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Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 22, 2017 a CNN-sponsored debate:
"If you're in Texas, you have got to drive 120 miles to get an ID."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2017
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on January 11, 2017 a press release:
"This year, 97 Missouri counties have only one insurer participating in the Obamacare exchanges. Last year, every Missouri county had at least two insurance options. In addition, most Missourians will see an increase in their premiums, with some facing an increase upward of 40 percent"
Half-True
By Gary Garrison • February 22, 2017
Anthony Tata
Anthony Tata
stated on February 19, 2017 an interview on CNN:
"The sanctions that we put on (Russia) for the Crimea annexation and meddling in Ukraine ... have absolutely crushed the ruble by 50 percent. And GDP from 2014 to 2016 is 50 percent down in Russia, as well."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 21, 2017
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on February 12, 2017 an inteview on CBS4:
"Most of these mass shootings take place in (areas) where you're not allowed to have a concealed weapons permit."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 21, 2017
Wick Moorman
Wick Moorman
stated on February 15, 2017 In front of a Senate subcommittee:
"More than ever our nation and the traveling public rely on Amtrak for mobility."  
Half-True
By Mark Dent • February 21, 2017
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on February 13, 2017 a tweet:
Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2017
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on February 1, 2017 a interview on Morning Joe :
Says President Barack Obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, "a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices."
Half-True
By Kevin Hoffman • February 10, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview on CNN:
Says former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • February 9, 2017
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on February 6, 2017 a tweet:
"Spending more taxpayer money on VISIT FL (or less) has not demonstrated a direct impact on tourism."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • February 9, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2017 an interview:
In the United States, "we tax our exports and don't tax our imports."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2017
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 an interview:
The seven nations identified in Donald Trump's travel ban were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet:
"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on January 25, 2017 an address to education leaders:
Says North Carolina gives taxpayer dollars to private schools, but "we really don’t know what these schools are doing or how they are performing."
Half-True
By Will Doran • February 2, 2017
Sylvia Garcia
Sylvia Garcia
stated on January 5, 2017 a press release:
Says that in Texas, it’s "already illegal to enter a bathroom to harm someone."
Half-True
By Bobby Cervantes • February 1, 2017
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview:
"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 17, 2017 his executive budget presentation:
"Thirty years ago we were the most college-educated country on the globe. Today we are No. 11."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • January 27, 2017
Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd
stated on January 21, 2017 a speech at the Women's March.:
"Pads and tampons (are) still taxed when Viagra and Rogaine are not." 
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • January 22, 2017
Sam Johnson
Sam Johnson
stated on December 10, 2016 a Facebook post:
"Social Security is in trouble (it’s going bankrupt by 2034)."
Half-True
By Dylan Baddour • January 17, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 15, 2017 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2017
Sheri Dillon
Sheri Dillon
stated on January 11, 2017 a press conference at Trump Tower:
"Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument." 
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2017
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