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Eric Burlison
Eric Burlison
stated on February 13, 2019 a Senate hearing:
Says SJR 11 "seeks to fix what is very quickly becoming a problem in Missouri — initiative petitions and referendums are being filed at record highs."
Mostly True
By Yue Yu • April 17, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 a panel at the University of Pennsylvania:
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 31, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:
"We got to almost universal coverage in health care in Colorado."
Mostly True
By Julianna Rennie • April 11, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
Paul Bettencourt
Paul Bettencourt
stated on April 2, 2019 a resolution:
"194,000 criminal aliens booked into Texas jails from 2011-2019 were charged with more than 299,000 criminal offenses."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • April 8, 2019
Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on April 3, 2019 state of the city speech:
"The public health science is clear that the use of the addiction medicine buprenorphine saves lives whether that use has been prescribed or not."
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By Aidan Quigley • April 7, 2019
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on April 3, 2019 a tweet:
"FYI: the last statewide recount in WI was in 2016. After that recount, the vote margin changed by only 131 out of the 2.7 million votes cast." 
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • April 7, 2019
John Flanagan
John Flanagan
stated on April 1, 2019 a news release:
The state budget fully funds "an initiative to provide free college tuition for illegal immigrants, while rejecting an increase in Tuition Assistance Program funding that would help middle-class families afford college."  
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 7, 2019
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on April 1, 2019 the Texas Senate:
Abortion providers perform almost 60,000 procedures in Texas every year.
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By Madlin Mekelburg • April 5, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on April 1, 2019 a Medium post:
Says that the George W. Bush administration in 2005 revived a long-standing law when it "decided to charge those that crossed the border with criminal violations, rather than civil ones."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • April 5, 2019
Mitch Carmichael
Mitch Carmichael
stated on February 14, 2019 an interview with WV MetroNews:
In West Virginia, "our students enter in at fourth grade the first time they’re tested, 37th or 38th in the nation—which is not good, but it’s not horrible. By the time they’re in the 8th grade, they’re 46th or 47th, and then upon 11th grade testing they’re near last."
Mostly True
By Al Bernardi • April 3, 2019
Jeremiah Samples
Jeremiah Samples
stated on February 28, 2019 testimony before the West Virginia state Senate:
"We have had an increase of 67 percent (in) the number of children taken into state custody since 2014."
Mostly True
By Catherine Harrington, Madison Weaver • April 3, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 1, 2019 news articles and blogs:
Americans "would run out of avocados in three weeks" if imports from Mexico were stopped due to a border closure. 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • April 3, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on March 22, 2019 an interview:
"America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet:
"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019
Gary Farmer
Gary Farmer
stated on March 7, 2019 a Florida Senate meeting:
"Some patients who are on transplant lists for kidney or other organs are being dropped from the list simply because they are shown as a licensed card holder" for medical marijuana.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2019
Children at Risk
Children at Risk
stated on March 19, 2019 a press conference:
"Right now, only 11 percent of the 15,000 child care providers in Texas are certified as meeting quality standards."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 22, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 6, 2019 a news release:
"College debt has increased 170 percent since 2006 and now exceeds $1.5 trillion dollars, which is second only to mortgage debt and surpasses even credit card debt."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in an interview:
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on March 10, 2019 a town hall:
"We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 18, 2019
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