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Independent Texans
Independent Texans
stated on September 3, 2013 a white paper on Proposition 6
$6 billion water bond program voters passed in 2011 "has yet to be tapped."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • October 29, 2013
John Barge
John Barge
stated on October 17, 2013 a town hall meeting
"We have about six school districts that are in school 140 to 150 days this year."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • October 29, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2013 a public address
Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans "can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill."
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By Julie Kliegman • October 28, 2013
Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie
stated on October 22, 2013 a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"
Emergency rooms account for "2 percent of all health care spending."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 21, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign TV ad
Says Barbara Buono "voted to raise her own pay 40 percent."
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By Caryn Shinske • October 27, 2013
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on October 21, 2013 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"
"The IRS has been specifically forbidden ...  from ever actually pursuing either civil or criminal remedies" for people who don’t purchase health insurance.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 25, 2013
Jason Conger
Jason Conger
stated on October 15, 2013 a campaign speech.
Says "there are actually more people in poverty now than there were when we started" the War on Poverty.  
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By Ian K. Kullgren • October 24, 2013
Sondy Pope
Sondy Pope
stated on October 3, 2013 a radio interview
Common Core "is not from the federal government," they "do not have their fingerprints on this thing at all."
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October 24, 2013
Sam Stein
Sam Stein
stated on October 21, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe'
"No one beta-tested" healthcare.gov.
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By Katie Sanders • October 22, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2013 a public address
"Half of all CEOs say that the shutdown and the threat of shutdown set back their plans to hire over the next six months."
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By Julie Kliegman • October 21, 2013
Milly Silva
Milly Silva
stated on October 7, 2013 a speech to an American Legion in Little Ferry
"Property taxes have increased 20 percent under four years of Chris Christie."
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By Caryn Shinske • October 20, 2013
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on October 13, 2013 an interview
"We’re 49th in the United States in new businesses created."
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By Dave Umhoefer • October 20, 2013
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on October 18, 2013 a letter
Says "by reducing chronic health care costs in the State of Georgia, we can reduce the $32.8 billion lost each year due to lack of productivity and economic costs."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • October 18, 2013
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • October 17, 2013
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on October 15, 2013 a Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 debate
"Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average."
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By Katie Sanders • October 17, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 10, 2013 an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire."
"Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 17, 2013
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 an interview on MSNBC
"Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • October 15, 2013
Bill Burton
Bill Burton
stated on October 8, 2013 an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire"
Democrats already agreed to "a deal that Republicans wanted, that Eric Cantor said would be a win."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2013
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 her oped column
Louie Gohmert of Texas "compared the current general-in-charge in Egypt to George Washington."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 6, 2013 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Because of the 2011 debt ceiling fight, "the stock market lost 2,000 points."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2013
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