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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 3, 2015 in the Florida State of the State address:
"The average person only pays about $1,800 in state taxes — which is the lowest of all 50 states."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • March 3, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 24, 2015 in a conference in Silicon Valley:
"You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2015
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on February 16, 2015 in a Facebook post.:
"...Over 30 years, federal spending on education has grown by 375 percent, but test scores remain flat."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • March 2, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."
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By Katie Sanders • March 1, 2015
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 in a press release:
More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on February 23, 2015 in a Facebook post:
"In general, it appears" Wisconsin’s right to work bill would "likely apply to" the Green Bay Packers players and their union.
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By Tom Kertscher • February 27, 2015
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on February 2, 2015 in an Associated Press news story:
"When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem."
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By April Hunt • February 27, 2015
John Legend
John Legend
stated on February 22, 2015 in a speech at the Oscars:
"We live in the most incarcerated country in the world."
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By Katie Sanders • February 23, 2015
Joseph Yost
Joseph Yost
stated on February 16, 2015 in a floor speech.:
"One third of our age group (Millennials) have moved back in with their parents."
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By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News:
"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2015
Hillary Mann Leverett
Hillary Mann Leverett
stated on February 17, 2015 in an interview on CNN:
ISIS sends out "90,000 social (media) messages a day."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 19, 2015
Dave Claunch
Dave Claunch
stated on January 14, 2015 in a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council:
"Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas."
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By Alex Wilts • February 16, 2015
Center for Western Priorities
Center for Western Priorities
stated on February 5, 2015 in a post on the organization's website:
"Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 in a public-service video during the Grammys:
"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
Sheila Resseger
Sheila Resseger
stated on January 10, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests."       
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By Katie Mulvaney • February 15, 2015
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on February 12, 2015 in her budget address:
Our median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation.
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By Casey McDermott • February 13, 2015
Lee May
Lee May
stated on January 22, 2015 in the 2015 State of the County address:
In the past year, DeKalb has "attracted and retained more than 2,300 jobs."
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By April Hunt • February 13, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 3, 2015 in his budget speech:
Borrowing in my 2015-’17 state budget is less than half that in my  predecessor’s last budget and "the lowest it has been in a decade."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • February 10, 2015
Lee May
Lee May
stated on January 22, 2015 in the 2015 State of the County address:
DeKalb County has graduated five police academies and three fire academies to help reach its ambitious hiring goals in both departments.
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By April Hunt • February 9, 2015
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on February 4, 2015 in a speech.:
"If you look at the income of average Americans...they’re absolutely flat in constant dollars since 1979."
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By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • February 9, 2015
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