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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 3, 2017 a news release:
The Las Vegas shooting was the "273rd mass shooting" in the United States so far in 2017.  
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By Tom Kertscher • October 4, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on August 27, 2017 an email:
"Black Americans still earn less than 73 percent of what white men make."
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By Eric Litke • October 4, 2017
James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on September 25, 2017 a press conference:
"The First Amendment’s the First Amendment. It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest to a game, you’re celebrated."
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By Manuela Tobias • October 2, 2017
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on September 18, 2017 a letter to a constituent :
"The average tax bill for Americans in 2016 was a 41 percent increase from 2013."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2017
Roy Moore
Roy Moore
stated on September 21, 2017 a debate:
DACA was "a mere memo from the Department of Homeland security under Barack Obama, which violated the laws."
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By Joshua Gillin, Miriam Valverde • September 22, 2017
Luther Strange
Luther Strange
stated on September 21, 2017 a debate:
Alabama is "the most generous state in the union in terms of what we give to charities."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook Live:
"Since we took office, we have been outpacing the nation in job growth."
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By Riley Newton, Tateanna McCaskill • September 21, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2017 an interview:
"Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs."
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By Manuela Tobias • September 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2017 a speech to the United Nations General Assembly:
"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 a tweet:
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 14, 2017 remarks to reporters:
Says "92 percent of the people agree on DACA."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 18, 2017
Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson
stated on August 2, 2017 a travel advisory:
"African Americans in Missouri are 75 percent more likely to be stopped and searched by law enforcement officers than caucasians."
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By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman • September 18, 2017
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on August 30, 2017 a tweet:
San Francisco and Takoma Park, Md., are "allowing illegals to vote."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 15, 2017
William Lacy Clay
William Lacy Clay
stated on August 18, 2017 an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"Calling for the assassination of the president is a federal crime."
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By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • September 15, 2017
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on August 10, 2017 a Facebook post:
Says "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with Sen. Ted Cruz.
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2017
John Chiang
John Chiang
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video:
"Since I’ve been the state treasurer, we’ve increased the building, construction of affordable housing by 80 percent."
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By Chris Nichols • September 13, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."
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By Tom Kertscher • September 12, 2017
Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis
stated on September 4, 2017 a blog post:
The new Illinois school funding formula "created a tax shelter for the wealthy and a voucher program…"
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By Matt Dietrich • September 12, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook live conversation:
"Just in our first six months in office, Missouri moved up the rankings nine places ... of the best states to do business."
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By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 10, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 3, 2017 a CNN interview:
"We have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. We have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."
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By Manuela Tobias • September 6, 2017
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