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Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on November 19, 2013 an online campaign video
"Firearms homicides are down about 40 percent" since Texas passed concealed-gun permit law.
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By Sue Owen • November 27, 2013
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on November 4, 2013 a guest lecture
"During the last election, Democrats won over a million votes more than Republicans, but because of the way districts are designed, the Republicans got 33 more members of the House of Representatives than the Democrats did."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 26, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 3, 2013 an image shared on Facebook
Medicare Part D "was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike" the act, "was never budgeted."
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By Sue Owen • November 18, 2013
Steve Leslie
Steve Leslie
stated on October 29, 2013 remarks at an Austin town hall about the Dell Medical School
The University of Texas is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 8, 2013
Independent Texans
Independent Texans
stated on September 3, 2013 a white paper on Proposition 6
$6 billion water bond program voters passed in 2011 "has yet to be tapped."
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By Sue Owen • October 29, 2013
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
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By Sue Owen • October 17, 2013
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 her oped column
Louie Gohmert of Texas "compared the current general-in-charge in Egypt to George Washington."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on September 21, 2013 a flier mailed to constituents
"In 2010, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office found that only 6.5 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border was under full control of the Border Patrol."
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By Sue Owen • October 1, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 18, 2013 an interview on CNN's "Crossfire"
"Ninety-five percent of all the wages in Texas are above minimum wage."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2013
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2013 a news article
About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants "came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 6, 2013
George P. Bush
George P. Bush
stated on July 2, 2013 a Twitter post
"60 percent of Texas 8th graders are not proficient in math. Only 26% have a teacher with a undergraduate major in math."  
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2013
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 8, 2013 an opinion column.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 71.2 percent of Hispanic registered voters in Texas and over 86 percent of African American registered voters participated in the 2012 elections.
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2013
Says a growing number of extremely premature babies survive into healthy childhood.
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2013
Sarah Ponder
Sarah Ponder
stated on July 1, 2013 a rally at the state Capitol
Says $800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators.
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By Sue Owen • July 3, 2013
Gene Green
Gene Green
stated on June 28, 2013 a press release
Says student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1.
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By Sue Owen • June 28, 2013
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 25, 2013 a filibuster on the Senate floor
Says 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider in 2008.
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By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • June 25, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 10, 2013 a bill-signing ceremony
Says the 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth.
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By Sue Owen • June 21, 2013
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on May 18, 2013 a speech at the convention of the Georgia Republican Party.
Says that in Texas, Republican nominees "get 40 percent of the Latino vote on average."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 4, 2013
Robert Deuell
Robert Deuell
stated on May 13, 2013 remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate.
Says it's "estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America."                   
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 21, 2013
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on May 8, 2013 an email blast.
"The economy added more jobs during four years under Obama than it did in the entire eight years under George W. Bush."  
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 9, 2013
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