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stated on November 3, 2013 in 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 in 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 in a book:
"The national debt is on track to double during Obama’s presidency."  
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By Tom Kertscher • November 13, 2013
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 5, 2013 in 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."
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By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2013
Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen
stated on November 10, 2013 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Independent Texans
Independent Texans
stated on September 3, 2013 in a white paper on Proposition 6:
$6 billion water bond program voters passed in 2011 "has yet to be tapped."
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By Sue Owen • October 29, 2013
John Barge
John Barge
stated on October 17, 2013 in a town hall meeting:
"We have about six school districts that are in school 140 to 150 days this year."
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By Eric Stirgus • October 29, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2013 in a public address:
Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans "can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill."
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By Julie Kliegman • October 28, 2013
Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie
stated on October 22, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":
Emergency rooms account for "2 percent of all health care spending."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2013
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