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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
Mostly False
By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech at the National Press Club
"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 7, 2015 a visit to Deerfield, NH
"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • June 5, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 8, 2014 speech at Red State Gathering in Fort Worth
Congress is "on a five-week vacation."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 15, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 12, 2013 a radio ad
Says New York has ‘bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.’
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • June 19, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 17, 2013 a press release
Says 13 Texas universities "have announced or implemented a $10,000 degree."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • May 31, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 1, 2013 a press release jointly issued with U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
"Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 18, 2012 a South Carolina forum.
Says he signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed.
Mostly False
By Katie Glueck • February 10, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 19, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 1, 2011 remarks at a campaign stop October 1, 2011, in New Hampshire
"I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • November 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 16, 2011 a television ad
Says President Barack Obama thinks Americans are lazy.
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • November 17, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 a speech in Manchester, N.H.
"We spend half a trillion dollars a year in tax preparation."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 11, 2011 the Blooomberg/Washington Post Republican presidential debate.
Says that "we brought CHI Manufacturing, that had business in China, back to" Texas.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 31, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 1, 2011 a forum in Hampton, N.H.
"We cut property taxes by one-third in the state of Texas while I’ve been governor."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • October 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 10, 2011 a campaign ad
"Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 14, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando
Says that Romney touted the Massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando
Says he never said he wanted to move Social Security "back to the states."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.
Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2011
Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, "doesn’t even have a ZIP code."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 27, 2011
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