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Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on October 19, 2021 in a tweet:
"Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where inflation is costing households an extra $175 a month.”
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By Lyle Muller • October 21, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 6, 2021 in remarks at the White House:
“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2021
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 in TV interview:
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
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By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 in a speech in Howell, Mich.:
"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci
stated on October 3, 2021 in an interview on CNN:
“There are precious few religions that actually say you cannot” get vaccinated.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 12, 2021 in an op-ed:
“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”
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By Maxwell Ionno, Olivia Murray • October 5, 2021
Cori Bush
Cori Bush
stated on September 23, 2021 in a tweet:
“Approximately 60,000 Canadians currently live undocumented in the USA.”
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By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2021
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on August 25, 2021 in Twitter:
“Wisconsin Governor (Tony) Evers wanted to raise your taxes by $1 billion in a pandemic. Republicans stopped him and delivered the largest tax CUT in state history.”
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By Madeline Heim • September 24, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks at an event in Gainesville, Fla.:
People who “have recovered (from COVID-19) have very strong immunity.”
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By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996.”
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September 15, 2021
Eric Toney
Eric Toney
stated on August 22, 2021 in TV interview:
"I'm the only front-line prosecutor in this race that's actually used the resources of the Wisconsin Crime Lab in the prosecution of cases."
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By Alan Hovorka • September 13, 2021
Byron Brown
Byron Brown
stated on August 23, 2021 in an interview:
Before 2020, “crime had been falling, every year, year after year, in the city of Buffalo.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 11, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 26, 2021 in a proclamation:
Women are "disproportionately impacted by voter ID laws — especially married women who change their names, or those whose IDs do not accurately reflect their gender."
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By Amy Sherman • September 7, 2021
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on August 18, 2021 in a speech.:
The Virginia Employment Commission is sixth in the nation for getting benefits to eligible people quickly…”
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By Warren Fiske • September 7, 2021
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on August 30, 2021 in an Instagram post:
“The average hospital stay for a case of COVID-19 costs about $17,064. The vaccine is free.”
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By Miriam Valverde • September 2, 2021
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference:
“North Carolina during this pandemic had among the lowest COVID-related deaths, as well as job losses per capita.”
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By Paul Specht • August 20, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"100 Sailors at sea. All vaxxed. All with COVID (seven) weeks following deployment."
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By Andy Nguyen • August 19, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 17, 2021 in on social media:
The man next to Mike Pompeo in a November 2020 photo “is the guy the Trump administration helped get out of jail in 2018 and who is now the 'president' of Afghanistan."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on August 6, 2021 in a radio interview.:
“We watched Terry McAuliffe, when he was governor, lower the (accreditation) standards in our schools...”
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By Warren Fiske • August 18, 2021
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on July 6, 2021 in a tweet:
Every time outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “says the firearm industry ‘is immune from lawsuits,’ it's false.”
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By Cassidey Kavathas • August 13, 2021
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