All statements involving Paul Broun
"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."
Says that except for foreign policy, Ron Paul’s voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.
"There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns."
"I was the first member of Congress to call him (Barack Obama) a socialist..."
A United Nations arms treaty would "almost certainly force" the U.S. to "create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation."
The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has not authored any legislation that has been adopted by Congress.
A new manufacturing plant is slated to create about 3,000 jobs in central and northeast Georgia and "create about a $3 billion infusion" into the economy.
"The latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly 315,000 Americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job."
Stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost 378,000 jobs and $28.3 billion in sales.
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.
Says the federal government borrows "almost $60 billion per week."
Says government is a barrier to innovation and development.
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