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Rick Kriseman
stated on June 24, 2017 in a "Tampa Bay Times" article:

Says that compared to Rick Baker's time as mayor, Kriseman "had wet weather events that he did not experience" that caused sewage spills. Baker "went through significant periods of drought during his time as mayor."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • August 10, 2017

Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 12, 2017 in a speech on the House floor:

"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."

Half-True

By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in an interview:

"All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel."

False

By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2017

Brian Higgins
stated on March 30, 2017 in a memo to the Train Station Site Selection Committee and press release on his website:

Two options for a new train station site in Buffalo are at Canalside

Mostly False

By Dan Clark • April 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 in a CEO town hall:

"There was a very large infrastructure bill that was approved during the Obama administration, a trillion dollars. Nobody ever saw anything being built."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017

Kathleen Vinehout
stated on February 24, 2017 in an interview:

Wisconsin children are crossing "condemned bridges in the middle of the winter to get to the school bus."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • March 3, 2017

Travis Allen
stated on February 13, 2017 in a press release:

"The Oroville dam failure was entirely avoidable: California passed a $7.5 Billion water bond in 2014 but Jerry Brown didn't spend $1 on new water storage or improvements to existing infrastructure like Oroville."

Mostly False

By Chris Nichols • February 16, 2017

Eric Bolling
stated on November 26, 2016 in a commentary on Fox News:

"President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (was) a fancy name for almost a trillion-dollar spending bill. The ARRA was supposed to fix our crumbling roads and bridges," but now, "we have absolutely nothing to show for it."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2016

Michael Moore
stated on November 11, 2016 in remarks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

In Flint, Mich., "the pipes still haven't been replaced. The water is still poisoned."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 15, 2016 in a campaign speech in Scranton, Pa. :

Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • August 17, 2016

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on June 23, 2016 in a radio ad:

Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "opposes faster broadband internet in small towns" and "got nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom special interests."

Half-True

By Cara Lombardo • July 27, 2016

Dianne Feinstein
stated on April 3, 2016 in a newspaper Q&A:

California has "the same water infrastructure from when we were 16 million people."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • May 31, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 in a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 in a tweet:

"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

Mostly True

By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 in a speech:

"Sixty-one percent of our bridges are in trouble."

False

By Warren Fiske • October 26, 2015

Gerry Connolly
stated on July 9, 2015 in a written statement.:

"In 1960, we spent more than 3 percent of our GDP on infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway. Today we spend less than 1 percent of our GDP on these vital investments."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • August 3, 2015

Gina Raimondo
stated on May 27, 2015 in news conference:

"It’s commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above … that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges."

Half-True

By Mark Reynolds • July 19, 2015

Russ Feingold
stated on June 5, 2015 in a speech at the state Democratic Party convention:

"The United States still ranks 20th in the world in access to broadband -- over 50 percent below the best nations."

Half-True

By Lucas Daprile • June 17, 2015

Megyn Kelly
stated on May 13, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Kelly File":

The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • May 18, 2015

Joni Ernst
stated on January 20, 2015 in the Republican response to the State of the Union address:

"A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015

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