Fact Check Posts – Page 342

Scott Walker
stated on March 1, 2015 in an interview:

The University of Wisconsin System "will be much more affordable than just about any other campus in America" because "going forward we have a cap on it tied to inflation."

By Dave Umhoefer • March 9, 2015

John Fredericks
stated on February 28, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

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