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Children's Defense Fund-Texas
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 a press release
"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on May 6, 2015 a press release
"Once again, a police officer has been killed with an illegal gun from Georgia – a state that last year did the NRA’s bidding and weakened its already lax gun laws."
Mostly False
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • May 12, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 6, 2015 an interview in Washington, D.C.
"The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • May 11, 2015
Maria Shriver
Maria Shriver
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Two-thirds of American families rely on the mother's income to stay above the poverty level."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2015
Katrina Shankland
Katrina Shankland
stated on May 6, 2015 a news release
"Republicans have already cut our neighborhood public schools three budgets in a row."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • May 11, 2015
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 10, 2015 an interview on CNN
"We had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in) all but 4 states."
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • May 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 a speech at Politics and Eggs
"On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • May 8, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 5, 2015 an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.
"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2015
Van Taylor
Van Taylor
stated on March 25, 2015 a press release
I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 5, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 30, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Says the Clintons "burst through their own self-pronounced guidelines" by accepting foreign donations. "There is a clip of Bill Clinton saying we're not going to take foreign donations."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 4, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 a video
Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 27, 2015 an interview
Says the recall elections that aimed to remove him and other Republican officials from office "cost tens of millions of dollars to run."
Mostly False
May 4, 2015
David A. Clarke Jr.
David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on April 26, 2015 an interview
The man who killed a motorist who fatally struck a 2-year-old was "back on the street" because he had received a 13-year sentence for bank robbery but only "served two years."  
Mostly False
April 30, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 6, 2015 a speech in Manchester N.H.
"We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • April 30, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 23, 2015 a monologue on his radio show
"Eighty-five percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2015
Richard Clarke
Richard Clarke
stated on April 26, 2015 a panel on ABC "This Week"
 Said President Barack Obama "said he was going to stop (signature strikes)."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 28, 2015
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on April 16, 2015 a floor speech.
"It’s estimated that 40 percent of all the guns that are sold in the United States occur with no background records check."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 28, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 26, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state "is clearly illegal. … The Constitution says you can’t take this stuff."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 26, 2015
Sabino
Sabino "Pio" Renteria
stated on April 10, 2015 a cover story in the Austin Chronicle
"Fifteen years ago, you couldn't even get a pizza delivered in that neighborhood."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on April 20, 2015 an interview with NPR
"We're not allowed to read it (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) before representatives vote on it."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2015
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