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Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 19, 2012 an email
Says Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.
Pants on Fire!
April 4, 2012
Donald Verrilli
Donald Verrilli
stated on March 27, 2012 a Supreme Court hearing on health care law
Says when New Jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates "doubled or tripled" and enrollment dropped from 180,000 people to 80,000 people.
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • April 4, 2012
Robert Jacquard
Robert Jacquard
stated on March 6, 2012 a speech
"There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt."
True
By Alex Kuffner • March 15, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 24, 2012 at a public event
PIP fraud is "$1 billion in fraud."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • March 9, 2012
Glenford Shibley
Glenford Shibley
stated on December 9, 2011 a news release
"Rhode Island is the only state where officers at state-supported [colleges] carry out their duties unarmed."
Mostly True
By Alex Kuffner • March 7, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2012 an interview with WTSP
"In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage it’s $1,500 a year."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 2, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on February 24, 2012 a speech
Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States."
True
By Alex Kuffner • March 2, 2012
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on February 15, 2012 remarks
Says 21,000 Wisconsin residents got jobs in 2011, but "18,000 of them" were in other states.
False
February 26, 2012
Progress Texas
Progress Texas
stated on February 8, 2012 a web page post.
Without U.S. Senate action, Texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2012
Richard Morrison
Richard Morrison
stated on February 15, 2012 a legislative hearing
After Arizona banned smoking in "all public places" in 2007, "admissions for acute myocardial infarction … stroke, asthma, [and] angina decreased following the implementation of the ban."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • February 22, 2012
Nicholas Kettle
Nicholas Kettle
stated on January 27, 2012 a radio talk show
"If you look at states that are right to work, they constantly do not have budget deficits and they have very good business climates."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • February 19, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." 
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 26, 2012 a graphic circulating on the Internet
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on November 30, 2011 in a press release
Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.
True
By Janie Har • December 23, 2011
Theresa Price
Theresa Price
stated on December 10, 2011 a speech during a rally on homelessness
"Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 20, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
Joshua Marquis
Joshua Marquis
stated on November 27, 2011 a blog comment
Says 25 percent of Oregonians oppose the death penalty.
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 6, 2011
Oregon Transformation Project
Oregon Transformation Project
stated on November 15, 2011 online post
Oregon has the sixth highest combined death tax rate in the country.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • December 2, 2011
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