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Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on December 1, 2010 a city council meeting
Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.
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By Janie Har • December 23, 2010
Martin Kiar
Martin Kiar
stated on December 14, 2010 a meeting
"You can go to Georgia and make about $6,000 more a year as a teacher."  
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By Amy Sherman • December 21, 2010
Talgo Inc.
Talgo Inc.
stated on December 10, 2010 a statement from the company
The Milwaukee business community "did not speak about the facts" -- and in support of train manufacturer Talgo -- as the Milwaukee-Madison rail link was being killed.
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By James B. Nelson • December 20, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on December 14, 2010 a statement on the U.S. Senate floor
Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included  "$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin."
True
December 19, 2010
James Jolly
James Jolly
stated on October 1, 2010 a University of Georgia System newsletter
"Every student paying out-of-state tuition actually covers more than the cost of instruction."
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By Willoughby Mariano • December 17, 2010
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
stated on November 9, 2010 his book, "Decision Points."
Says that in his first 17 months as president, the United States doubled its world-leading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2010 a television interview
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 13, 2010 a Twitter message
Under the compromise tax agreement, "99.7% of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax."
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December 14, 2010
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Braves
stated on December 13, 2010 a history on team website
The Atlanta Braves are "the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America."
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By Eric Stirgus • December 14, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on December 1, 2010 a press release
"A 5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump."  
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By Amy Sherman • December 13, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 a Senate floor speech
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2010
Oregon Right to Life PAC
Oregon Right to Life PAC
stated on December 5, 2010 a newspaper ad
Oregonians have an "amazing no-cost way to fight abortion" with free political donations
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By Ian K. Kullgren • December 10, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on December 3, 2010 a gathering with reporters
"I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year.  ... We have people who are check kiters and don't pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen."
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By Mark Naymik • December 10, 2010
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 6, 2010 a floor speech.
The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.
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By Wes Hester • December 9, 2010
Jim Zehringer
Jim Zehringer
stated on November 16, 2010 a news conference
"Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax."
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By Joe Guillen • December 9, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on December 7, 2010 a meeting of the Florida Cabinet
"150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid."
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 8, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 6, 2010 a press conference
Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy.
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 7, 2010
National Review
National Review
stated on November 3, 2010 National Review Online
Said Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures during last month’s election
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By Jim Tharpe • December 3, 2010
Ronda Storms
Ronda Storms
stated on December 1, 2010 a newspaper interview.
Hillsborough's Public Transportation Commission has "a rule that says cabbies have to wear socks. I mean, please. Come on."
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 2, 2010
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on November 30, 2010
"The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled -- 100 percent -- in the last 10 years."
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By Wes Hester • December 2, 2010
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