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Zephyr Teachout says John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.

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her victory speech after winning the Democratic primary.

Haley Barbour says It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog, but he's cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time.

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an op-ed in the Washington Examiner

Mitt Romney says "Mayor Giuliani's lawsuit killed the line-item veto."

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Bill Zedler says While (Barack) Obama preaches we are our brothers keeper, his brother and aunt live in real poverty in Kenya.

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a Twitter post.

Frank Caprio says 1 in 4 Rhode Islanders under the age of 65 does not have health insurance.

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his campaign website

Barack Obama says During my administration, for example, we boosted U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico by about 50 percent. That supports about 2.8 million American jobs.

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a press conference at the North American Leaders Summit

Barack Obama says Mitt Romneys comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.

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a Web ad

Joe Biden says If you shut down Amtraks Northeast Corridor, its estimated youd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic.

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a speech in Philadelphia

John Boehner says "President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."

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a blog post

Impact America says As governor, Maggie Hassan first proposed a $1 billion spending increase.

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an ad

Ron Paul says Just on Jan. 1 of this year, there were 40,000 new laws put on the books in one day.

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a speech at Texas A&M University.

Kathleen Sebelius says One of three patients hospitalized (is) harmed by the care they receive.

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a speech

Americans Prosperity North Carolina Chapter says There are 500 failing schools in North Carolina

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an official statement

Ken Paxton says At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugals.

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a speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention

Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wantsillegal immigrants collectingSocial Security benefits.

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a campaign ad

Charlie Sykes says Says JoAnne Kloppenburgs side had a 3-to-1 money advantage in the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign.

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comments made during his radio show

Julian Castro says Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community.

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Hillary Clinton campaign news release

John Kitzhaber says Since the governor took office, Oregons unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point in three years.

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a website statement

National Republican Congressional Committee says Rep. Carol Shea-Porter votes with Nancy Pelosis Democrats 95 percent of the time, but Frank Guinta will take on both parties and has independent New Hampshire values.

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an ad

John Kasich says Were within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. Were in a perfect location.

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a speech to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce

Tim Canova says Debbie Wasserman Schultz has voted for huge subsidies for the sugar industry ... as well as for delays in cleanups.

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a post on Medium

Wisconsin Education Association Council says State budget cuts for local schools resulted in nearly 4,000 educator layoffs

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a news release

Arizona Citizens Defense League says a gun bill before the Senate is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners.

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an email to supporters

George Lemieux says Charlie Crist was pro-life, pro-gun and vehemently anti-tax.

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an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times

John Kasich says We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year.

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an interview with Fox News

Barack Obama says Up to half of all Americans have a pre-existing condition.

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a speech about the Affordable Care Act

Mike Tate says A Republican budget proposal would have Wisconsin have the weakest standards for who can be a teacher in the classroom in the country.

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a speech

Doctors Healthy Georgia says Defensive medicine costs Georgia up to $14 billion a year.

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its website

Jim Waldman says You are prohibited from walking into the Capitol with a gun, but you can go after the County Commission or the School Board.

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a news blog

John Mccain says Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona.

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a campaign ad

Ed Lindsey says Georgia has recovered more than $60 million that was lost to Medicaid fraud

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press release

My City Bikes says This is a test of the fact-checking widget.

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a test of the fact-checking widget

Jerry Patterson says unsuccessful Texas abortion legislation was supported by a majority of Texans.

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an email blast.

Greg Walden says Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?

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a Tweet

Joe Biden says "In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

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statement on Web site

National Republican Congressional Committee says that 93 percent of the time John Boccieri voted with Nancy Pelosi.

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a television election ad

Rhode Island Center Freedom And Prosperity says Rhode Island will become just the second state to mandate the vaccine and the only state to do so by regulatory fiat, without public debate, and without consideration from the elected representatives of the people.

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news release

Stephen Colbert says Paul Ryan shut off the C-SPAN cameras when the Democrats started their sit-in.

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a comedy sketch

Ron Hayduk says The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship.

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a newspaper commentary

Mitt Romney says Only one president has ever cut Medicare for seniors in this country . . . Barack Obama.

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a Republican presidential primary debate

Rainbowpush Coalition says In Georgia, hard-earned lottery dollars are doled out to the scion[s] of wealthy families.

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a press release

Moms Rising says Having a baby is aleading cause of poverty spells in the United States.

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a tweet

Charlie Crist says David Jolly has used money and power to try to drill off our beaches.

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a fundraising email

Rick Scott says You have to get a license to fish on our beaches.

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a conversation with workers

Arizona House Democrats says Gov. Doug Ducey wants to use taxpayer dollars to increase the salaries of private prison guards.

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a blog post

Rand Paul says The president won the youth vote 3 to1, but his numbers have dropped 20, 30 percent among the youth.

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a 'Fox News Sunday' interview

Scott Walker says Minnesotas advantage in economic growth has been having Republicans in charge of at least one part of government for all but two years, while Wisconsin Democrats for many years before 2011 controlled both legislative chambers and the governorship.

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an interview

Rebecca Kleefisch says Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care

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a campaign TV ad

Anthony Gemma says Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation

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a speech at the state Democratic convention

Barth Bracy says Gov. Lincoln Chafee has imposed a mandatory abortion fee on all Rhode Islanders who buy health insurance through the states Obamacare exchange.

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a news release

Fair Districts Florida says In the last 6 years, there have been 420 elections for State Senator and State Representative. Only three incumbents have been defeated!

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on the Fair Districts Florida website

Rick Santorum says Mitt Romney said we are going to have to live with high gas prices, its a good thing because it will reduce consumption, we dont want to produce any more gasoline.

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a campaign appearance in Wisconsin

Julian Castro says Were seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created.

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an interview on "Meet the Press."

Mitt Romney says President Obama has doubled the deficit.

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the first presidential debate in Denver

Barack Obama says McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.

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an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters

Rick Perry says The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all.

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in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando

Ej Finocchio says Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals.

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a television interview

Lincoln Chafee says One of the reasons I believe were in trouble in Yemen is we lost the population on drone strikes issues. Thats what stirred up the population. Thats what is happening in Yemen.

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Campaign speech

Mitt Romney says Barack Obama began his presidency with an apology tour.

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remarks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa

Antonio Sabato Jr says President Barack Obama is absolutely a Muslim.

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an interview with ABC News

American Unity Pac says Ted Strickland supported giving $150 billion to Iranian regime that persecutes women, Christians and gays.

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a campaign ad

John Mica says On the question on the DREAM Act, no -- no to granting lower tuition to illegals.

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an interview with MSNBC.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says David Jollys former firm lobbied for hundreds of millions (of dollars) for a dictator in Pakistan.

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a campaign commercial

Bill Batchelder says getting ex-cons to successfully return to society is important so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism, which is a big problem in the penitentiary today in the 70 to 80 percent range.

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an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM

Bill Flores says On possibly raising the Social Security retirement age.

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in a TV interview

Dave Hansen says The Republican-authored state budget includes a provision forcing people earning as little as $12,000 to buy private health insurance that could cost them as much as $4,000 per year.

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a news release

Donald Trump says As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions, millions of jobs.

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a speech in Monessen, Penn.

Holly Benson says Most AGs dont go to court..

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a debate.

Michael Doherty says State Comptroller Matthew Boxer pointed out that many towns are artificially lowering the real estate values that they report to Trenton in order to get hundreds of millions of dollars of additional school aid. This is the kind of fraud that needs to be addressed immediately.

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an interview on NJToday

Facebook Posts says Milwaukee incarcerates 1.2% of white men and has incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s.

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a meme circulated on Facebook

Brendan Doherty says We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud.

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a TV news show.

Mitch Mcconnell says On a bipartisan task force on ways to improve fiscal policy.

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a speech on the Senate floor

Barack Obama says In the past three years, weve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.

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a Rose Garden speech

John Mccain says Obama is the Senate's "most liberal."

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a TV ad

Bill Richardson says "Three out of the 18 benchmarks of the (GAO) have been fulfilled. Even among Republican math, that is a failing grade."

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Las Vegas, Nev.

Tom Price says The fiscal cliff deal ultimately raised taxes.

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a radio interview

Ben Rhodes says When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.

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comments on ABC's "This Week"

Americans Tax Reform says U.S. Olympic medal winners will owe up to $9,000 to the IRS.

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a blog post

Tom Barrett says Eleven years ago, the city of Detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today, 53 percent of officers live outside of the city. If we want the tax base of Milwaukee to resemble the tax base of Detroit, this is the way to go.

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a newspaper interview

Rick Perry says Texas is the fastest growing state with the most Fortune 500 companies.

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a Web ad

Eric Turner says There was a 57-percent decrease in fireworks-related injuries in 2000 [after Connecticut legalized sparklers] compared to the 14 years prior.

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testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Peter Orszag says Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent.

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a TV interview.

Dave Aronberg says Dave Aronberg was the first to demand that BP create a billion-dollar fund to pay for the devastation.

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a mailer

Michael Burgess says 2010 was the worst year ever for Americas doctors reimbursed by Medicare.

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an interview.

Florida First Project says Carlos Beruff supported (Charlie) Crist even after he switched parties.

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a campaign ad

Maxey Scherr says We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else.

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an interview

Ted Cruz says I have not insulted Donald personally.

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comments during the Iowa Republican presidential debate

Mitt Romney says Regulations have quadrupled. The rate of regulations quadrupled under this president.

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town hall presidential debate

Marco Rubio says Under his tax plan, the greatest gains, percentage-wise, will be at the lower end of our plan.

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a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.

Winning Our Future says Mitt Romney is worth at least a quarter billion dollars and the bulk of his wealth remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts.

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the online video "King of Bain"

Ending Spending Action Fund says U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn earned as much as $300,000 running a nonprofit that had laid off 90 workers.

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television attack ad

Republican Governors Association says Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms She taxed them all. Architect of Corzines budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards.

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a gubernatorial campaign TV ad

Pew Environment Group says In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.

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a newspaper advertisement

Tennessee Republican Party says "You don't even have to go outside Obama's campaign to find advisers who are anti-Israel."

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in a press release

Barack Obama says Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up.

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the State of the Union address

Majority Pac says Tim Kaine made Virginia the best state for business four years in a row.

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a TV ad.

Ron Johnson says During his 18-year Senate career, (Russ Feingold) supported judges who voted to deny your individual Second Amendment right. (He) promises to protect those rights, but thats not what his record shows.

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a TV ad

Mike Villarreal says Gov. Rick Perrys administration has proposed ending immunizations for 113,000 kids.

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a press release

Barack Obama says "Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."

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a speech at the White House.

Rick Santorum says [R]emember, the president proposed eliminating charitable deductions for higher-income taxpayers.

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a speech