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{"text":"The economy bled $24 billion due to the government shutdown.","label":0}
{"text":"Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female.","label":0}
{"text":"A new national poll shows the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard for U.S. currency.","label":1}
{"text":"Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected.","label":0}
{"text":"Mayor Fung wants to punish our childrens education by removing 12 million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school. Your taxes would increase by between 6 and 8 percent per year.","label":1}
{"text":"There have not been any public safety issues in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.","label":0}
{"text":"The poverty level in the Dallas school district is one of the highest in the country, higher than New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Newark.","label":0}
{"text":"IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could pay for health care reform.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Gov. Scott Walker, unemployment is increasing in Wisconsin at twice the rate it is nationally.","label":1}
{"text":"David Dewhurst has never once cut one penny from the state budget.","label":1}
{"text":"The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.","label":0}
{"text":"Kasichs trade deals cost Ohio thousands of jobs - 49,000 jobs to Mexico, 91,000 to China.","label":1}
{"text":"I was totally against the war in Iraq.","label":1}
{"text":"Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district significantly better than she found it.","label":1}
{"text":"In every ethics case that has resulted in a formal sanction, theres been an investigative subcommittee thats been established first.","label":1}
{"text":"The American people will not support doing anything about people that are in this country illegally until the law is enforced first.","label":1}
{"text":"Rob Portman was a registered foreign agent whose client was Haiti, at a time when the Baby Doc, Duvalier, who was a despot, was killing people.","label":1}
{"text":"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012 with more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill.","label":0}
{"text":"Donald Trump said of women, And you can tell them to go f--- themselves.","label":1}
{"text":"The election bill allows persons to correct an absentee ballot if they did not sign it and requires an extra two hours a day for early voting. Everything else in this bill is discretionary.","label":1}
{"text":"No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say Merry Christmas.","label":1}
{"text":"In Wisconsin, 300,000 voters were turned away by the states strict voter ID law in the 2016 presidential election.","label":1}
{"text":"For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years.","label":0}
{"text":"52 jobs have been saved or created in Florida's 34th Congressional District.","label":1}
{"text":"The Obama administration \"was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation.\"","label":1}
{"text":"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton and millennials have the same positions on climate change, abortion rights, immigration reform, gay rights and college affordability. Donald Trump doesnt.","label":0}
{"text":"Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said, I do not care if Wallace Hall swings from a tree.","label":1}
{"text":"Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall.","label":1}
{"text":"Crime is rising.","label":1}
{"text":"The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution.","label":1}
{"text":"Weve brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration.","label":1}
{"text":"Mark Kirks claim of national security expertise is based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times.","label":0}
{"text":"The average 401(k) in America of a person whos 60 years old is under $100,000.","label":0}
{"text":"Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas.","label":0}
{"text":"The president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that unemployment would go to 5.7 percent or 6 percent. Those were his words.","label":1}
{"text":"Since 2007 David Jolly has given almost $30,000 to keep Democrats in Congress!","label":0}
{"text":"Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrichs tax plan goes to the top 1 percent.","label":0}
{"text":"The national debt \"has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match.\"","label":0}
{"text":"We have dozens of districts that go for 150 to 200 miles, splitting counties, splintering cities and connecting areas that have very little in common.","label":0}
{"text":"Daniel Webster thinks wives should submit to their husbands.","label":1}
{"text":"Texas high school graduates must pass Algebra II to be eligible for automatic admission to states public universities.","label":1}
{"text":"Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there.","label":1}
{"text":"In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health.","label":1}
{"text":"Today, about 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check.","label":1}
{"text":"The Obama administration spent taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland (and) windmills in China.","label":1}
{"text":"Health care reform legislation is likely to mandate free sex change surgeries.","label":1}
{"text":"25,000 businesses have been created since (Scott) Walker took office.","label":1}
{"text":"Very, very, very few people get a pat-down when they go through airport security.","label":1}
{"text":"Theres only one of us whos actually cut government spending -- not two, theres one and youre looking at him.","label":1}
{"text":"Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster careand lost tax revenue in 2010 alone.","label":1}
{"text":"For the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime","label":0}
{"text":"Goodwill Industries International pays workers with disabilities wages as low as pennies per hour.","label":1}
{"text":"Despite attention on global warming, fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980 and SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country.","label":0}
{"text":"My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my Republican predecessor.","label":1}
{"text":"Charlie Bass supports Paul Ryan plan that forces seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care so millionaires can pay less in taxes.","label":1}
{"text":"In other states (where illegal immigrants have been allowed to get drivers licenses) their insurance premiums for everybody have gone down.","label":0}
{"text":"Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state.","label":0}
{"text":"Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburgs record as a state Justice Department lawyer consists only of the prosecution of cases regarding regulation of docks.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obama has said that everybody should hate the police.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Rick Perry is spending Texans hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV.","label":1}
{"text":"Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold voted over 250 times to raise taxes.","label":1}
{"text":"Romney supported a law that could have made most common forms of birth control illegal.","label":1}
{"text":"Kathryn Starkey joined forces with liberal Democrats on a historic sales tax hike.","label":1}
{"text":"Obamacare was invented by liberal academic theorists.","label":1}
{"text":"Under sequestration, the military was cut down to the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915.","label":1}
{"text":"The Multnomah County Library system is the second busiest in the nation.","label":0}
{"text":"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state of Massachusetts.","label":1}
{"text":"The U.S. Postal Service doesnt run on your tax dollars. Its funded solely by stamps and postage.","label":1}
{"text":"Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June.","label":1}
{"text":"Weve saved over $100 million of (health care) costs in Milwaukee County. I did that.","label":0}
{"text":"Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus.","label":1}
{"text":"Youve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs.","label":0}
{"text":"Exit polls indicate that Democrats get over 70 percent of LGBT votes in federal elections.","label":0}
{"text":"Ohio is probably top five in the country, sadly, in terms of heroin overdoses. Its now exceeded car accidents as the No. 1 cause of death in Ohio.","label":1}
{"text":"Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure.","label":1}
{"text":"Obama raises taxes on seniors (and) hard-working families to give welfare to those who pay none.","label":1}
{"text":"Honduras bans citizens from owning guns and has the highest homicide rate in the entire world. Switzerland, with a similar population, requires citizens to own guns and has the lowest homicide rate in the entire world.","label":1}
{"text":"A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family.","label":0}
{"text":"Using E-Verify is a fair amount of cost, about $20 per person that does not match.","label":0}
{"text":"Obama's budget plan would take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent.","label":0}
{"text":"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington.","label":1}
{"text":"Newt Gingrich said Spanish is the language of the ghetto.","label":0}
{"text":"Gov. Scott Walker has made Wisconsin 2nd in the nation in losing jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"The Democrats' health care bill \"gives a new Health Choices Commissioner the right to look at an individual's tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for.\"","label":1}
{"text":"We dont allow filming inside of the City Hall unless there is a specific reason.","label":1}
{"text":"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience.","label":1}
{"text":"Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts.","label":0}
{"text":"Gov. Scott Walker (is) more than halfway to (his) 250,000 jobs goal.","label":1}
{"text":"The STAR Ohio fund just received the highest possible credit rating one of these funds can receive.","label":1}
{"text":"He has repeatedly praised Chuck Hagels character, patriotism, bravery, and personal service defending our nation.","label":1}
{"text":"Most of Perrys chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.","label":0}
{"text":"In 2006, Bernie Sanders voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants.","label":0}
{"text":"There is a situation in this country where youre nearing 50 percent of people who dont even pay income taxes.","label":0}
{"text":"Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Obama's tax plan, \"95 percent of you will get a tax cut.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Bernie Sanders opposes requiring all children to have a K-12 education.","label":1}
{"text":"U.S. Olympic medal winners will owe up to $9,000 to the IRS.","label":1}
{"text":"PolitiFact says Amendment 4 will force counties and cities across Florida to raise taxes and fees.","label":1}
{"text":"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria).","label":0}
{"text":"California has robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation.","label":0}
{"text":"Weve created more than 850,000 jobs, more than all the other states combined.","label":0}
{"text":"We got [the Quonset Business Park] for free and were getting zero dollars out of it into the state coffers other than the fact that it produces the jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"New Jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 fiscal budget. This means more cuts in state and local spending for education, which means our kids are hurt.","label":1}
{"text":"One of the states largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year.","label":1}
{"text":"Louisianas film incentives program is so big they actually shot an upcoming film initially titled Dont Mess With Texas in New Orleans!","label":1}
{"text":"The CDC issued a report commissioned by President Obama just earlier this year, and it found some very inconvenient facts. Armed citizens are less likely harmed by attackers. Effectiveness of gun control laws is mixed. Gun buybacks dont work.","label":1}
{"text":"Ilana Shafran Mandels stake in Forest City Enterprises constitutes significantly less than 1 percent of the companys shares and any implication of a conflict of interest is legally incorrect.","label":0}
{"text":"Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will force you to stop using your cell phone while driving.","label":1}
{"text":"My office is about a 300-step walk to the governors office.","label":0}
{"text":"It would be illegal for the Fulton County Commission to raise the county tax rate.","label":0}
{"text":"Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history, because its actually risen slower than at any time in nearly 60 years.","label":0}
{"text":"(Strickland) raised taxes last year to the tune of $840 million.","label":0}
{"text":"Scott Walkers bad budget includes: No weekend for workers.","label":1}
{"text":"The proposed education changes \"will not cut one teacher's pay.\"","label":0}
{"text":"The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan.","label":1}
{"text":"EPA officials have commended (Koch Industries) for our commitment to a cleaner environment and called us a model for other companies.","label":1}
{"text":"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support.","label":1}
{"text":"David Vitter answered a prostitutes call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom.","label":0}
{"text":"150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid.","label":0}
{"text":"When the governor announced his jobs budget, 99 folks from the Department of Taxation were let go the next day.","label":0}
{"text":"Theres 400 more people working in health care today in New Hampshire than when we passed the budget.","label":1}
{"text":"This week the House of Representatives voted to remove the word lunatic from federal law.","label":0}
{"text":"The brutal fact is, when it comes to education, America is slipping behind other nations.","label":1}
{"text":"Right now, Texas doesnt have an income tax and Oklahomas lowering their income tax rates, and guess what their severance tax is? Sky high.","label":0}
{"text":"Texas school systems lose 45 days a year on testing.","label":1}
{"text":"If Florida expanded Medicaid, some studies indicate it would create about 120,000 jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Donald Trump called pregnant employees an inconvenience.","label":0}
{"text":"The Agriculture Department estimates that roughly 42 percent of the corn crop will be used to make ethanol -- more than the amount of corn used to feed livestock and poultry in the United States.","label":1}
{"text":"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming.","label":1}
{"text":"Barack Obama \"is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate.\"","label":1}
{"text":"He was endorsed by theValley News newspaper.","label":1}
{"text":"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children.","label":0}
{"text":"Rural schools \"face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries...\"","label":1}
{"text":"The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.'","label":1}
{"text":"John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill \"because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil.\"","label":1}
{"text":"House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks.","label":0}
{"text":"We have 50 state lobbyists that just lobby the Legislature for money every year.","label":0}
{"text":"The size of our federal government has more than doubled since the year 2000.","label":1}
{"text":"Tammy Baldwin supports a law in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals.","label":1}
{"text":"King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.","label":0}
{"text":"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises.","label":0}
{"text":"The state budget proposal has been submitted on time and [its] the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades.","label":0}
{"text":"Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme.","label":1}
{"text":"Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people in this country illegally are working.","label":0}
{"text":"The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.","label":0}
{"text":"Wisconsins criminal threshold for drunken-driving is way out of line with states surrounding us, which have the second offense as a felony.","label":1}
{"text":"Someone earning $50,000 a year will fare better under his 9-9-9 plan than under the current tax system.","label":1}
{"text":"Im running for office with much more experience and qualifications than Barack Obama had when he ran.","label":1}
{"text":"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person.","label":1}
{"text":"Residents of Texas and San Antonio can be fired or denied jobs because they are gay.","label":1}
{"text":"The DNC hack showed you that the Clinton campaign was working to schedule (primary) debates against (Bernie) Sanders, and the Clinton campaign is continuing this ploy against Donald Trump.","label":1}
{"text":"Welders make more money than philosophers.","label":1}
{"text":"Before the Republican wave in 2010, Democrats had an advantage on the generic ballot in Congress. Even in 1994 with the Gingrich revolution ... Democrats had that advantage.","label":0}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton is wrong to say he mocked a disabled reporter.","label":1}
{"text":"Right now, our corrections department charges taxpayers between $30,000 and $40,000 a year per person we lock up, she said. Thats actually cheap when you compare us to the rest of the country.","label":1}
{"text":"Had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9\/11 terrorists lived here, we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans.","label":1}
{"text":"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations.","label":0}
{"text":"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.","label":1}
{"text":"Chained CPI would save $1 trillion in the second decade off the federal budget debt, a report shows.","label":1}
{"text":"Utah was the No. 1 job creator in this country during my years of service as governor, with a 5.9 percent increase in jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"In her first appellate argument, Ms. Kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the First Amendment would allow the federal government to ban the publication of pamphlets discussing political issues before an election.","label":1}
{"text":"Target installed urinals in a womens bathroom to accommodate the ones who have giblets.","label":1}
{"text":"Texas has installed more wind power than any other state, and all but four countries.","label":0}
{"text":"The Export-Import Bank doesnt cost taxpayers anything.","label":1}
{"text":"Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history.","label":0}
{"text":"Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before.","label":1}
{"text":"Capital Metro originally said MetroRails yearly operating costs would be about $2.5 million. Last year ... it cost $13 million to operate.","label":1}
{"text":"When I served as City Commissioner, we made great strides we successfully fought for, and won, adding women and people of color to the Fire Bureau.","label":0}
{"text":"Hillary Clintons State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of Americas uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.","label":1}
{"text":"Amendment 1 protects Florida seniors from scams and rip-offs.","label":1}
{"text":"Chemical weapons have been used probably 20 times since the Persian Gulf War.","label":1}
{"text":"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined.","label":0}
{"text":"New Hampshire had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country during Maggie Hassans time in the state Senate.","label":1}
{"text":"Every citizen is entitled to the freedom of speech, but no one should have the right to use government funds or institutions to portray acts that are morally reprehensible to the vast majority of Americans.","label":1}
{"text":"Under the White Houses budget proposal, we will not be adding more to the national debt by the middle of the decade.","label":1}
{"text":"Commercial buses in the United States have a stellar safety record, a safety record that exceeds that of any other commercial mode or surface transportation mode.","label":1}
{"text":"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts.","label":1}
{"text":"Abraham Lincoln visited and some say even danced in (the Ohio Senate) chamber.","label":0}
{"text":"The Clintons foundation took millions from foreign governments including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.","label":0}
{"text":"U.S. troops are getting only 4 hours of Ebola training before deployment to Liberia.","label":1}
{"text":"While Arkansas seniors depend on Social Security and Medicare, Sen. Mark Pryor supports an overhaul so they couldnt get Social Security until they turn 68 or 69.","label":1}
{"text":"Rep. Paul Ryans budget proposal would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans.","label":1}
{"text":"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's.","label":1}
{"text":"Nearly 70 percent of all federal spending will go towards Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in fiscal year 2014.","label":1}
{"text":"Under President Barack Obama, more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago.","label":1}
{"text":"Our last budget committed the highest level of need-based financial aid in state history.","label":0}
{"text":"Kay Bailey Hutchison was elected state treasurer, succeeding Ann Richards. Democrats then abolished the position ... Hutchison later became a U.S. senator.","label":1}
{"text":"A report by the health insurance industry \"ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill.\"","label":0}
{"text":"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Deans) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year.","label":1}
{"text":"Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents...And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident.","label":0}
{"text":"Michael Cargill was arrested and incarcerated in Bell County.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.","label":1}
{"text":"Our credit rating went up since Ive been in office.","label":1}
{"text":"Solyndrahad robots that whistled Disney songs. Im not kidding.","label":1}
{"text":"House Speaker Dean Cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for one-third of the 120-member House, and that two-thirds of the chamber have two years or less experience.","label":0}
{"text":"Patrick Murphy has taken more money from Wall Street than any other member of Congress other than the speaker and the majority leader.","label":0}
{"text":"You have to be a citizen to vote, but with same-day voter registration, you have places where people just walk in and vote.","label":1}
{"text":"A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force.","label":1}
{"text":"Greg Abbott converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots.","label":1}
{"text":"Washington state has consistently ranked in the top five in the Forbes list of best states to do business ahead of Texas.","label":1}
{"text":"Joe Straus was co-author of a bill that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to control public school sex education.","label":1}
{"text":"If you try to hide marijuana in a hemp field, it becomes worthless. The THC goes away.","label":0}
{"text":"Mexican government officials hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country.","label":1}
{"text":"The Keystone oil pipeline would employ 20,000 people in the United States.","label":1}
{"text":"The Canadians they (dropped) their tax rates to 15 percent. The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent.","label":0}
{"text":"Vern Buchanan. His old business was caught illegally funneling over $60,000 in campaign donations to Buchanan to influence his election.","label":0}
{"text":"Team Trump has accused Ted Cruz of fraud in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin.","label":1}
{"text":"An Iowa policy \"provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116,838,763 to date (for the Mahoning Valley) and has an additional $27,095,000 pending in FY2010 spending bills.","label":0}
{"text":"There are more guns than there are people in the United States.","label":1}
{"text":"Rick Scott changed his promise from700,000 jobs created on top of what normal growth would be to just 700,000 jobs.","label":0}
{"text":"Florida doesnt regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines. It doesnt require a permit to purchase a gun. It doesnt require any registration, whatsoever.","label":0}
{"text":"We had a No Child Left Behind a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal law. And it's had a big impact here. It's improved schools.","label":0}
{"text":"Miami-Dade has the nations highest-rated tap water.","label":1}
{"text":"Two-thirds of American families rely on the mothers income to stay above the poverty level.","label":1}
{"text":"Federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay. So someone (who) doesnt have health insurance -- they can go to the hospital and get free care.","label":1}
{"text":"10 cents on thedollar from the Clinton Foundation goes to charitable causes.","label":1}
{"text":"Fox changed around their poll eligibility criteria on the day they announced who is in and out of their debate.","label":1}
{"text":"Regulations are an endemic weakness in government -- so old that Thomas Jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the King of England in the Declaration of Independence.","label":1}
{"text":"His release of 33 years of tax returns is more than any presidential candidate in history.","label":0}
{"text":"Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.","label":0}
{"text":"During the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea.","label":1}
{"text":"Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations.","label":1}
{"text":"Its coming. Nobody can stop this train.","label":1}
{"text":"In the past four or five presidential elections, people who poll high at the beginning are not the people who end up being the nominees.","label":1}
{"text":"If we just froze spending at 2007 levels ... by 2013 we would balance the budget ... and by 2020 we would cut the national debt in half.","label":0}
{"text":"94 percent of (Marco Rubios) constituents support a universal background check.","label":0}
{"text":"The state budget has gone up over 80 percent under Rick Perry.","label":0}
{"text":"[The state ethics commission] took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. They were somewhere in the 7 percent range same as the governors office.","label":0}
{"text":"[My administration is] well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise.","label":1}
{"text":"Most polls show foreign nations have lower regard for the U.S. now than they did before Obamas time.","label":1}
{"text":"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify.","label":1}
{"text":"She heard more than 2,400 cases as a Wisconsin appeals court judge","label":0}
{"text":"Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Scott DesJarlaiss (TN-04) Republican Majority.","label":1}
{"text":"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks.","label":0}
{"text":"Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, \"all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Every new Republican member of the U.S. Senate said they will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare.","label":0}
{"text":"Trump Management was charged with discriminating against African-Americans and breaking federal law.","label":0}
{"text":"The health care law is job killing.","label":1}
{"text":"The state of Ohio has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and is leading the pack in terms of job creation.","label":1}
{"text":"Your kid just ate 16 packs of sugar.","label":0}
{"text":"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.","label":0}
{"text":"The government made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard for religious reasons.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Rick Scott is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in Florida the right to the $60 million in rebates they have from their own HMOs.","label":1}
{"text":"Sherrod Brown opposed blocking a new EPA emissions rule, despite acknowledging that the EPAs cap-and-trade regulations are burdensome and could harm economic growth in Ohio.","label":1}
{"text":"In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage its $1,500 a year.","label":0}
{"text":"Will Rasmussen supported a sales tax as recently as last spring.","label":1}
{"text":"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October.","label":0}
{"text":"Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, received 31,000 citations. Thats at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; theres virtually no industry there.","label":1}
{"text":"The Government Accountability Office estimated (Obamacare) will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion.","label":1}
{"text":"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for.","label":1}
{"text":"Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein gave hundreds of thousands of campaign cash to control Crists appointments of key state judges.","label":1}
{"text":"I dont know anything about David Duke.","label":1}
{"text":"If youre from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed.","label":1}
{"text":"U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan promised to end health care for our seniors.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitch McConnell voted with Harry Reid to infringe on our gun rights.","label":1}
{"text":"Were not engaged in nation-building in Afghanistan.","label":1}
{"text":"Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that if the workers are more insecure, thats very healthy for the society because theyll serve the masters gladly and passively.","label":1}
{"text":"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years while it went up $5,000 under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts","label":1}
{"text":"Kids coming from an affluent background are taking advantage of all these student loan programs and grants while many middle-class families with no connection to college are picking up the tab.","label":1}
{"text":"In Florida we have 75,000 on (a) waiting list for child care and 23,000 on waiting lists for community care for the elderly.","label":0}
{"text":"Damage by protesters to the Wisconsin state Capitol will cost $7.5 million to repair.","label":1}
{"text":"Other Western countries have ended their \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policies.","label":0}
{"text":"Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years.","label":1}
{"text":"The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no on this deal, and I think the United States Congress should have the exact same input into the process.","label":1}
{"text":"To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then youre out of the union, but youve got to pay it every year, also required by statute. Thats called a representation fee.","label":0}
{"text":"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector.","label":1}
{"text":"Barack Obama has written and co-sponsored more bills in three years than Hillary Clinton has in seven.","label":1}
{"text":"The proposed excise tax on \"Cadillac\" health plans will hit \"those making less than $200,000\" the hardest.","label":0}
{"text":"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision.","label":1}
{"text":"In just six years, Georgia has dropped from first in the nation from a business-friendly legal climate to 24th.","label":1}
{"text":"More than 2 million Oregonians have received important medical services because of his health plan.","label":1}
{"text":"We could have saved ourselves the cost of building the Powell Butte water reservoir.","label":1}
{"text":"In Rhode Island, only 5 percent of ozone pollution is from local or in-state sources. . . Ninety-five percent comes from outside of our borders, particularly the Midwest.","label":1}
{"text":"The Bundy Ranch deal is all about Nevada Sen. Harry Reid using federal violence to take peoples land in his state so he can package it to re-sell it to the Chinese.","label":1}
{"text":"A couple of debates ago, (Donald Trump) said if you dont support socialized health care, youre heartless.","label":1}
{"text":"Expanding Medicaid would create 63k jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americanscan get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill.","label":0}
{"text":"The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those whove stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate actually went up last month to 13.5 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only \"2,000 out of 20-million acres.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Black voter turnout in 2012 exceeded the rate of white voter turnout, even in the states with the strictest voter ID laws.","label":0}
{"text":"The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.","label":1}
{"text":"Government is a barrier to innovation and development.","label":1}
{"text":"The Civil War wasnt about slavery.","label":1}
{"text":"In the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date.","label":0}
{"text":"When the Milwaukee County mental health facility is full, cops sit out there in their squad cars with a mentally ill patient and sometimes spend an entire shift out there doing that.","label":1}
{"text":"Obama flip-flopped on a gas-tax \"holiday.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Rhode Island: 3% bigger at low tide.","label":1}
{"text":"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have.","label":0}
{"text":"When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.","label":0}
{"text":"The health care law imposes the largest tax increase in history on the middle class.","label":1}
{"text":"While the countrys economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010.","label":1}
{"text":"For the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the worlds No. 1 place to invest; America is.","label":0}
{"text":"There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States this year more than any other country in the world.","label":1}
{"text":"At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas and there are dozens more that did not get caught by the Border Patrol.","label":1}
{"text":"Emergency rooms account for 2 percent of all health care spending.","label":0}
{"text":"Austin Energy is considering its first rate increase since 1994.","label":0}
{"text":"Shows in a television ad that police took evidence fromSolantic, Rick Scotts new health care company, after allegations emerged that the company was engaging in fraud.","label":1}
{"text":"Say Matt Wand cut Troutdale police, created a slush fund for himself.","label":1}
{"text":"Social Security doesnt contribute a penny to the deficit.","label":1}
{"text":"The Capitol Police force is going so far as to use paramilitary equipment in dealing with singing protesters in Madison","label":1}
{"text":"Barack Obama has \"pledged to reduce the size of the military.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants.","label":1}
{"text":"Sixty-four percent of Americans support the Arizona immigration law.","label":0}
{"text":"Bernie Sanders has reversed his position on immunity for gun manufacturers and sellers.","label":0}
{"text":"Warren Buffett says stop Obamacare now and start over.","label":1}
{"text":"Attorney General Loretta Lynch was a member of Bill Clintons defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe.","label":1}
{"text":"Independent analysts say (Donald Trump) would add $30 trillion to the national debt.","label":1}
{"text":"We buy 35 percent of all Chinese exports.","label":1}
{"text":"The president has had 1,540 of his nominations confirmed, only four defeated.","label":1}
{"text":"Oregon concealed gun applications include home phone numbers, home address, Social Security numbers, what kinds of guns you have in the house whether you were dishonorably discharged from the military, what controlled substances you are taking and were you ever accused of -- accused, mind you -- of stalking.","label":0}
{"text":"The United States decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution.","label":0}
{"text":"A majority of Americans still oppose this health care bill.","label":0}
{"text":"$38 billion in spending cuts in federal budget compromise is less than $1 billion in real cuts.","label":1}
{"text":"If you want out of the individual mandate... all you have to do now is tick off the box that says hardshipand youre out.","label":1}
{"text":"The military accounts for about 10 percent of Floridas economy.","label":0}
{"text":"Most Americans are ready to put it [marijuana prohibition] behind us and move on.","label":0}
{"text":"The GOP platform that seeks further limits on abortion and is silent on an exception for rape has been there for more than 30 years.","label":0}
{"text":"The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states.","label":0}
{"text":"As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.","label":0}
{"text":"David Rivera received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Congressman Spencer Bachus, who is currently under House Ethics investigation for insider trading.","label":0}
{"text":"Government subsidies for renewable energies such as wind and solar are 100 times greater than those given to gas and coal, and 50 times greater than what the nuclear industry enjoys.","label":1}
{"text":"Unemployment has been on the rise throughout Wisconsin as Paul Ryan stepped up his advocacy of immigration increases.","label":1}
{"text":"Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism.","label":0}
{"text":"47 - New provisions ObamaCare charges the IRS with implementing, according to the Government Accountability Office.","label":0}
{"text":"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has threatened to call out the National Guard if workers protest against changes to bargaining laws.","label":1}
{"text":"As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, \"I created reserves of home heating oil.\"","label":0}
{"text":"He was the only statewide elected official to speak in favor of a federal guest worker plan at the 2012 Republican Party of Texas convention.","label":0}
{"text":"Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad.","label":0}
{"text":"Congresswoman Frederica Wilson successfully postpones closure of the North Perry airport tower.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obama put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil.","label":1}
{"text":"Senate candidate Katie McGinty made thousands from companies she previously regulated.","label":0}
{"text":"Under our current sentencing laws, about 75 percent of all convicted felons in Oregon do not go to prison.","label":0}
{"text":"Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food.","label":1}
{"text":"Since 1978, college tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation.","label":0}
{"text":"I am the first Latina to run for governor of Texas.","label":1}
{"text":"Africa is spending the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world.","label":1}
{"text":"Philando Castile had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident.","label":0}
{"text":"Students at the University of Texas in Austin have been advised not to wear cowboy boots or cowboy hats on Halloween.","label":1}
{"text":"Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race.","label":0}
{"text":"While fighting a move to toughen penalties for workplace gender discrimination, state Sen. Glenn Grothman said he didnt believe women belonged in the workplace but belonged at home, cooking and cleaning and having babies.","label":1}
{"text":"As governor, [Mitt Romney] balanced the budget without raising taxes and created jobs.","label":0}
{"text":"Mitt Romney belittled middle-class tax cuts as nothing more than little Band-Aids.","label":1}
{"text":"President Obama has raised taxes 19 times.","label":1}
{"text":"I'm the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war.","label":0}
{"text":"What do Rutgers University, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, Stockton College, Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common? They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years.","label":0}
{"text":"The federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid will disburse $803 billion in benefits this year, making it larger than all but 15 of the worlds economies.","label":1}
{"text":"He didnt have an involvement withnutritional supplement company Mannatech.","label":1}
{"text":"Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin ranks as the most liberal member of the House.","label":0}
{"text":"The two worst counties for (Medicaid) fraud in the country -- not state -- are Dade and Broward county.","label":0}
{"text":"The National Science Foundation spent $1.2 million paying seniors to play World of Warcraft to study the impact it had on their brain.","label":1}
{"text":"Judge Sotomayor has said \"that policy is made on the U.S. Court of Appeals.\"","label":1}
{"text":"No one in American history has moved from a June 16 announcement to a May 26 winning of a majority. Trumps achievement is remarkable.","label":1}
{"text":"Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma","label":1}
{"text":"Since Republicans took over after the 2010 election, the graduation rate in Wisconsin has gone from 86 percent to 88 percent. The black graduation rate has gone from 60 percent to 65 percent. The Latino graduation rate has gone from 65 percent to 71 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"In 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions.","label":0}
{"text":"Deer baiting, planned for Block Island by DEM, is illegal in Rhode Island.","label":0}
{"text":"Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on abortion rights.","label":0}
{"text":"He and Bernie Sanders have very similar views on trade","label":0}
{"text":"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions.","label":0}
{"text":"His views on reparations for slavery are the same as Barack Obamas and Hillary Clintons.","label":0}
{"text":"By the time I finish this speech, two Americans will be slain, six women will be raped, 27 of us will be robbed, and 50 more will be beaten.","label":0}
{"text":"Georgia has recovered more than $60 million that was lost to Medicaid fraud","label":0}
{"text":"The stimulus includes \"$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Laurie Monnes Anderson voted to let violent criminals out of jail early.","label":0}
{"text":"The insurance commissioner cant do squat about health care.","label":0}
{"text":"Sen. Bernie Sanders has called President Barack Obama weak. Hes called him a disappointment.","label":1}
{"text":"The most likely triggering cause of (microcephaly) is the DTaP shot, a vaccine that had been recently mandated by the Brazilian government to be injected into pregnant women.","label":1}
{"text":"Former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.","label":0}
{"text":"The Senate immigration bill is filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos.","label":0}
{"text":"The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to provide drivers licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said dont do it.","label":0}
{"text":"The majority of Austinites rent the places they live.","label":0}
{"text":"Rob Portman even voted to allow people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns.","label":1}
{"text":"The omnibus spending bill has 9,427 pork barrel items.","label":0}
{"text":"Millennials are more pro-life than baby boomers and older Americans.","label":1}
{"text":"The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58.","label":1}
{"text":"If you are black or brown, you are nine times more likely to be stopped and frisked in New York City.","label":0}
{"text":"Were 49th in the United States in new businesses created.","label":0}
{"text":"Weve been able to create about 60,000 net new jobs in Virginia since February.","label":0}
{"text":"Six years after unionization, 20,000 fewer children in Illinois were being served by the Child Care and Development Fund program.","label":1}
{"text":"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas, because Kerry was seen as supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League.","label":1}
{"text":"U.S. Rep. Bill Young \"has accepted $737,000 from lobbyists and recipients of his earmarks.\"","label":1}
{"text":"[W]e see Americas prison population exploding, with America having a greater percentage of its people behind bars than any other nation in the world!","label":0}
{"text":"Elena Kagan has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues.","label":1}
{"text":"Ted Cruz was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies Americas national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging.","label":1}
{"text":"I have 2 and a half million more votes than he (Sanders) does.","label":0}
{"text":"The average Atlanta resident spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time.","label":0}
{"text":"Most of West Virginia is still owned, in excess of 90 percent, by out-of-state interests.","label":1}
{"text":"Q: What do these Patriotic Americans have in common? A: They are all Draft Dodgers.","label":1}
{"text":"Texas wildfires are linked to climate change.","label":1}
{"text":"Our small staff of 51 is still fewer than we had a decade ago, yet our caseload -- like that of other courts -- has grown.","label":0}
{"text":"Erv Nelson voted yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urgingCongress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country.","label":0}
{"text":"Rick Perry co-chaired Al Gores campaign for president.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions.","label":1}
{"text":"Ron Johnson referred to The Lego Movie as an insidious anti-business conspiracy.","label":1}
{"text":"Opponent Kathie Tovo believes that Austin invests too much in the cops, firefighters and paramedics that protect our families and neighborhoods.","label":0}
{"text":"Wendy Davis is threatening to raise taxes up to $35 billion.","label":1}
{"text":"Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and funds Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"There are half as many students in one Georgia technical college than there were two years ago.","label":0}
{"text":"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions.","label":0}
{"text":"The state budget includes spending on commercials for Fortune 500 companies.","label":0}
{"text":"Hillary Clintons Iran nuclear deal lined the pockets of the worlds number one state sponsor of terrorism with your money.","label":1}
{"text":"Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership weve got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking.","label":0}
{"text":"Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before.","label":0}
{"text":"No one was taken into custody for feeding the homeless.","label":0}
{"text":"In March New Jersey was one of only eight states in the nation to lose jobs and the state with the highest loss of jobs in the nation.","label":1}
{"text":"2014 Federal Tax Refunds To Be Delayed Until October 2015.","label":1}
{"text":"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally, it would create an economic recession for the state.","label":1}
{"text":"One of the interesting things about the Recovery Act was most of the projects came in under budget, faster than expected, because theres just not a lot of work there.","label":1}
{"text":"Families are paying $900, on average, \"in higher premiums because of uncompensated care.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Legislation pending in the House would effectively limit or eliminate time-and-a-half for people who work overtime.","label":0}
{"text":"Since the Affordable Care Act passed, 90 percent of job growth has been in full-time positions.","label":0}
{"text":"Barack Obama put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments theyre going to receive.","label":1}
{"text":"In this next biennium, the cost of primary and secondary education is going to increase by more that $1000 per student. Half of that $1000 $500 per student is accounted for by the increased cost of PERS alone.","label":0}
{"text":"The Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire 16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer to enforce the federal health care overhaul.","label":1}
{"text":"The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used.","label":1}
{"text":"The health care bill will \"create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.","label":0}
{"text":"Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt.","label":0}
{"text":"The immigration proposal from the Gang of Eight is not amnesty.","label":1}
{"text":"A Republican-sponsored Wisconsin mining bill will take at least seven years to create jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton is proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybodys jobs, including low-income African-Americans.","label":1}
{"text":"More than half of last years U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.","label":1}
{"text":"Some city of Atlanta employees have not had raises in eight years.","label":1}
{"text":"Large majorities of the public oppose major changes to Medicare and favor higher taxes on the wealthy.","label":0}
{"text":"Rick Scott pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud.","label":1}
{"text":"The 2005 round of military base closings has not yet resulted in savings.","label":1}
{"text":"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved.","label":0}
{"text":"Rick Scott has destroyed over 100,000 jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Tim Kaine proposed over $6 billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governors mansion until the time he left.","label":1}
{"text":"Paul Ryan is one of only six House Republicans who voted for Teddy Kennedys bill to force Christian employers to hire LGBT employees.","label":1}
{"text":"What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats.","label":1}
{"text":"His proposed budget would \"cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term.\"","label":0}
{"text":"After Britains vote to leave the European Union, within 24 hours, Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s.","label":0}
{"text":"Maggie Hassan missed nearly every university system board meeting.","label":0}
{"text":"New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade.","label":1}
{"text":"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression.","label":1}
{"text":"The Buffett Rule will bring in less than $5 billion per year. ... Enough to pay one weeks interest on the national debt.","label":0}
{"text":"Scott Walkers defunding of Planned Parenthood left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.","label":1}
{"text":"Except for foreign policy, Ron Pauls voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.","label":0}
{"text":"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care.","label":1}
{"text":"This is not a mosque. Its a cultural center that has a prayer area.","label":1}
{"text":"Mark Pryor continues to insist that Obamacare is an amazing success.","label":1}
{"text":"The Justice Departments Fast and Furious gun-walking program started in the Bush administration.","label":1}
{"text":"Drone technology now allows an individual to be recorded in their homes by drones as small as birds and immediately uploaded to the internet.","label":0}
{"text":"He invested over $100 million in worker training.","label":0}
{"text":"I'll tell you what I can tell this country: If they want a president who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices.","label":1}
{"text":"TSA started off with 16,500 screeners and the agency has mushroomed to 67,000 employees with 3,590 administrative people ... making over $105,000 per year on average.","label":1}
{"text":"Rob Portmans plan to tax, slash and privatize Social Security would devastate Ohioans.","label":1}
{"text":"The cap-and-trade bill will mean 2 million jobs lost.","label":1}
{"text":"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP.","label":0}
{"text":"Already in Wisconsin we have seen fewer people pursuing education as a career due to the Act 10 collective bargaining law.","label":1}
{"text":"Georgias CRCT set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation.","label":0}
{"text":"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia.","label":0}
{"text":"This (parent trigger) legislation was drafted by President Obamas top advisers. It was drafted by President Clintons top advisers.","label":1}
{"text":"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right and never said it had to be between a man and a woman.","label":0}
{"text":"Paid family leave is a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world.","label":0}
{"text":"Donald Trump says hed deport 16 million people.","label":1}
{"text":"$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state for a family.","label":1}
{"text":"Jason Carter has gotten David Axelrod to come down and be his campaign advisor.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Ted Cruzs tax plan, businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees.","label":0}
{"text":"Between 1980 and 2010, water usage in Georgia dropped even as the states population grew.","label":0}
{"text":"In Europe, church attendance rates (are) in the single digits because churches are supported by taxes.","label":1}
{"text":"Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination.","label":1}
{"text":"His promise of 250,000 new private sector jobs was a big goal.","label":0}
{"text":"Today we stand as the highest-performing urban school district in America.","label":1}
{"text":"There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment.","label":0}
{"text":"We have a fire marshal that said, Oh we cant allow more people ... And the reason they wont let them in is because they dont know what the hell theyre doing.","label":1}
{"text":"Sen. John McCain has taken more money from Wall Street than any other sitting senator.","label":1}
{"text":"Nevada Republican Senate nominee Joe Heck voted to criminalize abortion for rape victims.","label":1}
{"text":"The Bush administration pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead.","label":1}
{"text":"Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal govt wants to create a park, they must ask permission!","label":1}
{"text":"We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the NCAA no matter how minor the violations.","label":1}
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{"text":"Latinos now make up the majority population in Texas.","label":1}
{"text":"The film and TV industry supports more than 24,000 direct jobs and pays local workers more than $1.68 billion in wages in Georgia.","label":0}
{"text":"In the past three years, state legislatures have enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined.","label":0}
{"text":"Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele spent $100,000 of taxpayer money on a new luxury SUV.","label":1}
{"text":"Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.","label":0}
{"text":"Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could \"lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share.","label":0}
{"text":"Ken Mercer wants Sean Hannity and James Dobson included in social studies texts.","label":1}
{"text":"In the 18th Congressional District, 100% of electric generation comes from coal.","label":0}
{"text":"Milwaukee is the most segregated city in America.","label":0}
{"text":"Wendy Davis, born into difficult circumstances, was the daughter of a single mother and a teenage mother herself.","label":1}
{"text":"Forty percent of illegal immigrants are people coming legally on visas and overstaying their visas.","label":0}
{"text":"Prop 56 cheats schools out of at least $600 million.","label":1}
{"text":"Jeb Bush doesnt believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does.","label":0}
{"text":"Denies that he said the Obama campaign \"played the race card.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nations leader in that area.","label":1}
{"text":"North Carolinas coast is possibly the best place in (the) U.S. for an offshore windfarm.","label":0}
{"text":"Matt Wand has sided with anti-choice activists to restrict access to reproductive health care services.","label":1}
{"text":"His political opponents brought 100,000 protesters into our state.","label":1}
{"text":"In June, jobless ranks were higher in nearly 90 percent of U.S. cities.","label":1}
{"text":"If Gov. Romneys plan goes into effect the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security.","label":1}
{"text":"The United States regulations are among the most difficult in the world.","label":1}
{"text":"Blue Cross headquarters has \"a $30,000 granite table.\"","label":1}
{"text":"NASCAR fans are twice as likely as non fans to serve in the military and 37 percent of active servicemembers and veterans are NASCAR fans.","label":0}
{"text":"Rick Scott thinks employers should be able to deny women coverage for birth control.","label":0}
{"text":"James Langevin voted to spend $3 billion for a jet engine no one wants.","label":1}
{"text":"The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents more than twice as many as there were in 2004.","label":0}
{"text":"For thousands of public employees, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers budget-repair bill would take away any say they have in the workplace, and eliminate their union.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton \"starts off with 47 percent of the country against her.\"","label":0}
{"text":"170,000 of the jobs created in Texas under Gov. Rick Perry were government jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world.","label":0}
{"text":"Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016.","label":0}
{"text":"Taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average.","label":0}
{"text":"You go down to Miami and when its flooding at high tide on a sunny day, fish are swimming through the middle of the streets.","label":1}
{"text":"Obamas net neutrality proposalputs the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered.","label":1}
{"text":"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin, even though marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin.","label":0}
{"text":"This year, were off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999.","label":0}
{"text":"In 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income, which is more than the entire bottom 50 percent.","label":0}
{"text":"President Dwight Eisenhower moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country.","label":1}
{"text":"About 800 people refused to get a drug screening because they are out there on drugs.","label":1}
{"text":"13,000 Floridians are able to vote -- but their governor wont tell them.","label":1}
{"text":"In Iraq, civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year.","label":0}
{"text":"22 Countries Invaded by the U.S. in 20 Years.","label":1}
{"text":"The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.","label":1}
{"text":"President Obamas grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth.","label":1}
{"text":"Alex Sink supported more taxes on water and TV.","label":0}
{"text":"Secretary of State Jon Husted and former secretary Jennifer Brunner both have supported a provision in Senate Bill 47 that would limit the days organizers have to collect signatures for initiative and referendum petitions.","label":1}
{"text":"The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered.","label":0}
{"text":"The Super Bowl has one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country.","label":1}
{"text":"Due to the war in Iraq, 4,400 Americans are dead, 30,000 severely wounded and more than 100,000 are suffering from serious health problems related to post traumatic stress syndrome.","label":1}
{"text":"After Reagan took office, \"we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. What we did was we cut taxes.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.","label":0}
{"text":"In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns 49 percent fewer women are shot and killed.","label":1}
{"text":"One of the main functions of the Department of Homeland Securitys SAVE database is checking voter registration citizenship status.","label":1}
{"text":"David Jolly refused to cut spending for a national greenhouse in D.C.","label":0}
{"text":"Thanks to our policies, for the first time in state history, we have put millions of dollars into our rainy day fund in consecutive years.","label":1}
{"text":"Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him.","label":0}
{"text":"Said the Washington Post argued that a failure to pass the START treaty this year would be no calamity, and that the Associated Press saidthe administration concedes the security risk is not immediate.","label":1}
{"text":"Sens. Isaksons, Chambliss Votes Against Unemployment Insurance Were Votes to Kill Nearly 6,000 Georgia Jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle. When the car was extricated from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.","label":1}
{"text":"Our pension system is the only one in the country thats 100 percent funded.","label":0}
{"text":"56 percentof (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control.","label":1}
{"text":"About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money.","label":0}
{"text":"State Sens. Greg Evers, Nancy Detert and Charles Dean got a failing grade from conservatives.","label":1}
{"text":"My opponent supported policies that increased tuition by 18 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"The state of Georgia lost 16 percent of its employees last year, and that percentage has risen over the past three years.","label":1}
{"text":"In the last 15 years, weve witnessed a dramatic expansion in the jailing of immigrants, from about 70,000 people detained annually to about 400,000.","label":0}
{"text":"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts.","label":0}
{"text":"Welcome to Wisconsin road signs have always been made in Wisconsin,but Scott Walker is outsourcing themto an out-of-state company and paying more money for them.","label":1}
{"text":"More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, I took a higher percentage of the Republican voteand yet I also carried independents by 12 points.","label":0}
{"text":"Rubio's tax swap proposal \"would have been a massive tax increase.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet.","label":0}
{"text":"By rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.","label":0}
{"text":"A Penn State University study found that electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes.","label":0}
{"text":"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all.","label":0}
{"text":"President Barack Obama met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.","label":1}
{"text":"CEOs now earn 431 times what their workers earn.","label":1}
{"text":"The congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by a very partisan political committee in a way that related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics.","label":1}
{"text":"Rubio's \"got more experience than Obama had.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Obamacare Medical Codes Confirm: Execution by Beheading To Be Implemented in America.","label":1}
{"text":"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget.","label":1}
{"text":"Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, skipped an important VA reform hearing to attend three fundraisers.","label":1}
{"text":"Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a murder mill.","label":0}
{"text":"The United States Senate Democrats and Republicans (voted) to keep our government open.","label":1}
{"text":"I have fought for our shared values without being an ideologue or a partisan","label":1}
{"text":"A small business in my district needed 31 different permits and fees just to be able to expand.","label":0}
{"text":"A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists.","label":1}
{"text":"Charlotte Nash pretends to be a chicken farmer in order to get property tax exemptions.","label":1}
{"text":"When it comes to fighting terrorism, Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture.","label":0}
{"text":"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world.","label":1}
{"text":"Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars because of Arizonas immigration laws that drove outundocumented immigrants.","label":1}
{"text":"Every (U.S. Supreme Court) nominee since 1875 has received a nomination hearing.","label":1}
{"text":"If todays economy was rebounding at the rate of the Reagan recovery, it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.","label":1}
{"text":"I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment.","label":0}
{"text":"If public employees dont pay more for benefits starting April 1, 2011, the equivalent is 1,500 state employee layoffs by June 30, 2011 and 10,000 to 12,000 state and local government employee layoffs in the next two years.","label":0}
{"text":"Obama would \"experiment with socialism.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on.","label":0}
{"text":"Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system than before.","label":1}
{"text":"Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Floridas investments? Alex Sink.","label":1}
{"text":"Greg Abbott did nothing to pursue reports of the sexual abuse of boys at a West Texas state-run school.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton has donated every cent shes ever earned from speaking fees to charity.","label":1}
{"text":"Jennifer Carroll is the first African-American Republican woman to be part of a statewide ticket in Florida.","label":0}
{"text":"The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined.","label":1}
{"text":"The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country.","label":1}
{"text":"Its highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940.","label":1}
{"text":"Paul Ryans budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.","label":0}
{"text":"We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia \"to finance this war\" in Iraq.","label":1}
{"text":"Over 32,000 people die from #GunViolence every year. Yet, (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is banned from researching ways to prevent this.","label":0}
{"text":"''Both Democrats and Republicans are advocating for the use of student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness.''","label":1}
{"text":"In 2011, Carlos Lpez-Cantera staunchly supported a Florida bill modeled after Arizonas immigration law","label":1}
{"text":"Last year it was discovered that Rhode Islands public employees ranked 4th in average pay, while the private sector ranked 23rd.","label":1}
{"text":"(Dennis) Richardson wants to make drastic cuts to services we depend on: schools, home care for seniors, even public safety -- all so Richardson can keep more than $440 million in unspent funds for his political priorities.","label":1}
{"text":"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated before deciding whether to endorse it.","label":1}
{"text":"People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database.","label":1}
{"text":"When Republican extremists tried to take away abortion rights Blake Rocap stopped them.","label":1}
{"text":"New provisions of the health care law bar the use offlexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs.","label":0}
{"text":"In Ohio, more than half the providers of safe and legal abortion have had to shut down since Gov. John Kasich took office in 2011.","label":1}
{"text":"Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!","label":1}
{"text":"I am the only candidate for lieutenant governor to oppose in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.","label":1}
{"text":"Jason Carter supports using Georgia tax dollars to promote Obamacare","label":1}
{"text":"Weve outdrawn the Super Bowl for a little while now in the arenas and stadiums that weve followed them in for the Super Bowl. Weve gone in after [the NFL] and surpassed their ticket sales.","label":0}
{"text":"The national unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for a record 36 months.","label":1}
{"text":"In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party.","label":0}
{"text":"Bruce Braley took tens of thousands from his friends in the health insurance industry and gave them special favors by voting for Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Lee Fisher Ohio has lost nearly 400,000 jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Opponent Beto ORourke wants to legalize drugs.","label":1}
{"text":"Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination.","label":1}
{"text":"A Koch brothers group is going to college campuses, giving away free booze to try to bribe young folks out of getting health insurance.","label":1}
{"text":"Senate Democrats who left the state for weeks to delay a vote on union bargaining power exercised a Wisconsin filibuster provided by the states constitution.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obama himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clintons plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs.","label":1}
{"text":"Weve had Muslims in America since George Washington.","label":0}
{"text":"Allen West helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an Iraqi detainee, then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong.","label":1}
{"text":"The state has less employees this year than we did last year.","label":0}
{"text":"Due to Obamacare, Arkansas has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already.","label":0}
{"text":"The state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida.","label":0}
{"text":"House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a vegetable for the purpose of school lunches.","label":1}
{"text":"The Arizona State Board of Educations failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student.","label":0}
{"text":"Congressman Renacci is under FBI investigation.","label":1}
{"text":"He voted for even stronger protections (in the Violence Against Women Act)than Obamas agenda will allow.","label":1}
{"text":"We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor.","label":1}
{"text":"As usual, Hillary the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games.","label":1}
{"text":"Under a bill before the legislature, youd have to go to court to fire an employee.","label":1}
{"text":"Earlier this year, the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified before Congress that implementation of Obamacare would cost 800,000 jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are quite unpopular.","label":0}
{"text":"Russ Feingold has not worked anywhere outside of politics.","label":1}
{"text":"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher.","label":1}
{"text":"When Democrats controlled Congress and the White House, federal spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product leapt from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 25.2 percent in 2009 -- the largest such increase in any eight-year period since World War II.","label":1}
{"text":"Dave Brat worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaines Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion.","label":0}
{"text":"No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons.","label":0}
{"text":"After how hard you work and how much you pay in taxes, New York City ends up getting the money. Im Chris Jacobs. I think its time we have someone in Albany thats making sure our region gets our fair share","label":1}
{"text":"Who would sign up to speak for a (Haitian) dictator? Rob Portman.","label":1}
{"text":"Candidates for governor routinely disclose their spouses tax returns.","label":0}
{"text":"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinsons disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana.","label":1}
{"text":"Rick Scott is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions despite troubled power plants.","label":1}
{"text":"Romney outsourced call center jobs to India.","label":1}
{"text":"Ron Johnson helped companies ship jobs overseas.","label":1}
{"text":"The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a Star Trek training video.","label":1}
{"text":"I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA.","label":0}
{"text":"Eleven years ago, the city of Detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today, 53 percent of officers live outside of the city. If we want the tax base of Milwaukee to resemble the tax base of Detroit, this is the way to go.","label":0}
{"text":"Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.","label":1}
{"text":"Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice.","label":0}
{"text":"The president won the youth vote 3 to1, but his numbers have dropped 20, 30 percent among the youth.","label":0}
{"text":"Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government.","label":1}
{"text":"Wisconsins 6th congressional district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other in the nation.","label":0}
{"text":"Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap, which amounts to a $500,000 vagina tax over her working career.","label":1}
{"text":"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs.","label":1}
{"text":"Many uninsured Americans are young.","label":0}
{"text":"78702 is the second-most gentrified ZIP code in the entire country.","label":1}
{"text":"29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting.","label":1}
{"text":"Felony crimes in the city of Atlanta are the lowest they have been since 1969.","label":0}
{"text":"The vast majority of our international commitments take effect without congressional approval.","label":1}
{"text":"This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River.","label":1}
{"text":"Oregonians for Food and Shelter proudly features board members from Monsanto and Syngenta and the (Oregon) Farm Bureau also receives funding from biotech companies.","label":0}
{"text":"As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were \"too small, too poor or too dangerous\" for the president.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton has been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight.","label":1}
{"text":"There are homes for sale on and around (Oswego Lake) right now for under $150,000 that anyone is welcome to buy.","label":1}
{"text":"8 years of the Clintons, major losses for Democrats across the nation.","label":0}
{"text":"Hes the only licensed firearms dealer in America running for Congress.","label":1}
{"text":"Volunteer firefighters and communities they serve in Georgia and elsewhere are being devastated by Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight? FAA could cut other spending.","label":1}
{"text":"The Democrat-led Senate has failed to pass a budget for 750 days ... Senate Democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obama is absolutely a Muslim.","label":1}
{"text":"One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.","label":1}
{"text":"Opponent Holly Benson said that Just because youre poor doesnt mean youre unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running.","label":0}
{"text":"Im beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot.","label":1}
{"text":"Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking.","label":0}
{"text":"The Georgia Senate ethics resolution doesnt define cap.","label":0}
{"text":"Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison took 154 private flights all funded by taxpayers though commercial flights were readily available at a fraction of the cost.","label":1}
{"text":"Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years.","label":0}
{"text":"African-Americans dont use drugs at a higher level than whites but wind up going to prison six times more.","label":0}
{"text":"If you have a job in this country, (theres a) 97 percent chance that youre not going to be in poverty.","label":0}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton is proposing destroying Medicare for seniors.","label":1}
{"text":"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid \"said, quote, 'I can't stand John McCain.' \"","label":0}
{"text":"It is a fact that the economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House.","label":1}
{"text":"Austin has gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested more congested than NYC.","label":1}
{"text":"The measles vaccine has killed 108 people in the last decade, while no one has died of measles.","label":1}
{"text":"The Obama Administration has fulfilled all of Texas requests for fire management assisting grants.","label":0}
{"text":"We have tougher standards holding toy gun manufacturers and sellers to account than we do for real guns.","label":1}
{"text":"Opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the districts debt load doubles with these new bonds.","label":1}
{"text":"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)","label":0}
{"text":"State lawmakers have voted to spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times since the funds creation.","label":0}
{"text":"Texas has the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states.","label":0}
{"text":"Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been too many in too short a period of time.","label":1}
{"text":"Bill Nelsons vote for the Affordable Care Act cuts $500 billion from Medicare to pay for new government programs.","label":1}
{"text":"Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they dont meet suggested federal standards.","label":1}
{"text":"There is an upcoming vote to preserve benefits of Texas homestead exemption for seniors and the disabled.","label":1}
{"text":"This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"The Rev. Wright compared \"the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior.\"","label":0}
{"text":"Barack Obama's plan calls for \"mandates and fines for small businesses.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The number of Americans who receive means-tested government benefits -- welfare -- now outnumbers those who are year-round full-time workers.","label":1}
{"text":"The people that perpetrated that travesty in San Bernardino had never been to the Middle East.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary Clintons rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans.","label":0}
{"text":"The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Scott Walkers plan to freeze pay for state employees includes a 5.4 percent raise for himself.","label":1}
{"text":"Medical-grade marijuana alonewill not get that patient high, no matter what level of THC, CBD or any other compound is found in the plant.","label":1}
{"text":"The Republican Party platform says pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold while the Democratic Party platform says we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform.","label":0}
{"text":"With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program.","label":0}
{"text":"When I left office, there was a $7-million surplus in Providence, but in 2008, the city had a $110-million deficit.","label":1}
{"text":"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: Yeah, were open.","label":1}
{"text":"Since lawmakers acted, we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts.","label":1}
{"text":"As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies.","label":1}
{"text":"He has \"the most impressive education record\" of the Republican candidates.","label":1}
{"text":"Marco Rubio endorsed Obamacare for his own family.","label":1}
{"text":"In Hillary Clintons tax returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.","label":1}
{"text":"In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy.","label":0}
{"text":"Forty percent of people in this country, illegally, are overstaying visas.","label":0}
{"text":"One out of two Americans are living either in or near poverty. That means 150 million Americans, half of us.","label":1}
{"text":"There are $500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law].","label":1}
{"text":"While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a successful terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obamas 2008 election.","label":0}
{"text":"We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone.","label":1}
{"text":"Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children.","label":0}
{"text":"Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga.","label":1}
{"text":"There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think its a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy.","label":0}
{"text":"When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. Sherrod Brown, he is lying. He has accepted ZERO proposed debates.","label":1}
{"text":"Its been 4 and a half years since the United States Senate passed a budget.","label":1}
{"text":"Democratic runoff opponent Grady Yarbrough twice previously ran statewide as a Republican.","label":0}
{"text":"Jeb Bush -- not Charlie Crist -- signed legislation that let Duke Energy collect money for nuclear projects.","label":0}
{"text":"Just about half of rural hospitals operate in the red in Virginia. They operate at a loss.","label":0}
{"text":"The Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities.","label":1}
{"text":"As secretary of state she was reserving judgment about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and hoped it would be the gold standard.","label":1}
{"text":"It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces.","label":0}
{"text":"Mickey Mouse was registered to vote (in Florida).","label":1}
{"text":"It is a commitment voters take very seriously: The only incumbent in Ohio to break his Pledge and vote for Ted Stricklands income tax hike was defeated soundly on Tuesday.","label":0}
{"text":"Georgia lawmakers balanced the budget without raising taxes on residents.","label":0}
{"text":"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.","label":1}
{"text":"The State of Rhode Island has the worst state-funded pension in the country.","label":1}
{"text":"John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming ... five years ago.","label":0}
{"text":"George Bush sent people to war without body armor.","label":0}
{"text":"Of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage.","label":1}
{"text":"When these same Republicans - including Mr. Boehner - were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down.","label":0}
{"text":"If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, 75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon.","label":0}
{"text":"When it comes to taking cuts in tough budget times, Wisconsin state workers havent had to sacrifice.","label":1}
{"text":"In South Sudan, more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school.","label":0}
{"text":"When Colorado eased its medical marijuana laws, fatal accidents involving pot-using drivers soared while overall traffic fatalities decreased.","label":1}
{"text":"Mark Warner told PolitiFact Nationals Lie of the Year in 2013.","label":1}
{"text":"Fiorinas plan would mean slashing Social Security and Medicare.","label":1}
{"text":"Since the beginning of the year weve created a net increase of 45,000 jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Polls on legalizing same-sex marriage are not dramatically changing.","label":1}
{"text":"Roy Blunt secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris into a national security bill while Blunts girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000.","label":0}
{"text":"TriMet now spends $1.63 in benefits for every $1.00 spent on wages.","label":0}
{"text":"We are living with a legacy of deficit-spending that began almost a decade ago.","label":1}
{"text":"We have completely turned our economy around.","label":1}
{"text":"Every 1 percent increase in the cost of health insurance today causes about 30,000 Georgians to be uninsured.","label":1}
{"text":"The Democratic health care bill will \"collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Texas added 6,600 miles of highway from 2001-2012, more than any other state.","label":1}
{"text":"Theres a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us theres no tax.","label":1}
{"text":"Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens.","label":1}
{"text":"Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.","label":1}
{"text":"Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus spending -- Part II.","label":1}
{"text":"When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.","label":1}
{"text":"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector.","label":1}
{"text":"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didnt envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death.","label":1}
{"text":"Sen. Clinton said \"the surge of troops in Iraq was 'working.' Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge 'has failed' and that we should 'begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.'\"","label":1}
{"text":"Paul Ryan voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasnt paid for.","label":0}
{"text":"Weve seen more anti-womens choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than weve seen in the last three General Assemblies.","label":0}
{"text":"The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities \"at the last minute in midnight phone calls.\"","label":0}
{"text":"About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home.","label":0}
{"text":"I have given $30,000 of my unused travel expenses over the years to supplement the school systems general budget.","label":1}
{"text":"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage.","label":1}
{"text":"Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's \"concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted.","label":0}
{"text":"A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be within a days drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitt Romney boasts that he is \"proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not.\"","label":0}
{"text":"Rep. Charles Bass supports privatizing Social Security, risking trillions more on Wall Street.","label":1}
{"text":"The United States has experienced 40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher.","label":0}
{"text":"In an average grocery store, roughly 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.","label":1}
{"text":"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget.","label":1}
{"text":"The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted.","label":1}
{"text":"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the current one.","label":1}
{"text":"Phil Puckett voted no on sending the EPA a message that theyve gone too far not once, but twice.","label":1}
{"text":"This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes.","label":1}
{"text":"Rick Scotts per-pupil education spending is about $200 less than what it was under Charlie Crist during the recession.","label":0}
{"text":"Gov. Deal has the worst record on education in the history of this state.","label":1}
{"text":"Congressman Jon Runyan has a plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year.","label":1}
{"text":"The fiscal cliff deal increased spending.","label":1}
{"text":"There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.","label":0}
{"text":"The U.S. doesnt make television sets anymore.","label":0}
{"text":"President Obama hijacked the farm bill (and) turned it into a food stamp bill.","label":1}
{"text":"In April 1997, there was a gas out conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Obamacare, premiums have doubled and tripled in Wisconsin.","label":0}
{"text":"The Greenlight Pinellas transportation plan involves a 300% tax increase.","label":1}
{"text":"For every dollar we put in unemployment, it pays back about $1.60.","label":1}
{"text":"Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses of smallpox vaccine and I created enough to vaccinate every man, woman and child against smallpox in America.","label":0}
{"text":"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimers were it not for overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators.","label":1}
{"text":"The stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China.","label":1}
{"text":"Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level.","label":0}
{"text":"In Washington, Congressman Joe Heck supports privatizing (Social Security), turning our savings over to Wall Street and risking it on the stock market.","label":1}
{"text":"Crist sent his \"top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal,\" then vetoed the bill.","label":0}
{"text":"Youve got more people wanting to go moose hunting in New Hampshire than want Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three.","label":0}
{"text":"Rep. Justin Amash votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans.","label":1}
{"text":"The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire because its increased costs for employers.","label":1}
{"text":"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did.","label":0}
{"text":"Lamar Smith sponsored the bill that funded Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"Weve got a personal tax system thats so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code.","label":1}
{"text":"Cover Florida \"is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration.","label":1}
{"text":"Shelby County donated Im sorry, gave 44 schools to the city of Memphis.","label":1}
{"text":"The Senate version of the health care reform bill allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill.","label":1}
{"text":"Terry McAuliffe cashed in, walking away with millions from the demise of Global Crossing.","label":1}
{"text":"More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.","label":0}
{"text":"Governor Deal has increased education spending every year hes been in office.","label":0}
{"text":"A judge took the Star Scientific tax case away from Ken Cuccinelli","label":1}
{"text":"Earlier this year, [John DePetro] was accused of sexually assaulting a female co-worker.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagans policies.","label":0}
{"text":"The Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes.","label":1}
{"text":"I said no to these big bank bailouts.","label":0}
{"text":"In 2012, 123 African-Americans were shot dead by police. ... Same year, 326 whites were killed by police.","label":1}
{"text":"(George) LeMieux never requested a single earmark and pushed to ban them all.","label":1}
{"text":"The majority of Americans are conservatives.","label":1}
{"text":"In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that by any measure Social Security has been a failure.","label":0}
{"text":"Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a late-night visit to Kinkos to forge President Barack Obamas birth certificate two days before Obama unveiled it to the media.","label":1}
{"text":"[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties.","label":0}
{"text":"Rabid animals from other states carry different strains of rabies that Florida vaccines and serums dont affect.","label":1}
{"text":"Jason Carter backed three of Nathan Deals budgets but accuses the governor of underfunding education.","label":0}
{"text":"Independent groups behind ads attacking Democratic candidates are front groups for foreign-controlled companies.","label":1}
{"text":"20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare).","label":1}
{"text":"Except for Virginia, the other 49 states keep raising their gas tax.","label":1}
{"text":"Four times, I said, he (John McCain)is a hero, but you know ... people choose selective pieces.","label":1}
{"text":"Nothing in Obamas $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation actually secures the border.","label":1}
{"text":"Of the four statewide races this century within a 300-vote margin, three have been overturned in a recount.","label":0}
{"text":"The estate tax is a threat to family farms.","label":1}
{"text":"Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, sent nearly $2 billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs, mostly in China","label":1}
{"text":"Millions of dollars in tax breaks were paid for by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs help.","label":1}
{"text":"African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids.","label":0}
{"text":"Scott Walker favors cutting up to 350,000 families and children off health care.","label":1}
{"text":"Legally, it doesnt make any difference which state district you live in when running for Congress.","label":0}
{"text":"My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us.","label":0}
{"text":"Thanks to restrictive and anticompetitive ballot laws, candidates in November 2014 ran unopposed in nearly half of Wisconsins state representative races but in Michigan and Minnesota nearly all races had challengers.","label":1}
{"text":"At some point in their lives, 99% of women use birth control.","label":1}
{"text":"The price of gasoline was at $1.85 a gallon when President Barack Obama took office and has since nearly doubled because of his policies","label":1}
{"text":"Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.","label":0}
{"text":"The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.","label":1}
{"text":"Texas state funds were spent on a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating.","label":0}
{"text":"The U.S. Constitution provides for just compensation when land is taken under eminent domain.","label":0}
{"text":"U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo supported ending the Medicare guarantee.","label":1}
{"text":"My position hasnt changed on using executive authority to address immigration issues.","label":1}
{"text":"Shes voted for 60 tax increases, hurting the middle class and small businesses.","label":1}
{"text":"Obamas Clean Power Plan ... eliminates coal-fired power plants.","label":1}
{"text":"We get 30 percent of our oil from the Gulf (of Mexico).","label":1}
{"text":"There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.","label":0}
{"text":"John Boehner has called for repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people.","label":1}
{"text":"Algeria wanted to be taken off of the terror list at the time it made an unreported donation to the Clinton Foundation.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Rick Scott, there has been a historic $20 billion in funds for education.","label":1}
{"text":"Salaries for Virginias teachers are below the national average.","label":0}
{"text":"Lizbeth Benacquistos supporters would make (abortion) illegal in all cases, including rape, incest, even to save a womans life.","label":0}
{"text":"We are taking Virginias investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealths history.","label":1}
{"text":"Greenlight Pinellas wont take existing lanes from other vehicles.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Chris Christie cut spending (by) $1 billion and provided $850 million in new education funding.","label":1}
{"text":"Our kids cant openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.","label":1}
{"text":"The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.","label":0}
{"text":"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years.","label":1}
{"text":"Sen. McCain's tax plan provides \"virtually nothing to the middle class.\"","label":1}
{"text":"We will have the highest general revenue in state history next year. Conservative pro-growth policies work in our state.","label":1}
{"text":"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.","label":0}
{"text":"If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDCs statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S.","label":1}
{"text":"This (Ebola) is not as bad as SARSwas in 2003.","label":1}
{"text":"Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world.","label":0}
{"text":"Rick Santorum voted to let convicted felons vote.","label":1}
{"text":"As state Commerce secretary, Mary Burke drafted, sponsored and promoted budgets that raised taxes by billions, created high structural deficits and raided funds to finance huge spending hikes.","label":1}
{"text":"22 veterans take their own lives each day.","label":0}
{"text":"Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama.","label":1}
{"text":"The DREAM Act the would give amnesty to over two million illegal aliens.","label":1}
{"text":"Americans work way more than an average of industrialized countries around the world.","label":0}
{"text":"IPads and iPhones are built in the United States of America.","label":1}
{"text":"[A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!","label":1}
{"text":"The average government worker wont be impacted in the first two years under the reform of state health benefits.","label":1}
{"text":"We would create thousands of jobs in Colorado, if the Keystone Pipeline were to be built.","label":1}
{"text":"Jennifer Carrolls an outsider.","label":1}
{"text":"Our numbers are going up at the airport.","label":1}
{"text":"In a majority of states, you can now marry freely, but can still be fired for who you love.","label":0}
{"text":"Hillary Clinton \"has the only health care plan that covers every American.\"","label":0}
{"text":"An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs.","label":1}
{"text":"Six convictions are connected to an allegation by prosecutors that Gov. Scott Walker is at the center of a criminal scheme.","label":1}
{"text":"We didnt go out asking people to join the stand your ground task force.","label":1}
{"text":"Oil companies \"haven't touched\" 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill.","label":1}
{"text":"Hes taken an 8% pay decrease in each of the nine years he has been in office.","label":1}
{"text":"Rather than prioritize and pass ethics reform measures to restore trust in state government, (Democrats) sat on their hands and did nothing when they were the majority.","label":1}
{"text":"If Rhode Island applied a 1-percent sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax, ''the state would receive an additional $89,376,857.''","label":0}
{"text":"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq.","label":1}
{"text":"Most of the state budget isnt for state government doing things. ... 85 percent of the state budget is transferred to local communities for delivery of service.","label":0}
{"text":"Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black.","label":1}
{"text":"The spillover violence (from Mexico) in Texas is real and it is escalating.","label":1}
{"text":"A Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English.","label":1}
{"text":"I still live in the same working-class neighborhood I grew up in.","label":0}
{"text":"Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water.","label":1}
{"text":"Rand Pauls speech ... on Gattaca was totally ripped off of Wikipedia.","label":0}
{"text":"An account of attacks in Benghazi written by former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers shows that the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was dragged through the streets and abused.","label":1}
{"text":"FBI confirms evidence of huge underground Clinton sex network.","label":1}
{"text":"Rick Santorum supported (Arlen) Specter over conservative candidates twice.","label":0}
{"text":"Kurt Schrader cast the deciding vote that failed to extend tax cuts for Oregons middle-class families and small businesses.","label":1}
{"text":"I'm predicting (the Saints) will go not only undefeated, but all the way through the Super Bowl -- something that's never been done before.","label":1}
{"text":"The (Ohio) economy is on the mend. It is in better shape than it was when we took office.","label":1}
{"text":"Every year the state loses 8,000-10,000 acres of land in bear country.","label":1}
{"text":"Barack Obama sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China at the cost of American jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"Donald Trump mocked someone with a disability.","label":0}
{"text":"He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps.","label":0}
{"text":"Sen. Sherrod Brown is out there egging on a lot of these protesters who are spitting on policemen and going to the bathroom on policemens cars at these protests on Wall Street and other places.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obamas debt commission recommended converting Medicare to a system where Medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market.","label":1}
{"text":"In the last 10 years, only one piece of legislation has been cosponsored and passed by John Duncan Jr.","label":1}
{"text":"The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. Theyve demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases.","label":0}
{"text":"One in every three women has an abortion during her lifetime.","label":1}
{"text":"Despite claims that you can keep the health care plan you like, the Obama Administration has predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan.","label":1}
{"text":"Women fill two-thirds of minimum wage jobs.","label":0}
{"text":"Texas lawmakers last year expanded public educations share of state spending.","label":0}
{"text":"Our companies are moving into Mexico more than almost any other place right now.","label":1}
{"text":"You know our current president is (Muslim). You know hes not even an American.","label":1}
{"text":"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term.","label":0}
{"text":"Betty Sutton and House Democrats gutted Medicare by $741 billion to pay for Obamacare.","label":1}
{"text":"About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite when the sales tax was enacted in the 30s.","label":0}
{"text":"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"There are now Occupy Wall Street camps in hundreds of cities across the United States.","label":1}
{"text":"Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago.","label":0}
{"text":"The American Conservative Union gives [Rep. Tim] Ryan a dismal 0.0 percent rating for the billions he has contributed to our national debt.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Bill Haslam is making our Economic Development department Sharia compliant by hiring a woman who specializes in Sharia compliance. Thats what her job is.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitt Romney had millions in a Swiss bank account.","label":0}
{"text":"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did.","label":1}
{"text":"A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.","label":0}
{"text":"Youre paying for...(state Sen. Diane Allens) health care, and she took yours away.","label":1}
{"text":"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that dont even mention the program and how to enroll in it and that dont mention the word insurance.","label":1}
{"text":"Ohio Director of Job Creation Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didnt keep them.","label":1}
{"text":"Required state septic inspections would cost septic tank owners $100 to $150 every five years.","label":1}
{"text":"The money supply has doubled in the last year.","label":1}
{"text":"The Jewish holiday Purim is \"their version of Halloween here.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Global warming is a hoax.","label":1}
{"text":"Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.","label":0}
{"text":"Over the past three years, deep poverty has reached its highest level on record.","label":0}
{"text":"Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel supports allowing the United States to default on its obligations.","label":1}
{"text":"President Obama and Nancy Pelosi said Obamacare would save money because they factored in 10 years worth of tax revenue and only six and half years worth of expenses.","label":1}
{"text":"We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth.","label":1}
{"text":"Canadian-born Ted Cruz has had a double passport.","label":1}
{"text":"Ted Strickland stands in lockstep with Hillary Clinton and the abortion lobby in their desire to force Americans to pay for abortion on demand, up until the moment of birth, with their taxpayer dollars.","label":1}
{"text":"There are still more people uninsured today than when Obama was elected president.","label":1}
{"text":"Charlie Crist stood there, over 3 African-American prisoners inchains, on their knees, on the side of the road. Saying that it was a great sight. Saying we needed to bring it to Florida.And you did this whether you know or not on the eve of Juneteenth, the day the African-American community celebrates the end of slavery.","label":1}
{"text":"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war.","label":0}
{"text":"Social Security took seven years before anybody got the first check.","label":1}
{"text":"In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010.","label":0}
{"text":"In 2009 ExxonMobil paid no federal income taxes, received a $156 million rebate.","label":1}
{"text":"In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier.","label":0}
{"text":"Tonight in Ohio, more people came out to vote for Barack Obama in an unopposed race than voted for (Mitt) Romney and (Rick) Santorum combined.","label":1}
{"text":"Since 9\/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists.","label":1}
{"text":"Roy Cooper wont say how he will pay for free college tuition.","label":1}
{"text":"Romney wants to take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires.","label":1}
{"text":"Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, they really dont legally have the right to take it away from them.","label":1}
{"text":"No other country has a constitutional right like the Second Amendment.","label":0}
{"text":"Nobody suffered any lasting injuries from the CIA interrogation program.","label":1}
{"text":"There are actual cities like Birmingham, England, that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply dont go in.","label":1}
{"text":"My campaign alone has created more jobs in the state of Rhode Island than Narragansett Beer.","label":0}
{"text":"Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined.","label":1}
{"text":"Under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress.","label":0}
{"text":"We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.","label":1}
{"text":"Weve doubled our use of renewable energy.","label":1}
{"text":"A poll found that 20% of young adults use (smartphones) during sex.","label":0}
{"text":"Opponents of the health care law prevailed on our two main arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court.","label":0}
{"text":"Most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay.","label":0}
{"text":"A year since the Recovery Summer, there has been been a fall, winter and spring of no recovery.","label":1}
{"text":"Oregon canned blueberries will be cheaper in South Korea thanks to a trade agreement.","label":0}
{"text":"Warren Buffett has publicly said his secretary should not be paying a higher tax rate than him.","label":0}
{"text":"As attorney general, I have prosecuted judges, district attorneys and other public officials across Texas who violated that (public) trust, who have been corrupted.","label":0}
{"text":"I fought 38 Studios from the beginning.","label":1}
{"text":"I never said I was on the Falkland Islands.","label":1}
{"text":"A small majority of Americans dont think they like the Affordable Care Act, but a large majority of Americans dont want to do away with the protections that are in the Affordable Care Act.","label":0}
{"text":"One half of federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money borrowed from a foreign land.","label":1}
{"text":"One-third of the gasoline is purchased by out-of-state people in Virginia","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obama has doubled the size of government since he took office.","label":1}
{"text":"We dont have bars on campus in Texas. Its against the law... no alcohol allowed.","label":1}
{"text":"One-hundred times as many people worked their way from poverty into the American middle class during his presidency compared to Ronald Reagans presidency.","label":1}
{"text":"Virginia House Republicans are sacrificing $5 million a day in U.S. funds by refusing to expand Medicaid.","label":0}
{"text":"My recommended budget includes $1 billion in new state funding for education.","label":1}
{"text":"Theres no money for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.","label":0}
{"text":"Ted Strickland admits his record on jobs and taxes is mixed and spotty.","label":1}
{"text":"Wisconsin still ranks first among the 50 states in manufacturing jobs per capita.","label":0}
{"text":"1 in 4 Rhode Islanders under the age of 65 does not have health insurance.","label":1}
{"text":"Obama \"voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The Latino unemployment rate is higher than the white rate and the black rate is higher than the Latino rate.","label":0}
{"text":"The United States still ranks 20th in the world in access to broadband -- over 50 percent below the best nations.","label":1}
{"text":"As a gubernatorial candidate, Chris Christie promised no school cuts.","label":0}
{"text":"The federal budget bill reauthorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which provides taxpayer dollars so that the Four Seasons hotel can build a resort in Turkey.","label":0}
{"text":", Yet in Salem they have traditionally waited until the money is almost gone to pay for the most important things in our states budget.","label":1}
{"text":"In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan.","label":0}
{"text":"The most private question on this years form asks for an individuals race, and that question has been asked by every census since the 1790 census conducted under then-President George Washington.","label":0}
{"text":"Voter identification laws keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting.","label":1}
{"text":"Forty-five states allow open carry of firearms.","label":0}
{"text":"Rhode Islands teen binge drinking rate is double the national average.","label":1}
{"text":"We dont show people playing these games. We dont show them winning playing the video lottery games.","label":1}
{"text":"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place.","label":1}
{"text":"The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causingclimate change has been debunked by the head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That number was pulled out of thin air.","label":1}
{"text":"Taxes were raised 115 times in the eight years before I became governor and those increases were part of a path that led to wealth and jobs and people leaving our state.","label":1}
{"text":"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it.","label":1}
{"text":"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better.","label":1}
{"text":"Seven of the 10 school districts with the lowest graduation rate for African-American boys in the country are in Florida.","label":1}
{"text":"In Florida, we have the lowest in-state tuition of any state.","label":1}
{"text":"He \"stood up to Barack Obama by passing legislation that prevents you from being forced to join government health plans or buy health insurance against your will.\"","label":1}
{"text":"[T]his breed (of pit bulls) is most often associated with aggressive behavior.","label":0}
{"text":"Milwaukee County government employees pay much more for their health care than City of Milwaukee or State of Wisconsin employees.","label":1}
{"text":"Its legal to sign a recall petition (against Gov. Scott Walker) even if you have already signed another recall petition, but only one signature counts","label":0}
{"text":"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars.","label":1}
{"text":"If you are on your bike in a crosswalk, all you have to do is dip your wheel into the road and cars must legally stop.","label":0}
{"text":"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, You know what? We should start colleges.","label":1}
{"text":"Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.","label":0}
{"text":"I am very proud that over my almost 30 years of public service I have had no scandals.","label":0}
{"text":"In the health care bill, were now offering insurance for dogs.","label":1}
{"text":"Forty years ago ... about half of congressional districts were genuinely competitive. Today, only about 10 percent of House races on Cook Political Report are listed as toss-ups or lean to one party.","label":1}
{"text":"When Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010, New Hampshires tax rate for employers was 50th in the nation, and unemployment had more than doubled under Democrats.","label":1}
{"text":"Ninety-five percent of the money used for union-operated worker training centers comes from employers.","label":1}
{"text":"Barbara Buono voted to raise her own pay 40 percent.","label":0}
{"text":"Senator Jeff Plale saved my job -- and some 300 others at Bucyrus International.","label":1}
{"text":"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land.","label":0}
{"text":"Weve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.","label":1}
{"text":"Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crists debt went up about $5 billion.","label":1}
{"text":"Catherine Cortez Masto failed Nevada rape victims. While attorney general, thousands of rape kits were never sent for DNA analysis.","label":1}
{"text":"The federal government right now does not deport criminals.","label":1}
{"text":"The President has decided to move forward with executive actions on immigration that he has said on numerous occasions that he didnt have the constitutional power to take.","label":0}
{"text":"Mayor White has major stake in Barnett Shale production company.","label":1}
{"text":"Newt Gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations.","label":0}
{"text":"PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years.","label":0}
{"text":"U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey wants public schools to teach women to stay in their place.","label":1}
{"text":"A Texas law requires every high school to have a voter registrar and part of their responsibility is to make sure that when children become 18 and become eligible to vote, that they vote.","label":1}
{"text":"A typical married couple will contribute $119,000 into Medicare but will receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.","label":0}
{"text":"Embryonic stem cell research is at a dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment.","label":1}
{"text":"There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts you should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.","label":1}
{"text":"We already have $23 billion worth of debt.","label":0}
{"text":"When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go.","label":1}
{"text":"One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids dont graduate.","label":0}
{"text":"President Barack Obama carried Congressional District 13 by 8.2 points in 2008 and 5.6 points in 2012.","label":1}
{"text":"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with.","label":0}
{"text":"Democrat Russ Feingold announced his Wisconsin Senate run today fromCalifornia.","label":1}
{"text":"Uber and other ride-share firms are not required to carry auto insurance under Georgia law.","label":0}
{"text":"Of 80,000 people who were denied a firearm in 2012 due to a failed background check, only 44 were prosecuted.","label":0}
{"text":"The president has said the national security threat facing America, the top one, is global warming.","label":1}
{"text":"Delegates cant legally change the Republican National Convention rules to prevent Donald Trumps nomination.","label":1}
{"text":"Bill Nelson voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, who signed a Supreme Court opinion saying Americans do not have an individual right to own firearms.","label":0}
{"text":"The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates \"both got more votes than Rand Paul did.\"","label":1}
{"text":"6.4 million more Americans living in poverty under President Obama.","label":1}
{"text":"Last month, 44 of the 50 states saw an increase in the unemployment rate.","label":1}
{"text":"The Florida Supreme Court has no express authority in the Florida Constitution to remove questions from the ballot proposed by the Legislature.","label":1}
{"text":"Annual precipitation has increased in Rhode Island by over 12 inches in the last century.","label":0}
{"text":"Alison Alter got an F in attendance in 2016 as an Austin parks board member and was removed by a unanimous vote of the Austin City Council.","label":1}
{"text":"He \"fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003.\"","label":0}
{"text":"Tanking Rick Perrys federal tax plan has huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else.","label":1}
{"text":"After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obamas push for new gun control laws.","label":1}
{"text":"Abortionists have reduced our black population by more than 25 percent since 1973.","label":1}
{"text":"Currently, almost 40 percent of people with HIV are not diagnosed until they already have developed AIDS. And that can be up to 10 years after they first are infected with HIV.","label":0}
{"text":"Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is responsible for the roughly $7,800 I pay in property taxes per year.","label":1}
{"text":"One out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran.","label":1}
{"text":"Because of the health care law, by 2017, we will be funneling over $100 billion annually to private insurance companies.","label":0}
{"text":"As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney used a line-item veto to cut millions of dollars for firefighting equipment, including firefighters coats, pants, helmets and boots.","label":0}
{"text":"Nobodys invited us to the Obama events in Atlanta.","label":1}
{"text":"Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary.","label":1}
{"text":"In the Florida Republican primary, \"we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Toothpaste contains the poison substance of fluoride.","label":1}
{"text":"Some of our states educational administrators joined the feds in seeking to mandate Arabic classes for Texas children.","label":1}
{"text":"Planned Parenthood has now (been) found to also illegally sell baby parts.","label":1}
{"text":"Since January 2015, the majority of our Austin City Council meetings have extended past 10 p.m. and many of our meetings have gone past midnight.","label":1}
{"text":"Critics called the original GI Bill welfare.","label":1}
{"text":"Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, \"was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The Massachusetts health care plan dealt with 8 percent of our population, far less than the 100 percent of American people affected by President Barack Obamas health care law.","label":1}
{"text":"Medicaid expansion could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year...","label":1}
{"text":"President Obama pushed through the stimulus based on the promise of keeping unemployment under 8 percent.","label":1}
{"text":"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade.","label":1}
{"text":"One of every two Wisconsin residents are on some kind of government handout.","label":1}
{"text":"Florida was the only state during my eight years to go from AA to AAA in its bond rating.","label":1}
{"text":"Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, \"wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat.\"","label":1}
{"text":"According to a national survey, transit ridership among people age 16 to 34 increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2009.","label":1}
{"text":"Health care reform \"requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate \"will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months.\"","label":0}
{"text":"Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children.","label":0}
{"text":"The states pension and health benefits reform includes the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights.","label":1}
{"text":"Mexico can afford to build a wall because the countrys trade deficit with America is billions of dollars.","label":1}
{"text":"In 2009, Yost spent 2.5 times more money than it took to run the (prosecutors) office before he got there.","label":0}
{"text":"McCain \"voted to let governments charge rape victims\" for forensic exams.","label":1}
{"text":"A bill to cap carbon emissions could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs.","label":1}
{"text":"White men account for 69 percent of those arrested for violent crimes.","label":1}
{"text":"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.","label":1}
{"text":"Democratic recall opponent Shelly Moore opposes any limit on taxes.","label":1}
{"text":"The U.S. energy policy is to \"borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us.\"","label":1}
{"text":"The Central Health districts tax rate is the lowest among the largest counties in Texas, and it will continue to be the lowest if voters approve a proposed tax increase.","label":0}
{"text":"A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest those already struggling to make ends meet.","label":1}
{"text":"Guess what, governor? Theres no fried butter in Newark. Just 13 percent unemployment.","label":0}
{"text":"Sen. Mitch McConnell is the No. 1 recipient of contributions from lobbyists this cycle.","label":0}
{"text":"The Obama administration watered down sanctions against Iran, delayed them and tried to stop Congress from putting the tough sanctions in place.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Scott Walker said no to equal pay for equal work for women.","label":1}
{"text":"750 days since Bill Nelson the Democrats in the Senate passed a budget. How can this be justified?","label":1}
{"text":"The employer mandate affects only 5 percent of businesses in this country.","label":0}
{"text":"There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family.","label":0}
{"text":"The 2011-13 state budget cuts overall funding for public schools by $1.6 billion","label":1}
{"text":"A gas tax holiday \"would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28.\"","label":0}
{"text":"In nine Democratic debates, Weve not had one question about a womans right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question.","label":0}
{"text":"Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to the evaporation of our Great Lakes.","label":1}
{"text":"The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill \"cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Clinton has \"raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry.\"","label":0}
{"text":"There has been $5 trillion in debt added over the last four years.","label":0}
{"text":"States with the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates.","label":0}
{"text":"An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination if it were not for the Super Delegates.","label":1}
{"text":"Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it.","label":1}
{"text":"Were broke. We dont have any more money.","label":1}
{"text":"U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout in 2008, \"but now he is standing in the way of reforms that would assure these bailouts would never happen again.","label":1}
{"text":"The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).","label":1}
{"text":"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesnt make his calendar public -- hes on our dime and we dont know where he is.","label":1}
{"text":"The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City.","label":1}
{"text":"Donald Trump bans disabled veterans from his high rise.","label":1}
{"text":"A vast majority of the production in the United States comes from small independent oil and gas companies.","label":1}
{"text":"Marco Rubio said that felons should not have their voting rights restored but that convicted felons should be allowed to own guns after they have done their time.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitt Romney is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception.","label":0}
{"text":"The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover any legal abortion.","label":1}
{"text":"Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population.","label":1}
{"text":"In 1960, we spent more than 3 percent of our GDP on infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway. Today we spend less than 1 percent of our GDP on these vital investments.","label":1}
{"text":"Gas prices have gone up $2 since Obama took office.","label":1}
{"text":"Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is a Democrat.","label":1}
{"text":"You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if youre a white applicant than if youre black or Hispanic, even if you have the same credentials.","label":1}
{"text":"Transporting drugs is the price of admission for people crossing the border illegally.","label":1}
{"text":"New EPA water regulations would force the state to make drainage canals every bit as clean as pristine Florida river systems.","label":0}
{"text":"Providence has amongst the highest tax rate(s) in the entire country.","label":0}
{"text":"When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. Its now 60 percent of the budget.","label":1}
{"text":"The Republican presidential nominee hasnt won women since 1988.","label":0}
{"text":"If elected, he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd.","label":0}
{"text":"Dave Brat said the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more.","label":1}
{"text":"Cap and trade legislation was originally a Republican idea.","label":0}
{"text":"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general.","label":1}
{"text":"The New START treaty was passed despite significant concerns among some people in the State and Defense Departments.","label":1}
{"text":"During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted by the IRS, similar to recent targeting.","label":1}
{"text":"We know that Sunday mornings have usually been given over to conservative white men.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obamas recent New York fundraising trip cost between $25 million and $50 million.","label":1}
{"text":"Scott Walker tried to pass a law to allow pharmacists to block womens access to birth control.","label":1}
{"text":"Rhode Islands exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years.","label":0}
{"text":"We have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil.","label":1}
{"text":"Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina has the highest salary among Florida mayors. More than $260,000.","label":1}
{"text":"The National Rifle Association was founded by religious leaders who wanted to protect freed slaves from the Ku Klux Klan.","label":1}
{"text":"By using a little-known loophole ... Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan.","label":1}
{"text":"Florida seniors are exempt from losing Medicare Advantage under the federal health care bill.","label":1}
{"text":"Beer drinking is not allowed in any Illinois state parks.","label":1}
{"text":"General Electric hasnt really created any jobs in this country, doesnt pay any taxes, and theyre making historic profits.","label":1}
{"text":"The United States is one of only seven nations that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization.","label":0}
{"text":"Donald Trump is a guy who has called for privatization of the Veterans Administration.","label":1}
{"text":"Austin is the biggest city in America with a Tier One research university (UT-Austin) but without a medical school.","label":0}
{"text":"The U.S. Attorneys Office said that neither I nor my campaign had any idea what was going on regarding my fathers illegal campaign contributions. And thats why they closed this case.","label":0}
{"text":"My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP was too.","label":0}
{"text":"Nazi imagery [was used] by the Block for Governor campaign to describe supporters of Allan Fung for Governor.","label":1}
{"text":"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese.","label":1}
{"text":"Gov. Doug Ducey wants to use taxpayer dollars to increase the salaries of private prison guards.","label":0}
{"text":"The transportation tax is regressive, and Emory University is literally getting its own transit line at virtually no cost to itself.","label":1}
{"text":"President Obama promised hed keep unemployment below 8 percent if the stimulus passed.","label":1}
{"text":"Dick Cheney de-Baathisized the Iraqi government and created ISIS.","label":1}
{"text":"America spends over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12.","label":0}
{"text":"Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obamas term would leave the nations highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy.","label":1}
{"text":"Social Security and Medicare are a Ponzi scheme.","label":1}
{"text":"The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote,the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.","label":1}
{"text":"Girl Scouts USAs curriculum promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate.","label":1}
{"text":"Annexation would lead to overcrowding at Decaturs city schools.","label":1}
{"text":"Deregulation of the states telecommunications industry will create 50,000 jobs in Wisconsin.","label":1}
{"text":"If they made no changes whatsoever, the [state employees pension] plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next 16 years.","label":1}
{"text":"Mitt Romney flip-flopped on gun control.","label":0}
{"text":"When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. Were looking at $20 billion to $30 billion.","label":1}
{"text":"282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of unprecedented fiscal challenges.","label":1}
{"text":"Donald Trump games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages.","label":0}
{"text":"Ovide Lamontagne wants to eliminate kindergarten.","label":1}
{"text":"We have a retiree that is collecting a $17,000 paycheck a month . . . tax free.","label":0}
{"text":"Sotomayor ruled against the white firefighter Ricci and other white firefighters just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded.","label":1}
{"text":"Were the seventh highest taxed state in America. And thats not just state, its local as well.","label":1}
{"text":"Said his mother had to fight with health insurance companies for treatment because of a pre-existing condition.","label":1}
{"text":"In a period of roughly 72 hours, a small group of angry black students managed to force the resignation of the two highest ranking officials at that school.","label":1}
{"text":"The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy.","label":0}
{"text":"Under President Barack Obama, the United States has doubled our exports.","label":1}
{"text":"The number-one source of illegal immigration is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again.","label":1}
{"text":"There was a 57-percent decrease in fireworks-related injuries in 2000 [after Connecticut legalized sparklers] compared to the 14 years prior.","label":1}
{"text":"In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.","label":0}
{"text":"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we dont have that (gun ownership)database.","label":1}
{"text":"Over 300K home owner suicides attributed to foreclosures.","label":1}
{"text":"For the state of Florida, there is not an additional cost with implementation of the Common Core standards.","label":1}
{"text":"A recent Department of Labor study guessed Wall Street fees cost a worker 28 percent of the value of your plan over the span of your career.","label":1}
{"text":"Scott Walker had a 2.3 GPA when he was asked to leave Marquette University for cheating.","label":1}
{"text":"Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.","label":1}
{"text":"Ive been a cop in Lake County, Michigan, since 1982 thereabout. I conduct federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers.","label":1}
{"text":"The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public museum, the airport and the zoo -- all on his own, without County Board approval","label":0}
{"text":"She is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined.","label":0}
{"text":"In Austin, Ive got half-a-dozen or more schools on a list to be closed one of which I presented a federal blue-ribbon award to for excellence. And several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations.","label":0}
{"text":"Barack Obamas Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by Barry Soetoro.","label":1}
{"text":"Salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions","label":1}
{"text":"The Supreme Court said the individual mandate is a tax. So its a tax.","label":0}
{"text":"As GOP was picking a convention city, I recommended Ohio.","label":1}
{"text":"Police officers in this state have that right, to check the immigration status of people they arrest.","label":0}
{"text":"Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece.","label":0}
{"text":"Ninety six percent of employers in the Granite State are considered small businesses.","label":0}
{"text":"Gas prices have doubled because Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump.","label":1}
{"text":"Barack Obamas recess appointment of Richard Cordray is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be the wrong thing to do.","label":1}
{"text":"Every 20 seconds, a child dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation.","label":1}
{"text":"The Pink Pony club in DeKalb County has never been cited for any violation of an ordinance or state law.","label":0}
{"text":"For more than 30 years after World War II, there was a steady reduction in U.S. debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.","label":0}
{"text":"Rick Scotts record on jobs includes Florida ranked 2nd in the nation in long-term unemployment.","label":1}
{"text":"ISIS is now the predominantIslamist group in Benghazi.","label":1}
{"text":"There are Justice Department policies against FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation so close to an election.","label":0}
{"text":"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station","label":0}
{"text":"Measures taken by my administration have saved taxpayers $1 billion.","label":0}
{"text":"Most Americans want traditional marriage, as defined by the Defense of Marriage Act.","label":1}
{"text":"It has been 269 days since (Hillary) Clinton has held a press conference.","label":0}
{"text":"Former state Sen. Kelli Ward wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona.","label":1}
{"text":"When an interviewer asked Donald Trump if he treats women with respect, Trump replied, I cant say that.","label":1}
{"text":"Israel profiles based on ethnicity and does it very successfully.","label":1}
{"text":"With recent growth it is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine.","label":1}
{"text":"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006.","label":0}
{"text":"He was offered medical care for his injuries if he would give up military information in return. John McCain said, 'No.'","label":1}
{"text":"The party in the White House is responsible for a massive tax increase on the middle class.","label":1}
{"text":"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government.","label":0}
{"text":"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent.","label":0}
{"text":"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long.","label":0}
{"text":"Scott Walker said Labor unions dont deserve to have a national holiday due to their damage to the economy. And the holiday should be replaced by Patriots Day, celebrated every year on 9\/11.","label":1}
{"text":"Ron Johnsons company got government loans and a grant to help expand his business","label":1}
{"text":"Water transportation is the most fuel efficient, least polluting, safest, and least expensive means of moving cargo.","label":0}
{"text":"Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And theyll cost less thanks to John Kasichs tax cut.","label":0}
{"text":"The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office.","label":1}
{"text":"President Obama helped more than half a million veterans and military family members go to college through the Post-9\/11 G.I. Bill.","label":1}
{"text":"The average kid comes out of Virginia colleges with about $25,000-plus in debt.","label":1}
{"text":"President Barack Obama neversaid, No boots on the ground in Syria.","label":1}
{"text":"In 2010, Clinton said Iran could enrich uranium. In 2014 she said shes always argued against it.","label":1}
{"text":"Texas is the fastest growing state with the most Fortune 500 companies.","label":1}
{"text":"Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate the governors mansion.","label":0}
{"text":"Scott Brown voted to give oil companies big tax breaks.","label":0}
{"text":"Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, has already been recalled.","label":1}
{"text":"Romney used to favor gun control, and said he didn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush.","label":0}
{"text":"I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001.","label":1}
{"text":"Leticia Van de Putte voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care.","label":1}
{"text":"In first week as governor, Tim Kaine proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year.","label":0}
{"text":"Since Corey Stewart became chairman in November 2006, unemployment is up 150% and average home price sales are down $150,000.","label":1}
{"text":"He signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed.","label":1}
{"text":"No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law","label":0}
{"text":"Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.","label":1}
{"text":"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year.","label":1}
{"text":"Distracted driving such as texting behind the wheel is behind a rise in traffic deaths on Georgia roadways this year.","label":0}
{"text":"The United States is in the worst recovery from an economic recession since World War II.","label":1}
{"text":"Seven of Americas 10 wealthiest counties are in the Washington, D.C., area.","label":0}
{"text":"After actions by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans, Wisconsin is dead broke.","label":1}
{"text":"The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is collecting financial information, monitoring financial information of millions of Americans without their knowledge and storing it for up to 10 years.","label":1}
{"text":"The House health care bill provides for \"free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.\"","label":1}
{"text":"Congress and President Obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first 200 years of the United States existence.","label":1}
{"text":"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change.","label":0}
{"text":"Fireworks have never been safer, and their use continues to increase each year.","label":0}
{"text":"The Colorado caucus system for selecting Republican delegates is rigged.","label":1}
{"text":"Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education.","label":0}
{"text":"Florida had five sanctuary cities while Jeb Bush was governor.","label":1}
{"text":"The Obama administration offered $900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza.","label":1}
{"text":"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care.","label":0}
{"text":"Currently, there is no one from South Austin on the (Austin City) Council!","label":0}
{"text":"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term.","label":1}
{"text":"Forty-six states have a line-item veto for the governor.","label":0}
{"text":"Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year on tax preparation.","label":0}
{"text":"An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.","label":0}
{"text":"Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue.","label":0}
{"text":"Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients.","label":0}
{"text":"An amendment to the House health reform bill \"puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money.\"","label":1}