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stated on July 6, 2015 a meme on social media:
Says Hillary Clinton’s top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders’ top 10 donors are labor unions.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2015
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 24, 2015 a speech on the House floor:
"Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 7, 2015
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 30, 2015 a tweet:
"Chris Christie has led New Jersey to a record-breaking 9 credit downgrades."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2015
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release:
Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release:
Says Jeb Bush "oversaw (an) average in-state tuition increase of 48.2 percent during his tenure."
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By Joshua Gillin • June 30, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.:
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
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By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 a news release.:
"Income disparities in the United States are the worst since the 1920s."
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By Warren Fiske • June 30, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 4, 2015 a statement:
Says "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans."  
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By Lucas Daprile • June 29, 2015
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
stated on June 15, 2015 a Facebook post:
Says Jeb Bush "said low-income women should ‘get their life together and find a husband.' "
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By Joshua Gillin • June 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 23, 2015 a speech in Florissant, Mo.:
American schools are "more segregated than they were in the 1960s."
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By Linda Qiu • June 25, 2015
Cornell William Brooks
Cornell William Brooks
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on Face the Nation:
"We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year."
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By Christian Belanger • June 25, 2015
Dan Gelber
Dan Gelber
stated on June 21, 2015 a Miami Herald op-ed:
"After (Jeb) Bush’s two terms in office, Florida’s graduation rate was dead last and remains near the bottom."  
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By Amy Sherman • June 24, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 14, 2015 comments on CNN's State of the Union:
Says Hillary Clinton "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House" by an official inquiry on Whitewater.
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By Linda Qiu • June 23, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2015 a tweet:
"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 17, 2015 a broadcast of "The Daily Show":
"Between 2010 and 2014, there was no net in-migration from Mexico."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2015
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his declaration for president:
"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on June 5, 2015 a speech:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Ron Johnson "is opposed to all government-assisted student loans."
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By Tom Kertscher • June 19, 2015
Fulton County Health and Wellness
Fulton County Health and Wellness
stated on June 16, 2015 a press release:
Currently, almost 40 percent of people with HIV are not diagnosed until they already have developed AIDS. And that can be up to 10 years after they first are infected with HIV.
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By Nancy Badertscher • June 19, 2015
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