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United for Care
stated on August 11, 2016 a newspaper op-ed:

"Medical-grade marijuana alone will not get that patient ‘high,’ no matter what level of THC, CBD or any other compound is found in the plant."

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By Joshua Gillin • August 19, 2016

Vote No On 2
stated on July 20, 2016 a pamphlet mailed to voters:

"Because there's no local option to allow communities to ban, limit or restrict the location of pot shops, if Amendment 2 passes you can expect the seedy elements of the pot industry to move in right next door to your neighborhood, your church, your business and even your child's school."

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By Joshua Gillin • August 16, 2016

U.S. Dairy Export Council
stated on May 9, 2016 a press release:

Says a WHO proposal "portrays milk and dairy products as an obstacle to a healthy start in life."

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By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 a Tampa Bay Times interview:

"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."

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By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016

Tom Daschle
stated on February 29, 2016 an op-ed:

U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce "political instability and violence" by "40 percent" in recipient nations.

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By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2016

Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”:

After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."

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By Andy East • November 24, 2015

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 14, 2015 a news conference:

"In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated."

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By Mark Reynolds • October 25, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 22, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web:

Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.

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By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on July 15, 2015 an interview:

If women seeking an abortion see their ultrasound, "the odds are pretty high they're going to keep the baby."

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By Tom Kertscher • July 22, 2015

NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on June 18, 2015 a TV ad:

Says Scott Walker "said that forcing women facing abortion to get invasive ultrasounds was 'just a cool thing.'"

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By Tom Kertscher • June 24, 2015

Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2015 an interview:

Says Democratic challenger Russ Feingold "was the deciding vote on Obamacare."

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By Tom Kertscher • May 27, 2015

Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 a press release:

"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.

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By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015

Phil Robertson
stated on February 27, 2015 a speech at the CPAC conference:

According to the CDC, "110 million Americans now have a sexually transmitted illness."

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By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2015

Bob Sears
stated on February 2, 2015 an interview on CNN:

"Every year in the United States between 3,000 and 4,500 severe vaccine reactions are reported to the Centers for Disease Control. Not mild reactions. Severe reactions that land somebody in the hospital, the intensive care unit or cause a permanent disability or death."

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By Aaron Sharockman • February 3, 2015

Patrick Lynch
stated on November 24, 2014 a newspaper commentary:

Exposure to the electromagnetic fields from power lines "has been associated with childhood leukemia and other diseases."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2015

Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2014 an interview:

"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin.

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By Tom Kertscher • December 12, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on October 16, 2014 an interview with a New Hampshire radio station:

Ebola is "incredibly contagious," "very transmissible" and "easy to catch."

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By Steve Contorno • October 27, 2014

Allen West
stated on October 20, 2014 a tweet:

"U.S. troops are getting only 4 hours of Ebola training before deployment to Liberia."

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By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2014

Tim Murphy
stated on October 19, 2014 an interview on Fox News Sunday:

Blocking travel from countries with Ebola should be possible because President Barack Obama "has sealed off Israel in the past."

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By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2014

Cory Gardner
stated on October 15, 2014 a debate:

The CDC is "spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening and massage therapy" that could be redirected to Ebola.

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By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2014

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