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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech
"Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.’"
False
By Sean Gorman • March 9, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement
"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."
False
By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.
"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 18, 2013 a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"
"Every engine manufacturer in the United States is now in the state of Texas."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 22, 2013 remarks at a Washington, D.C. event.
Says Houston is "home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 21, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2013 a press conference.
Says Texas public school funding grew three times the rate of enrollment from 2002 to 2012.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 21, 2012 a tweet.
Says Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 7, 2011 an Iowa TV ad.
Our "kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 9, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 remarks at the Cornerstone Action Dinner in Manchester, N.H.
Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, "federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called ‘green mandates’ are not complied with quickly enough."
False
By Jake Berry • November 15, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 25, 2011 an interview.
Says that under his tax plan, "no matter where you are in the stratosphere, you're going to be getting a tax cut."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 7, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.
Says he "got lobbied" by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a speech at "Politics and Eggs" in Bedford, N.H.
Says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 18, 2011 remarks during a campaign stop in New Hampshire
"In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 19, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 15, 2011 a speech.
Says the government wants to require farm tractor drivers to hold commercial driver’s licenses even if they’re just crossing a single public road.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 29, 2011 a press release
Says legislative debate of airport pat-down procedures initiated federal changes in security procedures.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 7, 2011 a comment to reporters.
Says the state’s budget shortfall is "not that much different" than it was in 2003.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 18, 2011 his inauguration address
Says the first word spoken from the moon was "Houston."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2011
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