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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 4, 2016 a column posted on Medium:
"As governor of Florida, I used a combination of strategies to help reduce heroin use among youth in Florida by approximately 50 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on Meet the Press:
Every "one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been" in "gun-free zones."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 a State of the Union speech:
We've "lifted high school graduation rates to new highs."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 12, 2016 his 2016 State of the State address:
"We have completely turned our economy around."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • January 12, 2016
Will Kraus
Will Kraus
stated on August 30, 2015 an episode of "This Week in Missouri Politics":
Says Missouri needs a voter I.D. law because "there’s over 16 people in the state of Missouri who have been convicted of some type of voter fraud."
Half-True
By Adam Aton • January 4, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 20, 2015 comments on 'Meet the Press':
The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • December 20, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on December 19, 2015 the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:
"Secretary Clinton changes her position on (gun issues) every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we don't need federal standards."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 20, 2015
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on December 3, 2015 an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio:
Says the Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 would not "pause" the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.
Half-True
By Clay Wirestone • December 19, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The states have always defined marriage."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 13, 2015
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
stated on November 19, 2015 a news release:
"On a single night in January 2015, state and local planning agencies in Rhode Island reported the following estimates of homelessness … 107 veterans were homeless."  
Half-True
By Mark Reynolds • December 13, 2015
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
stated on December 9, 2015 a Supreme Court hearing:
"Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin, Lauren Carroll • December 11, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 17, 2015 Network TV interview:
In Texas, "we've had three ISIS-related incidents already."
Half-True
By Filipa Ioannou • December 9, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 1, 2015 a press conference:
"You go down to Miami and when it's flooding at high tide on a sunny day, fish are swimming through the middle of the streets."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 4, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 24, 2015 a radio interview in New Hampshire:
Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on November 10, 2015 a TV ad:
Says Russ Feingold "wanted to get money out of politics. Now he's profiting from that same dark money."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • November 27, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on November 12, 2015 an interview:
"Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the" Veterans Administration.  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • November 27, 2015
Gun Free UT Gun Free UT
Gun Free UT Gun Free UT
stated on October 29, 2015 web site blog post:
"29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting."  
Half-True
By Filipa Ioannou • November 23, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations:
"The Libyan people have voted twice in free and fair elections for the kind of leadership they want."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 23, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 28, 2015 a speech.:
"It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • November 23, 2015
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