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Is HOPE fund on pace to run dry?

By Eric Stirgus November 28, 2011

"By fiscal year 2013, the state is expected to wipe through [HOPE scholarship] reserve funds."

Sen. Rob Portman says the U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate

By Peter Krouse November 28, 2011

"We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners."

Walker says ‘overwhelming number’ of Wisconsin school districts’ staffs grew or stayed the same after 2011-2013 state budget

By Dave Umhoefer November 27, 2011

"The overwhelming number" of school districts reported their staff stayed the same or grew after the 2011-’13 state budget  

New Jersey Tea Party blames Barack Obama for unemployment of 540,000 blacks since January 2009

By Caryn Shinske November 27, 2011

"Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans – Obama’s strongest supporters – have lost their jobs." 

Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed says 95 percent of the state’s ozone pollution comes from out of state, particularly the Midwest

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. November 27, 2011

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,…

How big of a role did Eileen Brady play in expanding children’s healt care coverage?

By Ian K. Kullgren November 26, 2011

Says she "brought together business, labor and hospitals to give 94,000 Oregon children health care."

Mark Warner says U.S. would gain revenue by cutting income tax rates and exemptions

By Warren Fiske November 25, 2011

The U.S. would gain revenue by cutting personal income tax rates in half and ending tax breaks.

Top Democrat says GOP Wisconsin Gov. Walker “slashed” public employee benefits

November 25, 2011

Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker "slashed" pensions and benefits for public employees.

60 Plus Association, with spokesman Pat Boone, says the IPAB is like “a Medicare IRS”

By Sabrina Eaton November 25, 2011

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…

Steve Rothman says it costs more to make a penny and nickel than the coins are worth

By Erin O'Neill November 24, 2011

"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…

Mitt Romney says Hezbollah in Latin America poses an imminent threat to the United States

By Becky Bowers November 23, 2011

"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…

Michele Bachmann says Iran has threatened to launch nuclear attack against Israel, United States

By Aaron Sharockman November 23, 2011

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…

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