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Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on March 26, 2014 a campaign ad
Says the Koch brothers "funded the fight to let flood insurance premiums soar ... Now they’re spending millions to buy a Senate seat for Bill Cassidy so he can fight for them."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2014
Chris Chocola
Chris Chocola
stated on March 19, 2014 an op-ed supporting Senate candidate Chris McDaniel
Says Sen. Thad Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on February 11, 2014 a segment on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"
Chris Christie "helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • February 19, 2014
Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan
stated on February 16, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
Says "(President) Reagan's second inaugural was moved inside the Capitol. It was. Because of a terrible snowstorm."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2014
Sly James
Sly James
stated on February 7, 2014 a radio interview
Responding to a major snow event in Atlanta would be like Kansas City, Mo., responding to a major earthquake.
False
By Nancy Badertscher • February 12, 2014
Charley English
Charley English
stated on January 29, 2014 a press conference
"It still had not gotten terrible on the roads" by 2 to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
False
By Eric Stirgus, Nancy Badertscher • January 31, 2014
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 28, 2014 an interview
"We have been confronted with an unexpected storm that has hit the metropolitan area."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus, Nancy Badertscher • January 30, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on January 6, 2014 comments on his radio show
Says the media created the term "polar vortex" and the cold air proves "the ice isn’t melting."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2014
X posts
X posts
stated on January 7, 2014 posts on Twitter
It’s warmer on Mars than it is in parts of the United States and Canada during the polar vortex.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
Barry Smitherman
Barry Smitherman
stated on November 17, 2013
"The Earth is not warming."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • December 13, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 17, 2013 a letter to Florida's U.S. senators
"Over the past 35 years, Florida families have paid into the (National Flood Insurance Program) over $16 billion, four times more than the amount they have received in claim reimbursements."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 25, 2013
Steve Goreham
Steve Goreham
stated on August 5, 2013 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 25, 2013
Brian Schatz
Brian Schatz
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 5, 2013
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 11, 2013 a keynote address
The ocean is now "much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
Jim Bridenstine
Jim Bridenstine
stated on June 11, 2013 a House floor speech
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2013
Wayne Smith
Wayne Smith
stated on April 17, 2013 an interview.
"Science has not shown greenhouse gases to be a problem."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 4, 2013 an interview on the “Late Show with David Letterman”
Says "in Katrina, they approved $60 billion within 10 days of the storm on a voice vote."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • February 6, 2013
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen
stated on January 15, 2013 a speech on the House floor
Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • January 31, 2013
Kirk Watson
Kirk Watson
stated on December 31, 2012 an opinion piece in the Austin American-Statesman
Says in "our region," 2011 was worst drought year ever recorded.
True
By Sue Owen • January 15, 2013
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