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Jim Webb
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."

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By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2015

Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."

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By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

Mark Pocan
stated on March 10, 2015 an interview:

Wisconsin is "dead last in the Midwest for job creation."

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By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2015

Jalen Ross
stated on March 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white name resume."

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By Katie Sanders • March 15, 2015

Erika Sanzi
stated on March 5, 2015 a newspaper commentary:

"Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color."

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By Katie Mulvaney • March 15, 2015

American Bridge 21st Century
stated on March 4, 2015 an online post:

"(Jeb) Bush, not the State of Florida, decided which private emails to disclose."

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By Joshua Gillin • March 13, 2015

Florida Chamber of Commerce
stated on March 10, 2015 a Senate health policy committee hearing:

Medicaid is close to 30 percent of the state budget and "the biggest expenditure at the state."

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By Amy Sherman • March 12, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on March 9, 2015 a letter to Iranian leaders:

If President Barack Obama strikes a nuclear deal with Iran, "the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."

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By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2015

Georgia Craft Brewers Guild
stated on March 9, 2015 a statement:

Georgia is one of only five states where breweries can’t sell you a pint of beer to drink on premise or sell you a six-pack to go.

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By Nancy Badertscher • March 11, 2015

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
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
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
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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By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2015

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
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
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
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."

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By Katie Sanders • March 1, 2015

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
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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By Tom Kertscher • February 27, 2015

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

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