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DeSantis Watch
stated on February 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:

"Ron DeSantis voted to cut $473 billion from Medicare."

By Yacob Reyes • February 22, 2023
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on January 22, 2023 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

“Classified documents can never be taken out of a (sensitive compartmented information facility), ever.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 10, 2023 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:

“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2023
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”

By Yacob Reyes • December 1, 2022
League of Conservation Voters
stated on November 28, 2022 in a statement on a website:

Herschel Walker “is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, raking in more than $140,000 in donations from Big Oil and other energy interests."

By Amy Sherman • December 1, 2022
J.D. Vance
stated on September 23, 2022 in an ad:

Tim Ryan said “I do love” Nancy Pelosi and votes with Joe Biden and Pelosi 100%.

By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2022
Jim Lamon
stated on June 2, 2022 in a statement posted on Twitter:

Blake Masters “unironically quoted a Nazi, called World War II an unjust war, called the Unabomber one of his intellectual influencers, and shared an article attacking Israel as the North Korea of the Middle East.”

By Ellie Borst • June 16, 2022
Ted Cruz
stated on May 26, 2022 in an interview with Fox News:

In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2022
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Joe Biden holds the all-time record for the most money received from Pharma while in Congress! $8,550,422.”

By Sara Swann • January 28, 2022
Abby Finkenauer
stated on December 9, 2021 in a tweet:

Chuck Grassley was “voting to slash Medicare” when voting against the debt ceiling bill.

By Lyle Muller • December 16, 2021
Community Oncology Alliance
stated on November 29, 2021 in a radio ad:

"An independent analysis shows that payments for cancer care will be slashed by close to 45% causing cancer clinics to close and massively raising your healthcare costs.”

By Julie Appleby • December 7, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 4, 2021 in a speech:

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2021
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 3, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on June 22, 2021 in an Instagram post:

"President Trump's net gain while in office $0, Nancy Pelosi's net gain while in office $191 million."

By Tom Kertscher • July 7, 2021
Mark Pocan
stated on May 20, 2021 in Twitter:

During the pandemic, “I’ve been in D.C. voting regularly.”

By Laura Schulte • June 15, 2021
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2021 in an interview with Ezra Klein:

“The filibuster, if it does not get reformed, still means that maybe 30% of the population potentially controls the majority of Senate seats.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2021
Ronna McDaniel
stated on February 22, 2021 in a tweet:

Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that “it threatens our freedom of speech.”

By Amy Sherman • March 1, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 in a speech:

“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on February 5, 2021 in an interview on CBS:

“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”

By Amy Sherman • February 10, 2021
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on October 1, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Steve Bullock “failed to act” when his “most senior political aide was caught sexually harassing women. Bullock knew about the harassment but said nothing, remaining silent when the aide took another job where he harassed women again.”

By Noah Y. Kim • October 15, 2020
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 25, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Sri Kulkarni attended “notorious desert drug parties” and was arrested for cocaine.

By Noah Y. Kim • October 6, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on September 17, 2020 in a campaign website:

Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”

By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on September 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.”

By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2020
Jeff Bezos
stated on July 29, 2020 in a congressional hearing:

“The retail market we participate in is extraordinarily large and competitive. Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market, and less than 4% of U.S. retail.”

By Emily Venezky • August 6, 2020
AFL-CIO
stated on April 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2020
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”

By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

Says Democratic members of Congress who represent Cuban Americans in Florida and have been critical of Sanders “just so happen to be supporting other candidates.”

By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The percent of millionaires in Congress is 50% while the percent among the U.S. public is 1 percent

By Amy Sherman • January 22, 2020
Ron Johnson
stated on June 12, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption.

By Eric Litke • July 12, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 10, 2019 in an interview:

"Even in the last Congress, President Trump signed 18 of my bills."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 21, 2019

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