A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text."
"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."
"The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years."
"After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three."
"A majority of Americans agree with" a ban on assault weapons. "And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan."
Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
Says Mitt Romney suggested that "employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage."
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’"
The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."
Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years."
Says Mitt Romney "wants to end tax credits for wind producers."
Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.
Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.
Says Mitt Romney "had millions in a Swiss bank account."
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."
In the past three years, "we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some."
"98 percent of American families" make "under $250,000 a year."
"Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close."
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