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Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on March 9, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Says Hillary Clinton "sent a memo" to all State Department staff that said "you should not do State Department business on personal email."  
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By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2015
Doug Collins
Doug Collins
stated on March 3, 2015 in a newspaper article
President Obama said "22 times" he could not authorize immigration reform by executive order.  
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 6, 2015
David Jolly
David Jolly
stated on February 26, 2015 a speech on the U.S. House floor
A federal judge said President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is "unconstitutional."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 5, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 26, 2015 an interview
More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, "I took a higher percentage of the Republican vote"and "yet I also carried independents by 12 points."  
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March 4, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 3, 2015 the Florida State of the State address
"The average person only pays about $1,800 in state taxes — which is the lowest of all 50 states."
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By Steve Contorno • March 3, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 24, 2015 a conference in Silicon Valley
"You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2015
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on February 16, 2015 a Facebook post.
"...Over 30 years, federal spending on education has grown by 375 percent, but test scores remain flat."
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By Warren Fiske • March 2, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 1, 2015
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 a press release
More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on February 23, 2015 a Facebook post
"In general, it appears" Wisconsin’s right to work bill would "likely apply to" the Green Bay Packers players and their union.
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February 27, 2015
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on February 2, 2015 an Associated Press news story
"When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem."
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By April Hunt • February 27, 2015
John Legend
John Legend
stated on February 22, 2015 a speech at the Oscars
"We live in the most incarcerated country in the world."
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By Katie Sanders • February 23, 2015
Joseph Yost
Joseph Yost
stated on February 16, 2015 a floor speech.
"One third of our age group (Millennials) have moved back in with their parents."
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By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News
"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2015
Hillary Mann Leverett
Hillary Mann Leverett
stated on February 17, 2015 an interview on CNN
ISIS sends out "90,000 social (media) messages a day."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 2015
Dave Claunch
Dave Claunch
stated on January 14, 2015 a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council
"Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas."
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By Alex Wilts • February 16, 2015
Center for Western Priorities
Center for Western Priorities
stated on February 5, 2015 a post on the organization's website
"Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys
"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
Sheila Resseger
Sheila Resseger
stated on January 10, 2015 a newspaper commentary
"By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests."       
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By Katie Mulvaney • February 15, 2015
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on February 12, 2015 her budget address
Our median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation.
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By Casey McDermott • February 13, 2015
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