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Facebook posts
stated on October 7, 2019 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."
False
By Daniel Funke • October 10, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on November 1, 2018 a public forum
Says Walker "wants to get rid of" students’ ability to stay on their parents’ health insurance.
False
By Eric Litke • November 2, 2018
Jeanne Ives
Jeanne Ives
stated on January 15, 2018 a campaign statement
Says President Barack Obama advocated "fathers in the home" as the solution to gun violence.
False
By Brett Chase • January 26, 2018
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on April 14, 2017 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."  
False
By Grace Hase • May 23, 2017
Ellen Troxclair
Ellen Troxclair
stated on February 23, 2017 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."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2017
Peter Barca
Peter Barca
stated on January 10, 2017 a news conference
Wisconsin’s middle class is the "most diminished" in the United States.   
False
By Jonathan Anderson • January 20, 2017
Rebecca Bradley
Rebecca Bradley
stated on March 21, 2016 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."
False
March 25, 2016
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 13, 2015 a television show
Under Scott Walker, "the Wisconsin middle class is shrinking at a faster rate than any other state in the country."
False
By Kevin Crowe • August 24, 2015
Robert Hurt
Robert Hurt
stated on April 16, 2015 a statement.
Says the estate tax, "in many cases," forces family farmers and small businesses owners to sell their holdings.
False
By Warren Fiske • May 3, 2015
Leonidas Raptakis
Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 testimony before the House Committee on Labor
The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. That's 31 percent.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2015
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 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."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014
Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins
stated on October 12, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2014 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.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2014
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott
stated on November 12, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Politics Nation"
"On (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you can’t even make half the poverty level."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 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."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2013
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Rachel Campos-Duffy
stated on June 12, 2013 an interview
"Upwards of 90 percent" of women seeking an abortion decide not to have an abortion after seeing an ultrasound.
False
July 12, 2013
Susan Yoshihara
Susan Yoshihara
stated on March 21, 2013 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."
False
By Michael McKinney • April 7, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2013 blog posts
The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.
False
By Becky Bowers • March 22, 2013
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 31, 2013 a speech
"When the Affordable Care Act was signed, 17 million American children" had a pre-existing condition and were "uninsurable."
False
February 11, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 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."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012
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