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Mike Plant
Mike Plant
stated on November 20, 2013 an interview
"No one in the country has ever built a brand new sports facility and created this kind of development at the same time."
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By Eric Stirgus • November 22, 2013
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on November 21, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"8.5 million Americans have gotten rebate checks because their insurance companies were spending too much money on executive bonuses and administrative costs and not enough on health care."
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By Katie Sanders • November 21, 2013
Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor
stated on November 13, 2013 a campaign ad
Says Tom Cotton "voted to turn Medicare into a voucher system."
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By Julie Kliegman • November 19, 2013
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on November 7, 2013 a hearing
The U.S. Department of Defense spends $80 million a year on prostate cancer research, $25 million a year on ovarian cancer research and $150 million a year on breast cancer research.
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By Eric Stirgus • November 19, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 3, 2013 an image shared on Facebook
Medicare Part D "was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike" the act, "was never budgeted."
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By Sue Owen • November 18, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 10, 2013 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"Given how expansive our program already was," expanding Medicaid in New Jersey due to Obamacare "was a relatively small expansion."
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By Julie Kliegman • November 14, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 12, 2013 a book
"The national debt is on track to double during Obama’s presidency."  
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November 13, 2013
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 5, 2013 an interview on MSNBC
Says Rick Scott "cut education by $1.3 billion" in his first year, then "in his second year he decreases funding by $300 million to our state universities."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2013
Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen
stated on November 10, 2013 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says Chris Christie "vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times over the course of his governorship."  
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By Katie Sanders • November 10, 2013
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on November 4, 2013 a campaign speech
"We have created new jobs here in Cranston -- more than 1,000."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 10, 2013
Steve Leslie
Steve Leslie
stated on October 29, 2013 remarks at an Austin town hall about the Dell Medical School
The University of Texas is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 8, 2013
Brad Blakeman
Brad Blakeman
stated on October 31, 2013 an interview on Fox News
"When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2013 a speech in Boston
Due to Obamacare, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 25, 2013 comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers "are on some form of public assistance."
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By Katie Sanders • November 4, 2013
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on November 3, 2013 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The federal health care law raises taxes and cuts Medicare.
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By Steve Contorno • November 3, 2013
Jan Crawford
Jan Crawford
stated on November 3, 2013 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"On day one, six people were able to sign up" for health insurance through the federal marketplace.
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By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2013
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 3, 2013 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Health insurance is more expensive in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the country."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2013
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on October 21, 2013 a fundraising letter.
"Providence has more of its pension fund invested in hedge funds and is less transparent" about it than the state.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2013
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on October 27, 2013 an interview on "This Week"
Says Mike Enzi is "getting about 84 percent of his campaign funds from Washington-based PACs. That's more than any senator of either party."
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By Steve Contorno • October 30, 2013
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on October 28, 2013 comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"The vast majority of people in this country are keeping their (health insurance) plan."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2013
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