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GOP lawmaker claims Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin would force doctors to ask patients about sexual orientation

October 23, 2012

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,…

Barack Obama touts his record on improving employment for veterans

By Louis Jacobson October 23, 2012

"Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office."

Mitt Romney says he balanced the budget of the Salt Lake City Olympics

By Louis Jacobson October 23, 2012

"I went to the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance."

Romney says Obama wants ‘daylight’ in U.S.-Israel relationship

By Molly Moorhead October 23, 2012

"The president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel."

Obama: Romney called Russia our top geopolitical threat

By Molly Moorhead October 23, 2012

"A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia."

Romney says a survey found Massachusetts ‘had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state’

By Becky Bowers October 22, 2012

Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America."

Paul Hirschbiel says newspapers called Scott Rigell’s campaign “Mostly False”

October 22, 2012

"Virginia papers called (Scott) Rigell’s campaign ‘Mostly False.’"

Charlie Bass accuses Ann McLane Kuster of having extreme partisan agenda

By Jake Berry October 22, 2012

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…

Ann McLane Kuster accused Charlie Bass of wanting to privatize Social Security

By Jake Berry October 22, 2012

Says U.S. Rep. Charles Bass wants to privatize Social Security.

Chris Christie says property taxes jumped 70 percent in decade before he took office as governor

By Erin O'Neill October 22, 2012

"Now remember, property taxes went up 70 percent in the 10 years before I became governor."

Georgia, Virginia’s education levels under microscope

By Janel Davis October 22, 2012

Virginia’s educational level among whites is higher than Georgia’s.

George Allen says women’s poverty rate is highest in 17 years

October 22, 2012

"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."

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