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Sara Stevenson
Sara Stevenson
stated on April 3, 2017 in to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:
Says a Texas Senate committee considering "private school voucher" legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2017
Joseph Crowley
Joseph Crowley
stated on April 7, 2017 in a tweet:
"More than 20 million people are at risk of dying from starvation within 6 months in 4 nations."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2017
Wendell Young
Wendell Young
stated on March 31, 2017 in an op-ed:
House Bill 991 "could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores."
True
By Cassie Owens • April 7, 2017
Erin Forrest
Erin Forrest
stated on April 2, 2017 in an interview:
"75 percent of the town boards in Wisconsin have no women on them at all."  
True
April 7, 2017
Randolph Bracy
Randolph Bracy
stated on April 4, 2017 in a New York Times op-ed:
"There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders."
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By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2017
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on April 4, 2017 in an episode of MSNBC's 'For the Record':
Says President Donald Trump "had a different opinion" in 2013 than he does now about whether (Barack) Obama should have intervened in Syria after Obama's red line was crossed.  
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By Lauren Carroll • April 5, 2017
Ted Yoho
Ted Yoho
stated on March 28, 2017 in a House hearing:
"Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2017
Chris Collins
Chris Collins
stated on March 16, 2017 in a CNN town hall:
In New York state, "you cannot charge an older person even one dollar more than a younger person" for health insurance.
True
By Dan Clark • March 31, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on March 26, 2017 in an interview on Meet the Press:
"2.1 million jobs have been created in the last six or seven years" in California
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By Chris Nichols • March 29, 2017
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on March 16, 2017 in remarks on the House floor:
"More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas."  
True
March 24, 2017
Habitat for Humanity of Broward
Habitat for Humanity of Broward
stated on March 16, 2017 in a press release:
"South Florida ranks No. 1 in the gap between wages and housing."
True
By Amy Sherman • March 23, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on March 21, 2017 in an interview:
The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped."
True
March 23, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on February 14, 2017 in a press release on her website:
Small businesses "create two out of every three American jobs."
True
March 18, 2017
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on February 23, 2017 in a tweet:
"The average margin of victory in the House of Representatives was 37%" for Democrats and Republicans in the 2016 election.
True
By Chris Nichols • March 17, 2017
The Coalition for Public Schools
The Coalition for Public Schools
stated on January 23, 2017 in an emailed press release:
"Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law."
True
By Fauzeya Rahman • March 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 in a listening session on health care:
"One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
True
By Lauren Carroll • March 13, 2017
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on February 27, 2017 in a Facebook Live interview with Austin bureau reporters for the Dallas Morning News:
Says condoms "used to be tax-exempt here in Texas."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 10, 2017
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 7, 2017 in his State of the State speech:
"Florida is now the only state in the nation to tax commercial leases."
True
By Allison Graves • March 8, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 5, 2017 in an interview with CNN's "State of the Union":
Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trump’s proposal for child care "go to the people making over $100,000 a year."
True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 8, 2017
Raj Shah
Raj Shah
stated on February 24, 2017 in an op-ed:
"Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • March 8, 2017
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