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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 comments at the Iowa Democratic debate:
500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."
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By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2015 a House hearing on Benghazi:
Says John Kerry "is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a government account."  
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By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview:
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
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By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address:
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!:
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
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By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 6, 2015 social media posts:
"U.S. Embassy Celebrates America’s Independence on June 4th in Order to Accommodate Muslims."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview with the 'New York Times.':
"Iran’s defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600 billion."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 9, 2015
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on March 9, 2015 a letter to Iranian leaders:
If President Barack Obama strikes a nuclear deal with Iran, "the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."  
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By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015
Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on December 18, 2014 a press conference:
Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."  
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By Amy Sherman • December 23, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."  
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By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014:
"The reason why Cubans don't have access to 21st century telecommunications — like smart phones, like access to the Internet — is because it is illegal in Cuba."
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By Lauren Carroll, Steve Contorno • December 19, 2014
Ana Navarro
Ana Navarro
stated on December 17, 2014 an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper":
"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 a press conference:
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 10, 2014 an interview on CNN:
Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."
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By Lauren Carroll • September 12, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 25, 2014 a meme on social media:
Police in the United States are allowed to use tear gas even though it "has been classified as a chemical weapon and banned in international conflict since 1993."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2014
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 comments on CNN:
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
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By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."  
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By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2014
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