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Glenn Hegar stated on June 24, 2015 in a tweet:

"Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal gov't wants to create a park, they must ask permission!"

By W. Gardner Selby• July 17, 2015

Chain email stated on June 09, 2010 in a chain e-mail:

Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.

By Louis Jacobson• June 10, 2010

Steven King stated on January 05, 2014 in a TV interview:

"We’ve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector" at Quonset Business Park.

By John Hill• January 22, 2014

Mike Rogers stated on November 03, 2013 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

In 1929, the Secretary of State shut down a program that was "collecting information to protect America" because it was "unseemly," but that move led to "millions and millions" of deaths in World War II.

By Louis Jacobson• November 4, 2013

Melissa Melendez stated on May 11, 2017 in a press release and a tweet:

California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed "diverting 30 percent of the funding" from the state’s gas tax increase "to non-road related projects like building parks and job training for felons."

By Chris Nichols• May 19, 2017

Texas Campaign for the Environment stated on April 26, 2018 in a handout:

Says most of Austin’s biggest parks have recycling though as "many as 293 out of 300" Austin city "parks have no recycling, including almost every neighborhood park."

By W. Gardner Selby• June 8, 2018

Donald Trump stated on October 22, 2016 in a rally outside Cleveland:

Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.

By Nadia Pflaum• October 31, 2016

Jerry Patterson stated on June 09, 2012 in a speech to the Republican Party of Texas convention in Fort Worth:

Says Sierra Club sued him to stop oil and gas activity on Texas coast, but "we won" and "the turtles are fine."

By Sue Owen• September 12, 2012

Bob Goodlatte stated on February 25, 2011 in a column.:

The House budget plan proposes "the largest discretionary spending cut in history."

By Sean Gorman• March 18, 2011

Ryan Zinke stated on March 13, 2018 in testimony before a Senate committee:

A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history."

By Louis Jacobson• March 19, 2018

Steven Koonin stated on October 26, 2021 in an Instagram video:

“Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.”

By Jon Greenberg• November 3, 2021

Jim Kenney stated on March 10, 2016 in a budget address to City Council:

"When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years."

By Anna Orso• March 10, 2016

Jim Sullivan stated on November 02, 2010 in a campaign mailer:

Says he "led the effort to build a new (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) engineering campus in Wauwatosa."

By Tom Kertscher• January 6, 2011

Chris Larson stated on October 05, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:

The Milwaukee Brewers “are complaining about a lack of transit going to the ballpark at the same time as they are testifying in favor (of) taking $135 million away from Milwaukee County, which funds transit."

By Ricardo Torres• October 27, 2023

Lloyd Doggett stated on September 03, 2015 in remarks in San Antonio:

As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.

By W. Gardner Selby• September 11, 2015

Tweets stated on October 05, 2013 in a tweet:

"Obama has jumped the shark and ordered the ocean closed!"

By Amy Sherman• October 7, 2013

Hillary Clinton stated on June 02, 2016 in a foreign policy speech:

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."

By Louis Jacobson• June 6, 2016

Michael Chippendale stated on December 16, 2011 in a public forum:

"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "

By Alex Kuffner• December 21, 2011

Nancy McFarlane stated on November 06, 2017 in on a mailer:

Charles Francis "vows to slash funding for parks and open space."

By Paul Specht• November 6, 2017

USA Freedom Fund stated on May 11, 2022 in an attack ad:

“Kathy Barnette wants to build a statue of Barack Obama right next to the one of Abraham Lincoln on Capitol Hill."

By Jon Greenberg• May 13, 2022

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