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Marc Short
Marc Short
stated on July 2, 2017 an episode of "Fox News Sunday"
7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won't have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill "don't exist."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • July 5, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on June 28, 2017 in a tweet
"28.2 million Americans are still waiting under Obamacare and remain uninsured!"
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By Manuela Tobias • June 28, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2017 an appearance on 'Fox & Friends'
Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 28, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 2, 2017 a speech
Says Donald Trump "wants to kick thousands of kids off of BadgerCare."  
Half-True
June 28, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2017 in a tweet
"When Obamacare was signed into law, CBO estimated that 23 million people would be covered in Obamacare’s exchanges in 2017. They were off by more than 100 percent. Only 10.3 million people are covered by Obamacare."
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By Manuela Tobias • June 27, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on June 25, 2017 On "Face The Nation"
"Remember, Obamacare created a new category of eligibility. Working-age, able-bodied adults with no dependents for the first time became eligible for Medicaid if their income is below 138 percent of the poverty level. We’re going to continue that eligibility. No one loses coverage."
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By Mark Dent • June 27, 2017
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on June 8, 2017 an interview
"This is not the first time (the Russians) have been involved in our elections."
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By Will Doran • June 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2017 a speech
"Obamacare premiums have doubled" in Wisconsin.  
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June 15, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 13, 2017 a tweet
Says Senate deliberations on the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010 included hundreds of hours of debate and more than 100 Republican amendments, compared with zero for the American Health Care Act this year.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on June 13, 2017 a congressional hearing
"It's a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • June 14, 2017
Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff
stated on June 8, 2017 a debate
The House Republican health care bill "guts protections against massive price hikes for Georgians with pre-existing conditions."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 13, 2017
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on June 6, 2017 a debate
"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."  
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By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2017
Chris King
Chris King
stated on May 25, 2017 a press release
Says a Congressional Budget Office report found low-income seniors in Florida will face "800 percent premium increases" under the American Health Care Act.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 2, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 10, 2017 press conference about opioid addiction
"I think if you look at the entire federal government and the president’s commitment to (fighting opioid addiction), you’ll see that there are actually hundreds of millions of dollars increase on this issue."
Half-True
By Ella Nilsen • May 26, 2017
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on May 18, 2017 an interview
Says David Clarke reduced the number of Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies "from about 700 and something to 300 and something."  
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May 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 17, 2017 a U.S. Coast Guard commencement speech
"I’m proud to say that under my administration, as you just heard, we will be building the first new heavy icebreakers the United States has seen in over 40 years."  
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By Smitha Rajan • May 24, 2017
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
stated on May 18, 2017 an appearance on CNN
"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 7, 2017 an interview
Before Obamacare, Wisconsin’s "high-risk pool" for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital they wanted, and their premiums and co-pays were cheaper than they are under Obamacare today."
Half-True
May 19, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 28, 2017 a speech to the National Rifle Association
"The first Congress passed a law mandating that every able-bodied man must own a musket."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 19, 2017
Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal
stated on May 9, 2017 a press conference
"What does Trumpcare do? Yank tax credits away from veterans unlike any other American."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • May 15, 2017
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