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Joseph Crowley
Joseph Crowley
stated on April 7, 2017 in a tweet:
"More than 20 million people are at risk of dying from starvation within 6 months in 4 nations."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2017
Ted Yoho
Ted Yoho
stated on March 28, 2017 in a House hearing:
"Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2017
Raj Shah
Raj Shah
stated on February 24, 2017 in an op-ed:
"Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants."  
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By Jon Greenberg • March 8, 2017
Bono
Bono
stated on February 17, 2017 in a speech at the Munich Security Conference:
"For every extra year a girl goes to school, her income goes up 12 percent."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2017
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 2, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:
Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.
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By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2017
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 18, 2017 in a senate confirmation hearing:
"All of our taxpayers are paying roughly 22% of the U.N. budget."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on October 26, 2016 in a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs:
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 in a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees:
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
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By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
David Miliband
David Miliband
stated on June 26, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2016
David Beckham
David Beckham
stated on June 10, 2016 in a UNICEF video:
"Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world."  
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By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 8, 2016 in an interview on CNN:
"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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."
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By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016