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Mike Huckabee says The Supreme Court cant overrule the other two branchesof government.

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an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

Direct Action Rights Equality says Roughly 25% of RI has a criminal record

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an online petition

Peter Shumlin says Nathan Deal cut the HOPE scholarship program so that literally 100,000 Georgians will not be able to go to college or get technical training that they so badly needed to raise -- you know, give them a chance at a good job.

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MSNBC

Mike Huckabee says "As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million."

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a news release.

Chris Christie says I havent raised taxes in the time Ive been the governor of New Jersey.

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a news conference

National Organization Marriage says Massachusetts public schools teach kids as young as kindergartners about gay marriage.

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a mailing to Rhode Island voters

Rudy Giuliani says "I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world."

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a comment to reporters in London.

Rick Santorum says We are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history (of the United States.)

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a "Meet the Press" pundit panel

Jon Stewart says Congress is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus but in 2008 and 2012 explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure.

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in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"

Charlie Crist says Six people in Florida die as a result of (not expanding Medicaid) every day.

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an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown."

Americans Prosperity says Gov. Maggie Hassans budget proposal raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million.

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TV ad

Karen Handel says Only in Washington would politicians spend $27 million to teach Moroccans how to make pottery.

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a website posting

Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."

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a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.

Adam Kinzinger says Rand Paulhas put out budgets to cut the military in half.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Barack Obama says Groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections.

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a speech

Donna Howard says legislative cuts mean Texas is spending on average $500 less per student.

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remarks at a Texas Capitol rally

GaGOP says [A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!

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a web post

Bob Graham says We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida.

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an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

John Bradley says Williamson County Attorney Jana Duty has never prosecuted a single adult felony case.

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an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman

Glenn Grothman says The fundraising numbers are in, and our grassroots support is unmatched!

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in a Facebook posting

We Are Ohio says Issue 2 makes it illegal for us to negotiate for enough firefighters to do the job.

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a campaign commercial

Arianna Huffington says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- its caused by a shrinking of the actual labor force.

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a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

Chain Email says Gov. Scott Walker hired convicted Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget.

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a chain email and -- briefly -- a union web site

Joe Lieberman says Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield."

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St. Paul, Minn.

Jon Erpenbach says In general, it appears Wisconsins right to work bill would likely apply to the Green Bay Packers players and their union.

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a Facebook post

John Kerry says The so-called defense minister of the Peoples Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media.

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comments on "Fox News Sunday"

Rudy Giuliani says "Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent."

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a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire.

Lou Greenwald says Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. Weve added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs.

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a press conference in Trenton

Kathleen Vinehout says Gov. Scott Walker bought 80 new, brand-new vehicles for the state that we probably dont need.

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a meeting

David Dewhurst says he passed eight measures, including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar sanctuary cities in Texas.

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a speech to the Republican Party of Texas convention in Fort Worth.

John Boehner says Its gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker.

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a news conference

Michele Bachmann says These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans.

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a debate in New Hampshire

Michael Burgess says stores will be barred from selling 100-watt light bulbs as of 2012.

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a statement.

Joe Scarborough says Before our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected.

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comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Republican Governors Association says Jason Carter supports using Georgia tax dollars to promote Obamacare

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In a television ad

Ralph Nader says "The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."

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an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program

Leticia Van De Putte says Dan Patrick said that if women get paid less than a man for the same job, that thats not a problem.

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a debate in Austin

David Scott says Weve got an average of 5,600 soldiers committing suicide. Thats about 20 a day.

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WABE

Craig Melvin says There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, If you give us more money we dont know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.

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an MSNBC segment

Barack Obama says Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Locks unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.

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the State of the Union speech

John Plumb says Tom Reed has actually voted for every single trade deal that has ever come before him in any form.

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an interview on Capital Tonight.

Judicial Watch says ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm.

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a web item

Tom Price says New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed.

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a press release

Blog Posting says Say New Jersey Reps. Donald Payne and Frank Pallone are socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.

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web pages

Donald Trump says The unemployment rate may be as high as 42 percent.

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a press conference

Sondy Pope says Common Core is not from the federal government, they do not have their fingerprints on this thing at all.

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a radio interview

Rick Perry says Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme.

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an interview.

Gwen Moore says Scott Walker brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didnt fund it.

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comments to reporters

George Will says What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime.

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a panel discussion on ABC This Week

Jon Stewart says When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: Yeah, were open.

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a segment of "The Daily Show"

Carlos Curbelo says In Miami-Dade County, we spend at our school system over $20 million every year educating recent immigrants.

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a Fox News interview

Democratic Congressional Leadership says The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.

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statements to reporters.

Jeb Bush says Trump proposed enacting the largest tax increase in American history.

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a fundraising email

Barack Obama says "Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."

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a debate in Nashville, Tenn.

Claudia Tenney says Kim Myers voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters.

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a press release.

No 60 Campaign Against Condom Requirement Adult Fi says Californias Prop 60, which would requirecondom usein adult films, would put workers in the adult film industry at riskfor lawsuits and harassment.

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in a campaign video advertisement

Loretta Weinberg says We pay among the highest tolls in the nation for the privilege of crossing that bridge.

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an interview on the John Gambling radio program

Americans United Change says Sens. Isaksons, Chambliss Votes Against Unemployment Insurance Were Votes to Kill Nearly 6,000 Georgia Jobs.

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a press release

Todd Hunter says real estate taxes were put in place to pay for Obamacare.

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a Texas Tribune interview.

Tim Knopp says today unemployment has been running near 12 percent or more for the last four years and the Legislature hasnt done much to lower it.

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campaign website

Rick Perry says Kay Bailey Hutchison voted for sanctuary cities.

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a debate.

Sandy Adams says John Mica voted to borrow $10 trillion.

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a campaign mailer

Brett Hulsey says opponent Mary Burke told reporters she would have required workers to give up bargained-for healthcare and retirement benefits like Gov. Walker.

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a letter

Barack Obama says McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."

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Tampa, Fla.

James Clyburn says We do not want to raise anybodys tax rates. Thats never been on the table.

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an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"

Hillary Clinton says When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, the Democrats didnt make that a partisan issue.

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a CNN town hall

Mike Haridopolos says This is the first time a party has picked up multiple seats during a regular election since the mid 1980s, making this the largest majority of any party in more than 25 years.

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a post-election interview.

Barack Obama says "John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.

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Chariton, Iowa

Alex Sink says House Republicans who complained they didnt have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling.

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remarks to reporters.

Reince Priebus says no one from the Bush family attended the 2012 Republican National Convention and there was no President Bush at the 2008 convention.

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an interview on "Meet the Press"

Donald Trump says Crime is rising.

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a speech after several primaries concluded

Bernie S says (Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water.

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a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.

John Boehner says Weve got a personal tax system thats so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code.

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a news conference

Victoria Taft says a Portland school gives Muslim students their own school provided prayer room, prayer rugs, and lets them out of class five times a day to pray to Allah.

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a website posting

Bernie S says (Texas Republicans) believe in abolishing Social Security, abolishing V.A. health care.

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an MSNBC interview

Joe Biden says The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon other than these drug gangs taking on one another end up being shot with their own weapon.

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an interview on "Face the Nation"

Rahm Emanuel says In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change.

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an interview on "This Week."

Frank Annunziato says Salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions

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a newspaper interview

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Miami Congressman Carlos Curbelo supports drilling offshore and repeatedly voted against President Obamas ability to fight pollution and combat climate change.

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a TV ad

Michael Steele says When President, then candidate, Obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign, they refused to do it.

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an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Dennis Richardson says Oregon is the only state out of the 50 states in the USA that continues to pay 100% of the medical benefits for its employees and their families.

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a newsletter

Claire Mccaskill says You wonder why you dont see Rand Paul as much; hes still shopping for his billionaire. Hes like the only one who hasnt found a billionaire to fund his super PAC.

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comments to HBO host Bill Maher

Joseph Crowley says Donald Trump cashed in on Sept. 11,collecting $150,000 in federal funds intended to help small businesses recover even though days after the attack Trump said his properties were not affected.

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a speech at the Democratic convention

Mitt Romney says Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent.

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a victory speech in Las Vegas on Feb. 4, 2012

60 Plus Association says An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs.

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a television commercial

Chris Abele says The Mitchell Park Domes lose about $1 million-plus every year and the number of people going to the Domes has been going down.

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an interview

Kenneth Block says Under a bill before the legislature, youd have to go to court to fire an employee.

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a TV interview

Michael Doherty says There is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in New Jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used.

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a news release

Chris Christie says In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready.

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his “State of the State” address

Ellen Rosenblum says nearly 29,000 Oregonians almost 5 percent of all homeowners are 90 days or more delinquent on their mortgage.

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an opinion article

John Kline says Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime."

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a press release

American Crossroads says This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent.

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a TV ad

Tim Kaine says George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States.

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in a debate

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says President Obama has cracked down on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president.

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an interview

Michele Bachmann says Newt Gingrich made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion.

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a Republican presidential primary debate

Tom Daschle says U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce political instability and violence by 40 percent in recipient nations.

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an op-ed

Sarah Palin says "I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere."

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a speech at the Republican Nationention in St. Paul, Minn.

Jeff Morales says The actual (construction) contracts that weve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates.

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a press conference

Virginia Education Association says State school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation.

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a web post.

Hank Johnson says Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the presidents first year in office to 8.5 percent today.

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a press statement