The latest statements we've reviewed for PolitiFact Florida
"20 million people could lose their current coverage" … "including our senior citizens who are on Medicare."
"Seniors will see $500 billion in Medicare cuts to fund Obamacare."
"Sources show (Connie) Mack as a resident of California, living with his wife in Palm Springs."
Florida has "1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf."
Democrats plan to keep student loan interest rates low "by raising taxes on small businesses, very small businesses … the kinds of small businesses that give jobs to graduates."
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson "chose to side with President Obama" against the Keystone pipeline
Says that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says troops are leaving Iraq "too fast."
The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a "staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent."
"We didn’t go out asking people" to join the "stand your ground" task force.
U.S. Rep. Allen West wants to bring back earmarks.
"About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now."
A proposed U.S. Labor Department rule for children working on farms "would even ban youth from operating a battery-powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose."
"I have always said that I would be for drilling."
"The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department ... Meanwhile, the athletic budget for the current year is $97.7 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year."
At the same time gas prices have increased, "the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years."
Ron Oakley's "conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats" as the Water Management District’s budget decreased by "58 percent in the four years he served on the board."
Gas prices have doubled because "Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump."
"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."
Says Sen. Bill Nelson voted to spend "$144,541 to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine."
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