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Barack Obama
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Newt Gingrich
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the ...
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Restore Our Future
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
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Cecilia Muñoz
"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."
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Pete Hoekstra
"Since ObamaCare and the stimulus passed, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has increased."
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Newt Gingrich
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid ...
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Newt Gingrich
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every ...
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Chain e-mail
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner ...
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Newt Gingrich
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
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Rick Santorum "In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking ...
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Mitt Romney
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
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Rick Santorum "Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
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Newt Gingrich
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four ...
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Bloggers
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
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Mitch Daniels
Says Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill.
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A scorecard separating fact from fiction
Public education has been permanently cut "by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula."
"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy."
"A cashier earning $20,000 per year pays the same (Virginia) income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning $20 million per year."
"Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009."
"The U.S. gun homicide rate is 20 times the combined rate of other western nations."
Gov. McDonnell's proposed budget "is cutting" public education.
Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping.
Says proposal to boost teacher pension fund "puts no mandate on local government."
Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan takes "money out of our classrooms to pave roads."
Says he’s proposed "the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history."
"I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere."
George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."
George Allen cast "the deciding vote" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts.
"Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas."
The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate.
The United States "is number one in the world in energy resources; Russia is number two."
The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."
Promise: Consolidate guides for business creation and expansion
Update: A work in progress, we're told
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Tracking the promises of Gov. Bob McDonnell
The latest from the Bob-O-Meter
- Senate panel recommends further study of health exchange
- Overhaul of teacher contracts, evaluations heads to House
- Obama narrowly pulls ahead of Romney in Va., poll finds
- Former Gov. Jeb Bush to talk education with McDonnell
- Capitol briefs: Senate panel OKs anti-smoking bills
- Effort to make Amazon remit sales taxes advances
- Schapiro: Ken's Cops proposal alarms state Capitol
- Bill to limit shackling of pregnant inmates draws support
- House gives 'Tebow bill' preliminary approval
- PolitiFact: Claim on public education cuts on target
- Former Gov. Jeb Bush to talk education with McDonnell
- House gives preliminary OK to "Tebow" bill
- McDonnell to join Romney for reception, speech
- DUI bills sailing through House of Delegates
- Bill to drug screen for public assistance carried to 2013
- Republican Governors Association Chairman Gov. Bob McDonnell...
- McDonnell will appear on CNN, FOX Sunday
- House passes contentious abortion, adoption legislation
- House committee OKs bumping June primary date to August
- Bill requring photo ID at polls advances in House
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- UPDATE: Huguely's lawyers say Love's death was unintended
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- Senate panel recommends further study of health exchange
- Overhaul of teacher contracts, evaluations heads to House
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- Obama narrowly pulls ahead of Romney in Va., poll finds
- Former Gov. Jeb Bush to talk education with McDonnell
On fundraising for super PACs
— Barack Obama
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by 25 cents a gallon."
— Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
— Restore Our Future
"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."
— Cecilia Muñoz
"Since ObamaCare and the stimulus passed, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has increased."
— Pete Hoekstra











