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Desmond Meade
stated on January 15, 2014 in a "BloggingBlackMiami" blog post:

Of the approximately 6 million disenfranchised felons in the United States, "one-quarter are Floridians."

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By Amy Sherman • January 23, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on January 22, 2014 in a speech:

"After years of 5.5 percent average tuition increases, we now have a two-year tuition freeze for the first time in the history of the UW System."

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By Tom Kertscher • January 23, 2014

Josh Fox
stated on January 19, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry":

"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012" with "more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill."

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By Katie Sanders • January 23, 2014

Joe Scarborough
stated on January 21, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Since Barack Obama became president of the United States, 95 percent of economic gains have been made by the richest 1 percent."

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By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2014 in a Saturday radio address:

"Thanks in part to our all-of-the-above strategy for American energy," the United States generates "more natural gas than anybody."

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By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2014

Chris Christie
stated on January 14, 2014 in a State of the State address:

"Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years."

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By Caryn Shinske • January 19, 2014

Lisa Bloom
stated on January 14, 2014 in an interview with Piers Morgan:

"Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries."

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By Katie Sanders • January 17, 2014

Rhode Island Senate
stated on January 15, 2014 in a Senate resolution:

"The (New England) Patriots were led by an explosive offense that scored the second most points in the NFL."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 17, 2014

David Scott
stated on January 6, 2014 in a letter:

President Barack Obama’s judicial appointments for Georgia and the region were drafted in secret and not vetted by legal groups among the president’s supporters.

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By Eric Stirgus • January 17, 2014

Robert Gates
stated on January 13, 2014 in an interview with NPR:

On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was "a step forward" for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagan's defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.

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By Steve Contorno • January 16, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on January 10, 2014 in a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum:

Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury."

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By Sue Owen • January 16, 2014

Texans for Reliable Power
stated on January 9, 2014 in an advertisement:

"Texas is experiencing the fastest population growth in the country," adding "more than 1,000 people a day."

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By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2014

Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 in a CNN interview:

"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."

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By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2014

Marilinda Garcia
stated on December 11, 2013 in a tweet:

"I cut spending while serving in the state Legislature"

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By Kevin Landrigan • January 14, 2014

Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."

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By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014

Kathleen Vinehout
stated on December 5, 2013 in a speech:

"If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but "it didn’t show up in your paycheck."

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By Dave Umhoefer • January 14, 2014

Robert Gibbs
stated on January 12, 2014 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We have been in Afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nation’s history."

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By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 in a speech:

Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."

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By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014

U.S. Census Bureau
stated on January 7, 2014 in a mailing to Austin's Bob Cole:

Federal law requires residents to participate in the U.S. government’s American Community Survey.

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By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on January 5, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

"There are many studies that indicate" that the longer people get unemployment insurance, "it provides some disincentive to work."

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By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014

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