Fact Check Posts – Page 69

Paul Ryan
stated on February 22, 2016 a television interview:

"70 percent of Americans believe that we are on the wrong path."

By Sarah Hauer • March 22, 2016

Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 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."

By Will Doran • March 21, 2016

Harry Reid
stated on March 20, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Senate Democrats "have never held up a Supreme Court nomination."

By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2016

John Kasich
stated on March 20, 2016 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."

By Joshua Gillin • March 20, 2016

New Hampshire Republican Party
stated on February 16, 2016 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."

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016

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."

By Cassie Owens • March 18, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 a political advertisement that aired in Arizona.:

"Arizona schools rank 45th in the nation, dead last in funding per student."

By Anthony Cave • March 17, 2016

Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 Florida Senate floor debate:

"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."

By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2016 a Democratic National Committee reception:

Illegal "immigration is lower than it’s been in 40 years."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016

Anthony Rendon
stated on March 7, 2016 a news conference:

California "cut about $1.3 billion in child care (during the recession). We’ve only reinvested about $300 million."

By Chris Nichols • March 17, 2016

Culinary Workers Union
stated on March 9, 2016 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."

By Riley Snyder • March 14, 2016

Caleb Rowden
stated on March 4, 2016 a Columbia/Boone County League of Women Voters Town Hall:

"Seventy percent of Missourians support voter photo ID legislation."

By Katie Moeller • March 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 20, 2016 a Hillary for America ad:

"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."

By Jason Noble, Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2016

James Dobson
stated on November 21, 2015 a TV ad:

Says Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi "will be the very first pro-life first lady."

By Alan Gathright • March 11, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 10, 2016 the Republican debate in Miami:

"I opposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and have always opposed TPP."

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami:

In 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants."

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami:

"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 the Democratic debate at Miami Dade College:

When Honduran children came into this country, "Secretary Clinton said send them back."

By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic debate in Miami:

When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to "provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it."

By Amy Sherman • March 10, 2016

Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 24, 2016 a tweet:

"Over 32,000 people die from #GunViolence every year. Yet, (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is banned from researching ways to prevent this."

By Sarah Hauer • March 9, 2016

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