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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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By Tom Kertscher • 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
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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By Tom Kertscher • 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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By Tom Kertscher • 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
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