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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 the Republican response to the State of the Union Address
"Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 the State of the Union Address
"After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 State of the State address
"In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010."
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By Caryn Shinske • January 20, 2013
Texas secession petition
Texas secession petition
stated on November 9, 2012 the White House's "We the People" petition web site
Says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.
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By Sue Owen • December 18, 2012
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 27, 2012 a speech on the House floor
"Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes."
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By Tom Feran • December 14, 2012
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 29, 2012 a speech to the Ohio Farm Bureau
Agriculture "is the strongest industry in Ohio."
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By Tom Feran • December 12, 2012
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on December 1, 2012 a newspaper interview
"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October."
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By John Hill • December 9, 2012
Anne Goodman
Anne Goodman
stated on December 3, 2012 an interview with The Plain Dealer
Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.
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By Stephen Koff • December 6, 2012
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on December 3, 2012 a speech.
Says that in 2011, Oregon had "the second fastest growing economy in the nation."
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By Ian K. Kullgren • December 5, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on November 18, 2012 a newspaper column
"We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."  
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By John Hill • November 30, 2012
Jobs Ohio
Jobs Ohio
stated on November 17, 2012 a television ad
"In the past year alone, Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country."
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By Henry J. Gomez • November 29, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on November 9, 2012 a newspaper interview
Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  "take us into a recession and kill jobs."
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By Stephen Koff • November 15, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on October 16, 2012 a debate
"There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs."
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By Aaron Marshall • October 31, 2012
Diane Hurley
Diane Hurley
stated on October 14, 2012 an interview on "10 News Conference"
"Connecticut's take on slot machines is 25 cents on the dollar. And the state's take on table games:  zero."
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By John Hill • October 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Choose: New Jersey
Choose: New Jersey
stated on July 30, 2012 an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal
"We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world."
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By Caryn Shinske • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 4, 2012 keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Says Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should "borrow money if you have to from your parents."  
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 4, 2012 keynote address at Democratic National Convention.
Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nation’s top-performing local economy.
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By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2012
Allen West
Allen West
stated on August 1, 2012 a radio interview
In June 2012 "we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created."
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By Tom Mooney • August 9, 2012
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