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"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to ...
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Jim Bridenstine
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he ...
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Mike Rogers
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email ...
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Mark Udall
Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no ...
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Rush Limbaugh "One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient ...
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Kirsten Gillibrand
The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's ...
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Tim Griffin
"There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010."
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Barack Obama
"My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those ...
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Bernie Sanders "Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly ...
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Jim McDermott
"During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted" by the IRS, similar to recent ...
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Chuck Grassley Says President Barack Obama is trying to "pack" the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Democratic National Committee
"Republicans actually doctored emails between administration officials about Benghazi. Then, they released them to ...
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Alan Grayson
A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline "is an earmark" under House rules.
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Chain email
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Steve King
"Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 1986 amnesty act" gave Barack Obama about 15 million ...
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"The Government Accountability Office estimated (Obamacare) will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion."
"In our community college system (state) cuts have reduced funding per student by $1,908."
Says 70,000 children "have lost their Head Start slots" because of the sequester.
Promise: Increase funding for Virginia Teaching Scholarship Program
Update: Plan alters for recruiting STEM teachers
"Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old."
"Only three in 10 young Americans under 30 -- 30 percent under 30 -- have full-time work."
Promise: Reduce still births, low birth weights and improve child health care
Update: Birth weights are up, stillbirths down
"We have never gone a year in Virginia -- ever -- without passing a budget -- ever."
The U.S. Army had a training program that put "evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida."
Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are "down 40 percent" under President Barack Obama.
New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics "provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices."
Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.
Says under his utility rate plan, "An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills."
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"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."
— Peter Roskam
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
— Jim Bridenstine
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."
— Mike Rogers
Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."
— Mark Udall
"One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.
— Rush Limbaugh













