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Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 14, 2015 a news conference
"In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated."  
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By Mark Reynolds • October 25, 2015
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stated on October 22, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.
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By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver
stated on August 11, 2015 on 'Up to Date'
Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there."
Mostly False
By Sean Nelson • October 22, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 16, 2015 prepared remarks in a written speech
To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have "to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2015
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 a forum
In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."  
Mostly False
October 19, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 a commentary
From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."
Mostly False
By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 14, 2015 a press conference
"We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • October 15, 2015
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 a blog post
"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."  
Mostly False
October 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic presidential debate
Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 14, 2015
Says Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander is "attending fancy dinners all over the country."  
Mostly False
By Rachel Brooks • October 2, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.
Mostly False
October 2, 2015
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stated on June 20, 2015 a post shared on Facebook
Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 Values Voter Summit
When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"When I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2015
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair
"Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • September 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet
The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."  
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015
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