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Mostly hot air
Chris Sununu
California and New York are "the two biggest polluting states in the country."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, July 28th, 2017
Slim evidence
Jeb Bush
"When public schools face increased competition, they get better and kids learn more."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, April 17th, 2017
Exception, not the rule
Maggie Hassan
Says there is a "traditional 60-vote threshold for confirming Supreme Court nominees."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, March 31st, 2017
Not exact vote
Kelly Ayotte "voted for a budget that had $90 billion of cuts to Pell Grants."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Saturday, November 5th, 2016
Governor doesn't set tuition
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Maggie Hassan "raised tuition, making it the highest in America."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, October 6th, 2016
No patients denied care
Colin Van Ostern
As a result of Chris Sununu’s vote against a Planned Parenthood contract, "nearly 3,000 fewer" women and families statewide accessed health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams.
Slim support
Ted Gatsas
Chris "Sununu supported Obama’s Common Core agenda, taking away local control of our schools."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, September 12th, 2016
Not really
"I cast the deciding vote extending Medicaid health care coverage to 50,000 of our fellow citizens,"
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, September 8th, 2016
There's precedent
New Hampshire Democratic Party
Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, February 19th, 2016
Official nomination came later
Chris Christie
"I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, August 7th, 2015
Sparse local engagement for two of three months
Hillary Clinton
Despite keeping distance from national media interviewers, "I did local press all along, the last three months."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
East beats West in 2 out of 3
Rick Perry
"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, June 5th, 2015
Not the only one
"On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, May 8th, 2015
More, but not double
Ben Carson
"We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Doggie dollars don't add up to much
Lindsey Graham
"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, March 27th, 2015
Common practice, but not a rule
Jennifer Horn
"The governor must inform the Senate president about his or her absence from the state."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Paved the way for ... not really anything
Scott Brown
Says Jeanne Shaheen "voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, October 24th, 2014
His partisan-voting score is even higher
National Republican Congressional Committee
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter "votes with Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats 95 percent of the time," but Frank Guinta "will take on both parties" and has "independent New Hampshire values."
An election-year exaggeration
Jeanne Shaheen
Says Scott Brown co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for mammograms.
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, October 10th, 2014
By letter of law, no
Marilinda Garcia
Says U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster used $293,000 of taxpayer money to send campaign mail.
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, August 4th, 2014