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Keith Olbermann says Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year.

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a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'

Jefferson Smith says if elected, he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd.

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a press release

New Hampshire Democratic Party says Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation.

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a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters

John Boehner says In the stimulus, "$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165."

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a press release

Cocks Not Glocks says You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class at the University of Texas.

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a Cocks not Glocks call to protest on Facebook

Bernie S says For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, the real unemployment rate is 51 percent.

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a rally in Portland, Maine

Barack Obama says Weve seen more manufacturing jobs created since Ive been president than anytime since the 1990s. Thats a fact.

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in a town hall

Charlie Crist says "President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations)."

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a written statement

National Right Life Committee says The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover any legal abortion.

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a prepared statement

Rick Perry says Abortion is the second-most conducted surgical procedure in this country.

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a radio interview.

Bobby Jindal says In New Orleans, nearly100 percent of our kids are in charter schools.

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comments on "Fox News Sunday"

Barack Obama says The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. Its just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to.

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remarks in Ottawa, Canada

Lee Fisher says If you want to see the jobs that Ive saved and created in this storm he helped create, go anywhere in Ohio.

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a debate

Austinites Geographic Representation says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. or Texas with no geographic representation on its city council.

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a handout.

Hillary Clinton says "She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."

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a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Hillary Clinton says Under Donald Trumps tax plan, 51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up.

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a campaign rally

Sheldon Whitehouse says In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated.

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a news conference

Rudy Giuliani says "We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."

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Boca Raton.

John Boehner says Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople.

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an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour

Alison Lundergan Grimes says Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked the Senate over 400 times.

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a campaign ad

Kelly Ayotte says Mental health provisions related to mass shootings got over 90 votes in the Senate.

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an interview with CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper"

Genevieve Wood says Young women today in metropolitan areaswho are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.

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comments on CNN

Ken Cuccinelli says Virginia saved $300 million by rebidding a Metrorail construction project to exclude guaranteed union contracts.

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a radio interview.

Service Employees International Union Committee Po says You worked hard for your money and you paid your taxes when you earned it. Now, (Indiana Republican congressional candidate) Todd Young wants to tax it again when you spend it.

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a campaign commercial

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says In terms of the wealthiest Americans, were at the lowest tax rate since the 1950s.

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an interview before the CNN/Tea Party Express GOP debate in Tampa

Mike Haridopolos says No one thought we could get a bipartisan bill (Medicaid) passed. We did in the Florida Senate.

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TV interview

Mitt Romney says Were inches away from no longer having a free economy.

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the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa

Alcee Hastings says Florida election officials requests to some residents to submit proof of citizenship is a backdoor poll tax.

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a press conference

Facebook Posts says Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not.

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a Facebook post

Hillary Clinton says Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one.

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an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.

Paul Ryan says Obamacare carries on even under a government shutdown.

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an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"

Beverly Hall says Atlanta Public Schools 2011 CRCT tests were given under the strictest security possible.

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a mailer

Lenny Curry says Barack Obama promised gasoline at $2.50 a gallon.

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an interview on "Political Connections"

Marco Rubio says Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a reformer.

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an op-ed in Breitbart

Kathleen Peters says When I was Mayor of South Pasadena, we actually reduced the property taxes we collected.

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a campaign mailer

Bill Clinton says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget.

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

Eddie Rodriguez says Were losing almost 6,000 state jobs.

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remarks to the Central Texas Democratic Forum

John Carter says About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home.

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a news article

Marco Rubio says The Obama administration "spent more money on the Cash for Clunkers program than the space program."

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a news account of a speech

Donald Trump says Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique.

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a rally in Florida

Rick Scott says Florida has more concealed weapons permits than any other state.

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a Fox News interview

Ben Carson says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video.

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the Fox Business Network debate

Daily Mail says Google search spike suggests many people dont know why they voted for Brexit.

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a headline

Charlie Crist says "I got a letter from 20 people who said they wanted their money back, 14 never gave me a penny."

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a meeting with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board.

Mary Burke says Scott Walkers income tax plan is a tax hike. It increases taxes for nearly 80% of the people in the state.

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an interview

Protect Oregon Driver Licenses says Gov. Kitzhaber oversaw creation of the Oregon driver card law behind closed doors without allowing any input from citizens who represent the public interest.

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a campaign website statement

Hillary Clinton says "So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."

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debate in Las Vegas

Steve Munisteri says There are 500 registered Republicans moving to Texas every day.

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an interview on Austin's YNN

Creative Advocacy Network says an arts tax would provide funding for certified arts and music teachers for every elementary school serving Portland residents.

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a radio interview

Sarah Silverman says Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap, which amounts to a $500,000 vagina tax over her working career.

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a video for the National Women's Law Center

Donna Howard says abortions are decreasing.

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a Texas Tribune interview.

Mark Miller says Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.

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remarks to reporters

Bob Marshall says Those who fail to buy health insurance under Obamacare face the threat of jail time.

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a news release.

Rick Scott says Since December 2010 Florida has created 540,000 new jobs.

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an online ad

Helio Melo says People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash.

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a House floor debate

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Dominos or Pizza Hut.

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an interview with a Las Vegas news network

Warren Chisum says On choosing a Texas House speaker

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a press release

Chain Email says "She flunked the D.C. bar exam."

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a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris

Barack Obama says Because of the new health care law, 2.5 million young adults now have coverage.

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the campaign film "The Road We've Traveled"

Donald Trump says Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001 and Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001.

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a campaign rally speech

J Xavier says Farouk is on fire.

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a song for Farouk Shami's gubernatorial campaign

American Future Fund says Patrick Murphy was named one of Americas least effective congressmen.

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a TV ad

Mitt Romney says Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt.

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a press conference

Donald Trump says Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesnt do very well with women.

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an interview on CNN's "New Day"

Americans Prosperity says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold voted over 250 times to raise taxes.

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a web ad

Hillary Clinton says The gun industry isthe only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability.

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a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa

Rick Scott says Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.

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a CNN/St. Petersburg Times debate.

Concerned Taxpayers America says Peter DeFazio votes with Nancy Pelosi 86 percent of the time.

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a television ad

Marco Rubio says The only people in this town that have voted to cut Medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of Obamacare. Thats a fact.

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an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'

Rudy Giuliani says "America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet's words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."

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a television interview.

Jerry Patterson says Barack Obama didnt keep his promise to have an immigration bill in his first year.

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a speech

Mitt Romney says In the early 1960s, all levels of government were consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy, a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, we cease at some point to be a free economy.

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a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.

Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."

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Denver

Evan Goyke says The hole in the earth thats going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.

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a speech

Barack Obama says Health insurance companies are making record profits, right now.

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a press conference

Newt Gingrich says Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is waste, or fraud, they cant validate that the people should have gotten it, totaling about $8 billion a year.

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in an interview on the “The Neal Boortz Radio Show” on Atlanta’s AM 750 and 95.5 FM

Facebook Posts says Bill Clinton gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs and said we needed a regime change, even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.

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a social media post

David Rible says This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes.

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an interview on NJTV's 'On the Record' with Michael Aron program

Mitt Romney says President Obama was saying success is the result of government, not hard-working people, when he said, If youve got a business, you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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an introduction to a web video

Kay Hagan says Thom Tillis refuses to say what we should do to combat ISIS.

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a news release

Facebook Posts says Fox admits they lie and, under the First Amendment, have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.

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posts on Facebook

Russ Fulcher says Idaho was the only Republican-led state in the nation that chose to partner with President Obama by creating a state-based marketplace under the Affordable Care Act.

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a gubernatorial debate

Emilys List says Federal investigators found a company that (David Perdue) ran discriminated against women -- paid them less than men for the same work.

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television attack ad

Chris Christie says weve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. Weve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. Weve made government smaller.

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a video

Donna Brazile says (The farm bill) has aprovision that would in many ways reduce the deficit.

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a discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"

Chris Carpenter says Nobodys invited us to the Obama events in Atlanta.

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radio news story

Thomas Garrett Jr says A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force.

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a radio interview.

Scott Hochberg says Only about a third of Texans who enroll in college graduate.

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a speech at a caucus at the Texas Democratic convention

Dan Gelber says For the last decade, Floridians salaries have shrunk substantially when adjusted for inflation.

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an op-ed

George Will says Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.

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a column published by the Washington Post and other news organizations.

American Crossroads says Bill Nelson cast the deciding vote for Obamacare cutting Medicare spending by $700 billion and letting an unelected board decide what gets covered here.

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a television ad

Jeff Merkley says Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.

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in a press release

Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will .. force Christian organizations to pay for abortions.

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a newspaper ad

George Allen says Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning as little as $17,000.

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a debate.

Carly Fiorina says When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity.

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a column posted on Medium

Paul Ryan says the U.S. borrows 42 cents of every dollar Washington spends today and about half of that comes from countries like China.

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a radio interview

Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will ... force Christian schools to hire non-Christian teachers.

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a newspaper advertisement

John Mccain says Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family."

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a television ad

Marco Rubio says On an early date for Floridas presidential primary

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a position on legislation

James Carville says Alex Sink was "the first official who said that BP should pay $25 million for an ad campaign to promote Florida tourism."

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a fundraising letter