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Pink Slip Rick
Pink Slip Rick
stated on January 17, 2013 in social media posts:
Says Rick Scott’s proposal for election reform "only mandates 48 hours of early voting."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 22, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 15, 2013 in a discussion with black lawmakers:
Says a recent study shows Florida students are second in the world in fourth grade reading, behind Singapore.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 21, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech:
"Nearly a quarter of all adults in this state have some college credit without a degree."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • January 21, 2013
College presidents
College presidents
stated on December 19, 2012 in in a letter:
In 2010, 2,694 young people were killed by gunfire. 1,773 were victims of homicide; 67 were elementary school-age children.
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By Janel Davis • January 18, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2013 in an interview:
The United States has "an immigration system where only 6.5 percent of people who come here, come here based on labor and skill."
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By Amy Sherman • January 16, 2013
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on January 1, 2013 in a letter:
"[W]e see America's prison population exploding, with America having a greater percentage of its people behind bars than any other nation in the world!"
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By Eric Stirgus • January 14, 2013
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 11, 2012 in a letter to congressional leadership:
Since the federal Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, "cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent."
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By Tom Kertscher • January 13, 2013
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on December 31, 2012 in an interview on WOR-AM:
Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years."
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By Bill Wichert • January 13, 2013
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on January 8, 2013 in a Twitter post.:
Says Texas is "dead last in support for mental health."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2013
Pardeep Kaleka
Pardeep Kaleka
stated on December 17, 2012 in an online video:
"Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • January 9, 2013
Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz
stated on January 10, 2013 in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio's judges, "compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 9, 2013
Texas Medical Association
Texas Medical Association
stated on December 7, 2012 in a Twitter post.:
Says 31 percent of Texas physicians accept all new Medicaid patients, down from 67 percent in 2000.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 8, 2013
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on December 16, 2012 in a newspaper commentary:
"Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially."
Mostly True
By John Hill • January 8, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on January 1, 2013 in a news release:
The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments "for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes."
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By Stephen Koff • January 4, 2013
American International Group
American International Group
stated on January 1, 2013 in a TV ad:
AIG has fully repaid the federal government "plus a profit of more than $22 billion."
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By Becky Bowers • January 2, 2013
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 23, 2012 in a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
"You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 27, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 4, 2012 in a speech:
"One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids don’t graduate."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2012
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on December 13, 2012 in legislative testimony.:
Says the Nike bill "is not a tax break ... this does not lower the taxes that Nike will pay nor does it prevent the Legislature from raising those taxes in the future."
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By Ian K. Kullgren • December 20, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on December 4, 2012 in a press conference in Trenton:
"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • December 16, 2012
Sherry Sylvester
Sherry Sylvester
stated on December 2, 2012 in an opinion column.:
Says personal-injury trial lawyers "have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 14, 2012
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