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Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on September 25, 2013 a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"
With Obamacare, "we're fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the American taxpayers have ever seen."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 20, 2013 a press release
"The American people support defunding Obamacare and oppose shutting down the government."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on August 8, 2013 a news release
Says Obama "exempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the (health care) law."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • September 5, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 30, 2013 a Senate floor colloquy
Obamacare-caused paperwork will annually absorb 190 million hours or more--and Mount Rushmore could be built 1,547 times over "with the paperwork."
Mostly False
By Andra Lim • September 3, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on August 22, 2013 a YouTube video
"Congressman Patrick Murphy voted to keep the scandal-ridden IRS in charge of enforcing Obamacare."  
Mostly False
By Rochelle Koff • August 28, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 12, 2013 a radio commentary.
"According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 19, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 a Fox News interview
Under Obamacare, people who "have a doctor they’ve been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years, they won’t be able to keep going to that doctor."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
"Even the employees’ union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2013
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on July 23, 2013 a press release
Patrick Murphy voted for Obamacare in 2010, "yet he reversed himself and voted to delay" the employer mandate and the individual mandate.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 25, 2013
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on May 16, 2013 a news release.
"The Government Accountability Office estimated (Obamacare) will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • June 17, 2013
Kitty Rhoades
Kitty Rhoades
stated on June 6, 2013 a speech
Wisconsin is "not walking away from a dime" in federal funds by rejecting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Mostly False
June 15, 2013
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 6, 2013 his radio show
"One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 28, 2013 a billboard
U.S. Rep. John Barrow’s plan "puts the IRS in charge of your health care."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 4, 2013
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
stated on April 18, 2013 a fundraising letter
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."
Mostly False
By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
"The IRS will have the ability potentially" to deny or delay health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 30, 2013 a press release
U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of "Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • May 10, 2013
Nelson Wolff
Nelson Wolff
stated on April 1, 2013 a Texas Capitol press conference.
Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2013
NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia
NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia
stated on March 26, 2013 a statement.
Abortion coverage is a standard insurance benefit "in nearly 90 percent of private plans sold in the U.S."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 15, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 1, 2013 a press release jointly issued with U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
"Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Joseph Levy
Joseph Levy
stated on February 25, 2013 a legislative hearing
Says indoor workers get "less UV than outdoor workers, but they get more melanomas."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • March 16, 2013
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