Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Facebook posts
stated on October 7, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says the sons of Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney and John Kerry are all on the boards of "energy companies doing business in Ukraine."

By Daniel Funke • October 10, 2019

Tony Evers
stated on November 1, 2018 in a public forum:

Says Walker "wants to get rid of" students’ ability to stay on their parents’ health insurance.

By Eric Litke • November 2, 2018

Jeanne Ives
stated on January 15, 2018 in a campaign statement:

Says President Barack Obama advocated "fathers in the home" as the solution to gun violence.

By Brett Chase • January 26, 2018

Claire McCaskill
stated on April 14, 2017 in a town hall:

"If Donald Trump would stay home from Mar-a-Lago one weekend, it would pay the entire meals on wheels budget for the state of Missouri for almost two years."

By Grace Hase • May 23, 2017

Ellen Troxclair
stated on February 23, 2017 in an interview with Austin’s Fox 7 about her proposed affordability plan:

"Since 2012," city of Austin "property taxes have gone up almost 30 percent while incomes have only risen 4 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2017

Peter Barca
stated on January 10, 2017 in a news conference:

Wisconsin’s middle class is the "most diminished" in the United States.

By Jonathan Anderson • January 20, 2017

Rebecca Bradley
stated on March 21, 2016 in a radio interview:

Says her representation of an ex-boyfriend "who was then my friend" in a family law case is "something that lawyers do on a regular basis."

By Tom Kertscher • March 25, 2016

Rachel Maddow
stated on July 13, 2015 in a television show:

Under Scott Walker, "the Wisconsin middle class is shrinking at a faster rate than any other state in the country."

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • August 24, 2015

Robert Hurt
stated on April 16, 2015 in a statement.:

Says the estate tax, "in many cases," forces family farmers and small businesses owners to sell their holdings.

By Warren Fiske • May 3, 2015

Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 in testimony before the House Committee on Labor:

The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. That's 31 percent.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2015

Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 in a Journal commentary:

"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014

Tony Perkins
stated on October 12, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."

By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2014 in a meme on the Internet:

The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.

By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2014

Jim McDermott
stated on November 12, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "Politics Nation":

"On (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you can’t even make half the poverty level."

By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2013

Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 in a Senate floor speech:

UPS left 15,000 employees’ spouses "without health insurance" and told them to, "go on an exchange with no employer subsidy."

By Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2013

Rachel Campos-Duffy
stated on June 12, 2013 in an interview:

"Upwards of 90 percent" of women seeking an abortion decide not to have an abortion after seeing an ultrasound.

By Tom Kertscher • July 12, 2013

Susan Yoshihara
stated on March 21, 2013 in testimony before a R.I. Senate committee:

Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been "shattered by the latest and best social science and research."

By Michael McKinney • April 7, 2013

Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2013 in blog posts:

The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.

By Becky Bowers • March 22, 2013

Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 31, 2013 in a speech:

"When the Affordable Care Act was signed, 17 million American children" had a pre-existing condition and were "uninsurable."

By Tom Kertscher • February 11, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 in a report:

"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012

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