Latest Fact-Checks In Children

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Joel Kitchens
Joel Kitchens
stated on February 19, 2025 News conference
“90% of the (school) districts in Wisconsin already have a policy” banning cellphones during class time.
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By Hope Karnopp • February 28, 2025
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 a campaign event in North Carolina
Project 2025 would “end Head Start.”
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By Louis Jacobson, Mia Penner • July 23, 2024
Lisa Subeck
Lisa Subeck
stated on February 16, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.”
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By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024
Jill Billings
Jill Billings
stated on November 14, 2023 Assembly floor speech
“With school-based professional social workers, the recommendation is 400-to-1, and in Wisconsin, we’re almost triple that.”
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By Tyler Katzenberger • December 13, 2023
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 26, 2023 Twitter
Infertility is treated differently than other issues and "often excluded from insurance coverage"
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By D.L. Davis • May 26, 2023
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 3, 2021 Twitter
“324,000 pregnant people experience domestic violence during their pregnancy.”
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By Madeline Heim • August 13, 2021
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on March 14, 2021 TV interview
“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts" doing no in-person instruction.
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By Madeline Heim • March 29, 2021
Chris Kapenga
Chris Kapenga
stated on February 10, 2021 Twitter
“The National Academy of Medicine points to a significant correlation between marijuana and psychosis, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders, particularly in teenagers where the risk of developing schizophrenia increases three fold.”
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By Haley BeMiller • March 5, 2021
James White
James White
stated on January 27, 2020 a tweet
Says "10% of U.S. children are Texans." 
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By Madlin Mekelburg • January 31, 2020
Tracy McCreery
Tracy McCreery
stated on April 8, 2019 a legislative debate
"Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among 15-19 year olds and 25-34 year olds in Missouri."
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By Gaëlle Fournier, Zara McDowell-Barker • May 15, 2019
Shelia Stubbs
Shelia Stubbs
stated on March 12, 2019 a public forum
"Wisconsin (has) the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide."
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By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2019
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on May 20, 2018 an interview on ABC News, "This Week"
"It’s against the law in Texas to let any loaded gun get in the hands of a child."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 29, 2018 a tweet
"Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages."
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By Amy Sherman • May 29, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 24, 2018 a Waco campaign stop
Says "PTA meetings are now being conducted to help parents tell their kids" that if a guy with an AR-15 walks into their classroom, "you are supposed to create as much chaos as you possibly can. They want you to scream and yell and dance around and throw books and just keep moving."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2018
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 19, 2018 a conference call with voters
Says Texas ranks among the nation’s top five states for its high school graduation rate.
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 2, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 18, 2018 a press conference
Reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program "for six years saves $1 billion" and doing it for 10 years saves $6 billion.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2018
Joyce Mauk
Joyce Mauk
stated on October 3, 2017 an Austin American-Statesman news story
"One in 10 babies born in this country is born in Texas."  
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2017
Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee
stated on June 21, 2017 a segment on her show "Full Frontal"
The New York State Senate "passed legislation allowing minors to race snowmobiles, get their own hunting licenses, and not be employed gathering or picking rags, cigar stumps, or collecting bones."
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By Dan Clark • June 30, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 5, 2017 an interview with CNN's "State of the Union"
Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trump’s proposal for child care "go to the people making over $100,000 a year."
True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 8, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 17, 2016 a press release titled “Lt. Governor Unveils Faith-Based Initiative on Foster Care Children,”
"Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families."
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By Bobby Cervantes • October 28, 2016
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