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Declan O'Scanlon
Declan O'Scanlon
stated on December 16, 2011 an opinion piece in the Star-Ledger
"Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100,000 pay."
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By Bill Wichert • January 4, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 23, 2011 a radio interview
"By the way, I'm not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did."
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By Bill Wichert • January 3, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 20, 2011 an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
"And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001."
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By Bill Wichert • December 29, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 9, 2011 a speech in New Hampshire
Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."
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By Erin O'Neill • December 25, 2011
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on December 15, 2011 a web ad posted on YouTube
Says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is "the smartest guy that I know, in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this."
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By Erin O'Neill • December 22, 2011
Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
stated on December 6, 2011 an interview on Fox Business News
Says with Jon Corzine, "it's the first time, I think, in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues."
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By Erin O'Neill • December 14, 2011
Jay Webber
Jay Webber
stated on November 28, 2011 an NJToday interview
Says "our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. We're over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government."
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By Bill Wichert • December 11, 2011
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on October 24, 2011 an article on NOLA.com
"Last year we spent more than $40 billion on highways. And Lord knows we need that. But that's more than we spent on Amtrak in its entire 40-year history." 
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By Caryn Shinske • December 5, 2011
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on November 2, 2011 a statement in the Congressional Record
"Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece."
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By Erin O'Neill • November 24, 2011
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on November 16, 2011 a speech on the House floor
"When the national debt reaches $15 trillion, it means that U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 99.7 percent of our debt and this is $47,900 for every living American."
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By Erin O'Neill • November 21, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 26, 2011 a radio interview
Says "over the last 48 years, every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature, with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003."
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By Erin O'Neill • November 6, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 25, 2011 a news conference
Says judges "get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state."
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By Erin O'Neill • October 27, 2011
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on September 16, 2011 an opinion article
Says "as a share of the US economy, the government’s support for research and development (R&D) has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s."
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By Erin O'Neill • September 26, 2011
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on September 6, 2011 a speech in Lower Manhattan
"Over the past 10 years, the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact, Lower Manhattan has added more people over the last 10 years than Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia combined."
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By Bill Wichert • September 11, 2011
Tom Kean
Tom Kean
stated on August 30, 2011 a radio interview on WNYC
Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.
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By Bill Wichert • September 8, 2011
New Jersey Education Association
New Jersey Education Association
stated on August 30, 2011 NJEA's website
Says "New Jersey's public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation."
True
By Erin O'Neill • September 4, 2011
Gary Schaer
Gary Schaer
stated on August 17, 2011 a press release
"Hair stylists are required to undergo more government scrutiny than foreclosure consultants."
True
By Bill Wichert • August 21, 2011
Nicholas Scutari
Nicholas Scutari
stated on July 27, 2011 in a NJToday interview
"Certainly we're going to be the most restrictive state in the land … in terms of who can get medical marijuana, how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace."
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By Erin O'Neill • August 14, 2011
Richard Codey
Richard Codey
stated on July 11, 2011 a speech on the Senate floor
"One in every five families in the state of New Jersey has a loved one with a mental illness, a serious mental illness, and today, we don’t care." 
True
By Caryn Shinske • August 11, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 16, 2011 an "On the Line" interview with Steve Adubato
Says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.
True
By Erin O'Neill • July 7, 2011
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