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Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on January 16, 2019 in his state of the state speech:
"We maintain this (Missouri highway) system with one of the lowest levels of funding in the country."
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By Sidney Steele • March 7, 2019
Chris Jones
Chris Jones
stated on February 23, 2019 in a floor speech.:
Virginia House "Republicans have had more African-Americans on key committees than when the Democrats were in control."  
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By Warren Fiske • March 5, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 in an op-ed:
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
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By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 in a State of the State Address:
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
True
By Chris Nichols • February 14, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 in a speech.:
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
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By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 31, 2019 in an interview:
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
True
February 12, 2019
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on January 9, 2019 in a speech.:
On extreme-risk guns laws, "This idea has passed Republican legislatures in other states and has been signed by Republican governors."  
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By Warren Fiske • January 23, 2019
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on December 26, 2018 in a Facebook post:
A bill passed by GOP legislators "makes it harder to prosecute people and groups that violate campaign finance laws."
True
By Paul Specht • January 14, 2019
Nita Lowey
Nita Lowey
stated on January 7, 2019 in a radio interview:
"The facts are, the majority of opioids and all kinds of other things that are connected to the opioids are coming through the point of entry."  
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 14, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on December 17, 2018 in a speech:
New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 7, 2019
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on December 1, 2018 in a tweet:
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 "includes the largest pay raise in nearly 10 years."
True
By Morgan Keith • December 13, 2018
Mike Romano
Mike Romano
stated on December 8, 2018 in an op-ed:
"Adjusting for inflation, West Virginia’s median household income has not grown in a decade."
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By Shannon MacNeil • December 12, 2018
Mike Romano
Mike Romano
stated on November 8, 2018 in an op-ed:
The poverty rate in West Virginia "was 19.1 percent, the fourth-highest in the country."
True
By Liz Newton, Zack Schwehm • December 10, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 19, 2018 in a radio interview:
"There is nothing that we have done on Amazon that we have not done with hundreds of other projects."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 7, 2018
Mike Romano
Mike Romano
stated on November 8, 2018 in an op-ed:
"In 2017, West Virginia’s $43,469 median household income was $16,867 below the national average, ranking 50th."
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By Julia Mellett, Sadaf Nikzad • December 7, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 3, 2018 in a Facebook post:
Says Ann Coulter said, "I am a settler. I am descended from settlers — not from immigrants."
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By Kyra Haas • December 6, 2018
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on November 27, 2018 in a tweet:
At General Motors, CEO Mary Barra "took home almost 22 MILLION DOLLARS last year alone (295x your company's average employee)."
True
By Liz Newton, Jamie Green, Kenna Richards, Patrick Orsagos • December 6, 2018
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on November 15, 2018 in a tweet:
The United States "spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy R&D."
True
By Kristen Mohammadi, Lili Zecevic • December 6, 2018
Crystal Quade
Crystal Quade
stated on December 8, 2018 in an interview:
Missouri "had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country."
True
By Ryan Hanrahan • December 6, 2018
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
stated on November 9, 2018 in a tweet:
"In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses."
True
By Titus Wu • November 19, 2018
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