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Jared Moskowitz
Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 a House hearing
“Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA” and the National Weather Service.
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By Amy Sherman • September 26, 2024
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on October 11, 2016 a debate
"Gov. (Pat) McCrory took $500,000 directly out of the disaster relief fund. And you know what it’s for? House Bill 2."
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By Will Doran • October 19, 2016
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on July 8, 2014 a television ad
Says he "voted for disaster relief and full funding of FEMA."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • July 9, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on June 19, 2014 a television ad
"Congressman (Tom) Cotton is the only Arkansan in Congress -- Democrat or Republican -- to vote against disaster relief five times."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2014
Chris Chocola
Chris Chocola
stated on March 19, 2014 an op-ed supporting Senate candidate Chris McDaniel
Says Sen. Thad Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2014
Steve Goreham
Steve Goreham
stated on August 5, 2013 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 25, 2013
Brian Schatz
Brian Schatz
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 5, 2013
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 11, 2013 a keynote address
The ocean is now "much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 4, 2013 an interview on the “Late Show with David Letterman”
Says "in Katrina, they approved $60 billion within 10 days of the storm on a voice vote."
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By Bill Wichert • February 6, 2013