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Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2013 in a speech on climate change:
As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, "there were days where folks couldn't go outside. … because of all the pollution in the air."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2013
Christine Whitman
Christine Whitman
stated on June 4, 2013 in an interview on The John Gambling radio show:
"We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 13, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2012 in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
"Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last 50 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 4, 2012 in a keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2012
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on July 2, 2012 in in a radio debate:
The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.
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By Willoughby Mariano • July 23, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2012 in on the Internet:
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 3, 2012 in remarks to the Newspaper Association of America:
Says Ronald Reagan "understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2012
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on March 3, 2012 in a quoted comment.:
"In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012
Einer Elhauge
Einer Elhauge
stated on January 5, 2012 in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine:
"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2012
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on December 5, 2011 in an email blast.:
More Hispanics "have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 11, 2011 in the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa:
Says that under President John F. Kennedy, "government took up" 27 percent of the economy, and today it "consumes 37 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 in a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H. :
The United States has "the longest surviving constitution."
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By Jake Berry • August 8, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2011 in an interview on NPR:
Says Ronald Reagan "repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the United States to be impaired in any kind of way."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 22, 2011 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:
"On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagan’s staff quit."
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By Willoughby Mariano • June 29, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on February 25, 2011 in a column.:
The House budget plan proposes "the largest discretionary spending cut in history."
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By Sean Gorman • March 18, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 in a press conference:
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
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