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Sarah Ponder
Sarah Ponder
stated on July 1, 2013 in a rally at the state Capitol:
Says $800,000 cost of Texas special legislative session would pay for 1.6 million condoms, 90,000 months of the pill or 20 full-time sexual health educators.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • July 3, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on June 21, 2013 in a radio interview.:
Says Terry McAuliffe "opposes" Virginia’s right-to-work law.
False
By Warren Fiske • July 3, 2013
David A. Clarke Jr.
David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on June 22, 2013 in a speech:
"When I was growing up as a kid in the city of Milwaukee, if we averaged 4 homicides a year in the entire city that was a record number."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • July 3, 2013
Edward Lindsey
Edward Lindsey
stated on June 26, 2013 in a news release:
Bob Barr has changed his position on the Defense of Marriage Act over the years.
True
By Janel Davis • July 3, 2013
Todd Young
Todd Young
stated on June 19, 2013 in a letter to a constituent:
"Nearly 70 percent of all federal spending will go towards Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid" in fiscal year 2014.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2013
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on June 17, 2013 in a press release:
Michelle Nunn has praised the Occupy movement.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • July 2, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on June 21, 2013 in a roundtable section of the HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher":
If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is "going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 20, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2013
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2013
E.W. Jackson
E.W. Jackson
stated on June 19, 2013 in a speech.:
"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2013
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:
"(T)he United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 1, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 26, 2013 in an interview on the "Ask The Governor" monthly radio call-in program:
"Not one tax has been raised since I've been governor."
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • June 30, 2013
Raymond Gallison
Raymond Gallison
stated on June 13, 2013 in a House floor debate:
"Seventy-four percent of Rhode Islanders support [a] national popular vote [for president] because they, as I, believe in one person-one vote."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2013
Jason Conger
Jason Conger
stated on June 19, 2013 in a House floor speech:
Says "the mandate is 71 times that a child’s body will be injected with a disease" for immunizations.
False
By Janie Har • June 29, 2013
Gene Green
Gene Green
stated on June 28, 2013 in a press release:
Says student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • June 28, 2013
Patriot Majority USA
Patriot Majority USA
stated on June 27, 2013 in an ad:
Says Arkansas Republican Rep. Tom Cotton voted to provide Congress with "taxpayer-funded health care for life."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2013 in a speech at National Right to Life convention, Grapevine, Texas.:
Says Wendy Davis, "born into difficult circumstances," was the daughter of a single mother and a teenage mother herself.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 28, 2013
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 25, 2013 in a Senate floor speech:
Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to "the evaporation of our Great Lakes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2013
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:
The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2013
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:
A private school tax break in the Wisconsin state budget is "the most generous in the nation."
Half-True
June 28, 2013
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