Fact Check Posts – Page 106

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 14, 2015 in a news conference:

"In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated."

By Mark Reynolds • October 25, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 22, 2015 in 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.

By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015

Emanuel Cleaver
stated on August 11, 2015 in 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."

By Sean Nelson • October 22, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 16, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2015

Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 in 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."

By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."

By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 in a commentary:

From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."

By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Rick Scott
stated on October 14, 2015 in a press conference:

"We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state."

By Joshua Gillin • October 15, 2015

Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 in a blog post:

"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."

By Tom Kertscher • October 15, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic presidential debate:

Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 14, 2015:

Says Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander is "attending fancy dinners all over the country."

By Rachel Brooks • October 2, 2015

Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 in an interview:

Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.

By Tom Kertscher • October 2, 2015

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stated on June 20, 2015 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015

John Kasich
stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"When I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus."

By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2015

Jay Nixon
stated on August 20, 2015 in 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."

By Allison Graves • September 29, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet:

The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."

By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 27, 2015 in 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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015

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