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Barack Obama says White House budget would not add to the debt within a few years

February 15, 2011

Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says an alternative to state employee health and pension changes is bumping 200,000 children out of Medicaid

February 15, 2011

"The alternative" to higher state worker pension and health care payments "is to look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to 200,000 children…

Glenn Beck says Muslim Brotherhood wants to declare war on Israel

February 15, 2011

The Muslim Brotherhood has "openly stated they want to declare war on Israel."

Milwaukee Ald. Milele Coggs says bill would give Wisconsin the most restrictive voter ID law in the nation

February 15, 2011

"In its current state, this bill is the most restrictive voter ID legislation in the nation."

State Rep. Matt Lundy says state records laws already shield business records

February 15, 2011

"There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential."

Obama should cut corporate tax rate, potential GOP foe says

February 15, 2011

The United States is "the only developed country in the world that has not cut its corporate tax rate."

Gov. Rick Perry says Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state

February 15, 2011

"Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state."

Donald Trump says people who went to school with Obama never saw him

February 14, 2011

"The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."

Doonesbury strip says 270,000 Americans have been killed by guns since 9/11

February 14, 2011

Since Sept. 11, 2001, "270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home."

Hatch once supported an individual mandate, said Cenk Uygur

February 14, 2011

Orrin Hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate.

Rick Scott says health care law is biggest tax increase in U.S. history

February 14, 2011

The federal health care law is "probably the biggest tax increase ever in the history of our country."

Sen. Jim Webb says Iraq war is major reason for oil price increases

February 14, 2011

The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing "the top off the price of oil." 

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