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A.J. Jacobs
A.J. Jacobs
stated on February 6, 2016 in an interview:
Says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.  
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By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 4, 2016 in a town hall in Manchester, N.H.:
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on January 20, 2016 in a letter:
"It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces."  
True
By Mark Reynolds • January 31, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 in a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:
Says Marco Rubio "knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion."
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By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015
Jim Gilmore
Jim Gilmore
stated on September 16, 2015 in a tweet.:
On the main GOP presidential debate: "Not one candidate on the debate stage has military experience … "
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By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 30, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 in his column in the New York Times:
"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2015
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015
Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh
stated on April 2, 2015 in an interview in Concord, N.H.:
"The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget are health care expenses."
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By Clay Wirestone • April 21, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 in a TV interview:
The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 1, 2014 in a 'Wall Street Journal' CEO Council event:
"Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
True
By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2014
Ryan Lizza
Ryan Lizza
stated on September 22, 2014 in a tweet:
"Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4"
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 25, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 14, 2014 in an opinion column:
"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 21, 2014
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on June 6, 2014 in a speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:
"At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugal’s."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices.":
"The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent."
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By Steve Contorno • June 12, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices":
By 2009, "dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the battlefield" by drones.
True
By Lauren Carroll • June 11, 2014
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer
stated on June 4, 2014 in remarks on Fox News:
The Israelis "gave up 1,000 terrorists in return for one sergeant."
True
By Shannon Beckham • June 8, 2014
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 6, 2014 in an opinion article:
Before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, "the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in Libya."  
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By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2014
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on April 6, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"When people enter the service, there’s not a mental health evaluation."
True
By Steve Contorno • April 6, 2014
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