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Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on December 31, 2012 an interview on WOR-AM:
Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years."
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By Bill Wichert • January 13, 2013
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on January 8, 2013 a Twitter post.:
Says Texas is "dead last in support for mental health."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2013
Pardeep Kaleka
Pardeep Kaleka
stated on December 17, 2012 an online video:
"Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns."
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By Tom Kertscher • January 9, 2013
Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz
stated on January 10, 2013 an interview with the Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio's judges, "compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid."
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By Tom Feran • January 9, 2013
Texas Medical Association
Texas Medical Association
stated on December 7, 2012 a Twitter post.:
Says 31 percent of Texas physicians accept all new Medicaid patients, down from 67 percent in 2000.
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 8, 2013
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on December 16, 2012 a newspaper commentary:
"Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially."
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By John Hill • January 8, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on January 1, 2013 a news release:
The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments "for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes."
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By Stephen Koff • January 4, 2013
American International Group
American International Group
stated on January 1, 2013 a TV ad:
AIG has fully repaid the federal government "plus a profit of more than $22 billion."
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By Becky Bowers • January 2, 2013
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 23, 2012 a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
"You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
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By Bill Wichert • December 27, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 4, 2012 a speech:
"One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids don’t graduate."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2012
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on December 13, 2012 legislative testimony.:
Says the Nike bill "is not a tax break ... this does not lower the taxes that Nike will pay nor does it prevent the Legislature from raising those taxes in the future."
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By Ian K. Kullgren • December 20, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on December 4, 2012 a press conference in Trenton:
"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
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By Caryn Shinske • December 16, 2012
Sherry Sylvester
Sherry Sylvester
stated on December 2, 2012 an opinion column.:
Says personal-injury trial lawyers "have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 14, 2012
Juan Hernández
Juan Hernández
stated on November 8, 2012 a Dallas Morning News blog post:
Says Texas passed a state ‘Dream Act’ before any other state.
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By Sue Owen • December 12, 2012
Our Oregon
Our Oregon
stated on December 4, 2012 a blog post.:
Says that "the state spends more money on tax giveaways than it receives in tax collection."
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By Ian K. Kullgren • December 10, 2012
Ken Detzner
Ken Detzner
stated on November 9, 2012 a CNN interview:
November 2012 was "a record year of turnout. More people voted before Election Day using absentee ballots and voting early than ever before in our history."
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By Amy Sherman • December 7, 2012
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on November 24, 2012 a Huffington Post column:
Says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker.
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By Katie Sanders • December 6, 2012
Dan Micciche
Dan Micciche
stated on November 4, 2012 an opinion article in the Dallas Morning News.:
"The poverty level in" the Dallas school district "is one of the highest in the country, higher than New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Newark."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2012
Sandy Pasch
Sandy Pasch
stated on December 29, 2012 a radio address:
Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly "actually received 200,000 more votes statewide" than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election  
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By Dave Umhoefer • December 5, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on November 29, 2012 a speech on the Senate floor:
Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.
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By Bill Wichert • December 3, 2012
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