Fact Check Posts – Page 81

Larry O'Connor
stated on July 7, 2015 in an interview on "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson" on Fox News:

"25 percent of federal inmates are noncitizens."

By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2015

Generation Forward PAC
stated on June 25, 2015 in an attack ad.:

"Bernie Sanders voted against the Brady Bill -- background checks and waiting periods."

By Linda Qiu • July 10, 2015

Tom Toles
stated on June 18, 2015 in an editorial cartoon:

A "working woman" will earn $7.70 on $10.

By April Hunt • July 10, 2015

Mark Pocan
stated on June 26, 2015 in a statement:

"In a majority of states, you can now marry freely, but can still be fired for who you love."

By Sarah Hauer • July 9, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 7, 2015 in in an interview with CNN:

Says Jeb Bush "doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does."

By Amy Sherman • July 8, 2015

Chuck Todd
stated on July 5, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In Florida, "the number of voters who now register as ‘other’ has grown by a million in the last 10 years. Compare that with the Democrats, who only grew by 300,000 and the Republicans who grew by just 200,000."

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 8, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 2, 2015 in a speech:

"We've cut the deficit by two-thirds."

By Tom Kertscher • July 8, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Says Hillary Clinton’s top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders’ top 10 donors are labor unions.

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2015

Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 24, 2015 in a speech on the House floor:

"Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005."

By Joshua Gillin • July 7, 2015

Donna Brazile
stated on June 30, 2015 in a tweet:

"Chris Christie has led New Jersey to a record-breaking 9 credit downgrades."

By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2015

Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 in a press release:

Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015

Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 25, 2015 in a press release:

Says Jeb Bush "oversaw (an) average in-state tuition increase of 48.2 percent during his tenure."

By Joshua Gillin • June 30, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 in a speech about the Affordable Care Act.:

"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.

By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 in a news release.:

"Income disparities in the United States are the worst since the 1920s."

By Warren Fiske • June 30, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 4, 2015 in a statement:

Says "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans."

By Lucas Daprile • June 29, 2015

Ultraviolet
stated on June 15, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Says Jeb Bush "said low-income women should ‘get their life together and find a husband.' "

By Joshua Gillin • June 25, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 23, 2015 in a speech in Florissant, Mo.:

American schools are "more segregated than they were in the 1960s."

By Linda Qiu • June 25, 2015

Cornell William Brooks
stated on June 21, 2015 in comments on Face the Nation:

"We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year."

By Christian Belanger • June 25, 2015

Dan Gelber
stated on June 21, 2015 in a Miami Herald op-ed:

"After (Jeb) Bush’s two terms in office, Florida’s graduation rate was dead last and remains near the bottom."

By Amy Sherman • June 24, 2015

Bill Clinton
stated on June 14, 2015 in comments on CNN's State of the Union:

Says Hillary Clinton "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House" by an official inquiry on Whitewater.

By Linda Qiu • June 23, 2015

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