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Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 25, 2013 a newspaper ad
Rick Scott  "invested $38 million in the Port of Jacksonville's vital Mile Point Project," which "covered missing federal funds for the project."
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By Katie Sanders • July 26, 2013
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on July 11, 2013 an interview on NJToday
"Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires."
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By Bill Wichert • July 25, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on July 17, 2013 a letter to Education Commissioner Tony Bennett
New school testing standards "will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students."
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By Jeffrey S. Solochek • July 22, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 10, 2013 an interview
"We’re importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. We’re America’s Dairyland, but yet we don’t have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers."
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July 22, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on July 9, 2013 a campaign brochure
"Since I was elected, crime rates have been at their lowest in over a decade."
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By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2013
David Sutton
David Sutton
stated on June 30, 2013 an interview
Says "excise taxes are...disproportionately burdening middle- and lower-income consumers."
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By Eric Stirgus • July 16, 2013
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on June 26, 2013 an op-ed
The Hispanic population in Gwinnett and Henry counties has increased by 153 percent and 339 percent, respectively, since 2000 while Republican presidential candidates are getting a smaller percentage of the vote in those counties.
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By Eric Stirgus • July 15, 2013
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on July 7, 2013 an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
Says Obama administration delay of health care law's employer mandate affects about 1 percent of the American workforce.
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By Becky Bowers • July 12, 2013
Dave Schwartz
Dave Schwartz
stated on June 17, 2013 a speech.
"Twenty-four percent of doctors in Virginia currently don’t accept new Medicaid patients because the reimbursement rates are so low."
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By Nancy Madsen • July 12, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2013
Says a growing number of extremely premature babies survive into healthy childhood.
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2013
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on June 29, 2013 an interview with CNN
Says under the Senate immigration bill, newly legalized immigrants will "pay every tax possible, but you don’t get a single benefit" for 10 years.
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By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 an op-ed in USA Today
"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."
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By Becky Bowers • July 8, 2013
Sarah Ponder
Sarah Ponder
stated on July 1, 2013 a rally at the state Capitol
Says $800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators.
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By Sue Owen • July 3, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC
"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."
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By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2013
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"
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By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2013
E.W. Jackson
E.W. Jackson
stated on June 19, 2013 a speech.
"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."
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By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2013
Gene Green
Gene Green
stated on June 28, 2013 a press release
Says student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1.
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By Sue Owen • June 28, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2013 a speech on climate change
As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, "there were days where folks couldn't go outside. … because of all the pollution in the air."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2013
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 a House of Representatives floor speech
"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."
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By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
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