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Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on June 29, 2013 an interview with CNN:
Says under the Senate immigration bill, newly legalized immigrants will "pay every tax possible, but you don’t get a single benefit" for 10 years.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 an op-ed in USA Today:
"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."
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By Becky Bowers • July 8, 2013
Sarah Ponder
Sarah Ponder
stated on July 1, 2013 a rally at the state Capitol:
Says $800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators.
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By Sue Owen • July 3, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."
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By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2013
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"
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By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2013
E.W. Jackson
E.W. Jackson
stated on June 19, 2013 a speech.:
"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."
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By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2013
Gene Green
Gene Green
stated on June 28, 2013 a press release:
Says student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1.
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By Sue Owen • June 28, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2013 a speech on climate change:
As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, "there were days where folks couldn't go outside. … because of all the pollution in the air."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2013
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 a House of Representatives floor speech:
"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."
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By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 25, 2013 a filibuster on the Senate floor:
Says 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider in 2008.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • June 25, 2013
Stephen Nodine
Stephen Nodine
stated on June 21, 2013 statements to the media:
Says he can be on the ballot for Congress while serving time in jail.
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By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2013
Ron Shipman
Ron Shipman
stated on June 10, 2013 a meeting:
Says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.
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By Eric Stirgus • June 24, 2013
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on June 1, 2013 an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program:
"People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 23, 2013
Amalgamated Transit Union
Amalgamated Transit Union
stated on June 13, 2013 a newspaper ad:
Says TriMet spends "$10.3 million in police contracts" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls
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By Janie Har • June 22, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 10, 2013 a bill-signing ceremony:
Says the 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth.
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By Sue Owen • June 21, 2013
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee
stated on June 17, 2013 an interview with MSNBC:
Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean "2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2013
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on May 2, 2013 a speech:
"In the past four years, (the U.S. Senate) has only passed nine out of 48 appropriation bills."
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By Janel Davis • June 21, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 14, 2013 a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference:
"Immigrants are more fertile."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2013
Peter Roskam
Peter Roskam
stated on June 12, 2013 an interview with Fox News:
"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2013
Harold Metts
Harold Metts
stated on June 6, 2013 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate:
"Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 16, 2013
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