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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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 her gun policy platform.:
"While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked."
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By Linda Qiu • October 8, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 18, 2015 a speech:
"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."  
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By Tom Kertscher • October 8, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters:
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 7, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2015 a press conference:
Today, the deficit is "below the average deficits over the past 40 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2015 remarks following a school shooting in Oregon:
"States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths."
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By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 a New York Times op-ed:
"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 30, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "Hannity":
Planned Parenthood "is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 a Facebook post:
Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.
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By Linda Qiu • October 5, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address:
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
ESPN
ESPN
stated on September 27, 2015 in an article:
Alabama’s Crimson Tide will be the underdog in Saturday’s game against the Georgia Bulldogs, the first time in 72 consecutive games that Alabama has not been favored by oddsmakers to win.
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 1, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 28, 2015 comments on Twitter.:
"Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a super PAC."
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By Linda Qiu • September 30, 2015
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