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Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor
stated on August 25, 2014 a campaign ad
Says Tom Cotton "voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • August 28, 2014
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on August 15, 2014 an interview
Heroin and prescription opioids are "the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin."
False
August 27, 2014
Mark S. Zaccaria
Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on August 3, 2014 an interview on "10 News Conference."
Sen. Jack Reed "cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the Affordable Care Act."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 17, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 28, 2014 a blog post
Says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • August 11, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 3, 2014 an article posted on Infowars.com
President Barack Obama’s latest executive order "mandates the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’ "
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 6, 2014
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on July 7, 2014 a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2014
Donny Deutsch
Donny Deutsch
stated on July 1, 2014 comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"13 percent of Americans, the lowest ever, are without health care."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 8, 2014
Battleground Texas
Battleground Texas
stated on June 10, 2014 an interview on Bloomberg TV
Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on May 13, 2014 an op-ed for Politico Magazine
Says Hillary Clinton opposed an individual mandate and favored an employer mandate back in 1993.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • May 21, 2014
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
stated on May 7, 2014 a radio interview
A majority of Americans "since Harry Truman days" support single-payer health insurance, or "full Medicare for all."  
False
May 14, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 15, 2014 an ad
Under his leadership, more people in Wisconsin "have access to health care."
Half-True
May 7, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 25, 2014 a meme shared on social media
"Over 300K home owner suicides attributed to foreclosures."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2014
Michael Solomon
Michael Solomon
stated on April 3, 2014 a news release
"Pregnant women who stand for five to six hours at a time increase their risk of pre-term pregnancy by 80 percent."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 20, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 13, 2014 a press conference
The United States has seen "a net loss of people with health insurance" because of Obamacare.
False
By Steve Contorno • March 18, 2014
Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin
stated on January 29, 2014 a press conference
Cuba has "a lower child mortality rate than ours. Their life expectancy is now greater than ours."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2014
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 21, 2014 an interview with MSNBC
Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 24, 2014
Bob Kincaid
Bob Kincaid
stated on January 19, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry"
"Most of West Virginia is still owned, in excess of 90 percent, by out-of-state interests."
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 21, 2014
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
stated on November 18, 2013 remarks at Southern Obesity Summit
Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.
True
By Sue Owen • January 7, 2014
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