President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare in 1965. Political attacks about Medicare started even before that.
The PolitiFact guide to Medicare attack lines
Barack Obama has slashed Medicare by $500 billion. Mitt Romney and House Republicans want to end Medicare. And a new board is going to ration care so Washington can waste more money.
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Mitt Romney
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On whether humans contribute to global warming
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Mitt Romney
On support for gay marriage.
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Barack Obama
Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
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Barack Obama
On support for gay marriage.
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Charles Bass
"The expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts ... would be the biggest tax increase ...
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Barack Obama
"The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under ...
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Joe Donnelly
Says he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House.
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National Right to Life Committee
The Obama White House recognizes a "baby that has not been born" for security ...
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Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Mitt Romney has "proposed cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million ...
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Barack Obama
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 ...
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Mitt Romney
"We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. (Creating 115,000 ...
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Barack Obama
"Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to ...
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Americans for Prosperity
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "tens of millions of ...
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A scorecard separating fact from fiction
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority "concluded that light rail in Cobb County would more than double commute time and would therefore be unsuccessful in alleviating traffic congestion."
"When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran."
Georgia crackdown on illegal immigration costs state farmers $400 million last year.
Crime rises in communities with casinos.
Each U.S. House member who voted to overhaul Social Security in 1983 was re-elected.
"The United States imprisons more than any nation in the world."
"When housing and transportation costs are combined, Atlanta’s cost of living -- typically perceived as relatively low -- ranks as 7th worst out of 51 metros nationally."
The fastest-rising expense in the U.S. Defense Department is health care.
Before the HOPE scholarship, "70 percent of the high school students who made 1400 or above on their SAT left the state of Georgia. Now, 70 percent of those stay in the state of Georgia."
Promise: Eliminate Georgia's marriage tax penalty
Update: New tax law fulfills campaign pledge for married couples
The average Atlanta resident "spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time."
"We don’t allow filming inside of the City Hall unless there is a specific reason."
Under President Barack Obama’s watch, "oil production on federal lands has decreased 14 percent over the past year."
Georgia’s HOPE scholarship is "still the richest scholarship program in America."
"The federal government owns tens of thousands of properties that are vacant or underused."
"The ACLU has filed a suit to end prayer from the military completely."
A proposed regional transportation tax will last "a minimum" of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.
The U.S. Supreme Court has not traditionally asked a lot of questions during oral arguments.
Georgia is one of three states that "effectively have no regulations whatsoever on lobbyists giving to legislators."
"[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred."
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