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Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on July 12, 2017 a Facebook post
"When we came into office, we saw that Missouri had 113,000 regulations. That’s more than 7.5 million words; it’s 40 dictionaries worth of regulations."
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By Patrick Mueller • November 15, 2017
Chris King
Chris King
stated on October 28, 2017 a response during the Democratic Forum
"Hispanic entrepreneurs, those who have immigrated from Spanish-speaking countries, often start three times as many businesses as white males."
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By Allison Graves • November 14, 2017
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on October 11, 2017 on Twitter
"Underreported fact: President @realDonaldTrump raised more in small dollar donations than Obama in 2012 and than Clinton and Bernie combined!"
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By Sophie Kaplan • November 13, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News
"In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017
Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools
stated on November 2, 2017 a press release
"CPS students are learning and growing faster than 96 percent of students in the United States."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • November 10, 2017
Markwayne Mullin
Markwayne Mullin
stated on November 3, 2017 a post on a congressional office website
"Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the average American family of four will receive a $1,182 tax cut."  
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By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet
The diversity visa lottery is "plagued by fraud."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 6, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2017 a tweet
"Coal production up 7.8% in past year. Down 31.5% last 10 years. #endingwaroncoal."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2017
The Creative Resistance
The Creative Resistance
stated on October 24, 2017 a video
"IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump"
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By Dan Clark • November 5, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 21, 2017 a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
"The six wealthiest people in the world (have) as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, 3.7 billion people."
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By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • October 31, 2017
Charles Francis
Charles Francis
stated on October 20, 2017 in a televised debate
"There are parks in Southeast Raleigh that still don’t have air conditioning in the gym"
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By Paul Specht • October 25, 2017
Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth
stated on September 17, 2017 a Fox News segment
"The city (of St. Louis) is no stranger to violence. There were 5,762 violent crimes in 2015 alone, including 188 homicides. The highest rate per capita in the country, according to FBI crime statistics."
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By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman • October 24, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
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By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • October 21, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on October 6, 2017 a statement
"Women in our state will continue to have cost-free access to reproductive health care"
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By Dan Clark • October 21, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on October 12, 2017 a tweet
The state and local tax deduction is a major benefit for moderate-income households because "50% of households that claim State & Local Tax deduction make under $100K."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 15, 2017 an interview with Channel 8
"The child tax credit, if we don't do it, there will be no tax relief for working families. How much tax relief working families get under tax reform is entirely dependent on whether or not we put in place an increase to the child tax credit."  
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By Allison Graves • October 19, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on July 31, 2017 an interview on MSNBC
"In the eight years that I was mayor, (there was a) nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because we grew our police department, we focused on constitutional community policing, we did some of the most innovative prevention, intervention, job re-entry programs in the nation."
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By Chris Nichols • October 18, 2017
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on October 4, 2017 a video
"Job creation fell by 70 percent in Wisconsin in 2016" under Scott Walker.  
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October 18, 2017
Colin Jost
Colin Jost
stated on October 7, 2017 a Weekend Update report on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live"
"There is a real law in Texas that says it’s illegal to own more than six dildos."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 13, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2017 a tweet
The NFL is "getting massive tax breaks."
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By Manuela Tobias • October 12, 2017
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