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Leah Vukmir
stated on January 25, 2018 in an article :

Says Sen. Tammy Baldwin "claims to support a 'Buy America' philosophy, but her actions speak louder than her empty words."

By D.L. Davis • March 12, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 in remarks before a Cabinet meeting:

"When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people."

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018

Michael Williams
stated on February 27, 2018 in a CNN interview:

Says Delta offers a discount to Planned Parenthood.

By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2018

Ryan Zinke
stated on February 23, 2018 in a panel at the conservative CPAC conference:

"Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018

Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 3, 2018 in his State of the State address:

"A case before Washington’s Supreme Court seeks to effectively end public labor unions."

By Dan Clark • January 17, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 29, 2017 in a speech in St. Charles, Mo.:

Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state."

By Lucille Sherman • December 15, 2017

Greg Abbott
stated on November 15, 2017 in a video ad posted on his campaign website:

"The Texas unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in 40 years & Texas led the nation last month in new job creation."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on October 1, 2017 in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation:

Trump’s tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class."

By Dan Clark • October 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 in a question-and-answer session with reporters:

Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Melissa Sargent
stated on August 2, 2017 in a tweet:

On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."

By Tom Kertscher • August 11, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 in a speech:

"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."

By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 in a speech:

"Seventy-seven of the top 300 cities with the highest poverty rate" nationwide are in California.

By Chris Nichols • June 9, 2017

Anthony Brindisi
stated on May 26, 2017 in a press release:

"State economic development dollars were used to support a project where goods were manufactured in China."

By Dan Clark • June 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 in a tweet:

Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017

Chris Collins
stated on April 28, 2017 in an interview with Bloomberg:

Farmers "are now dumping milk into the ditches" because of a trade dispute with Canada

By Dan Clark • May 18, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 in a CEO town hall:

"When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 in a tweet:

"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."

By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017

Mark Assini
stated on October 18, 2016 in a debate on WROC:

"The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter."

By Dan Clark • November 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 in a Presidential debate:

Says to Hillary Clinton, "You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 27, 2016

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