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Jobbed on jobs?
The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."
— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, January 26th, 2015
Nowhere near a record
The United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, August 3rd, 2014
Multiple flaws make a fire
More than 3,000 homicides were committed by "illegal aliens" over the past six years.
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Few from"terrorist" countries or havens
Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."
— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, June 22nd, 2014
Evidence absent
"Abortion is the second-most conducted surgical procedure in this country."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 5th, 2013
Check 'in' box
Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Ridiculous distortion
Says President Barack Obama "is a socialist."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Perry was there
Says Texas did not bail out a loan program he oversaw as state agriculture commissioner.
— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, December 18th, 2011
More U.S. agents than ever patrol the border
"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 23rd, 2011
A ridiculous claim no matter who says it
"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 12th, 2011
Not $2 billion and not from Obama
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 1st, 2011
It was False once. Repeating claim sets meter aflame
Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal "has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, January 6th, 2011
It's not even a good comeback
Says Bill White is refusing to debate.
— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Except for that one two weeks ago
"We don't get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them."
— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, July 19th, 2010
Avoid carbon tax for now, White actually wrote
"My opponent in November of 2008 sent a missive to the White House, to President Obama-elect, and said, 'Here's how you need to sell cap-and-trade to the American people.' "
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Reduction by at least 300,000 is not "about the same"
"The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006."
— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, April 5th, 2010
Claim omits El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville and other burgs where most people live
My "border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime."
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Democrats cast the crucial votes
"Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly."
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010