An anti-abortion group said an email from the White House visitors office about tour security requirements showed the Obama administration was hypocritical on abortion.
Letter from a Rachel Maddow fan
The MSNBC talk show host is unhappy with our Mostly False rating on a claim by the National Right to Life Committee. Here's a letter that a Maddow fan sent to her show about the rating.
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"The expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts ... would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, about $4.6 trillion over 10 years."
"The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me."
Says he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House.
The Obama White House recognizes a "baby that has not been born" for security purposes.
Says Mitt Romney "has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."
Mitt Romney has "proposed cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million working families."
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."
Promise: Create a $60 billion bank to fund roads and bridges
Update: Road bank didn't get much traction
Promise: Increase funding for progams that conserve lands and habitat for select species such as the Osceola turkey
Update: Sage grouse has nothing to grouse about
"We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. (Creating 115,000 jobs, the total from April 2012) is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery."
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Florida —
Florida has "1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf."
— Rick Scott
Oregon —
Says "I am happy to decline PERS so that the County can save over $68,000 over a four year term that would have been paid on my behalf."
— John Ludlow
Oregon —
Says Jeff Reardon cut elementary school music classes, art instruction, teaching positions, basketball and volleyball programs, and he voted to raise school lunch prices.
— Mike Schaufler- Oregon —
Says "One-third of our healthcare dollars go to wasteful insurance billing and bureaucracy."
— Jennifer Williamson
Florida —
Democrats plan to keep student loan interest rates low "by raising taxes on small businesses, very small businesses … the kinds of small businesses that give jobs to graduates."
— Marco Rubio
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