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Bill Hammond says if current trends continue, by 2040, one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma.

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an opinion article in the Houston Chronicle.

Stephen Sweeney says tenure still exists but its been overhauled for teachers in New Jersey.

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an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show

Tom Graves says President Barack Obama has amended, delayed, or repealed 19 components of his very own (health care) law.

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an interview on ABC's "This Week"

Terry Mcauliffe says On the coal industry

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an interview.

Charlie Gonzalez says If Congress does not pass the renewal of the payroll tax cut before the end of the year, nearly 160 million working families will see their taxes go up by roughly $1,000.

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a press release.

Michele Bachmann says Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation.

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an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Creative Advocacy Network says 77 percent of Portlands students finish elementary school without taking even one art class.

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a tweet

Tom Coburn says The governments twice the size it was 10 years ago. Its 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president.

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an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Barack Obama says President Barack Obama put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil.

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an Obama for America video

Denise Grimsley says Florida ranks 45th in the nation for tuition.

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a statement

Rick Scott says Charlie Crist signed into law an automatic 15 percent annual tuition increase that put college further out of reach for many Floridians.

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an email from his campaign

Jeb Bush says The debt comes up all the time in town meetings ... but its never asked in the debates. Its really weird. It hasnt been brought up.

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an appearance at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.

Sal Albanese says An annual income of $500,000 in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class.

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a joint mayoral candidates' appearance on MSNBC

Barack Obama says Romney and Ryan both backed proposals that would outlaw abortions even in cases of rape or incest.

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a campaign ad

Raymond Gallison says Seventy-four percent of Rhode Islanders support [a] national popular vote [for president] because they, as I, believe in one person-one vote.

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a House floor debate

Newt Gingrich says When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.

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a Republican presidential debate in Tampa

Michele Bachmann says Then-Sen. Barack Obama refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership.

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a debate in New Hampshire

Mark Sanford says "The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019."

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an op-ed article in the Washington Post.

Luis Garcia says David Rivera allowed House Republican leaders to strip key provisions from the STOCK Act that would crack down on insider trading by members of Congress.

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a campaign press release

George Will says Any Floridian who has ever requested an absentee ballot henceforth gets one automatically.

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a "Washington Post" column

Ban The Box Ri says In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year.

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a video posted on YouTube

Arnold Schwarzenegger says When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, there was an $8 billion budget deficit and now theres a $2 billion surplus.

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an endorsement speech in Columbus, Ohio.

Robert Gibbs says A request for "an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House (during the presidency of George W. Bush), including the vice president's, for more than eight months, a resource request filled by President Obama in March."

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the daily White House press conference

National Republican Congressional Committee says Democratic U.S. House candidate Julie Lassa pushed for a Canadian-style government takeover of health care.

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a campaign TV ad

Don Gaetz says The medical marijuana ballot initiative doesnt require a physician writing a prescription and can be for conditions like having a back that needs to be scratched.

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a "Florida Face to Face" interview

Chris Larson says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele once proposed a plan to end county funding to homeless shelters.

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a Facebook post

Steve Oroho says We have the highest per-pupil cost in the country.

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a story in The Star-Ledger

Texas Democratic Party says In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party.

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a quoted comment.

Kendall Jones says Without the financial resources provided by hunters to protect habitat and stop poachers, there would be no infrastructure for wildlife management.

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a Facebook post

Sherrod Brown says Hitler didnt want unions. Stalin didnt want unions. Mubarak didnt want independent unions. These autocrats in history dont want independent unions.

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a speech in the Senate

House Republicans says Health care reform "establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase."

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a news release

Russ Feingold says The United States still ranks 20th in the world in access to broadband -- over 50 percent below the best nations.

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a speech at the state Democratic Party convention

Ed Schultz says When union membership goes down, so do (middle class) wages.

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a broadcast of "The Ed Show"

House Natural Resources Committee Republicans says "Obama did not open new lands to offshore drilling all of these areas were already open for drilling once Congress and President Bush lifted the moratorium in 2008. Instead, President Obama yesterday announced what areas he would CLOSE to offshore drilling."

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a news release posted on his website.

Mark Critz says "The Democratic Congress has already taken significant steps to create jobs and jump-start the economy, resulting in the lowest tax rates in over 50 years and the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year."

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a speech on the House floor

Leonidas Raptakis says Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis wrongly takes credit for small-business program

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announcing his campaign for secretary of state

Thurbert Baker says "Our school test scores are right at the bottom."

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a speech

Tom Tancredo says "There was a report that came out from the FBI a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays."

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an interview on CNN.

Steve Latourette says The problem with invasive species today in the Great Lakes isnt ballast water.

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a speech in the House of Representatives

Ken Paxton says Dan Branch once lobbied for the AFL-CIO.

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a news story

Tim Echols says Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower.

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an opinion piece in a trade magazine

David Perdue says Congressman Jack Kingston voted to raise his pay seven times.

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radio and television ad

Jonathan Karl says Kansas has not elected somebody other than a Republican (to the U.S. Senate) since before The Wizard of Oz hit the movie theaters.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Tim Curtis says Common Core means there are over 300 data elements the government is going to be collecting about your children and about you.

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a meeting about Common Core in Tampa

Ann Coulter says Obamas Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters) lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of talk to the hand.

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a column in Human Events.

Rick Perry says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations.

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an interview on Fox & Friends

Gun Free Ut Gun Free Ut says 29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting.

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web site blog post

Marco Rubio says For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting.

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a speech in Orlando, Fla.

Peter Nightingale says The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S.

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a web commentary

Glenn Beck says Barack Obama knew half of the population of the United States would lose their health insurance.

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a broadcast of the Glenn Beck Show

Charlie Hales says Say that under state law, systems development charges can only be spent on capital investment.

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a debate

Priorities Usa Action says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a womans premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked.

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campaign ad

George Nee says Public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors, I think, have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement.

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a television interview

Mike Collins says Another great endorsement! Barrow Journal explains the difference between me and Jody Hice.

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a Twitter post

Marco Rubio says "Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus."

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an interview with Fox News

Elizabeth Ames Jones says On resigning from the Texas Railroad Commission.

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a statement announcing her departure from the commission

Barack Obama says "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."

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a town hall meeting

Ken Tanner says The idea of one casino per tribe is a false one.

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a radio news interview

Ted Cruz says The 2013 immigration bill expanded President Obamas ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks.

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a town hall event in Windham, N.H.

Rob Cornilles says Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.

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a debate

Hillary Clinton says Regarding her State Department email practices, my predecessors did the same thing.

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a Univision/Washington Post Democratic debate

Sarah Palin says "We were promised (the stimulus) would provide 'green jobs' for Americans, but 80% of the $2 billion they spent on alternative energy went to purchase wind turbines built in China!"

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a Facebook post

Portlanders Water Reform says the reasoning behind Portlands high water and sewer rates is all kinds of pet projects unrelated to the core function of the water and sewer bureaus

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a fundraising letter.

Senate Majority Pac says Marco Rubio wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare because he said theyre bankrupting our country.

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a TV ad

Rick Scott says The FL Guard has defended our freedom in Afghanistan, Iraq, and put their lives at risk; now the fed govt is going to cut their pay 20%.

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a tweet

Scott Brown says "Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts."

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an interview with Barbara Walters

Roberto Alonzo says Latinos now make up the majority population in Texas.

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a press release

Mahlon Mitchell says Under a law proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, businesses that move into Wisconsin dont have to pay any taxes on their income for two years.

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remarks

Mitt Romney says We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy.

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a speech announcing his presidential campaign

Mitt Romney says I went to the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance.

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the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.

Scott Walker says As Jim Doyles Commerce secretary, Mary Burke spent $12.5 million dollars to buy a vacant lot for a company that said it had no plans to create jobs in Wisconsin and had laid off 800 workers.

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a campaign TV ad

Janet Adkins says There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools.

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a House Appropriations Committee meeting

Kenneth Block says (I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare.

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a TV and Internet commercial

Jeff Greene says "My opponent here has accepted money from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae (and) hosted subprime mortgage seminars."

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a public debate in West Palm Beach

Ted Cruz says There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible.

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the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis.

Rick Perry says Mitt Romney raised business taxes 20 percent in Massachusetts.

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an Iowa TV ad.

Jeff Merkley says with the ongoing economic downturn, child abuse is on the rise.

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a press release

Ed Lindsey says Most voters prefer zombies to the current U.S. Congress.

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a press release

Newt Gingrich says The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those whove stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate actually went up last month to 13.5 percent.

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a discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Michael Turner says Some 20,000 Delphi salaried retirees lost up to 70 percent of their pensions as a result of political favoritism and backroom deals.

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a statement supporting Mitt Romney

Scott Walker says Six of the nations 10 wealthiest counties, according to median income, are in and around the Washington, D.C. area.

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a speech

Barack Obama says If theres a government shutdown, people dont get their Social Security checks.

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a press conference

George Will says Just like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO receives dues from foreign entities associated with it.

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ABC's "This Week"

Republican National Committee Republican says Obama opposes lower gas taxes, nuclear power, new offshore drilling and doesn't have "new solutions" to the energy crisis.

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a TV ad.

Crossroads Gps says Obama promised to cut the deficit by half by the end of his first term but he hasnt even come close.

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a TV ad.

Bernie S says Bernie Sanders fundamentally changed the lives of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.

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a TV ad

George Will says President Barack Obama carried Congressional District 13 by 8.2 points in 2008 and 5.6 points in 2012.

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a "Washington Post" column

Paul Broun says According to a federal report, Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion.

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a newspaper op-ed

Marco Rubio says In Florida, 300,000 people are going to lose their individual coverage because of Obamacare. Now those people next year, they dont have health insurance.

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an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor."

David Sewell says he never donates to Democrats while Paul Workman contributes to Democrat Kirk Watson and other Democrats running against Republicans.

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a campaign flier

Gwen Moore says House Republicans tried to change the definition of rape.

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a speech at the Democratic National Convention

Mark Shields says Republicans made it easier to buy a gun in states they won in 2010.

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a broadcast of PBS' "Newshour"

Jorge Elorza says We have a goal of 10 percent of [City of Providence] contracts going to women and minority businesses. In reality, less than 1 percent of contracts go to women and minority businesses.

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a radio debate

Terry Mcauliffe says The $1.8 billion in [transportation] bonding, we dont have a repayment mechanism.

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a speech.

Democratic Party Virginia says Hospitals have already begun layoffs, a direct result of Republican inaction on Medicaid expansion.

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a news release.

Jim Moran says The Bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and work-force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000.

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a news release.

Marco Rubio says On whether the Iraq War was a mistake.

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an interview on Fox News

Joseph Kyrillos says We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We dont talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs.

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an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show

Bill Flores says he created more than 500 American jobs.

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a TV ad

Kent Conrad says Were borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend.

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an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."