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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 19, 2020 in a TV appearance:
Witnesses have been part of "every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had."
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By Eric Litke • January 21, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 8, 2020 in a speech:
"We have the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 18, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Florida is "the 45th in state education funding."
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By Amy Sherman • January 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:
In 1988, in response to Iran’s attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts, President Ronald Reagan "destroyed half of Iran’s Navy."  
True
January 15, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 in comments about his "Medicare for All" plan during the January Democratic presidential debate.:
"We end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes."
True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • January 15, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 14, 2020 in a debate:
"Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women, Amy and me."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:
A man at "the storming of the U.S. embassy" in Iraq visited the White House in 2011.
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January 8, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 13, 2019 in a tweet:
The United States is the only nation "that grants legal permanent residency to more than a million people per year."   
True
By Mica Soellner • December 26, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on December 19, 2019 in comments made during the December Democratic presidential primary debate.:
"Last year, 36 million Americans didn’t have a prescription filled because they couldn’t afford it."
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • December 20, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on December 19, 2019 in comments during the December Democratic presidential primary debate.:
"If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth."
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Victoria Knight • December 20, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 20, 2019 in the sixth Democratic presidential debate:
Says Pete Buttigieg ran statewide in Indiana and "lost by 20 points."
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By Aaron Sharockman • December 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 in the Democratic debate in Los Angeles:
Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2019 in a campaign ad:
California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state’s wildfires "contained so much misinformation."
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By Chris Nichols • December 18, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on October 16, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says a new annual report shows that "West Virginia’s tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent."
True
By Darby Coughlin, Mackenzie Myers • December 17, 2019
Rob Hutton
Rob Hutton
stated on December 4, 2019 in a radio interview:
 A "study showed as many as one in four people have had a package stolen from their residence."   
True
By D.L. Davis • December 13, 2019
Mark Walker
Mark Walker
stated on November 27, 2019 in a tweet:
Says the cartels are so bad in a Mexican border state that the U.S. government issued a ‘Do Not Travel’ warning -- the same warning it issued for Syria.
True
By Paul Specht • December 5, 2019
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on November 17, 2019 in a TV interview:
"I am the only member of Congress that voted for both inquiries -- the Clinton inquiry and now the Trump inquiry."  
True
By Mica Soellner • November 25, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on November 4, 2019 in in an Instagram post:
"If we make no changes over the next 10 years, Americans will reach into their pockets and pay out about $11 trillion on insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses." 
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • November 12, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on September 19, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"On average, one person dies by suicide every 22 hours in West Virginia."
True
By Caroline Cassedy, Karli Celestin • November 8, 2019
Darrell Steinberg
Darrell Steinberg
stated on October 24, 2019 in an interview with Capital Public Radio:
"90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless." 
True
By Chris Nichols • October 31, 2019
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