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Joe Morrissey
Joe Morrissey
stated on March 25, 2015 a campaign flier.
"Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obama’s Medicaid expansion."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on April 16, 2015 an email to constituents
"Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • April 22, 2015
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow
stated on April 9, 2015 a tweet
$29 is what "families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have to live on for a week."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 22, 2015
Viral BuzzFeed
Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 video
Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.  
Mostly False
By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015
ForAmerica
ForAmerica
stated on April 12, 2015 a meme on social media
"American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 10, 2015 a speech to the NRA
Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015
People for the American Way
People for the American Way
stated on April 13, 2015 a radio ad
Says Marco Rubio "voted to deport" young people known as Dreamers.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 14, 2015
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 12, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Says Hillary Clinton "erased all of her emails even though they were subject to recall and review by Congress."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 12, 2015
Mackubin Thomas Owens
Mackubin Thomas Owens
stated on March 18, 2015 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"In the early 1980s, Sen. Edward Kennedy secretly offered to help Soviet leaders counter the Reagan administration’s position on nuclear disarmament."
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • April 12, 2015
Brook Hines
Brook Hines
stated on April 6, 2015 an online op-ed column
Says U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy has "sided with the GOP on key votes twice as often as he sided with Democrats."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • April 9, 2015
Florida News Flash
Florida News Flash
stated on March 29, 2015 a website headline
"Suntrust Bank cancels account because company sells guns."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • April 8, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune
"We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015
Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America
Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America
stated on April 7, 2015 an ad
"Rand Paul supports Obama's negotiations with Iran."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 7, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 23, 2015 a tweet
Under Barack Obama, "the average cost of family health care premiums has increased by $4,154."  
Mostly False
April 7, 2015
Greater Wisconsin Committee
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on March 30, 2015 a radio ad
An April 7, 2015 referendum would take "the choice of chief justice" of the Wisconsin Supreme Court "away from the people."
Mostly False
April 3, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 23, 2015
"Today roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting. They’re staying home."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 30, 2015
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on March 17, 2015 a news release.
"Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the federal government has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • March 30, 2015
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 a speech in Concord, N.H.
"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • March 27, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 24, 2015 an interview on the Kelly File
Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself."
Mostly False
By Katharina Fiedler, Lauren Carroll • March 25, 2015
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 16, 2015 a blog post
"Obama has been sending taxpayer dollars, at least $350,000 to fund anti-Likud, anti-Netanyahu groups in Israel for (the) election."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2015
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