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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2016 a news conference
"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 16, 2016 a press conference
"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 1, 2016
Huey Rey Fischer
Huey Rey Fischer
stated on February 8, 2016 a press release
"There isn’t a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2016
Sierra Club
Sierra Club
stated on February 22, 2016 a letter from Tampa Bay Group chairman Kent Bailey to Hillsborough County commissioners
"Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world."
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By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
ActionAid UK
ActionAid UK
stated on February 2, 2016 a tweet
"Malawi has just 300 doctors for 16 million people."    
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By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 18, 2016 a campaign ad
Says Donald Trump "wants to keep big government in charge" of federally-owned land.
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By Riley Snyder • February 23, 2016
Janet Adkins
Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting
"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."
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By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on February 10, 2016 an essay in The Hollywood Reporter
"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.
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By Linda Qiu • February 21, 2016
Todd Richardson
Todd Richardson
stated on January 10, 2016 comments on “This Week in Missouri Politics"
Says Missouri families’ "earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century."
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By Katie Moeller • February 20, 2016
Diane Douglas
Diane Douglas
stated on February 4, 2016 remarks made during a state Senate Education Committee meeting.
The Arizona State Board of Education’s "failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student."
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By Anthony Cave • February 19, 2016
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on February 14, 2016 a TV show
In Sauk City, Wisconsin, "the ID office" that provides identification for voting "is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month" -- a total of four days in 2016.
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February 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2016 a Republican debate
"In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one."
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By Nick Reid • February 19, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 a debate
Says Dontre Hamilton, who was killed during a confrontation with a Milwaukee police officer, was "unarmed."
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February 18, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 a video
"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 15, 2016 a TV ad
Says Hillary Clinton won "health care for 8 million children."
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By Alan Gathright • February 17, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 13, 2016 the Republican debate in Charleston, S.C.
"When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 15, 2016
JoAnne Kloppenburg
JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on February 8, 2016 a TV ad
Says state Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald twice "supported" incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley.
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February 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2016 a Hillary for America campaign ad
"On average it takes 300 Americans working for a solid year to make as much money as one top CEO."
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By Riley Snyder • February 12, 2016
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