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Vincent Barrella says Point Pleasant Beach does not own its beaches; they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as Jenkinsons

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a column published on NJ.com

Alan Grayson says "In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there."

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an interview on 'The Ed Show.'

Lamar Smith says In the last five years, 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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a news release

Bill Johnson says 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.

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a telephone town hall meeting

Eric Hovde says Obama health reform law denies millions access to affordable insurance.

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a blog post

John Skvarla says HB2 hasnt moved the needle one iota on North Carolinas economy.

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a speech in Charlotte

Daniel Mielke says Close to 30% of our federal prison population consists of illegal immigrants.

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a statement on campaign web site

Florida Democratic Party says Rick Scott called education not a core function of the state.

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a press release

Ben Carson says The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group.

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an interview on CNN

Blue Oregon says Rep. Jim Weidner proposed a bill taking away health care for 80,000 of Oregons children.

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a website posting

Raymond Bateman says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.

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a column

Mark Neumann says Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in American history.

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an interview

Sarah Palin says "You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief."

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St. Louis, Mo.

Rana Foroohar says The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically.

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a CNN interview

Barack Obama says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has held the line on property taxes.

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a speech at a campaign fund-raiser for Tom Barrett's gubernatorial campaign

Alan Grayson says Im the only member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds in the last election from small contributions of less than $200.

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an interview with Democracy Now

Tom Niehaus says Unlike the gridlock in Washington, more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support.

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an online video

Sherrod Brown says Josh Mandel is lying about his own record. The rating of Ohios investment fund has NOT improved.

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a campaign commercial

Nextgen Climate says Rick Scott took $200,000 from a family that leased land for drilling and now he is trying to hide from it.

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a TV ad

John Kasich says On how money from a possible lease of the Ohio Turnpike would be used

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an interview

Barack Obama says "At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."

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his State of the Union speech

Mitch Mcconnell says The president has had 1,540 of his nominations confirmed, only four defeated.

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an interview on 'Meet the Press'

Ileana Ros Lehtinen says U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Raufs trip to the Middle East.

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a press release.

Chris Moews says Milwaukee County taxpayers paid $370,000 to settle a lawsuit over a decision by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to use untrained corrections officers rather than deputies to patrol the lakefront.

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an interview

Robby Mook says There are Justice Department policies against FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation so close to an election.

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comments on "Meet the Press"

Carolyn Maloney says Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."

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a floor speech in the House

Lindsey Graham says Joe Biden "voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq."

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an interview on ABC News' <i> This Week </i>

Mark Strama says Rush Limbaugh made it clear hed rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed.

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remarks to Texas delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Joe Biden says "One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasnt the way before George Bush became president."

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a TV interview

Patrick Leahy says Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."

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ABC's "This Week"

Fix Austin Schools says that under Rick Perrys plan, Texas has cut funding for public schools by 25%.

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a leaflet.

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says David Perdue wants to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, which would cost Georgia schools $1 billion a year and eliminate millions in student loans.

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a television ad

Agenda Project says The Paul Ryan budget proposal would privatize Medicare.

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an advertisement

Steven Teske says High school students arrested on campus are twice as likely not to graduate and four times less likely to graduate if theyve appeared in court.

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an article

Hank Johnson says The United States imprisons more than any nation in the world.

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a speech

Rand Paul says Marco Rubio is the one for an open border.

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in the CNN debate in Las Vegas

Dave Brat says ...Over 30 years, federal spending on education has grown by 375 percent, but test scores remain flat.

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a Facebook post.

National Republican Senatorial Committee says cuts to Medicare affect people who have already paid in. We paid for it.

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a campaign ad

Kesha Rogers says David Alameel is giving thousands of dollars to support the Republican Party candidates including John Cornyn and Greg Abbott.

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an interview

Sheldon Whitehouse says The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close.

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a speech

James Bennett says Providences port is 200 miles closer to Europe than any other Eastern port.

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a news conference

Rick Perry says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.

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a Fox News interview.

Tom Hughes says Twenty percent of housing in Portlands Pearl District is affordable.

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a guest column

Jeff Merkley says allowing the payroll tax holiday to expire would end up costing another estimated 900,000 jobs in 2012.

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letter to a constituent

Barack Obama says "Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."

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a mailer to Pennsylvania voters

Sheila Oliver says Numerous studies have shown that these so-called right-to-work laws do not generate jobs and economic growth.

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a press release from Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex)

Judd Gregg says Obama's budget plan would take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent.

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a Fox News interview

Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton said the Veterans Affairs scandal is over-exaggerated. She said she was satisfied with what was going on.

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the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum

Hillary Clinton says We now have driven (health care) costs down to the lowest theyve been in 50 years.

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comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate

Dick Cheney says President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."

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an interview on ABC's This Week

National Republican Senatorial Committee says Sen. Sherrod Brown admitted that his $787 billion stimulus law failed and after specifically attacking Republicans for wanting to lower Americans taxes, (he) now claims that his stimulus bill didnt do enough to lower taxes.

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a news release

Michael Moore says In the 1950s, "A lot of people got rich and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent."

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in his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story"

Hillary Clinton says The Charleston, S.C., shootershould have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough.

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an interview with George Stephanopoulos

Bill Richardson says "Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."

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a debate in Las Vegas

Barack Obama says Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.

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an interview on Fox

Paul Sarlo says Gov. Chris Christies proposal to reduce state income taxes would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years.

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opening remarks at a Senate committee hearing

Barack Obama says Warren (Buffett) still does support me.

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a television interview

Connie Mack says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obamas jobs bill.

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a Web ad

Facebook Posts says A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has 7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!

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a post on Facebook

Rick Scott says About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now.

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radio interview

Rush Limbaugh says One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.

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his radio show

Allen West says Ron Klein repeatedly voted in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants.

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a campaign website

Evan Feinberg says Local law enforcement . . . will have access to the [Obamacare] Data Hubs treasure trove of personal info.

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a Providence Journal commentary

Bill White says During his tenure as mayor, he saw Houstons crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years.

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the biography on his campaign Web site

Facebook Posts says Barack Obamas Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by Barry Soetoro.

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multiple posts

Moveon says John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."

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an e-mail

Ken Cuccinelli says Terry McAuliffe wants to raise your taxes $1,700 to pay for his infinite promises.

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a debate.

Donald Trump says Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014.

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an Instagram post

Gwen Moore says Since the federal Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent.

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a letter to congressional leadership

Rudy Giuliani says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.

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an interview on ABC's This Week

Lou Dobbs says On legalizing illegal immigrants.

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an interview on Telemundo

Edith Ajello says Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.

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commentary piece

John Mccain says We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."

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Houston, Texas

Doug Thomas says there are homes for sale on and around (Oswego Lake) right now for under $150,000 that anyone is welcome to buy.

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an Oregonian article.

Steve Latourette says Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know whos done OK and whos not complaining today? The public sector. Weve gained 590,000 public sector jobs.

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a speech

Trent Franks says The top 1 percent pay over half of the entire revenue for this country.

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an interview on MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show'

Scott Walker says The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money.

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remarks to reporters

Kim Guadagno says Chris Christie has not increased the taxes on anyone.

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a speech to supporters in Carlstadt

Marco Rubio says The United States does not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S.

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a blog post on RedState.com

Rick Scott says he never said he would keep education funding the same.

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talking about his budget proposal.

Scott Walker says Since 1978, college tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation.

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a radio interview

Ted Strickland says Sen. Rob Portman said, It would be irresponsible not to cut Medicare.

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in a Ohio senatorial candidate debate

Thomas Brown says Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget.

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an interview

Moveon says "(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."

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an e-mail.

Us Chamber Commerce says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes.

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a television commercial

Scott Brown says Jeanne Shaheen voted for a measure that would have amounted to a new national energy tax.

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a press release

Marco Rubio says Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed.

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an interview on Fox News

Julian Castro says Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans.

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a keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

Christine Sinicki says 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.

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a legislative floor speech

Sheldon Whitehouse says If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs.

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a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate

Chain Email says What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!

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a message via the Internet

Barack Obama says "I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."

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a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Rick Perry says Starting in December 2007, 1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs.

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valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature

Rob Portman says The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire because its increased costs for employers.

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a press availability following a policy luncheon

Michele Bachmann says The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs.

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a debate in New Hampshire

Rudy Giuliani says Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."

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a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.

Dan Patrick says Texas this fiscal year will have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined.

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an interview on KLBJ AM in Austin

Barack Obama says On using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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Jeb Bush says Immigrants are more fertile.

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a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

Florida Chamber Commerce says The proposed education changes "will not cut one teacher's pay."

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a television advertisement.