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Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on February 26, 2011 an oped column.
Texans eat more catfish than residents of all other states combined.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2011
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on February 25, 2011 a Texas Tribune article.
Says Texas school districts are the fifth largest employers in the world.  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 11, 2011
Carol Alvarado
Carol Alvarado
stated on March 2, 2011 remarks on the House floor
Says women who need a sonogram in the eighth to 10th week of pregnancy have to get a transvaginal sonogram.
Mostly True
March 10, 2011
Andy Brown
Andy Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 a web post.
Says nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perry’s proposal to "serve up $10,000 college degrees" is possible.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 8, 2011
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on February 16, 2011 a New York Times column
Texas "ranks third in teen pregnancies... and it is No. 1 in repeat teen pregnancies."
Mostly True
March 7, 2011
Scott McCown
Scott McCown
stated on February 1, 2011 a letter.
Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 6, 2011
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly
stated on February 2, 2011 an e-mail blast.
Says broken compact fluorescent light bulbs "allegedly cause migraines and epilepsy attacks."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 5, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 2, 2011 an interview.
Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon "have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2011 his State of the State address.
Says the state share of Texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 3, 2011
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
stated on February 17, 2011 remarks on the Senate floor
"A miscarriage is considered an abortion."
Half-True
March 1, 2011
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris
stated on February 14, 2011 an opinion column
"Some of our state's educational administrators joined the feds in seeking to mandate Arabic classes for Texas children."
Mostly False
February 28, 2011
Leo Berman
Leo Berman
stated on February 14, 2011 a news article
Says the Hawaii governor "can’t find anything that says (President Barack Obama) was born in Hawaii."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 27, 2011
Jeff Wentworth
Jeff Wentworth
stated on February 22, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews"
"We don’t have bars on campus in Texas. It’s against the law... no alcohol allowed."
Pants on Fire!
February 26, 2011
Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan
stated on February 18, 2011 an e-mail blast
"If you printed a $1 bill for the entirety of the $14.1 trillion national debt, the resulting pile of money would weigh more than 136 aircraft carriers."
True
February 25, 2011
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference.
Says that in some Texas communities, "our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2011
Phil King
Phil King
stated on January 13, 2011 a newspaper article.
Says families now pay out 40 percent of their income to taxes.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 22, 2011
Dan Flynn
Dan Flynn
stated on February 14, 2011 a column
"Our children do not spend any time in school learning about our own U.S. Constitution."
Pants on Fire!
February 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 2, 2010 a book
Says some in Congress are trying "to create a separate government for those with a drop of Native Hawaiian blood."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 20, 2011
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on February 16, 2011 comment quoted in a column.
"In Austin, I’ve got half-a-dozen or more schools on a list to be closed — one of which I presented a federal blue-ribbon award to for excellence. And several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 19, 2011
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on February 17, 2011 remarks on the Senate floor
"We have 80,000 abortions in Texas every year."
True
February 18, 2011
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