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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 a CNN town hall event
"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on February 25, 2019 a news conference
"Most people in my home state of Texas disagree with the president building a wall across our border."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • February 26, 2019
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on February 11, 2019 a newsletter.
"Our country has succeeded in reducing greenhouse emissions in previous years."  
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By Warren Fiske • February 26, 2019
Ed Emery
Ed Emery
stated on January 28, 2019 legislative testimony
"80 percent of impeachments in Missouri have been against judges."
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By Yue Yu • February 25, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 a policy announcement on Medium
"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."  
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By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 20, 2019 a tweet
"We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!"
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By Miriam Valverde • February 25, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."  
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By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
John Nygren
John Nygren
stated on February 12, 2019 a tweet
GOP tax plan "is better for working, middle-class families" since "88% of the tax relief goes to those making $100,000 or less."
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By Eric Litke • February 22, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 22, 2019 a tweet
"Thanks to successful federal, state, and local efforts, preliminary statistics show opioid overdose deaths are down 8.5% in West Virginia."
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By Mylana Chico, Rebecca Jerome • February 22, 2019
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 an interview
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."  
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February 21, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a CNN town hall
"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019
Chuck McGrady
Chuck McGrady
stated on February 13, 2019 a press conference
Says "nearly half" of House Republicans have supported a nonpartisan redistricting bill.
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By Paul Specht • February 15, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
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By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2019 a Facebook post
Trump signed a bill "to clean millions of tons of garbage from world’s oceans."  
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February 11, 2019
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2019 a statement to the press
"In 2018, we endured a school shooting nearly once a week."
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By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 a State of the Union Address
San Diego’s border barrier "almost completely ended illegal crossings."
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By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on February 5, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 28, 2019 remarks in Fort Lauderdale
"There was virtually no new business investment" after the 2017 tax law. "The bulk was used to buy back their own stock."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2019
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