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Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on July 18, 2013 a Twitter post
"The Senate immigration bill is … filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos."
True
By Janel Davis • July 26, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech at Knox College in Illinois
Says "our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years."
True
By Jon Greenberg • July 25, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech in Galesburg, Ill.
"The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family’s incomes barely budged."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 an MSNBC interview
Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."  
True
By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013
Elliott Naishtat
Elliott Naishtat
stated on June 20, 2013 a Texas House floor debate.
Says Austin is the "largest city in America without a congressional district anchored in it."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on July 9, 2013 an online gubernatorial campaign ad
"Guess what, governor? There’s no fried butter in Newark. Just 13 percent unemployment."
True
By Caryn Shinske • July 14, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on July 8, 2013 a Fox News interview
"There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians don't want our money."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2013
Charlene Lima
Charlene Lima
stated on June 26, 2013 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House
Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes "sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds" for 38 Studios.
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 10, 2013
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 20, 2013 an article
"It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans’ phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 8, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on June 26, 2013 a state Senate budget hearing
Says spending in the fiscal 2009 budget was lower than spending in the fiscal 2014 budget
True
By Caryn Shinske • July 7, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 28, 2013 an interview with Fox News
In South Florida, "we've had nine inches of sea-level rise since the 1920s."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 3, 2013
Edward Lindsey
Edward Lindsey
stated on June 26, 2013 a news release
Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years.
True
By Janel Davis • July 3, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on June 21, 2013 a roundtable section of the HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher"
If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is "going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2013
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 an interview
"(T)he United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 1, 2013
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 6, 2013 a speech on the Senate floor
Says Delaware County has more waterfront property than any other county in the state of Ohio
True
By Robert Higgs • June 27, 2013
Portland Public Schools
Portland Public Schools
stated on June 5, 2013 an opinion piece.
Says proposed teacher contract "would layer on more restrictive rules."
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • June 25, 2013
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on May 15, 2013 a U.S. House committee meeting.
Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits "are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 25, 2013
John Loughlin
John Loughlin
stated on June 7, 2013 an appearance on WPRO.
"We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 23, 2013
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 18, 2013 a tweet from Barack Obama's Twitter feed
"Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan."
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 12, 2013 a conference call with reporters
"Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies" but want to cut food stamps.
True
By Stephen Koff • June 18, 2013
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