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Causa Oregon says American voters remain steadfast in their support for immigration reform with a path to citizenship, with more than 70 percent who want to see reform passed this year.

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a website statement

Terry Jeffrey says There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.

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a column in TownHall.com

Glenn Grothman says Tammy Baldwin introduced a bill that would require doctors and other health care workers to ask patients, including young children, whether they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or if they know their gender identity.

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a news release

Republican Party Texas says State Rep. Kristi Thibaut was an ACORN lobbyist.

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a tweet

Jimmy Carter says Atlanta is the No. 1 trading point for sexual slavery in America. Between 100 and 200 girls are sold into slavery in Atlanta every month.

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interview while promoting book

Jeff Dickerson says According to a national survey, transit ridership among people age 16 to 34 increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2009.

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an online debate

Oregon 2014 says In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan.

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online campaign materials

Thomas Tobin says Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June.

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a news release

Bobby Jindal says Im the only (Republican)candidate that has actually reduced the size of government.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Chris Jacobs says After how hard you work and how much you pay in taxes, New York City ends up getting the money. Im Chris Jacobs. I think its time we have someone in Albany thats making sure our region gets our fair share

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a campaign ad

Phil Kerpen says Amazing fact: Senate has already voted on more amendments in 2015 than Reid allowed ALL YEAR last year.

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a tweet

Joanne Kloppenburg says state Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald twice supported incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley.

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a TV ad

Paul Ryan says One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids dont graduate.

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a speech

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange.

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an interview with a Las Vegas news network

Donald Trump says a tweet he sent out wasnt saying, check out a sex tape. It was just take a look at the background of Alicia Machado.

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the second presidential debate

Dinesh Dsouza says Aphotograph of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton featured a Confederate battle flag in the background.

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a tweet

Paul Krugman says Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance.

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an op-ed column

Mike Pence says This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control.

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an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'

Scott Walker says A new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota makes college education more affordable for Wisconsin residents.

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a news release

Bookerfail says Cory Booker supports late-term and partial-birth abortion and opposes safety regulations.

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a U.S. Senate campaign video ad

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns.

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an interview on Fox News

Rob Portman says In the month of July alone, EU exports to South Korea increased by over 36 percent. A lot of that is our market share. Those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering.

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a news conference

Kay Bailey Hutchison says Gov. Rick Perry spent over a million dollars on D.C. lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month.

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a radio ad

American Crossroads says As Virginia lost over 65,000 jobs, (Tim) Kaine put partisan ambitions first by serving as DNC chairman during the last year of his governorship.

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a TV ad.

Democratic National Committee says The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.

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a Web video.

Mike Foley says Ohio law gives tax breaks to rich people who own private jets.

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a speech in the Ohio House

Americans Job Security says Zack Space voted for budgets and debt, energy taxes and the stimulus, and we still lost more than 2.5 million jobs.

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a campaign ad

Rob Zerban says Paul Ryans budget plan ends Medicare.

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a TV ad

Alan Grayson says In every ethics case that has resulted in a formal sanction, theres been an investigative subcommittee thats been established first.

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a Tampa Bay Times interview

Jackie Cilley says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country.

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a statement during a candidates forum at Nashua City Hall

Barack Obama says Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."

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Elko, Nev.

National Republican Congressional Committee says Colorado Democraticcongressional candidate MorganCarroll racked up $11 billion in new spending in the state Legislature.

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a TV ad

Arsalan Iftikhar says 59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is still a Muslim.

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a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Frank Guinta says Carol Shea-Porter wants to increase taxes on small business and job creators.

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an advertisement, “Veterans,”

Rudy Giuliani says "People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."

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Washington, D.C.

Marc Schare says A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.

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an Ohio House committee hearing

Newt Gingrich says On whether the United States should intervene in Libya.

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televised interviews

Sandra Williams says 99.97 percent of the kids live in poverty that attend Cleveland public schools.

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a news conference

John Kitzhaber says John Kitzhaber created 128,000 new jobs while governor.

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a campaign mailer

Wendy Davis says Texas ranks 49th nationally in what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state.

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a Senate Education Committee meeting.

Hillary Clinton says Despite keeping distance from national media interviewers, I did local press all along, the last three months.

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an interview with CNN

Barack Obama says What we said was, you can keep (your plan) if it hasnt changed since the law passed.

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a speech to Organizing for Action

Hillary Clinton says In 2006, Bernie Sanders voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants.

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a Democratic presidential debate in Miami

Rick Scott says Florida didnt offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida.

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a TV interview

Katie Mcginty says she was the first in her family to go to a four-year college.

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On the 'About' page of McGinty's campaign website

Rand Paul says There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians dont want our money.

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a Fox News interview

Mitt Romney says "The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."

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an interview

Adam Putnam says Scott Maddox has run "losing campaigns for 3 of Florida's 4 available cabinet positions."

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a campaign statement

Virginia Foxx says Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year on tax preparation.

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in a comment on Twitter

Clay Pell says The budget I managed at the Department of Education was more than $60 million.

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an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers."

Hillary Clinton says We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent.

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the second presidential debate

Barack Obama says Last year, Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.

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a speech in the Rose Garden

Ginny Brown Waite says AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."

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a letter to AARP

Chain Email says Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 re-election campaigns.

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a chain e-mail

Bill Proctor says Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level.

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a newspaper article

Kevin Dewine says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.

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a speech at a GOP dinner

Naral Pro Choice says Marco Rubio voted against funding health clinics that provide critical care during this public health emergency (Zika).

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a TV ad

John Pagliarini says Youre in more trouble if you leave your pet in the car than if you leave your child in the car.

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a speech

Erik Wallin says Peter Kilmartin voted in favor of expanding the good behavior statute to sex offenders.

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a news release

Kasim Reed says On letting Occupy Atlanta protesters stay in Woodruff Park.

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statements to the public

Hillary Clinton says What I have put forward does not add a penny to the debt.

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in the third presidential debate.

Diego Arene Morley says There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850.

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a community forum

Donald Trump says In first week as governor, Tim Kaine proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year.

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a speech.

Rob Portman says On Lee Fishers watch, almost nine out of 10 jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, not to other countries.

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an appearance at The Plain Dealer

Richard Codey says Every president has raised the debt ceiling.

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an interview on Hannity on Fox News

Alberta Darling says Limiting labor negotiations to only wages is how it is for the most part in the private sector.

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an appearance on a TV interview program

Cory Gardner says on contraception, his plan is cheaper and easier for you than Sen. Mark Udalls

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a campaign ad

Marco Rubio says The states have always defined marriage.

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an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Delia Garza says Families in Del Valle, who are City of Austin residents, have to drive to Bastrop to go to the closest grocery store.

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as quoted in a news story

Barack Obama says John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."

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remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors

Priorities Usa Action says Mitt Romneys pledged to protect (oil companies) record profits and their billions in special tax breaks, too.

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a television ad

Ed Gillespie says Mark Warner voted for nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt.

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a web ad.

John Kasich says State government spending will be increase 10.7 percent this year.

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a debate

Tommy Thompson says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he had nothing to do with that provision in the law.

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a debate

Mike Lee says The FCCs net neutrality policy includes whatis essentially a massive tax increase.

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an email through Protect Internet Freedom

David Axelrod says The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973 and the average worker is making what they were making in 1996.

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a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics

Paul Broun says A United Nations arms treaty would almost certainly force the U.S. to create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

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a YouTube video

National Rifle Association says More people die from medical misadventures than firearm accidents nationally and in Florida.

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a fact-sheet.

Joe Biden says When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran.

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a speech

Mitch Mcconnell says The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

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an interview with "Fox News Sunday"

Paul Ryan says six studies verify that the math adds up for Mitt Romneys tax plan.

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the vice presidential debate

Martin Omalley says In the United States, weve had 12 years in a row of wages declining.

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an interview on ABC's "This Week"

Marco Rubio says Charlie Crist has six different positions on ObamaCare.

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a campaign website

Barack Obama says "In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."

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a speech at the United States Military Academy.

Sarah Palin says "As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies."

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Dayton, Ohio

Barack Obama says This year, were off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999.

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a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Matthew Hill says abortion doctors are flying into this state, performing abortions and flying out.

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a debate on the state House floor.

Rick Santorum says Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate for health insurance.

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a Republican presidential primary debate in Tampa, Fla.

American Leadhership Pac says There have been at least 100 shootings each year [Angel Taveras] has been mayor of Providence.

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a campaign mailing

Maurice Ferre says Maurice Ferre says Kendrick Meek has voted 98.6 percent of the time with the Democrat party.

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an editorial meeting.

Barack Obama says Weve created more jobs in the United States than every other advanced economy combined since I came into office.

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an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"

Lisa Boothe says One in four inmates is an illegal immigrant.

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an interview on Fox

Blog Posting says Wisconsin is dead last in income growth among midwestern states during Gov. Scott Walkers term.

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various blogs and Internet comments

Daniel Grace says A three-cents-per-ounce soda tax in Philadelphia would result in the loss of 2,000 family-sustaining Teamster Union jobs and countless other jobs in the beverage industry.

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a statement

Charlie Crist says "I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months."

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Associated Press' annual legislative meeting

Jeff Greene says Kendrick Meek was #1 in Florida in taking tobacco cash and then opposed a tax on cigars that would have helped pay for childrens health care.

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a campaign flier

Jamie Radtke says Federal Reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year.

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remarks to the Senate Tea Party caucus meeting.

Scott Walker says On repeal of Wisconsins smoking ban

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a news release

Sylvester Turner says Ninety percent of Texans say they do not want the nursing homes to close. It polls higher than anything else.

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remarks on the House floor

Rick Scott says For the first time ever, we completely funded the critical needs waiting list so persons with unique abilities can get the help they need.

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his 2016 State of the State address