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Dem in Wisconsin governor recall says GOP-backed bill means women “can’t do something about” pay discrimination

April 10, 2012

Says Wisconsin women facing pay discrimination can't "do something about it" under bill passed by Republicans.

Don’t call it pink slime, Georgia official says

By Eric Stirgus April 10, 2012

"Lean, finely textured beef is the proper name [not pink slime], and it is a safe, widely used product."

Rep. Sandra Williams says 99.97 percent of Cleveland public schoolchildren live in poverty

By Reginald Fields April 10, 2012

"99.97 percent of the kids live in poverty that attend Cleveland public schools."

Vice President Joe Biden says, ‘General Motors is the largest corporation in the world’

By Becky Bowers April 9, 2012

"General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again."

25-year-old congressional candidate Weston Wamp says average age of a Congressman is 57

By Michael Collins, Elijah Herington April 9, 2012

"The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old."

Barack Obama ad says U.S. oil production is at eight-year high

By Louis Jacobson, Warren Fiske April 9, 2012

 "Under President Obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high."  

Vern Buchanan says Obama will no longer “enforce” DOMA

By Amy Sherman April 9, 2012

Says the Obama administration "will no longer enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)."

Gov. Scott Walker says Wisconsin gave every public employee the ability to choose whether they want to be in a union

By James B. Nelson April 9, 2012

"We gave every public employee in the state the freedom to choose whether or not they want to be in a union."

John Burzichelli claims Chris Christie relies on more one-time revenues in proposed budget than Jon Corzine’s last budget

By Erin O'Neill April 9, 2012

Says in the governor’s proposed budget "the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget."

Rep. Morgan Griffith says Virginia did not hold the first colonial witch trial

April 9, 2012

"On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first."

Deal: Fake marijuana use rising, connected to death, violence and “bodily harm”

By Willoughby Mariano April 9, 2012

"As the usage [of synthetic marijuana] has dramatically increased, instances of violence, bodily harm and even death have risen with it."

Eric Kearney says a repeal of voter reform legislation that is the target of a referendum would be a first for Ohio

By Joe Guillen April 9, 2012

An effort to repeal voting-reform legislation would be "the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum."

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