Statements we say are True
"Tourism accounts for 439,000 jobs in the state of Ohio, and visitors spend $36 billion annually."
"Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million."
An effort to repeal voting-reform legislation would be "the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum."
"We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year."
There are "850,000 Ohio jobs tied to the auto industry."
"Ohio is not meeting its obligation to update voter registrations when voters change their address with the BMV."
"The top 1 percent (of income earners) paid 36.7 percent (of the taxes). ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent."
"'Wrong precinct' rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems (and) HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrong-precinct problem."
A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts "to shave 5 full weeks off the school year."
"Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election."
"We've seen more anti-women's choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than we've seen in the last three General Assemblies."
Says Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies.
Sherrod Brown "has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time."
"The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American worker’s wage rose just 2 percent."
Sherrod Brown "has been running for public office since Richard Nixon was president."
Richard Cordray’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau marks the first time in Senate history "that a political party has blocked a nomination of someone because they didn't like the construction of the agency."
Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations.
"We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis."
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