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Terry Katsma
stated on February 17, 2019 a TV interview:

"The rainy day fund … is $320 million. That's much more than what it has been in the past."

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By Mica Soellner • February 28, 2019

Craig Thompson
stated on January 27, 2019 an interview:

Among neighboring states, the condition of Wisconsin highways was rated "not only the worst, but it was worse by a gaping margin."

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By D.L. Davis • February 26, 2019

David Price
stated on February 14, 2019 a tweet:

Says border "crossings remain at historically low levels."

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By Bill McCarthy • February 22, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a town hall:

Prescription drugs "are nearly 20 percent of our health care costs now when you include hospital prescription drugs."

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By Tom Kertscher • February 22, 2019

Jason Smith
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet:

Federal workers "are paid well above the HOUSEHOLD income in southern Missouri."

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By Olivia Garrett • February 21, 2019

Joe Manchin
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet:

The partial government shutdown in early 2019 affected "18,000 federal employees in West Virginia."

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By Kenneth Harmonay, Patrick Downey • February 20, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 8, 2019 a blog post:

When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."

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By Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2019

Jerrold Nadler
stated on February 6, 2019 a committee hearing:

"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."

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By Yanqi Xu • February 14, 2019

Roy Cooper
stated on January 30, 2019:

Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance."

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By Paul Specht • February 14, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on February 11, 2019 a Facebook post:

Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."

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By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2019

Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet:

"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."

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By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019

Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 an interview on CNN:

"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."

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By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2019

John Nygren
stated on January 11, 2019 a tweet:

"Today, property taxes are lower than they were in 2010."

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By D.L. Davis • February 8, 2019

Patrick Morrisey
stated on January 6, 2019 a Facebook post:

Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs."

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By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • February 7, 2019

Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 21, 2019 a speech:

"All of this work helped us increase graduation rates by 42 percent and substantially reduce the racial achievement gap."

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By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 7, 2019

Civitas Institute
stated on January 28, 2019 a tweet:

"There are almost 60,000 North Carolina children on waiting lists to access a school that works best for them."

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By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2019

Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 3, 2019 an op-ed:

"Our economy is growing at its fastest pace in nearly four years. Unemployment is at an all-time low."

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By Erica Anderson, Mylana Chico • February 4, 2019

Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 news release:

"Not a dollar would be paid out until jobs in the Foxconn development area were created."

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By D.L. Davis • February 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 a tweet:

"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."

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By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019

Howard Schultz
stated on January 27, 2019 an interview on CBS:

"Over 40 percent of the American people don't have $400 in the bank."

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By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2019

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