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"One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol."

"Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today."

Since President Barack Obama took office, "2 million more Americans are out of work."

Savannah is home to "the fastest-growing port in the nation."

Siemens has been unable to fill approximately 200 skilled trade positions in metro Atlanta.

"We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone."

"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."

"Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years."

"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.

"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."

Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are "government-sponsored enterprises" like Freddie Mac.

"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."

"Eleven states have enacted these pay-to-play reforms."

The planned expansion of Savannah’s port is a "jobs creating project."

"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."

"Republicans are attempting to remove Barack Obama from Georgia’s Presidential Ballot in 2012."

Promise: Use zero-based budgeting

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"Five members of [the Common Cause Georgia] board accepted maximum campaign contributions."

"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."

When Georgia tightened its voter identification laws, the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo IDs and made them for free. 

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