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Rep. Jim Zehringer on point with comment on loss of family farms in Ohio

December 9, 2010

"Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax."

Portland city commissioner Randy Leonard says Seattle bans food carts

December 9, 2010

Cities like Seattle have decided to ban food carts.

Alex Sink says BP claims administrator slow to respond in Florida

December 8, 2010

"150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid."

Barack Obama off in description of how Social Security, Medicare evolved

December 8, 2010

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."

West says U.S. failed to learn from Israel after Sept. 11

December 8, 2010

The U.S. "had the opportunity with Israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures, and we turned them down."  

Ted Poe says under the DREAM Act, after undocumented residents spend two years in higher education or the miltary, they are eligible for citizenship and to bring the rest of their extended family here

December 8, 2010

Under the DREAM Act, after two years of higher education or military service "you are eligible for citizenship. Once a citizen, this paves the way…

Ohio Gov.-elect John Kasich rejects passenger train he says will travel an average speed of 39 mph

December 8, 2010

"They tried to give us $400 million to build a high-speed train that goes 39 miles an hour."

Rick Scott says military makes up nearly 10 percent of Florida’s economy

December 7, 2010

Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy.

Barack Obama says American public believes ‘it’s a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy’

December 7, 2010

"There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think it's a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the…

Bobby Scott says Republicans created $1 trillion prescription drug plan

December 7, 2010

Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it." 

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle says it would be illegal to stop negotiating with unions as Scott Walker requested

December 7, 2010

"It’s illegal for a state to say we’re simply going to cut off (union contract) negotiations. There’s a legal requirement that you are involved in…

Sen. Sherrod Brown disputes notion that unemployment benefits are similar to welfare

December 7, 2010

"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when…

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