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Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 3, 2014 an interview.:
Regarding sexual assault against women, "It’s actually safer not to be in college than it is to be in college."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • January 4, 2015
Patrick Lynch
Patrick Lynch
stated on November 24, 2014 a newspaper commentary:
Exposure to the electromagnetic fields from power lines "has been associated with childhood leukemia and other diseases."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2015
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on December 28, 2014 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday":
"We've caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2014
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on December 10, 2014 a recent report:
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
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By April Hunt • December 19, 2014
Matthew Cooke
Matthew Cooke
stated on December 10, 2014 a Huffington Post column:
The United States has "more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 16, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 10, 2014 an interview on Fox News:
Terrorist detainees "were not covered by the Geneva Convention. They were unlawful combatants. And under those circumstances, they were not entitled to the normal kinds of courtesies and treatment."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2014
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2014 an interview:
"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin. 
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • December 12, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on November 19, 2014 a TWC News debate:
"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • December 11, 2014
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on November 24, 2014 a presentation.:
Female students at UVA "have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted."
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By Sean Gorman • December 8, 2014
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 11, 2014 a radio interview:
"We've had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare."  
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By Tom Kertscher • December 5, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on December 1, 2014 a segment on "The O'Reilly Factor":
"In 2012, 123 African-Americans were shot dead by police. ... Same year, 326 whites were killed by police."
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By Katie Sanders • December 4, 2014
Peter Morici
Peter Morici
stated on December 7, 2014 an op-ed in the "Statesman Journal":
Immigrants "have captured all of the nearly 9 million jobs created since 2000."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 2, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 2, 2014 a meme:
"The U.S. Constitution owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois Tribes."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 11, 2014 an interview:
In "the past four or five" presidential elections, "people who poll high at the beginning are not the people who end up being the nominees."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • November 24, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 14, 2014 a press conference in Burma:
Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else."
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By Lauren Carroll • November 20, 2014
John Thrasher
John Thrasher
stated on September 15, 2014 forum with Florida State students:
Says he has "never received any contributions from the Koch brothers."
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By Joshua Gillin • November 19, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 Brisbane, Australia, for the G20 summit:
Says Jonathan Gruber was "some adviser who never worked on our staff."
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By Steve Contorno • November 19, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 12, 2014 a media availability:
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2014
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on November 13, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
"4.7 million people have lost their insurance in 32 states" due to Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 18, 2014
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference in Beijing.:
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 17, 2014
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