SAT than any other state in the nation. I mean a high percentage of our kids take the SAT.""" ['Education'] 2 2010-07-21 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida "House Republicans who complained they didn't have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling ""shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 5 2010-07-21 John Bartosek Democrat Trenton Daniel Maurice Ferre Florida "Maurice Ferre says Kendrick Meek ""has voted 98.6 percent of the time with the Democrat party.""" ['Voting Record'] 5 2010-07-21 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Lukas Pleva Russell Pearce Arizona """Sixty percent of the Hispanics"" support the Arizona immigration law" ['Immigration'] 0 2010-07-21 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Robert Farley Joe Biden Delaware """I never called for a partition"" of Iraq." ['Iraq', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-07-21 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Sheila Jackson Lee Texas """Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.""" ['Afghanistan', 'History'] 1 2010-07-20 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Pam Bondi Florida "Opponent Holly Benson said that ""Just because you're poor doesn't mean you're unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care'] 4 2010-07-20 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Alex Holt Joe Biden Delaware """The health care numbers are going up.""" ['Health Care', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-07-20 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware """We're not engaged in nation-building"" in Afghanistan." ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-07-20 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe None Eric Stirgus Barney Simms Georgia """Have the suburbs been inundated with former residents of Atlanta housing projects? Absolutely not.""" ['Housing'] 5 2010-07-20 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. John Loughlin Rhode Island "Transporting drugs ""is the price of admission"" for people crossing the border illegally." ['Crime', 'Drugs', 'Homeland Security', 'Human Rights', 'Immigration', 'Marijuana'] 0 2010-07-19 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Bill McCollum Florida """Rick Scott's company is partners with Playboy in a social networking website that has community pages specifically geared towards gay dating.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Immigration'] 2 2010-07-19 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ron Johnson Wisconsin "Russ Feingold ""voted against the law that protected our lakes"" and ""was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-07-19 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """We don't get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 0 2010-07-19 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. David Cicilline Rhode Island "Providence has ""the lowest crime rate in three decades.""" ['Crime', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-07-18 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Charles Clark "Some city of Atlanta employees ""have not had raises in eight years.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 1 2010-07-18 Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas """Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York.""" ['State Budget', 'States', 'Stimulus'] 4 2010-07-17 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas """There have been 30 published polls in this election cycle and Harry Reid's been trailing in every single one.""" ['Elections'] 1 2010-07-16 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Let's Get To Work Florida "Bill McCollum ""diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources.""" ['Ethics', 'Legal Issues', 'State Budget', 'Transparency'] 2 2010-07-16 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as ""$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm"" and ""$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-07-16 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan National Right to Life Committee "The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover ""any legal abortion.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'States'] 1 2010-07-16 John Bartosek Republican Cristina Silva Marco Rubio Florida """Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-07-16 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal """Illegal aliens are costing Georgia taxpayers over a billion dollars every year.""" ['Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-07-16 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham David Cicilline Rhode Island "He has ""ushered in $3 billion in new investment.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Economy'] 1 2010-07-15 Martha M. Hamilton Robert Farley David Axelrod """We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-07-15 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Dave Aronberg Florida "Dan Gelber's employment by BP's law firm ""could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues', 'Oil Spill'] 2 2010-07-15 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Sabrina Eaton, Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """Since February 2009, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs while the federal government has grown by more than 400,000 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-07-15 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware """We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration,"" adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year." ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-07-15 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Ellyn Bogdanoff Florida """I said no to higher taxes and fees.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-07-15 Tim Murphy Talk show host C. Eugene Emery Jr. Helen Glover Rhode Island "Phoenix is the kidnapping capital ""of the Western Hemisphere.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-07-15 Morris Kennedy Republican Lukas Pleva Ron Paul Texas """We're spending $1 trillion a year on our foreign policy.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 5 2010-07-15 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Rob Teilhet Georgia """Ken Hodges badly botched this investigation and, as a result, justice wasn't done in this case.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-07-15 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Jeff Weems Texas Says Texas has one state inspector for every 4,500 oil and gas wells. ['Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2010-07-14 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida """$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crist's political photo-op special session.""" ['Oil Spill', 'State Budget'] 4 2010-07-14 Martha M. Hamilton Democrat Louis Jacobson Jim McDermott Washington state """Most"" of the Bush tax cuts went to people ""in the top 3 percent of this country.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2010-07-14 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Leonidas Raptakis Rhode Island Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis wrongly takes credit for small-business program ['Candidate Biography', 'Small Business'] 3 2010-07-14 John Bartosek Democrat Cristina Silva Charlie Crist Florida """Gov. Crist has never wavered in his support of the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.""" ['Guns'] 5 2010-07-14 Jim Denery Democrat Jim Tharpe Vincent Fort Georgia "Says Democratic opponent is ""too Republican to stand up for us.""" ['Elections'] 2 2010-07-14 Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas “In Rick Perry’s Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries.” ['Health Care'] 3 2010-07-13 Martha M. Hamilton Republican Louis Jacobson Ed Gillespie Washington, D.C. "Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had ""52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation"" and ""revenues were at an all-time high in 2007.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-07-13 Martha M. Hamilton Angie Drobnic Holan David Axelrod "Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush ""when he asked to extend unemployment insurance.""" ['This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 4 2010-07-13 Bill Adair Columnist Robert Farley George Will Maryland "Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, ""we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher.""" ['Pundits', 'Stimulus', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-07-13 John Bartosek Republican John Bartosek, Laura Figueroa John Thrasher Florida """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.""" ['Legal Issues'] 5 2010-07-13 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano John Oxendine Georgia """To say a family has to buy a product from a private company is clearly beyond the delegated powers of the U.S. Constitution.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-07-13 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Scott Hochberg Texas """Only about a third"" of Texans who enroll in college graduate." ['Education'] 5 2010-07-12 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Luis Gutierrez Illinois """Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country"" entered the U.S. legally and ""overstayed their visa.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-07-12 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Anthony Gemma Rhode Island Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation ['Elections', 'History'] 1 2010-07-12 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Karen Handel """John Oxendine is under a state ethics investigation because he illegally funneled more than $120,000 to his campaign from shady insurance political action committees in Alabama.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2010-07-12 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas Says Gov. Rick Perry is “by far and away the highest-paid state employee on an hourly basis.” ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Ethics'] 0 2010-07-11 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas """Sen. McConnell offered a fully paid two-month extension of unemployment insurance.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-07-11 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Stephen Archambault Rhode Island "Blue Cross headquarters has ""a $30,000 granite table.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Health Care'] 0 2010-07-11 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Roy Barnes Georgia "The state Legislature attempted to ""outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Science', 'States'] 4 2010-07-09 Heather Urquides Michael Van Sickler Leslie Curran Tarpon Springs takes its homeless to St. Petersburg. ['Poverty', 'Urban'] 1 2010-07-09 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Trent Franks Arizona """The top 1 percent pay over half of the entire revenue for this country.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-07-09 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska "The U.S. ""only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 2 2010-07-09 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska """We spend three times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Social Security'] 5 2010-07-09 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Keith Olbermann """Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year.""" ['Energy', 'Federal Budget', 'Oil Spill', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-07-09 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Boyd Richie Texas "Says Rep. Ken Legler ""voted against installing fire sprinklers and emergency power generators in nursing homes.""" ['Housing', 'Retirement'] 2 2010-07-09 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Gina Raimondo Rhode Island "The company I created, Point Judith Capital, ""is the only venture capital firm in Rhode Island.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-07-08 John Bartosek Democrat Cristina Silva Alex Sink Florida """Florida’s high school graduation rate falls well below the national average.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-07-08 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Mark Kirk Illinois """At his father's bank, Alexi made tens of millions in risky loans to convicted mobsters. Then, the bank collapsed.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Crime', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-07-08 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Alexi Giannoulias Illinois """He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Candidate Biography', 'Iraq', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Military', 'Patriotism'] 5 2010-07-08 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Mark Kirk Illinois """Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Oil Spill'] 2 2010-07-08 Bill Adair Republican Martha M. Hamilton Jan Brewer Arizona """Law enforcement in the state of Arizona supports"" the state's new immigration law." ['Immigration'] 3 2010-07-08 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Ralph Hudgens Georgia “The insurance commissioner can’t do squat about health care.” ['Health Care'] 4 2010-07-07 John Bartosek Independent Cristina Silva Bud Chiles Florida """Today, Florida is in 50th place in spending on education.""" ['Education'] 3 2010-07-07 John Bartosek Republican Laura Figueroa Marco Rubio Florida “We are picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags.” ['Oil Spill'] 5 2010-07-07 Bill Adair Alex Holt Al Hunt """Crime is down in Arizona.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-07-07 Morris Kennedy Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "As a senator, Barack Obama supported ""an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program.""" ['Immigration', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 4 2010-07-07 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham David Segal Rhode Island """As Washington debates cracking down on the big Wall Street banks, I’ve passed legislation that does so.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-07-07 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas """In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the"" world." ['Candidate Biography', 'Foreign Policy', 'History', 'States'] 1 2010-07-07 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Doug MacGinnitie Georgia """When you were casting your vote for Republicans, Brian Kemp was voting for Democrats.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Voting Record'] 2 2010-07-06 John Bartosek Democrat Cristina Silva Charlie Crist Florida """You know, when this thing first hit, I signed a declaration of emergency for the six counties that were directly affected, impacted in the Panhandle, then I extended that not long thereafter down into Sarasota County.""" ['Oil Spill'] 4 2010-07-06 Morris Kennedy Lukas Pleva Andrew Napolitano """There are mechanisms in place to shut down the Internet privately.""" ['Infrastructure'] 3 2010-07-06 Morris Kennedy Lukas Pleva Daniel Senor "Japan's ""interest on its own debt"" is ""25 percent of its national budget""" ['Economy', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-07-06 Morris Kennedy Journalist Louis Jacobson Jorge Ramos Florida """President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-07-06 Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Jeff Weems Texas """I’m running against a groundhog. He saw his shadow on the primary day, and no one has seen him since.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Energy'] 2 2010-07-06 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Rob Teilhet Georgia "Said he is the only Democratic candidate for state attorney general who has ""represented the entire state of Georgia.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2010-07-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Barton Texas Texas state Reps. Dan Branch and Jim Pitts, lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus, “are helping Democrat Ellen Cohen against her Republican challenger, doing events with her in her district.” ['Bipartisanship'] 3 2010-07-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Barton Texas "Says state Rep. Jim Keffer, a GOP lieutenant to House Speaker Joe Straus, ""did mail pieces for Democrat Mark Strama to help him defeat"" a Republican." ['Bipartisanship'] 4 2010-07-05 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson J.D. Hayworth Arizona "John McCain ""began his career in Washington as a lobbyist when he was appointed in 1976 as the Navy's liaison to the United States Senate.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics'] 3 2010-07-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Barton Texas """Powerful Houston Democrats Sylvia Garcia (Democrat county commissioner in Harris County) and Elyse Lanie(r) (wife of the former liberal Democrat mayor Bob Lanier) sponsored a Democrat fundraiser for Speaker (Joe) Straus with numerous Democrat officials and high-ranking union officials.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 2 2010-07-05 Elizabeth Miniet Democrat Jim Tharpe Gail Buckner Georgia “I have filed every disclosure that has ever been required.” ['Ethics'] 5 2010-07-05 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Barton Texas Says Republican lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus “aired radio ads supporting Democrat(ic state Rep.) Mark Homer... helping the Democrat to a narrow win.” ['Bipartisanship', 'Campaign Finance'] 4 2010-07-05 Tim Murphy Cynthia Needham Democratic Governors Association Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive ['Taxes'] 5 2010-07-04 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano Brian Kemp Georgia "Says his GOP challenger, Doug MacGinnitie, ""hadn’t voted in a Republican primary for almost 20 years until 2008." ['Voting Record'] 1 2010-07-03 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Carol Morgan Texas """We’re No. 1 in child hunger.""" ['Children'] 5 2010-07-02 John Bartosek Democrat Cristina Silva Charlie Crist Florida """I have spent virtually every weekend since Memorial Day in the Panhandle.""" ['Oil Spill'] 5 2010-07-02 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2010-07-02 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Bill Clegg Rhode Island "The U.S. deficit ""increases at $3 million per second.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Health Care'] 1 2010-07-02 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Mary Norwood """Georgia has the most restrictive ballot access laws in the country.”" ['Elections'] 5 2010-07-01 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Ron Klein Florida """West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Corporations', 'Medicare', 'Oil Spill', 'Social Security'] 1 2010-07-01 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Judson Hill "He ""stood up to Barack Obama by passing legislation that prevents you from being forced to join government health plans or buy health insurance against your will.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-06-30 John Bartosek Republican Cristina Silva Ritch Workman Florida """In Florida alone, more than $3.5 billion a year is spent on health care and criminal justice for illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-06-30 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Elena Kagan New York "During the year Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard Law School's Office of Career Services, ""military recruiting actually went up.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Kagan Nomination', 'Military'] 3 2010-06-30 Tim Murphy Democrat John Hill Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island If Rhode Island applied a 1-percent sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax, ''the state would receive an additional $89,376,857.'' ['Taxes'] 4 2010-06-30 Amy Hollyfield Republican Louis Jacobson Jan Brewer Arizona """The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues', 'Marijuana'] 1 2010-06-30 Republican W. Gardner Selby John Faulk Texas Says Houston’s 18th congressional district has been “gentrified” and is home to “more Anglos than African Americans.” ['Candidate Biography', 'Census', 'Diversity', 'Elections'] 1 2010-06-30 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Vernon Jones """I have a record on the environment of creating green energy ... taking trash and turning it into cash.""" ['Environment'] 4 2010-06-29 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Jeff Sessions Alabama """In her first appellate argument, Ms. Kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the First Amendment would allow the federal government to ban the publication of pamphlets discussing political issues before an election.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'Kagan Nomination'] 3 2010-06-29 John Bartosek Democrat Cristina Silva Jeff Greene Florida """We have that program where immigrants come here and they have to bring a million dollars in order to get a green card if they’re going to create jobs.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2010-06-29 John Bartosek Democrat Amy Sherman Kendrick Meek Florida """The first time he ever voted as a Democrat was here in Florida in 2008. He only voted four times in his life, and he's asking Floridians to come out and vote for him.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2010-06-29 Bill Adair Republican Alex Holt, Michelle Sutherland Steve Scalise Louisiana "It was President Obama's ""inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor's plan to protect our marsh.""" ['Environment', 'Oil Spill', 'States'] 3 2010-06-29 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano John Albers "When he worked for AT&T, he ""was responsible for large parts in a $5 billion organization.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2010-06-28 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Kyl Arizona """The ABA's own criteria for a judicial nominee call for, among other things, at least 12 years' experience in the practice of law, and they mean actual practice of law.""" ['Kagan Nomination', 'Legal Issues'] 3 2010-06-28 John Bartosek Democrat Lukas Pleva Jeff Greene Florida """If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation'] 2 2010-06-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke John McCain Arizona """Phoenix, Arizona, is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-06-28 Morris Kennedy Democrat Alex Holt Mary Landrieu Louisiana "Canada ""does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 4 2010-06-28 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano DuBose Porter Georgia "Says he ""fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-06-28 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Ted Ankrum Texas "Says U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul is ""the sixth-richest person in Congress.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2010-06-28 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Bill Lynch Rhode Island "Blue Cross’ new $90-million Providence headquarters ""was outfitted with $25 million in decor.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-06-27 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Vernon Jones """Four years as a congressman, he [U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson] never talked about MARTA.""" ['Transportation'] 0 2010-06-27 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase. ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2010-06-27 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mark S. Zaccaria Rhode Island "Langevin votes “the party line about 98 percent of the time.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 5 2010-06-27 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Mark S. Zaccaria Rhode Island """Langevin has been the most reliable vote for Speaker Pelosi.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 1 2010-06-26 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Bryan Underwood Texas """Ninety-six percent of the last session, (U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar) voted with Nancy Pelosi.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 4 2010-06-25 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Bill McCollum has accepted thousands from lobbyists for Planned Parenthood.""" ['Abortion', 'Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-06-25 John Bartosek Democrat Trenton Daniel Jeff Greene Florida """My opponent here has accepted money from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae (and) hosted subprime mortgage seminars.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 3 2010-06-25 Morris Kennedy None Louis Jacobson Florida Conservation Alliance Florida """Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-25 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Sheldon Whitehouse Rhode Island """When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2010-06-25 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Americans United for Change """Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-25 Tim Murphy Democrat C. Eugene Emery Jr. Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island """Fifty-three percent of teens in Central Falls are getting pregnant.""" ['Children', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Families', 'Health Care', 'Women'] 1 2010-06-25 Tim Murphy Democrat Cynthia Needham Frank Caprio Rhode Island “If every small business in our state, on average, was able to create one new job we would cut our unemployment rate in half.” ['Economy', 'Small Business'] 3 2010-06-25 Tim Murphy Republican C. Eugene Emery Jr. Michael J. Gardiner Rhode Island "U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin didn't want a border fence to block illegal immigration ""because he is afraid that someone will get hurt trying to go around the fence.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Human Rights', 'Immigration'] 0 2010-06-25 Elizabeth Miniet Republican Jim Tharpe Jeff Chapman Georgia Georgia has “more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona.” ['Immigration'] 5 2010-06-24 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Harry Reid Nevada """Sharron Angle wants to wipe out Social Security.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'Social Security'] 3 2010-06-24 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Harry Reid Nevada "Sharron Angle supported ""a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners.""" ['Crime', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Religion'] 3 2010-06-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Louis Jacobson Vern Buchanan Florida "The national debt ""has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-06-24 John Bartosek Organization Cristina Silva Fair Districts Florida Florida """In the last 6 years, there have been 420 elections for State Senator and State Representative. Only three incumbents have been defeated!""" ['Elections', 'Florida Amendments', 'Redistricting'] 5 2010-06-24 Heather Urquides None Aaron Sharockman Stuart Sternberg Florida "The Tampa Bay Rays' ""prices have been judged the most affordable in all of professional sports.""" ['Baseball', 'Economy', 'Florida'] 4 2010-06-24 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Eric Johnson """In fact, oil spills from tankers are far more common than the very rare leaks from rigs or pipelines.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-24 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury.""" ['Social Security'] 1 2010-06-23 John Bartosek Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Jeff Greene Florida "The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, ""many of whom are our enemies.""" ['Energy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-23 Amy Hollyfield Louis Jacobson Ed Schultz "With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama ""has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Military', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-06-23 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Rahm Emanuel Illinois """If the Republicans were the majority, (Rep. Barton) would have actually the gavel and the chairmanship.""" ['Energy', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-06-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Louis Jacobson Richard Durbin Illinois "Under President George W. Bush, ""the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion.""" ['Federal Budget', 'History'] 1 2010-06-23 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Rick Scott Florida "Bill McCollum ""served as a lobbyist whose clients enabled mortgages for illegal immigrants.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-06-23 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Jane Kidd """Health reform eliminates co-pays, deductibles, and other costs for preventative care and provides for free annual wellness checkups starting next year.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-06-22 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Kendrick Meek Florida "Jeff Greene ""is the king of the undercover Credit Default Swap that brought about the destruction of our economy that we have right now.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Financial Regulation', 'Housing'] 2 2010-06-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Cristina Silva Kendrick Meek Florida """When I become the nominee, the Democratic nominee, I will be the only pro-choice candidate on the ballot.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2010-06-22 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Edward Markey """We only have 2 percent of the oil reserves in the world, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a daily basis.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 4 2010-06-22 Elizabeth Miniet, Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Clay Cox """For six years, I served our community as a conservative state legislator. In every one of those years, I helped balance the state's budget.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2010-06-21 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Rahm Emanuel Illinois """In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change.""" ['Corporations', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-06-21 John Bartosek Republican Amy Sherman Bill McCollum Florida "Rick Scott “has heavily invested in a company that is geared to helping illegal aliens transfer money to family and friends out of the country.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2010-06-21 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Snooki """Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2010-06-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Louis Jacobson Orrin Hatch Utah """We get 30 percent of our oil from the Gulf (of Mexico).""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill'] 2 2010-06-21 Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Ken Hodges Georgia """Rob Teilhet, Just another career politician.""" ['Public Service'] 2 2010-06-21 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Jerry Patterson Texas """We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' """ ['Homeland Security', 'Terrorism'] 1 2010-06-20 Jim Tharpe Republican Eric Stirgus Doug MacGinnitie Georgia "Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is a ""career politician.""" ['Public Service'] 1 2010-06-20 Republican W. Gardner Selby Donna Campbell Texas U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is “the most liberal man in the United States Congress.” ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-06-19 Libertarian W. Gardner Selby Libertarian Party of Texas Texas “The Republican Party lost 1.1 million registered voters since 2008. The Democratic Party lost 1.2 million registered voters… (while) voter registration in the Libertarian Party rose 8 percent.” ['Bipartisanship', 'Elections'] 3 2010-06-18 Morris Kennedy Janet Zink Hillsborough Area Regional Transit The addition of a 1 percent sales tax would cost a typical household in Hillsborough County approximately $12 a month. ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Infrastructure', 'Taxes', 'Transportation', 'Urban'] 4 2010-06-18 John Bartosek Democrat Aaron Sharockman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """On the pace that we're on with job creation in the last four months ... we will have created more jobs in this year than in the entire Bush Presidency.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Economy'] 3 2010-06-18 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Rick Barber Alabama """Without representation, (the IRS) can increase taxes.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-06-18 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke David Dewhurst Texas """Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-06-18 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Concernedcitizen4U "Thurbert Baker kept a teen in jail ""who didn't even commit a felony.""" ['Legal Issues'] 1 2010-06-17 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Ethics', 'Government Efficiency', 'Oil Spill', 'Regulation'] 4 2010-06-17 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Jim DeMint South Carolina """Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure.""" ['Government Efficiency', 'Transparency'] 0 2010-06-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Amy Sherman Alex Sink Florida """The minute this proposal for near-beach oil drilling came up, I was against it.""" ['Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-17 Bill Adair Republican Cristina Silva Rick Scott Florida """If you read the Arizona (immigration) law, what it says is if you are stopped for violating the law and they have a suspicion that you're illegal, they can ask you if you're legal.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2010-06-17 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Eric Johnson """The last major oil spill from a drilling accident in America happened over 40 years ago in 1969.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill'] 1 2010-06-17 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas Says the Republican “state convention is actually larger than the Republican National Convention.” ['Bipartisanship', 'Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-06-16 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """I've issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-16 John Bartosek Republican Aaron Sharockman George LeMieux Florida "The White House has ""refused"" international help in dealing with the oil spill." ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 2 2010-06-16 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Edward Markey """Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency', 'Legal Issues', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-16 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bart Stupak Michigan """While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 4 2010-06-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Amy Sherman James Carville Louisiana "Alex Sink was ""the first official who said that BP should pay $25 million for an ad campaign to promote Florida tourism.""" ['Oil Spill'] 2 2010-06-16 Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe Jim Tharpe Karen Handel Says she was never a  member of the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans. ['Gays and Lesbians'] 0 2010-06-16 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Since 2000, ""the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions.""" ['Environment'] 3 2010-06-15 John Bartosek, Amy Hollyfield None Shirl Kennedy Florida First Initiative Florida "Of hospitals in Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA health care company, ""A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 2 2010-06-15 Morris Kennedy Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """BP is setting up claims offices throughout the state.""" ['Elections'] 4 2010-06-15 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson J.D. Hayworth Arizona "John McCain ""voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-06-15 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson John McCain Arizona "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.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Transparency'] 5 2010-06-15 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. "The Obama administration ""has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-06-15 Bill Adair Democrat Alex Holt Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. Ninety percent of the people in Arkansas still love Bill Clinton. ['Elections', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-06-15 Jim Denery Democrat Jim Tharpe Roy Barnes Georgia Georgia could get money for schools by scraping “the gold off the gold dome” of the state Capitol. ['Education'] 0 2010-06-14 John Bartosek, Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley Marco Rubio Florida """Gov. Crist's veto also clears the way for taxpayer funding of abortion in Florida.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2010-06-14 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson Steny Hoyer Maryland """The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06.""" ['Federal Budget', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-06-14 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era.""" ['Federal Budget', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-06-14 Sergio Bustos Republican Laura Figueroa Jeb Bush Florida "Bill McCollum has ""recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud.""" ['Elections', 'Florida', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-06-14 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Republican Party of Texas Texas """Bill White has a long history of trying to limit or even disenfranchise military voters.""" ['Military'] 3 2010-06-14 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Mitch McConnell Kentucky """A major part"" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman ""was essentially written by BP.""" ['Climate Change', 'Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 1 2010-06-14 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano John Oxendine Georgia "Georgia has ""a dropout rate that’s higher"" than Alabama's." ['Education', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-06-13 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Kevin Levitas """Georgia has a well-deserved reputation for setting the gold standard for food safety.""" ['Food Safety'] 1 2010-06-11 Morris Kennedy Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland "The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series ""was a foot and half probably high and outside.""" ['Baseball', 'History', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-06-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Bill McCollum holds the same position on (embryonic stem cell research) as Barack Obama.""" ['Abortion', 'Science'] 4 2010-06-11 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Glenn Beck """The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion.""" ['Census', 'Pundits'] 3 2010-06-11 Morris Kennedy Democrat Alex Holt Jerry Brown California "California's credit rating is ""the worst in the country.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-06-11 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Nathan Deal While in Congress, Nathan Deal was a leader when it came to protecting our borders. ['Immigration'] 4 2010-06-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Bill McCollum Florida "Rick Scott's former health care company, Columbia/HCA, committed ""fraud.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-06-10 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Starting in 2011, ""you will be required to pay taxes"" on ""the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 0 2010-06-10 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Chain email """In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration'] 0 2010-06-10 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Chain email Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens. ['History', 'Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-06-10 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Thomas Melsheimer Texas """Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama.""" ['Legal Issues'] 2 2010-06-09 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is “a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed.""" ['State Budget'] 1 2010-06-09 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Chain email "Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, ""all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Guns', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-06-09 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Arianna Huffington "Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of ""hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.""" ['Corporations', 'Government Efficiency', 'Legal Issues', 'Military', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-06-09 Morris Kennedy Independent Aaron Sharockman Bud Chiles Florida """Almost 1 million children ... have no health insurance in this state.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2010-06-09 Jim Tharpe Willoughby Mariano Fulton County Government """Fulton County has successfully reduced the number of pregnancies"" among 15- to 19-year-olds." ['Women'] 5 2010-06-08 Bill Adair Cristina Silva Bloggers Barack Obama appeared in the video for 'Whoomp! (There it is!)' ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments'] 0 2010-06-08 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman George LeMieux Florida """There's more than 100,000 people working at the Department of Agriculture. That's 1 employee for every 30 farmers.""" ['Agriculture', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2010-06-08 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley John Kerry Massachusetts """Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ... shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-06-08 Jim Tharpe Democrat Eric Stirgus Thurbert Baker Georgia """Our school test scores are right at the bottom.""" ['Education'] 3 2010-06-08 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """My opponent in November of 2008 sent a missive to the White House, to President Obama-elect, and said, 'Here's how you need to sell cap-and-trade to the American people.' """ ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change'] 0 2010-06-07 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas """Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him.""" ['Environment'] 4 2010-06-07 Sergio Bustos Republican Amy Sherman Dan Fanelli Florida "Under the new health care law, the elderly will be denied care when they have ""passed the age limit for treatment.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-06-07 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson John Kerry Massachusetts """We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11.""" ['Energy', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Trade'] 4 2010-06-07 Doug Bennett Republican John Martin David Caton Florida "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.""" ['Taxes', 'Transportation'] 5 2010-06-07 Jim Tharpe Jim Tharpe Nathan Deal """Handel endorsed gay adoption"" in 2003 when she was running for chairwoman of the Fulton County Commission." ['Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2010-06-07 Republican W. Gardner Selby Todd Staples Texas Says EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will endanger 575 Texas dairy facilities, 58 swine operations, 1,300 corn farms and 28,000 beef cattle operations. ['Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2010-06-06 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Markos Moulitsas California Turkey is an Arab country. ['Foreign Policy', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-06-04 Jim Tharpe Democrat Willoughby Mariano Roy Barnes Georgia "When Roy Barnes was governor, ""Georgia created 235,000 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-06-04 Jim Tharpe Republican Willoughby Mariano John Oxendine Georgia """We have SAT scores lower than that of Alabama.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-06-04 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Tom Graves """I've traveled the country advocating for the FairTax ...""" ['Taxes'] 2 2010-06-04 Jim Tharpe Eric Stirgus Francis Kung'u """For now, we are still below average in the metro region.""" ['Government Efficiency'] 5 2010-06-04 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley, Louis Jacobson Carly Fiorina California """Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather"" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security." ['Candidate Biography', 'Environment', 'Homeland Security', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Terrorism'] 0 2010-06-04 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California """This year, we have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month, a majority in the private sector, a stark contrast to the Bush Administration record of losing an average of nearly 750,000 jobs per month in its last three months.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-06-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Two-thirds of the top-rated hospitals in Florida were our hospitals.""" ['Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-06-04 Republican W. Gardner Selby Tom Mechler Texas "“The Democrats have over 20 field agents to our zero.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Elections', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-06-04 Sergio Bustos Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "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.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-06-03 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley VoteVets.org "The American Power Act ""would cut our dependence on oil in half.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-03 Morris Kennedy Lukas Pleva Glenn Beck """Sixty-four percent of Americans support the Arizona immigration law.''" ['Immigration', 'Pundits'] 4 2010-06-02 W. Gardner Selby Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kathy Miller """A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about.""" ['Education'] 3 2010-06-02 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Scott Maddox Florida "After the oil spill, Congressman Adam Putnam ""doubled down saying all energy sources, including oil drilling in the Gulf, should be considered just days after the oil spill started.""" ['Oil Spill'] 3 2010-06-02 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Mark Critz Pennsylvania """The Democratic Congress has already taken significant steps to create jobs and jump-start the economy, resulting in the lowest tax rates in over 50 years and the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-06-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Cathie Adams Texas """ObamaCare will use your tax dollars to provide free Viagra to convicted rapists and registered sex offenders.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-06-01 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """The Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they are continually waived.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 4 2010-06-01 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Steve Poizner California "As the CEO of eBay, ""Whitman started a separate division that only sells porn.""" ['Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-06-01 Morris Kennedy Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Bobby Jindal Louisiana "The federal government only ordered BP to pay ""to do one of those six segments"" of sand barriers for Louisiana." ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-05-30 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Colin Powell """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.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-05-29 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Lamar Smith Texas "Mexican government officials ""hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2010-05-28 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas "Says the Arizona immigration law ""expressly bans racial profiling.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2010-05-28 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Carly Fiorina California "Sen. Barbara Boxer ""passed only three bills in 18 years"" into law." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Legal Issues', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-05-27 W. Gardner Selby None Ciara O'Rourke Empower Texans Texas """There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools.""" ['Education', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-05-27 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson, Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida "Florida ranks ""45th out of 50 states'' for its regulatory climate for business." ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Regulation', 'States'] 3 2010-05-26 Sergio Bustos Democrat Lesley Clark Kendrick Meek Florida """Kendrick Meek is the only candidate who has consistently been against expanded drilling.""" ['Energy'] 4 2010-05-25 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Boyd Richie Texas Says Gov. Rick Perry is “spending Texans’ hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV.” ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'State Budget'] 0 2010-05-25 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Dale Peterson Alabama "Says he was ""a Marine during Vietnam.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Military', 'Veterans'] 2 2010-05-25 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Dale Peterson Alabama Says his opponent Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions. ['Agriculture', 'Campaign Finance', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-05-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Trenton Daniel Florida Democratic Party Florida """Last year, (Bill McCollum) spent more than $2.2 million dollars to produce and air campaign-style TV ads where you were featured in almost every frame.""" ['Children', 'Crime', 'Technology'] 4 2010-05-25 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Michael Steele Maryland "The Republican Party ""fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Elections', 'History', 'Legal Issues', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-05-24 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Rodney Ellis Texas Says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee. ['Children', 'Education'] 4 2010-05-24 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Chris Matthews Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket. ['Candidate Biography', 'Corporations', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-05-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Amy Sherman Kendrick Meek Florida """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.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-05-23 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Tim Kaine Virginia "The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates ""both got more votes than Rand Paul did.""" ['Elections', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-05-23 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Michael Steele Maryland "In Hawaii, ""they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office.""" ['Elections', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-05-23 W. Gardner Selby Ciara O'Rourke Robert Koons """In the history department at the University of Texas, out of 50 registered voters, only one is a Republican.""" ['Education'] 1 2010-05-23 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas “In three days last week, (Gov. Rick) Perry flew to five cities at taxpayers’ expense, holding press conferences, delivering $2,325,000 in checks.” ['Elections', 'Ethics', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 0 2010-05-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Bill McCollum Florida """The fact that Rick Scott is running for governor as a 'reformer' would be funny if it wasn't so outrageous. This is a man who barely escaped imprisonment.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care'] 1 2010-05-21 Sergio Bustos, Amy Hollyfield Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida "In Afghanistan ""the (military) leadership has proposed a new medal, an award for 'Courageous Restraint' ... for 'NOT FIRING BACK.' """ ['Afghanistan', 'Military'] 3 2010-05-21 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms David Dewhurst Texas """You’ve got almost twice as many cops in New York City as you do on our entire border. That’s nuts.""" ['Crime', 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration'] 3 2010-05-20 Morris Kennedy Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Danny Tarkanian Nevada """Sue Lowden gave Harry Reid's campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections, helping his Senate dreams come true.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Candidate Biography', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-05-20 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida "Rick Scott ""was forced to resign as the head of a company that pled guilty to massive amounts of systematic fraud, including 14 felonies, leading to a historic $1.7 billion fine.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-05-20 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Meg Whitman California "Steve Poizner ""increased his department's budget nearly 14 percent.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Financial Regulation', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-05-20 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Steve Poizner California "California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman ""contributed to, and campaigned, for"" Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer." ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-05-19 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Steve Poizner California """Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals"" in California are ""a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Immigration', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Poverty'] 1 2010-05-19 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley National Republican Congressional Committee """Minnick voted to let the government fund abortion under Obamacare.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Message Machine 2010'] 1 2010-05-18 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lainey Melnick Texas "Says U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout in 2008, ""but now he is standing in the way of reforms that would assure these bailouts would never happen again.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation'] 2 2010-05-18 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Meg Whitman California "California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, a Republican, ""gave $10,000 to Al Gore's recount"" effort in 2000." ['Campaign Finance', 'Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-05-18 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Heather Beaven Florida John Mica's brother is an oil lobbyist and his daughter represents the natural gas industry. ['Candidate Biography', 'Energy'] 3 2010-05-18 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Alex Sink Florida """Rick Scott's even saying he wants more offshore drilling.""" ['Oil Spill'] 5 2010-05-17 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan David Brooks "Elena Kagan ""has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues.""" ['Job Accomplishments', 'Kagan Nomination', 'Legal Issues', 'Pundits', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2010-05-17 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """I got a letter from 20 people who said they wanted their money back, 14 never gave me a penny.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 4 2010-05-17 W. Gardner Selby Democrat W. Gardner Selby Lone Star Project Washington "Says state's expected ""increase in federal political clout is almost entirely due to the growth of the African American and Hispanic populations in Texas in virtually every region of the state.”" ['Census', 'Elections'] 4 2010-05-16 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Patrick Leahy Vermont "Military ""recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there.""" ['Kagan Nomination', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-05-16 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Jeff Sessions Alabama "Elena Kagan ""violated the law of the United States at various points"" with her opposition to military recruiters." ['Kagan Nomination', 'Military', 'Supreme Court', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-05-16 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010', 'Small Business', 'Trade', 'Transparency'] 3 2010-05-14 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """The city of Houston now has more debt per capita than California.""" ['Message Machine 2010', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-05-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley Michael Savage "Elena Kagan is ""a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through.""" ['Kagan Nomination', 'Pundits', 'Supreme Court'] 0 2010-05-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley Michael Savage """She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Kagan Nomination', 'Pundits', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2010-05-14 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Ed Schultz """Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-05-14 Bill Adair Democrat Laura Figueroa Allen Boyd Florida "Says that when he first ran for office in the late 1980s, ""there were still folks who didn't have phone service. Soon I'd helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone.""" ['Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 4 2010-05-13 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Mary Landrieu Louisiana """In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill'] 4 2010-05-13 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Mary Landrieu Louisiana "Louisiana gets ""not one single penny"" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues." ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Federal Budget', 'Oil Spill'] 1 2010-05-13 Bill Adair Democrat Trenton Daniel Florida Democratic Party Florida "Bill McCollum explained his lack of action on mortgage fraud by saying, ""You can't do everything.""" ['Housing'] 5 2010-05-13 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Linda Chavez-Thompson Texas """Texas has, now, the highest share of minimum-wage workers in the nation.""" ['Workers'] 5 2010-05-12 Bill Adair Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care. ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Health Care', 'Pundits'] 2 2010-05-12 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Harry Reid Nevada "On Sandra Day O'Connor: ""I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience"" before she joined the Supreme Court." ['Job Accomplishments', 'Kagan Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2010-05-12 Bill Adair Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland "Greece ""has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-05-11 Bill Adair Independent Louis Jacobson Joe Lieberman Connecticut "The president can ""authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Military', 'Terrorism', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-05-11 Morris Kennedy Alex Holt Keith Olbermann "The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was ""his outreach to Muslims.""" ['Pundits', 'Religion'] 3 2010-05-11 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Florida Democratic Party Florida """McCollum admitted he didn't think that the subprime mortgage crisis was a big deal, telling reporters he thought that the subprime collapse had been exaggerated by the media and investors and that 'it's not the end of the world.' """ ['Financial Regulation', 'Housing'] 0 2010-05-10 Republican W. Gardner Selby Greg Abbott Texas "Says the EPA ""outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2010-05-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley, Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas """Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway.""" ['Kagan Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 5 2010-05-10 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John Barrasso Wyoming "On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan ""took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong.""" ['Education', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Kagan Nomination', 'Military', 'Supreme Court'] 5 2010-05-10 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Rudy Giuliani New York Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning. ['Crime', 'Homeland Security', 'Legal Issues', 'Terrorism', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-05-10 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Boyd Richie Texas "Says Gov. Rick Perry failed ""to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-05-08 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas “The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent, is 90 percent.” ['Children', 'Education'] 3 2010-05-07 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas Says he cut 'tax rates five times' ['Message Machine 2010', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-05-07 Amy Hollyfield Republican Caryn Baird, Aaron Sharockman Vern Buchanan Florida """In the last 50 years, (the federal government has) only balanced the budget five times.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-05-07 Bill Adair Independent Robert Farley Michael Bloomberg New York """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.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Guns', 'Terrorism'] 5 2010-05-06 Morris Kennedy Republican Aaron Sharockman Adam Putnam Florida "Scott Maddox is a ""lobbyist.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 5 2010-05-06 Morris Kennedy Republican Aaron Sharockman Adam Putnam Florida "Scott Maddox has run ""losing campaigns for 3 of Florida's 4 available cabinet positions.""" ['Agriculture', 'Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-05-06 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Darrell Issa California "Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the ""second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS.""" ['Energy', 'Federal Budget'] 1 2010-05-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """If you will go look up the definition of 'act of God,' we've used it in legal terms for a long time in this state.""" ['Energy', 'Regulation'] 5 2010-05-05 Bill Adair Republican Lee Logan Anitere Flores Florida "For the new state budget, ""Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding.""" ['State Budget', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-05-05 Morris Kennedy Republican Catharine Richert J.D. Hayworth Arizona """Up until two weeks ago, John McCain was a leading proponent of amnesty. Now with me challenging him, suddenly he has changed.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2010-05-05 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Mike Pence Indiana """This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2010-05-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas "Says in 2003 Texas cut ""$10 billion out of the entire budget, yet we put $1.8 billion more into public education. We put $800 million more into health and human services.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2010-05-04 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman Progress Florida """Incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon and incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos have said they plan to champion efforts next legislative session to allow oil rigs off Florida's coast.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 5 2010-05-04 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Kyrsten Sinema Arizona "Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's ""lawn is overgrown"" or if a dog is ""barking too loudly.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2010-05-04 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Jan Brewer Arizona "Late changes to the Arizona immigration law ""lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2010-05-03 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Katrina vanden Heuvel """At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on R&D.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'Pundits', 'Science', 'Technology'] 5 2010-05-03 Morris Kennedy Angie Drobnic Holan Janet Napolitano "Numbers on illegal immigrants ""are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Immigration', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-05-02 Republican W. Gardner Selby Jerry Patterson Texas “We’re making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it’s no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s.” ['Children', 'Education', 'Energy'] 4 2010-05-02 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Lamar McKay "A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service ""actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them.""" ['Energy', 'Oil Spill', 'Regulation', 'This Week - ABC News', 'Workers'] 2 2010-05-02 Bill Adair Independent Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Maher California """Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill', 'Pundits', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-05-01 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to ""create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today.""" ['Health Care', 'States', 'Transparency'] 1 2010-04-30 Bill Adair Robert Farley Rush Limbaugh "Alaska's Prince William Sound ""is pristine now.""" ['Environment', 'Pundits'] 1 2010-04-30 Bill Adair Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida """Klein did not hold a single town hall meeting (on health care) where the general public was invited to ask questions or present their views.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-04-30 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Kendrick Meek Florida """The governor switched his position once again on offshore oil drilling.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Oil Spill'] 3 2010-04-30 Republican W. Gardner Selby Jerry Patterson Texas "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.""" ['Children', 'Education', 'Energy', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-04-30 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Ann Kirkpatrick Arizona "Members of Congress ""have not reduced their salaries ... since the Great Depression,"" meaning they've gone ""eight decades without a pay cut.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Government Efficiency'] 3 2010-04-29 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas "Says the American public ""overwhelmingly opposed"" Democratic-steered health care plan." ['Health Care'] 3 2010-04-29 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Marco Rubio Florida """By registration fewer than 20 percent of Florida voters are Independents.""" ['Elections'] 5 2010-04-29 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Tim James Alabama "Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to ""increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English.""" ['Immigration', 'Transportation'] 1 2010-04-29 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Alan Grayson Florida "The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was ""#1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.""" ['Campaign Finance'] 1 2010-04-28 Morris Kennedy Democrat Catharine Richert Arlen Specter Pennsylvania """Congress can tell [the Supreme Court] which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority.""" ['Supreme Court'] 5 2010-04-28 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2010-04-28 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Alfredo Gutierrez Arizona "The new Arizona immigration law ""says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person.""" ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2010-04-28 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson John Huppenthal Arizona Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal. ['Immigration', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-04-28 Bill Adair Republican Amy Sherman Allen West Florida """Currently we have some 40-45% of Americans who are not paying any taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2010-04-28 Morris Kennedy Columnist Catharine Richert George Will Maryland """What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2010-04-27 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Ed Whitacre "GM has ""repaid our government loan, in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-04-27 Morris Kennedy Republican Aaron Sharockman Daniel Webster Florida "Gov. Lawton Chiles said ""if I were to become ... become speaker of the House it would be (his) worst nightmare.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2010-04-27 Aaron Sharockman Democrat Morris Kennedy Alan Grayson Florida """Daniel Webster said he's out. Now he says he's in.""" ['Elections'] 5 2010-04-27 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Sherrod Brown Ohio """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.""" ['Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-04-27 Morris Kennedy Louis Jacobson Bill O'Reilly """We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-04-27 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """Everyone in this country has access to health care.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2010-04-26 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Chet Edwards Texas "Republican challenger Bill Flores ""has never once voted in a general election in our district.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-04-26 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman Charlie Justice Links jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Rep. C.W. Bill Young. ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 0 2010-04-26 Bill Adair Lukas Pleva Charlie Justice """Bill Young uses his campaign money for, among other things, a luxury car.""" ['Campaign Finance', 'Ethics', 'Message Machine 2010'] 5 2010-04-26 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman Charlie Justice "U.S. Rep. Bill Young ""has accepted $737,000 from lobbyists and recipients of his earmarks.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Message Machine 2010'] 3 2010-04-26 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Sherrod Brown Ohio "The financial services bill will end ""too-big-to-fail.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-04-25 Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas Says Gov. Rick Perry has never held a private-sector job. ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-04-25 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Bob Corker "The Banking Committee voted a 1,336-page bill ""out of committee in 21 minutes with no amendments, with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor, we would reach this bipartisan agreement.""" ['Financial Regulation', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-04-24 Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas """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.""" ['Elections', 'State Budget'] 5 2010-04-23 Morris Kennedy Catharine Richert House Natural Resources Committee Republicans """Obama did not open new lands to offshore drilling – all of these areas were already open for drilling once Congress and President Bush lifted the moratorium in 2008. Instead, President Obama yesterday announced what areas he would CLOSE to offshore drilling.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Florida', 'Transportation'] 2 2010-04-22 Bill Adair, Sergio Bustos Democrat Louis Jacobson, Carol Rosenberg Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2010-04-22 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Rick Scott Florida """Thanks to you, in under one week we have the largest GOP (Facebook) page in the Governor's race!""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Pop Culture'] 5 2010-04-22 Bill Adair Hadas Gold Lamar Alexander """No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power — a record unmatched by other fuels.""" ['Energy', 'Nuclear'] 5 2010-04-22 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''" ['Campaign Finance'] 1 2010-04-22 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says he said last year there's ""absolutely no reason"" for Texas to secede." ['History', 'States'] 4 2010-04-21 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas """If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space.""" ['Science'] 5 2010-04-21 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Tom Grady Florida "Says Crist campaign website ""has eliminated all references to our Republican Party.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-04-21 Sergio Bustos Democrat Carol Rosenberg Dan Gelber Florida ''I have received more contributions than any other candidate in the race – Republican or Democrat.'' ['Elections'] 1 2010-04-21 Morris Kennedy Republican Catharine Richert Paul Ryan Wisconsin "In 2004, ""20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. ... Another 20 percent were receiving almost 40 percent.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Medicare', 'Retirement', 'Social Security', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-04-21 Morris Kennedy Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada "The financial services regulatory bill ""will end taxpayer bailouts.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation'] 2 2010-04-21 W. Gardner Selby Democratic National Committee """The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is the largest-ever investment in higher education.""" ['Education', 'Federal Budget'] 2 2010-04-20 Sergio Bustos Republican Carol Rosenberg Paula Dockery Florida """We have constitutional amendment that says that there's a ban on drilling right off Florida's coast.""" ['Energy'] 1 2010-04-20 Morris Kennedy Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Mitch McConnell Kentucky "New financial regulation ""actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Financial Regulation', 'Regulation'] 1 2010-04-20 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Bill Clinton Arkansas """Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East.""" ['Human Rights', 'Immigration', 'Israel', 'This Week - ABC News'] 2 2010-04-19 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """We had a press conference here that interestingly no one in the mainstream media covered.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-04-19 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Clinton Arkansas "Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 ""led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Taxes', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-04-19 Bill Adair Democrat Lukas Pleva Dan Gelber Florida "Florida teachers are ""already paid $5,000 below the national average.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-04-18 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Carter Texas "Says the new health care law delivers a ""$13 billion tax increase on families with special needs.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-04-18 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Bill Clinton Arkansas """I never had a filibuster-proof Senate.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Health Care', 'Supreme Court', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-04-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida The passage of the teacher tenure bill in the Fla. Legislature was like the health care bill in Congress because one party jammed it through. ['Education', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-04-16 Morris Kennedy Republican Catharine Richert Richard Shelby Alabama """The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Corporations', 'Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Financial Regulation', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-04-16 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Steve Cohen Tennessee """The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-04-16 Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Green """When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-04-16 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska """Americans now spend 100 days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2010-04-15 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Bill White Texas "Says Republican state leaders are using ""Soviet-style"" budget management." ['State Budget'] 0 2010-04-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Adam Hasner Florida "Crist sent his ""top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal,"" then vetoed the bill." ['Education'] 5 2010-04-14 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Newt Gingrich Georgia "When the United States ""first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything.""" ['History', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-04-14 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Jeffrey Toobin New York """A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court', 'The Colbert Report'] 1 2010-04-14 Amy Hollyfield Robert Farley Julian Assange """The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used.""" ['Ethics', 'Human Rights', 'Military'] 3 2010-04-14 Amy Hollyfield Catharine Richert Stephen Colbert John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court. ['Religion', 'Supreme Court', 'The Colbert Report'] 5 2010-04-14 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Ken Legler Texas """Cell phone numbers go public this month.""" ['Consumer Safety'] 1 2010-04-14 Amy Hollyfield Aaron Sharockman Richard Land "Rubio's ""got more experience than Obama had.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2010-04-13 Morris Kennedy Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio was ""subpoenaed.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2010-04-13 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Lone Star Project Washington """(Pete) Sessions has held at least two fundraisers at adult-themed clubs and made no apologies.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2010-04-13 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I don't answer hypotheticals.""" ['This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-04-13 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Charles Schumer New York """No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream.""" ['Supreme Court', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-04-12 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Robert Gates """The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops.""" ['Iraq', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-04-12 Morris Kennedy Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Kyl Arizona Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform. ['Immigration', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2010-04-12 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Alex Sink Florida """Florida Statutes require (Attorney General Bill) McCollum to consult with members of Florida's Congressional delegation"" before filing a lawsuit against the health care reform law." ['Florida', 'Health Care', 'Legal Issues'] 4 2010-04-12 Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas """Every citizen is entitled to the freedom of speech, but no one should have the right to use government funds or institutions to portray acts that are morally reprehensible to the vast majority of Americans.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2010-04-11 Bill Adair Robert Farley Robert Gates """The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-04-11 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Kyl Arizona """President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court.""" ['Supreme Court', 'This Week - ABC News'] 5 2010-04-11 W. Gardner Selby Meghan Ashford-Grooms Debra Lehrmann “This race will be the Democrats’ top target this November.” ['Elections', 'States'] 1 2010-04-10 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Karen Sage Texas "Says that under a new program jail ""time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent.""" ['Crime', 'Government Efficiency', 'Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-04-09 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Paul Workman Texas "Says Holly Turner ""failed to vote in five straight Republican primaries.""" ['Elections'] 5 2010-04-09 Morris Kennedy Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama said troops ""whine about bearing the costs"" of going to war." ['Military', 'Veterans'] 0 2010-04-09 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Frederica Wilson Florida "Says she introduced a ban on ""dirty dancing.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Children', 'Education', 'Pop Culture'] 4 2010-04-07 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Holly Turner Texas """Giving money to politicians has paid off for Paul Workman. Workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects.""" ['Ethics'] 1 2010-04-07 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Patrick McHenry North Carolina """Early census returns are showing that conservatives have been measurably less likely than liberals to return their census forms.""" ['Census'] 1 2010-04-07 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Patrick McHenry North Carolina """The most private question on this year’s form asks for an individual’s race, and that question has been asked by every census since the 1790 census conducted under then-President George Washington.""" ['Census'] 4 2010-04-07 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """The path to ObamaCare becoming law all started with Charlie Crist supporting President Obama's $787 billion stimulus.""" ['Health Care', 'Stimulus'] 0 2010-04-07 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Patrick McHenry North Carolina """This census is also the shortest and least intrusive count in modern history.""" ['Census'] 4 2010-04-07 Bill Adair None Aaron Sharockman Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida "The proposed education changes ""will not cut one teacher's pay.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-04-07 Morris Kennedy Angie Drobnic Holan Lawrence Summers "On financial reform, there is ""a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this.""" ['Corporations', 'Ethics', 'Regulation', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-04-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Amy Sherman Paula Dockery Florida """Teachers will not be able to return to work after raising their children.""" ['Education', 'Families'] 2 2010-04-06 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson John McCain Arizona """I never considered myself a maverick.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2010-04-06 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Silvestre Reyes Texas """An audit of the last census found that over 370,000 people living in Texas were not counted, and our state lost an estimated $1 billion in federal funds as a result.""" ['Census'] 0 2010-04-06 Bill Adair Republican Lukas Pleva Jeff Kottkamp Florida """If every house in Florida had a solar-heated water tank, that would eliminate consumption by 17 percent.""" ['Energy'] 3 2010-04-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006.""" ['Health Care', 'States'] 0 2010-04-05 Sergio Bustos Libertarian Carol Rosenberg Alexander Snitker Florida """Snitker has been virtually ignored by the major media.""" ['Elections'] 5 2010-04-05 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida The Senate Republican education plan is an unfunded mandate for local school districts. ['Education'] 5 2010-04-05 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Gil Kerlikowske Washington state """More people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol. A recent roadside survey showed that 16 percent of the people tested, tested positive for illicit or licit drugs. That's significantly higher than alcohol.""" ['Crime', 'Marijuana', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-04-02 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Lloyd Doggett Texas """With this reform, every insured American gets valuable consumer protections, and every uninsured American can become insured.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2010-04-02 Morris Kennedy None Aaron Sharockman Florida Education Association Florida "The Florida House is ""holding the FINAL public hearing"" of a controversial education bill in the middle of spring break...""when they hope (teachers) are not watching or listening.""" ['Education'] 1 2010-04-02 Sergio Bustos Republican Carol Rosenberg Foundation for Florida's Future Florida ''Both Democrats and Republicans are advocating for the use of student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness.'' ['Bipartisanship', 'Education'] 3 2010-04-01 W. Gardner Selby Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Green """As a state rep, I was considered the fourth-most conservative in the Legislature.”" ['States'] 3 2010-04-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-04-01 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke J. Xavier Texas """Farouk is on fire.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-03-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Cliff Stearns Florida """Cuba wants to let the Chinese drill in some of the very parts of the gulf that American producers are currently forbidden to touch, as close as 45 miles off the Florida coast.""" ['Energy'] 3 2010-03-30 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas “This week liberal Bill White faced an ethics complaint about more than $83,000 he failed to report to the state Ethics Commission.” ['Ethics'] 3 2010-03-30 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alan Grayson Florida """On the day that (the Republican) state leader resigned in disgrace, a ‘Shred-It' truck rolled up to Republican headquarters.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-03-30 Sergio Bustos Democrat Carol Rosenberg Charlie Crist Florida """Actually, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-03-30 Morris Kennedy Republican Catharine Richert Lindsey Graham South Carolina """The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Health Care'] 1 2010-03-30 W. Gardner Selby None Ciara O'Rourke Liberty Institute Texas """An attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an eight-year-old child.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 3 2010-03-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida "Charlie Crist ""worked with Acorn"" to give felons voting rights." ['Civil Rights'] 1 2010-03-29 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota """The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-03-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio controlled funds that ""out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office.""" ['Elections', 'Ethics', 'States'] 3 2010-03-29 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Mark Kirk Illinois """According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates"" of the health care bill." ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-03-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Catharine Richert Charlie Crist Florida """The average cost for health insurance in Florida went from about $600 a month for an individual to about $150 a month.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-03-28 Republican W. Gardner Selby John Carter Texas “The bill also provides full federal funding for abortions…” ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 0 2010-03-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Rubio's tax swap proposal ""would have been a massive tax increase.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-03-28 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Amy Hollyfield Marco Rubio Florida """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.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 5 2010-03-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Catharine Richert Marco Rubio Florida """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.""" ['Social Security'] 5 2010-03-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida Did not vote for tax increases as a member of the West Miami City Commission. ['Taxes'] 1 2010-03-27 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke John Cornyn Texas """The spillover violence (from Mexico) in Texas is real and it is escalating.""" ['Crime', 'Immigration'] 2 2010-03-26 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms David Dewhurst Texas "The federal health care plan ""costs Texas taxpayers $2.4 billion per year.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 2 2010-03-26 Morris Kennedy Republican Catharine Richert Tom Coburn Oklahoma """The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-26 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Kendrick Meek Florida """Marco Rubio thinks that government shouldn't be in the health care business at all.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-03-26 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio's ""income skyrocketed while his power increased.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-03-26 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-03-25 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Joe Scarborough "The health care reform bill ""is the largest tax increase in U.S. history.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-03-25 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Richard Durbin Illinois """Joe, I keep hearing you every morning talking about the biggest tax increase in history, but you don't mention it's also the biggest tax cut in history.''" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-03-25 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Charlie Crist Florida "In Cover Florida ""thousands already enrolled and climbing.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-03-25 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida "The Associated Press called Charlie Crist's attacks ""over the top,"" ""out of context,"" and ""not true.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-03-25 Sergio Bustos Democrat Carol Rosenberg Kathy Castor Florida "Says she was the “the only Democrat who voted against the Wall Street bailout.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-03-25 Republican W. Gardner Selby Republican Party of Texas Texas """War for the soul of the TxDems: 57% of Dem incumbents for Tx House LOST their primary.""" ['Elections'] 2 2010-03-24 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Don Gaetz Florida "The cost to implement Florida's class size amendment so far has been ""$16 billion.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-03-24 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio ""supported $800,000 for AstroTurf for a field where he played flag football.""" ['State Budget'] 3 2010-03-24 Morris Kennedy Republican Louis Jacobson Orrin Hatch Utah The health care bill will subsidize families of four that make more than $80,000 a year. ['Health Care'] 5 2010-03-23 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas """Last week the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Rick Perry's appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. That's right. Thomas Jefferson... was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change.""" ['Education'] 3 2010-03-23 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Bill McCollum Florida Florida's cost for the Medicaid expansion will be $1.6 billion a year or more. ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-03-23 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Bart Stupak Michigan """There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-03-23 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Bill McCollum Florida "Florida's legal challenge of the federal health care bill is ""bipartisan.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2010-03-23 Morris Kennedy Journalist Louis Jacobson Bob Schieffer Washington, D.C. "The Iraq war has been ""our longest war.""" ['History', 'Iraq', 'Military'] 1 2010-03-22 Morris Kennedy Republican Alex Holt Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Hospitals, doctors, MRIs, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.''" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-22 Sergio Bustos Democrat Carol Rosenberg Charlie Crist Florida "Marco Rubio is a ""Miami lobbyist.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2010-03-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Barbara Cargill Tennesse """The Federal Reserve system has presided over about a 95... percent decline in the U.S. dollar.""" ['Economy', 'Education'] 2 2010-03-21 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Annise Parker Texas """For years now, we have spent more money than we have taken in.""" ['Economy'] 3 2010-03-20 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Pat Carlson Texas """In Texas, schools do not even have to teach sex education.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-03-19 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Todd Tiahrt Kansas "The Democratic health care bill will ""collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-03-19 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-03-19 Morris Kennedy Bill Adair Republican Party of Florida "The Democratic health care plan is a ""government takeover of nearly 20 percent of our economy.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-03-19 Republican W. Gardner Selby Karl Rove Texas “Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend, David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for agriculture commissioner.” ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 4 2010-03-19 Republican W. Gardner Selby Karl Rove Texas """Kay Bailey Hutchison was elected state treasurer, succeeding Ann Richards. Democrats then abolished the position ... Hutchison later became a U.S. senator.""" ['Elections', 'Government Efficiency'] 1 2010-03-19 Bill Adair None Aaron Sharockman Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy Florida "St. Pete Beach's experiences are a ""fair example"" of what could happen if Amendment 4 passes." ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Florida Amendments'] 3 2010-03-19 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson John Yarmuth Kentucky "A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, ""almost 40 percent"" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because ""they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-03-18 Morris Kennedy Democrat Robert Farley Nancy Pelosi California "The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill ""cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-03-18 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley J.D. Hayworth Arizona """The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote, the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 0 2010-03-18 Sergio Bustos Democrat Carol Rosenberg Alex Sink Florida """As Florida's CFO, I shut down Krakow's scam and refunded more than $1.2 million to Josephine and other victims of this con man.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-03-17 Morris Kennedy Republican Catharine Richert Cliff Stearns Florida """There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception. ... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-03-17 Bill Adair None Aaron Sharockman Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy Florida "Because of a local version of Amendment 4, ""the taxpayers of St. Pete Beach have had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal bills.""" ['Economy', 'Florida Amendments', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-03-17 Amy Hollyfield Louis Jacobson David Axelrod """Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district.""" ['Corporations', 'Elections'] 3 2010-03-17 Morris Kennedy Catharine Richert Rush Limbaugh "People ""can't go fishing anymore because of Obama.""" ['Environment', 'Pundits', 'Recreation', 'Science'] 0 2010-03-16 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas "My ""border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime.""" ['Crime'] 0 2010-03-16 Bill Adair None Aaron Sharockman Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy Florida "St. Pete Beach's local version of Amendment 4 resulted in ""seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate.""" ['Elections', 'Florida Amendments', 'Infrastructure'] 3 2010-03-16 Morris Kennedy Robert Farley Americans for Prosperity """A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases.""" ['Health Care', 'Women'] 0 2010-03-16 Bill Adair Democrat Lukas Pleva Charlie Crist Florida "Rubio admitted he ""would have accepted the stimulus money.""" ['Economy'] 4 2010-03-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Louis Jacobson Virginia Foxx North Carolina """The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007.""" ['Economy'] 0 2010-03-15 John Bridges Republican W. Gardner Selby Republican Party of Texas Texas """House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-15 Morris Kennedy Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Several times, Obama ""has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... .""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Patriotism', 'Terrorism'] 1 2010-03-15 Independent W. Gardner Selby Linda Curtis Texas "Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's ""concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted.”" ['Elections'] 4 2010-03-14 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican W. Gardner Selby Cathie Adams Texas """Bill White ... supports the ‘ObamaCare’ socialized medicine plan, as well as ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Health Care'] 0 2010-03-14 Republican W. Gardner Selby Cathie Adams Texas “Bill White ...offered sanctuary to illegal immigrants.” ['Immigration'] 1 2010-03-14 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Cathie Adams Texas """Bill White spent his city billions of dollars into debt (and) saw crime rates soar while he backed gun control.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Crime', 'Guns'] 2 2010-03-12 W. Gardner Selby None Ciara O'Rourke Gretchen Carlson Minnesota Says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks. ['Education'] 0 2010-03-12 Bill Adair Republican Amy Sherman Marco Rubio Florida "The Obama administration ""spent more money on the Cash for Clunkers program than the space program.""" ['Space'] 2 2010-03-12 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Government Efficiency', 'Trade'] 3 2010-03-12 Morris Kennedy Republican Robert Farley Jim DeMint South Carolina """House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-03-12 Morris Kennedy None Alex Holt, Louis Jacobson America's Health Insurance Plans Washington, D.C. """Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2010-03-11 Morris Kennedy Democrat Louis Jacobson Dianne Feinstein California """We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-11 W. Gardner Selby Ciara O'Rourke Americans United for Change """Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-11 Amy Hollyfield Catharine Richert Chain email """Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!""" ['Military', 'Workers'] 2 2010-03-11 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida "Charges on the Republican Party of Florida credit card were made with ""my money.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections'] 2 2010-03-10 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Bart Stupak Michigan "In the Senate version of the health reform bill, ""Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards reproductive rights, which includes abortion.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 1 2010-03-10 Amy Hollyfield Columnist Louis Jacobson George Will Maryland """When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 4 2010-03-10 Bill Adair Republican Amy Sherman George LeMieux Florida """If we just froze spending at 2007 levels ... by 2013 we would balance the budget ... and by 2020 we would cut the national debt in half.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-03-09 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Jeff Kottkamp Florida """Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida.""" ['Crime'] 5 2010-03-09 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Daniel Lipinski Illinois "The Senate version of the health care reform bill ""allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 2 2010-03-08 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Hank Gilbert Texas """Todd Staples recently tried to woo his supporters and right-wing base by suggesting the Agriculture Commission cut programs intended to feed the elderly and disabled, many of whom are veterans.""" ['Agriculture', 'Veterans'] 2 2010-03-08 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Dana Milbank Washington, D.C. "George W. Bush was ""the least popular president in modern history.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Pundits'] 2 2010-03-08 Bill Adair Lee Logan Charlie Justice """The Florida Legislature raised taxes and fees by almost $2 billion"" in the 2009 session." ['Economy', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-03-08 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """Florida's new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent.""" ['Crime'] 2 2010-03-08 Greg Joyce Democrat Catharine Richert Nancy Pelosi California "The health care bill will ""create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-03-08 Bill Adair Alex Holt Glenn Beck """When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women.""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'Pundits', 'Social Security'] 5 2010-03-07 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas "Texas is the ""fastest growing state"" with the ""most Fortune 500 companies.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-03-06 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas """There's almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and that's an all-time record number in our state.""" ['Economy'] 5 2010-03-05 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """Texas has installed more wind power than any other state, and all but four countries.""" ['Energy'] 5 2010-03-05 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida """Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2010-03-05 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Dave Aronberg Florida "Says Gov. Charlie Crist has called him ""a rock star.""" ['Bipartisanship'] 5 2010-03-04 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Alan Grayson Florida "Reconciliation was used ""for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-03-04 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson Michele Bachmann Minnesota """President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-03-04 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas """Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry.""" ['Economy'] 5 2010-03-04 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Florida Democratic Party Florida """Congressman McCollum voted to dismantle Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 0 2010-03-04 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Washington cannot hide from the fact that Congress hiked the national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. They cannot hide from the fact . . . that the budget that they’re going forward with has more than a $5 trillion in debt in it over the next five years.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2010-03-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lee Logan Charlie Crist Florida """Our graduation rate is the highest it's ever been.""" ['Education'] 4 2010-03-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, John Frank Charlie Crist Florida "Cover Florida ""is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month.""" ['Florida', 'Health Care'] 2 2010-03-03 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson Mitt Romney Massachusetts """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.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2010-03-03 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "The Democrats' health care bills would end ""the denial of ... coverage to those who have a pre-existing condition,"" while the Republican bill would not." ['Health Care', 'This Week - ABC News'] 4 2010-03-03 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Mindy Montford Texas "Says she’s ""tried over 100 jury cases in Travis County courts.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2010-03-02 Bill Adair Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """We worked together to enact ... the largest tax cut in Florida history.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2010-03-02 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """Due to ... tax cuts and lower (property) values, 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2010-03-02 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Charlie Crist Florida """We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime.""" ['Crime'] 5 2010-03-02 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mitt Romney Massachusetts """He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Iraq'] 1 2010-03-02 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan ""justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-03-02 Bill Adair Aaron Sharockman Republican Party of Florida "U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson ""compared a former vice president to a vampire ... and compared America's health care system to the Holocaust.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-02 Bill Adair Democrat Lukas Pleva Kendrick Meek Florida "Florida ""has the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation.""" ['Economy', 'Housing'] 4 2010-03-01 Bill Adair Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2010-03-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Louis Jacobson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida """The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what's in our bill.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-03-01 Amy Hollyfield Catharine Richert Lamar Alexander "The health care bill ""dumps 15 to 18 million low-income Americans into a Medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients.""" ['Health Care', 'Poverty'] 3 2010-03-01 Brenda Bell Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas "Gov. Rick Perry ""spent over a million dollars on D.C. lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month.""" ['Ethics', 'Transparency'] 4 2010-03-01 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Maurice Ferre Florida """I left the city with $43 million in the bank.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2010-03-01 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Ken Mercer Texas "Challenger Tim Tuggey ""is a lobbyist who donated over $41,000 to Democrats who support abortion and same-sex marriage.""" ['Abortion', 'Education', 'Elections', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2010-02-27 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Jan Patterson Texas """Her opponent: zero times a judge, zero rulings, zero experience on the bench.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2010-02-26 Greg Joyce Democrat Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Charles Rangel New York """I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me.""" ['Ethics'] 0 2010-02-26 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke David Sewell Texas "Says he ""never"" donates to Democrats while Paul Workman ""contributes to Democrat Kirk Watson and other Democrats running against Republicans.""" ['Elections'] 3 2010-02-26 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Holly Turner Texas "Says Paul Workman ""voted in the Democrat primary, supporting Democrats with his vote.""" ['Elections'] 5 2010-02-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """Fifty-seven"" of  Rubio's 100 ideas ""ultimately became law.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Florida'] 3 2010-02-26 Bill Adair Democrat Lee Logan Charlie Crist Florida """Speaker Rubio supported gun restrictions that included background checks and waiting periods.""" ['Guns'] 5 2010-02-25 Greg Joyce Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """The costs for families (in the individual market) for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving would go down 14 percent to 20 percent.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2010-02-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Louis Jacobson Charles Boustany Louisiana "The CBO found that the House Republican health care plan would lower premiums by ""up to about 10 percent"" and, for purchasers in the individual market, ""those cost savings could even be higher.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-02-25 Brenda Bell Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas Says one in three Texas children drop out of high school. ['Children', 'Education'] 3 2010-02-25 Greg Joyce Democrat Robert Farley Harry Reid Nevada """Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times. Most of it's been used by Republicans.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-02-24 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """I vetoed more than $3 billion in spending. Lawmakers and I cut taxes for 40,000 small businesses. Now Texas is No. 1 in job creation. The nation’s five best housing markets are right here in Texas. We balanced five state budgets and we cut state spending.""" ['Economy', 'Housing', 'Job Accomplishments', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-02-24 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert Americans United for Change """Congresswoman Bachmann actually said we should be 'weaned' off our Social Security and Medicare. She wants to privatize Social Security and replace Medicare with some kind of voucher system.""" ['Medicare', 'Social Security'] 3 2010-02-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair C.W. Bill Young Florida "The Democratic health care plan is a ""government takeover of our health programs.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-02-24 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Florida Democratic Party Florida "Bill McCollum ""cost the rest of us billions"" as a member of Congress, including a national debt that ""skyrocketed"" to $4.7 trillion." ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2010-02-24 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Florida Democratic Party Florida Bill McCollum voted four times to raise his own pay, by a total of $51,000, and earns a congressional pension worth more than $75,000 a year. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2010-02-24 Bill Adair Democrat Amy Sherman Alex Sink Florida """Bill McCollum said tax cuts don't work.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2010-02-24 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson Republican Governors Association Washington, D.C. """As bank president, Alex Sink eliminated thousands of Florida jobs while taking over $8 million in salary and bonuses.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2010-02-24 Greg Joyce Democrat Robert Farley Dan Gelber Florida """Florida leads the nation in elected officials charged with crimes.""" ['Crime'] 3 2010-02-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Kyl Arizona """One of the most recent polls said 75 percent of the American people have said either don't do anything or start over (on health care reform).""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-02-23 Greg Joyce Republican Catharine Richert Sarah Palin Alaska """We were promised (the stimulus) would provide 'green jobs' for Americans, but 80% of the $2 billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in China!""" ['Energy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-02-23 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Paul Workman Texas """Holly Turner... still takes her homestead (property tax) exemption in Fort Worth.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-02-22 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Harry Reid Nevada """We have solved the problem. ... Scientists are now saying leave the nuclear waste where it is.""" ['Energy', 'Nuclear'] 1 2010-02-22 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Farouk Shami Texas """Mayor White has major stake in Barnett Shale production company.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Transparency'] 2 2010-02-21 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Margaret Gomez Texas "Says she ""stopped Capital Metro from raising fares for senior and disabled citizens.""" ['Disability'] 4 2010-02-20 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Eve Schatelowitz Alcantar Texas “In this judicial race, special interest groups have demanded money from me, in exchange for endorsement and support.” ['Elections', 'Ethics'] 1 2010-02-19 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mitch McConnell Kentucky "The stimulus includes ""$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2010-02-19 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mitch McConnell Kentucky """$100,000 in stimulus funds (were) used for a Martini Bar and Brazilian Steakhouse.""" ['Stimulus'] 4 2010-02-19 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio "The stimulus includes ""$7 million to build a bridge in Thedford, Nebraska, to help 168 residents avoid a 30-second wait at a local train crossing. Not one full-time job will be created.""" ['Stimulus'] 3 2010-02-19 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Kinky Friedman Texas """The current (agriculture) commissioner allowed tainted beef to be sent to school cafeterias.""" ['Agriculture', 'Children', 'Education'] 1 2010-02-19 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio "In the stimulus, ""$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165.""" ['Stimulus'] 5 2010-02-18 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Scott Brown New Hampshire "The stimulus bill ""didn’t create one new job.""" ['Stimulus', 'Workers'] 0 2010-02-18 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Farouk Shami Texas """My opponent... lost 43,000 jobs in Houston since he took over; we are losing jobs.""" ['Economy'] 1 2010-02-17 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas """As Houston's mayor, I helped our area lead the nation in job growth.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 1 2010-02-17 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """So far, the Recovery Act is responsible for the jobs of about 2 million Americans who would otherwise be unemployed. ... [And] the Recovery Act is on track to save or create another 1.5 million jobs in 2010.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-02-17 Greg Joyce Democrat Catharine Richert Joe Biden Delaware """In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month.""" ['Stimulus'] 4 2010-02-17 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby David Dewhurst Texas "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.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2010-02-16 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Ben Bius Texas "Says state Sen. Steve Ogden was the ""driving force behind business income tax hurting small business, crafted the Robin Hood school finance scheme making property taxes skyrocket, wrote a budget that will result in a $14 billion deficit and voted against"" gun freedoms." ['Education', 'Guns', 'State Budget'] 1 2010-02-16 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now.""" ['Crime', 'Homeland Security', 'Legal Issues', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 5 2010-02-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Louis Jacobson Joe Biden Delaware "Among the money spent on health care in the United States, ""46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2010-02-15 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Dick Cheney "President Barack Obama's ""initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber"" was to say that ""this was the act of an isolated extremist.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Terrorism', 'This Week - ABC News'] 3 2010-02-14 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas Says the Texas Education Agency follows up to make sure undocumented immigrants paying in-state tuition at Texas colleges are applying for permanent residency. ['Immigration'] 1 2010-02-13 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Farouk Shami Texas """We have killed lots of innocent people in the state of Texas.""" ['Crime', 'Legal Issues'] 1 2010-02-12 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """We have billions in surplus.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2010-02-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts. ['Homeland Security', 'Legal Issues', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 2 2010-02-12 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke Farouk Shami Texas """When we go to vote, they ask for driver's license and verify that you are a voter and a citizen in the state of Texas.""" ['Elections'] 3 2010-02-11 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio "Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, ""The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 4 2010-02-11 Brenda Bell Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas """Taxpayers even footed the bill for Perry’s trip to a bachelor party in Las Vegas.""" ['Ethics', 'Taxes', 'Transparency', 'Transportation'] 2 2010-02-11 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Glenn Beck Franklin Roosevelt never allocated more than 12 percent of GDP to federal spending, while the percentage for Barack Obama is not projected to drop below 22.8 percent. ['Federal Budget', 'Pundits'] 2 2010-02-11 Bill Adair Lukas Pleva Chain email "On the new dollar coins, ""'In God We Trust' is gone!""" ['Patriotism'] 1 2010-02-10 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Bill O'Reilly """A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Pop Culture', 'Pundits'] 5 2010-02-10 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Jon Stewart One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts. ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 4 2010-02-10 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Nancy Pelosi California "The House passed a pay-as-you-go rule that said, ""If you wanted to have an investment, an entitlement, etc., you had to pay for it.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-02-10 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas "Says Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison ""took 154 private flights all funded by taxpayers"" though ""commercial flights were readily available at a fraction of the cost.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2010-02-09 Greg Joyce Republican Catharine Richert Sarah Palin Alaska "Vice President Joe Biden's meeting ""with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Transparency'] 1 2010-02-09 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Farouk Shami Texas "Houston is ""the third-most toxic city in the United States of America.""" ['Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2010-02-08 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska """One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2010-02-08 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska """Barack Obama had 150 days in the U.S. Senate where he was able to vote quite often 'present.' """ ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2010-02-08 Brenda Bell Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Debra Medina Texas """The governor’s not taking his own fiscal advice. ... In the first fiscal quarter of this year, we’ve seen a 13.5 percent increase in spending, double-digit spending out of the executive branch in the State of Texas.""" ['Economy', 'Government Efficiency', 'State Budget'] 3 2010-02-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Franklin Sands Florida """Florida still averages more students in its classrooms than any other state in the Southeast.""" ['Education', 'Florida'] 3 2010-02-06 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas Says his executive order requiring young girls to be vaccinated against HPV wasn't mandatory. ['Families', 'Health Care'] 2 2010-02-05 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Judd Gregg """The law is very clear! 'The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt.'""" ['Economy'] 5 2010-02-05 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "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.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 5 2010-02-05 Bill Adair Republican Lukas Pleva Ron Paul Texas """The money supply has doubled in the last year.""" ['Economy'] 2 2010-02-05 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Bill White Texas """Our (Texas) graduation rate ranks 43rd out of 50 states.""" ['Education'] 5 2010-02-05 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Debra Medina Texas """For the hour after the (Jan. 14) debate, 'Debra Medina' was the No. 1 search on Google and for the remainder of that night No. 3.""" ['Elections', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Pop Culture'] 1 2010-02-04 Greg Joyce Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2010-02-04 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Paul Krugman "The Senate-passed health care bill ""is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 4 2010-02-04 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas Uses headlines to portray Gov. Rick Perry as beholden to special interests. ['Ethics'] 4 2010-02-04 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Farouk Shami Texas "Bill White ""is discriminating. He's taking jobs from African Americans and giving them to his friends.""" ['Diversity'] 0 2010-02-03 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Scott Brown New Hampshire """Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts.""" ['Economy'] 1 2010-02-03 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Glenn Beck """Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.""" ['Military', 'Pundits'] 3 2010-02-03 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """We cut property taxes by one-third.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Taxes'] 2 2010-02-02 Greg Joyce Robert Farley David Axelrod """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.""" ['Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 5 2010-02-02 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Debra Medina Texas "Says a prank phone call caused ""400 children to be taken from their parents... without warrant.""" ['Civil Rights'] 3 2010-02-01 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Health care reform ""would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-02-01 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas """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.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2010-01-31 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Republican Party of Texas Texas """Bill White has presided over the construction of what may be the world's largest abortion clinic.""" ['Abortion'] 0 2010-01-29 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Jeb Hensarling Texas """What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2010-01-29 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois "Obama came into office ""with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2010-01-29 Greg Joyce Republican Alex Holt Tom Price Georgia """Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions"" on health care." ['Bipartisanship', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-01-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months.""" ['Florida'] 4 2010-01-29 W. Gardner Selby Democratic National Committee “Under (Rick Perry’s) watch as governor, over six million Texans have no health care coverage, including one million children, homeowners suffer from the highest insurance rates in the country, and college tuition has skyrocketed 136 percent.” ['Children', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Health Care'] 3 2010-01-28 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Nancy Pfotenhauer "The president's health care proposals will cause ""most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-01-28 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """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.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 5 2010-01-28 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Ronnie Earle Texas """Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle.""" ['Census', 'Economy', 'Families'] 4 2010-01-28 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """President Obama pledged to go through the budget 'line by line,' but on his watch, non-defense spending has spiraled out of control, increasing by 67 percent in the last year alone.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 2 2010-01-28 Greg Joyce Republican Alex Holt, Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio """A majority of Americans still oppose this health care bill.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2010-01-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Bob McDonnell Virginia """The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-01-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Bob McDonnell Virginia """Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore.""" ['Energy', 'States'] 5 2010-01-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 5 2010-01-27 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections.""" ['Corporations', 'Supreme Court'] 2 2010-01-27 Greg Joyce Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 4 2010-01-27 Greg Joyce Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """We've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.""" ['Ethics'] 1 2010-01-27 Greg Joyce Democrat Bill Adair, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "The ""pay-as-you-go law ... was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2010-01-27 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-01-27 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online.""" ['Ethics', 'Legal Issues', 'Transparency'] 4 2010-01-27 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison “voted to continue Roe v. Wade.” ['Abortion'] 4 2010-01-27 Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison “has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling.” ['Economy'] 5 2010-01-25 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress.""" ['Pop Culture'] 5 2010-01-25 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas """We have over 300 state agencies. Forty-five of those agencies are related to health care.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-01-25 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Dick Armey """Right now the Tea Party polls higher than the Republicans and the Democrats.""" ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 1 2010-01-25 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Carolyn Maloney New York "Democratic presidents ""have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs.""" ['Economy', 'History', 'Workers'] 5 2010-01-22 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Charles Schumer New York """With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures.""" ['Corporations', 'Elections', 'Legal Issues', 'Supreme Court'] 2 2010-01-22 Brenda Bell Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """We lowered the business tax from 4 percent down to 1 percent.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 3 2010-01-22 Greg Joyce Democrat Catharine Richert Joe Biden Delaware """As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators.""" ['Bipartisanship', 'Government Efficiency'] 1 2010-01-22 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Chain email Members of Congress passed a pay raise for themselves of $10,000 over two years even as they voted not to raise Social Security benefits for 2010 and 2011. ['Medicare', 'Retirement', 'Social Security'] 2 2010-01-22 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Debra Medina Texas """The Texas Department of Transportation... misplaced a billion dollars.""" ['Transportation'] 4 2010-01-21 Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas “The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor.” ['Corporations', 'Economy', 'Small Business', 'Taxes'] 1 2010-01-21 Bill Adair Robert Farley Chain email "The Democrats' health care bills would provide ""free health care for illegal immigrants.""" ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-01-21 Bill Adair Robert Farley Chain email "The House health care bill provides for ""free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Immigration'] 1 2010-01-20 Bill Adair Kevin Robillard Rush Limbaugh "There are ""high administrative costs"" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site." ['Government Efficiency', 'Pundits'] 0 2010-01-20 Greg Joyce Hadas Gold, Louis Jacobson Kelly O'Donnell "In Massachusetts, Scott Brown's Republican affiliation is ""not a secret, but clearly not on display.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Elections', 'Pundits'] 4 2010-01-20 Bill Adair Democrat Alex Holt Barack Obama Illinois """The Washington Times ... pointed out that we had succeeded where previous administrations had failed"" on spending cuts." ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-01-20 Bill Adair Republican W. Gardner Selby John Cornyn Texas """The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-01-20 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas "Health care reform: ""Everything about it is going to raise costs, raise taxes and lower the quality of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-01-19 Democrat W. Gardner Selby Linda Chavez-Thompson Texas """Most Texans aren't millionaires.""" ['Economy', 'Elections'] 5 2010-01-19 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Glenn Beck Chile ranks third internationally in economic freedom, while the U.S. ranks 17th. ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy', 'Pundits'] 2 2010-01-18 W. Gardner Selby Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Rick Perry Texas """The Trans-Texas Corridor is dead.""" ['State Budget', 'Transportation'] 4 2010-01-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """Close to half of the folks in this country illegally entered legally (but) overstayed (their ) visas.""" ['Florida', 'Immigration'] 4 2010-01-18 Greg Joyce Democrat Catharine Richert Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. Obama's job approval rating is up. ['Job Accomplishments', 'Pundits'] 4 2010-01-15 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas Says Gov. Rick Perry was for Wall Street bailout before he was against it. ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2010-01-15 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Karl Rove Texas "The Obama administration ""raised discretionary spending by 24 percent from President George W. Bush's last full-year budget and will run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2010-01-15 Bill Adair Catharine Richert David Axelrod When President Bush took office in 2001, he inherited a $236 billion budget surplus, with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When he ended his term, he left a $1.3 trillion deficit and a projected 10-year shortfall of $8 trillion. ['Federal Budget'] 4 2010-01-15 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas Says Kay Bailey Hutchison voted for sanctuary cities. ['Immigration'] 1 2010-01-15 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas """We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year.""" ['Economy'] 5 2010-01-15 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Alex Sink Florida """No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle.""" ['Florida'] 5 2010-01-15 Brenda Bell Democrat W. Gardner Selby Hector Uribe Texas Says Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson threatened to shoot him. ['Guns'] 0 2010-01-15 Brenda Bell, W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Texas Democratic Party Texas "Says Rick Perry's ""Pay to Play"" politics led him to send $899 million to an offshore call center in Bermuda, driving down enrollment in children's health insurance" ['Health Care'] 1 2010-01-13 Brenda Bell Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas """Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2010-01-13 Brenda Bell Democrat Meghan Ashford-Grooms Bill White Texas "During his tenure as mayor, he ""saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years.""" ['Crime'] 5 2010-01-13 W. Gardner Selby Republican Ciara O'Rourke Rick Perry Texas """More than 1,000 people ... move to Texas every day.""" ['Census', 'Immigration', 'States'] 4 2010-01-12 Greg Joyce Republican Kevin Robillard Newt Gingrich Georgia "A recent Obama executive order could ""lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Homeland Security'] 0 2010-01-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Kendrick Meek Florida """A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don't know who's going to win this race.""" ['Florida'] 2 2010-01-12 Brenda Bell Meghan Ashford-Grooms Barbara Ann Radnofsky """The attorney general requires that rape victims pay for the rape kit.""" ['Crime', 'Women'] 0 2010-01-12 Bill Adair Republican Ciara O'Rourke Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas "Says she has ""quadrupled agents to secure our border.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2010-01-12 Bill Adair Republican W. Gardner Selby Rick Perry Texas Says approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas. ['Economy', 'Elections', 'Job Accomplishments', 'Workers'] 1 2010-01-12 Bill Adair Democrat W. Gardner Selby Hank Gilbert Texas "Says a careless attitude and ""poor oversight by the Texas Department of Agriculture"" led to deaths and illnesses traced to a Texas peanut plant." ['Agriculture', 'Consumer Safety'] 3 2010-01-12 Brenda Bell Republican Ciara O'Rourke Republican Party of Texas Texas Says Bill White is for gay marriage. ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Marriage'] 1 2010-01-12 Bill Adair Republican Meghan Ashford-Grooms Lamar Smith Texas “Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs.” ['Economy', 'Immigration'] 4 2010-01-12 W. Gardner Selby Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Farouk Shami Texas "Says he ""brought 1,200 jobs to Texas by moving his factories here from China.""" ['Economy', 'Job Accomplishments'] 3 2010-01-12 Brenda Bell Democrat Ciara O'Rourke Marc Katz Texas """Texas is LAST (50th) in spending for mental health care.""" ['Health Care', 'State Budget'] 4 2010-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman George LeMieux Florida """Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Florida'] 4 2010-01-08 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Rudy Giuliani New York """We had no domestic attacks under Bush.""" ['Homeland Security', 'Terrorism'] 0 2010-01-07 Bill Adair Independent Louis Jacobson Michael Bloomberg New York """Most of the people that work in finance make $70,000, $80,000 a year.""" ['Corporations'] 3 2010-01-06 Greg Joyce Republican Catharine Richert Chuck Grassley Iowa """I haven't missed a vote since 1993.""" ['History'] 5 2010-01-05 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations).""" ['Florida', 'Health Care'] 5 2010-01-04 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Dana Milbank Washington, D.C. """Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.""" ['Pundits', 'Religion'] 2 2010-01-03 Amy Hollyfield Bill Adair Dick Cheney "President Obama ""doesn't ... want to admit we're at war.""" ['Terrorism'] 0 2009-12-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Aaron Sharockman Karl Rove Texas """In Florida, Sen. Bill Nelson ... got a $25 billion to $30 billion carve-out for Medicare Advantage patients in their state.""" ['Florida', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 2 2009-12-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Ben Nelson Nebraska "A Medicaid provision added to the Senate health care reform bill ""is not a special deal for Nebraska.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-12-23 Angie Drobnic Holan Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I didn't campaign on a public option.""" ['Elections', 'Health Care'] 2 2009-12-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "Charlie Crist broke the quarter ""record for fundraising in a U.S. Senate race in Florida.""" ['Florida'] 5 2009-12-21 Greg Joyce Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida "When Charlie Crist was elected governor, Florida ranked 31st in K-12 education. ""Last year ... we went from 31st to 14. And this year, the top 10 in America.""" ['Education', 'Florida'] 3 2009-12-18 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "Health care reform plans being consided in Congress ""will finally reduce the costs of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-12-17 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson Karl Rove Texas "President Obama has ""the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year.""" ['History', 'Job Accomplishments'] 4 2009-12-15 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Tom Harkin Iowa """Today and every day, an estimated 14,000 Americans will lose their health insurance coverage.""" ['Health Care', 'Workers'] 1 2009-12-14 Greg Joyce Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """We've created or saved up to 1.6 million jobs, according to the CBO -- the Congressional Budget Office -- through the Recovery Act.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 3 2009-12-11 Greg Joyce Republican Catharine Richert James Inhofe Oklahoma "The Climatic Research Unit e-mails show that the science behind climate change ""has been pretty well debunked.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 1 2009-12-11 Greg Joyce Republican Catharine Richert Sarah Palin Alaska """President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions,"" but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions." ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2009-12-10 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Rush Limbaugh "A recent drop in the unemployment rate is questionable because it was calculated ""over two days of the Thanksgiving week.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Workers'] 1 2009-12-09 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert Eugene Robinson "The ""post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-12-08 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mike Pence Indiana """To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 3 2009-12-08 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Bobby Jindal Louisiana """I'm predicting (the Saints) will go not only undefeated, but all the way through the Super Bowl -- something that's never been done before.""" ['Recreation'] 1 2009-12-07 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Glenn Beck "Labor union president Andy Stern is ""the most frequent visitor"" at the White House." ['Ethics', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-12-07 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, ""Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy'] 1 2009-12-04 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Alan Grayson Florida """In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there.""" ['Afghanistan'] 2 2009-12-04 Bill Adair Catharine Richert John Murtha """We're going to have more troops (in Afghanistan) . . . than the Russians had.""" ['Afghanistan'] 2 2009-12-03 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror.""" ['Afghanistan'] 4 2009-12-02 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Glenn Beck "Less than 10 percent of Obama's Cabinet appointees ""have any experience in the private sector.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-12-02 Catharine Richert Republican Catharine Richert Mitch McConnell Kentucky The Senate health care bill does not contain limits on medical malpractice lawsuits. ['Health Care'] 5 2009-12-01 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mike Pence Indiana "Under the Democratic health plan, families ""will be forced to spend an additional $2,100 a year to keep their current health care.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-12-01 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Keith Olbermann "A new Republican litmus test ""would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan.""" ['History', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-11-30 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Paul Krugman """If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Foreign Policy', 'Iraq', 'Military', 'Taxes'] 4 2009-11-27 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Chain email """The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2009-11-27 Greg Joyce Louis Jacobson Ed Schultz """Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up"" due to the House health care bill." ['Health Care', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 2 2009-11-25 Greg Joyce Republican Aaron Sharockman Marco Rubio Florida """I have never voted for a tax increase.""" ['Florida', 'Taxes'] 1 2009-11-25 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Chain email "A data-storing microchip ""would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option.""" ['Health Care', 'Privacy'] 0 2009-11-24 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jeff Miller Florida """Although Democrats represent only 10 of Florida's 25 districts, their districts received 60 percent of the stimulus funds.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Workers'] 2 2009-11-24 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jeff Miller Florida "Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that ""do not exist.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Workers'] 4 2009-11-23 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert Chain email Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold. ['Energy', 'Environment'] 0 2009-11-20 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Catharine Richert John Boehner Ohio "Senate health care legislation will ""levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2009-11-20 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mike Enzi Wyoming "The Senate health care bill ""would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-11-20 Bill Adair Independent Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Lieberman Connecticut "If you look at last year's presidential campaign, ""you can't find a mention of public option.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-11-20 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Orrin Hatch Utah The Senate health care bill is longer than Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.' ['Health Care'] 2 2009-11-19 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Chain email "Obama ""closed offshore tax safe havens.""" ['Economy', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2009-11-19 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Chain email "Obama has ""visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2009-11-19 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Recovery.gov 52 jobs have been saved or created in Florida's 34th Congressional District. ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-11-18 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Ed Rendell Pennsylvania "A small business receiving a federal tax credit ""to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 2 2009-11-18 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Ron Wyden Oregon "In the House health care bill, ""Something like 2 percent of the people would [be] eligible even to get the public option.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-11-18 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert America's Natural Gas Alliance "The United States has a supply of ""more than 100 years of natural gas.""" ['Energy'] 3 2009-11-17 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Sarah Palin Alaska """Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession"" than the current one." ['Economy', 'History'] 1 2009-11-17 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska "The McCain campaign ""did not elaborate"" on Obama's ties to ACORN." ['Elections', 'Ethics'] 1 2009-11-17 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Sarah Palin Alaska "A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest ""those already struggling to make ends meet.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy'] 3 2009-11-16 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Sarah Palin Alaska "Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to ""skyrocket.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2009-11-16 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska "Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required ""universal building codes.""" ['Energy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-11-16 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Rachel Maddow """The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Pundits'] 2 2009-11-13 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "Under the House health care bill, the government ""will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2009-11-13 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Chain email "Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, ""was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration.""" ['Military', 'Terrorism'] 0 2009-11-13 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert Diana DeGette """The public option is not funded with public money. It's funded with private insurance premiums.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 3 2009-11-12 Bill Adair Robert Farley Glenn Beck """In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 0 2009-11-12 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Bob Beckel Washington, D.C. """There were more people at the Air and Space Museum"" than at a rally against the health care bills." ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-11-12 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Rush Limbaugh "The health care bills will be ""mandated spending. You can't cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-11-11 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Loretta Sanchez California The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority. ['Abortion'] 5 2009-11-11 Bill Adair Robert Farley Sean Hannity """Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'""" ['Iraq', 'Military', 'Pundits'] 5 2009-11-11 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Sean Hannity Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine. ['Health Care', 'Pundits', 'Terrorism'] 5 2009-11-11 Greg Joyce Republican Aaron Sharockman C.W. Bill Young Florida "Claims that Obama said, ""For those who oppose our policies, you should just shut up and go away.""" ['Elections', 'Florida'] 1 2009-11-10 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts.""" ['Florida', 'Taxes'] 1 2009-11-10 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Planned Parenthood """President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 5 2009-11-10 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Glenn Beck """Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state"" of Massachusetts." ['Candidate Biography', 'Health Care', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-11-09 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Nita Lowey New York "An amendment to the House health reform bill ""puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-11-09 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Louise Slaughter New York Women pay 48 percent more for health insurance. ['Health Care'] 2 2009-11-09 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-11-06 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Wall Street Journal editorial page "The House health care bill pays for ""about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 3 2009-11-06 Greg Joyce Republican Robert Farley Mike Pence Indiana """As a result of the House Republican bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to 10 percent.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-11-05 Bill Adair Robert Farley Americans United for Change "The Republicans' alternative health care plan ""will still let insurers raise premiums four times faster than wages.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-11-05 Amy Hollyfield, Greg Joyce Democrat Aaron Sharockman Charlie Crist Florida """I didn't endorse"" the federal stimulus bill." ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 0 2009-11-05 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Debbie Wasserman Schultz Florida "The GOP health care plan ""would allow health insurance companies to continue engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices like denying coverage to people because of a pre-existing medical condition.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-11-04 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan House Republican Conference "Health care reform ""establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-11-04 Bill Adair Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan House Republican Conference "Health care reform ""requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 3 2009-11-04 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan House Republican Conference "Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would ""place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes', 'Workers'] 3 2009-11-03 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Rush Limbaugh """That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Stimulus'] 3 2009-11-03 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Page 92 of the House health care bill ""says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2009-11-02 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Tom McClintock California "Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced ""rapid and dramatic economic recoveries,"" while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did ""the opposite.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'History', 'Taxes'] 1 2009-11-02 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Keith Olbermann "Sen. Joe Lieberman's ""home state has a public option which covers about 10,000 of its citizens that was introduced by its Republican governor.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-11-02 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Valerie Jarrett Illinois There is majority support for the Democrats' health care plans. ['Health Care'] 2 2009-11-02 Bill Adair Ian Jannetta Chain email You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return. ['Guns', 'Taxes'] 0 2009-10-30 Greg Joyce Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Patrick Kennedy Rhode Island """One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies.""" ['Corporations', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-10-30 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Bono "When it comes to aid, ""the United States is still about half as what European countries give as a percentage.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Pop Culture'] 3 2009-10-29 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Concerned Women for America Washington, D.C. "The Democrats' health care bill ""gives a new Health Choices Commissioner the right to look at an individual's tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 3 2009-10-29 Greg Joyce Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Alex Leary Ginny Brown-Waite Florida "A president must ""obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Legal Issues'] 2 2009-10-28 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Chain email "A new federal program provides subsidized ""Obama phones"" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month." ['Poverty', 'Taxes'] 2 2009-10-28 Greg Joyce Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John Boehner Ohio """Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-10-27 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Bill O'Reilly "When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was ""one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up.""" ['Pundits'] 1 2009-10-27 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Mary Matalin """For the last decade the climate has been cooling.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-10-27 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Rachel Maddow """President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Pundits', 'Transparency'] 1 2009-10-26 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Bloggers "Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized ""plutocratic thugs"" and said the Constitution gave Americans ""the shackles of hypocrisy.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2009-10-26 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Claire McCaskill Missouri "A ""fairly limited number of people, 25 million to 30 million,"" will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange." ['Health Care'] 5 2009-10-26 Greg Joyce Democrat Janet Zink Charlie Crist Florida """Here in Florida, I’ve slashed government by 10 percent. That's $7 billion.""" ['State Budget'] 2 2009-10-23 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Robert Gibbs "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.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 5 2009-10-23 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Dick Cheney "The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities ""at the last minute in midnight phone calls.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 5 2009-10-23 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Charlie Crist Florida """Usually it's about $900 a month to get health coverage. (Florida's program has) reduced that, on average, to about $150 a month.""" ['Florida', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-10-22 Greg Joyce None Louis Jacobson Senior Citizens League Virginia "A ""massive"" federal computer network will make your medical records available to ""millions of people"" with a ""complete lack of privacy and confidentiality,"" while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face ""stiff penalties.""" ['Health Care', 'Privacy', 'Technology'] 2 2009-10-22 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Ann Coulter New York """Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more.""" ['Crime', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-10-22 Bill Adair Catharine Richert The Freedom Project """Democrats rang up a $1.42 trillion budget deficit in 2009 — the single largest in American history.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget'] 3 2009-10-21 Greg Joyce Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "The proposed excise tax on ""Cadillac"" health plans will hit ""those making less than $200,000"" the hardest." ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 4 2009-10-21 Greg Joyce None Angie Drobnic Holan Health Care for America Now Washington, D.C. "Health proposal would create a ""40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 2 2009-10-20 Greg Joyce None Louis Jacobson Christopher Monckton United Kingdom "If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he ""will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again.""" ['Environment', 'Foreign Policy', 'Legal Issues'] 0 2009-10-20 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Gun Owners of America Virginia "The Baucus health care bill ""could be used to ban guns in home self-defense.""" ['Guns', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-10-20 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Cornyn Texas """The first installment of health care reform ... will raise the deficit by $250 billion.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2009-10-19 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Lou Dobbs U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill. ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Stimulus'] 4 2009-10-19 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-10-16 Bill Adair Ian Jannetta Democratic National Committee """Only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore.""" ['Elections'] 4 2009-10-16 Greg Joyce None Louis Jacobson America's Health Insurance Plans Washington, D.C. "Seniors with coverage under Medicare Advantage will give up ""more than their share"" because of health care reform" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2009-10-15 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Save Flexible Spending Plans "The Baucus health care bill ""would drastically restrict the use of flexible spending accounts (FSAs) in order to help pay for health care reform.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2009-10-15 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Glenn Beck "Forty-five percent of doctors ""say they'll quit"" if health care reform passes." ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-10-14 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Chain email "An Iowa policy ""provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-10-14 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Chain email "The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees ""holiday trees.""" ['Religion'] 0 2009-10-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley Glenn Beck """You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 2 2009-10-13 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Nancy-Ann DeParle "A report by the health insurance industry ""ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-10-13 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Americans United for Change """Baseball and insurance are the only industries exempt from antitrust laws.""" ['Baseball', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-10-12 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert Carl Levin "Other Western countries have ended their ""Don't Ask, Don't Tell"" policies." ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Military'] 5 2009-10-09 Greg Joyce Robert Farley John Kline "Under the Hate Crimes bill, ""any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime.""" ['Crime'] 1 2009-10-09 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Bloggers The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles. ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 4 2009-10-08 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Nancy Pelosi California About 750,000 people die in China each year from auto emissions. ['Environment', 'Foreign Policy', 'Transportation'] 2 2009-10-08 Bill Adair Robert Farley Michael Moore "During the Reagan administration, ""Millions of people were thrown out of work.""" ['Economy'] 2 2009-10-07 Bill Adair Robert Farley Michael Moore "During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, ""wages for working people remained frozen.""" ['Economy'] 4 2009-10-07 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Jay Rockefeller West Virginia Health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001. ['Health Care'] 5 2009-10-07 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Jay Rockefeller West Virginia Insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001. ['Corporations', 'Health Care'] 3 2009-10-07 Greg Joyce Catharine Richert PlantsNeedCO2.org """Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2009-10-06 Greg Joyce Journalist Louis Jacobson Cokie Roberts Maryland "Forty percent of gross domestic product ""is state, local, or federal money.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-10-06 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Michael Moore "During the Reagan era, ""the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2009-10-05 Bill Adair Catharine Richert EnergyCitizens.org "The cap-and-trade bill will mean ""2 million jobs lost.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 2 2009-10-05 Greg Joyce None Aaron Sharockman Barney Bishop Florida """There's no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2009-10-05 Greg Joyce Democrat Aaron Sharockman Bill Nelson Florida """The truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world, reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Foreign Policy'] 3 2009-10-02 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Michael Moore All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day. ['Economy'] 1 2009-10-02 Bill Adair Robert Farley Michael Moore "In the 1950s,  ""A lot of people got rich — and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2009-10-01 Bill Adair Robert Farley Michael Moore """The majority actually want single-payer health care.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-10-01 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Michael Moore "After Fahrenheit 9/11 came out, ""Bush's approval rating never was better, it only got worse.""" ['Elections'] 2 2009-10-01 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Michael Moore """The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined.""" ['Economy', 'Poverty', 'Workers'] 4 2009-09-30 Bill Adair Catharine Richert EnergyCitizens.org Gas will reach $4 a gallon under a cap-and-trade plan. ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 2 2009-09-30 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan House Republican Conference Medicare officials have treated Humana and AARP inconsistently on how they can communicate with seniors. ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2009-09-30 Bill Adair Journalist Robert Farley Steve Doocy New York "White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the ""right-hand man"" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN." ['Pundits'] 1 2009-09-29 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Ginny Brown-Waite Florida "AARP is ""the largest reseller of insurance in the country"" and ""has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Medicare'] 3 2009-09-29 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Patients First Washington, D.C. """Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties.""" ['Health Care', 'Legal Issues', 'Taxes'] 2 2009-09-29 Bill Adair Republican Ian Jannetta Sarah Palin Alaska """The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding.""" ['Military', 'Stimulus'] 4 2009-09-28 Bill Adair Robert Farley Chain email """For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment).""" ['Social Security'] 0 2009-09-28 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee "Barack Obama and the Democrats have ""proposed a tax for not having health insurance.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 5 2009-09-28 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Steny Hoyer Maryland """House Republicans pledged to introduce a bill to reform America’s health care system,"" but ""the 'party of no' has . . . failed to produce legislation.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-09-25 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michael Steele Maryland "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.'""" ['Education'] 5 2009-09-25 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Michael Moore "Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's ""No. 1 private contributor.""" ['Elections', 'Regulation'] 5 2009-09-25 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Sean Hannity "The Obama administration is ""cutting back on defense""" ['Military', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-09-24 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy"" as Medicare Advantage." ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2009-09-23 Bill Adair Robert Farley Sean Hannity """Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal.""" ['Military', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-09-22 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """FDR was called a socialist and a communist.""" ['History'] 5 2009-09-22 Greg Joyce Democrat Louis Jacobson Bruce Braley Iowa """Recent census data shows that the average American family spends over $13,000 a year for health care coverage.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-21 Bill Adair Robert Farley National Right to Life Committee """Under the Baucus bill ... federal funds would subsidize coverage of elective abortions.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-09-21 Bill Adair Robert Farley National Right to Life Committee "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.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 5 2009-09-21 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Michelle Obama Illinois """In some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-09-20 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois "Families are paying $900, on average, ""in higher premiums because of uncompensated care.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-09-20 Greg Joyce Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois """Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs.""" ['Baseball'] 5 2009-09-18 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Lamar Alexander "The Obama administration's cap-and-trade plan would create ""a $1,761 yearly energy tax.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2009-09-18 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Health Care for America Now Washington, D.C. "Health insurance companies deny ""1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-17 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, ""and he died because of it.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-17 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Keith Olbermann "For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, ""13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 3 2009-09-17 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Karl Rove Texas Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN. ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2009-09-16 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Health Care for America Now Washington, D.C. Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year ['Corporations', 'Health Care'] 2 2009-09-16 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Tom Price Georgia """Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 4 2009-09-16 Greg Joyce Republican Catharine Richert John Boehner Ohio The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior. ['History'] 4 2009-09-15 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Howard Dean Vermont """Every other democracy in the world has a health care system that covers everybody, and we don't.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-15 Bill Adair Ian Jannetta Thomas Sowell "The Obama administration ""was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-09-14 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Paul Hipp New York The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care. ['Health Care'] 4 2009-09-14 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Bloggers "Photo of ""tea party"" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument" ['History'] 0 2009-09-11 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Charles Boustany Louisiana "The Democratic health care bill in the House would ""create 53 new government bureaucracies.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-09-11 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Boehner Ohio "As a candidate, President Obama ""declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 5 2009-09-11 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "A new bill ""was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-10 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson House Republican Conference """Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits.""" ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 3 2009-09-10 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Health reform will ""give every American the same opportunity"" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do." ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-09 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Wilson South Carolina """You lie!"" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)" ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 1 2009-09-09 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-09-09 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-09-09 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois "Preventive care ""saves money.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-09-09 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "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.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-09-09 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Matt Miller California """Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-09-08 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson John Carter Texas """The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes.""" ['Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2009-09-08 Bill Adair John Frank Glenn Beck "Van Jones ""is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist.""" ['Environment', 'Pundits'] 2 2009-09-08 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Glenn Beck "Van Jones signed a petition indicating he ""thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up.""" ['Pundits', 'Terrorism'] 3 2009-09-08 Bill Adair Robert Farley Rush Limbaugh "The government is ""going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 2 2009-09-04 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Duncan Hunter California """We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up.""" ['Military'] 4 2009-09-03 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Arne Duncan Illinois "A scheduled speech by President Barack Obama will be ""the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school.""" ['Education'] 1 2009-09-03 Bill Adair Lukas Pleva Investor's Business Daily """Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 1 2009-09-03 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Haley Barbour Mississippi """It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog,"" but he's ""cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-09-02 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert John Kerry Massachusetts """Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 2 2009-09-02 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Organizing for America "Over the past few months, we've learned that ""we just can't count on the media to debunk"" lies about health insurance reform." ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 0 2009-09-02 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Party of Florida "Schoolchildren across the nation ""will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president.""" ['Education'] 0 2009-09-01 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson America's Health Insurance Plans Washington, D.C. """Every survey shows strong satisfaction with private coverage.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-31 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Newt Gingrich Georgia """Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2009-08-28 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Howard Dean Vermont """All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board.""" ['Health Care', 'History', 'Medicare'] 1 2009-08-28 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Anthony Weiner New York """Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-08-28 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barbara Boxer California """It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-08-27 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Rush Limbaugh """President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 0 2009-08-27 Greg Joyce Republican Louis Jacobson Tom Coburn Oklahoma """Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2009-08-26 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Ginny Brown-Waite Florida """Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-26 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Ginny Brown-Waite Florida """Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-08-26 Greg Joyce Columnist Catharine Richert George Will Maryland "Most of the stimulus money will be spent ""not this year, not next year, but in 2011.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-08-25 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michael Steele Maryland "The Department of Veterans Affairs has ""a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide.""" ['Health Care', 'Veterans'] 0 2009-08-25 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Howard Dean Vermont """There's no rationing in any of these bills.""" ['Health Care', 'This Week - ABC News'] 1 2009-08-25 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan John Boehner Ohio "The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research ""would be used by the government to ration care.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-24 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 1 2009-08-24 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Dick Armey """If you're over 65 years old in America today, you have no choice but to be in Medicare. Even if you want out of Medicare, you have to forfeit your Social Security to get out of it.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-21 Bill Adair Robert Farley Orly Taitz Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2009-08-21 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Orrin Hatch Utah "If you don't count illegal aliens, people who qualify for other insurance, and people who make more than $75,000 a year, ""it leaves about 15 million people"" who are uninsured." ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-20 Bill Adair, Scott Montgomery Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Pascrell New Jersey """As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-20 Bill Adair Independent Louis Jacobson Bernie Sanders Vermont """We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-20 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Progressive Change Campaign Committee 76 percent of Americans want a public health care option. ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-19 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Roy Blunt Missouri """I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2009-08-18 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-08-18 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson J. James Rohack Texas "Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a ""pre-existing condition.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-08-17 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Rachel Maddow Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Boehner and John Mica flip-flopped on providing end-of-life counseling for the elderly. ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-08-17 Bill Adair Catharine Richert David Brooks Preventive care does not save the government money. ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 5 2009-08-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley U.S. Chamber of Commerce "The health care reform plan being proposed in Congress would mean ""big tax increases.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-14 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan David Axelrod "Obama's plan for health care reform ""ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-08-14 Catharine Richert Catharine Richert David Axelrod Health care reform will not affect veterans' benefits. ['Health Care', 'Veterans'] 5 2009-08-14 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits.""" ['Health Care', 'Medicare'] 3 2009-08-13 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not ""entirely voluntary.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-12 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley, Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois "AARP is ""endorsing"" the health care reform bill." ['Health Care'] 2 2009-08-12 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, ""says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-12 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-11 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-08-11 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois "The health care plan for members of Congress ""is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-08-10 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Newt Gingrich Georgia In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan. ['Health Care'] 4 2009-08-10 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "Seniors and the disabled ""will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2009-08-07 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio "The Democrat-backed health care reform plan ""will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars.""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care', 'Taxes'] 1 2009-08-07 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Liberty Counsel "Page 992 of the health care bill will ""establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!""" ['Abortion', 'Health Care'] 0 2009-08-07 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Paul Krugman "During the 2005 fight over Social Security, ""there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events,"" and opponents were ""not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it.""" ['Health Care', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-08-07 Bill Adair Louis Jacobson Bloggers Health care reform legislation is “likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries.” ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-06 Catharine Richert Catharine Richert Club for Growth "The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the ""socialized"" system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would cost more than $22,000." ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-06 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Public Citizen "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.""" ['Crime'] 5 2009-08-05 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois "Stimulus tax cuts ""began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago.""" ['Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 1 2009-08-05 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Donna Brazile Washington, D.C. "Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. ""spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy"" and ""trillions"" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits." ['Federal Budget', 'Iraq', 'Medicare', 'Military', 'Taxes'] 3 2009-08-04 Bill Adair None Louis Jacobson Michelle Malkin Colorado "A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that ""if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits', 'Stimulus'] 3 2009-08-04 Greg Joyce Bill Adair John King """The John McCain Twitter account has more than 1.1 million followers. The official White House Twitter account has only about 830,000.""" ['Pop Culture', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-08-03 Bill Adair Robert Farley Kimberly Guilfoyle "If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can ""seize all of your personal and private"" information, and track your computer activity." ['Environment', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-08-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Louis Jacobson Dan Lungren California "President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill ""will have government decide"" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker ""should take a pain pill"" instead." ['Health Care'] 1 2009-08-03 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Russ Carnahan Missouri """The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-07-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Pascrell New Jersey """53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-07-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Louis Jacobson Bill Pascrell New Jersey Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007. ['Health Care'] 4 2009-07-30 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services.""" ['Health Care', 'Immigration'] 0 2009-07-30 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.""" ['Health Care', 'Regulation'] 5 2009-07-30 Scott Montgomery Edward Epstein Chain email "In the health care bill, ""The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.""" ['Health Care', 'Regulation'] 0 2009-07-29 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Glenn Beck "John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, ""has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.""" ['Abortion', 'Pundits'] 0 2009-07-29 Scott Montgomery Catharine Richert Chain email """The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2009-07-28 Scott Montgomery Louis Jacobson Arianna Huffington Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black ['Crime', 'Legal Issues', 'Marijuana', 'Pundits'] 3 2009-07-28 Scott Montgomery None Louis Jacobson Bill Bennett District of Columbia """Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims.""" ['Census', 'Crime', 'Legal Issues', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-07-28 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley WorldNetDaily "White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ""lied"" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet." ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 1 2009-07-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP"" say that health reform ""makes sense to do.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-07-24 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Barack Obama Illinois """14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-07-23 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Betsy McCaughey "The health care reform bill ""would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2009-07-23 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Health insurance companies are ""making record profits, right now.""" ['Corporations', 'Health Care'] 1 2009-07-23 Bill Adair Democrat Louis Jacobson Steny Hoyer Maryland There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama. ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 4 2009-07-22 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Investor's Business Daily The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance. ['Corporations', 'Health Care', 'Pundits', 'Regulation'] 0 2009-07-22 Bill Adair Catharine Richert House Republican Conference """The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2009-07-22 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois "The stimulus ""has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 3 2009-07-17 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Robert Bennett Utah The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus. ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2009-07-16 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Sarah Palin Alaska """Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.""" ['Cap and Trade', 'Climate Change', 'Economy', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 4 2009-07-15 Bill Adair Republican Louis Jacobson Jon Kyl Arizona """Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 4 2009-07-15 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Joe Biden Delaware """Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 4 2009-07-14 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Presente.org Rep. Adam Putnam was silent when Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a racist. ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2009-07-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley Republican National Committee "The Obama administration offered ""$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Terrorism'] 1 2009-07-14 Bill Adair Robert Farley Republican National Committee """Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative,"" the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to ""read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Legal Issues', 'Military', 'Terrorism'] 3 2009-07-13 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Lindsey Graham South Carolina """Now, there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95-plus votes.""" ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 5 2009-07-13 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Jon Kyl Arizona "A new Rasmussen poll shows people ""oppose (Sotomayor's) confirmation. Only 37 percent support it.""" ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2009-07-10 Bill Adair Republican Wes Allison Ann Coulter New York """Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'""" ['Legal Issues', 'Pundits', 'Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 1 2009-07-09 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Rush Limbaugh "On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, ""there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written.""" ['Energy', 'Environment', 'Pundits'] 2 2009-07-09 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Eric Cantor Virginia """We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed).""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-07-08 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """We import more oil today than ever before.""" ['Energy'] 1 2009-07-07 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-07-07 Robert Farley Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-07-07 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 4 2009-07-06 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee "Mitch McConnell opposed ""legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children,"" and ""fair pay for women.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Workers'] 2 2009-07-02 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Military', 'Religion'] 0 2009-07-02 Scott Montgomery Republican Catharine Richert Chuck Grassley Iowa """If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent.""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy', 'Environment'] 3 2009-07-01 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Chain email "The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 ""would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2009-06-30 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Lamar Smith Texas "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.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-06-29 Scott Montgomery Columnist Catharine Richert George Will Maryland Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined. ['Consumer Safety'] 5 2009-06-26 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota "ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and ""they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public.""" ['Census'] 0 2009-06-25 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota "Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census ""how many people are in our home.""" ['Census'] 0 2009-06-25 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Health Care'] 4 2009-06-25 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Edward Markey "Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of ""a postage stamp a day.""" ['Energy', 'Environment'] 5 2009-06-24 Bill Adair Robert Farley Keith Olbermann """Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq.""" ['Military', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-06-24 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Paul Krugman "Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are ""less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts.""" ['Economy', 'Health Care', 'Pundits', 'Taxes'] 4 2009-06-23 Bill Adair Catharine Richert Lynn Westmoreland "The war spending bill ""actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war.""" ['Military'] 2 2009-06-22 Bill Adair Robert Farley Sean Hannity "Under the ""Cash for Clunkers"" program, ""all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500.""" ['Pundits', 'Transportation'] 1 2009-06-19 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Ann Coulter New York "Says President Obama was wrong ""about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries.""" ['Pundits'] 2 2009-06-19 Bill Adair Robert Farley Glenn Beck """Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it.""" ['Immigration', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-06-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair Steny Hoyer Maryland """Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration.""" ['Terrorism'] 4 2009-06-16 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Americans United for Change """A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-06-15 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Bill Nelson Florida "Oil money from federal leases ""can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling.""" ['Environment'] 4 2009-06-15 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Murphy "In Texas, ""the No. 1 name for new male babies — many of whom will vote one day — is Jose.""" ['Elections', 'Immigration', 'Pundits'] 5 2009-06-12 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Obama has more czars than the Romanovs.""" ['Pop Culture'] 5 2009-06-12 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Karl Rove Texas "Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will ""lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-06-11 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska "Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required ""universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska.""" ['Energy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-06-11 Scott Montgomery Republican Catharine Richert Mike Pence Indiana "Contends that President Obama ""literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'""" ['Climate Change', 'Energy'] 5 2009-06-11 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Chris Dodd Connecticut "Sixty-two percent of all personal bankruptcies are ""caused by medical problems.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Health Care'] 3 2009-06-10 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """In the first round of repayments""  from financial institutions that received TARP money, ""the government has actually turned a profit.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-06-08 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Newt Gingrich Georgia "Inside the stimulus package ""is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups.""" ['Economy', 'Religion', 'Stimulus'] 0 2009-06-08 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert John Boehner Ohio "Says Vice President Joe Biden ""admits that the American people are being scammed"" with the economic stimulus package." ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-06-05 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Bill O'Reilly "Says he didn't call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what ""some prolifers branded him.""" ['Abortion', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-06-04 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.""" ['Religion'] 0 2009-06-04 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert John Barrasso Wyoming "There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats ""say all this American energy is off limits.""" ['Energy'] 2 2009-06-01 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Mitch McConnell Kentucky """The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision"" Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case." ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2009-06-01 Bill Adair Republican Catharine Richert Michael Steele Maryland """President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent.""" ['Bankruptcy', 'Regulation'] 5 2009-05-29 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has ""saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Workers'] 2 2009-05-29 Bill Adair Robert Farley North Korean foreign ministry """The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests.""" ['Military'] 5 2009-05-28 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Rush Limbaugh "Sotomayor ""ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded.""" ['Pundits', 'Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 2 2009-05-27 Greg Joyce Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert Libertarian National Committee """Sotomayor has had her rulings thrown out by the court a troubling four times.""" ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2009-05-27 Greg Joyce Robert Farley Judicial Confirmation Network "Sotomayor thinks ""that one’s sex, race and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench.""" ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2009-05-26 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2009-05-26 Bill Adair Robert Farley Republican National Committee "Judge Sotomayor has said ""that policy is made on the U.S. Court of Appeals.""" ['Sotomayor Nomination', 'Supreme Court'] 3 2009-05-26 Bill Adair Robert Farley Colin Powell "Cheney is ""disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guantanamo.""" ['Military'] 3 2009-05-22 Bill Adair Robert Farley Dick Cheney """President Obama's own director of national intelligence, Admiral Blair, put it this way: 'High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaida organization that was attacking this country.'""" ['Military'] 4 2009-05-21 Bill Adair Robert Farley Dick Cheney """You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists.""" ['Terrorism'] 5 2009-05-21 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Barack Obama Illinois """Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons.""" ['Terrorism'] 5 2009-05-21 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Michele Bachmann Minnesota "ACORN ""could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2009-05-21 Bill Adair Democrat Catharine Richert Richard Durbin Illinois """The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others.""" ['Terrorism'] 5 2009-05-19 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitch McConnell Kentucky "A public option for health care would end private insurance ""because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2009-05-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Pence Indiana "The Democrats propose ""a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-05-19 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Roy Blunt Missouri """Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2009-05-18 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Pray in Jesus Name Project """The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Military', 'Religion'] 3 2009-05-15 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Mark Sanford South Carolina """Our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 5 2009-05-14 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Steve King Iowa "The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create ""special protection for pedophiles.""" ['Crime'] 0 2009-05-13 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Newt Gingrich Georgia "Democrats in Congress ""had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law.""" ['Human Rights', 'Legal Issues', 'Terrorism'] 2 2009-05-12 Bill Adair None Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Miss California USA California """The president of the United States ... agrees with me"" that marriage should be between a man and a woman." ['Gays and Lesbians'] 5 2009-05-12 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages. ['Bankruptcy', 'Elections', 'Housing'] 5 2009-05-12 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Nancy Pelosi California """We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.""" ['Terrorism'] 1 2009-05-11 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Conservatives for Patients' Rights "The economic stimulus bill created a council that's ""modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system.""" ['Health Care', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-05-08 Bill Adair Robert Farley Chain email "Obama used $20 million in federal money ""to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2009-05-08 Bill Adair Robert Farley Chain email "Obama's ""first call (as president) to any head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2009-05-07 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois "Pay-as-you-go ""is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2009-05-06 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee "The Republican Party has ""21 percent party ID and shrinking.""" ['Elections'] 4 2009-05-05 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Rush Limbaugh "Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch could ""end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee.""" ['Legal Issues', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-05-05 Bill Adair Robert Farley Wayne LaPierre "Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, ""wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat.""" ['Legal Issues'] 3 2009-05-05 Bill Adair Robert Farley Chain email """Barack Obama's nominee for 'regulatory czar' has advocated a 'Fairness Doctrine' for the Internet"" that would require links to opposing opinions." ['Legal Issues', 'Technology'] 3 2009-05-04 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.""" ['Health Care', 'Transportation'] 0 2009-04-30 Scott Montgomery Republican Bill Adair Michele Bachmann Minnesota "In the 1970s, ""the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2009-04-30 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough ""makes a huge difference"" in reducing transmission of the flu." ['Health Care'] 5 2009-04-30 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "In Iraq, ""civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2009-04-30 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John Boehner Ohio """About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2009-04-28 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Lindsey Graham South Carolina """The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror.""" ['Military'] 3 2009-04-21 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2009-04-21 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States.""" ['Military'] 4 2009-04-16 Bill Adair Democrat David Adams, Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States.""" ['Guns'] 3 2009-04-16 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Gus Bilirakis Florida "It is ""the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts.""" ['Military', 'Terrorism', 'Veterans'] 2 2009-04-15 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Joe Scarborough President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life. ['Candidate Biography', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-04-13 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """Some even advocate wiping out 401(k)s entirely and replacing them with government-run accounts.""" ['Retirement'] 2 2009-04-13 Bill Adair Robert Farley Keith Olbermann """President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year.""" ['Military', 'Pundits'] 4 2009-04-10 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Rush Limbaugh """You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty.""" ['Pundits', 'Religion'] 1 2009-04-10 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Rachel Maddow "Gov. Sarah Palin ""got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned.""" ['Elections', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-04-09 Scott Montgomery Columnist Bill Adair George Will Maryland """Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.""" ['Economy', 'Pundits'] 5 2009-04-07 Bill Adair Bill Adair Lawrence O'Donnell """There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea.""" ['Foreign Policy', 'Pundits'] 1 2009-04-03 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Chain email "Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, ""Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-04-01 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Cato Institute """There has been no net global warming for over a decade now.""" ['Climate Change', 'Environment'] 1 2009-04-01 Bill Adair Republican Alexander Lane Michele Bachmann Minnesota """Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table"" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency." ['Economy'] 1 2009-03-31 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Military'] 5 2009-03-30 Bill Adair Alexander Lane House Republican Conference """The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2009-03-27 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Robert Gibbs "The Republican leadership's budget proposal ""doesn't contain any numbers.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2009-03-27 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Arlen Specter Pennsylvania "The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the ""elimination of the secret ballot.""" ['Workers'] 4 2009-03-26 Bill Adair Robert Farley Judd Gregg "Obama's budget plan would ""take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2009-03-25 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "His proposed budget would ""cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2009-03-25 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois """As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2009-03-25 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Judd Gregg "Obama's proposed budget ""doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2009-03-24 Bill Adair Robert Farley Cynthia Lummis "Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are ""going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2009-03-24 Bill Adair Alexander Lane House Republican Conference "Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen ""called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'""" ['Abortion'] 1 2009-03-23 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """Warren (Buffett) still does support me.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-03-20 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley Mike Pence Indiana """Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-03-20 Scott Montgomery Alexander Lane National Republican Senatorial Committee """Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses.""" ['Economy'] 3 2009-03-19 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008.""" ['Energy', 'Transportation'] 4 2009-03-18 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Elijah Cummings Maryland "AIG ""said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-03-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Alexander Lane Ron Wyden Oregon """We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate"" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's ""and then somehow mysteriously disappeared.""" ['Corporations', 'Economy'] 4 2009-03-18 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!""" ['Corporations', 'Federal Budget', 'Retirement'] 0 2009-03-17 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Chuck Grassley Iowa "In Japan, executives of failing companies ""say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2009-03-17 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Christina Romer """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.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-03-16 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2009-03-13 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place.""" ['Education'] 1 2009-03-12 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Charles Schumer New York """No Bridge to Nowhere could occur.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2009-03-11 Bill Adair Robert Farley Peter Orszag """Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2009-03-11 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Robert Gibbs """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.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2009-03-09 Bill Adair Robert Farley Americans United for Change "Republican leaders said ""no"" to ""tax cuts for 95% of working Americans.""" ['Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 2 2009-03-06 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Joe Biden Delaware """The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year.""" ['Economy'] 3 2009-03-05 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2009-03-05 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Tom Coburn Oklahoma """Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2009-03-03 Bill Adair Republican Alexander Lane Mitch McConnell Kentucky """In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Federal Budget', 'Iraq'] 1 2009-03-02 Bill Adair Republican Alexander Lane John Boehner Ohio """The president campaigned against this type of legislation.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2009-03-02 Scott Montgomery Bill Adair Democratic congressional leadership The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks. ['Federal Budget'] 1 2009-02-27 Bill Adair Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """The president's plan, even after the end of its withdrawal timeline is reached, will leave in place up to 50,000 U.S. troops.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2009-02-27 Bill Adair Republican Alexander Lane Bobby Jindal Louisiana "The stimulus bill includes ""$8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland.""" ['Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 3 2009-02-27 Bill Adair Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona "A new presidential helicopter ""is now going to cost as much as Air Force One.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2009-02-27 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """We are making the largest investment in education in our nation’s history.""" ['Education', 'Stimulus'] 5 2009-02-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Mark Sanford South Carolina "Says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill ""won't actually stimulate the economy.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-02-25 Scott Montgomery Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona "The omnibus spending bill has ""9,427 pork barrel items.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2009-02-24 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Bobby Jindal Louisiana "Louisiana is turning down $100 million ""that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus', 'Taxes'] 4 2009-02-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Mark Sanford South Carolina """The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-02-19 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Rosa DeLauro Connecticut """When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall.""" ['Consumer Safety'] 5 2009-02-18 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Al Gore Tennessee "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.""" ['Environment'] 5 2009-02-13 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Pence Indiana "The stimulus has ""$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-02-13 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Jim DeMint South Carolina "There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that ""students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study.""" ['Economy', 'Education', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-02-11 Scott Montgomery Bill Adair, Azhar Al Fadl Chain email """The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution.""" ['Patriotism'] 0 2009-02-11 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Chain email """Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2009-02-10 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented.""" ['History'] 5 2009-02-10 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Michael Steele Maryland """You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government — federal, state, local, or otherwise — has never created one job.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 0 2009-02-09 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Pat Roberts Kansas "The Congressional Budget Office ""estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009"" and only 37 percent in 2010." ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2009-02-09 Bill Adair Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, ""If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 3 2009-02-06 Bill Adair Robert Farley Fidelis """Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice.""" ['Legal Issues'] 4 2009-02-05 Bill Adair Alexander Lane Fred Smith """The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent.""" ['Economy'] 4 2009-02-04 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Pence Indiana "The stimulus bill contains ""$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers"" and ""$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs.""" ['Economy', 'Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 5 2009-02-04 Scott Montgomery Bill Adair Robert Gibbs """There are no earmarks"" in the stimulus bill." ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-02-03 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Jon Kyl Arizona "The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes ""millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines.""" ['Stimulus', 'Veterans'] 3 2009-02-03 Bill Adair Republican Joseph Lewis Mitch McConnell Kentucky "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.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 5 2009-02-02 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John Boehner Ohio """The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).""" ['Economy'] 2 2009-01-30 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-01-29 Bill Adair Robert Farley National Republican Congressional Committee """The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 4 2009-01-28 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """In Chicago, school is never canceled"" because of winter weather." ['Education'] 4 2009-01-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Bill Adair John Mica Florida "Democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the Eisenhower interstate program, ""but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion"" into roads and bridges." ['Stimulus', 'Transportation'] 4 2009-01-27 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Eric Cantor Virginia """For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-01-26 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Eric Cantor Virginia "The stimulus bill includes ""$300,000 for a sculpture garden in Miami.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 0 2009-01-26 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 3 2009-01-26 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Joe Barton Texas "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.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 5 2009-01-22 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley Eric Cantor Virginia "Says a Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it ""is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 1 2009-01-22 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Rahm Emanuel Illinois """We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2009-01-19 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Nancy Pelosi California """The Capitol was built by slaves.""" ['History'] 5 2009-01-18 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan James Inhofe Oklahoma "Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal ""his worst nightmare.""" ['Energy'] 4 2009-01-16 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF ""is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2009-01-16 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Competitive Enterprise Institute """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.""" ['Economy'] 5 2009-01-16 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Nancy Pelosi California "Bush's tax cuts for high earners ""have been the biggest contributor to the budget deficit.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2009-01-13 Bill Adair Democrat Alexander Lane Howard Dean Vermont """The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2009-01-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barney Frank Massachusetts """Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Religion'] 2 2009-01-13 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley People for the American Way "The Rev. Rick Warren ""has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists.""" ['Religion'] 2 2009-01-13 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley Spencer Bachus Alabama """Even with recent changes, the average hourly wage at General Motors is still $75 an hour.""" ['Transportation'] 1 2009-01-05 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitch McConnell Kentucky "If Obama's economic plan creates 600,000 new government jobs, ""that's about the size of the post office work force.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Stimulus'] 4 2008-12-03 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane Sarah Palin Alaska "Obama would ""experiment with socialism.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2008-12-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000.""" ['Elections'] 1 2008-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-12-03 Scott Montgomery Democrat Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois "Obama ""changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2008-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois The accuracy of the Obama tax calculator ['Taxes'] 3 2008-12-02 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Michelle Obama ordered $400 worth of lobster and caviar at a New York hotel. ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-12-01 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Obama raises taxes on seniors (and) hard-working families to give welfare to those who pay none.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-12-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have.""" ['Elections'] 4 2008-10-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """For my energy plan, my economic plan, and the other proposals you'll hear tonight, I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2008-10-30 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """We are within the margin of error.""" ['Elections'] 3 2008-10-30 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could ""lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2008-10-29 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work.""" ['Legal Issues'] 4 2008-10-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-10-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama said ""people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan"" then said ""if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-10-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year. ['Economy'] 4 2008-10-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois "McCain is ""selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'""" ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2008-10-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bart Jansen John McCain Arizona """Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-10-27 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Party of Florida """Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals.""" ['Crime', 'Drugs', 'Families', 'Marijuana', 'Public Safety'] 1 2008-10-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Joe Biden Delaware """One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-10-27 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Planned Parenthood "John McCain's health care plan ""won't guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-10-26 Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "If parents ""don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have (for their children), they will be fined.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2008-10-25 Amy Hollyfield Bill Adair Chain email "Says Obama wants to redesign the American flag ""to better offer our enemies hope and love.""" ['Patriotism'] 0 2008-10-23 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane National Republican Trust PAC """Barack Obama's plan gives a driver's license to any illegal who wants one.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2008-10-23 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Republican Party of Florida "Barack Obama will ""raise Social Security taxes.""" ['Social Security'] 3 2008-10-22 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane Republican National Committee """Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to.""" ['Terrorism'] 0 2008-10-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Wes Allison, Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """Sen. Obama's campaign announced that he's choosing his cabinet.""" ['Elections'] 1 2008-10-20 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax. ['Taxes'] 4 2008-10-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama was ""a trial attorney for ACORN.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2008-10-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "Medicare spends ""$15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-10-17 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane Chain email """If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-10-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "In 1992, Barack Obama directed ""Project Vote - an arm of ACORN that also encouraged voter registration.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-10-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots.""" ['Education'] 1 2008-10-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000"" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan." ['Taxes'] 5 2008-10-15 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """He voted twice for a budget resolution that increases the taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-10-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-10-15 Scott Montgomery Republican David DeCamp John McCain Arizona """Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And, Senator Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-10-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "If you're a small business and don't ""adopt the health care plan that Senator Obama mandates, he's going to fine you.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-10-15 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and ""that's a loss for you.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-10-14 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice.""" ['Economy'] 2 2008-10-14 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska """The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-10-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "On the economic crisis, ""the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-10-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-10-13 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "On the economic troubles of 2008, ""really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-10-13 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-10-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together.""" ['Patriotism'] 0 2008-10-10 Scott Montgomery Republican Adriel Bettelheim, David DeCamp John McCain Arizona "Obama ""voted for ... $3-million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-10-09 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan National Right to Life Committee "Barack Obama voted against ""born alive"" legislation in Illinois that was ""virtually identical to the federal law.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2008-10-09 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """I want to give every American a $5,000 refundable tax credit.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2008-10-09 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan BornAliveTruth.org Barack Obama opposed a bill that would have saved Gianna Jessen's life. ['Abortion'] 1 2008-10-09 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain accused Barack Obama ""of letting infants die.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2008-10-09 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "A mortgage buyback plan is ""my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal.""" ['Economy'] 4 2008-10-09 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, ""if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-10-08 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama's plan calls for ""mandates and fines for small businesses.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-10-08 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain ""is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-10-08 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-10-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois """Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2008-10-07 Amy Hollyfield Republican Janet Zink John McCain Arizona """1.3-million people in America make their living off eBay.""" ['Economy'] 1 2008-10-07 Scott Montgomery Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """Senator Obama has voted 94 times to either increase your taxes or against tax cuts.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-10-07 Scott Montgomery Democrat Keith Perine Barack Obama Illinois """Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-10-07 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona """I have disagreed strongly with the Bush administration on this issue"" of global warming." ['Environment'] 5 2008-10-06 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska """Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-10-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers. ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-10-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-10-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain's health care plan ""leaves you on your own to pay McCain’s health insurance tax.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2008-10-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley Sarah Palin Alaska """As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-10-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Alexander Lane Sarah Palin Alaska """We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-10-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska """You had supported John McCain's military strategies pretty adamantly until this race.""" ['Iraq'] 2 2008-10-02 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware "John McCain said ""he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2008-10-02 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "Barack Obama's health care plan is ""to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2008-10-02 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Joe Biden Delaware "Sen. McCain's tax plan provides ""virtually nothing to the middle class.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-10-02 Scott Montgomery Republican David DeCamp Sarah Palin Alaska """You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-10-02 Scott Montgomery Republican David DeCamp Sarah Palin Alaska """Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-10-02 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Joe Biden Delaware """John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem.""" ['Economy'] 4 2008-10-01 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """Obama, Biden and their liberal allies oppose clean coal.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-10-01 Scott Montgomery John Frank, Angie Drobnic Holan Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund "Palin supports ""aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife.""" ['Environment'] 5 2008-10-01 Amy Hollyfield Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """Under Barack Obama's plan, the government would spend $1-trillion more.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-10-01 Scott Montgomery John Frank Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund """Palin (proposed) a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf.""" ['Environment'] 5 2008-10-01 Amy Hollyfield Adriel Bettelheim Planned Parenthood "Says McCain ""voted to let governments charge rape victims"" for forensic exams." ['Legal Issues'] 0 2008-09-30 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois Says that under his tax plan, seniors making less than $50,000 per year won't pay any income taxes. ['Taxes'] 5 2008-09-30 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """John McCain fought to rein in Fannie and Freddie...but Democrats blocked the reforms.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-09-30 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-09-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-09-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Barack Obama ""pays for every dime"" of his spending plans." ['Federal Budget'] 2 2008-09-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain ""has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-09-29 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois "McCain ""said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-09-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois "Henry Kissinger ""said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-09-27 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona """The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean, a huge gulag.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-09-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Under Obama's tax plan, ""95 percent of you will get a tax cut.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-09-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama ""has voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on people who make as low as $42,000 a year.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-09-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Kathryn A. Wolfe John McCain Arizona """You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-09-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-09-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion...[wrote a] letter of resignation to the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy.""" ['Military'] 1 2008-09-26 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona "House Republicans ""weren't part of the negotiations"" on the Wall Street bailout plan." ['Economy'] 2 2008-09-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2008-09-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain wants to ""give oil companies another $4-billion"" in tax breaks." ['Taxes'] 5 2008-09-25 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea.""" ['Economy'] 2 2008-09-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane Sarah Palin Alaska """If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-09-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and ""pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-09-24 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois "McCain ""has opposed stem cell research.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-09-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists"" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000." ['Taxes'] 5 2008-09-23 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Barack Obama has the longest track record of any candidate in this election in support of the 'Bridge To Nowhere.' """ ['Federal Budget'] 2 2008-09-23 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane National Rifle Association """Obama's Ten Point Plan to 'Change' The Second Amendment….Ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.""" ['Guns'] 1 2008-09-23 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """Last week Senator Obama's running mate said, get this, 'Raising taxes is patriotic.' """ ['Taxes'] 2 2008-09-23 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane National Rifle Association """Obama's Ten Point Plan to 'Change' the Second Amendment…Ban use of firearms for home defense.""" ['Guns'] 0 2008-09-22 Amy Hollyfield Bill Adair Bloggers "Sarah Palin endorsed a Wasilla policy that charged sexual assault victims for their ""rape kits.""" ['Crime'] 3 2008-09-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week.""" ['Medicare'] 1 2008-09-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain would ""reduce oversight of health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2008-09-19 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ""than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2008-09-19 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration. ['Immigration'] 0 2008-09-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress.""" ['Economy', 'Stimulus'] 2 2008-09-18 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Obama's tax plan cuts taxes ""for 95 percent of all working families.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2008-09-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois "McCain ""voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education.""" ['Education'] 2 2008-09-17 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Douglas Holtz-Eakin "Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, ""you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Technology'] 1 2008-09-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it.""" ['Economy', 'Housing', 'Regulation'] 2 2008-09-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is ""the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-09-16 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2008-09-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis. ['Economy', 'Housing'] 5 2008-09-16 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-09-15 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Joe Biden Delaware """When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Natural Disasters '] 3 2008-09-15 Scott Montgomery Republican Alexander Lane Sarah Palin Alaska """Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline.""" ['Energy'] 2 2008-09-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane Sarah Palin Alaska """I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-09-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "Sarah Palin was repeating ""Abraham Lincoln's words"" in discussing the war in Iraq." ['Religion'] 4 2008-09-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-09-11 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,' is 'elusive' on accountability, and a 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.' ['Education'] 2 2008-09-11 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama's one education accomplishment was ""legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners.""" ['Education'] 0 2008-09-10 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """The Books Sarah Palin tried to have banned.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-09-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona Says Obama called Sarah Palin a pig. ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-09-09 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Palin ""inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-09-09 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona "John McCain ""took on the drug industry.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2008-09-09 Amy Hollyfield Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Palin ""fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he 'intimidated' her.""" ['Crime'] 4 2008-09-09 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed.""" ['Civil Rights'] 3 2008-09-08 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "Palin ""stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.""" ['Transportation'] 2 2008-09-08 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware "John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction ""for 100-million American families.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-09-08 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The average American family"" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush." ['Economy'] 3 2008-09-08 Scott Montgomery Democrat Richard Rubin Joe Biden Delaware McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. ['Taxes'] 2 2008-09-05 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """My grandfather came home from ... (World War II) exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-09-04 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller Rudy Giuliani New York """For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'""" ['Terrorism'] 2 2008-09-04 Bill Adair Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-09-04 Republican John McCain Arizona """My opponent promises to bring back old jobs by wishing away the global economy.""" [] 1 2008-09-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Keith Perine Mike Huckabee Arkansas "Sarah Palin ""got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.""" ['Elections'] 0 2008-09-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska """That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.""" ['Transportation'] 5 2008-09-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-09-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "Palin had ""executive experience"" in the PTA." ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-09-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim Sarah Palin Alaska "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ""said, quote, 'I can't stand John McCain.' """ ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-09-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama is the Senate's ""most liberal.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2008-09-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sarah Palin Alaska "Barack Obama supports plans to raise ""income taxes ... payroll taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-09-03 Scott Montgomery Democrat Keith Perine John Kerry Massachusetts """Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made.""" ['Environment'] 4 2008-09-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Kathryn A. Wolfe Sarah Palin Alaska """I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.""" ['Federal Budget', 'Transportation'] 3 2008-09-03 Edward Epstein, Angie Drobnic Holan Edward Epstein, Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org """(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000.""" ['Israel'] 1 2008-09-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-09-02 Amy Hollyfield Republican Edward Epstein Fred Thompson Tennessee """He was offered medical care for his injuries if he would give up military information in return. John McCain said, 'No.' """ ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-09-02 Scott Montgomery Independent Alexander Lane Joe Lieberman Connecticut "Obama voted ""to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield.""" ['Iraq'] 2 2008-09-02 Amy Hollyfield Independent Adriel Bettelheim Joe Lieberman Connecticut "In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama ""has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-09-02 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York "Sarah Palin ""already has more executive experience"" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden ""combined.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-09-02 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Fred Thompson Tennessee "Sarah Palin ""has more experience than Barack Obama.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-09-01 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim Lindsey Graham South Carolina "Joe Biden ""voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-09-01 Scott Montgomery Republican Adriel Bettelheim Sarah Palin Alaska "Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only ""2,000 out of 20-million acres.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-09-01 Scott Montgomery Republican Alexander Lane Sarah Palin Alaska """As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-08-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Sarah Palin ""has had 12 years of elected office experience.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-08-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer. ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-08-29 Scott Montgomery Republican Scott Montgomery Sarah Palin Alaska "When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up, Palin sent ""a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2008-08-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Richard Rubin Barack Obama Illinois "McCain ""said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars.""" ['Energy'] 2 2008-08-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Richard Rubin Joe Biden Delaware McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase. ['Federal Budget'] 5 2008-08-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat David DeCamp Barack Obama Illinois """Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-08-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat David DeCamp Joe Biden Delaware "Three years ago, John McCain said, ""Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded.""" ['Afghanistan', 'Foreign Policy', 'Military'] 5 2008-08-28 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time.""" ['Bush Administration'] 5 2008-08-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Howard Dean Vermont "Biden is ""one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-08-27 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """Barack Obama and Joe Biden oppose new drilling at home and oppose nuclear power.""" ['Energy'] 2 2008-08-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Brian Schweitzer Montana "McCain's energy plan is a ""single-answer proposition"" — new domestic oil drilling." ['Energy'] 0 2008-08-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Richard Rubin Hillary Clinton New York "McCain ""still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work.""" ['Legal Issues'] 1 2008-08-27 Alexander Lane Democrat Alexander Lane Joe Biden Delaware "(McCain) says ""we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2008-08-27 Scott Montgomery Republican Bart Jansen John McCain Arizona """Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-08-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Kathryn A. Wolfe Joe Biden Delaware """There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-08-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Hillary Clinton New York """John McCain wants to privatize Social Security.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2008-08-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Mark Warner Virginia "The U.S. energy policy is to ""borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-08-26 Alexander Lane Alexander Lane Planned Parenthood "McCain ""said he was 'stumped' when asked whether contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-08-26 Scott Montgomery Democrat Richard Rubin Michelle Obama Illinois As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work. ['Workers'] 4 2008-08-26 Scott Montgomery Bart Jansen Democratic National Committee """Less than four cents of every health care dollar is spent on prevention and public health.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-08-25 Scott Montgomery Seth Stern Democratic National Committee """We spend more on health care than any other country, but we're ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-08-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat David Baumann Nancy Pelosi California """Whether in Illinois or Washington, Barack Obama has bridged partisanship to bring about significant reform.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2008-08-25 Kathryn A. Wolfe Republican Kathryn A. Wolfe John McCain Arizona """We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-08-25 Democratic National Committee """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.""" [] 5 2008-08-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Michelle Obama Illinois "While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people ""from welfare to jobs.""" ['Poverty', 'Workers'] 4 2008-08-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Michelle Obama Illinois "While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed ""tax cuts for hard-working families.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-08-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are ""more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2008-08-24 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country.""" ['Crime'] 3 2008-08-24 Scott Montgomery Democrat Richard Rubin Barack Obama Illinois """Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically.""" ['Crime'] 4 2008-08-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair Joe Biden Delaware "Says McCain once said that on ""the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.""" ['Bush Administration'] 5 2008-08-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Richard Rubin John McCain Arizona Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent. ['Federal Budget'] 0 2008-08-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Joe Biden Delaware "Says McCain ""supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time.""" ['Bush Administration'] 3 2008-08-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Will Short Gorham, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois John McCain has seven houses. ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-08-22 Scott Montgomery Democrat Seth Stern Barack Obama Illinois "McCain, ""voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... """ ['Energy'] 4 2008-08-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I argued for years that we need to move from a 'Musharraf policy' to a 'Pakistan policy.' """ ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2008-08-21 Alexander Lane Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """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).""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-08-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Edward Epstein Barack Obama Illinois """The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''" ['Abortion'] 1 2008-08-20 Amy Hollyfield Constitution Party Angie Drobnic Holan Jerome R. Corsi New Jersey "Barack Obama ""openly supported (opposition leader) Raila Odinga during his visit to Africa in 2006.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-08-20 Amy Hollyfield Constitution Party Angie Drobnic Holan Jerome R. Corsi New Jersey "Barack Obama has ""pledged to reduce the size of the military.""" ['Military'] 1 2008-08-20 Amy Hollyfield Constitution Party Angie Drobnic Holan Jerome R. Corsi New Jersey "Barack Obama ""rejects everyone white, including his mother and his grandparents.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-08-19 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity.""" ['Religion'] 4 2008-08-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Keith Perine Barack Obama Illinois "Oil companies ""haven't touched"" 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill." ['Energy'] 1 2008-08-15 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "On Obama, ""The press warns the 'Taxman Cometh.'""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-08-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona "The musical Mamma Mia! has ""been selling out for years.""" ['Pop Culture'] 5 2008-08-15 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Says Obama replaced the American flag on the tail of his plane with his campaign logo. ['Patriotism'] 4 2008-08-14 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets. ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-08-13 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada. ['Energy'] 2 2008-08-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois """John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-08-13 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane Democratic National Committee "McCain is ""raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-08-12 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama ""promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-08-12 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama plans ""a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-08-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2008-08-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bart Jansen Barack Obama Illinois """McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' """ ['Federal Budget'] 5 2008-08-11 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain offers ""billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-08-08 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama promises higher taxes on ""the sale of your home.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-08-08 Scott Montgomery Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois "Fully inflating tires is ""a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-08-08 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-08-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill ""because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-08-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Richard Rubin John McCain Arizona Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit. ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-08-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2008-08-05 Scott Montgomery Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-08-04 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now. ['Taxes'] 1 2008-08-04 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """Obama will charge a 28 percent tax on all home sales.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-08-04 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Barack Obama wants to ""restore"" the estate tax that George W. Bush ""repealed.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-08-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-08-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "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.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-07-31 Amy Hollyfield Robert Farley Campaign Money Watch """John McCain intervened, which helped Airbus get that Pentagon contract.""" ['Ethics', 'Military'] 2 2008-07-31 Amy Hollyfield Robert Farley Campaign Money Watch """McCain got more money from Airbus' U.S. executives than any other politician.""" ['Ethics', 'Military'] 5 2008-07-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama ""says he'll raise taxes on electricity.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-07-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['History'] 5 2008-07-30 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane VoteVets.org """Sen. McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-07-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama ""is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2008-07-29 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """He made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras.""" ['Military'] 2 2008-07-28 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane Chain email "Obama ""shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to thank them for their service.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-07-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point.""" ['Economy'] 2 2008-07-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Craig Pittman John McCain Arizona "In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, offshore drilling ""did not cause any real difficulties.""" ['Environment'] 3 2008-07-24 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Let Freedom Ring Says Obama flip-flopped on withdrawing troops from Iraq. ['Iraq'] 1 2008-07-24 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Let Freedom Ring Says Obama has flip-flopped on public campaign financing. ['Ethics'] 5 2008-07-24 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Let Freedom Ring Says Obama flip-flopped on banning handguns. ['Guns'] 3 2008-07-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-07-23 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan, Alexander Lane Republican National Committee "Obama ""voted against critical resources: no to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft.""" ['Military'] 2 2008-07-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """We now have a pro-American president in France, which shows if you live long enough, anything can happen in this world.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-07-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three.""" ['Military'] 5 2008-07-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan. ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-07-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona "Obama ""hasn't been to Iraq in years.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2008-07-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-07-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama ""voted against funding our troops.""" ['Military'] 3 2008-07-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump? O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-07-18 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973.""" ['Energy'] 4 2008-07-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona "Obama ""voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2008-07-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veterans service organizations.""" ['Veterans'] 1 2008-07-16 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2008-07-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2008-07-15 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Obama worked with ""Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.""" ['Military'] 5 2008-07-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona Says Obama flip-flopped on warrantless wiretapping. ['Terrorism'] 5 2008-07-15 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Barack Obama wants to ""unilaterally disarm our nation.""" ['Military'] 1 2008-07-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings.""" ['Elections'] 3 2008-07-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """I investigated Abramoff and people ended up in jail.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2008-07-11 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq. ['Iraq'] 2 2008-07-11 Scott Montgomery Democrat Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois "The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation ""than the pet food industry invests in its own products.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-07-11 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan include a ""few thousand that are still green card holders who are not even citizens of this country.""" ['Military'] 5 2008-07-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-07-10 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama has ""reversed"" on his commitment ""to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-07-09 Scott Montgomery Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-07-09 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """If you have an investment for your child's education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-07-08 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China. ['Ethics'] 1 2008-07-08 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Throughout his time in elected office, Barack Obama has taken multiple positions on banning handguns and the D.C. handgun ban.""" ['Guns'] 3 2008-07-07 Scott Montgomery Bill Adair Republican National Committee "Says Obama opposes lower gas taxes, nuclear power, new offshore drilling and doesn't have ""new solutions"" to the energy crisis." ['Energy'] 3 2008-07-07 Scott Montgomery Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """The Iranians continue – in the view of every objective observer – continue to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-07-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq. ['Iraq'] 2 2008-07-02 Amy Hollyfield Alexander Lane Chain email McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs. ['Patriotism'] 5 2008-07-02 Scott Montgomery Libertarian Adriel Bettelheim Bob Barr Georgia """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.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Terrorism'] 5 2008-07-01 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Wesley Clark Arkansas "McCain ""hasn't held executive responsibility.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-06-30 Scott Montgomery Independent Alexander Lane Ralph Nader Connecticut """I didn't say"" it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president." ['Elections'] 2 2008-06-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois "Obama says his bill ""reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent.""" ['Poverty'] 3 2008-06-30 Scott Montgomery Independent Alexander Lane Ralph Nader Connecticut """He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Civil Rights'] 5 2008-06-30 Scott Montgomery Independent Alexander Lane Ralph Nader Connecticut """The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama.""" ['Elections'] 4 2008-06-27 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona "Says Obama opposes innovation, the electric car and ""clean, safe, nuclear energy.""" ['Energy'] 0 2008-06-27 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona Says Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday. ['Energy'] 5 2008-06-26 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Medicare', 'Social Security'] 5 2008-06-26 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that.""" ['Energy'] 4 2008-06-25 Scott Montgomery Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois """These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for.""" ['Federal Budget'] 2 2008-06-25 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain ""opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-06-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Will Van Sant John McCain Arizona """You know, the approval rating of Congress is down to 13 percent.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-06-24 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Barack Obama ""extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected.""" ['Military'] 3 2008-06-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Barack Obama ""cut taxes for working families.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-06-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Barack Obama ""passed laws moving people from welfare to work.""" ['Poverty'] 4 2008-06-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children.""" ['Families'] 5 2008-06-20 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "We are ""borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil"" with the result being ""dependency and debt.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-06-20 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """I joined the Gang of 14, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, so that we wouldn't blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-06-20 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia ""to finance this war"" in Iraq." ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-06-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """We must deal with the here and now and assure affordable fuel for America by increasing domestic production.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-06-18 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """Obama has maintained a friendship with a now convicted felon.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2008-06-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona "Obama ""wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.""" ['Energy'] 4 2008-06-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-06-17 Republican National Committee Obama couldn't have afforded his home without Rezko's help. [] 1 2008-06-17 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """Did Obama know that Tony Rezko was saving him $300,000 on the purchase of his home?""" ['Ethics'] 1 2008-06-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Shawn Zeller Barack Obama Illinois """McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-06-17 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona """John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming ... five years ago.""" ['Environment'] 5 2008-06-16 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2008-06-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families ""who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay.""" ['Bankruptcy'] 5 2008-06-13 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Democratic National Committee John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did. ['Social Security'] 3 2008-06-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """I've supported every investigation (into Hurricane Katrina) and ways of finding out how – what caused the tragedy. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the governor.""" ['Bush Administration', 'Natural Disasters '] 2 2008-06-11 Scott Montgomery Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona "Sen. Obama wants to ""enact the single largest tax increase since the Second World War.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-06-11 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee "Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax ""hurts the middle class.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2008-06-10 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "From Obama's book: ""I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-06-10 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama said he would ""stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Civil Rights', 'Religion'] 1 2008-06-09 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """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.""" ['Military'] 5 2008-06-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """Casualties and deaths are at (their) lowest point since literally the beginning"" of the war." ['Iraq'] 3 2008-06-05 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and ""he said so himself after his capture.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-06-05 Scott Montgomery Robert Farley Republican Party of Florida """Fidel Castro endorses Obama.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2008-06-04 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Will Van Sant Barack Obama Illinois """Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-06-04 Scott Montgomery Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years.""" ['Bush Administration'] 5 2008-06-04 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year).""" ['Bush Administration'] 5 2008-06-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """We are winning the popular vote.""" ['Elections'] 2 2008-06-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain ""has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-06-02 Scott Montgomery Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """We have drawn down to presurge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it's long and it's tough and there will be setbacks.""" ['Iraq'] 2 2008-05-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren't actively fundraising here.""" ['Ethics'] 1 2008-05-30 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on ""crime and hatred"" and that whites in America are ""ineradicably racist.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-05-30 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community ""first and foremost.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2008-05-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Alexander Lane John McCain Arizona """Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-05-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-05-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "It doesn't make sense ""historically"" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when ""Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.""" ['Elections'] 2 2008-05-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "McCain ""hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign.""" ['Elections', 'Ethics'] 5 2008-05-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, ""his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won't care about this.' """ ['Elections', 'Ethics'] 5 2008-05-23 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-05-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It's a bad idea today. Sen. McCain's campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age.""" ['Social Security'] 2 2008-05-22 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org "John McCain, ""one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires,"" says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a ""second job"" and ""skip their vacations.""" ['Economy'] 2 2008-05-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona """Sen. Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-05-21 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "Iran ""might not be a superpower, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but 'tiny,'"" as Obama says." ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-05-21 Bill Adair, Amy Hollyfield Democrat Alexander Lane Barack Obama Illinois "A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that ""every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-05-19 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois "John McCain ""is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous.""" ['Military'] 2 2008-05-19 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org "McCain ""voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-05-19 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Barack Obama Illinois """NATO hasn't provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq.""" ['Military'] 5 2008-05-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war.""" ['Military'] 4 2008-05-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair Hillary Clinton New York """The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states.""" ['Elections'] 2 2008-05-15 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org "McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, ""who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'""" ['Religion'] 5 2008-05-15 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org """The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' """ ['Religion'] 3 2008-05-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Amy Hollyfield Hillary Clinton New York """If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7 years.""" ['Elections'] 3 2008-05-14 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """They (Clinton and Obama) have never to my knowledge been involved in legislation nor hearings nor engagement on this issue (climate change).""" ['Environment'] 1 2008-05-14 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan, Alexander Lane Bloggers """Clinton's former pastor convicted of child molestation.""" ['Religion'] 0 2008-05-13 Scott Montgomery Libertarian Shawn Zeller Bob Barr Georgia "Eliminating earmarks ""would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-05-13 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John Boehner Ohio "Says Obama called Israel ""a constant sore"" that infects U.S. foreign policy." ['Israel'] 1 2008-05-12 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Hillary Clinton New York """We borrow money from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis.""" ['Energy'] 4 2008-05-09 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """It is just a fact that Hamas, apparently the North American spokesperson, is endorsing Senator Obama.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-05-08 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2008-05-08 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona """We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2008-05-07 Democrat Barack Obama Illinois """Clinton aides admit it (a gas tax holiday) won't do much for you – but would help her politically.""" [] 2 2008-05-07 Amy Hollyfield None Angie Drobnic Holan Florida Consumer Action Network Florida """For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2008-05-07 Scott Montgomery Republican Will Van Sant John McCain Arizona """My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-05-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Hillary Clinton New York "There are prototype cars that get between 100 and 150 miles per gallon and ""we could have those cars in your garages in a couple of years.""" ['Energy'] 2 2008-05-06 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "A gas tax holiday ""would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28.""" ['Energy'] 4 2008-05-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-05-05 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-05-02 Scott Montgomery Carolyn Edds, Connie Humburg Chain email """Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-05-02 Scott Montgomery Connie Humburg Chain email """His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Obama Birth Certificate'] 0 2008-05-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Tax rates were significantly higher ""in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2008-05-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Hillary Clinton New York "Every family health insurance policy has ""a $900 hidden tax"" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured." ['Health Care'] 5 2008-05-01 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Hillary Clinton advocates ""a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-05-01 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """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.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-04-30 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama thinks the national anthem should be ""I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.""" ['Patriotism'] 0 2008-04-30 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "The Rev. Wright compared ""the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior.""" ['Terrorism'] 4 2008-04-30 Scott Montgomery Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "Rev. Wright said ""that al-Qaida and the American flag were the same flags.""" ['Patriotism'] 2 2008-04-30 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "McCain says the price of a gas tax ""holiday"" would be about the same as ""a Bridge to Nowhere (or) another pork barrel project.""" ['Energy'] 0 2008-04-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Barack Obama ""wants to nearly double the capital gains tax"" increasing taxes on ""mutual funds, 401(k)s"" for ""policemen, firemen, nurses.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-04-28 Scott Montgomery Shawn Zeller Democratic National Committee """McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-04-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-04-25 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Michael Moore "During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Clintons brought the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the White House for ""spiritual counseling.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-04-24 Scott Montgomery Lissa August Republican National Committee "Says Obama flip-flopped on a gas-tax ""holiday.""" ['Energy'] 2 2008-04-23 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Focus on the Family Action "Obama ""supports hate-crimes expansion ... potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality.""" ['Civil Rights', 'Crime', 'Gays and Lesbians', 'Religion'] 1 2008-04-23 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Focus on the Family Action """As a state senator, he (Obama) even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship!""" ['Legal Issues'] 5 2008-04-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Clinton Arkansas "Denies that he said the Obama campaign ""played the race card.""" ['Elections'] 0 2008-04-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Barack Obama's health care plan ""will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2008-04-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Hillary Clinton is ""willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance.""" ['Health Care', 'Workers'] 3 2008-04-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-04-18 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins.""" ['Patriotism'] 1 2008-04-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona "After Reagan took office, ""we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. What we did was we cut taxes.""" ['Economy'] 2 2008-04-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-04-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """More than one person, on average, a day is murdered in Philadelphia.""" ['Crime'] 3 2008-04-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-04-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-04-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Barack Obama is ""the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists.""" ['Energy'] 4 2008-04-17 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on all income brackets. ['Taxes'] 1 2008-04-16 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales. ['Taxes'] 2 2008-04-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York "Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and ""that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-04-16 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison John McCain Arizona "If the U.S. stops adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it ""will lessen worldwide demand for oil"" and reduce prices." ['Energy'] 2 2008-04-16 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York """Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-04-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "The United States is ""seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-04-16 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York Says she is the subject of 60 books. ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-04-16 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """He's promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security...""" ['Economy'] 1 2008-04-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-04-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a ""parallel public financing system.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2008-04-15 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Focus on the Family Action """Among his (Obama's) pet projects is a bill ... which would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-04-15 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Focus on the Family Action "Obama supports ""teaching schoolchildren — in 2nd grade, no less — about homosexual relationships.""" ['Education', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2008-04-14 Amy Hollyfield, Scott Montgomery Republican Ryan Kelly John McCain Arizona "Democrats' budget resolution would raise America's tax bill by ""$500-billion.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2008-04-14 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet.""" ['Candidate Biography', 'Ethics'] 3 2008-04-11 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Clinton Arkansas """Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2008-04-09 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """My husband didn't wrap up the nomination until June.""" ['Elections'] 2 2008-04-08 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org """He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year.""" ['Environment'] 3 2008-04-08 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org """The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-04-08 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org """John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.""" ['Civil Rights'] 5 2008-04-08 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California.""" ['Elections'] 3 2008-04-08 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan MoveOn.org """McCain opposes a woman's right to choose.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2008-04-07 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-04-04 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley, Will Short Gorham, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were ""too small, too poor or too dangerous"" for the president." ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2008-04-04 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Dick Morris "Hillary Clinton's international travels included ""no serious diplomacy.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-04-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Adriel Bettelheim John McCain Arizona "Obama ""has no experience or background at all in national security affairs.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-04-02 Scott Montgomery Amy Hollyfield Chain email """According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??""" ['Obama Birth Certificate', 'Religion'] 0 2008-04-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York "McCain's ""plan for the economy is to extend George Bush's tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-04-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August, Shirl Kennedy Barack Obama Illinois """Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-03-28 Amy Hollyfield Nell Benton Chain email Barack Obama has written and co-sponsored more bills in three years than Hillary Clinton has in seven. ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2008-03-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Connie Humburg Bill Clinton Arkansas "Obama spent ""40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-03-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Connie Humburg Bill Clinton Arkansas """(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-03-26 Scott Montgomery Libertarian John Martin Mike Gravel Alaska """I am a candidate. I have not withdrawn.""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-03-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I remember landing under sniper fire.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2008-03-24 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market. ['Taxes'] 2 2008-03-24 Amy Hollyfield Caryn Baird Bloggers "Obama says America is great, but let's ""try to change it.""" ['Patriotism'] 0 2008-03-20 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "The Jewish holiday Purim is ""their version of Halloween here.""" ['Religion'] 1 2008-03-19 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "It's ""common knowledge"" that al-Qaida is receiving training from Iran." ['Iraq'] 1 2008-03-17 Amy Hollyfield None Angie Drobnic Holan Campaign to Defend America Washington, D.C. "John McCain and George Bush have ""absolutely no plan for universal health care.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-03-17 Amy Hollyfield None Angie Drobnic Holan Campaign to Defend America Washington, D.C. "McCain and Bush are millionaires who are ""for tax cuts for millionaires.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-03-17 Amy Hollyfield None Angie Drobnic Holan Campaign to Defend America Washington, D.C. Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies. ['Energy'] 1 2008-03-17 Amy Hollyfield None Angie Drobnic Holan Campaign to Defend America Washington, D.C. "John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend ""a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2008-03-14 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Tennessee Republican Party Tennessee """The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group.""" ['Israel'] 2 2008-03-14 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Tennessee Republican Party Tennessee """You don't even have to go outside Obama's campaign to find advisers who are anti-Israel.""" ['Israel'] 1 2008-03-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August Barack Obama Illinois Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government. ['Iraq'] 5 2008-03-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Dina Cappiello Hillary Clinton New York "Obama voted for ""tax subsidies and giveways"" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources." ['Energy'] 2 2008-03-11 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Hillary Clinton New York """I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-03-10 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Will Short Gorham Hillary Clinton New York """I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2008-03-10 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois """We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote.""" ['Elections'] 4 2008-03-10 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2008-03-07 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-03-05 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois """We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-03-05 Amy Hollyfield Lissa August VoteVets.org """John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-03-04 Amy Hollyfield Shawn Zeller Sierra Club "John McCain has ""a consistent pattern of ducking important environmental votes.""" ['Environment'] 1 2008-03-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Caryn Baird John McCain Arizona """I committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2008-03-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war. ['Iraq'] 5 2008-02-29 Amy Hollyfield, Scott Montgomery Ryan Kelly Republican National Committee """Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-02-29 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Obama ""only wants your children to have health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-02-28 Scott Montgomery Democrat Ryan Kelly Barack Obama Illinois """When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong.""" ['Economy'] 4 2008-02-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "A mailer from the Obama campaign ""accurately indicates"" that Hillary Clinton would ""force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2008-02-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Obama ""basically threatened to bomb Pakistan.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2008-02-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Barack Obama said in 2004 ""that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2008-02-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Amy Hollyfield Hillary Clinton New York """Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Will Short Gorham Hillary Clinton New York """He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2008-02-26 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I want to freeze interest rates for five years.""" ['Economy'] 3 2008-02-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Clinton said ""great things about NAFTA until she started running for president.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-02-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy.""" ['Economy'] 1 2008-02-22 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2008-02-22 Scott Montgomery Democrat Dina Cappiello Barack Obama Illinois """We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-02-22 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois "He's been endorsed by ""every major newspaper here in the state of Texas.""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-22 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley, Shirl Kennedy Barack Obama Illinois """We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate.""" ['Legal Issues'] 4 2008-02-22 Scott Montgomery Shirl Kennedy Bloggers """Barack Obama loves Che Guevara.""" ['History'] 0 2008-02-21 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Obama ""suggested bombing Pakistan.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 0 2008-02-20 Scott Montgomery Shirl Kennedy Democratic National Committee The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy. ['Iraq'] 3 2008-02-19 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is ""about 35 years of experience.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-02-19 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """I have 35 years' experience making change.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2008-02-15 Amy Hollyfield Caryn Baird Chain email """Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2008-02-15 Amy Hollyfield Caryn Baird Chain email """Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-02-15 Amy Hollyfield Caryn Baird Chain email """She flunked the D.C. bar exam.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-02-14 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan James Dobson "John McCain ""said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president.""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-14 Bill Adair Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee "RNC version of a Hillary Clinton valentine: ""Roses are red, violets are blue, I'll raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do.""" ['Taxes'] 0 2008-02-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Nell Benton, Rachel Bloom Hillary Clinton New York """On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2008-02-13 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Hillary Clinton ""has the only health care plan that covers every American.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-02-13 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Jody Kyle Hillary Clinton New York """I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost.""" ['Elections'] 4 2008-02-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Hillary Clinton New York """Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger.""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-12 Robert Farley, Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Clinton Arkansas """Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate.""" ['Elections'] 1 2008-02-12 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan George W. Bush Texas "Barack Obama said ""he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-02-11 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Ryan Kelly Barack Obama Illinois """8 years of the Clintons, major losses for Democrats across the nation.""" ['Elections'] 4 2008-02-11 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Hillary Clinton ""starts off with 47 percent of the country against her.""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-11 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV.""" ['Bankruptcy'] 1 2008-02-11 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair, Asjylyn Loder Barack Obama Illinois "Americans ""have never paid more for gas at the pump.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-02-11 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points.""" ['Elections'] 4 2008-02-08 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Huckabee Arkansas """I'm the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions...""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-08 Amy Hollyfield Bill Adair Chain email """While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches.""" ['Patriotism'] 1 2008-02-07 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Mike Huckabee Arkansas """When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-02-07 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison, Lissa August John McCain Arizona """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.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-02-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Barack Obama Illinois """Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2008-02-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama ""voted 'present,' instead of yes or no"" on seven votes involving abortion rights." ['Abortion'] 5 2008-02-05 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley John McCain Arizona "In the Florida Republican primary, ""we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote.""" ['Elections'] 2 2008-02-04 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York """George Bush sent people to war without body armor.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2008-02-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Citizens United Political Victory Fund Washington, D.C. "John McCain ""voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-02-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair John McCain Arizona """In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2008-02-04 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "John McCain has said the economy is ""not his strong suit.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-02-04 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Citizens United Political Victory Fund Washington, D.C. """(John McCain) was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry.""" ['Elections'] 5 2008-02-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Hillary Clinton ""agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2008-02-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Hillary Clinton ""actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions.""" ['Terrorism'] 5 2008-02-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Hillary Clinton ""agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-02-01 Amy Hollyfield Republican Caryn Baird John McCain Arizona """(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-02-01 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain ""by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-01-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Caryn Baird John McCain Arizona "Romney left Massachusetts ""with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2008-01-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim Mike Huckabee Arkansas """Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-01-31 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Mitt Romney wants ""to set a date for withdrawal"" from Iraq." ['Iraq'] 2 2008-01-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller Mike Huckabee Arkansas """Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year.""" ['Transportation'] 2 2008-01-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Frank John McCain Arizona """He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 4 2008-01-30 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-01-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon"" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law." ['Energy'] 2 2008-01-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Mitt Romney previously believed ""that abortion should be safe and legal in this country."" Now he is ""prolife.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2008-01-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona Romney used to favor gun control, and said he didn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush. ['Guns'] 5 2008-01-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Neil Skene Rudy Giuliani New York "Said he's the only Republican candidate ""who's actually turned around a government economy.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2008-01-27 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2008-01-25 Amy Hollyfield Democrat John Frank Barack Obama Illinois """But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy.""" ['History'] 3 2008-01-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona "Hillary Clinton wants to ""wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2008-01-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2008-01-25 Scott Montgomery Democrat Robert Farley Bill Clinton Arkansas """The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around.""" ['Economy'] 5 2008-01-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Caryn Baird Rudy Giuliani New York """We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-01-25 Amy Hollyfield Republican Caryn Baird Mike Huckabee Arkansas """The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-01-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Ryan Kelly Mike Huckabee Arkansas Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy. ['Economy'] 2 2008-01-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Rudy Giuliani New York """Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent.""" ['Military'] 3 2008-01-24 Amy Hollyfield Republican David DeCamp John McCain Arizona """I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina.""" ['Elections'] 1 2008-01-23 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Huckabee Arkansas """When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness.""" ['Taxes'] 1 2008-01-23 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan. ['Religion'] 4 2008-01-23 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama ""remains silent"" and ""is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan.""" ['Religion'] 1 2008-01-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Caryn Baird Hillary Clinton New York """I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2008-01-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Jody Kyle Barack Obama Illinois """I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 1 2008-01-22 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Bill Adair Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2008-01-22 Adriel Bettelheim, Amy Hollyfield Democrat Miranda Blue John Edwards North Carolina """If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have.""" ['Poverty'] 5 2008-01-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Hillary Clinton New York "The Bush administration has ""the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again.""" ['Military'] 3 2008-01-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Robert Farley Bill Clinton Arkansas "Obama said that ""since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas...""" ['Ethics'] 1 2008-01-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley Rudy Giuliani New York """He reformed welfare before others tried.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2008-01-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Robert Farley Rudy Giuliani New York """And delivered more tax relief than the other Republicans combined.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-01-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I don't have lobbyists running my campaign.""" ['Ethics'] 1 2008-01-18 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2008-01-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Frank Rudy Giuliani New York """And he's the only candidate who will fight for a national catastrophe fund to reduce insurance rates.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2008-01-17 Amy Hollyfield Shawn Zeller Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain "Says McCain was a ""Hanoi Hilton songbird"" who collaborated with the enemy." ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2008-01-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Miranda Blue, Jody Kyle Barack Obama Illinois Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls. ['Military'] 3 2008-01-16 Amy Hollyfield Republican Nell Benton John McCain Arizona """Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2008-01-16 Bill Adair Democrat Dina Cappiello Hillary Clinton New York """So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it.""" ['Energy'] 1 2008-01-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """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.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-01-16 Scott Montgomery Democrat Adriel Bettelheim Hillary Clinton New York """You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years...""" ['Iraq'] 5 2008-01-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina """I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2008-01-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly John McCain Arizona """The fact is it's not amnesty.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2008-01-15 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2008-01-15 Scott Montgomery Republican John Frank, Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-01-14 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Clinton Arkansas "Barack Obama ""said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2008-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Mike Huckabee Arkansas """I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2008-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Martin Mike Huckabee Arkansas """(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2008-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller John McCain Arizona """I supported (the surge), I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "The church Barack Obama belongs to has a ""nonnegotiable commitment to Africa.""" ['Religion'] 4 2008-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email The church Barack Obama belongs to only admits black people. ['Religion'] 1 2008-01-11 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Barack Obama's middle name is Mohammed and he's a ""covert"" Muslim." ['Religion'] 0 2008-01-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican Asjylyn Loder Rudy Giuliani New York """We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years.""" ['Energy'] 2 2008-01-10 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Mike Huckabee Arkansas "Says Time magazine called him ""one of America's best governors.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2008-01-09 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan, Alex Leary Barack Obama Illinois """You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-01-08 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Freedom Defense Advocates "The Mormon religion has ""a plan that will see the Constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy.""" ['Religion'] 0 2008-01-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Erin McNeill Joe Biden Delaware """There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2008-01-07 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Spike the Romney Attack Dog """Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-01-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Erin McNeill Joe Biden Delaware """Barack Obama hasn't passed any (bills).""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2008-01-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Erin McNeill Joe Biden Delaware """John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Barack Obama ""wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Asjylyn Loder Bill Richardson New Mexico "As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, ""I created reserves of home heating oil.""" ['Energy'] 5 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Ryan Kelly Hillary Clinton New York """You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it.""" ['Terrorism'] 3 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August, John Frank Hillary Clinton New York """Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Mike Huckabee Arkansas """I supported the surge when you didn't.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York """Ronald Reagan did amnesty.""" ['Immigration'] 5 2008-01-06 Amy Hollyfield Republican Ryan Kelly Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty.""" ['Immigration'] 0 2008-01-05 Scott Montgomery Republican Bill Adair Rudy Giuliani New York """Bill Clinton cut the military drastically.""" ['Military'] 3 2008-01-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Neil Skene Mike Huckabee Arkansas """...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2008-01-03 Bill Adair, Amy Hollyfield Republican Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """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.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2008-01-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Ron Paul Texas """If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2008-01-02 Amy Hollyfield, Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts.""" ['Energy'] 3 2008-01-02 Amy Hollyfield Republican Janet Zink John McCain Arizona """Mitt Romney says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2008-01-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat David DeCamp Chris Dodd Connecticut """The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her.""" ['Elections'] 4 2007-12-31 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Jeffrey S. Solochek Joe Biden Delaware "Biden was responsible for ""ending genocide in Bosnia.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2007-12-31 Scott Montgomery Republican Neil Skene Fred Thompson Tennessee """He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 3 2007-12-31 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Asjylyn Loder Barack Obama Illinois """Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher.""" ['Corporations', 'Energy'] 1 2007-12-31 Amy Hollyfield Republican Nell Benton Mitt Romney Massachusetts """McCain opposes repeal of the death tax.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2007-12-31 Scott Montgomery Republican Lissa August Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA.""" ['Guns'] 1 2007-12-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Former business partner Robert Gay says: ""The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2007-12-28 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 2 2007-12-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Lissa August Mike Huckabee Arkansas "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." ['Crime'] 5 2007-12-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Lissa August Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Huckabee ""granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined.""" ['Crime'] 5 2007-12-27 Amy Hollyfield, Scott Montgomery Republican Jeffrey S. Solochek Mike Huckabee Arkansas "Says he has ""the most impressive education record"" of the Republican candidates." ['Education'] 3 2007-12-26 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina """One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran.""" ['Poverty'] 4 2007-12-26 Amy Hollyfield Lissa August Club for Growth """As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2007-12-21 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Shirl Kennedy Bill Richardson New Mexico """Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier.""" ['Iraq'] 2 2007-12-20 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email """Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.""" ['Obama Birth Certificate', 'Religion'] 0 2007-12-20 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "When Obama was sworn into office, ""he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs).""" ['Obama Birth Certificate', 'Religion'] 0 2007-12-19 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York """I can't sign money. That's illegal.""" ['Legal Issues'] 2 2007-12-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan, Shirl Kennedy Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2007-12-19 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller Ron Paul Texas """It used to be the policy of the Republican Party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally get in charge and a chance to do something, so we double the size of the Department of Education.""" ['Education'] 5 2007-12-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican Lissa August, John Frank Rudy Giuliani New York """Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …""" ['Foreign Policy'] 2 2007-12-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Frank John McCain Arizona """ ... 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.""" ['History'] 5 2007-12-18 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Frank Duncan Hunter California """And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers.""" ['History'] 1 2007-12-18 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Miranda Blue, John Frank Hillary Clinton New York """The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth.""" ['Taxes'] 2 2007-12-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' """ ['Legal Issues'] 5 2007-12-17 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2007-12-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Wes Allison Hillary Clinton New York """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.""" ['Economy'] 5 2007-12-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Wes Allison Hillary Clinton New York """Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression.""" ['Economy'] 3 2007-12-13 Amy Hollyfield Republican Tom Tobin Rudy Giuliani New York """We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent.""" ['Abortion'] 2 2007-12-13 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Fred Thompson Tennessee """Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2007-12-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Chris Dodd Connecticut """We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children.""" ['Poverty'] 5 2007-12-12 Amy Hollyfield Angie Drobnic Holan, John Martin Chain email An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism. ['Economy'] 0 2007-12-12 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August Joe Biden Delaware """When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 5 2007-12-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Tom Tancredo Colorado """For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2007-12-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shawn Zeller Rudy Giuliani New York """He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights.""" ['Gays and Lesbians'] 4 2007-12-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Mike Huckabee ""supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2007-12-11 Amy Hollyfield Republican Rudy Giuliani New York """This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan.""" ['Elections'] 5 2007-12-10 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August, Jody Kyle Hillary Clinton New York """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.""" ['Consumer Safety', 'Regulation'] 5 2007-12-10 Scott Montgomery Republican Jennifer Liberto Rudy Giuliani New York """The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2007-12-06 Scott Montgomery Democrat Caryn Baird, Shirl Kennedy Hillary Clinton New York """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." ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2007-12-05 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Huckabee supported ""a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate.""" ['Education', 'Immigration'] 3 2007-12-05 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Romney said ""'No' to in-state tuition"" for illegal immigrants." ['Immigration'] 5 2007-12-04 Scott Montgomery Republican Shirl Kennedy John McCain Arizona """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.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2007-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I do provide universal health care.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2007-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Huckabee Arkansas "MikeHuckabee.com gets ""more hits than virtually any other presidential candidate.""" ['Elections'] 5 2007-12-03 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Barack Obama's health care plan ""would leave 15-million Americans out.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2007-11-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Mitt Romney Massachusetts "The Red Sox waited ""87 long years"" to win the World Series." ['Baseball', 'Recreation'] 1 2007-11-29 Scott Montgomery Republican Shirl Kennedy Tom Tancredo Colorado """I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2007-11-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Huckabee Arkansas "Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants ""if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student,"" among other things." ['Immigration'] 2 2007-11-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican John Martin Ron Paul Texas """I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel.""" ['Ethics'] 5 2007-11-29 Amy Hollyfield Republican Rachel Bloom John McCain Arizona """I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2007-11-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Caryn Baird, Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York "Romney failed to take action against ""sanctuary cities"" in Massachusetts." ['Immigration'] 4 2007-11-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion).""" ['Immigration'] 2 2007-11-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Shirl Kennedy Mitt Romney Massachusetts """In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock.""" ['Families'] 5 2007-11-28 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The mayor said … 'if you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status . . . then we welcome you here. We want you here. We'll protect you here.' """ ['Immigration'] 5 2007-11-27 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Fred Thompson Tennessee """I'm proud to have had a 100 percent pro-life voting record.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2007-11-27 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Mike Huckabee Arkansas """Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2007-11-27 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina """I won the South Carolina primary in 2004, and I was way behind in the polls at this stage in 2004.""" ['Elections'] 3 2007-11-27 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Fred Thompson Tennessee """So what sort of services does Romney's health care plan provide? Per the state Web site: $50 co-pay for abortions.""" ['Abortion'] 5 2007-11-27 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Fred Thompson Tennessee """Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board.""" ['Abortion'] 2 2007-11-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Obama says his health care plan is ""universal.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2007-11-26 Scott Montgomery David Baumann, Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2007-11-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """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.""" ['Crime'] 5 2007-11-26 Scott Montgomery David Baumann, Angie Drobnic Holan Republican National Committee """If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2007-11-26 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Barack Obama's health care plan ""would leave 15 million Americans out.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2007-11-26 Amy Hollyfield Republican Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York """Murder went up"" when Romney was governor. ""Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up.""" ['Crime'] 3 2007-11-21 Scott Montgomery Republican John Martin Rudy Giuliani New York """People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2007-11-21 Scott Montgomery Republican Neil Skene Rudy Giuliani New York """I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2007-11-21 Scott Montgomery Republican Neil Skene Rudy Giuliani New York """The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2007-11-20 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August, Jeffrey S. Solochek Bill Richardson New Mexico "The form students fill out to get college financial aid is ""longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship.""" ['Education'] 1 2007-11-20 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Lissa August, Jeffrey S. Solochek Hillary Clinton New York """Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs.""" ['Education'] 3 2007-11-19 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """John wasn't this raging populist four years ago"" when he ran for president." ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2007-11-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Shawn Zeller Rudy Giuliani New York """America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet's words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence.""" ['Terrorism'] 3 2007-11-16 Amy Hollyfield Democrat John Martin Barack Obama Illinois """Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2007-11-15 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Richardson New Mexico """Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 1 2007-11-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Richardson New Mexico """Three out of the 18 benchmarks of the (GAO) have been fulfilled. Even among Republican math, that is a failing grade.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2007-11-15 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """When Sen. Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-11-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Ryan Kelly Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue.""" ['Energy'] 5 2007-11-14 Scott Montgomery Republican Miranda Blue, Jody Kyle Mike Huckabee Arkansas """As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2007-11-14 Scott Montgomery Republican Miranda Blue Fred Thompson Tennessee "Huckabee ""was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2007-11-13 Amy Hollyfield Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York ''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.'' ['Economy'] 1 2007-11-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2007-11-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """My husband has not withheld a single document.""" ['Legal Issues'] 3 2007-11-09 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina """Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China.""" ['Consumer Safety'] 4 2007-11-08 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Chain email "Obama ""refused to not only put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, but refused to say the pledge.""" ['Patriotism'] 1 2007-11-07 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Mayor Giuliani's lawsuit killed the line-item veto.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2007-11-07 Amy Hollyfield Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina "Edwards says if Congress won't pass universal health care, he'll tell Congress: ""I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you.""" ['Health Care'] 0 2007-11-07 Scott Montgomery Republican David Baumann Mitt Romney Massachusetts """John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2007-11-06 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware "Rudy Giuliani is ""probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 0 2007-11-05 Republican Tom Tancredo Colorado """There was a report that came out from the FBI – a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays.""" [] 3 2007-11-05 Scott Montgomery Republican John Martin John McCain Arizona """Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2007-11-04 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Richardson New Mexico """I've got the most international experience here.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2007-11-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat Wes Allison Joe Biden Delaware """Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that.""" ['Crime'] 2 2007-11-02 Bill Adair Democrat Rachel Bloom Hillary Clinton New York """It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding.""" ['Bush Administration'] 1 2007-11-02 Scott Montgomery Democrat Wes Allison Joe Biden Delaware """In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row.""" ['Crime'] 1 2007-11-02 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 2 2007-11-01 Scott Montgomery Democrat David DeCamp Hillary Clinton New York """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.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2007-11-01 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York """The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2007-10-31 Scott Montgomery Republican Lissa August Rudy Giuliani New York """I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2007-10-31 Bill Adair Democrat Miranda Blue John Edwards North Carolina "Clinton has ""raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry.""" ['Ethics'] 4 2007-10-31 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Dennis Kucinich Ohio """More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency.""" ['Bush Administration'] 1 2007-10-31 Bill Adair Democrat Nell Benton Barack Obama Illinois """I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate.""" ['Ethics'] 3 2007-10-30 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Jeffrey S. Solochek Mitt Romney Massachusetts """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.""" ['Education'] 5 2007-10-30 Scott Montgomery Democrat Nell Benton, Shirl Kennedy Chris Dodd Connecticut """Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2007-10-29 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush ""a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2007-10-29 Neil Brown Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Sen. Obama ""made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 3 2007-10-26 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Rudy Giuliani New York """Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time." ['Crime'] 5 2007-10-26 Scott Montgomery Democrat Tom Tobin Bill Richardson New Mexico """Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated.""" ['Elections'] 3 2007-10-25 Scott Montgomery Republican Jody Kyle Rudy Giuliani New York "Thompson ""voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer.""" ['Legal Issues'] 2 2007-10-25 Scott Montgomery Republican Miranda Blue Fred Thompson Tennessee """I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce.""" ['Legal Issues'] 4 2007-10-24 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Log Cabin Republicans """Mitt Romney opposed the gun lobby, even Ronald Reagan.""" ['Guns'] 4 2007-10-23 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan, Shirl Kennedy Mike Huckabee Arkansas "The signers of the Declaration of Independence were ""brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.""" ['Religion'] 0 2007-10-23 Scott Montgomery Democrat Tom Tobin Bill Richardson New Mexico """Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2007-10-22 Amy Hollyfield Republican Bill Adair Mitt Romney Massachusetts "President Clinton ""reduced the scale of our military dramatically.""" ['Military'] 3 2007-10-22 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Rudy Giuliani New York """I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City."" -" ['Crime'] 2 2007-10-22 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Ron Paul Texas """The founders advised non-interventionism.""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2007-10-22 Scott Montgomery Republican Ryan Kelly Tom Tancredo Colorado "He received ""A"" ratings from ""every conservative organization that gives ratings.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2007-10-20 Scott Montgomery Caryn Baird Chain email "Clinton ""refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers.""" ['Military'] 1 2007-10-20 Scott Montgomery Caryn Baird Chain email """The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 1 2007-10-19 Democrat Hillary Clinton New York "Nearly half of Hispanic voters in Arizona's last election supported four measures that were ""very tough on illegal immigration.""" [] 5 2007-10-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf John McCain Arizona """Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2007-10-18 Scott Montgomery Republican Shirl Kennedy Fred Thompson Tennessee """I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 4 2007-10-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2007-10-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2007-10-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2007-10-17 Scott Montgomery Democrat David DeCamp John Edwards North Carolina """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.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2007-10-17 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Log Cabin Republicans "Mitt Romney has ""a pro-choice record.""" ['Abortion'] 4 2007-10-16 Scott Montgomery Republican John Martin Tom Tancredo Colorado "In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were ""very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them.""" ['Immigration'] 2 2007-10-16 Scott Montgomery Republican Alex Leary Mitt Romney Massachusetts "Mitt Romney boasts that he is ""proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not.""" ['Taxes'] 4 2007-10-16 Scott Montgomery Democrat Shirl Kennedy John Edwards North Carolina """John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever."" -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser" ['Ethics'] 3 2007-10-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Sasha Bartolf Chris Dodd Connecticut """With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2007-10-15 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf Duncan Hunter California """This (SCHIP) is socialized medicine. It is going to go to families that make $60,000 a year. Those aren't poor children.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-10-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Sasha Bartolf, Miranda Blue Joe Biden Delaware """With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-10-15 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf John McCain Arizona """Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'""" ['Health Care'] 1 2007-10-12 Scott Montgomery Republican David Baumann John McCain Arizona """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.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2007-10-12 Scott Montgomery Republican David Baumann John McCain Arizona """Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years.""" ['Federal Budget'] 3 2007-10-12 Scott Montgomery Republican David Baumann John McCain Arizona """We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it.""" ['Federal Budget'] 1 2007-10-11 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved.""" ['Military'] 4 2007-10-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina """Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding.""" ['Education'] 1 2007-10-09 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-10-09 Bill Adair Republican Ryan Kelly, John Martin Fred Thompson Tennessee """The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program.""" ['Iraq'] 1 2007-10-09 Scott Montgomery Republican John McCain Arizona """A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay.""" ['Economy'] 3 2007-10-09 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York """I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2007-10-08 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage.""" ['Health Care'] 3 2007-10-08 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina "Rural schools ""face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries...""" ['Education'] 3 2007-10-07 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools.""" ['Education'] 5 2007-10-05 Scott Montgomery Republican Shirl Kennedy, John Martin Mike Huckabee Arkansas """The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget.""" ['Health Care'] 2 2007-10-05 Scott Montgomery Republican Miranda Blue Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage.""" ['Families', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 3 2007-10-05 Scott Montgomery Republican Miranda Blue Mitt Romney Massachusetts """I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment.""" ['Gays and Lesbians', 'Legal Issues'] 5 2007-10-04 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August, Angie Drobnic Holan John Edwards North Carolina """I was the first presidential candidate to lay out a specific, truly universal health care plan.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2007-10-03 Scott Montgomery Wes Allison, Lissa August Democratic National Committee """McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq""" ['Iraq'] 2 2007-10-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Jody Kyle Mike Huckabee Arkansas """He's sued gun manufacturers. He was supportive of Brady. He was supportive of things like assault weapon bans.""" ['Guns'] 5 2007-10-02 Scott Montgomery Libertarian Angie Drobnic Holan Mike Gravel Alaska """If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation.""" ['Energy'] 2 2007-10-02 Scott Montgomery Republican John Martin Fred Thompson Tennessee """With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night.""" ['Elections'] 5 2007-10-02 Scott Montgomery Republican David Adams Mitt Romney Massachusetts """It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be.""" ['Energy'] 3 2007-10-02 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison, Lissa August John McCain Arizona """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.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2007-09-28 Scott Montgomery Republican Shirl Kennedy Rudy Giuliani New York """When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent.""" ['Abortion'] 3 2007-09-28 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois """I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2007-09-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2007-09-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat John Martin Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Social Security ... is solid through about 2040 without any changes whatsoever.""" ['Federal Budget'] 5 2007-09-27 Scott Montgomery Democrat Bill Adair Bill Richardson New Mexico """Today New Mexico (has) the sixth-fastest growing economy.""" ['Economy'] 4 2007-09-24 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York """I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world.""" ['Candidate Biography'] 0 2007-09-24 Scott Montgomery Republican Caryn Baird Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2007-09-23 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Richardson New Mexico """Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2007-09-21 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf, Miranda Blue Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes.""" ['Taxes'] 3 2007-09-21 Scott Montgomery Wes Allison Republican National Committee """Obama Skips Out On Condemning Left-Wing Attacks On Gen. Petraeus Despite Casting Other 'Important Votes' Earlier And Later In The Day.""" ['Iraq'] 5 2007-09-20 Scott Montgomery Democrat Shirl Kennedy Barack Obama Illinois """And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized...""" ['Iraq'] 4 2007-09-20 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "Obama ""won health care for 150,000 people.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-09-20 Scott Montgomery Libertarian Shirl Kennedy Mike Gravel Alaska """21-million Americans could have a four-year college scholarship for the money we've squandered in Iraq. 7.6-million teachers could have been hired last year if we weren't squandering this money.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2007-09-19 Scott Montgomery Republican Josh Korr Mike Huckabee Arkansas """Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight.""" ['Military'] 4 2007-09-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Half of all personal bankruptcies in America ""are caused by medical bills.""" ['Health Care'] 4 2007-09-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York """Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-09-18 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings. ['Health Care'] 3 2007-09-18 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Rudy Giuliani New York """What they will do is socialized medicine.""" ['Health Care'] 1 2007-09-18 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf, Miranda Blue Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Took on the Olympics and turned them around""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2007-09-17 Scott Montgomery Republican Bill Adair, Nell Benton Ron Paul Texas """Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.""" ['Legal Issues'] 1 2007-09-17 Scott Montgomery Republican Nell Benton Ron Paul Texas """He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.""" ['Guns'] 5 2007-09-17 Scott Montgomery Republican Rachel Bloom Ron Paul Texas """Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 4 2007-09-15 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Hillary Clinton New York "Health insurance premiums ""have almost doubled ... since 2000.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-09-14 Scott Montgomery Democrat Jody Kyle Chris Dodd Connecticut """We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there""" ['Foreign Policy'] 4 2007-09-13 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August John Edwards North Carolina "Poor people go to a ""payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest.""" ['Poverty'] 5 2007-09-12 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Fred Thompson Tennessee """I've cast a couple of 99-1 votes"" and been the lone dissenter." ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2007-09-12 Scott Montgomery Republican Ryan Kelly Sam Brownback Kansas """I'm pro-life. He's not.""" ['Abortion'] 1 2007-09-11 Scott Montgomery Democrat Sasha Bartolf Hillary Clinton New York "English ""is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can't print ballots in any other language.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2007-09-11 Scott Montgomery Democrat Miranda Blue Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food.""" ['Consumer Safety'] 3 2007-09-10 Scott Montgomery Republican Bill Adair Duncan Hunter California "Guantanamo detainees ""get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugs…they had honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf.""" ['Terrorism'] 5 2007-09-10 Democrat Hillary Clinton New York \u201CThirty-four percent of Hispanics don\u2019t have any health care at all, don\u2019t have any health insurance.\u201D [] 5 2007-09-10 Neil Brown, Scott Montgomery Democrat Shirl Kennedy Hillary Clinton New York """About 40 percent of Hispanic homeowners have subprime mortgages.""" ['Economy'] 5 2007-09-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York """In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier.""" ['Elections'] 5 2007-09-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat Lissa August Hillary Clinton New York """In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who'd already made up their minds.""" ['Elections'] 4 2007-09-10 Scott Montgomery Democrat David Baumann Bill Richardson New Mexico """Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary.""" ['Elections'] 0 2007-09-09 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Joe Biden Delaware """Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out.""" ['Iraq'] 3 2007-09-09 Scott Montgomery Democrat Sasha Bartolf, Miranda Blue, Philip Burrowes, Angie Drobnic Holan, Ryan Kelly, Jody Kyle Barack Obama Illinois """During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 3 2007-09-09 Scott Montgomery Republican Jody Kyle Ron Paul Texas """We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed.""" ['Iraq'] 4 2007-09-08 Scott Montgomery Democrat Sasha Bartolf, Miranda Blue, Philip Burrowes, Angie Drobnic Holan, Ryan Kelly, Jody Kyle Barack Obama Illinois """Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way.""" ['Job Accomplishments'] 5 2007-09-07 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Bill Richardson New Mexico """Congress only funded half the wall"" between Mexico and the United States." ['Immigration'] 4 2007-09-07 Bill Adair Democrat Shirl Kennedy Dennis Kucinich Ohio """When NAFTA was passed, there was an acceleration of immigration from Mexico because people were in search of jobs.""" ['Immigration'] 3 2007-09-07 Bill Adair Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Chris Dodd Connecticut """John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party.""" ['Elections'] 3 2007-09-06 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sam Brownback Kansas "In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage ""have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock.""" ['Families', 'Gays and Lesbians'] 2 2007-09-06 Bill Adair Democrat John Martin Dennis Kucinich Ohio """Thirty-four percent of Hispanics don't have any health care at all, don't have any health insurance.""" ['Health Care'] 5 2007-09-06 Scott Montgomery Republican Nell Benton Mike Huckabee Arkansas """I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion.""" ['Abortion'] 2 2007-09-06 Scott Montgomery Angie Drobnic Holan Obama Girl """At least Obama didn't marry his cousin,"" as Giuliani did." ['Candidate Biography'] 5 2007-09-06 Scott Montgomery Republican Sasha Bartolf Mitt Romney Massachusetts """The Z-visa that was offered in that Senate bill let everybody who's here illegally, other than criminals, stay here for the rest of their lives.""" ['Immigration'] 1 2007-09-05 Bill Duryea Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Mitt Romney Massachusetts """Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them.""" ['Taxes'] 5 2007-09-04 Scott Montgomery Democrat Angie Drobnic Holan Barack Obama Illinois "If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, ""Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.""" ['Elections'] 1 2007-09-03 Bill Adair Republican Angie Drobnic Holan Sam Brownback Kansas """Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock.""" ['Families'] 5 2007-09-03 Scott Montgomery Republican Miranda Blue Duncan Hunter California """I built that border fence in San Diego...and it reduced the smuggling of people and drugs...by 90 percent.""" ['Immigration'] 4 2007-09-01 Scott Montgomery Republican Angie Drobnic Holan John McCain Arizona """The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct.""" ['Federal Budget'] 4 2007-09-01 Scott Montgomery Republican Wes Allison Rudy Giuliani New York """The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City.""" ['Crime'] 1