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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech
"In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting."
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By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015
Anonymous Activist
Anonymous Activist
stated on May 19, 2015 yard signs posted anonymously opposing a proposed office park redevelopment in Northwest Austin
"500 percent more traffic here?"
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 9, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015
Patricia Morgan
Patricia Morgan
stated on May 27, 2015 a news conference
The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime."  
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By Mark Reynolds • June 7, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando
"Sixty million Americans depend on Social Security, and one-third of all the seniors in America depend on Social Security for 90 percent of their income."
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By Linda Qiu • June 4, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando
Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."
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By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor
stated on April 15, 2015 a press release
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget contained 110 pages of errors -- an unusually high number -- "and millions of dollars’ worth of mistakes" that were corrected with a follow-up document.
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By James B. Nelson • June 1, 2015
The Commonwealth Institute
The Commonwealth Institute
stated on April 30, 2015 a blog post.
Says "roughly two-thirds of (state) corporations didn’t pay any income tax in Virginia."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • May 27, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 9, 2015 a speech
"For our next two years in my state, we will end with a structural surplus of $499 million."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 26, 2015
Jay Roberts
Jay Roberts
stated on March 31, 2015 a House floor debate
About 85 percent of hotel guests who will pay the new $5 hotel/motel fee will be from outside Georgia.
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By April Hunt • May 25, 2015
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 5, 2015 a tweet
"There are more members of the U.S. Senate than the number of WI families who would benefit from GOP estate tax break."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • May 20, 2015
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
stated on May 17, 2015 an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS"
The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent."  
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By Jon Greenberg • May 17, 2015
Debbie Mayfield
Debbie Mayfield
stated on May 4, 2015 a tweet
"Florida sends $135 billion and D.C. returns $150 billion."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • May 14, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2015 the National Review Forum
"We have a legal immigration system in America that accepts 1 million people a year, legally. No other country in the world even comes close to that."
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By Amy Sherman • May 13, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard)."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters
"There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."
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By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015
Dino Baccari
Dino Baccari
stated on April 16, 2015 testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.
A Penn State University study found that "electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 3, 2015
Represent.us
Represent.us
stated on April 30, 2015 a meme on social media
"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2015
Steve Crisafulli
Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 28, 2015 an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times
"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 30, 2015
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