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Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 19, 2015 op-ed in Austin American-Statesman
"Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it’s even more -- almost $1,500 a year."
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By Fauzeya Rahman • November 24, 2015
Jeff Morales
Jeff Morales
stated on October 29, 2015 a press conference
"The actual (construction) contracts that we’ve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates."
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By Chris Nichols • November 24, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic primary forum
"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."
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By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on October 29, 2015 a TV interview
Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."
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By Sarah Hauer • November 23, 2015
Paul Doughty
Paul Doughty
stated on November 10, 2015 a tweet
"@Jorge_Elorza still think your plan is safe? Rescue Captain Kenyon just worked 96 hours straight. 96 hours."  
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By Mark Reynolds • November 22, 2015
John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards
stated on November 11, 2015 a campaign ad
Says David Vitter "answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom."
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By Charles Maldonado • November 19, 2015
Marion Hammer
Marion Hammer
stated on November 1, 2015 a column on the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action website
"Forty-five states allow open carry of firearms."
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By Joshua Gillin • November 18, 2015
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 a tweet
"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."
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By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2015 a joint statement with the president of Turkey.
"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."
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By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic debate in Des Moines
"Net immigration from Mexico last year was zero. Fact-check me."
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By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 comments at the Iowa Democratic debate
500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."
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By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 18, 2015 a roundtable event on women's economic security
"Women fill two-thirds of minimum wage jobs."
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By Kaitlin DeWulf • November 13, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
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November 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
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By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Tim Echols
Tim Echols
stated on October 26, 2015 an opinion piece in a trade magazine
"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."
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By April Hunt • November 10, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 8, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Go look on the West Point website and you’ll see those specific words, ‘full scholarship to West Point.’ So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used."  
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By Linda Qiu • November 8, 2015
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on October 29, 2015 a Facebook post
"How many concerts would Taylor Swift have to perform to pay off one day of interest on our national debt? She would have to perform every day for three years."
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By Joshua Gillin • November 6, 2015
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on October 7, 2015 a speech
"No city in the state, no state in this nation, for that matter the entire world, has adopted (clean energy) targets more ambitious in scale."
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By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 comments on "Meet the Press"
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."  
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By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015
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