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Jeanne Shaheen says For every dollar we put in unemployment, it pays back about $1.60.

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an MSNBC interview

Bob Graham says Since 1990, in inflation-adjusted dollars, per-student funding of the (Florida) state university system from general revenue has dropped by about $4,000.

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a op-ed in the 'St. Petersburg Times'

American Future Fund says Kasichs budget raised taxes by billions, hitting businesses hard and the middle class even harder.

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a campaign ad

John Mccain says Romney used to favor gun control, and said he didn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush.

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an ad on the Internet

Richard Durbin says "Joe, I keep hearing you every morning talking about the biggest tax increase in history, but you don't mention it's also the biggest tax cut in history.''

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a comment on the "Morning Joe'' show on MSNBC.

Bob Corker says The administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place (on Iran).

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an interview on Fox News Sunday

Kirk Watson says Texas population is projected to double in the next 50 years or so, but our basic amount of water will remain about where it is now.

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an answer for the League of Women Voters, Austiin Area, Voters Guide.

John Mccain says Palin had "executive experience" in the PTA.

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Republican National Committee Republican says Over the last six months, President Barack Obama has golfed 10 times and held 106 fundraisers, but his jobs council has never met.

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a web video

Phil Kent says The newly created state Immigration Enforcement Review Board can actually prosecute, and get them [violators] into jail, if we bring in the attorney general.

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a speech before the North Fulton and Friends Tea Party

National Rifle Association says Wisconsins concealed-carry permit rules demand more proof than other states that safety training requirements are met, rendering all existing (training) certificates insufficient as part of the permit application

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a website alert

Kasim Reed says The city of Atlanta has $56 million in its reserves.

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a speech

Annies List says Even though men comprise 49% of the population, they hold 80% of the lawmaking power in the Legislature (144 of 181 seats).

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a press release

Barack Obama says The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees.

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a joint statement with the president of Turkey.

Republican State Leadership Committee says 95 percent of job creators say Wisconsin is headed in the right direction.

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a radio ad

Chain Email says Solar panels drain the suns energy.

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messages on the Internet

Mitt Romney says Solyndrahad robots that whistled Disney songs. Im not kidding.

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an Americans for Prosperity Foundation summit speech

Ramey Ko says some Austin school district classrooms lack electrical outlets.

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an Austin meeting.

Michael Moore says Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008.

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an interview on "Democracy Now"

Mike Huebsch says The elimination of essentially every automobile would be offset by one volcano exploding.

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testimony before a state Senate committee

Hillary Clinton says "We are winning the popular vote."

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

Terry Mcauliffe says Since 2008, we have cut 5,000 positions from Virginia public schools.

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a news conference.

Barack Obama says The presidents proposed budget will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.

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a speech in Cleveland, Ohio

Cory Gardner says Mark Udall decided Obamacare. ... He passed Obamacare with his vote.

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an interview on Fox News

Laura Ingraham says The 90 percent statistic ofsupporting background checks, thats been debunked.

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on "Fox News Sunday"

Ed Lindsey says Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years.

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a news release

Donald Trump says Youth unemployment is through the roof.

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a Reddit Ask Me Anything

Gonzalo Barrientos says 55 percent of council members have come from area where only 10 percent of Austinites live.

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an opinion article in the Austin American-Statesman

John Watson says The transportation sales tax would cost the average consumer an estimated $112 a year.

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an op-ed

Tom Marino says Twenty million Americans are out of work.

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an interview on MSNBC.

Josh Mandel says that Sherrod Brown is an Obama rubber stamp for supporting the job-killing cap and trade plan.

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a radio ad

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Marco Rubio said we should be considering internment of Muslims, and maybe we should close down cafes and diners where Muslims gather and in fact compared them to the Nazi party.

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an interview on CNN

Newt Gingrich says Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Barbara Ann Radnofsky says The attorney general requires that rape victims pay for the rape kit.

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in a Web site video

Chain Email says President Barack Obamas finance team is recommending a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution.

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a chain e-mail

Dubose Porter says there are half as many students in one Georgia technical college than there were two years ago.

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a meeting

Newt Gingrich says A recent Obama executive order could lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials.

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an interview on 'The O'Reilly Factor'

Hillary Clinton says "If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save according to Department of Energy figures about $70."

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Indianapolis

Brad Avakian says We do about 300 investigations a year into housing discrimination and in recent years have put about $150,000 of damages into the pockets of individuals who have been treated unfairly.

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a radio interview

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Jim Renacci opposed increasing combat bonuses for our troops.

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a television ad

Aziz Ansari says 46 percent of women between the age of 16 to 24 despise sexual contact in Japan.

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comments on "The Daily Show"

Jason Carter says Theres $30 billion in expansion funds that weve paid its our money and Nathan Deal wants Washington to keep it.

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In an AJC article

Chain Email says The President wants the U.S. to sign on to the U.N.s International Criminal Court.

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a chain email

Rick Scott says Obamacare was invented by liberal academic theorists.

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an op-ed in USA Today

Larry Ashley says Florida sheriffs unequivocally support the stand your groundlaw.

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a Florida House criminal justice subcommittee hearing

America says American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child.

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a meme on social media

Log Cabin Republicans says "Mitt Romney opposed the gun lobby, even Ronald Reagan."

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Marco Rubio says "Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016."

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a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday

Van Wanggaard says Theres no statistical evidence that a waiting period for handgun purchases reduces violence whatsoever.

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a legislative floor debate

League Women Voters Florida says The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the SAVE database is not a foolproof means of verifying (citizenship on) the voter rolls.

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a statement

Facebook Posts says Michele Bachmann said English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible.

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a photo-quotation posted to Facebook

Terry Mcauliffe says Ken Cuccinelli would take money away from public schools to fund private schools.

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a TV ad.

Rachel Maddow says A recent Department of Labor study guessed Wall Street fees cost a worker 28 percent of the value of your plan over the span of your career.

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a segment on The Rachel Maddow Show

Marco Rubio says The United States is not modernizing its nuclear weapons.

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Faith and Freedom Summit in Iowa

Mitt Romney says "I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."

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a debate in Manchester, N.H.

Gilberto Hinojosa says This is the first time in Texas history -- and only the fourth time in United States history -- that two women are running for the top spots.

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an email blast

Rudy Giuliani says "The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America."

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a Washington Post interview.

Barack Obama says What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is Ive said to each agency ... look at regulations that are already on the books and if they dont make sense, lets get rid of them.

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a press conference

Peter Kilmartin says When the mayor of Providences brother wrote over 100 grand in bad checks to the city, Joe Fernandez didnt have the guts to prosecute him. He let him off the hook.

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a campaign commercial

Graeme Zielinski says the Wisconsin Republican Party tweeted Happy International Womens Day! You ladies should get paid less and not be able to make health care decisions.

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a tweet

David Dewhurst says Soy ... el nico official estatal quin es un hombre de negocios.

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an interview on “Conexión Texas”

Mitt Romney says Barack Obama sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China at the cost of American jobs.

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a television ad

Doug Otto says Rick Perry said theres an administrator for every teacher in Texas public schools.

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a radio interview.

Candy Crowley says Its been 14 years since a president or a vice president or a member of their family has not gone and attended at least an event at the Olympics.

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comments on CNN's "State of the Union"

Chris Larson says A Republican-sponsored Wisconsin mining bill will take at least seven years to create jobs.

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a speech

Scott Walker says As Milwaukee County executive, Scott Walker eliminated the waiting list for long-term care for older adults through the Family Care program.

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a statement on campaign web site

Russ Carnahan says The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus.

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a town hall meeting in Missouri.

Joe Scarborough says The health care reform bill is the largest tax increase in U.S. history.

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a comment on his "Morning Joe'' program on MSNBC

Marco Rubio says "Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."

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a press release

Elizabeth Roberts says More than 30 cents of every state tax dollar goes to Medicaid.

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a presentation to the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group

Newt Gingrich says The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance.

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a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.

Gina Raimondo says Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.

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a tweet promoting Equal Pay Day

Gina Raimondo says My Treasury team eliminated a 900-case backlog in the Crime Victim Compensation Program.

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a website statement

Marco Rubio says We have not had unemployment this high for this long since the Great Depression.

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interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"

Boyd Richie says Gov. Rick Perry is spending Texans hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV.

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an e-mail blast.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Duffy has long record of voting against VA backlog fixes.

false statement

a news release

Henry Kissinger says There were fewer civilian casualties in Cambodia than there have been from American drone attacks.

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an interview on NPR

Doctors Without Borders says Trade deals threaten Indias role as the pharmacy of the developing world for new HIV medicines.

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a press release

Bryan Fischer says By the word religion in the First Amendment, the founders meant Christianity.

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a broadcast of "Focal Point"

Roger Goodell says NFL players are living, on average, longer than the average male.

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comments on "Fox News Sunday"

Erick Erickson says Republican candidate for governor Nathan Deal explicitly voted to fund abortions ...

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a blog post

John Mccain says "I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."

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a debate in Boca Raton.

Now Or Never Pac says Ralph Hall is the oldest member in Congress ever.

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a campaign ad

Jim Webb says Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India and China.

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a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas

Terry Mcauliffe says an investigative report concluded Ken Cuccinelli should have been prosecuted for disclosure violations, but Virginias law was too weak.

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a debate.

Charlie Crist says The Recovery Act saved 60,000 jobs among law enforcement officials, firefighters in the state of Florida, plus another 20,000 educators.

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a debate

Newt Gingrich says Under President Barack Obama, more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago.

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a written opening statement for a debate

John Mccain says "It is just a fact that Hamas, apparently the North American spokesperson, is endorsing Senator Obama."

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a media availability in Little Rock, Ark.

Ohio Democratic Party says Who would sign up to speak for a (Haitian) dictator? Rob Portman.

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an online ad campaign, "The Portman Files"

Ted Cruz says Under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733.

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a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.

Tim Finchem says Austins the fastest-growing city in the country the last five years.

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a sports column by Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman

Rick Scott says Every Florida teacher gets a pay raise.

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a Facebook post

Greg Abbott says Obama has (a) new Christmas tree tax.

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a tweet

Scott Walker says under his leadership Wisconsin median household income is up 2.7%, while it is down 1.3% nationally under President Obama.

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a tweet

John Thrasher says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans.

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comments on the Senate floor

Florida Consumer Action Network says "For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year."

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a press conference in Tampa

Sharlene Leurig says Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water.

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an Austin City Council workshop

Allen Buckley says U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has voted for $7 trillion of our national debt!

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a campaign statement

Rick Perry says Our kids cant openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.

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an Iowa TV ad.

Jan Patterson says Her opponent: zero times a judge, zero rulings, zero experience on the bench.

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a TV ad