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Joe Sanfelippo
Joe Sanfelippo
stated on February 1, 2017 an online video:
"Over 39% of violent criminals return to prison following their release."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • February 10, 2017
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on February 8, 2017 a CNN interview:
"Back when Ted Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate floor, nobody invoked Rule 19 to censor him."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 8, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 a news conference:
Obamacare is "hurting people right now" with premium increases of up to 116 percent.
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By Eric Litke • February 3, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview:
"In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa."
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By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on January 24, 2017 a Senate floor speech:
Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on January 27, 2017 in a press release:
"The chances of being killed by a refugee committing a terrorist act is 1 in 3.6 billion."
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By Chris Nichols • February 1, 2017
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 27, 2017 a speech at the March for Life:
The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017
Don Willett
Don Willett
stated on January 12, 2017 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event:
"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2017
Deborah Glick
Deborah Glick
stated on January 17, 2017 a debate in the Assembly chamber:
"New York state law says you are alive when you begin to breathe."
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By Dan Clark • January 30, 2017
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission:
North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.
Mostly True
By Will Doran • January 27, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 12, 2017 a news release:
Imitation dairy products often differ nutritionally from those they mimic, and labeling them "milk" or "cheese" or "yogurt" is "against the law."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 an interview with ABC News' David Muir:
"A poll just came out on my inauguration speech. … People loved it. Loved and liked."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 his State of the State address:
"One hundred and ninety-four countries signed the Paris Agreement to control greenhouse gases. Our own voluntary agreement to accomplish the same goal — the Under2  MOU — has 165 signatories, representing a billion people."
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By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2017
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on January 23, 2017 an interview on Fox:
"About 30 percent of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay went back into battle. We know that a dozen or so killed Americans."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 21, 2017 a page on the White House website:
"In 2015, homicides increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2017
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 18, 2017 a Senate confirmation hearing:
"Some countries are contributing (peacekeeping) troops because they're making money off of them."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 24, 2017
Carlos Gimenez
Carlos Gimenez
stated on January 18, 2017 a state of the county speech:
Miami-Dade is "the first community in the world to break the cycle of local transmission of the Zika virus."
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By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2017
George Takei
George Takei
stated on January 20, 2017 a Tweet:
"The White House removed its climate change web page. And the healthcare, civil rights and LGBT sections."
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By Lauren Carroll • January 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 a statement on the White House website:
"Our Navy has shrunk from more than 500 ships in 1991 to 275 in 2016."
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By Amy Sherman • January 20, 2017
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on January 19, 2017 a speech to business leaders:
Says North Carolinians are "already paying for" Medicaid expansion, even though the state hasn’t expanded Medicaid.
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By Will Doran • January 19, 2017
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