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Rebecca Quigley
Rebecca Quigley
stated on May 14, 2015 a comment on a "State of the State" TV program.:
"Once a woman enters into the sex trade, her average life expectancy is seven years."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 31, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 25, 2015 an interview:
Says that as president, Barack Obama has not gone to the Texas-Mexico border 
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 13, 2015
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on March 28, 2015 a Facebook post.:
Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell is "allied to group pushing MIXED SEX BATHROOMS in Stafford Schools."
False
By Sean Gorman • April 6, 2015
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 21, 2015 posts on social media:
Say Michelle Obama "mandates" weighing children in day care.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary:
"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on July 25, 2014 an interview:
Twenty percent of single adults, ages 21 to 25 with no kids, "are not working or even in school trying to find a job."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 30, 2014
Joe Leibham
Joe Leibham
stated on July 19, 2014 a news release:
Says Common Core is a federal mandate.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 25, 2014
Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
stated on July 8, 2014 an interview on the PBS "News Hour":
When undocumented children are picked up at the border and "told to appear later in court ... 90 percent do not then show up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2014
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on May 29, 2014 remarks on the House floor:
"Milwaukee has the second-highest" number of children recovered from sex trafficking.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • June 1, 2014
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed
stated on April 20, 2014 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Social science is irrefutable" that children are better off being raised by a mom and a dad.
False
By Julie Kliegman • April 22, 2014
Betsy Miller-Jones
Betsy Miller-Jones
stated on April 4, 2014 a newsletter:
"Did you know that in 2013 over 50 percent of all babies born in Oregon were Hispanic?"
False
By Dana Tims • April 17, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2014 a meme on the Internet:
The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2014
American Life League
American Life League
stated on February 4, 2014 an email blast:
Girl Scouts USA’s curriculum "promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2014
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
stated on December 11, 2013 an advertisement:
"Rhode Island’s teen binge drinking rate is double the national average."
False
By John Hill • December 22, 2013
X posts
X posts
stated on October 4, 2013 messages on Twitter:
The Obama administration shut down the Amber Alert program because of the government shutdown.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2013
Teresa Tanzi
Teresa Tanzi
stated on July 1, 2013 a House debate:
"We have no idea what is contained in [electronic cigarette] vapor."  
False
July 27, 2013
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Rachel Campos-Duffy
stated on June 12, 2013 an interview:
"Upwards of 90 percent" of women seeking an abortion decide not to have an abortion after seeing an ultrasound.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 12, 2013
Joseph McNamara
Joseph McNamara
stated on June 28, 2013 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House of Representatives:
Rhode Island's graduated driving license "has saved hundreds of lives."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 7, 2013
Jason Conger
Jason Conger
stated on June 19, 2013 a House floor speech:
Says "the mandate is 71 times that a child’s body will be injected with a disease" for immunizations.
False
By Janie Har • June 29, 2013
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on April 11, 2013 a House Finance Committee hearing:
In Cranston, it costs $5,000 to $6,000 to send out community notifications on just one Level 3 sex offender.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 12, 2013
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