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Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on November 9, 2019 a Facebook post
"Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • November 15, 2019
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on March 18, 2019 a press release
"It is estimated that more than 20 veterans die by suicide every day."
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By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • April 24, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 26, 2018 a campaign ad
Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.
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By D.L. Davis • November 2, 2018
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
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By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • October 21, 2017
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on October 11, 2016 a TV ad
"(Deborah) Ross defends those who want to burn the American flag, and even called efforts to ban flag-burning ‘ridiculous,’ yet refused to help a disabled veteran fly the flag."
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By Will Doran • November 5, 2016
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 18, 2016 a tweet.
"22 veterans take their own lives each day."
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By Chris Nichols • August 23, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 12, 2016 a campaign ad
Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers."
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By Allison Graves • August 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 comments at the Iowa Democratic debate
500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."
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By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 an online interview with "The Daily Show"
Since 2009, "we've cut homelessness (among veterans) by a third."
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By Kirby Wilson • July 28, 2015
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on February 2, 2015 an Associated Press news story
"When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem."
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By April Hunt • February 27, 2015
Concerned Veterans for America
Concerned Veterans for America
stated on July 25, 2014 a television ad
Says Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, missed "79 percent of veterans affairs committee hearings."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 30, 2014
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
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By Sue Owen • October 17, 2013
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio
"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 18, 2012 a news release
"More than one in five of veterans aged 20 to 24 can’t find a job to support their family or to ease the transition to civilian life."
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By Tom Feran • January 23, 2012