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Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 12, 2019 in a podcast:

29 states still don’t have "comprehensive protections" for people in the LGBTQ community.

By Mica Soellner • March 28, 2019
Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

"An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 in an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 in a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 in a TV interview:

The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014
Henry Cuellar
stated on July 6, 2014 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"If you're a Mexican, you get sent back. ... But if you're from a noncontiguous country like the Central American countries" then you can stay in the United States.

By Molly O'Connor • July 10, 2014
Terry Gorman
stated on April 24, 2012 in a House committee hearing:

"When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, they're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 13, 2012
Ron Paul
stated on November 12, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, S.C.:

"Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws."

By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2011