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Bill Gates
stated on May 17, 2015 an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS":

The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent."

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By Jon Greenberg • May 17, 2015

Debbie Mayfield
stated on May 4, 2015 a tweet:

"Florida sends $135 billion and D.C. returns $150 billion."

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By Joshua Gillin • May 14, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."

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By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2015 the National Review Forum:

"We have a legal immigration system in America that accepts 1 million people a year, legally. No other country in the world even comes close to that."

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By Amy Sherman • May 13, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard)."

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By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters:

"There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."

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By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015

Dino Baccari
stated on April 16, 2015 testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.:

A Penn State University study found that "electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 3, 2015

Represent.us
stated on April 30, 2015 a meme on social media:

"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.

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By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2015

Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 28, 2015 an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times:

"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."

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By Joshua Gillin • April 30, 2015

Rose Mary Grant
stated on March 29, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary.:

Rhode Island "charter schools are nationally recognized as outperforming their counterparts across the country."

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By Mark Reynolds • April 30, 2015

Van Wanggaard
stated on April 21, 2015 a legislative floor debate:

"There's no statistical evidence that" a waiting period for handgun purchases "reduces violence whatsoever."

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By Tom Kertscher • April 27, 2015

Debbie Dooley
stated on March 31, 2015 a Twitter post:

The recently passed transportation funding bill is a billion-dollar tax increase for Georgians.

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By April Hunt • April 27, 2015

David Perdue
stated on April 15, 2015 press release:

The Castro regime ‘violated international norms’ by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.

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By Nancy Badertscher • April 24, 2015

Bill Maher
stated on April 17, 2015 his monologue on "Real Time":

"More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013."

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By Katie Sanders • April 23, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2015 a roundtable at a community college:

"The United States invented the community college. Nobody else had ever done anything like it."

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By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2015 a press conference:

Says Loretta Lynch’s nomination "has been now sitting there longer than the previous seven attorney general nominees combined."

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By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2015

Mark Herring
stated on April 14, 2015 a Facebook post.:

"By age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 throughout her working career was a result of the pay gap."

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By Warren Fiske • April 20, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"99 percent of all new income today (is) going to the top 1 percent."

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By Katie Sanders • April 19, 2015

Karl Rove
stated on April 19, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

The Hyde Amendment "language was in the (human trafficking) bill. The Democratic sponsor admits it was in the bill, and she voted for it."

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By Lauren Carroll • April 19, 2015

Mark Pocan
stated on April 9, 2015 a news conference:

"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."

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By Dave Umhoefer • April 16, 2015

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