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Texas Association of Business
stated on December 6, 2016 in a press release and study:

Says a study indicates up to $8.5 billion in lost GDP and up to 185,000 lost jobs if Texas lawmakers approve a measure limiting transgender bathroom choices.

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 in a CNN town hall:

Says Neil Gorsuch "comes down on the side of felons over gun safety."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • February 2, 2017

Sylvia Garcia
stated on January 5, 2017 in a press release:

Says that in Texas, it’s "already illegal to enter a bathroom to harm someone."

Half-True

By Bobby Cervantes • February 1, 2017

Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 in a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission:

North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.

Mostly True

By Will Doran • January 27, 2017

Travis Allen
stated on December 29, 2016 in in an op-ed:

"Beginning on Jan. 1, prostitution by minors will be legal in California."

Pants on Fire!

By Chris Nichols • January 4, 2017

Gwen Moore
stated on November 18, 2016 in an interview:

Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine."

True

By Tom Kertscher • December 9, 2016

Sean Duffy
stated on November 17, 2016 in an interview:

"Black Lives Matter, who are attacking law enforcement officers" -- Barack Obama "had them to the White House."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • December 2, 2016

Lena Taylor
stated on October 13, 2016 in an opinion column:

"Slavery is still allowable under Wisconsin law as long as it’s a punishment for a crime."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • November 25, 2016

Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder
stated on October 17, 2016 in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:

Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."

True

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 18, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on November 6, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":

"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll, Tyler Adkisson • November 6, 2016

Conservative Daily Post
stated on November 1, 2016 in a posting on the Internet:

"FBI confirms evidence of huge underground Clinton sex network."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 4, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on October 26, 2016 in a radio ad:

Says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson "oppose a woman's right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • November 3, 2016

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on November 25, 2016 in a TV ad :

Says "Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators."

Mostly False

By Alan Gathright • November 1, 2016

Robby Mook
stated on October 30, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":

"There are Justice Department policies against" FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation "so close to an election."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • October 30, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2016 in a speech:

"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2016

David Holmes
stated on October 17, 2016 in a Facebook post and video:

Says Gerald Daugherty advocated lowering the penalty for crimes like strangulation in domestic violence cases because "they just ‘throw more people into the’" jail "‘system."

Mostly False

By Rachel Rice • October 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:

"What the District of Columbia was trying to do (with its handgun ban) was to protect toddlers from guns."

Half-True

By Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016

Deborah Ross
stated on October 18, 2016 in a campaign ad:

"Sen. (Richard) Burr voted no on the Violence Against Women Act."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 in a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second 2016 presidential debate:

Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, "she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 10, 2016

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