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Latest Fact-Checks By Ciara O'Rourke

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David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on June 6, 2011 a tweet
Says 1,000 World War II veterans die every day.
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 13, 2011
Jason Isaac
Jason Isaac
stated on May 30, 2011 a tweet
Says this month’s special session will cost the state $27,300 a day just for legislators’ daily living expenses.
True
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 6, 2011
Rob Eissler
Rob Eissler
stated on May 23, 2011 remarks on the House floor
"Obesity kills 34 children per hour."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 31, 2011
Jay Carney
Jay Carney
stated on May 10, 2011 a press gaggle
Says the Obama Administration has fulfilled all of Texas’ requests for fire management assisting grants.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 30, 2011
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on May 12, 2011 a Texas Tribune interview
Says the Obama administration approved a major disaster declaration for Oklahoma in 2009, when nine of the state’s 77 counties burned for "about three days," while Texas wildfires have been burning for longer without such a declaration.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 30, 2011
John Whitmire
John Whitmire
stated on May 3, 2011 remarks on the Senate floor
Says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of "3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance."
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 16, 2011
Leo Berman
Leo Berman
stated on April 4, 2011 a House committee hearing
Says judges are using Shariah law in Dearborn, Mich.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 14, 2011
Rick Hardcastle
Rick Hardcastle
stated on April 28, 2011 remarks on the House floor
Benzene has "never been proven to be harmful."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 7, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on May 5, 2011 a presidential debate
"Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 6, 2011
Leo Berman
Leo Berman
stated on April 27, 2011 a Texas Tribune article
Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there.
Pants on Fire!
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke • April 27, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 12, 2011 an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.
Says Texas routinely gets "a lot more federal spending" than it pays in taxes.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 22, 2011
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on April 4, 2011 House floor debate.
"43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance" if the Texas House version of the state budget passes into law.
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke, W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2011
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on April 3, 2011 remarks on the House floor
"Fifty percent of our students who enter higher education need to take remedial courses because they are not prepared for college-level work."
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 9, 2011
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on April 22, 2011 a press conference
"The only segment in the beer market that is growing is the craft beer segment."
True
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 6, 2011
Sylvester Turner
Sylvester Turner
stated on March 31, 2011 remarks on the House floor
"Ninety percent of Texans say they do not want the nursing homes to close. It polls higher than anything else."
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 2, 2011
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on February 28, 2011 a statement
Says a Lubbock terror suspect’s alleged plan "to use baby dolls to conceal chemical explosives" is similar to a 1995 plot "to blow up 12 jumbo jets over the Pacific Ocean."
True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 28, 2011
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on February 16, 2011 a press release
"Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children."
True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 23, 2011
Jeff Wentworth
Jeff Wentworth
stated on February 22, 2011 a TV interview
"We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have" concealed handgun licenses.
True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 17, 2011
Carol Alvarado
Carol Alvarado
stated on March 2, 2011 remarks on the House floor
Says women who need a sonogram in the eighth to 10th week of pregnancy have to get a transvaginal sonogram.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 10, 2011
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on February 16, 2011 a New York Times column
Texas "ranks third in teen pregnancies... and it is No. 1 in repeat teen pregnancies."
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 7, 2011
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