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Dave Marsden
Dave Marsden
stated on June 14, 2014 in a radio interview.:
After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law "their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."
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By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 25, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
"Candidates for governor routinely disclose" their spouses’ tax returns.
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By Joshua Gillin • June 26, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on June 17, 2014 in a TV ad:
"Gov. Rick Scott cut the cost of prepaid college tuition by nearly $20,000."
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By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2014
Jim Rubens
Jim Rubens
stated on June 20, 2014 in a television forum:
Says Scott Brown voted with President Barack Obama 70 percent of the time in 2011.
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By Jim Haddadin • June 25, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 23, 2014 in an op-ed for Huffington Post:
"The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave."
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By Steve Contorno • June 24, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices":
"By 2006, the American people were overwhelmingly against the Iraq War."
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By Molly O'Connor • June 20, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 11, 2014 in a speech:
All 28 members of NATO have "pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us."  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 19, 2014
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on June 15, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Thousands of Westerners and Americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq. 
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • June 18, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on June 18, 2014 in a speech:
"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.
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By Dave Umhoefer • June 18, 2014
John Albers
John Albers
stated on June 14, 2014 in In an emai to constituents:
It would be illegal for the Fulton County Commission to raise the county tax rate.
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By April Hunt • June 18, 2014
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2014 in a TV ad:
When Rick Scott "was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times."
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By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2014
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on June 13, 2014 in In an article:
More than 1.5 million people moved into Georgia between the past two Census counts, and a majority consider themselves, African-American, Latino or Asian-American.
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By April Hunt • June 17, 2014
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 1, 2014 in an interview:
Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices":
"In Iran in 1979, the extremists hijacked the broad-based popular revolution against the Shah and established a brutal theocracy."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2014
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on May 30, 2014 in a radio interview:
"In the city of Milwaukee, we’ve still got a mayor and a police chief who are furloughing police officers at a time when we have violence all across the city."
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By James B. Nelson • June 11, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices":
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 4, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Rachel Maddow Show":
In February, John McCain "suggested" the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls "outrageous and dangerous."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 10, 2014
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on May 14, 2014 in an email blast:
"The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 9, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 16, 2014 in a radio interview:
"Graduation and third-grade reading scores are up in the state since I took office."
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By Dave Umhoefer • June 8, 2014
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