Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Gov. Chris Christie delivers his budget address to the Legislature on Tuesday.
Chris Christie rehashes old facts in budget speech
While unveiling his spending plan proposal for the next fiscal year, Gov. Christie repeated a few claims PolitiFact New Jersey previously put to the Truth-O-Meter.
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Rick Santorum
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Rick Santorum
Says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.
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Rick Santorum
"Romney adviser admits Romneycare was blueprint for Obamacare."
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes."
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"Obamacare ... will kill jobs across America."
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Says the Congressional Budget Office said "unemployment could top 9 percent in 2013"
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Wayne LaPierre
Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of ...
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Jack Lew
"You can't pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 ...
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Barack Obama
"Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody."
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Mitt Romney
President Obama told people "to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings."
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Mitt Romney
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
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Mitt Romney
"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved ...
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Mitt Romney
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or ...
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Barack Obama
On fundraising for super PACs
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Newt Gingrich
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the ...
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Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote "went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it."
"Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them."
"Senator Menendez said he would spend our money wisely. But our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch."
"Here's something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America."
Says "as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
"This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.' BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House."
Says Chris Christie "inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region."
Says New Jersey is "down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak" and with Gov. Chris Christie "New Jersey has trailed the rest of America when it comes to unemployment" for 12 consecutive months.
Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to reduce state income taxes "would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years."
"United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world."
Says Pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of 3 percent and Delaware "has no state income tax at all."
Says with "Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers" New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years."
Says the New York Giants "train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey."
"Our jobless rate, our unemployment rate, is the lowest of all of the big cities in New Jersey."
"Before this day is out, 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives. That is the daily average, it is intolerable, and it has to stop."
"And by the way, when I was governor, I did make the payment into the pension fund."
"Under this tax cut, middle-class families don't save enough for a week's worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation."
"Many types of fish and shellfish from waters across the state are labeled unsafe to eat."
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