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Anitere Flores
Anitere Flores
stated on April 30, 2010 a House floor speech
For the new state budget, "Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding."
False
By Lee Logan • May 5, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
False
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week'
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview
Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 1, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 29, 2010 his radio program
Alaska's Prince William Sound "is pristine now."
False
By Robert Farley • April 30, 2010
Allen West
Allen West
stated on March 21, 2010 press release
"Klein did not hold a single town hall meeting (on health care) where the general public was invited to ask questions or present their views."
False
By Amy Sherman • April 30, 2010
Tim James
Tim James
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."
False
By Robert Farley • April 29, 2010
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on April 26, 2010 an email
The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was "#1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives." 
False
By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on April 20, 2010 an interview
Says Gov. Rick Perry has never held a private-sector job.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 26, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 21, 2010 an interview with CNBC's John Harwood
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2010
Tom Grady
Tom Grady
stated on April 20, 2010 an e-mail to Crist.
Says Crist campaign website "has eliminated all references to our Republican Party."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 21, 2010
Dan Gelber
Dan Gelber
stated on April 5, 2010 e-mail to supporters and media
''I have received more contributions than any other candidate in the race – Republican or Democrat.''
False
By Carol Rosenberg • April 21, 2010
Paula Dockery
Paula Dockery
stated on April 5, 2010 a Newsmax.TV interview
"We have constitutional amendment that says that there's a ban on drilling right off Florida's coast."
False
By Carol Rosenberg • April 20, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview.
"We had a press conference here that interestingly no one in the mainstream media covered."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 20, 2010
Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
stated on March 25, 2010 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."
False
By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010
Rick Green
Rick Green
stated on March 25, 2010 a YouTube video
"When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
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