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Major Garrett
Major Garrett
stated on May 18, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"It's been nearly three weeks since the president has commented" on questions about possible hidden wait lists at veterans hospitals.
True
By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2014
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on March 12, 2014 an email
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate approved a bill "denying veterans the right to recover their medical costs for cancers they developed while serving their country."
Mostly False
March 20, 2014
Mr. Conservative
Mr. Conservative
stated on November 12, 2013 a Web post
Says the Obama administration is handing out a pamphlet titled, "What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mass Shooting"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2013
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”
40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • October 17, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on October 9, 2013 an advertisement
Ann Kuster turned "a blind eye to those in need of funding" by voting "against funding for our nation’s veterans, low-income women and children, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health."
Mostly False
By Kaitlin Mulhere • October 16, 2013
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on October 14, 2013 a robocall
Says U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "voted to cut off Florida’s veterans and their benefits."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 16, 2013
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 25, 2013 an MSNBC interview
"(Texas Republicans) believe in abolishing Social Security, abolishing V.A. health care."
False
By Julie Kliegman • October 2, 2013
John Scocos
John Scocos
stated on September 20, 2013 a statement
"There are still tens of thousands of missing service members from previous and current conflicts that our nation is working to find and repatriate."  
True
September 29, 2013
Michelle Nunn
Michelle Nunn
stated on July 22, 2013 an interview
Says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.
True
By Eric Stirgus • August 6, 2013
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on April 23, 2013 a ZPolitics op-ed
"Despite having their budget increased by over 40 percent since 2009 … pending claims for benefits with the (Department of Veterans Affairs) have increased from 391,000 to 890,000 under the Obama Administration."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • April 30, 2013
Carol Shea-Porter
Carol Shea-Porter
stated on January 16, 2013 a press release
New Hampshire is currently the only state in the nation that does not have a full-service veterans hospital or equivalent access.
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • March 4, 2013
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on November 19, 2012 a tweet
Says veterans’ disability claims backlog doubled in Obama’s first term.
True
By Sue Owen • November 28, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
"Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2012
Carol Shea-Porter
Carol Shea-Porter
stated on September 18, 2012 an ad, “Debt,” released Sept. 18, 2012
"Tea Party Congressman Frank Guinta voted for billions in cuts to veterans programs."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • September 27, 2012
Rob Zerban
Rob Zerban
stated on August 9, 2012 an interview
U.S. House opponent Paul Ryan supports "cutting funding for veterans by 24 percent."
False
September 23, 2012
Sanford Bishop
Sanford Bishop
stated on July 23, 2012 an online video of an earlier speech
"There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 3, 2012
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on May 28, 2012 a speech.
Virginia "is home to more veterans per capita than any state in America."
False
By Nancy Madsen • June 11, 2012
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on May 14, 2012 an interview.
President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a third."
True
By Sean Gorman • June 4, 2012
Shelley Adler
Shelley Adler
stated on May 4, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”
Says Jon Runyan voted to "end programs to aid homeless veterans."
False
By Erin O'Neill • May 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio
"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012
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