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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 30, 2011 a radio interview
"I became a Republican sooner in my life than" Ronald Reagan did in his.
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 6, 2011
New Jersey Education Association
New Jersey Education Association
stated on August 30, 2011 NJEA's website
Says "New Jersey's public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation."
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By Erin O'Neill • September 4, 2011
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
stated on August 30, 2011 an oped column.
Says Ron Paul insisted FEMA should be shut down.
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 3, 2011
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on August 29, 2011 an opinion column
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
James Parisi
James Parisi
stated on August 21, 2011 a TV news show
A national study of 2,500 charter schools shows that "maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools, 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference."
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By Lynn Arditi • September 1, 2011
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 24, 2011 a Twitter message.
Congressional Budget Office "says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!"
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 31, 2011
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on August 24, 2011 comments to Tallahassee residents
"The health insurance plan that (members of Congress) have is no different than any other federal employee's in the United States government."
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By Katie Sanders • August 30, 2011
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on July 29, 2011 a press conference
"We've had 11,000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789."
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By Will Short Gorham • August 30, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on August 1, 2011 a news release.
"The estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts for another decade."
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By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • August 29, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 4, 2011 an appearance on MSNBC
"Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies."
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By Tom Feran • August 29, 2011
Regina Benjamin
Regina Benjamin
stated on August 18, 2011 a radio interview
"The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education."
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By Willoughby Mariano • August 26, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 23, 2011 a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
"When Social Security first started, there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree."
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By Aaron Sharockman • August 24, 2011
David Pennington
David Pennington
stated on August 15, 2011 a press conference
The proposed transportation bill "could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history."
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By Eric Stirgus • August 22, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 2, 2011 a television interview
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers "pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland."
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By Tom Feran • August 22, 2011
Gary Schaer
Gary Schaer
stated on August 17, 2011 a press release
"Hair stylists are required to undergo more government scrutiny than foreclosure consultants."
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By Bill Wichert • August 21, 2011
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
stated on August 14, 2011 a "New York Times" op-ed
The "mega-rich" pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class "fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2011
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with ABC TV.
"Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas" which is "tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2011
Sam Olens
Sam Olens
stated on August 4, 2011 a talk at the Atlanta Press Club
"The governor having a meeting ... isn't covered by the open meetings act."
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By Willoughby Mariano • August 16, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 15, 2011 a column in the "New York Times"
"One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 15, 2011
Nicholas Scutari
Nicholas Scutari
stated on July 27, 2011 in a NJToday interview
"Certainly we're going to be the most restrictive state in the land … in terms of who can get medical marijuana, how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace."
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By Erin O'Neill • August 14, 2011
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