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Heather Moore
Heather Moore
stated on November 17, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary:
"Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year."  
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • December 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 1, 2015 a post on her campaign website:
"Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 30, 2015 a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt:
"Here’s the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Annette Taddeo
Annette Taddeo
stated on November 24, 2015 a fundraising email:
Jeb Bush’s plan for Social Security is "disastrous for seniors and raises the retirement age to 70."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • November 30, 2015
Martha McSally
Martha McSally
stated on November 17, 2015 a news conference:
The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."    
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • November 25, 2015
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on November 19, 2015 House Judiciary Committee hearing on his bill allowing concealed carry on college campuses:
Oregon’s Umpqua Community College "where the shooting occurred was a gun-free zone."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • November 24, 2015
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”:
After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."
Mostly False
By Andy East • November 24, 2015
Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson
stated on November 3, 2015 a news article:
"We now know these firms are unwilling to put up any private money," for California's high-speed rail project.    
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • November 23, 2015
Michael Needham
Michael Needham
stated on November 22, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
In 2013, the United States "accepted 67 percent of the world’s refugees."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 22, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on November 12, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith:
"If we pass immigration reform, it will make wages go up on average $250 for the average household."  
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • November 20, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 18, 2015 a tweet:
"8 Syrians caught at Texas border in Laredo."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • November 20, 2015
Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto
stated on November 12, 2015 a broadcast of "Cavuto Coast to Coast" on Fox Business Network:
Taking all the money of the top 1 percent wouldn’t keep Medicare going for three years.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 an official statement posted on Facebook.:
"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on November 10, 2015 episode of Fox News' "The Five":
Says a car driving former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe "ran through the students, hit one of them" at the MU Homecoming Parade.
Mostly False
By Adam Aton • November 18, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa.:
Climate change is "directly related" to the growth of terrorism.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 16, 2015
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 2, 2015 a TV interview.:
"When I became governor, I inherited a large deficit. You know what? We just turned that into the largest surplus in Virginia history."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • November 16, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 the Democratic debate in Iowa:
Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 14, 2015 an interview on Fox News:
The "Democratic Party is getting smaller and smaller and smaller."
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • November 15, 2015
Courageous Conservatives PAC
Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 a video ad posted online:
"After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama’s push for new gun control laws."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 13, 2015
Courageous Conservatives PAC
Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 a radio ad:
"When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 13, 2015
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