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"If you take the population growth here in Virginia, we are net zero on job creation since (Bob McDonnell) became governor."
Department of Education officials investigating Virginia Tech shootings "have not once gotten into the car and driven down to Blacksburg to talk to the police chief or the university president or to anyone else."
Failure to raise the debt limit does not force a U.S. default on debt payments.
There is "a situation in this country where you're nearing 50 percent of people who don't even pay income taxes."
"Nearly 2,000 high schools - roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States - produce about half of the nation’s dropouts."
"You’ve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs."
"China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt, our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars."
"Each day our nation pays communist China $73.9 million in interest on our debt."
"Right now we are spending at an all-time high, close to 25 percent of our GDP [is] being spent on the federal government. But our revenues are at an almost all-time low of about 15 percent [of GDP]."
"[Appalachian Power] wants another 10 percent rate increase. The compensation package for CEO Mike Morris rose 22 percent to $8.7 million in 2010."
George Allen voted to add $3 trillion to the federal debt, voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the No Child Left Behind Act while he was a senator.
Virginia was named "best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child" while I was governor.
A telephone company will no longer have to provide landline service to customers if there is an alternative provider, including wireless.
"The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost," since the stimulus bill was signed.
The House of Delegates budget bill "cuts $50 million from education."
The United states is "borrowing more than 40 cents of every dollar we spend."
"Senator Webb was a reliable vote for President Obama and Senator Harry Reid."
The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes.
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