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Paul Doughty
Paul Doughty
stated on November 10, 2015 in a tweet:
"@Jorge_Elorza still think your plan is safe? Rescue Captain Kenyon just worked 96 hours straight. 96 hours."  
Mostly True
By Mark Reynolds • November 22, 2015
John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards
stated on November 11, 2015 in a campaign ad:
Says David Vitter "answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom."
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By Charles Maldonado • November 19, 2015
Marion Hammer
Marion Hammer
stated on November 1, 2015 in a column on the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action website:
"Forty-five states allow open carry of firearms."
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By Joshua Gillin • November 18, 2015
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 in a tweet:
"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."
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By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2015 in a joint statement with the president of Turkey.:
"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."
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By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on November 14, 2015 in a Democratic debate in Des Moines:
"Net immigration from Mexico last year was zero. Fact-check me."
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By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 in comments at the Iowa Democratic debate:
500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."
Mostly True
By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 18, 2015 in a roundtable event on women's economic security:
"Women fill two-thirds of minimum wage jobs."
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By Kaitlin DeWulf • November 13, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 in a debate:
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
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By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 in a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.:
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Tim Echols
Tim Echols
stated on October 26, 2015 in an opinion piece in a trade magazine:
"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."
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By April Hunt • November 10, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 8, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Go look on the West Point website and you’ll see those specific words, ‘full scholarship to West Point.’ So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used."  
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By Linda Qiu • November 8, 2015
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on October 29, 2015 in a Facebook post:
"How many concerts would Taylor Swift have to perform to pay off one day of interest on our national debt? She would have to perform every day for three years."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • November 6, 2015
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on October 7, 2015 in a speech:
"No city in the state, no state in this nation, for that matter the entire world, has adopted (clean energy) targets more ambitious in scale."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 in comments on "Meet the Press":
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 in a Houston press conference:
My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 21, 2015 in a post on his website:
"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land."
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By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2015
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on October 22, 2015 in map:
Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 26, 2015
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on October 25, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
Says Marco Rubio opposes abortion "even in the case of rape and incest."  
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman • October 25, 2015
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