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Kamala Harris
stated on September 10, 2024 in the ABC News presidential debate:
“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.”
True
By Jacob Gardenswartz • September 30, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on May 15, 2024 in a speech at a police memorial service:
“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2024
Brian Krassenstein
stated on October 12, 2023 in a post on X:
It has been U.S. policy “for at least 79 years” to require Americans who intend to be evacuated from overseas to sign a promissory note.
True
By Amy Sherman • October 13, 2023
Brian Tyler Cohen
stated on February 2, 2022 in a tweet:
“Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would put government-installed cameras in every single classroom to livestream school activities for parents to spy on teachers…
True
By Rylee Wilson • February 8, 2022
Joni Ernst
stated on January 23, 2022 in an interview:
In Iowa, “since we have put a number of the voting laws into place over the last several years — voter ID is one of…
True
By Lyle Muller • January 26, 2022
Kathryn Moffett Bradford
stated on September 1, 2021 in comments at a WVU faculty meeting:
“If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia, and around the country, 90% to 95% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.”
True
By Abigail Mulhern, Emma Copley • October 5, 2021
Chuck Grassley
stated on January 14, 2021 in a tweet:
Insulin prices have “gone THRU THE ROOF for patients/taxpayers bc of manufacturer, health plan & PBM biz practices.”
True
By Madison Black • February 2, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on April 15, 2020 in comments at a virtual town hall meeting:
“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how…
True
By Victoria Knight • April 22, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall event for Democratic presidential candidates:
“Big pharmaceuticals pay off — they literally pay off — generics to keep the prices and the competition off the market.”
True
By Emmarie Huetteman • April 25, 2019
John Bucy III
stated on March 27, 2019 in the Texas House:
“Right now, 1 in 4 Texas women of reproductive age are uninsured, totaling 1.5 million Texas women.”
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 29, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 12, 2019 in a press release:
The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying “software…
True
By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2019
Bloggers
stated on December 3, 2018 in a Facebook post:
Says Ann Coulter said, “I am a settler. I am descended from settlers — not from immigrants.”
True
By Kyra Haas • December 6, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
stated on October 16, 2018 in a debate televised from San Antonio:
Says “only one other senator from either party over the last 25 years” has “a worse record on bipartisanship” than Ted Cruz.  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 18, 2018
Bloggers
stated on September 7, 2018 in a blog post:
Says Sean Hannity told listeners of his radio show that “Beto O’Rourke is asking for help in getting undocumented to vote.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • September 14, 2018
Silvestre Reyes
stated on May 22, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says Beto O’Rourke “has a criminal record that includes DWI and burglary arrests.”
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 13, 2018 in remarks at a rally:
“Half of the American women who are murdered are killed by their intimate partners.”
True
By Dan Clark • March 16, 2018
Rick Baker
stated on September 26, 2017 in a comment during a mayoral forum:
While Mayor Rick Kriseman said he would dip into reserves this year because of Hurricane Irma, he “went into the emergency reserves before Irma ever hit.”…
True
By Allison Graves • September 29, 2017
Glenn Grothman
stated on April 30, 2017 in a town hall meeting:
“Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country.”
True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 15, 2017
Sara Stevenson
stated on April 3, 2017 in to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:
Says a Texas Senate committee considering “private school voucher” legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2017
John Podesta
stated on December 18, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
“On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails.”
True
By Aaron Sharockman • December 18, 2016
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