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stated on August 7, 2014 a meme on social media
"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The people who want President Barack Obama impeached "are all white, they're all older, and guess what, they're in the far right wing of the Republican Party."  
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By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on July 13, 2014 a debate on WPRI-TV
Rhode Island's state pension system "underperformed the median three out of the four years that Mr. [Frank] Caprio was in office."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 3, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on July 29, 2014
Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst does not support "a national minimum wage." 
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By Molly O'Connor • August 1, 2014
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 comments on CNN
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
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By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Concerned Veterans for America
Concerned Veterans for America
stated on July 25, 2014 a television ad
Says Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, missed "79 percent of veterans affairs committee hearings."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 30, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 29, 2014 a campaign email
"Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 30, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2014 a meme on social media
"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on his radio show
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
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By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal"
"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
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By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 22, 2014 a campaign TV ad
"(Mary) Burke’s company," Trek Bicycles, "makes 99% of their bikes overseas."
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By Dave Umhoefer • July 28, 2014
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."  
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By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2014
Patriot Majority USA
Patriot Majority USA
stated on July 22, 2014 a television ad
A tax plan promoted by North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis will "overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 25, 2014
Ending Spending Action Fund
Ending Spending Action Fund
stated on July 20, 2014 television attack ad
U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn "earned as much as $300,000 running a nonprofit that had laid off 90 workers."
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By Nancy Badertscher • July 25, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC
"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."  
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By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 22, 2014 an interview with a Las Vegas news network
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut.
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By Steve Contorno • July 24, 2014
Dennis Richardson
Dennis Richardson
stated on July 18, 2014 a campaign debate
"We are 49th in the nation for our graduation rate"
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By Dana Tims • July 23, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 17, 2014 a speech in Delaware
"We've recovered (from the recession) faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth."  
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By Lauren Carroll • July 23, 2014
Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 a speech to the Florida Press Association
"Tourism and retirees are the dominant economic engines in our state."
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By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2014
Fresh Start PA
Fresh Start PA
stated on July 15, 2014 a campaign ad
Under Gov. Tom Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2014
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