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Latest Fact-Checks In Rhode Island

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Robert Kando
Robert Kando
stated on March 7, 2013 testimony before the R.I. House Oversight Committee
Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards.
Half-True
By Tom Mooney • March 16, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on January 26, 2013 a speech
More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks.
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • February 10, 2013
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 8, 2013 news story
"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana."
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By Michael McKinney • February 3, 2013
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on January 22, 2013 a news release
Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. "An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 30, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2012 an internet message
"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2012
Patricia Morgan
Patricia Morgan
stated on November 6, 2012 a campaign flier
"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget."
Half-True
By John Hill • November 25, 2012
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on October 9, 2012 a debate
"Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 16, 2012
Michael Riley
Michael Riley
stated on August 16, 2012 a post on Riley’s Facebook campaign page
"President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare."
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By Tom Mooney • August 29, 2012
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on July 29, 2012 a commentary in The Providence Journal
Rhode Island has "the most burdensome level of health-insurance mandates in the nation."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 12, 2012
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on July 13, 2012 a radio interview
"The largest number of bankruptcies in our country are really as a result of health care."
Half-True
By Edward Fitzpatrick • July 29, 2012
John Robitaille
John Robitaille
stated on July 8, 2012 a Tweet
"Unemployment rate dropped in every state that elected a Republican gov. in 2010"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Tom Mooney • July 11, 2012
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on July 29, 2012 a panel discussion on "A Lively Experiment"
"Two thirds to three quarters of people without [health] insurance in Rhode Island work."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 8, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 19, 2012 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 2, 2012
John Matson
John Matson
stated on April 26, 2012 an interview on State of the State
"Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 11, 2012 a campaign speech
"The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this president’s term."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • April 22, 2012
Jeffrey Hernandez
Jeffrey Hernandez
stated on March 23, 2012 a letter to the Providence School District.
Says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 8, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 23, 2012 a message via the Internet
"Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 3, 2012
John Elkhay
John Elkhay
stated on March 21, 2012 a rally.
If Rhode Island raises the meal and beverage tax to 10 percent, it would be the "fourth-highest in the nation."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • April 1, 2012
Brendan Doherty
Brendan Doherty
stated on March 11, 2012 a TV news show.
"We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud."
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By Alex Kuffner • March 20, 2012
Beatrice Lanzi
Beatrice Lanzi
stated on February 24, 2012 "an appearance on A Lively Experiment."
"One out of four of our young people say they are victims of this (dating) violence."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2012
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