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Kathy Castor
Kathy Castor
stated on May 6, 2013 in a TV interview:
"70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • May 13, 2013
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on March 26, 2013 in a Twitter post:
The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a "Star Trek" training video.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 15, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on March 28, 2013 in a meeting:
"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 9, 2013
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on February 27, 2013 in a speech:
"Even Roger Williams National Memorial in my home state of Rhode Island attracted nearly 51,000 visitors in 2011, with non local visitors adding more than $3.2 million to the local economy."
Half-True
By John Hill • March 27, 2013
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on March 10, 2013 in an interview:
The United States spends "$2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes" and pays for "the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama."    
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 24, 2013
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 15, 2013 in a speech at CPAC:
"Our debt is already bigger than our economy."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • March 15, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on February 21, 2013 in an interview on Central Florida News 13:
In a budget deal struck in 2011 "a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee was set up ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • February 25, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:
Says if Congress doesn’t avoid the sequester, "tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • February 22, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:
If the sequester hits, "hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union speech:
"Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of (Medicare’s) health care costs."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 14, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:
Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obama’s idea.
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • February 13, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 1, 2013 in a news release:
Says the New Year’s Day "fiscal cliff" deal "reduces the deficit."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • January 31, 2013
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on January 7, 2013 in a Facebook post.:
"The last time Republicans held hostage a resolution to ensure that our country’s bills were paid cost us more than $1 billion in added interest and slowed the economic recovery."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 25, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 4, 2013 in a tweet:
"Thanks to Washington, nearly everyone will pay more in taxes in 2013. Somehow people think it's just the wealthy. It's not."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 20, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on January 2, 2013 in a radio interview:
The fiscal cliff deal "increased spending."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 15, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on January 2, 2013 in a radio interview:
The fiscal cliff deal "ultimately raised taxes."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 11, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 30, 2012 in in a tweet:
"Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 4, 2013
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 4, 2012 in a speech:
"Over $1 trillion" was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to "give every single poor American a check for $22,000."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • December 30, 2012
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in in a TV ad:
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on October 17, 2012 in a U.S. Senate debate:
Says Connie Mack initially said he would have voted "yes" for the Paul Ryan budget plan, and then, "you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2012
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