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For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law "is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else."
Long-term federal investment in U.S. airports is urgent because "there was a recent survey of the top airports … in the world, and there was not a single U.S. airport that came in the top 25."
Says new Medicare billing guidelines "have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys."
"Over half" of science, technology, engineering and mathematics students "receiving advanced degrees are not citizens of the United States of America."
"One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men."
"In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama," compared to zero "in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush."
"Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight? FAA could cut other spending."
The Boston Marathon bombing "is the fifth case" in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism "and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders."
"No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons."
A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
Proposed immigration legislation would give new immigrants "a taxpayer-funded cellular phone."
A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text."
The Manchin-Toomey amendment "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members" to get government approval.
"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."
Polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks."
"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."
The immigration proposal from the Gang of Eight "is not amnesty."
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
Says a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to "leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms."
Says a gun bill before the Senate "is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners."
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