Fact Check Posts – Page 342

John Fredericks
stated on February 28, 2015 a radio show.

Every illegal immigrant "can be eligible for up to $36,000 to $38,000 in earned income tax credits without paying a dime in."

By Warren Fiske • March 9, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on March 4, 2015 an interview on CNN

"A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay."

By Lauren Carroll • March 4, 2015

NaturalNews.com
stated on February 5, 2015 a story making the rounds on social media

The measles vaccine has killed 108 people in the last decade, while no one has died of measles.

By April Hunt • March 3, 2015

Bishop Thomas Tobin
stated on January 22, 2015 a newspaper column

"Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood."

By Katie Mulvaney • March 2, 2015

Wisconsin Contractor Coalition
stated on February 23, 2015 a website claim

Says Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s "own 2014 survey revealed that just 15 percent of business executive respondents were in favor of Right-To-Work legislation."

By Dave Umhoefer • February 25, 2015

Rudy Giuliani
stated on February 23, 2015 an op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal'

Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."

By Steve Contorno • February 23, 2015

Robert McDonald
stated on February 15, 2015 an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press'

"Nine hundred people have been fired since I became secretary (of Veterans Affairs). We’ve got 60 people that we fired who have manipulated wait times."

By Steve Contorno • February 20, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on February 16, 2015 a meme on social media

Say George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern."

By Audrey Bowler • February 20, 2015

Adam Kinzinger
stated on February 15, 2015 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'

The current debate over authorizing military action against the Islamic State "would be the first time Congress would place limits on the commander-in-chief's ability to be commander-in-chief."

By Steve Contorno • February 19, 2015

Florida Badass Teachers Association
stated on February 10, 2015 a statement to the Miami Herald

Florida students take "an array of standardized high stakes tests which eat up as much as 45 school days per year."

By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2015

Gail Collins
stated on February 15, 2015 a column

Says award-winning Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off because Gov. Scott Walker cut state aid to education.

By James B. Nelson • February 17, 2015

Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 testimony before the House Committee on Labor

The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. That's 31 percent.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement

"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."

By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.

"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

Chain email
stated on February 9, 2015 a chain email

"Over 200 years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!"

By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2015

Nicholas Mattiello
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "10 News Conference"

"There haven't been tax cuts for the rich" in Rhode Island.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 8, 2015

Terry Jeffrey
stated on January 21, 2015 a column in TownHall.com

There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.

By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2015

Stuart Varney
stated on January 27, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom"

"It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years."

By Jon Greenberg • January 28, 2015

John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2015 a post on his U.S. Senate website

The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline "has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year it's been up and running."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 23, 2015

Arthur Cyr
stated on December 26, 2014 a Providence Journal commentary

Says Nikita Khrushchev brought an extra shoe to a United Nations session in 1960, which he banged on the desk in protest.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 18, 2015

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