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Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on October 29, 2013 in a television ad:
Says "new mandates are already reducing full-time employment."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 6, 2013
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on November 4, 2013 in a broadcast of the Glenn Beck Show:
Says Barack Obama "knew half of the population of the United States would lose their health insurance."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 4, 2013 in a speech to Organizing for Action:
"What we said was, you can keep (your plan) if it hasn’t changed since the law passed."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2013
Sid Covington
Sid Covington
stated on October 28, 2013 in an opinion column by Sid Covington, the district's chairman of the board:
A planning group said that to meet anticipated traffic demands by 2035, Interstate 35 between Austin and Round Rock will need a dozen additional lanes going north and 14 additional southbound lanes.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2013
Brad Blakeman
Brad Blakeman
stated on October 31, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:
"When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Janet Bewley
Janet Bewley
stated on October 24, 2013 in a speech:
"The Legislature passed Gov. Walker’s so-called property tax relief bill," but the Republicans "are still raising your property taxes."  
Half-True
November 6, 2013
Portland Association of Teachers
Portland Association of Teachers
stated on October 10, 2013 in a newsletter.:
Says administrator salaries were increased, "but other school employees were left behind."  
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 5, 2013
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":
Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2013
Branko Radulovacki
Branko Radulovacki
stated on October 14, 2013 in an email:
I am the only U.S. Senate candidate who spoke out against bombing Syria, and who challenged Georgia’s governor and insurance commissioner over obstruction to the Affordable Care Act.
False
By Janel Davis • November 5, 2013
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 4, 2013 in a rally announcing his candidacy for governor:
Says Rick Scott "didn’t even come to his own education summit. But he did take time to go to the tea party convention the same week."
True
November 4, 2013
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on November 3, 2013 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
In 1929, the Secretary of State shut down a program that was "collecting information to protect America" because it was "unseemly," but that move led to "millions and millions" of deaths in World War II.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on October 30, 2013 in comments on his radio show:
"If your plan is the result of collective bargaining, no subsequent changes by anybody -- insurance companies, Obamacare -- can force your grandfathered policy to change."
Mostly False
November 4, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2013 in a speech in Boston:
Due to Obamacare, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Dana Perino
Dana Perino
stated on October 31, 2013 in comments on Fox News Channel's "The Five.":
"The insurance industry is actually run by mostly Democrats."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 4, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 25, 2013 in comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers "are on some form of public assistance."
Mostly True
November 4, 2013
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on November 3, 2013 in a panel on ABC's "This Week":
"Only 14 percent of Americans were able to keep these individual market plans for two years" before Obamacare became law.
Half-True
November 3, 2013
Jonathan Karl
Jonathan Karl
stated on November 3, 2013 in a conversation on ABC's "This Week":
"Before the Republican wave in 2010, Democrats had an advantage on the generic ballot in Congress. Even in 1994 with the Gingrich revolution ... Democrats had that advantage."
True
By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2013
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on November 3, 2013 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The federal health care law raises taxes and cuts Medicare.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • November 3, 2013
Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel
stated on November 3, 2013 in a "Fox News Sunday" interview:
"The insurance companies are making that choice (to cancel or change policies), not the president."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • November 3, 2013
Jan Crawford
Jan Crawford
stated on November 3, 2013 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"On day one, six people were able to sign up" for health insurance through the federal marketplace.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2013
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