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Ari Melber
Ari Melber
stated on November 18, 2013 in a talk on MSNBC's "The Cycle":
Says Barack Obama’s approval rating "is right in the average" for second-term presidents at this point.
Half-True
November 20, 2013
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 28, 2013 in a campaign ad:
Says Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has "blocked the Senate over 400 times."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2013
City of Austin
City of Austin
stated on November 8, 2013 in a press release:
"Nearly 20% of our residents" are born abroad.
True
By Sue Owen • November 20, 2013
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
stated on November 19, 2013 in comments on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends":
A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 20, 2013
Allan Levene
Allan Levene
stated on November 2, 2013 in an article:
Says there’s no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.
True
By Eric Stirgus • November 20, 2013
Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor
stated on November 13, 2013 in a campaign ad:
Says Tom Cotton "voted to turn Medicare into a voucher system."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • November 19, 2013
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on November 13, 2013 in a campaign ad:
Says Mark Pryor "cut Medicare to pay for Obamacare."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • November 19, 2013
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on November 15, 2013 in a video on Cain TV:
Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2013
Jim Rubens
Jim Rubens
stated on November 4, 2013 in an email:
"In Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire has a Senator who was the deciding vote to pass Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Jim Haddadin • November 19, 2013
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 4, 2013 in as quoted in an Associated Press news story:
In "reality," there have "been no problems whatsoever" with the Texas voter ID law.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 19, 2013
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on November 6, 2013 in an interview:
"You've seen where we're now going from a $700 million surplus to getting into the next biennium with almost a $750 million deficit."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • November 19, 2013
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on November 7, 2013 in a hearing:
The U.S. Department of Defense spends $80 million a year on prostate cancer research, $25 million a year on ovarian cancer research and $150 million a year on breast cancer research.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 19, 2013
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on November 12, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
The United States "has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP."
True
By Steve Contorno • November 18, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 3, 2013 in an image shared on Facebook:
Medicare Part D "was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike" the act, "was never budgeted."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 18, 2013
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on October 24, 2013 in a town hall meeting in Hudson, N.H.:
The deficit this year could pay "all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years."
True
By Kaitlin Mulhere • November 18, 2013
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2013 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says the number of Democrats who voted for the GOP measure allowing health plan renewals is close to the number who voted on GOP bills to delay mandates on employers and individuals.
Half-True
November 17, 2013
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2013 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The (health care) law does not demand that all of these cancellations go out."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 10, 2013 in interviews on four Sunday morning news shows:
Says New Jersey has gained "143,000 new private-sector jobs."
True
By Caryn Shinske • November 17, 2013
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on November 8, 2013 in an interview on Rhode Island Public Radio:
Rhode Island's unemployment insurance system "is the most expensive such system in the country."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 17, 2013
Karl King
Karl King
stated on October 15, 2013 in a website statement:
There were "$2 billion in earmarks in fiscal year 2012."
False
By Dana Tims • November 15, 2013
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