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Ted Cruz says Existing law right now requires 700 miles of double-layered border fencing on the Mexico border.

false statement

a radio interview.

Don Pridemore says Among Milwaukee Public Schools students, 86 percent are behind in reading and 80 percent are behind in math.

true statement

a news conference

Jeff Clemens says Online voter registration is a more secure way of doing voter registration.

true statement

a Senate Ethics and Elections committee hearing

National Republican Congressional Committee says Alex Sink even supported a tax on homeowners insurance policies.

true statement

a campaign website

Jon Huntsman says Whats clear is (Romney) likes firing people.

true statement

comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.

Dale Kooyenga says Today, it is more difficult to enlist in the U.S. military than it is to enroll in college.

true statement

a constituent newsletter

Caleb Rowden says Democrat Stephen Webber voted to allow sex offenders to be within 500 feet of childcare centers and playgrounds, and even voted to allow sex offenders to be coaches.

true statement

a YouTube video

Mark Kirk says According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates of the health care bill.

true statement

a floor speech in the House

Scott Lingamfelter says Tim Kaine reduced higher education funding by 25 percent when he was governor, driving up tuition...

true statement

a news release.

Bernie S says Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.

true statement

an interview with MSNBC

Barack Obama says Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel and every other country to zero.

false statement

a page on the Obama campaign website

Clay Dafoe says bus riders subsidize the expensive, romanticized Leander-to-Austin train.

false statement

a mayoral candidate debate on KXAN-TV

Marco Rubio says Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college.

true statement

a speech at Catholic University

Greg Abbott says Dallas African-American and Hispanic students pass AP exams at a higher rate than any other place in America.

true statement

his State of the State address

Rick Scott says We ... sold the state airplanes as I had promised.

true statement

his State of the State speech.

Edward Flynn says In Wisconsin, a second arrest for carrying pot is a felony, but a second or subsequent arrest for carrying a gun illegally is a misdemeanor.

true statement

a news conference

Barack Obama says Keystone XL allows Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else.

true statement

a press conference in Burma

Rob Portman says Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

false statement

an online column

Greg Abbott says A lawyer demanded several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons.

true statement

a letter to David Feldman, Houston's city attorney

Marcia Fudge says More than half of the people on food stamps today are children.

true statement

an MSNBC interview with Al Sharpton

Barack Obama says our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.

true statement

a speech at Knox College in Illinois

Marco Rubio says Just days ago, Irans Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei, who will oversee implementation of this agreement, was calling Israel a rabid dog and accusing the United States of war crimes.

true statement

a press release

Anthony Weiner says We know this now. The banks no longer loan (Donald Trump) money because hes a terrible risk. So he goes to these (Russian) oligarchs and borrows money.

true statement

an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

Hillary Clinton says Let me say that I dont think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him.

false statement

an interview on "Meet the Press"

Conservative Daily Post says FBI confirms evidence of huge underground Clinton sex network.

false statement

a posting on the Internet

John Thrasher says Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate Cannon, Senate President-Designate Haridopolos and I stood up to Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his mismanagement of the party.

true statement

a press release sent by the Republican Party of Florida

Paul Ryan says On his definition of takers and makers

false statement

interviews

Barry Hinckley says Thirty percent of [Sheldon Whitehouse campaign] money is coming from special interests.

true statement

a news conference

Kevin Rader says Lizbeth Benacquistos supporters would make (abortion) illegal in all cases, including rape, incest, even to save a womans life.

true statement

a campaign TV ad

Ernest Moniz says We are about halfway to the presidents goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector.

true statement

a question and answer session at Columbia University

Tim Kaine says The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates "both got more votes than Rand Paul did."

true statement

an interview on ABC's 'This Week.'

Judith Zaffirini says 11 percent of the nations fatal car crashes in 2009 were attributed to distracted driving.

true statement

remarks on the Senate floor

Barack Obama says Most folks wages havent gone up in over a decade.

true statement

a speech

Bill Batchelder says a photo ID voting law in Georgia didnt dissuade black voters from participating in voting. It hasnt, it doesnt, and apparently, if you do cause and effect in that state, its been helpful.

true statement

a news conference

Steve Moore says The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960.

true statement

a column in the "Wall Street Journal"

Ken Cuccinelli says Terry McAuliffe opposes Virginias right-to-work law.

false statement

a radio interview.

Dominic Chavez says since 2000, Austins tax burden rose more than 40 percent while family income rose more than 20 percent.

true statement

a campaign video

Tweets says The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.

true statement

various social media postings

Evan Longoria says his barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real.

false statement

comments to reporters.

Wayne Lapierre says Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world.

false statement

an op-ed in the Daily Caller

Democratic National Committee says The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is the largest-ever investment in higher education.

true statement

a press release.

Karen Handel says Seventy-two percent of Georgians did not have a chance to finish college.

true statement

an email

Josh Mandel says The majority last quarter of Sherrod Browns campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio.

false statement

a television interview

Gwen Moore says Mitch McConnell credits Republicans for recent economic improvements even though they took control of the Senate only days ago.

true statement

a tweet

Dino Baccari says A Penn State University study found that electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes.

true statement

testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.

Jim Mcdermott says On (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you cant even make half the poverty level.

false statement

an interview on MSNBC's "Politics Nation"

Ron Paul says Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case.

true statement

an opinion column

Paul Manafort says The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave.

false statement

a press conference

Marcia Fudge says that voter identification laws keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting.

true statement

a news conference on voting rights

Jeb Bush says Nearly 65 percent -- almost two-thirds -- of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status.

true statement

in his book 'Immigration Wars'

We Are Ohio says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5.

true statement

a campaign commercial

Ezekiel Emanuel says Its a good sign for Obamacare that in California, the proportion of kids who are signing up is the proportion of kids in the population.

true statement

an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Health First Wisconsin says Wisconsin is the only state that allows parents or guardians to purchase alcohol for their children regardless of whether that child is seven or 20 years old at bars and restaurants.

false statement

a news release

Jeff Brandes says Company may close, all because government essentially says if they dont hire a lifeguard to watch their workers, they cant stay open.

true statement

a campaign video

Rick Perry says More than 3,000 homicides were committed by illegal aliens over the past six years.

false statement

an interview with Glenn Beck

Sean Duffy says Explosive growth in Medicare is the reason federal deficit spending is predicted to top $1 trillion again after falling to $600 billion annually.

true statement

an interview

Republican Party Florida says Two weeks after signing a taxpayer protection pledge, (Charlie Crist) breaks it.

true statement

a Web ad

Mahlon Mitchell says As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney used a line-item veto to cut millions of dollars for firefighting equipment, including firefighters coats, pants, helmets and boots.

true statement

a news release

Rick Scott says On how he measures his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in seven years.

false statement

an answer to reporters

Charlie Crist says Rick Scott pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud.

true statement

a campaign commercial

Pete Sessions says Over the time that President Obama has been in office, we have lost 2.5 million free enterprise system jobs, and, yet, 500,000 federal government jobs have been added.

true statement

a speech in the U.S. House

Stop 57 Campaign says Brock Turners early release will be a regular occurrence if Prop. 57 passes.

true statement

a campaign press release.

Barack Obama says Taxes are lower on families than theyve been probably in the last 50 years.

true statement

an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes"

Americans Commonsense Solutions says As a state representative, David Cicilline argued against Megans Law and voted against mandatory registration of sex offenders.

true statement

a radio ad

Rudy Giuliani says "This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."

true statement

MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Nextgen Climate says Rick Scott is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions despite troubled power plants.

true statement

a campaign ad

Barack Obama says Mitt Romney paid only 14 percent in taxes probably less than you.

true statement

a campaign ad

Levar Stoney says As executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia there were 300 people on my payroll in 2008.

true statement

a debate.

Bill Janis says The New START treaty was passed despite significant concerns among some people in the State and Defense Departments.

true statement

a floor speech in the House of Delegates.

Chain Email says U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told banks -- in writing -- it may inspect safe deposit boxes without warrant and seize any gold, silver, guns or other valuables it finds inside those boxes!

false statement

an email

Drew Brees says Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Womens soccer And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading.

true statement

as quoted in an interview with Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman

Mike Martinez says Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall.

false statement

an interview for a news story

Duncan Hunter says We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up.

true statement

an interview on MSNBC

Jim Moran says Graduation rates of players at major football colleges are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years.

true statement

a Facebook post.

Tweets says The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson are feral and violent.

false statement

posts on Twitter

Edward Flynn says In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court on holding suspects, a stolen car gets zero points.

true statement

a forum

Chain Email says Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.

false statement

Chris Christie says To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then youre out of the union, but youve got to pay it every year, also required by statute. Thats called a representation fee.

true statement

an appearance at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Pam Bondi says Were the only system of federalism in the world.

false statement

an interview with Fox News.

Bernie S says The top one-tenth of 1 percent of Americans own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

true statement

a speech

Chain Email says "Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent."

false statement

a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris

Dan Patrick says Texans pay the sixth-highest property tax in the nation.

true statement

a press release

Tom Barrett says Figures cited by Gov. Scott Walker are not commonly used to measure job creation.

true statement

a debate

Organizing America says Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.

false statement

a fundraising e-mail

Michele Bachmann says The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon.

true statement

a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library

Thad Altman says students who receive free or reduced lunch are performing just as well as students who do not.

false statement

comments while discussing merit pay for teachers

Donald Trump says I never once asked that (Megyn Kelly) be removed as a debate moderator.

false statement

an interview on CNN

Barack Obama says The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"

true statement

his weekly radio address

Julaine Appling says In Wisconsin, more than 300,000 people have some kind of addictive gambling problem, whether its pathological or what wed categorize as a problem gambler.

false statement

a radio interview

Facebook Posts says Mitt Romneys top five donors are Wall Street firms, while Barack Obamas top five are technology companies and universities.

true statement

a Facebook post

Don Zimmerman says You dont have to be as smart as a fifth-grader to know what causes the climate is the sun. The sun. I have people tell me, Carbon dioxide warms the Earth. No, it doesnt. The sun warms the Earth.

true statement

an Austin City Council briefing

Tom Barrett says Every general City of Milwaukee employee pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not.

true statement

a speech

Anna Little says We actually made history in 2010. We came the closest in 24 years to defeating Frank Pallone.

false statement

an interview on NJToday

Mitch Mcconnell says a new report shows the devastating tax hikes (in the health care law) will have on middle-class Kentuckians.

true statement

a press release

Donald Trump says While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican.

true statement

his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland

Brett Hulsey says The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly approved only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats in 2011.

true statement

an opinion column

Scott Walker says Despite the rhetoric from Democrat politicians, more people are employed this year than at any point in the history of Wisconsin.

true statement

a tweet

Hillary Clinton says There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didnt get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged.

true statement

the third 2016 presidential debate

Hillary Clinton says The top25 hedge fund managers (are) making more than all of Americas kindergarten teachers combined.

true statement

a campaign rally speech

Scott Walker says Under Barack Obama, the average cost of family health care premiums has increased by $4,154.

true statement

a tweet