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Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2015
Rob Wittman
Rob Wittman
stated on April 30, 2015 a news release.:
The 2005 round of military base closings "has not yet resulted in savings."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • May 15, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 5, 2015 remarks at the Institute for New Economic Thinking:
Proposed fast-track legislation allows presidents to "easily use a future trade deal to override our domestic financial rules."
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By Lauren Carroll • May 14, 2015
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on May 4, 2015 a Facebook meme:
"Ben Carson is running for president to ‘eliminate dependency on government.’ But he doesn’t mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college."  
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 11, 2015
Danny Porter
Danny Porter
stated on May 4, 2015 an interview with AM750 and 95.5 FM News/Talk WSB radio:
"A sitting sheriff cannot be charged except by a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge."
Half-True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • May 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 23, 2015 a speech at the Women in the World conference:
"The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace
stated on May 3, 2015 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
"Baltimore spends the third highest per capita on its public schools."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2015
Anonymous cyber-squatter
Anonymous cyber-squatter
stated on May 4, 2015 a website:
After laying off 30,000 people, Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, "I would have done them all faster."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune:
Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2015
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on April 27, 2015 his debut Senate floor speech:
The United States is "about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever."
Half-True
By April Hunt • May 4, 2015
City of Atlanta
City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 press release:
Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 1, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2015 a meeting with the Des Moines Register editorial board:
"I'm running for office with much more experience and qualifications than Barack Obama had when he ran."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • April 29, 2015
Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
stated on March 31, 2015 a news report:
Delta has had the most animal deaths among U.S. carriers in the past five years
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By April Hunt • April 29, 2015
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 1, 2015 a speech:
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 14, 2015 a Twitter post:
"Americans will spend more on taxes in 2015 than on food, clothing and housing combined."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 23, 2015
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on April 17, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
"America has lost over 50,000 manufacturing factories on other trade deals."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2015
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 an interview:
In recent polling in battleground states, a "majority of the people" said Hillary Clinton "is untrustworthy."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2015
Steve Crisafulli
Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 17, 2015 a radio interview:
"Medicaid expansion isn’t necessarily a very popular issue on the street."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • April 20, 2015
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 an interview:
Says Hillary Clinton took "money from kings of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Oman and Yemen."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2015
Charlie Bethel
Charlie Bethel
stated on April 2, 2015 Senate chamber:
Georgia has had the nation’s busiest Court of Appeals for a decade or more.
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 20, 2015
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