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Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 21, 2013 in 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 in '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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on October 13, 2013 in an interview:
"We’re 49th in the United States in new businesses created."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • October 20, 2013
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on October 18, 2013 in 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 in 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 in a Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 debate:
"Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 17, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 10, 2013 in 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 in 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 in 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 in her oped column:
Louie Gohmert of Texas "compared the current general-in-charge in Egypt to George Washington."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 6, 2013 in 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
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on September 25, 2013 in a debate.:
Virginia is "the number one state per capita in screening out people with mental illness from gun purchases."  
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 7, 2013
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on September 22, 2013 in a television interview:
Forty-six states have a line-item veto for the governor.
Mostly True
By Gregory Smith • October 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2013 in an NPR interview:
"At the time that (Medicare Part D) was passed (it) was actually less popular than the Affordable Care Act, according to the polls."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 4, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 1, 2013 in a tweet:
The shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 3, 2013
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