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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 1, 2011 the State of the State speech
Most state employees could pay twice as much toward their health care premiums and it would still be half the national average
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By Dave Umhoefer • February 8, 2011
Americans Against Food Taxes
Americans Against Food Taxes
stated on February 6, 2011 a television commercial
"Some politicians … want to put new taxes on a lot of groceries."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2011
Dave Hunt
Dave Hunt
stated on December 23, 2010 an e-mail
Says "every school will be negatively impacted" if Education Stability Fund is not tapped.
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By Ian K. Kullgren • February 7, 2011
Vance Smith
Vance Smith
stated on January 19, 2011 a budget presentation
Georgia has some of the best maintained roads in America.
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By Eric Stirgus • February 7, 2011
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on February 24, 2011 a prepared statement
Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with tax law. It costs us $163 billion to comply with our tax laws annually.
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By Charles Pope • February 5, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview with ABC News
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat
stated on January 30, 2011 a newspaper column
Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, "Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Chris Cummiskey
Chris Cummiskey
stated on January 19, 2011 a budget presentation
Georgia is the second-fastest growing state for international tourists.
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By Eric Stirgus • February 2, 2011
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 25, 2011 a TV interview.
The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes. 
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By Warren Fiske • February 1, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 22, 2011 a speech
Says there have been 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade was decided.
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 1, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations."
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By Stephen Koff • February 1, 2011
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on January 17, 2011 a speech to Tea Party activists.
"[Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050."
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By Jacob Geiger • January 28, 2011
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 14, 2011 a press release
There have been "at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2011
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on January 23, 2011 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
"We're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2011 a response to the State of the Union address
"The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy."
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By Stephen Koff, Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."  
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Dean Cannon
Dean Cannon
stated on January 19, 2011 comments to reporters.
"The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed."
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By Aaron Sharockman • January 25, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on January 6, 2011 an op-ed column
Texas leads "the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance."
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January 24, 2011
Jamie Radtke
Jamie Radtke
stated on January 17, 2011 a news release
George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16,400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate.
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By Warren Fiske • January 24, 2011
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