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Steven Rattner says Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Ellyn Bogdanoff says Florida is considered the fourth-largest gambling state in the nation.

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a newspaper article

Calvine Rollins says Georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment, do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions.

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an op-ed

Bill Seitz says that Secretary of State Jon Husted and former secretary Jennifer Brunner both have supported a provision in Senate Bill 47 that would limit the days organizers have to collect signatures for initiative and referendum petitions.

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testimony before a House committee

Terry Mcauliffe says Ken Cuccinelli tried to shut down state government.

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a debate.

Barack Obama says When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ... (had) more debt per person than any other state in the country.

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a campaign ad

Barack Obama says that as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people.

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a news release

Democratic National Committee says College tuition rates in Texas jumped by 55% since 2003.

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an email blast

Dan Patrick says Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families.

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a press release titled “Lt. Governor Unveils Faith-Based Initiative on Foster Care Children,”

Lincoln Chafee says Rhode Island is one of only six states to use E-Verify.

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comments to reporters following a news conference

Jan Brewer says We know from ... the federal data, that they only stop or apprehend one out of four illegal people crossing our border.

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comments on CNN

Democratic National Committee says John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq.

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in an ad on the Internet

Rick Perry says he signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed.

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a South Carolina forum.

Donald Trump says It is Hillary Clintons agenda to release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released.

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a speech to the National Rifle Association

Eric Cantor says Youve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs.

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a TV appearance.

Barack Obama says economists Harvey Rosen and Martin Feldstein have said that paying for (Mitt) Romneys tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000.

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an email to supporters

Newt Gingrich says Mitt Romney put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board.

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a video campaign ad

James Roosevelt says Three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional.

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a segment of WPRI's Newsmakers program

Shaun Donovan says Housing prices dropped for the 30 months prior to Barack Obama taking office, and they have stabilized, theyve been about flat since the president came in.

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an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"

Peter Barca says You cant bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of whats going on, but you can bring a gun up there.

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an interview

Bill Clinton says Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."

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an interview on ABC's This Week

Tim Mcginty says he tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods.

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his campaign website

Ameripac says Compact fluorescent light bulbs are toxic and not environmentally friendly.

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a fundraising letter

Bob Seger says The proposed mine in northern Wisconsin would be built without any government oversight, and will be nine miles long.

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an interview

Chris Christie says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.

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an "On the Line" interview with Steve Adubato

Katrina Vanden Heuvel says At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on RD.

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a roundtable discussion on ABC's 'This Week'

Rob Portman says Ohio is probably top five in the country, sadly, in terms of heroin overdoses. Its now exceeded car accidents as the No. 1 cause of death in Ohio.

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a radio interview

Ron Paul says The U.S. military is in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world.

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a Republican presidential debate in Tampa

Chris Matthews says The Russians didnt wear uniforms when they came in to Ukraine.

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a segment on "Hardball"

Mitt Romney says that illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years.

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a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.

Democratic National Committee says Rick Perry doesnt think there should be a federal minimum wage.

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an email blast

Scott Walker says Since I took office, Wisconsin ranks 11th in the nation in total business establishment growth compared to 47th in the years Mary Burke was Commerce secretary.

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a campaign news release

Trent Franks says It is truethat we know that ISIS is present in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)

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a phone conference

Tom Coburn says The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be a middle-class benefit. Its not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year.

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an interview with CNN

Nathan Deal says A real result of his term is Georgia having the lowest taxes per capita of any state.

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campaign flyer

Antonin Scalia says Most of the black scientists in this country dont come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools.

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a Supreme Court hearing

Democratic Governors Association says Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive

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Democratic Governors Association website

Paul Krugman says Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts.

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a column

Florida Democratic Party says Bill McCollum "cost the rest of us billions" as a member of Congress, including a national debt that "skyrocketed" to $4.7 trillion.

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an advertisement by the Florida Democratic Party

David Dewhurst says The White House had a live video feed of the Benghazi attacks as they occurred.

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an interview with the Texas Observer

Rob Portman says a Pro-Stimulus economist admits it is not working

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a posting on Facebook

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first hed want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them.

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a rally in Florida

Frank Lautenberg says In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey.

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

Bud Chiles says Florida is 49th in per capita spending on mental health care.

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a campaign website

Ted Cruz says President Barack Obama has been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years.

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an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"

Sheldon Whitehouse says The oceans have become 30 percent more acidic.

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

Moms Demand Action Gun Sense America says The book Little Red Riding Hood is something thats been banned in America, but not assault weapons.

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an ad shared on social media

Glenn Beck says Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

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his Fox News program

Jack Kingston says The nations food supply is 99.99 percent safe.

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a newspaper article

Alex Sink says 150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid.

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a meeting of the Florida Cabinet

Seth Magaziner says In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either dont have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and theyre still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on.

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an appearance on “10 News Conference”

Dennis Kucinich says "Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food."

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a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong.

Rachel Maddow says Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsins finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year.

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a segment on her television talk show

Lee Holloway says Weve saved over $100 million of (health care) costs in Milwaukee County. I did that.

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a meeting with Journal Sentinel reporters and editors

David Dewhurst says that from 1992 through 2010, every statewide candidate drawing over 43 percent of the vote in a Republican Texas primary won the resulting runoff.

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a memo from campaign pollster Mike Baselice.

Ron Paul says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than theyve sent President Barack Obama and more than twice what theyve sent other Republican presidential candidates.

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an interview.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Robert Hurt has a plan to cut education by 40 percent.

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a radio ad.

John Oxendine says "To say a family has to buy a product from a private company is clearly beyond the delegated powers of the U.S. Constitution."

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a televised debate on Fox 5

Scott Brown says The federal health care law raises taxes and cuts Medicare.

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comments on "Fox News Sunday"

Colin Powell says "The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."

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an interview on ABC News' "This Week"

Rick Perry says I vetoed more than $3 billion in spending. Lawmakers and I cut taxes for 40,000 small businesses. Now Texas is No. 1 in job creation. The nations five best housing markets are right here in Texas. We balanced five state budgets and we cut state spending.

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a TV advertisement.

Bill Pascrell says President Barack Obama has not raised taxes.

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an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump called pregnant employees an inconvenience.

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a rally in Columbus, Ohio

Ted Cruz says Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

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Senate floor speech on the Obamacare law

Mitt Romney says "McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."

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a TV ad

Jim Renacci says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost 20 or 40 million dollars.

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a radio interview

Phil Gingrey says Amid the crisis at our southern border, there are reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as Ebola virus.

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a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sam Adams says for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure.

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a video online

Marco Rubio says If the debt ceiling is surpassed, our nation will not go into default as some suggest.

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an e-mail

John Wisniewski says While (Chris Christie) talks about job creation, we dont see jobs being created in this state.

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an NJToday interview

Florida Democratic Party says Taking the Fifth Amendment in a deposition about the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he founded means a truthful answer to the questions that (Rick Scott) was asked would incriminate him.

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a TV ad.

Choose New Jersey says We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world.

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an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal

Sarah Palin says "The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."

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a speech to investors in Hong Kong

Donna Brazile says The (Wisconsin) governor has proposed tax giveaways to corporations.

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an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."

Bike Austin says Bike lanes and sidewalks have been proven to reduce crashes by up to 38 percent on Austins streets.

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a press release

John Fredericks says Every illegal immigrant can be eligible for up to $36,000 to $38,000 in earned income tax credits without paying a dime in.

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a radio show.

Jon Huntsman says You look at defense were spending more than the rest of the world combined.

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a debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.

Allen West says The Navy is bringing charges against a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property.

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a blog on his website

Jeanne Shaheen says when Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation

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an interview on The Daily Rundown

Barack Obama says The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years.

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the State of the Union Address

Val Demings says Daniel Webster used taxpayer funds to build a lobbyist lounge.

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a campaign commercial

Oregon Lottery says 97 cents of every dollar played represents over $500 million dollars that is returned to Oregonians every year to help support job creation, schools, state parks and watersheds.

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an advertisement

Rick Scott says We got a million jobs.

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a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks

Joanne Kloppenburg says Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court.

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a newspaper interview

Joe Scarborough says Hillary Clinton sent a memo to all State Department staff that said you should not do State Department business on personal email.

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a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Republican Party Texas says Bill White has presided over the construction of what may be the worlds largest abortion clinic.

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an e-mail.

Suzanne Bonamici says PolitiFact Oregon gave Rob Cornilles a Pants on Fire for a claim about taxes and fees.

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a press release

Tim Kaine says As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.

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a TV ad.

Naral Pro Choice America says One in three American women will have had an abortion by the time she reaches the age of 45.

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a website post.

National Republican Congressional Committee says Ann Kuster turned a blind eye to those in need of funding by voting against funding for our nations veterans, low-income women and children, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

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an advertisement

Jeb Bush says One person has been fired at the Veterans Administration for withholding services.

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a speech at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day dinner

Fulton County Health And Wellness says Currently, almost 40 percent of people with HIV are not diagnosed until they already have developed AIDS. And that can be up to 10 years after they first are infected with HIV.

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a press release

Chain Email says "Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"

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a Facebook status update message

Conservative Solutions Pac says Trump refuses to denounce the KKK.

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a Conservative Solutions PAC ad, first aired on Feb. 29

Ted Cruz says Barack Obama broke a decades-old policy of not negotiating with terrorists.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Tim Pawlenty says From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21 percent. we brought that down dramatically, to about 1.7 percent per year.

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his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story"

Marco Rubio says Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world.

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a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed

Blog Posting says Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination.

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posts on the Internet

Providence City Council says Semi-automatic weapons, whether pistol or rifle, were designed for use by the military on the battlefield.

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a council resolution

Iowans Some Semblance Christian Decency says Herman Cain is a pro-choice candidate.

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parking lot fliers outside an Iowa candidate event