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Brad Blakeman
Brad Blakeman
stated on October 31, 2013 an interview on Fox News:
"When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2013 a speech in Boston:
Due to Obamacare, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 25, 2013 comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers "are on some form of public assistance."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • November 4, 2013
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on November 3, 2013 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The federal health care law raises taxes and cuts Medicare.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • November 3, 2013
Jan Crawford
Jan Crawford
stated on November 3, 2013 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"On day one, six people were able to sign up" for health insurance through the federal marketplace.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2013
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 3, 2013 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Health insurance is more expensive in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the country."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2013
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on October 21, 2013 a fundraising letter.:
"Providence has more of its pension fund invested in hedge funds and is less transparent" about it than the state.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2013
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on October 27, 2013 an interview on "This Week":
Says Mike Enzi is "getting about 84 percent of his campaign funds from Washington-based PACs. That's more than any senator of either party."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • October 30, 2013
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on October 28, 2013 comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"The vast majority of people in this country are keeping their (health insurance) plan."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2013
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."
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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.  
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • 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.
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • October 20, 2013
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