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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2015 a tweet:
Wisconsin's pension system is the "only one fully funded in the country."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 14, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on August 7, 2015 a Washington Post column:
Says Bernie Sanders chose "to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in 1988."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 12, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on August 5, 2015 a web post.:
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."
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By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on August 9, 2015 an interview with "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos:
Says he was "one of the chief architects" of balancing the federal budget.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:
"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland:
"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:
Says that Donald Trump "supported Charlie Crist."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:
"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:
"This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015
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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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
By Tom Kertscher • July 29, 2015
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