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Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages:
"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."
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By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 a book:
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics:
The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."
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By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015
Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on January 2, 2015 speaking to reporters:
The "average taxpayer will see the equivalent of a 2 percent pay raise as a result of low fuel prices."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2015
Georgia Farm Bureau
Georgia Farm Bureau
stated on January 8, 2015 a statement on the Georgia Farm Bureau website:
Agriculture contributes $71 billion to Georgia’s economy annually, making it the state’s largest industry.
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By April Hunt • January 9, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on December 19, 2014 a list of talking points:
Says Jeb Bush "not only opposes marriage equality, he’s said he ‘personally’ believes gay couples should be banned from adopting children."
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By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2015
Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on December 18, 2014 a press conference:
Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."  
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By Amy Sherman • December 23, 2014
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post:
"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."
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By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."  
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By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014:
"The reason why Cubans don't have access to 21st century telecommunications — like smart phones, like access to the Internet — is because it is illegal in Cuba."
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By Lauren Carroll, Steve Contorno • December 19, 2014
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview:
Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2014
Ana Navarro
Ana Navarro
stated on December 17, 2014 an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper":
"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 a press conference:
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on December 14, 2014 the Sunday comics:
Says 3,000 Americans "died of gunfire" between the time of the Ebola scare in Dallas and the midterm elections.
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By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2014
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on December 10, 2014 his farewell U.S. House speech:
"This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2014
L.C.
L.C. "Buster" Evans
stated on November 12, 2014 in a press release:
"It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults."
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By Nancy Badertscher • December 16, 2014
Michael Needham
Michael Needham
stated on December 14, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The federal budget bill "reauthorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which provides taxpayer dollars so that the Four Seasons hotel can build a resort in Turkey."
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By Lauren Carroll • December 15, 2014
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on December 2, 2014 a news release.:
"Bill Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade."
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By Nancy Madsen • December 15, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on December 2, 2014 a TV ad:
Mike "Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2014 a speech to business leaders:
"We are younger than our competitors, and this is entirely because of immigration."
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By Steve Contorno • December 9, 2014
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