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Joe Biden
stated on October 4, 2021 in a speech:

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2021
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 3, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on June 22, 2021 in an Instagram post:

"President Trump's net gain while in office $0, Nancy Pelosi's net gain while in office $191 million."

By Tom Kertscher • July 7, 2021
Mark Pocan
stated on May 20, 2021 in Twitter:

During the pandemic, “I’ve been in D.C. voting regularly.”

By Laura Schulte • June 15, 2021
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2021 in an interview with Ezra Klein:

“The filibuster, if it does not get reformed, still means that maybe 30% of the population potentially controls the majority of Senate seats.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2021
Ronna McDaniel
stated on February 22, 2021 in a tweet:

Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that “it threatens our freedom of speech.”

By Amy Sherman • March 1, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 in a speech:

“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 5, 2021 in an interview on CBS:

“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”

By Amy Sherman • February 10, 2021
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on October 1, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Steve Bullock “failed to act” when his “most senior political aide was caught sexually harassing women. Bullock knew about the harassment but said nothing, remaining silent when the aide took another job where he harassed women again.”

By Noah Y. Kim • October 15, 2020
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 25, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Sri Kulkarni attended “notorious desert drug parties” and was arrested for cocaine.

By Noah Y. Kim • October 6, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on September 17, 2020 in a campaign website:

Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”

By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on September 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.”

By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2020
Jeff Bezos
stated on July 29, 2020 in a congressional hearing:

“The retail market we participate in is extraordinarily large and competitive. Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market, and less than 4% of U.S. retail.”

By Emily Venezky • August 6, 2020
AFL-CIO
stated on April 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2020
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”

By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

Says Democratic members of Congress who represent Cuban Americans in Florida and have been critical of Sanders “just so happen to be supporting other candidates.”

By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The percent of millionaires in Congress is 50% while the percent among the U.S. public is 1 percent

By Amy Sherman • January 22, 2020
Ron Johnson
stated on June 12, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption.

By Eric Litke • July 12, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 10, 2019 in an interview:

"Even in the last Congress, President Trump signed 18 of my bills."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 21, 2019
Richard Cordray
stated on September 25, 2018 in an ad:

Says "Mike DeWine wanted to allow insurance companies to refuse to pay for pre-existing conditions."

By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2018
Paul Ryan
stated on April 17, 2018 in a news conference:

Says that on the tax reform law, Democratic leaders "are promising to take it all away."

By Tom Kertscher • May 2, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2018 in in a tweet:

Says Democratic obstruction is the reason why "many important positions in government are unfilled."

By John Kruzel • March 16, 2018
Jim Renacci
stated on January 24, 2018 in an interview on Fox Business Network:

In 2005 or 2006 U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer "voted for the wall."

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2018
Dan Kohl
stated on November 7, 2017 in a Facebook post:

Says Glenn Grothman "is the single-most partisan member of the House."

By Tom Kertscher • November 8, 2017
Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 31, 2017 in a U.S. Senate campaign kickoff event in Dallas:

"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 27, 2017
Save My Care
stated on May 8, 2017 in a digital ad:

U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted for a health care bill that will let insurance companies "charge five times more for people over 50."

By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2017
David Price
stated on March 22, 2017 in a report from his Congressional office:

"Under the Republican health care repeal proposal North Carolina faces the 2nd highest premium increase in the nation. North Carolina residents will face an average cost increase of over $7,500."

By Will Doran • March 24, 2017
Luis Gutierrez
stated on March 12, 2017 in CNN's State of the Union:

"2009-2010, let's remember, hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted in the ACA."

By Gabrielle Healy • March 16, 2017
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 5, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

Says former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes."

By Gabrielle Healy • February 9, 2017
Maggie Hassan
stated on September 15, 2016 in a speech:

"During her first four years in Washington Sen. Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers nearly 90 percent of the time."

By Allie Morris • September 24, 2016

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