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Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 5, 2014 a broadcast of "Hannity" on Fox News:
Every new Republican member of the U.S. Senate said they "will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on November 9, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
New Jersey has had "seven credit downgrades" since Chris Christie became governor.
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By Katie Sanders • November 9, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 14, 2014 an interview:
The gender gap in his support is "not unique to me" and "there’s not a huge gap from where Republicans have been in presidential, gubernatorial and US Senate elections" in recent years.
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By Craig Gilbert, Dave Umhoefer • October 31, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 28, 2014 a speech:
Wisconsin Republicans "repealed a statewide fair pay law" that made "sure women are treated fairly on the job."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 31, 2014
Zell Miller
Zell Miller
stated on October 27, 2014 television ad:
Nathan Deal saved the HOPE scholarship program.
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By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 31, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 an op-ed in the "New York Times":
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 22, 2014 a campaign TV ad:
Says his promise of 250,000 new private sector jobs was a "big goal."
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By Dave Umhoefer • October 30, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 30, 2014 a debate:
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
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By Dylan Baddour • October 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2014 the president's weekly national address:
"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."
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By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 17, 2014 a speech:
Figures for September 2014’s job growth in Wisconsin mark the "largest private-sector job creation we've had in the month of September in more than a decade"
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By James B. Nelson • October 29, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 a meme on social media:
Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.
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By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.:
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
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By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on October 19, 2014 an episode of "Meet the Press":
"Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester."
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By Katie Sanders • October 24, 2014
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on October 7, 2014 debate:
Jason Carter never passed a bill in his tenure in the state Senate.  
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By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 24, 2014
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on October 13, 2014 a debate:
Says Mark Pryor "votes with Obama 93 percent of the time."
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By Lauren Carroll • October 22, 2014
Corey Hebert
Corey Hebert
stated on October 20, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes":
"We've had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and they've never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2014
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on October 21, 2014 NH Senate debate:
Says Jeanne Shaheen has "voted with the president 99 percent of the time."
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By Jonathan Van Fleet • October 22, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 12, 2014 an interview with Howard Kurtz:
"When I go on Letterman" the "ratings go up."
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By Katie Sanders • October 21, 2014
Ernest Almonte
Ernest Almonte
stated on October 5, 2014 an interview on WLNE's "On the Record":
"I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on September 23, 2014 a speech.:
In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."
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By Sean Gorman • October 19, 2014
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