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Ed FitzGerald
Ed FitzGerald
stated on April 24, 2013 a campaign speech
"Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores."
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By Tom Feran • May 3, 2013
Jodie Laubenberg
Jodie Laubenberg
stated on April 4, 2013 a Texas House floor debate.
Says Texas state funds were spent on "a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2013
One New Jersey
One New Jersey
stated on April 9, 2013 a TV ad
"Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike."
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By Caryn Shinske • April 14, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 a congressional hearing
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
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By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Jeff Mullis
Jeff Mullis
stated on March 6, 2013 a meeting
Georgia loses "millions of dollars of revenue because people go out of state to buy fireworks."
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By Eric Stirgus • March 22, 2013
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on March 12, 2013 a House floor speech
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Sarah Eckhardt
Sarah Eckhardt
stated on February 18, 2013 an email blast.
Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2013
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen
stated on January 15, 2013 a speech on the House floor
Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy."
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By Bill Wichert • January 31, 2013
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on January 8, 2013 a news release
Says Ohio’s economic recovery "started in February 2010."
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By Henry J. Gomez • January 24, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 15, 2013 a speech
"Nearly a quarter of all adults in this state have some college credit without a degree."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • January 21, 2013
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
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on October 22, 2012 a League of Women Voters guide for Texas and Austin voters
Says U.S. corporate tax rate is "highest in the world at 35 percent."
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By Sue Owen • November 1, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 18, 2012 a debate.
Bill Clinton presided over "the biggest expansion of the American economy since World War II."
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By Nancy Madsen • October 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 a news release
"6,400 Ohioans ... lost manufacturing jobs in the month of September."
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By Stephen Koff • October 26, 2012
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 29, 2012 a television interview
"We're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. We're actually, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, down 500 ... auto jobs in Ohio."
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By Tom Feran • October 5, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 9, 2012 an interview on "Meet the Press."
"We’re seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 10, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"In the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bob Buckhorn
Bob Buckhorn
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the RNC
The unemployment rate is declining faster in Tampa "than almost anywhere else."
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By Katie Sanders • August 31, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 a debate on WPRI.com
"When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now we've had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 14, 2012 a news release
Says that as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney "condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people."
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By Stephen Koff • August 23, 2012
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