Fact Check Posts – Page 140

Eric Cantor
stated on February 5, 2013 in a speech.:

"Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years."

By Nancy Madsen • March 12, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on March 5, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donell":

"Governor Christie, his idea of jumpstarting the economy is to propose a trickle-down income tax cut last year and in his budget address this year, he stated his support for it again."

By Caryn Shinske • March 10, 2013

Garnet Coleman
stated on February 10, 2013 in an interview for WFAA-TV's "Inside Texas Politics.":

Says Texas has the most uninsured people of any state -- 6 million.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 6, 2013

Carolyn Medeiros
stated on February 18, 2013 in a radio interview:

"There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 3, 2013

Ami Bera
stated on February 26, 2013 in a House floor speech:

Due to the sequester, "people are going to be unsafe. Homes are going to burn."

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2013

Arne Duncan
stated on February 24, 2013 in an appearance on "Face the Nation.":

"There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips" because of sequestration.

By Molly Moorhead • March 1, 2013

Kevin McCarthy
stated on February 25, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:

Says the federal government is earning more tax revenue now "than any other time."

By Becky Bowers • February 28, 2013

Greg Walden
stated on January 29, 2013 in a Tweet:

Says "Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?"

By Charles Pope • February 27, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 in a speech in Washington, D.C. :

If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go."

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2013

Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops
stated on February 19, 2013 in a committee hearing on domestic partnerships:

"In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage."

By Katie Sanders • February 22, 2013

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an article in the Daily Caller:

Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!"

By Becky Bowers • February 20, 2013

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed for the Daily Caller:

"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."

By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013

David Plouffe
stated on February 17, 2013 in an interview:

"The group that supported the president’s health care bill the most? Latinos."

By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2013

John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor:

Says of a failed cloture vote on nominating Chuck Hagel for defense secretary: "This is not a filibuster."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 18, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on January 30, 2013 in a blog post on RedState.com:

"Agriculture has always required a significant workforce from abroad."

By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on January 30, 2013 in a blog post on RedState.com:

The United States does "not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S."

By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2013

Brian Patrick Kennedy
stated on February 6, 2013 in a news release:

Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 17, 2013

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
stated on January 23, 2013 in testimony to the Legislature:

Wisconsin’s laws "ranked the worst in the world for mining investment."

By James B. Nelson • February 15, 2013

Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
stated on February 6, 2013 in an editorial.:

Says Texas has the nation’s most uninsured residents.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2013

Ed FitzGerald
stated on January 26, 2013 in a speech to Ohio College Democrats.:

Says he was the first local official to endorse Barack Obama

By Henry J. Gomez • February 13, 2013

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