Joseph Trillo

What about tax revenue?

"We got [the Quonset Business Park] for free and we’re getting zero dollars out of it into the state coffers … other than the fact that it produces the jobs."

Barry Hinckley

$8 trillion is a fair projection, but he's just one vote

"Sheldon Whitehouse's failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful..."

Travis Rowley

Not tied to any party

"Martin Luther King was a Republican."

Lincoln Chafee

Derailed!

The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.

National Republican Congressional Committee

Can’t be responsible if you’re not in office

 Rep. David Cicilline is responsible for the federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, the failed solar company

Stephanie DeSilva

Consistently "pro-life." But what about Roe vs. Wade?

"[Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Doherty's case, in a little over a week."

John DePetro

Waaaay out of bounds

"[The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines."

Angel Taveras

True for city averages, not so much for state

"In Connecticut and New York, students at Achievement First schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages."

Einer Elhauge

And our Founding Father Presidents approved

"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."

Thomas Sgouros Jr.

Claim is De-Verified

"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify."

Sheldon Whitehouse

Oil rarely used to generate power.

"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."

David Cicilline

Close but no cigar

"I think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years, we were at 100 percent" when it came to contributing to the Providence pension fund.

Chain e-mail

Good joke. Don't believe it.

"What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!"

Promise: Review all state leases of commercial office space

Update: Lease review complete, process predates Chafee

David Cicilline

Exaggerated to make a point

Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to "expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.’’

Eric Holder

A good candidate for the truth

"After filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island, we reached an agreement with state agencies that resulted in more voters being registered in the first full month after our lawsuit than in the entire previous two-year reporting period."

Barry Hinckley

Only at 48 words per page

"Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages."

Anne Nolan

Lots of charities, falling donations

"We have one of the highest percentages per capita of nonprofits in this state of any state in the union."

Michael Chippendale

Something smells wrong here.

"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "

Theresa Price

Fallacious foreclosure factoid

"Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures."