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Joel Griffith
Joel Griffith
stated on April 28, 2019 in an op-ed on Fox News:
"Of the 14 wealthy OECD countries with a wealth tax in 1996, 10 have since then abandoned it."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 10, 2019
Cody Smith
Cody Smith
stated on March 6, 2019 in a capitol report:
"Our state transportation department already has a heavy debt load and has paid more than $700 million in debt payments in just the last two years."
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By Zara McDowell-Barker • May 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2019 in an interview on CNN:
"One out of five Americans cannot afford the cost of prescription drugs."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 6, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 in a cable TV news interview.:
"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism." 
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on April 11, 2019 in a town hall in New Hampshire:
"Half the country today has either diabetes or prediabetes."
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By Miriam Valverde • April 29, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:
"One out of 4 diabetes patients in our country cannot afford their insulin."
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 26, 2019
John Delaney
John Delaney
stated on April 13, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Most of home care is paid by government programs."
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By Yanqi Xu • April 25, 2019
Nikki Bowmar
Nikki Bowmar
stated on March 30, 2019 in a comment in a newspaper article:
Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."
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By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on March 18, 2019 in a press release:
"It is estimated that more than 20 veterans die by suicide every day."
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By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • April 24, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 in a speech.:
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
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By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on April 11, 2019 in a town hall:
"There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program."  
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April 19, 2019
Eric Burlison
Eric Burlison
stated on February 13, 2019 in a Senate hearing:
Says SJR 11 "seeks to fix what is very quickly becoming a problem in Missouri — initiative petitions and referendums are being filed at record highs."
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By Yue Yu • April 17, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 in a panel at the University of Pennsylvania:
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
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By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 31, 2019 in in an interview on MSNBC:
"We got to almost universal coverage in health care in Colorado."
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By Julianna Rennie • April 11, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
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By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
Paul Bettencourt
Paul Bettencourt
stated on April 2, 2019 in a resolution:
"194,000 criminal aliens booked into Texas jails from 2011-2019 were charged with more than 299,000 criminal offenses."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • April 8, 2019
Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on April 3, 2019 in state of the city speech:
"The public health science is clear that the use of the addiction medicine buprenorphine saves lives whether that use has been prescribed or not."
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By Aidan Quigley • April 7, 2019
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on April 3, 2019 in a tweet:
"FYI: the last statewide recount in WI was in 2016. After that recount, the vote margin changed by only 131 out of the 2.7 million votes cast." 
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By D.L. Davis • April 7, 2019
John Flanagan
John Flanagan
stated on April 1, 2019 in a news release:
The state budget fully funds "an initiative to provide free college tuition for illegal immigrants, while rejecting an increase in Tuition Assistance Program funding that would help middle-class families afford college."  
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 7, 2019
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on April 1, 2019 in the Texas Senate:
Abortion providers perform almost 60,000 procedures in Texas every year.
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By Madlin Mekelburg • April 5, 2019
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