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Jason Brodeur stated on January 16, 2011 in comments published in the Fort Myers News-Press.:

Says gun ownership information could be recorded and collected by the federal government and insurance companies as part of the federal health care law.

By Aaron Sharockman • February 1, 2011

John Pistole stated on November 16, 2010 in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.:

The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is "equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet."

By Aaron Sharockman • November 18, 2010

Michele Bachmann stated on November 3, 2010 in a CNN interview:

"The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."

By Robert Farley • November 4, 2010

Debbie Riddle stated on August 10, 2010 in a television interview:

"Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2010

Sean Hannity stated on November 9, 2009 in his Fox News program:

"Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'"

By Robert Farley • November 12, 2009

John McCain stated on January 2, 2008 in a Web ad:

"Mitt Romney says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience."

By Janet Zink • January 2, 2008

John McCain stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.:

"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."

By Tom Tobin • November 29, 2007

TikTok posts stated on April 19, 2023 in a video:

Video shows Nancy Pelosi saying, “I’ve given a shoot-to-kill order for any breach of the speaker’s lobby,” on Jan. 6, 2021.

By Gabrielle Settles • April 21, 2023

Marco Rubio stated on March 6, 2021 in a tweet:

In rejecting his amendment, “Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2021

Viral image stated on August 19, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"When two large whales do the nasty there’s sometimes this one bro who just sort of holds them up so they don’t float off."

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 6, 2019

Dan McCready stated on August 8, 2019 in a tweet:

Says "Dan Bishop doubles down on removing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Under his sham ‘association health plans,’ insurance companies don't have to pay for medications for pre-existing conditions."

By Paul Specht • August 23, 2019

JD Wooten stated on August 24, 2018:

"My opponent, Rick Gunn, blocked the expansion of Medicaid — costing half a million people health insurance, including at least 23,000 veterans."

By Bill McCarthy • September 5, 2018

Viral image stated on June 28, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Says Maxine Waters told CNN, "SCOTUS pick should be illegal immigrant."

By Bill McCarthy • July 5, 2018

National Republican Congressional Committee stated on May 31, 2017 in a campaign ad:

"ISIS is infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it."

By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2017

Pat Toomey stated on June 27, 2016 in a statement:

"Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the country illegally."

By Anna Orso • July 8, 2016

Jeff Kruse stated on May 25, 2011 in on the Oregon Senate floor:

Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and "could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there."

By Ian K. Kullgren • June 6, 2011

Rick Scott stated on March 8, 2011 in his State of the State speech.:

"I have asked the Division of Emergency Management to report directly to me."

By Katie Sanders • March 9, 2011

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