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David Simpson
David Simpson
stated on November 30, 2015 in a campaign press release:
"I have always opposed driver's licenses for illegal aliens."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview on 'This Week' :
"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."
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By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015
Joe Donald
Joe Donald
stated on December 2, 2015 in an interview:
"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 9, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Kevin Russell
Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 in an opinion column:
"In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on November 24, 2015 in a radio interview.:
"There is a federal criminal law that says it's a crime to transport dentures across state lines."
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By Sean Gorman • December 7, 2015
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on November 10, 2015 in a press release:
California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."  
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By Chris Nichols • December 7, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview with George Stephanopoulos:
The Charleston, S.C., shooter "should have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough."
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By Linda Qiu • December 6, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on November 30, 2015 in a TV talk show:
Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 4, 2015
Common Sense Kids Action
Common Sense Kids Action
stated on September 21, 2015 in a press release:
"California has more kids in poverty ... than virtually any other state."
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By Chris Nichols • December 4, 2015
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 in an interview:
The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval  
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By Tom Kertscher • December 3, 2015
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 2, 2015 in an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."
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By Lauren Carroll • December 2, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 in an interview on "Face the Nation":
"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on November 17, 2015 in press release:
While the smoking rate nationally has fallen, more than 18 percent of Georgians still light up.  
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By PolitiFact Staff • November 30, 2015
Jennifer Horn
Jennifer Horn
stated on October 21, 2015 in a memo:
In 2008, Maggie Hassan voted against legislation to "prevent sanctuary cities in New Hampshire."
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By Allie Morris • November 25, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 in a speech at the Citadel:
For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."  
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By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 19, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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