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Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on January 26, 2016 an interview
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson wants to put 100,000 troops, including 25,000 Americans, "into the area where ISIS is."
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January 29, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 22, 2016 a campaign email
Says Barack Obama's administration has admitted that money from its Iran nuclear deal "would go directly to terrorism."
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January 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama "naive" for saying he was would "sit down and talk to the Iranians" during the 2008 Democratic primary.  
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By Lauren Carroll • January 17, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 24, 2015 a radio interview in New Hampshire
Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."  
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By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations
"The Libyan people have voted twice in free and fair elections for the kind of leadership they want."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 23, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 30, 2015 remarks during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa
North Korea "has over two-dozen nuclear warheads."
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By Jason Noble • November 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 an interview on CNN
"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."  
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By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman • November 4, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2015 an op-ed in Breitbart
"Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a ‘reformer.' "  
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By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • October 23, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 15, 2015 a radio interview
Israel has seen a "90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks" that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.
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By Sarah Hauer • October 2, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 comments on the CNN debate
"We've just now given over $100 billion" to Iran, "the equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion."  
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By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on September 2, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
The nuclear agreement with Iran "never sunsets. There's no sunset in this agreement."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2015 an interview on CNN.
"Our companies are moving into Mexico more than almost any other place right now."
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By Linda Qiu • August 27, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2015 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says "if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get" $150 billion.
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By Lauren Carroll • August 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 19, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
The Iran deal "violates promises the president made to the American people." ... "It is not an anytime, anywhere inspection process."  
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By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2015
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on July 14, 2015 an op-ed
"Thanks to the Obama administration’s negotiations, Iran’s nuclear program will be under lock, key and camera 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2015 remarks at the White House
Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 17, 2015 on CNN's "State of the Union"
"Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority.
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By Lauren Carroll • May 17, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 5, 2015 remarks at the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Proposed fast-track legislation allows presidents to "easily use a future trade deal to override our domestic financial rules."
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By Lauren Carroll • May 14, 2015
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 an interview
Says Hillary Clinton took "money from kings of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Oman and Yemen."  
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April 20, 2015
Kirsten Powers
Kirsten Powers
stated on April 12, 2015 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"
Says Rand Paul denied that he "put forward a bill ... to zero out foreign aid and specifically spoke about Israel."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2015
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