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Rodney Ellis
Rodney Ellis
stated on May 16, 2011 Texas Senate floor debate.:
Says state lawmakers have voted to "spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times" since the fund’s creation.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2011
John Whitmire
John Whitmire
stated on May 3, 2011 remarks on the Senate floor:
Says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of "3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance."
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 16, 2011
Steve Ogden
Steve Ogden
stated on April 5, 2011 comments to reporters on Texas Senate floor:
Says businesses "already pay most of the taxes."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 15, 2011
Leo Berman
Leo Berman
stated on April 4, 2011 a House committee hearing:
Says judges are using Shariah law in Dearborn, Mich.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 14, 2011
Jay Carney
Jay Carney
stated on May 10, 2011 a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.:
Says Rick Perry "turned down our invitation to meet" President Barack Obama in El Paso.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2011
Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes
stated on May 9, 2011 a press release.:
The "six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2011
Kathie Tovo
Kathie Tovo
stated on May 1, 2011 “Voters Guide,” League of Women Voters of the Austin Area.:
"Austin Energy is considering its first rate increase since 1994."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2011
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on April 28, 2011 a press release:
Says close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was non-Anglo.
True
May 9, 2011
Steve Ogden
Steve Ogden
stated on May 4, 2011 remarks on the Senate floor:
Rick Perry "advocated to liquidate" the state’s rainy day fund in 2007.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 8, 2011
Rick Hardcastle
Rick Hardcastle
stated on April 28, 2011 remarks on the House floor:
Benzene has "never been proven to be harmful."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 7, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on May 5, 2011 a presidential debate:
"Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 6, 2011
Kathie Tovo
Kathie Tovo
stated on May 2, 2011 campaign mailers.:
Says one of Austin City Council Member Randi Shade’s biggest contributors is the lobbyist for the Formula 1 racetrack planned outside Austin.  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 6, 2011
Dick Armey
Dick Armey
stated on April 17, 2011 an oped column.:
"At Texas A&M University, only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2011
Max Nofziger
Max Nofziger
stated on May 1, 2011 “Voters Guide,” League of Women Voters of the Austin Area.:
"Currently, there is no one from South Austin on the (Austin City) Council!"
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2011
Troy Fraser
Troy Fraser
stated on April 19, 2011 a Texas Senate committee hearing.:
Says it probably costs more than $300,000 to run for a seat on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2011
Texans for Economic Development
Texans for Economic Development
stated on April 19, 2011 a web banner ad.:
"Texans spend $2.5 billion gambling in our neighboring states every year."  
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 29, 2011
Leo Berman
Leo Berman
stated on April 27, 2011 a Texas Tribune article:
Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there.
Pants on Fire!
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke • April 27, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2011 an interview:
"Gov. (Rick) Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help, which he happily took, and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 24, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 12, 2011 an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.:
Says Texas routinely gets "a lot more federal spending" than it pays in taxes.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 22, 2011
Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
stated on March 28, 2011 an interview with PBS's Tavis Smiley.:
Says that in 41 states, government workers "are better paid than the taxpayers who support them."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 21, 2011
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