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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate:
"We've had Muslims in America since George Washington."
True
By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 in a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees:
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
True
By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate:
Says Donald Trump’s tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations "more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two."
True
By Linda Qiu • October 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2016 in a tweet:
Says Paul Ryan "is still endorsing Trump."
True
October 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second 2016 presidential debate:
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second 2016 presidential debate:
"Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. That's the highest we've ever been in our country."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 26, 2016 in a tweet:
"Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton’s State Department."  
True
October 7, 2016
Colleen Deacon
Colleen Deacon
stated on September 10, 2016 in remarks at a campaign office opening for Hillary Clinton:
Says Rep. John Katko "promised he wouldn’t vote to defund Planned Parenthood and since he’s been in office he’s done that four times"
True
By Dan Clark • October 5, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in the vice presidential debate:
Says Philando Castile "had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident."
True
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in a debate:
"Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit."
True
By Sean Gorman • October 5, 2016
Freedom Partners Action Fund
Freedom Partners Action Fund
stated on September 21, 2016 in In a political ad:
Says Senate candidate Katie McGinty "made thousands from companies she previously regulated."
True
By Mark Dent • October 4, 2016
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 19, 2016 in a press conference:
Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers’ comp system. That’s the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.
True
By Matt Dietrich • October 3, 2016
María Teresa Kumar
María Teresa Kumar
stated on October 2, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
"Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year." 
True
By Linda Qiu • October 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 27, 2016 in the first presidential debate:
Says Donald Trump "started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans."
True
By Steve Contorno • September 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 in a Presidential debate at Hofstra University:
According to "independent experts," Donald Trump's tax plan "would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 in a Presidential debate:
"In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since Jan. 1. Thousands of shootings."
True
By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 in a Presidential debate at Hofstra University:
"The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 23, 2016 in a speech in Buffalo:
"Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today"
True
By Dan Clark • September 24, 2016
Paul Bettencourt
Paul Bettencourt
stated on August 24, 2016 in a press release:
Says a change in law he carried stopped a $100 million tax increase in the Dallas school district.  
True
By Bobby Cervantes • September 23, 2016
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on August 10, 2016 in a blog post on the NRCC website:
Tom Suozzi raised taxes "by hundreds of millions of dollars" as Nassau County executive.
True
By Dan Clark • September 23, 2016
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