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Amalgamated Transit Union
Amalgamated Transit Union
stated on June 13, 2013 in 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
Mostly True
By Janie Har • June 22, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 10, 2013 in a bill-signing ceremony:
Says the 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • June 21, 2013
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee
stated on June 17, 2013 in 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."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2013
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on May 2, 2013 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate:
"Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 16, 2013
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on June 9, 2013 in an interview on ABC’s "This Week":
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • June 13, 2013
Christine Whitman
Christine Whitman
stated on June 4, 2013 in an interview on The John Gambling radio show:
"We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • June 13, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on May 30, 2013 in an op-ed:
Says Gov. Rick Scott returned "$1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • June 11, 2013
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 9, 2013 in an interview on Face the Nation:
The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 11, 2013
Jason Carter
Jason Carter
stated on May 27, 2013 in a meeting:
"We (Georgia) collect fewer state taxes per capita than any other state … although state taxes are low, Georgia is the eighth-most-dependent state on the federal government."
Mostly True
By Janel Davis • June 11, 2013
Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 in a tweet:
"If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013
John Lewis
John Lewis
stated on May 17, 2013 in an op-ed:
"Black children constitute 18 percent of the nation's public school population but 40 percent of the children who are suspended or expelled."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • June 10, 2013
Abel Collins
Abel Collins
stated on June 2, 2013 in an interview on WJAR-TV's "10 News Conference.":
"RIPTA has really some of the fullest buses for its transit agency size around the country."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 9, 2013
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on May 29, 2013 in a gubernatorial campaign TV ad:
"Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine’s budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 6, 2013
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on May 29, 2013 in leadership forum:
My office is about a 300-step walk to the governor's office.
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By Janel Davis • June 5, 2013
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on May 18, 2013 in a speech at the convention of the Georgia Republican Party.:
Says that in Texas, Republican nominees "get 40 percent of the Latino vote on average."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 4, 2013
Carlos Curbelo
Carlos Curbelo
stated on May 24, 2013 in a Fox News interview:
In Miami-Dade County, "we spend at our school system over $20 million every year" educating recent immigrants.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2013
Mike Tate
Mike Tate
stated on May 14, 2013 in a radio interview:
"A bag of Cheetos costs less to buy than an apple," and in some Milwaukee neighborhoods "good luck trying to find an apple or a banana or some sort of healthy option"
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • June 3, 2013
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