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Jack Kingston stated on May 12, 2014 in Campaign ad:
President Obama has left the U.S. with the lowest number of active-duty troops since before World War II, putting the nation at risk.
By Nancy Badertscher, Nick Fouriezos• July 7, 2014
Patrick McHenry stated on May 29, 2018 in a newsletter:
"Americans received the biggest tax cut in history last year."
By Paul Specht• June 4, 2018
Lindsey Graham stated on October 05, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Under sequestration, the military was cut "down to the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915."
By Lauren Carroll• October 5, 2014
Josh Mandel stated on June 28, 2012 in a news release:
The Affordable Care Act "will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history."
By Tom Feran• July 20, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stated on January 05, 2012 in a news release:
Freshman Rep. Bob Gibbs "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation — only working 6 days in all of January."
By Tom Feran• January 16, 2012
Donald Trump stated on January 30, 2018 in his State of the Union address:
"We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history."
By Louis Jacobson• January 31, 2018
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stated on January 05, 2012 in a press release.:
Congressman Scott DesJarlais "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January."
By Michael Collins• February 2, 2012
Joe Biden stated on March 01, 2022 in his State of the Union address:
“Our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before in the history of the United States of America.”
By Louis Jacobson• March 2, 2022
Jim Sensenbrenner stated on April 15, 2014 in a town-hall meeting:
President Barack Obama’s budget threatens national security by proposing "an Army of fewer personnel than we had before Pearl Harbor."
By Dave Umhoefer• May 4, 2014
Saxby Chambliss stated on September 25, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":
With Obamacare, "we're fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the American taxpayers have ever seen."
By Louis Jacobson• September 27, 2013
Rick Scott stated on February 03, 2011 in comments during a tour of a manufacturing plant.:
The federal health care law is "probably the biggest tax increase ever in the history of our country."
By Aaron Sharockman• February 14, 2011
Tammy Baldwin stated on May 04, 2022 in TV interview:
"Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right."
By Madeline Heim• June 3, 2022
Delaine Eastin stated on October 11, 2017 in an op-ed:
"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."
By Chris Nichols• October 27, 2017
Robin Vos stated on January 10, 2013 in a public forum:
On limiting late night legislative debates.
By D.L. Davis• December 11, 2018
Steve Doocy stated on June 24, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox and Friends.":
"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming."
By Jon Greenberg• June 25, 2014
Rob Portman stated on July 25, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."
By Stephen Koff• July 27, 2011
Andrew Cuomo stated on January 09, 2017 in a State of the State speech in New York City:
"More college graduates are living at home than in decades."
By Dan Clark• January 9, 2017
Barack Obama stated on July 25, 2011 in a televised address:
"President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times.  George W. Bush did it seven times."
By Robert Farley• July 26, 2011
Steve Bullock stated on May 19, 2019 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"You look at today, only half the 30-year-olds are doing better than their parents were at age 30. When I was being raised, it was 90%."
By Louis Jacobson• May 21, 2019
Rush Limbaugh stated on June 28, 2012 in comments on his radio show:
"Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world."
By Aaron Sharockman• June 28, 2012

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An early look at debate jabs from Gillespie, Warner

By Warren Fiske, Sean Gorman, Nancy Madsen• October 8, 2014

GOP moving the needle on Pledge-O-Meter

By Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson• March 28, 2011

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By Bill Adair• January 30, 2009

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The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here’s what they prevent.

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Examining Jerry Brown’s veto of California wildfire legislation and the criticism of it

By Chris Nichols• November 16, 2018

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