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Barnes
Says: "There is only one way to create jobs. Companies hire staff in response to increased demand for their products and services."
Does: Manages global marketing and sales for a company that manufactures generators here in Minnesota and sells them all around the world.
Does: Manages global marketing and sales for a company that manufactures generators here in Minnesota and sells them all around the world.
Bachmann
Says: "If we took away the minimum wage, we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
Does: Voted against jobs in our district. (HR1 1-28-09)
Does: Voted against jobs in our district. (HR1 1-28-09)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Voted against jobs in our district (HR1 1-28-09)
Does: Voted against jobs in our district (HR1 1-28-09)
Brian Barnes
Says: "We need to eliminate the deficit, lower our debt to GDP, and start paying as we go."
Does: Runs a profitable global business unit for a Fortune 200 company.
Does: Runs a profitable global business unit for a Fortune 200 company.
Bachmann
Says: "I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this."
Does: Played politics with debt ceiling and caused Standard & Poor's to lower our nation's credit rating. (HR1954 1-28-09)
Does: Played politics with debt ceiling and caused Standard & Poor's to lower our nation's credit rating. (HR1954 1-28-09)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Played politics with debt ceiling and caused Standard & Poor's to lower our nation's credit rating. (HR1954 1-28-09)
Does: Played politics with debt ceiling and caused Standard & Poor's to lower our nation's credit rating. (HR1954 1-28-09)
Brian Barnes
Says: "We need a comprehensive energy policy focused on national security, economic growth and environmental protection.”
Does: Brian departs from his party on his support of nuclear energy – as a former Naval officer, he knows it to be a safe and efficient energy source, like it is on our aircraft carriers and subs – and he supports investment in clean renewables.
Does: Brian departs from his party on his support of nuclear energy – as a former Naval officer, he knows it to be a safe and efficient energy source, like it is on our aircraft carriers and subs – and he supports investment in clean renewables.
Bachmann
Says: “The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”
Does: Voted to “stop the war on coal” and block the EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. (HR3409 9-21-12)
Does: Voted to “stop the war on coal” and block the EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. (HR3409 9-21-12)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Voted to “stop the war on coal” and block the EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. (HR3409 9-21-12)
Does: Voted to “stop the war on coal” and block the EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. (HR3409 9-21-12)
Brian Barnes
Says: “Equal pay for equal work is a universal concept. Pay disparity hurts families. When women are underpaid, families are underpaid.”
Does: Brian and his wife Jennifer are each business professionals that earned their MBAs together. They have an 11-week old daughter. Of course he supports equal pay for women.
Does: Brian and his wife Jennifer are each business professionals that earned their MBAs together. They have an 11-week old daughter. Of course he supports equal pay for women.
Bachmann
Says: “Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands."
Does: Despite the fact that she is a woman, voted against equal pay for women. (S181 1-27-09)
Does: Despite the fact that she is a woman, voted against equal pay for women. (S181 1-27-09)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Despite the fact that he has a wife and four daughters, voted against equal pay for women. (S181 1-27-09)
Does: Despite the fact that he has a wife and four daughters, voted against equal pay for women. (S181 1-27-09)
Brian Barnes
Says: "I’ve served in the military, so has my brother, my father, going back 5 generations. To protect our national security and our troops, we need to listen to the generals, and that means not wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money on unnecessary weapons systems.”
Does: Brian will bring his military experience to bear in making wise spending decisions.
Does: Brian will bring his military experience to bear in making wise spending decisions.
Bachmann
Says: “Iran is the troublemaker trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now … they’re going to partition Iraq and half of Iraq, the western northern portion of Iraq is going to be called, the Iraq State of Islam, something like that.”
Does: Voted to force the pentagon to build an east coast missile defense system that they haven’t asked for and the country doesn’t need. (HR4310 5-18-12)
Does: Voted to force the pentagon to build an east coast missile defense system that they haven’t asked for and the country doesn’t need. (HR4310 5-18-12)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Voted to force the pentagon to build an east coast missile defense system that they haven’t asked for and the country doesn’t need. (HR4310 5-18-12)
Does: Voted to force the pentagon to build an east coast missile defense system that they haven’t asked for and the country doesn’t need. (HR4310 5-18-12)
Brian Barnes
Says: "Affordable and expanded healthcare coverage is good for people and good for business.”
Does: Brian will work to improve the Affordable Care Act to dramatically decrease costs in our healthcare system, and to protect and preserve Medicare.
Does: Brian will work to improve the Affordable Care Act to dramatically decrease costs in our healthcare system, and to protect and preserve Medicare.
Bachmann
Says: Healthcare reform) “… cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
Does: Voted to deny healthcare to children with pre-existing conditions, insurance to young adults on their parent’s policies, prescription discounts to seniors, healthcare tax credits for small businesses, and to turn Medicare into a voucher system. (multiple)
Does: Voted to deny healthcare to children with pre-existing conditions, insurance to young adults on their parent’s policies, prescription discounts to seniors, healthcare tax credits for small businesses, and to turn Medicare into a voucher system. (multiple)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Voted to deny healthcare to children with pre-existing conditions, insurance to young adults on their parent’s policies, prescription discounts to seniors, healthcare tax credits for small businesses, and to turn Medicare into a voucher system. (multiple)
Does: Voted to deny healthcare to children with pre-existing conditions, insurance to young adults on their parent’s policies, prescription discounts to seniors, healthcare tax credits for small businesses, and to turn Medicare into a voucher system. (multiple)
Brian Barnes
Says: "This is a civil rights issue. My wife and I wouldn’t deny our daughter the right to marry the person she loves."
Does: He stands on his morals despite political lines and is a committed advocate for equality for all.
Does: He stands on his morals despite political lines and is a committed advocate for equality for all.
Bachmann
Says: “It isn’t that some gay will get some rights. It’s that everyone else in our state will lose rights … that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.”
Does: Voted to enshrine discrimination into our state constitution. (SF2715 3-22-04)
Does: Voted to enshrine discrimination into our state constitution. (SF2715 3-22-04)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Voted to enshrine discrimination into our state constitution. (SF2715 3-22-04)
Does: Voted to enshrine discrimination into our state constitution. (SF2715 3-22-04)
Brian Barnes
Says: "Women fought these battles and won. We need to focus our efforts on preventing unplanned pregnancies and caring for the children we have."
Does: Brian is pro-choice.
Does: Brian is pro-choice.
Bachmann
Says: Rape, incest, or when the mother's life is at stake? “I am 100 percent pro-life. I've given birth to five babies and I've raised 23 foster children.”
Does: Sponsored a bill to redefine and delegitimize rape and incest to be considered just other forms of conception (HR5939 7-29-10)
Does: Sponsored a bill to redefine and delegitimize rape and incest to be considered just other forms of conception (HR5939 7-29-10)
Paulsen
Says: "I'm moderate and bipartisan."
Does: Sponsored a bill to redefine and delegitimize rape and incest to be considered just other forms of conception (HR5939 7-29-10)
Does: Sponsored a bill to redefine and delegitimize rape and incest to be considered just other forms of conception (HR5939 7-29-10)