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Mike Collins
Mike Collins
stated on August 1, 2013 an interview:
Says federal regulations adopted in 2011 increased the cost of each vehicle for his business by $10,000.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • August 9, 2013
Kathleen Ford
Kathleen Ford
stated on August 6, 2013 a mayoral debate:
"There is no planned air-conditioned restaurant out on the Lens."
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By Katie Sanders • August 8, 2013
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 4, 2013 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"Obamacare … carries on even under a government shutdown."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2013
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on August 5, 2013 an interview with MSNBC:
"Half of all adults have a pre-existing condition" that could affect their health care coverage.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 30, 2013 an MSNBC interview:
Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • August 2, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 30, 2013 a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn.:
"This year, we're off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2013
Don Lemon
Don Lemon
stated on July 27, 2013 a commentary on CNN:
"A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year, a high school graduate makes $28,000 a year, a college graduate makes $51,000 a year."
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By Janel Davis • August 2, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech in Galesburg, Ill.:
The minimum wage is "lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2013
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 11, 2013 a news conference call:
"I was filibustered."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • July 29, 2013
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 25, 2013 a newspaper ad:
Rick Scott  "invested $38 million in the Port of Jacksonville's vital Mile Point Project," which "covered missing federal funds for the project."
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By Katie Sanders • July 26, 2013
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on July 11, 2013 an interview on NJToday:
"Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • July 25, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on July 17, 2013 a letter to Education Commissioner Tony Bennett:
New school testing standards "will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students."
Mostly True
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • July 22, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 10, 2013 an interview:
"We’re importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. We’re America’s Dairyland, but yet we don’t have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers."
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By Tom Kertscher • July 22, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on July 9, 2013 a campaign brochure:
"Since I was elected, crime rates have been at their lowest in over a decade."
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By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2013
David Sutton
David Sutton
stated on June 30, 2013 an interview:
Says "excise taxes are...disproportionately burdening middle- and lower-income consumers."
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By Eric Stirgus • July 16, 2013
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on June 26, 2013 an op-ed:
The Hispanic population in Gwinnett and Henry counties has increased by 153 percent and 339 percent, respectively, since 2000 while Republican presidential candidates are getting a smaller percentage of the vote in those counties.
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By Eric Stirgus • July 15, 2013
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on July 7, 2013 an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”:
Says Obama administration delay of health care law's employer mandate affects about 1 percent of the American workforce.
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By Becky Bowers • July 12, 2013
Dave Schwartz
Dave Schwartz
stated on June 17, 2013 a speech.:
"Twenty-four percent of doctors in Virginia currently don’t accept new Medicaid patients because the reimbursement rates are so low."
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By Nancy Madsen • July 12, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2013:
Says a growing number of extremely premature babies survive into healthy childhood.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2013
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