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Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on January 16, 2019 his state of the state speech
"We maintain this (Missouri highway) system with one of the lowest levels of funding in the country."
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By Sidney Steele • March 7, 2019
Chris Jones
Chris Jones
stated on February 23, 2019 a floor speech.
Virginia House "Republicans have had more African-Americans on key committees than when the Democrats were in control."  
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By Warren Fiske • March 5, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
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By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 a State of the State Address
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
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By Chris Nichols • February 14, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 a speech.
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
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By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 31, 2019 an interview
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
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February 12, 2019
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on January 9, 2019 a speech.
On extreme-risk guns laws, "This idea has passed Republican legislatures in other states and has been signed by Republican governors."  
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By Warren Fiske • January 23, 2019
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on December 26, 2018 a Facebook post
A bill passed by GOP legislators "makes it harder to prosecute people and groups that violate campaign finance laws."
True
By Paul Specht • January 14, 2019
Nita Lowey
Nita Lowey
stated on January 7, 2019 a radio interview
"The facts are, the majority of opioids and all kinds of other things that are connected to the opioids are coming through the point of entry."  
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 14, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on December 17, 2018 a speech
New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 7, 2019
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on December 1, 2018 a tweet
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 "includes the largest pay raise in nearly 10 years."
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By Morgan Keith • December 13, 2018
Mike Romano
Mike Romano
stated on December 8, 2018 an op-ed
"Adjusting for inflation, West Virginia’s median household income has not grown in a decade."
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By Shannon MacNeil • December 12, 2018
Mike Romano
Mike Romano
stated on November 8, 2018 an op-ed
The poverty rate in West Virginia "was 19.1 percent, the fourth-highest in the country."
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By Liz Newton, Zack Schwehm • December 10, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 19, 2018 a radio interview
"There is nothing that we have done on Amazon that we have not done with hundreds of other projects."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 7, 2018
Mike Romano
Mike Romano
stated on November 8, 2018 an op-ed
"In 2017, West Virginia’s $43,469 median household income was $16,867 below the national average, ranking 50th."
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By Julia Mellett, Sadaf Nikzad • December 7, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 3, 2018 a Facebook post
Says Ann Coulter said, "I am a settler. I am descended from settlers — not from immigrants."
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By Kyra Haas • December 6, 2018
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on November 27, 2018 a tweet
At General Motors, CEO Mary Barra "took home almost 22 MILLION DOLLARS last year alone (295x your company's average employee)."
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By Liz Newton, Jamie Green, Kenna Richards, Patrick Orsagos • December 6, 2018
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on November 15, 2018 a tweet
The United States "spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy R&D."
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By Kristen Mohammadi, Lili Zecevic • December 6, 2018
Crystal Quade
Crystal Quade
stated on December 8, 2018 an interview
Missouri "had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country."
True
By Ryan Hanrahan • December 6, 2018
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
stated on November 9, 2018 a tweet
"In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses."
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By Titus Wu • November 19, 2018
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