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Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
stated on November 18, 2013 remarks at Southern Obesity Summit:
Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.
True
By Sue Owen • January 7, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":
"Why didn't (uninsured Americans) buy insurance? Because of the expense."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 an MSNBC interview:
Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."  
True
By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on May 15, 2013 a U.S. House committee meeting.:
Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits "are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 25, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 12, 2013 a conference call with reporters:
"Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies" but want to cut food stamps.
True
By Stephen Koff • June 18, 2013
Don Pridemore
Don Pridemore
stated on December 3, 2012 a news conference:
Among Milwaukee Public Schools students, "86 percent are behind in reading and 80 percent are behind in math."  
True
By Tom Kertscher • January 2, 2013
Anne Goodman
Anne Goodman
stated on December 3, 2012 an interview with The Plain Dealer:
Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.
True
By Stephen Koff • December 6, 2012
George Allen
George Allen
stated on October 8, 2012 a debate.:
"The poverty rate amongst women is the worst it’s been in 17 years and the extreme poverty rate is the worst it’s ever been."
True
By Nancy Madsen • October 22, 2012
Terry Gorman
Terry Gorman
stated on April 24, 2012 a House committee hearing:
"When these [undocumented] students graduate from college, they're still illegal aliens. They cannot get a job."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 13, 2012
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on April 4, 2012 an online video ad.:
Says Barack Obama has played over 90 rounds of golf as president.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 4, 2012
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on March 12, 2012 an interview on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton on MSNBC:
"The poorest in this country are women."
True
By Peter Krouse • March 26, 2012
Wayne DeAngelo
Wayne DeAngelo
stated on February 27, 2012 a Letter to the Editor in The Times of Trenton:
"If we keep the minimum wage at the current level, then single-parent families earning the minimum wage at a full-time job will live in poverty in New Jersey."
True
By Erin O'Neill • March 9, 2012
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on November 15, 2011 an email blast:
Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 16, 2011
Gary Sasse
Gary Sasse
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on 10 News Conference:
Rhode Island spends "52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 8, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on June 1, 2011 a House committee hearing:
"Seventy of Ohio's 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food."
True
By Tom Feran • June 24, 2011
Amy Hanauer
Amy Hanauer
stated on May 5, 2011 at a rally at the Ohio Statehouse:
"To give a sense of how families are struggling, a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch."
True
By Joe Guillen • May 24, 2011
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on March 5, 2011 a speech to protesters in Madison, Wisconsin:
"Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined."
True
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2010
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on June 19, 2010 a TV and Internet commercial:
"(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 29, 2010
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."
True
By Miranda Blue • January 22, 2008
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