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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 22, 2017 a Facebook post:
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."
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By John Kruzel • June 26, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News:
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 a speech:
Although California has "the sixth largest economy in the world, we also have one of the highest poverty rates" in the nation.
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By Chris Nichols • June 22, 2017
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 8, 2017 in a tweet:
The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
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By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2017
Karl Racine
Karl Racine
stated on June 12, 2017 a press conference:
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."
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By Smitha Rajan • June 19, 2017
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 2, 2017 a tweet:
"Americans are 25x more likely to be shot & killed than others in developed countries."
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By Chris Nichols • June 14, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2017
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 25, 2017 a speech at City & State’s State of NY Women forum:
"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."
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By Dan Clark • June 9, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 18, 2017 a radio interview:
"Property taxes are lower right now than they were" in December 2010 on a median-valued home in Wisconsin.  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 7, 2017
Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff
stated on June 6, 2017 a debate:
"In 2012, you were discussing how you led the effort to defund breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood."
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By John Kruzel • June 7, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
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By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 a speech:
Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."
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By Chris Nichols • June 2, 2017
Bill Peduto
Bill Peduto
stated on June 1, 2017 in a tweet:
"Fact: Hillary Clinton received 80% of the vote in Pittsburgh."
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By Sarah Anne Hughes • June 2, 2017
Mike McCabe
Mike McCabe
stated on May 21, 2017 an interview:
"When you look at all the state and local taxes we pay in Wisconsin, the wealthiest 1 percent pay the lowest overall tax rate."
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By Tom Kertscher • June 2, 2017
Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee
stated on May 10, 2017 TBS show Full Frontal:
"In Florida felonies can be things like buying weed, tampering with an odometer or disturbing a lobster trap. So basically spring break."
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By Amy Sherman • May 25, 2017
Desmond Meade
Desmond Meade
stated on May 10, 2017 Samantha Bee's Full Frontal show:
"You could lose your rights for life over something as simple as driving with a suspended license" in Florida.
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By Amy Sherman • May 25, 2017
James Rockall
James Rockall
stated on May 9, 2017 a tweet:
"More (people) die from indoor air pollution than from malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined."
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By Smitha Rajan • May 18, 2017
Mary González
Mary González
stated on May 11, 2017 House debate of House Bill 2962:
An "abortion procedure is actually safer than a vasectomy."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 17, 2017
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on May 12, 2017 a Fox News interview:
"Some of the safest communities in the United States are along the border."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 17, 2017
James Risch
James Risch
stated on May 15, 2017 remarks to reporters:
"The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2017
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