Columnist Margaret Carlson says Perry has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicand and ending federal income tax
Rick Perry "has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax."
Rick Perry says Paint Creek, Texas doesn’t have a ZIP code
Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, "doesn’t even have a ZIP code."
Mike Villarreal says Texans earning minimum wage more than doubled with Rick Perry as governor
Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has…
Arne Duncan says class sizes in Texas have grown massively
Says Texas schools have had "massive increases" in class sizes with Rick Perry as governor.
Gov. Rick Perry says Texas public schools teach evolution and creationism
"In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools."
White House press secretary says Perry “wanted to secede from the union”
Says Rick Perry "wanted to secede from the union."
Rick Perry says government wants to require commercial driver’s licenses of anyone who drives a tractor across a road
Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road.
Lloyd Doggett says Texas has worse unemployment than 25 states and it’s tied with Mississippi for most minimum-wage workers
"Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas" which is "tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States."
Mitt Romney says a poll showed him the only Republican besting Obama in Texas
Says a poll found him the only Republican candidate who could beat Barack Obama in Texas -- and by eight points.
Lamar Smith seeks to suspend discretion that he once urged government to apply
On applying prosecutorial discretion to immigration cases.
Rick Perry says Texas has lowest per-capita state debt of big states and fourth-lowest of all states
Says Texas has "the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states."
UPDATED: Retiree group says Social Security doesn’t contribute a penny to U.S. deficit
"Social Security doesn’t contribute a penny to the deficit."