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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 in a news conference:
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 22, 2016 in a campaign speech:
"Today, the United States has, sadly, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 23, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016
Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa
stated on February 26, 2016 in a campaign mailer:
"Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran."
Mostly True
By Emma Hinchliffe • March 23, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview on Fox Business News:
Superdelegates "have never been a determining factor in who our nominee is since they've been in place since 1984."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2016
Joe Pitts
Joe Pitts
stated on February 25, 2016 in in a Medium post.:
"More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percent increase from 2014."
Mostly True
By Anna Orso • March 22, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on February 22, 2016 in a television interview:
"70 percent of Americans believe that we are on the wrong path."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • March 22, 2016
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 in his education plan:
"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."
Mostly True
By Will Doran • March 21, 2016
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on March 20, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Senate Democrats "have never held up a Supreme Court nomination."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 20, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Donald "Trump got, you know, $1.8 billion worth of free media. I got, like, none."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 20, 2016
New Hampshire Republican Party
New Hampshire Republican Party
stated on February 16, 2016 in an online petition:
"Given the results of the primary, the vote of one New Hampshire superdelegate is equal to the votes of about 10,000 grassroots activists."
Mostly True
By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on March 8, 2016:
"Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition."
Mostly True
By Cassie Owens • March 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 in a political advertisement that aired in Arizona.:
"Arizona schools rank 45th in the nation, dead last in funding per student."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • March 17, 2016
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 in Florida Senate floor debate:
"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2016 in a Democratic National Committee reception:
Illegal "immigration is lower than it’s been in 40 years."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016
Anthony Rendon
Anthony Rendon
stated on March 7, 2016 in a news conference:
California "cut about $1.3 billion in child care (during the recession). We’ve only reinvested about $300 million."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 17, 2016
Culinary Workers Union
Culinary Workers Union
stated on March 9, 2016 in a letter sent to union members:
Susie Lee and her husband "own 17 homes across the country and use their private jet to take vacations," and invest in "companies like Walmart, Halliburton and GEO Group."
Mostly True
By Riley Snyder • March 14, 2016
Caleb Rowden
Caleb Rowden
stated on March 4, 2016 in a Columbia/Boone County League of Women Voters Town Hall:
"Seventy percent of Missourians support voter photo ID legislation."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • March 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 20, 2016 in a Hillary for America ad:
"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."
Mostly True
By Jason Noble, Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2016
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