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U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek says Charlie Crist flipped twice on offshore drilling position

April 30, 2010

"The governor switched his position once again on offshore oil drilling."

Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson says wind leases have earned nearly $500,000 despite delayed electricity production

April 30, 2010

Says Texas General Land Office "has earned the school children of Texas $451,932.89 on wind leases that haven't produced a watt of energy."

No congressional pay cuts since the Great Depression, Democratic lawmaker says

April 30, 2010

Members of Congress "have not reduced their salaries ... since the Great Depression," meaning they've gone "eight decades without a pay cut."

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says Democrats passed health care plan despite overwhelming public opposition

April 30, 2010

Says the American public "overwhelmingly opposed" Democratic-steered health care plan.

Crist flip-flops on promise to run as Republican

April 29, 2010

On whether to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent.

Crist faces uphill battle to find votes as an independent

April 29, 2010

"By registration fewer than 20 percent of Florida voters are Independents."

Tim James: Report backs up claim that non-English speaking drivers pose safety hazard

April 29, 2010

Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or…

Grayson said he was No. 1, but Michele Bachmann beat him

April 29, 2010

The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was "#1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives." 

Specter says Congress can tell the Supreme Court what to consider

April 29, 2010

 "Congress can tell [the Supreme Court] which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority."

Gov. Rick Perry says that the Obama administration hasn’t responded to his request for 1,000 National Guard members for more than a year

April 29, 2010

"We've got a 1,000 National Guard troop request that's been in front of this president for over a year and no response."

Arizona immigration law allows police to question ‘anyone’ who’s ‘reasonably suspicious’ of being illegal

April 28, 2010

The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented…

Arizona immigration law requires police to see a crime before checking legal status, GOP state senator says

April 28, 2010

Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.

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