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Says "about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount."
"(The Tax Policy Center) found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."
"Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan."
"As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies."
Says "our 12 month job increase was the sixth highest in the nation."
"Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before."
"While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010."
Says Congressman Steve Rothman voted against funding for President Barack Obama’s auto bailout and would have let automakers go bankrupt.
Says he and President Barack Obama have the same position on gay marriage.
Says "the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates, so in real dollars, our property taxes have gone up 20 percent."
Says private-sector job growth in 2011 "places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states."
"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."
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."
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 "we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller."
"We haven't had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one."
"Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans – Obama’s strongest supporters – have lost their jobs."
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