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Frank Guinta says Granite State shipbuilders . . . built the first ship that sailed into battle under a new American flag.

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an email

Bernie S says 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.

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a campaign event in Keene, N.H.

Special Operations Opsec Education Fund says Days after the (Osama bin Laden) raid, Hollywood was invited into the White House so that they could receive a briefing that revealed intelligence sources and methods.

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a Web video

Barack Obama says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.

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a TV ad

Newt Gingrich says A large number of the uninsured earn $75,000 or more a year.

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in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Michael Bloomberg says There is already a mosque four blocks away.

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a speech

Lynn Derbyshire says If you are black or brown, you are nine times more likely to be stopped and frisked in New York City.

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The Providence Journal

American Bridge 21st Century says Rick Scott presided over cuts to the Bright Futures college scholarship program.

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an online video

Ted Cruz says Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928.

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an interview with Fox News

Rudy Giuliani says "He reformed welfare before others tried."

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a TV ad

John Mccain says "1.3-million people in America make their living off eBay."

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Nashville, Tenn.

Republican Governors Association says Under Mary Burkes leadership, Commerce Department business-incentive programs had major shortcomings and 40 percent of jobs...didnt materialize.

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a campaign TV ad

Bob Mcdonnell says Northern Virginia is the most heavily trafficked place in the country.

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a news conference.

Bill Maher says Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.

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an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

Claire Mccaskill says A fairly limited number of people, 25 million to 30 million, will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange.

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an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopolous."

Dennis Richardson says Its been 17 years that weve had unemployment higher than the national average in Oregon.

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a campaign debate

Hillary Clinton says 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.

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a video

Donald Trump says The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they dont know who he is.

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a speech at the CPAC conference

Chain Email says John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now.

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a chain e-mail

Naral Pro Choice says In 2010, Mr. [Anthony] Gemma described himself as a pro-life candidate. Now, he claims to be pro-choice.

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a news release

Tom Cotton says In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama, compared to zero in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush.

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a House floor speech

Rebecca Kleefisch says Wisconsins monthly job reports have a margin of error of 75 percent and were way off in eight of first 10 months of 2011.

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an interview

Ron Paul says he has nearly 200 delegates bound to support his candidacy at the Republican National Convention.

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an online message to supporters.

Charlie Crist says Rick Scott has teamed up with a felon convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to smear Charlie Crist.

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a TV ad

David Perdue says The Castro regime violated international norms by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.

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press release

Joe Biden says Theres not one Democrat who endorses the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan.

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a debate in Danville, Ky.

Regina Benjamin says The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education.

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a radio interview

Billhislamcom says that Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has made it clear by his repeated actions that he will pursue a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology as long as he is governor.

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a Web posting

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump says hed deport 16 million people.

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a tweet from her campaign

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says "The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what's in our bill."

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a roundtable segment on NBC's Meet the Press

Rick Perry says A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family.

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a letter to Nancy Pelosi

Eddie Lucio Jr says Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.

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remarks at Southern Obesity Summit

Robin Vos says Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa already have 70 mph speed limits on rural interstates, and we see that theyve been able to do it safely.

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an interview

Sid Miller says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevaras face on it.

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a Facebook post

Matt Miller says Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost.

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a Washington Post op-ed

David Plouffe says Donald Trump himself contributed $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

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an interview on Meet the Press

Donald Trump says Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape theyve ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever.

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a speech in Kenansville, N.C.

Al Gore says Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, makes mosquitoes mature faster, . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster.

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a speech

Bernie S says Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS.

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a Senate floor speech

Phil Roe says Signs letter saying Consumer Product Safety Commission is acting without consultation or input from the company to stop the sale of Buckyballs.

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in a letter co-signed with others in Congress.

Richard Licht says We arent the only state cutting back on public television.

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a television interview

Jim Mcdermott says During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted by the IRS, similar to recent targeting.

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a House Ways and Means hearing

Katty Kay says There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States.

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comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.

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a foreign policy speech

Sandy Pasch says Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly actually received 200,000 more votes statewide than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election

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a radio address

Sarah Palin says On support for the Bridge to Nowhere.

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Vote No 2 says Amendment 2 will bring kid-friendly pot candy to Florida.

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a mailer

Scott Walker says For decades, the states gas tax has been among the highest in the nation.

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a letter to Department of Transportation officials

Barack Obama says More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States.

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a news conference.

James Aubin says Colorado raked in $60 million in marijuana taxes and licensing fees in the past year.

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a newspaper commentary

Ted Cruz says Small businesses (are) going out of business in record numbers.

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a speech at Liberty University

Barack Obama says "We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival."

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remarks on the budget

Sherrod Brown says Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies but want to cut food stamps.

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a conference call with reporters

Thomas Ratliff says Massachusetts has three state-mandated student tests and Finland just one.

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an opinion column.

Ted Cruz says Donald Trump wants to keep big government in charge of federally-owned land.

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a campaign ad

National Republican Congressional Committee says U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.

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press releases

Bill Richardson says "Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.

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a debate in Miami, Fla.

Mitt Romney says "Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.

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West Palm Beach, Fla.

Mother Jones says Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the 30s, they weighed 13.2 pounds.

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a Facebook post

Chain Email says The health care law includes a 3.8% sales tax on all real estate transactions.

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a chain email

Ed Schultz says America has lost over 50,000 manufacturing factories on other trade deals.

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a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show"

Tennessee Republican Party says "The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."

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a news release

Hillary Clinton says We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns.

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a speech in San Antonio

Moveon says McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."

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an e-mail

Silvestre Reyes says 282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of unprecedented fiscal challenges.

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a press release

Hillary Clinton says We bailed out Johnson Controls when we saved the auto industry and now they want to avoid paying taxes.

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a debate

Peter Schweizer says Amendments (Hillary Clinton) supported and voted for in 2006, she no longer supported in 2008, showing she changed positions on an India nuclear deal.

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an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell

Marcia Fudge says The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes.

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a news release

Ameripac says The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs.

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a fundraising letter

National Rifle Association says Barack Obama admits hes coming for our guns, telling Sarah Brady, We are working on (gun control), but under the radar.

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a mailer

Al Cardenas says Of $60 billion Congress approved in response to Hurricane Sandy, only 10 percent was for disaster relief.

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an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe

Bob Goodlatte says 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.

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a news release.

Paul Ryan says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners.

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a speech

Barack Obama says On public financing of his campaign.

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Warren Buffett says The mega-rich pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.

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a "New York Times" op-ed

Mark Pocan says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers estimate of a $3.6 billion state budget deficit is manufactured and a bogus figure.

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a blog posting

Ken Hodges says "Rob Teilhet, Just another career politician."

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a campaign flier

Citizens Republic says Children born today will carry a $30,000 share of the national debt.

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a campaign commercial

Hillary Clinton says "A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."

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a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa

Jeff Merkley says Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would immediately lower gasoline prices

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a letter to President Barack Obama

Donald Trump says Among Syrian refugees, there arent that many women, there arent that many children.

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an interview on ABC "This Week"

Rob Portman says The Buffett Rule will bring in less than $5 billion per year. ... Enough to pay one weeks interest on the national debt.

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a column in Politico

Jennette Gayer says We have had over 40 days this summer where it was unsafe to breathe the air.

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a meeting

Promote Oregon Leadership Pac Oregon House Republi says Will Rasmussen supported a sales tax as recently as last spring.

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an e-mail

Rick Perry says On instances when abortions should be allowed.

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Iowa

Patrick Kennedy says "One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies."

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a speech on the House floor.

Christine Gilbert says The Texas Capitol faces South toward Goliad, in memory of the most horrific battle of the Texas Revolution.

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a letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman

Morgan Carroll says Mike Coffman said two different things: stop the deportationsin a Spanish-language debate and youre going to be deportedin an English-language TV interview.

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a news release

Ron Johnson says Both the state and federal governments make more per gallon in gas taxes than the oil companies make themselves for doing all the work.

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a speech at a tea party rally in Oshkosh

Lee Leffingwell says Austin trains are full at rush hour and packed for special events.

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Sarah Palin says Seniors and the disabled will have to stand in front of Obamas death panel so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.

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a message posted on Facebook

Rick Scott says Governor Scott Cut Taxes 40 Times For Florida Families

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a campaign tweet

Americans United Change says Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook.

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a TV commercial

Bud Chiles says "Today, Florida is in 50th place in spending on education."

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a statement on his campaign website

Doonesbury says Since Sept. 11, 2001, 270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.

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a comic strip

Charlie Crist says On returning Republican campaign contributions.

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statements to the press

Americans Prosperity says Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is the largest recipient of lobbyist money.

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a campaign ad

Heineken says A regulatory thing means you cant show someone drinking beer on camera.

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a TV ad

Barack Obama says Mitt Romney has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

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a graphical tool on the campaign website

Jeff Fitzgerald says Wisconsins 2011-13 state budget contains no fee increases

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an interview