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Associated Industries of Florida says insurance tax break created “40,000 jobs in just the last four years”

April 19, 2013

The "working tax cut" created "over 40,000 new jobs in just the last four years."

Emory says Chick-fil-A decision not political

By Karishma Mehrotra April 19, 2013

The decision to remove Chick-fil-A from Emory University was based solely on student feedback.

Obama says bipartisan background check plan “outlawed any (gun) registry”

By Becky Bowers April 18, 2013

A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry.  Plain and simple, right there in the text."

NRA says Manchin-Toomey would have criminalized some gun transfers between family, friends

By Molly Moorhead April 18, 2013

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…

Barack Obama says, ‘The NRA used to support expanded background checks.’

By Louis Jacobson April 18, 2013

"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."

Gabby Giffords says Americans “overwhelmingly” support expanding background checks

By Louis Jacobson April 18, 2013

Polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks."  

Rep. John Duncan Jr. says 90 percent of felons grew up in fatherless households

By Louis Jacobson April 18, 2013

"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."

Wendy Davis says Texas ranks 49th in what it is doing in per-pupil education spending

By W. Gardner Selby April 18, 2013

Says Texas ranks 49th nationally in "what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state."

R.I. Treasurer Gina Raimondo repeats oft-quoted, but misleading, statistic in equal pay debate

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. April 18, 2013

"Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men."

Did Ché Guevara write ‘extensively’ about the superiority of white Europeans? Rubio says yes

By Amy Sherman April 17, 2013

Ché Guevara "wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent."

David Dewhurst says Texas ‘school systems’ lose 45 days a year on testing

By Sue Owen April 17, 2013

Says Texas "school systems" lose 45 days a year on testing.

Sen. Marco Rubio says immigration bill is not amnesty

By Molly Moorhead April 17, 2013

The immigration proposal from the Gang of Eight "is not amnesty."

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