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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 8, 2014 in comments on Fox News:
"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 in an interview on Fox & Friends:
Says the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 18, 2014
Mark Begich
Mark Begich
stated on July 14, 2014 in a radio ad:
Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich "vote as much as 80 percent of the time together."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 17, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on July 25, 2014 in a campaign video:
"Providence graduation rates are up."
Mostly True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 16, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 8, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell":
"Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 14, 2014
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 in a speech.:
"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 8, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
Says Charlie Crist "raised taxes on the middle class" by $2.2 billion.
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 10, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 7, 2014 in campaign commercial:
"We cut property taxes for seniors and our middle class."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 10, 2014
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart
stated on July 6, 2014 in comments on CNN:
"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 10, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 8, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:
"As Jim Doyle’s Commerce secretary, Mary Burke spent $12.5 million dollars to buy a vacant lot for a company that said it had no plans to create jobs in Wisconsin" and had laid off 800 workers.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 10, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 19, 2014 in a news conference:
"We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since I've been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of Doyle’s time as governor."
Mostly True
By Devon Waugh • July 9, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 26, 2014 in a letter to taxpayers:
Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 27, 2014 in her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention:
Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2014
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
stated on June 30, 2014 in a dissenting opinion in "Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby":
"Women of childbearing age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2014
Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn
stated on June 30, 2014 in a segment on CNN:
"Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • July 1, 2014
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on June 23, 2014 in In a Twitter post:
U.S. Senate candidate Jack Kingston "requested more earmarks than any other GA Congressman and all GA GOP members combined."
Mostly True
By April Hunt • July 1, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 30, 2014 in a statement to the media:
"Nearly 60 percent of women who use birth control do so for more than just family planning."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 30, 2014
John Chisholm
John Chisholm
stated on June 2, 2014 in a letter:
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has "deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on June 17, 2014 in a debate:
Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung "donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 23, 2014 in a speech at the White House Summit on Working Families:
"In 31 states, decent child care costs more than college tuition."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2014
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