Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 in comments during the PBS Democratic debate:

The United States has "the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 in a PBS Democratic debate:

"In America, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016

Sarah Palin
stated on February 1, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

Says Donald Trump's conversion to pro-life beliefs are akin to Justin Bieber's, who said in the past that abortion "was no big deal to him."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 in comments during the New Hampshire Democratic debate:

"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated" before deciding whether to endorse it.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate on MSNBC:

Americans "are working longer hours for low wages . . . and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 1, 2016 in a political ad:

"While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 3, 2016

Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 in an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2016 in a Republican debate:

"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 19, 2016 in a town hall meeting in Underwood, Iowa.:

"Almost all of the polls that have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 26, 2016

Mike Rogers
stated on January 12, 2016 in a roundtable discussion on CNN:

"Donald Trump is appealing as much to Democrats as he is to Republicans."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 18, 2016 in comments at a campaign organizing event:

"Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 17, 2016 in comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

"We now have driven (health care) costs down to the lowest they've been in 50 years."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 18, 2016

Conservative Solutions PAC
stated on January 4, 2016 in an attack ad:

Says Chris Christie "instituted an Internet sales tax."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 14, 2016

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 in a State of the Union speech:

We've "lifted high school graduation rates to new highs."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 4, 2016 in a posting on the Clinton website:

"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 4, 2016 in a television ad:

A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over "our southern border."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2016

Hillary Davis
stated on May 6, 2015 in a hearing at the General Assembly :

"The profit [from automated traffic enforcement cameras] is going to the private corporations, not to the city or state."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 14, 2015

Rebecca Quigley
stated on May 14, 2015 in a comment on a "State of the State" TV program.:

"Once a woman enters into the sex trade, her average life expectancy is seven years."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 31, 2015

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