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Joe Manchin
stated on October 14, 2018 an op-ed:

The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them."

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By Mary Alice Truitt • December 3, 2018

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on November 27, 2018 a press briefing:

"Tear gas was used on average once a month during the Obama administration for very similar circumstances."

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By Miriam Valverde • November 28, 2018

Gordon Hintz
stated on November 18, 2018 a TV interview:

"One year ago, (Republicans) would not fill seats vacated for people who went to the administration because of the cost of those elections. Now, they’re talking about changing the rules to add additional elections that will cost millions of dollars of taxpayer expense."

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By D.L. Davis • November 28, 2018

Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 a TV interview:

"We have lost over $1 billion in not taking the Medicaid expansion money, only to insure fewer people."

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By Eric Litke • November 20, 2018

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on November 12, 2018 a television interview:

"Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed."

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By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 16, 2018

Marco Rubio
stated on November 8, 2018 a tweet:

"#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law."

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By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2018

Scott Galloway
stated on November 7, 2018 a tweet:

"The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire."

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By Amy Sherman • November 8, 2018

Bloggers
stated on November 6, 2018 a post on Facebook:

Says Clint Eastwood said "one day we will realize that the Barack Obama presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people."

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By Ciara O'Rourke • November 7, 2018

West Virginia Republican Party
stated on November 3, 2018 a tweet:

"What did Joe Manchin say about civility? Today, he said he wanted to ‘beat the living crap out of’ his Republican opponent during their debate."

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By Adrianne Uphold • November 5, 2018

Environmental Defense Fund Action
stated on October 29, 2018 a mailer to Texas homes:

Says Texas U.S. Rep. John Culberson "was caught using campaign cash on collectibles, including Civil War memorabilia and fossils."

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By Stephen Koff • November 3, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 26, 2018 a campaign ad:

Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.

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By D.L. Davis • November 2, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on October 23, 2018 a campaign ad:

Says Tony Evers wants to give in-state tuition and drivers licenses to "illegal aliens."

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By Eric Litke, Tom Kertscher • November 2, 2018

Heidi Heitkamp
stated on October 28, 2018 an op-ed in the Bismarck Tribune:

"President Donald Trump even referred to one of (Kevin) Cramer’s health care repeal bills as 'mean' because the bill gutted protections for North Dakotans with preexisting conditions."

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By Dror Sharon • November 1, 2018

Kendra Fershee
stated on September 19, 2018 a Facebook post:

"Poverty in WV is more than 5% higher than the national average."

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By Liz Newton, Jamie Green • November 1, 2018

Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2018 a debate at Broward College:

Says Andrew Gillum was "singing a different tune" about charter schools at the Florida debate.

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By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2018

Linda Coleman
stated on October 23, 2018:

"George Holding has voted 13 times to deny Kevin, and the 300,000 people like him in the 2nd Congressional District, coverage" for their pre-existing conditions.

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By Rashaan Ayesh • October 29, 2018

Chaz Beasley
stated on August 23, 2018:

"For perspective, Special Session costs you $50k, every single day. That’s roughly the average teacher’s salary in NC."

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By Rashaan Ayesh • October 23, 2018

Tony Evers
stated on October 10, 2018 a campaign video:

Says Scott Walker supports "a health care plan that would gut protections for pre-existing conditions."

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By Tom Kertscher • October 18, 2018

House Majority PAC
stated on October 9, 2018 a TV ad:

Says U.S. Rep. Mimi Walters "votes with Donald Trump 99 percent of the time."

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By Samantha Putterman • October 16, 2018

Andrea Mitchell
stated on October 14, 2018 in a panel discussion:

A letter to President Donald Trump from 22 senators "is a way of saying to the president, ‘You are now under an affirmative requirement, legal requirement, to investigate' " journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and suspected murder.

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By John Kruzel • October 16, 2018

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