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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 in a Fox News interview:
Under Obamacare, people who "have a doctor they’ve been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years, they won’t be able to keep going to that doctor."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2013
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on July 20, 2013 in debate:
A judge took the Star Scientific tax case away from Ken Cuccinelli
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • August 5, 2013
Brian Schatz
Brian Schatz
stated on July 24, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 5, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 30, 2013 in an article on NJ.com:
"In fact New Jersey is a donor state, we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington. And interestingly Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to Washington."
True
By Caryn Shinske • August 4, 2013
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on July 24, 2013 in a news release:
A Republican housing finance reform bill "would eliminate a person’s ability to obtain 15- and 30-year mortgages."
Half-True
August 4, 2013
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on July 28, 2013 in a TV interview:
"They’ve seen employer-supported coverage increase in Massachusetts after this law (Romneycare) was implemented."  
True
August 4, 2013
Lone Star Project
Lone Star Project
stated on July 14, 2013 in a blog post.:
Says Greg Abbott "converted over $1 million in federal grant money intended for use to prosecute online sexual predators and other cyber crimes and instead used it to harass and prosecute senior citizens who were assisting other senior citizens in applying for mail-in ballots."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 2, 2013
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 27, 2013 in a campaign video:
Says the 2014-15 state budget "cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • August 2, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 30, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:
Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • August 2, 2013
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on July 25, 2013 in the realrickscott.com website:
Rick Scott "increased tuition at our state colleges and universities by double digits."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 30, 2013 in a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn.:
"This year, we're off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2013
Don Lemon
Don Lemon
stated on July 27, 2013 in a commentary on CNN:
"A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year, a high school graduate makes $28,000 a year, a college graduate makes $51,000 a year."
Mostly True
By Janel Davis • August 2, 2013
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on July 28, 2013 in a Tampa Bay Times questionnaire:
"The fact is that red light cameras change driver behavior and cut down on the most dangerous types of accidents."
Half-True
August 1, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
"Even the employees’ union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2013
Kari Chisholm
Kari Chisholm
stated on July 9, 2013 in an Internet radio interview:
Says Oregon’s political tax credit is something "every state should have and no other state does."
False
By Ian K. Kullgren • August 1, 2013
Tom Pauken
Tom Pauken
stated on July 25, 2013 in an oped column.:
"Our recent state budgets have far exceeded population and inflation growth."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 1, 2013
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on July 30, 2013 in a media availability with reporters:
The sequester has "already lost 1.6 million jobs."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 1, 2013
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 17, 2013 in a news release:
Says the State Department spent $630,000 to get 2 million Facebook "Likes."
True
By Tom Feran • August 1, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on July 21, 2013 in an appearance on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers" program:
"The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 1, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 in a speech in Galesburg, Ill.:
The minimum wage is "lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2013
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