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John Kasich says Ohio No. 8 for job creation, No. 1 in the Midwest

By Aaron Marshall January 6, 2012

"We are now eighth in the nation in job creation . . . we are No. 1 in the Midwest."  

Price worries about health care law’s impact to seniors

By Eric Stirgus January 6, 2012

Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."

U.S. Rep. David Cicilline says Providence made full pension contributions six of eight years that he was mayor

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. January 6, 2012

"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…

Barack Obama reelection video says he “closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas”

By Louis Jacobson January 5, 2012

Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."

Mitt Romney ad says labor board tried to block Boeing from building factory in South Carolina

By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead January 5, 2012

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.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele says county buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago

By Dave Umhoefer January 5, 2012

Says Milwaukee County buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago.

Chris Christie repeats misleading statistic on Newark’s high school graduation rate

By Erin O'Neill January 5, 2012

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."

DCCC says Jim Renacci was trying to avoid voting on payroll tax cut extension

By Sabrina Eaton January 5, 2012

Says Rep. Jim Renacci was "trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut."

Ron Paul says majority of Americans favors gold standard

By Louis Jacobson, W. Gardner Selby January 4, 2012

Says a new national poll shows "the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard" for U.S. currency.

Barack Obama’s campaign says it doesn’t accept lobbyist donations

By Louis Jacobson January 4, 2012

"We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will."

Preliminary vs revised job-change estimates in Wisconsin have 75 percent “margin of error,” Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch says

January 4, 2012

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.

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