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Columnist Thomas Sgouros Jr. says federal E-Verify system unfairly denies job to 1 in 7 applicants

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. January 10, 2012

"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is…

Mitt Romney says Obama hired 135,000 bureaucrats

By Jon Greenberg January 9, 2012

"You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That’s what the president’s done.  He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."

Rick Santorum says welfare reform deserves credit for reductions in African-American child poverty

By Molly Moorhead January 9, 2012

As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children."

Bill Pascrell claims no legislation has taken guns away from Americans in past 20 years

By Caryn Shinske January 9, 2012

"We haven't had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one." 

Senator Rob Portman says federal spending rose 21 percent over three years

By Tom Feran January 9, 2012

Says federal spending has increased 21 percent over the past three years.

Dewhurst says ballistics tests have confirmed border agent was killed by Fast and Furious weapon

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms January 9, 2012

"Ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent was caused by" weapons that were part of a federal…

Rick Perry says Barack Obama is a socialist

By Bill Adair January 8, 2012

Says President Barack Obama "is a socialist."

Newt Gingrich says that EPA didn’t know why it cited a New Hampshire dump

By Maryalice Gill January 8, 2012

The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.

Mitt Romney says Barack Obama didn’t expand U.S. trade deals

By Louis Jacobson January 8, 2012

Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations.

Rick Santorum says Republicans’ Medicare plan would give seniors same benefits that Congress members receive

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead January 8, 2012

Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.

Mitt Romney, once again, says U.S. is ‘inches away from no longer being a free economy’

By Louis Jacobson January 8, 2012

"We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy."

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