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Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on April 8, 2016 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor
Kelly Ayotte "has voted to defund Planned Parenthood" six times.
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By Allie Morris • April 29, 2016
Arizona Grassroots Action PAC
Arizona Grassroots Action PAC
stated on March 1, 2016 an online advertisement
Says Ann Kirkpatrick "votes with her party nearly 90 percent of the time."
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By Anthony Cave • April 29, 2016
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview posted on Medium
"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016
William Barber
William Barber
stated on April 22, 2016 a speech announcing the Moral Monday march
"80 percent of North Carolinians are for the living wage"
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By Will Doran • April 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech
Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."
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By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 an Orlando debate
Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 28, 2016
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on April 24, 2016 a broadcast of HBO's "Last Week Tonight"
"We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed" the amendment that blocked Puerto Rico’s use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.
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By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016
Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 comments
The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."
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By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 13, 2016 a press release
"Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 25, 2016
Tim Ziemer
Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 an article posted on Medium
"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on April 18, 2016 a website post.
"Before taking executive action on immigration, President Obama stated 22 times that he does not have the authority to change immigration laws on his own."  
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By Warren Fiske • April 25, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."
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By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016
Tom
Tom "Smitty" Smith
stated on April 14, 2016 a commentary published in the Austin American-Statesman
"Texas has 600,000 registered voters who don’t have the kind of photo ID needed to vote."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2016
Robby Mook
Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 a Medium post
"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2016 a campaign rally speech
"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."  
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By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech
"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."  
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April 22, 2016
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview
"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."
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By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America'
"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2016 a tweet
"Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race."
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By Linda Qiu • April 20, 2016
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