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Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on October 13, 2013 an interview:
"We’re 49th in the United States in new businesses created."
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By Dave Umhoefer • October 20, 2013
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on October 18, 2013 a letter:
Says "by reducing chronic health care costs in the State of Georgia, we can reduce the $32.8 billion lost each year due to lack of productivity and economic costs."
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By Eric Stirgus • October 18, 2013
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”:
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
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By Sue Owen • October 17, 2013
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on October 15, 2013 a Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 debate:
"Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average."
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By Katie Sanders • October 17, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 10, 2013 an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire.":
"Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 17, 2013
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock."
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By Becky Bowers • October 15, 2013
Bill Burton
Bill Burton
stated on October 8, 2013 an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire":
Democrats already agreed to "a deal that Republicans wanted, that Eric Cantor said would be a win."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2013
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 her oped column:
Louie Gohmert of Texas "compared the current general-in-charge in Egypt to George Washington."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 6, 2013 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Because of the 2011 debt ceiling fight, "the stock market lost 2,000 points."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on September 25, 2013 a debate.:
Virginia is "the number one state per capita in screening out people with mental illness from gun purchases."  
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By Sean Gorman • October 7, 2013
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on September 22, 2013 a television interview:
Forty-six states have a line-item veto for the governor.
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By Gregory Smith • October 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2013 an NPR interview:
"At the time that (Medicare Part D) was passed (it) was actually less popular than the Affordable Care Act, according to the polls."
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By Julie Kliegman • October 4, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 1, 2013 a tweet:
The shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week."
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By Amy Sherman • October 3, 2013
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on September 21, 2013 a flier mailed to constituents:
"In 2010, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office found that only 6.5 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border was under full control of the Border Patrol."
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By Sue Owen • October 1, 2013
Dan Gelber
Dan Gelber
stated on September 13, 2013 an op-ed:
"For the last decade, Floridians’ salaries have shrunk substantially" when adjusted for inflation.
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By Rochelle Koff • October 1, 2013
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on September 22, 2013 a roundtable on ABC’s “This Week”:
Under economic sanctions, "now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment."
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By Becky Bowers • September 27, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2013 a speech about the Affordable Care Act:
"Up to half of all Americans have a pre-existing condition."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 27, 2013
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 24, 2013 on CNN's "Crossfire":
"(Obamacare) is a bill which has never once had a majority of Americans favor it."
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By Julie Kliegman • September 26, 2013
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 22, 2013 a Tampa Bay Times op-ed:
"Today many Florida teachers are at risk of having their pay impacted by the performance of children who are not even in their classrooms or subject areas."
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By Katie Sanders • September 25, 2013
Carol Shea-Porter
Carol Shea-Porter
stated on September 20, 2013 a press release:
"According to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing Obamacare would increase the budget deficit."
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By Jim Haddadin • September 25, 2013
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