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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 1, 2017 in a speech at the White House:
"China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this (Paris) agreement."
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 5, 2017
Maram Museitif
Maram Museitif
stated on May 24, 2017 in as quoted in a Central Health press release:
Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2017 in a tweet:
"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’ "
False
By Katie Sanders • June 4, 2017
Anthony Brindisi
Anthony Brindisi
stated on May 26, 2017 in a press release:
"State economic development dollars were used to support a project where goods were manufactured in China."
False
By Dan Clark • June 2, 2017
Kimberley Strassel
Kimberley Strassel
stated on May 28, 2017 in "Meet the Press" on NBC:
In 2008, "candidate Obama, he's not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms."
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 2, 2017
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 31, 2017 in a campaign ad:
"ISIS is infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2017
Gregg Jarrett
Gregg Jarrett
stated on May 30, 2017 in an interview on Fox News:
"You can collude all you want with a foreign government in an election. There's no such statute" (that makes collusion a crime).    
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 31, 2017
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on May 24, 2017 in a hearing:
In Wisconsin’s school voucher program, "two-thirds of the money" in the "tax vouchers" went to people "making more than $100,000."    
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 31, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 in a tweet:
Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017
Congressional Leadership Fund
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on May 22, 2017 in an attack ad:
"Bay Area liberals have given more to Jon Ossoff's campaign than people in Georgia."
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2017
James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on May 24, 2017 in a Facebook post:
"This year, a majority of states are seeing premiums and costs double" under Obamacare.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2017
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on May 19, 2017 in a press release supporting the Back The Blue Act of 2017:
"Last year was one of the deadliest years ever for law enforcement officers."
False
By Will Doran • May 23, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on April 14, 2017 in a town hall:
"If Donald Trump would stay home from Mar-a-Lago one weekend, it would pay the entire meals on wheels budget for the state of Missouri for almost two years."  
False
By Grace Hase • May 23, 2017
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 11, 2017 in a chain email:
Says there are thousands of registered voters over 110 years old in North Carolina, including one who is 219 years old.
False
By Will Doran • May 18, 2017
Chris Collins
Chris Collins
stated on April 28, 2017 in an interview with Bloomberg:
Farmers "are now dumping milk into the ditches" because of a trade dispute with Canada
False
By Dan Clark • May 18, 2017
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on May 12, 2017 in a tweet:
It is a myth that Florida's education legislation was "negotiated in secret."
False
By Amy Sherman, Kristen M. Clark • May 17, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on May 9, 2017 in an interview:
The Republican replacement for Obamacare does not give massive tax cuts to wealthy Americans.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 12, 2017
Bill Zedler
Bill Zedler
stated on April 25, 2017 in his responses to a physician testifying before the Texas House Committee on Public Health:
Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on March 28, 2017 in a tweet:
"We have 5 percent of world population. 80 percent of opioids."
False
By Gary Garrison • May 10, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 4, 2017 in CNN:
"Nobody on Medicaid" will have their benefits taken away.
False
By John Kruzel • May 9, 2017
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