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Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on December 14, 2014 the Sunday comics:
Says 3,000 Americans "died of gunfire" between the time of the Ebola scare in Dallas and the midterm elections.
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By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 an op-ed in the "New York Times":
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2014 the president's weekly national address:
"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."
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By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.:
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
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By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on October 19, 2014 an episode of "Meet the Press":
"Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester."
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By Katie Sanders • October 24, 2014
Corey Hebert
Corey Hebert
stated on October 20, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes":
"We've had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and they've never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices":
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on May 13, 2014 an op-ed for Politico Magazine:
Says Hillary Clinton opposed an individual mandate and favored an employer mandate back in 1993.
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By Steve Contorno • May 21, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house:
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 21, 2014 an interview with MSNBC:
Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.
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By Steve Contorno • January 24, 2014
Vicki Shabo
Vicki Shabo
stated on December 12, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "The Cycle":
"About 40 percent of workers don’t ... have a single paid sick day."
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By Katie Sanders • December 17, 2013
Steve Leslie
Steve Leslie
stated on October 29, 2013 remarks at an Austin town hall about the Dell Medical School:
The University of Texas is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 8, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 10, 2013 an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire.":
"Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 17, 2013
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock."
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By Becky Bowers • October 15, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 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 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
Mike Tate
Mike Tate
stated on May 14, 2013 a radio interview:
"A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple," and in some Milwaukee neighborhoods "good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option"
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By Dave Umhoefer • June 3, 2013
Robert Deuell
Robert Deuell
stated on May 13, 2013 remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate.:
Says it's "estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America."                   
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 21, 2013
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on April 4, 2013 Texas House debate on state budget.:
Says Texas lawmakers in 2011 ordered school districts to test every student on their respiratory system and weight.
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 20, 2013 a speech:
"In Wisconsin, only half of all the adults with serious psychological distress received mental health treatment or medication."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2013
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