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Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 5, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Over time there have been 160-some carve-outs to the filibuster."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2021 remarks from the White House:
“Even after accounting for rising prices, the typical American family has more money in their pockets than they did last year.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 7, 2021
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 Panel discussion:
“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.
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By Laura Schulte • November 30, 2021
Colin Allred
Colin Allred
stated on October 25, 2021 in a TV interview:
"You've had over 2 million women drop out of the workforce during this pandemic."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • November 23, 2021
Meagan Wolfe
Meagan Wolfe
stated on November 5, 2021 TV interview:
"Only a court can decide that somebody is incompetent to vote" -- the state Election Commission "cannot force facilities, private facilities, to allow special voting deputies" inside.
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By D.L. Davis • November 18, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 30, 2021 TV interview:
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
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By D.L. Davis • November 11, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 23, 2019 a Facebook post:
"The 550 U.S. billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we'd raise enough to run the federal government for less than eight months."
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By Tom Kertscher • November 2, 2021
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on October 26, 2021 a tweet:
"Gas in North Carolina increased 14 cents per gallon this past week, the highest in the nation."
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By Paul Specht • October 29, 2021
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter:
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
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By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on October 19, 2021 a tweet:
"Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where inflation is costing households an extra $175 a month.”
Mostly True
By Lyle Muller • October 21, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 6, 2021 remarks at the White House:
“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2021
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview:
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 a speech in Howell, Mich.:
"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci
stated on October 3, 2021 an interview on CNN:
“There are precious few religions that actually say you cannot” get vaccinated.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 12, 2021 an op-ed:
“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”
Mostly True
By Maxwell Ionno, Olivia Murray • October 5, 2021
Cori Bush
Cori Bush
stated on September 23, 2021 a tweet:
“Approximately 60,000 Canadians currently live undocumented in the USA.”
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By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2021
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on August 25, 2021 Twitter:
“Wisconsin Governor (Tony) Evers wanted to raise your taxes by $1 billion in a pandemic. Republicans stopped him and delivered the largest tax CUT in state history.”
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By Madeline Heim • September 24, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 13, 2021 remarks at an event in Gainesville, Fla.:
People who “have recovered (from COVID-19) have very strong immunity.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 4, 2021 a Facebook post:
“Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • September 15, 2021
Eric Toney
Eric Toney
stated on August 22, 2021 TV interview:
"I'm the only front-line prosecutor in this race that's actually used the resources of the Wisconsin Crime Lab in the prosecution of cases."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • September 13, 2021
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