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Barry Loudermilk
Barry Loudermilk
stated on May 4, 2017 an email to constituents
In the House Republican health care bill, "we’re expanding women’s access to health services by redirecting Planned Parenthood dollars to community health centers, which vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2017
Charlie Geren
Charlie Geren
stated on April 11, 2017 a letter to WFAA-TV in Dallas
Says Texas House rules authorized by the Texas Constitution supersede the state law permitting anyone to record a public government meeting.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on April 25, 2017 a panel discussion in Berlin, Germany
"The single-largest expense in  over half of American households is child care."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 26, 2017
Sara Stevenson
Sara Stevenson
stated on April 3, 2017 to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman
Says a Texas Senate committee considering "private school voucher" legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on February 8, 2017 a television interview
"Over the past 25 years, job growth in right-to-work states has been twice as high as in non-right-to-work states. ... The facts are just so clear that this is going to lead to more jobs and higher pay for the people of Missouri."
Half-True
By Allison Colburn • April 6, 2017
Phil Berger
Phil Berger
stated on March 13, 2017 a the GOP response to Roy Cooper's State of the State speech
Says Republican legislators in North Carolina raised the average teacher's pay "by more than 15 percent in just three years."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • March 16, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 2, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"We've repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years using the Congressional Review Act -- three regulations that were going to cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 2, 2017
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 22, 2017 a CNN-sponsored debate
"If you're in Texas, you have got to drive 120 miles to get an ID."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.
Mostly False
By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017
Don Willett
Don Willett
stated on January 12, 2017 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event
"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2017
Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos
stated on January 17, 2017 her Senate confirmation hearing
"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2017
Dawnna Dukes
Dawnna Dukes
stated on January 10, 2017 the Texas House
On resigning her Texas House seat.
Full Flop
By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 13, 2016 a tweet
Says an arms control treaty supported by Barack Obama "could give the U.N. some authority to regulate guns."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 22, 2016
John Podesta
John Podesta
stated on December 18, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • December 18, 2016
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on November 16, 2016 an interview with McClatchy's Washington bureau
"NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2016
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "advocated diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • December 2, 2016
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 13, 2016 CNN's "State of the Union"
Financial conflict-of-interest "laws don't apply to the president, right? So, the president doesn't have to have a blind trust."
True
By Lauren Carroll • November 16, 2016
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 9, 2016 a post-election Tweet
Says the KKK marched in Mebane, N.C., after Trump’s victory
False
By Will Doran • November 9, 2016
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on November 25, 2016 a TV ad
Says "Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators."
Mostly False
By Alan Gathright • November 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2016 a rally outside Cleveland
Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.
False
By Nadia Pflaum • October 31, 2016
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