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Maggie Hassan
stated on October 19, 2022 in an ad:

"Don Bolduc wants to cut trillions from Medicare and end Social Security."

By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2022
Maggie Hassan
stated on March 28, 2017 in a letter:

Says there is a "traditional 60-vote threshold for confirming Supreme Court nominees."

By Ella Nilsen • March 31, 2017
Maggie Hassan
stated on November 2, 2016 in a debate:

Kelly Ayotte "voted for a budget that had $90 billion of cuts to Pell Grants."

By Lola Duffort • November 5, 2016
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 3, 2016 in a debate:

"With her solution, terrorists can still today — and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it — buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America."

By Allie Morris • October 24, 2016
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
Maggie Hassan
stated on June 21, 2016 in a campaign statement:

Says Kelly Ayotte "voted again yesterday against a proposal to expand background checks -- (buyers) can continue to simply go online or to gun shows to purchase guns without background checks."

By Allie Morris • June 21, 2016
Maggie Hassan
stated on April 12, 2016 in a press release:

"Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act."

By Clay Wirestone • April 29, 2016
Maggie Hassan
stated on April 8, 2016 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:

Kelly Ayotte "has voted to defund Planned Parenthood" six times.

By Allie Morris • April 29, 2016
Maggie Hassan
stated on February 4, 2016 in her State of the State speech :

"Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire."

By Allie Morris • February 22, 2016
Maggie Hassan
stated on June 16, 2015 in her State of the State speech in Nashua:

Six thousand people have sought addiction treatment through expanded Medicaid.

By Clay Wirestone • July 2, 2015
Maggie Hassan
stated on February 12, 2015 in her budget address:

Our median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation.

By Casey McDermott • February 13, 2015
Maggie Hassan
stated on January 3, 2013 in her inauguration speech becoming NH governor:

We have the fourth highest in-state tuition for public universities in the country.

By Jake Berry • January 25, 2013
Maggie Hassan
stated on November 7, 2012 in an interview on the Daily Rundown on MSNBC.:

Says New Hampshire had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country during Maggie Hassan’s time in the state Senate.

By Jake Berry • November 16, 2012