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Joseph Yost
Joseph Yost
stated on February 16, 2015 a floor speech.
"One third of our age group (Millennials) have moved back in with their parents."
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By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech.
"If you look at the income of average Americans...they’re absolutely flat in constant dollars since 1979."
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By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • February 9, 2015
Virginia House Democratic Caucus
Virginia House Democratic Caucus
stated on January 19, 2015
Assault weapons and handguns are allowed in the state Capitol while bullhorns, trumpets, helium balloons and flags on poles are banned.
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By Sean Gorman • January 26, 2015
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post
"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."
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By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 2014
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on December 2, 2014 a news release.
"Bill Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade."
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By Nancy Madsen • December 15, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 20, 2014 a news release.
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
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By Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen • November 30, 2014
Kathleen Murphy
Kathleen Murphy
stated on November 18, 2014 a campaign website
"The NRA supported background checks..."
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By Sean Gorman • November 24, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
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By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on September 23, 2014 a speech.
In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."
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By Sean Gorman • October 19, 2014
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on September 8, 2014 a mailer.
Says Mark Warner "has supported restrictions on veterans’ second amendment rights."
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By Nancy Madsen • October 6, 2014
Robert Sarvis
Robert Sarvis
stated on September 1, 2014 a speech
"Over 40 of our 100 (House of) Delegates seats go uncontested every year, and over 40 percent of our state senate seats go uncontested every year."
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By Sean Gorman • September 14, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 20, 2014 a tweet.
Pinnacle Overlook in Southwest Virginia is "closer to eight other state capitals than to Richmond."  
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By Nancy Madsen, Sean Gorman • September 1, 2014
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on August 25, 2014 a web post.
"The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child."
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By Sean Gorman • August 25, 2014
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 a speech.
"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."
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By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014
Dave Marsden
Dave Marsden
stated on June 14, 2014 a radio interview.
After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law "their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."
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By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2014
Democratic Party of Virginia
Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on April 15, 2014 a tweet.
Says Virginia House Republicans are sacrificing $5 million a day in U.S. funds by refusing to expand Medicaid.
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By Nancy Madsen • May 5, 2014
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on April 22, 2014 a TV ad.
Dave Brat "worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine’s Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion."
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By Nancy Madsen • April 28, 2014
Democratic Party of Virginia
Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on March 24, 2014 news release.
Ed Gillespie’s 2006 book "promoted an individual health care mandate, and recommends that it be enforced by the IRS through the income tax code."
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By Sean Gorman • April 27, 2014
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
stated on February 4, 2014 a hearing.
"In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage, could actually support a family of three above the poverty line. Today, that same worker would earn less than the poverty line for a family of two."
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By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on February 11, 2014 a floor debate.
"There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family."
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By Nancy Madsen • February 24, 2014
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