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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.

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014

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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014

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."

By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.

"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."

By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014

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."

By Katie Sanders • October 24, 2014

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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2014

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.

By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014

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.

By Steve Contorno • May 21, 2014

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014

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.

By Steve Contorno • January 24, 2014

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."

By Katie Sanders • December 17, 2013

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 8, 2013

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.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 17, 2013

Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 an interview on MSNBC

"Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock."

By Becky Bowers • October 15, 2013

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013

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."

By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2013

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"

By Dave Umhoefer • June 3, 2013

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 21, 2013

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.

By W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2013

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."

March 8, 2013

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