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Mark Kelly says We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check.

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an interview on "State of the Union"

Joe Biden says On ending the war in Iraq, Gov. Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left 30,000 troops there.

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the vice presidential debate

Rob Portman says Weve got 7.2 percent unemployment (in Ohio), but when you include the folks who have stopped looking for work, its actually over 10 percent.

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a television interview

Hillary Clinton says Dontre Hamilton, who was killed during a confrontation with a Milwaukee police officer, was unarmed.

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a debate

Chain Email says "All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."

false statement

a chain e-mail

Kip Kendrick says Requiring photo ID would keep about 200,000 Missourians from voting.

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a League of Women Voters Town Hall meeting

Ron Johnson says 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.

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statement at a town hall meeting

Rudy Giuliani says "I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."

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Dearborn, Mich.

Rick Perry says At this particular point in time, looking at the field, theres only one individual thats ever had the uniform of his country onand thats me.

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a web ad

Donald Trump says Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

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in a speech at the Republican convention

Barack Obama says John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada.

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a television ad

GaGOP says 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.

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a press release

Sarah Palin says Vice President Joe Biden's meeting "with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public."

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a speech to members of the Tea Party

Susan Combs says she wiped out the state Agriculture Departments inspections of eggs at retail sites like grocery stores.

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an interview

Facebook Posts says Ted Cruz just flip-flopped about the president needing to be U.S.-born.

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an online meme

Jennie Lou Leeder says Texas spends more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student.

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an interview with the Austin American-Statesman

Michael Bloomberg says If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done.

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an appearance on 'Meet the Press'

Mary Burke says The Wisconsin school voucher program has no research that shows that its going to improve student learning.

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a forum

Saxby Chambliss says With Obamacare, were fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the American taxpayers have ever seen.

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a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"

Brian Kemp says his GOP challenger, Doug MacGinnitie, "hadnt voted in a Republican primary for almost 20 years until 2008.

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a Cobb County Republican Party breakfast speech June 5

Mitt Romney says "I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."

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an interview on MSNBC

Barack Obama says John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."

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a news release

Chris Redfern says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education.

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a press statement

Mary Burke says Wisconsins dead last in Midwest job growth.

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a campaign TV ad

Gina Raimondo says The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.

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a radio interview

Chip Rogers says Rail doesnt do a great job in lessening traffic.

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a meeting

Terry Mcauliffe says A judge took the Star Scientific tax case away from Ken Cuccinelli

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debate

Amardeep Kaleka says Wisconsin sold fresh water to California, helping that states dairy industry, and lost a bunch of jobs (and) a bunch of farmland.

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an interview

Jalen Ross says Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white nameresume.

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comments on CNN's "State of the Union"

Rich Lowry says During the Bush administration, you actually had a prominent liberal write a book about how Bush was preparing for a fascist takeover of this country.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Rick Scott says Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes.

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a press release

Terry Mcauliffe says he faced a record budget deficit in Virginia in 2014.

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a radio interview.

Blog Posting says Bernie Sanders wins California landslide, But ⅔ of his votes arent counted.

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a headline in the Justice Gazette

Jim Marston says Texas leads the nation in fatal industrial accidents.

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a Texas Tribune interview

Hillary Clinton says Nearly half of Hispanic voters in Arizona's last election supported four measures that were "very tough on illegal immigration."

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Maciver Institute says Gov. Scott Walker (is) more than halfway to (his) 250,000 jobs goal.

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a web posting

Mitt Romney says Obamacare means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep.

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a speech in Washington, D.C.

Mike Dovilla says Mike Dovillas big ideas like expanding the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, which helped bring films like The Avengers to Cleveland, have helped make our state No. 1 in the Midwest for job creation.

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In a campaign mailer

Charlie Justice says U.S. Rep. Bill Young "has accepted $737,000 from lobbyists and recipients of his earmarks."

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a web ad.

Alan Krueger says Since the Affordable Care Act passed, 90 percent of job growth has been in full-time positions.

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an interview with Bloomberg television

Bill White says Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry.

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a speech

Will Weatherford says Lets say (Republicans) take away half of our delegates. Theyre worth more than Iowas, New Hampshires and almost South Carolinas combined.

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an interview with the "St. Petersburg Times" editorial board

Howard Dean says Theres a tremendous other number of public officials who have done the same thing as Hillary Clinton with a private email server.

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an interview on "Morning Joe"

Phil Gingrey says Under last years health care reform, a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy.

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a news conference

Ted Cruz says The Obama administration spent $205,075 in stimulus funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16.

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a report

Cato Institute says There has been no net global warming for over a decade now.

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a political advertisement.

Don Beyer says Thanks to the Obama administrations negotiations, Irans nuclear program will be under lock, key and camera 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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an op-ed

Debra Lehrmann says This race will be the Democrats top target this November.

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a mailer

Pam Davidson says Georgia Public Service Commission member Stan Wise has received about 95 percent of his campaign money from the utilities he is supposed to be regulating.

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a statement

Barack Obama says he and Mitt Romney agreed on tying minimum wage increases to inflation.

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the State of the Union address

American Crossroads says As a result of Obamacare, California seniors face benefit cuts of over $1,700.

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a campaign ad

Dennis Ross says For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.

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an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times

Jay Carney says Rick Perry turned down our invitation to meet President Barack Obama in El Paso.

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a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.

Charlie Crist says In 2012, the state put together a list of over 100,000 people that they thought were ineligible to vote. Came out there were less than 10.

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a speech to Louisiana Democrats

Libertarian Party Texas says The Republican Party lost 1.1 million registered voters since 2008. The Democratic Party lost 1.2 million registered voters (while) voter registration in the Libertarian Party rose 8 percent.

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a press release

Christine Whitman says The proudest accomplishment (of my tenure) was leaving the state with a $1.2 billion surplus, which was the largest wed ever had, and getting spending under control and a balanced budget.

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an interview on NJTV

John Rafferty says Recently though, the media has reported on thousands of illegal voters here in the commonwealth.

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a debate.

Donald Trump says Stopped by Smiley Cookie to pick up some great cookies for the family, along with Rudy.

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a Facebook post.

Vincent Buddy Cianci says Mike Trainor...still owes $250,000 to the state.

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a talk show discussion

Ted Cruz says The Supreme Courts views are radically out of step with public opinion regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

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an interview on NPR

Alberta Darling says When it comes to the state deficit, Wisconsin is proportionally in as much trouble as the State of California.

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a television interview

David Frum says Eighty percent of the net new jobs created in the state of Texas since 2009 went to the foreign-born.

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a New York magazine article.

Richard Tomlins says 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.

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a recorded telephone message to Cranston residents

David Axelrod says "Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."

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an interview on ABC's This Week

Aclu Florida says There are a larger number of shark attacks in Florida than there are cases of voter fraud.

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interview on "The Colbert Report"

Alan Powell says Democrats have now become the party of the [Atlanta] metro area and of blacks.

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an interview

Herman Cain says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will retire with a whole lot more money than under Social Security.

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a Republican presidential debate

Jeff Greene says On lifting the U.S. Cuban embargo and allowing travel to Cuba.

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a televised debate on Miami's WPLG-10 against Kendrick Meek.

Michael Steele says The Department of Veterans Affairs has a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide.

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a Fox News interview