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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 a Houston press conference
My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 21, 2015 a post on his website
"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land."
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By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2015
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on October 22, 2015 map
Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 26, 2015
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on October 25, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says Marco Rubio opposes abortion "even in the case of rape and incest."  
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By Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman • October 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2015 a House hearing on Benghazi
Says John Kerry "is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a government account."  
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By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2015
Chris Koster
Chris Koster
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair as quoted by the Columbia Daily Tribune
"Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent."    
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By Adam Aton • October 23, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
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October 23, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on October 19, 2015 comments on the Daily Show
Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."
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By Linda Qiu • October 22, 2015
Chris Danou
Chris Danou
stated on October 20, 2015 remarks in Assembly debate
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."
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October 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 15, 2015 a speech in San Antonio
"We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2015
Elton John
Elton John
stated on October 13, 2015 CNN
HIV/AIDS is "dramatically on the rise in the U.S. South."
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 19, 2015
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on August 27, 2015 a blog post
"The oil and natural gas industry provides or supports 141,600 jobs in Georgia."
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By April Hunt • October 16, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
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By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on October 13, 2015 presidential debate
"I am very proud that over my almost 30 years of public service I have had no scandals."
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By Mark Reynolds • October 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"Every other major country" has family paid leave.
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By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate
"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 on NBC's Today Show
"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."
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By Clayton Youngman • October 12, 2015
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman
Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 comments on "State of the Union"
"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."  
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By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on September 1, 2015 a television ad
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."
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By James B. Nelson • October 9, 2015
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