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Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast:
Since Rick Perry became governor, "poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% — which is higher than the national average."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address:
"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Says Mitt Romney "pays less tax than the guys who installed his car elevators."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 2015
Jim Steineke
Jim Steineke
stated on November 19, 2014 a tweet:
The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a "1900s style trolley."
Half-True
By James B. Nelson • January 16, 2015
Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn
stated on November 25, 2014 a website story:
"There’s nothing in the [RhodeMap RI] plan that takes away local government control and local zoning control."
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By Katie Mulvaney • January 16, 2015
Bob Buckhorn
Bob Buckhorn
stated on January 15, 2015 a campaign ad:
Says he "secured the highest possible bond rating" for the city of Tampa.
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By Richard Danielson • January 15, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 31, 2014 a meme circulated on Facebook:
Milwaukee "incarcerates 1.2% of white men" and has "incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s."
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By Tom Kertscher • January 15, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview of Greg Abbott, Texas governor-elect:
"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2015
Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn
stated on January 7, 2015 a tweet on Twitter:
"Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists."
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By Jon Greenberg • January 8, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on December 17, 2014 an interview:
Under the "cromnibus" law, taxpayers must guarantee "incredibly risky" derivatives deals made by the nation's largest banks.  
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By Tom Kertscher • January 7, 2015
John Thune
John Thune
stated on January 4, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
Says President Barack Obama's own administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, "all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment."    
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 4, 2015
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post.:
Graduation rates of players at major football colleges "are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years."
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • December 30, 2014
James Crowley
James Crowley
stated on December 6, 2014 a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."
Half-True
By Katie Mulvaney • December 21, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview with CNN:
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
stated on December 8, 2014 an opinion piece:
"Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 17, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2014 a statement of policy from the Executive Office of the President:
A bill from U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho attempts to restrict the administration's ability to conduct national security and criminal background checks on undocumented immigrants.
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • December 16, 2014
Charles
Charles "Chuck" Spahos
stated on December 3, 2014 a joint legislative hearing:
When Colorado  eased its medical marijuana laws, fatal accidents involving pot-using drivers soared while overall traffic fatalities decreased.
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By April Hunt • December 15, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 8, 2014 a news release:
The authors of a report on CIA’s torture techniques "never interviewed a single CIA official."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 11, 2014
Texas Right to Life
Texas Right to Life
stated on December 5, 2014 an email blast:
University of Texas students "signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 2014
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
stated on July 21, 2014 an episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel:
"A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
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