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Arthenia Joyner
Arthenia Joyner
stated on July 30, 2015 a letter to Jeb Bush
Says Jeb Bush "significantly cut early voting prior to the 2008 presidential election."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • August 5, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 a town hall in Nashua, N.H.
"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015
Jack Hanna
Jack Hanna
stated on August 2, 2015 an ABC "This Week" interview
"In 1947, when I was born, there were about 450,000 lions. In the mid-70s, when my kids were born, there were about 100,000. Today, there are less than 30,000."
Mostly True
By Will Cabaniss • August 3, 2015
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on July 21, 2015 a radio interview
Since parole abolition, Virginia's "crime rate has fallen to third lowest in the country, our recidivism rate is down 20 percent and that’s the second lowest in the country."  
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By Warren Fiske • August 3, 2015
Coast Guard
Coast Guard
stated on July 20, 2015 news release
"Every year the First Coast Guard District saves 350 lives in the Northeast."  
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By Mark Reynolds • August 2, 2015
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 27, 2015 a post on Instagram
"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."
Mostly True
By Keely Herring • July 31, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 27, 2015 a Telemundo News interview
Says in 2002, he "won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 8, 2015 an opinion piece
"Our last budget committed the highest level of need-based financial aid in state history."
Mostly True
By Lucas Daprile • July 31, 2015
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 27, 2015 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor"
Russia and China "absolutely said pretty clearly" they would not keep economic sanctions on Iran if the United States "walked away from the deal."
Mostly True
By Anna Bruzgulis • July 30, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 22, 2015 an appearance on 'Fox & Friends'
"Forty percent of people in this country, illegally, are overstaying visas."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 1, 2015 a speech
"The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
Mostly True
July 29, 2015
NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA
stated on July 22, 2015 a Facebook meme
"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 an online interview with "The Daily Show"
Since 2009, "we've cut homelessness (among veterans) by a third."
Mostly True
By Kirby Wilson • July 28, 2015
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on June 22, 2015 a press release
The National Technical Information Service spends millions of taxpayer dollars to print and sell government documents that are available free in online searches.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • July 28, 2015
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on July 21, 2015 a radio show.
"All (Maryland) crabs are born in Virginia."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • July 27, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on July 17, 2015 a campaign rally in Houston
"We borrow a million dollars every minute."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 21, 2015
Police Chief Billy Grogan
Police Chief Billy Grogan
stated on July 14, 2015 press release
Georgia has more than 700 law enforcement agencies, and fewer than 20 percent of them are state-certified.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • July 21, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 13, 2015 a speech
"Sen. Rubio’s (tax plan) would cut taxes for households making around $3 million a year by almost $240,000, which is way more than three times the earnings of a typical family."
Mostly True
July 16, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 13, 2015 a speech
Says because of his actions, Wisconsin "property taxes today are lower than they were four years ago."
Mostly True
July 15, 2015
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on July 9, 2015 an announcement video
"In the past two years in Congress, I’ve written more bills, passed more amendments on the floor of the House and enacted more of my bills into law than any other member of the House."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 14, 2015
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