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Themselves money and wages by lining the pockets of republicans running for statewide offices. according to followthemoney.org in the 2009/2010 election cycle, business interests donated $878 million to candidates running for governor and other statewide offices across the country. that includes hundreds of thousands of donations for governor scott walker of wisconsin and john kasik of ohio. but republicans argue it's the voters, not the campaign dollars who have spoken. >> at least there's a few teachers out there who have the guts to stand up against you union thugs. >> reporter: many republ...

Workers to be able to collectively bargain to raise their wages. >> reporter: henry says corporate america save themselves money in wages by lining the pockets of republicans running for statewide offices. according to followthemoney.org in the 2009/2010 election cycle, business interest donated $878 million to candidates running for office across the country, that includes hundreds of thousands of donations for governor scott walker of wisconsin and john kasik of ohio. organized labor groups donated far less to state candidates, $225 million. but republicans argue it's the voters, not the cam...

Every year you had 6% revenue growth for the past 20, 30 years since the '70s, and then over five quarters in 2009/2010, it just fell off a cliff, as he said. how do you fix a deficit? rename highways for cash as they're proposing in florida. imagine the disney florida turnpike. that's one thing you can do. you can increase toll roads. how about this, ali? in a place with really at lot of congestion, you pay extra to drive in the hov lane. slashing school and medicaid funds. you've got some places like in minnesota where you have ads on the lockers. you've also got ads being painted on the top...

The congressional budget office says the repeal will cost $230 billion. so, you sit back, you're the average american and you care about health care, but who are you supposed to believe? >> well, you know, obviously, it depends on what party you're a member of. but i think what republicans want to do is now that they've put the repeal part behind them, now they can focus on the replace part. that's what we're going to hear today from republican leaders on the house side up on capitol hill. they'll talk about some of the same ideas, chris, that they brought up in terms of the alternative versio...

Scheduled to vote on a measure to close half of the schools and eliminate 3,000 jobs and 285 of those are teaching jobs. the state is facing a shortfall, so we wanted to breakdown how many public schools are being forced to close ostensibly because of the recession. so 80% of the school funding is generated by property taxes. so you see the problem here. this recession has brought house prices down and put a lot of people out of their house, and as a result, schools are getting less money. according to a survey by the american association of school administrators 6% of school districts closed ...