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Tim Ryan
stated on September 27, 2022 a campaign ad

By Jon Greenberg • October 4, 2022

Tim Ryan
stated on July 19, 2022 an ad

Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”

July 27, 2022

Aftab Pureval
stated on August 28, 2018 a campaign ad

Says Steve Chabot "voted to strip insurance protections for pre-existing conditions."

By Stephen Koff • September 12, 2018

Jim Renacci
stated on July 10, 2018 a press conference

Says Sherrod Brown "votes 97 percent with Chuck Schumer, almost 95 plus percent with Elizabeth Warren."

By Amy Sherman • July 31, 2018

Jim Renacci
stated on April 25, 2018 a radio interview

"President Trump is still supported by almost 85 percent of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio, and that's from recent polling, and still has a 58 percent approval rating in Ohio."

By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2018

Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 a speech to the City Club of Cleveland

"Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act."

By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018

Richard Cordray
stated on April 2, 2018 a campaign website

"Since 1999, firearm deaths in Ohio have risen 58 percent."

By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2018

Mary Taylor
stated on January 29, 2018 a speech

Says Mike DeWine "flip-flopped on the gun issue and has earned an F from the NRA."

By Amy Sherman • March 6, 2018

Tim Ryan
stated on February 20, 2018 an interview on CNN

"Seventy to 80 percent of NRA members support a universal background check."

By Amy Sherman • February 27, 2018

JD Vance
stated on December 31, 2017 an interview on Face the Nation

Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts."

By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2018

Richard Cordray
stated on December 14, 2017 a speech

On taxes, "if you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast forward 50 years: individuals still 7 percent, corporations (are) down to 2 percent."

By Amy Sherman • January 30, 2018

Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 the Ohio Senate debate

Says Rob Portman "said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio."

By Allison Graves • October 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2016 a rally in Columbus, Ohio

Russia and China are "doing naval exercises together someplace."

By Nadia Pflaum • August 4, 2016

Sherrod Brown
stated on July 28, 2016 a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Says Donald Trump "proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his."

By Nadia Pflaum • August 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz

Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."

By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016

Tim McGinty
stated on March 4, 2016 his campaign website

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

By Nadia Pflaum • March 4, 2016

Rob Portman
stated on July 11, 2013 a news conference call

"I was filibustered."

By Stephen Koff • July 29, 2013

Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 a House of Representatives floor speech

"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."

By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013

Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 a tweet

"If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance."

By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013

Mike Foley
stated on April 23, 2013 news release

Ohio’s lost more jobs in March than any other state in the nation.

By Robert Higgs • May 13, 2013

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