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Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 1, 2013 a panel discussion on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”
Says "right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined."
True
By Bill Wichert • February 10, 2013
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 23, 2012 a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
"You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 27, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on September 5, 2012 an interview with #waywire
Says the Republican Party platform says "pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold" while the Democratic Party platform says "we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform."
True
By Erin O'Neill • September 9, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on September 4, 2012 a rally at the Democratic National Convention
"The first (state) budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood...It resulted in the reduction of hours, the elimination of days, elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state."
True
By Bill Wichert • September 5, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on May 20, 2012 a roundtable discussion on NBC’s “Meet The Press”
Says under President Barack Obama there’s been "the lowest discretionary spending we’ve had in decades in the United States."
False
By Bill Wichert • May 28, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on May 4, 2012 a speech at an American Federation for Children event
Says New Jersey’s prison system is "61 percent African-American even though our state is just 13 percent black."
True
By Erin O'Neill • May 21, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 4, 2012 a news conference
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "took us into arbitration."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 9, 2012 an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "froze all those monies during the toughest years in ‘08-’09" and "refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 23, 2012 an interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”
"We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 1, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 9, 2011 a speech in New Hampshire
Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."
True
By Erin O'Neill • December 25, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on October 13, 2011 a radio interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”
Says "if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that you've been arrested before an average of 10 times."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • October 24, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 24, 2011 a round table discussion on Meet the Press
Says more than eight countries lead the United States in the percentage of college graduates.  
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • August 3, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 6, 2011 an interview on NPR’s “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin
Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • July 14, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on May 10, 2011 a radio interview on the Brian Lehrer show
The ACLU didn't call for an investigation (of the Newark police department), they called for an immediate federal monitor.
False
By Caryn Shinske • June 22, 2011
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