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Rick Scott says Florida’s unemployment rate had second-highest drop in the nation

By Angie Drobnic Holan February 16, 2012

Florida "unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation."

Loretta Weinberg claims New Jersey voted down 1915 referendum giving women the right to vote

By Erin O'Neill February 16, 2012

Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote "went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it."

U.S. Chamber of Commerce ad attacking Tim Kaine says health care law ‘will kill jobs across America’

By Louis Jacobson February 15, 2012

"Obamacare ... will kill jobs across America."

Citing Congressional Budget Office, chamber ad says unemployment could exceed 9 percent

By Molly Moorhead February 15, 2012

Says the Congressional Budget Office said "unemployment could top 9 percent in 2013"

Can you drive the length of a football field in the time it takes to check a text?

By Janie Har February 15, 2012

You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text. 

U.S. Chamber says Rep. Tammy Baldwin backed raising taxes $858 billion by voting against extension of Bush-era tax cuts

February 15, 2012

Says U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a candidate for Senate, supports raising taxes "by $858 billion."

Many high-ranking Port Authority officials earn larger salaries than governors of New Jersey, New York, assemblyman says

By Bill Wichert February 15, 2012

"Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them."

Leader of personhood issue claims abortion the most common surgery in the country

By Aaron Marshall February 15, 2012

Says abortion is "the most common surgery in our country."

Newt supported China’s one-child policy, Super PAC says

By Eric Stirgus February 15, 2012

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."

‘Glee’ says the Census Bureau projects the majority of Americans will use Spanish by 2030

By Amy Sherman February 14, 2012

"The U.S. Census believes that by 2030 the majority of Americans will use Spanish as their first language."

Marco Rubio said a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law

By Amy Sherman February 14, 2012

Says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law.

Rhode Island director of administration Richard Licht says Rhode Island isn’t only state cutting back on spending for public television

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. February 14, 2012

"We aren't the only state cutting back on public television."

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