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Victoria Seaman
Victoria Seaman
stated on March 24, 2016 in campaign literature distributed at a candidate forum:
Says Erv Nelson voted "yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urging Congress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country."
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By Riley Snyder • April 5, 2016
Marcus Low
Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist:
"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing:
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on March 24, 2016 a website post.:
"Over 97 percent of the scientific community … believe that humans are contributing to climate change."
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By Sean Gorman • April 4, 2016
Chris Sgro
Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact:
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
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By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate:
"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."
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By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016
JoAnne Kloppenburg
JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on March 15, 2016 TV ad:
Says the GOP is "helping pay for" Justice Rebecca Bradley's campaign and "she recently skipped court to attend an event paid for" by Scott Walker's "lobbyist friends."  
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By Tom Kertscher • March 31, 2016
Tim Canova
Tim Canova
stated on March 24, 2016 campaign website:
"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans."    
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By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016
Rebecca Bradley
Rebecca Bradley
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview:
Says JoAnne Kloppenburg "has told us she thinks it's her job to promote a more equal society."
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By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 23, 2016 remarks at Stanford University:
"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 29, 2016
Tim Finchem
Tim Finchem
stated on March 27, 2016 a sports column by Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman:
"Austin’s the fastest-growing city in the country the last five years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2016 a post on Medium:
Congress will begin its recess "without having allocated one penny" to fight Zika.
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By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on March 20, 2016 a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton:
"80 percent of the American people haven’t gotten a pay raise since the crash."
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By Anthony Cave • March 24, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 a news conference:
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill:
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 22, 2016 a campaign speech:
"Today, the United States has, sadly, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth."
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By Chris Nichols • March 23, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill:
"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."
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By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016
Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa
stated on February 26, 2016 a campaign mailer:
"Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran."
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By Emma Hinchliffe • March 23, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview on Fox Business News:
Superdelegates "have never been a determining factor in who our nominee is since they've been in place since 1984."  
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By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2016
Joe Pitts
Joe Pitts
stated on February 25, 2016 in a Medium post.:
"More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percent increase from 2014."
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By Anna Orso • March 22, 2016
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