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Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 in 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
stated on July 9, 2013 in 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
stated on June 30, 2013 in 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
stated on June 26, 2013 in 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
stated on July 7, 2013 in 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
stated on June 17, 2013 in 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
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
stated on June 29, 2013 in 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
stated on July 1, 2013 in 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
stated on July 1, 2013 in 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
stated on June 20, 2013 in 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
stated on June 20, 2013 in 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
stated on June 19, 2013 in 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
stated on June 28, 2013 in 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
stated on June 25, 2013 in 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
stated on June 11, 2013 in 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

Wendy Davis
stated on June 25, 2013 in a filibuster on the Senate floor:

Says 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider in 2008.

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By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • June 25, 2013

Stephen Nodine
stated on June 21, 2013 in statements to the media:

Says he can be on the ballot for Congress while serving time in jail.

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By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2013

Ron Shipman
stated on June 10, 2013 in a meeting:

Says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.

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By Eric Stirgus • June 24, 2013

Stephen Sweeney
stated on June 1, 2013 in an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program:

"People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them."

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By Caryn Shinske • June 23, 2013

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