Michele Bachmann says U.S. spent $805 billion in Iraq, lost 4,400 lives under Barack Obama’s watch
"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."
"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."
The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.
Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."
"After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts."
Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but "zero on job creation."
With recent growth "it is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine."
"We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic."
"Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens."
"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase."
"The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin."
"If a President Romney got a call from the president of the (Mormon church), he has no choice but to obey. It is obedience over…