Fact Check Posts – Page 102

Adrian Garcia
stated on February 5, 2016 a campaign news release:

"Gene Green is the NRA’s favorite Democrat in Congress. ... "It’s no wonder the congressman has a lifetime A rating from the NRA."

By Emma Hinchliffe • February 5, 2016

Katrina Shankland
stated on January 29, 2016 a news release:

"Faced with $1 million in campaign debt," Scott Walker "is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers."

By Tom Kertscher • February 5, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 3, 2016 a town hall in Henniker, N.H.:

"During eight years under Ronald Reagan, African-American median income rose by about $5,000."

By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2016

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on January 27, 2016 a blog post :

Says Catherine Cortez Masto "was happy to line her own pockets with taxpayer dollars when state employees were slammed with frozen salaries."

By Riley Snyder • February 3, 2016

Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on December 18, 2015 remarks inserted into the Congressional Record:

"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."

By Fauzeya Rahman • February 1, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate:

"Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."

By Lauren Carroll, Sean Gorman • January 29, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate:

"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 comments during the Iowa Republican presidential debate:

"I have not insulted Donald personally."

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 a Fox News debate :

"Barack Obama, right now, No. 1, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

China has "total control, just about, of North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."

By Joshua Gillin • January 18, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

"I helped write" the Affordable Care Act.

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on December 28, 2015 remarks at a Florida campaign stop:

"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."

By Emma Hinchliffe • January 15, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

Says Sen. Ted Cruz used to be "in favor of birthright citizenship" but is now against it.

By Joshua Gillin • January 15, 2016

Conservative Solutions PAC
stated on January 4, 2016 an attack ad:

Says Chris Christie "instituted an Internet sales tax."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 14, 2016

Chelsea Clinton
stated on January 12, 2016 a campaign event for Hillary Clinton:

Says Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would "empower Republican governors to take away Medicaid, to take away health insurance for low-income and middle-income working Americans."

By Lauren Carroll • January 14, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on December 17, 2015 a speech.:

"We are taking Virginia’s investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealth’s history."

By Warren Fiske • January 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" in Ottumwa, Iowa:

"We get practically nothing compared to the cost of" keeping U.S. military forces in South Korea.

By Louis Jacobson • January 10, 2016

Scot Ross
stated on December 13, 2015 a television interview:

Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin "moved from 16th to third in percentage of people with student loan debt."

By James B. Nelson • January 8, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

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