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Anthony Gemma stated on August 28, 2012 in an online debate:

U.S. military uniforms are manufactured in China.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 2, 2012

Scott Walker stated on February 21, 2011 in a news conference and many other venues:

"We’re broke. We don’t have any more money."

By James B. Nelson • March 3, 2011

Brian Tyler Cohen stated on May 3, 2023 in a Facebook post:

House Speaker “Kevin McCarthy has quietly implemented a pay raise for members (of Congress) that could be $30,000+ per person. It circumvents the Constitution by instead reimbursing their rent, utilities, & meals.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2023

Pete Buttigieg stated on April 1, 2019 in a podcast interview:

"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."

By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2019

Bernie Sanders stated on May 16, 2016 in a town hall in San Juan:

"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds."

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Glenn Hegar stated on September 10, 2015 in a speech in Georgetown, Texas:

"We have 650 people who move to Texas every day."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 1, 2015

Gilberto Hinojosa stated on June 26, 2014 in an interview with KERA News:

"The platform of the Republican Party says deport everybody and to hell with it."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2014

Republican Party of Florida stated on April 1, 2014 in a Facebook post:

Says Charlie Crist supports "cuts to the Medicare Advantage program."

By Amy Sherman • April 9, 2014

Michele Bachmann stated on March 16, 2013 in a speech at CPAC:

"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2013

Rick Santorum stated on February 17, 2012 in a campaign event:

Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2012

Tim Pawlenty stated on May 29, 2011 in ABC's "This Week":

Medicare "only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending."

By Robert Farley • June 1, 2011

Michael Moore stated on March 5, 2011 in a speech to protesters in Madison, Wisconsin:

"Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined."

By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2011

Scott Walker stated on February 27, 2011 in an appearance on a TV interview program:

"We've seen local union after local union rush to their school boards, their city councils, their technical school boards and rush through contracts in the past two weeks that had no contributions to the pension and no contribution to health care."

By Cary Spivak • March 3, 2011

Rachel Maddow stated on January 21, 2011 in HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent."

By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011

Sean Duffy stated on January 19, 2011 in a vote in the U.S. House on repeal of health care reform:

On "repeal and replace" of federal health care reform.

By Dave Umhoefer • January 25, 2011

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem at Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Orlando, Fla., 2-25-2022

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s new book contains 3 questionable anecdotes

By Matthew Crowley • May 10, 2024

How will social media platforms respond to election misinformation? It isn’t clear

By Hana Stepnick • August 1, 2022

Pence in video in Jan. 6 committee hearing

Jan. 6 hearing piles on evidence: Pence didn’t have power to change 2020 election

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2022

Ahead of face-to-face meeting, Biden and Putin remain far apart on the facts

By Jon Greenberg • June 14, 2021

Fact-checking the first 2020 presidential debate, Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump

By PolitiFact Staff • September 30, 2020

Voting Counts: Georgia’s primary ended in a meltdown in June. Will it on Nov. 3?

By Amy Sherman • September 8, 2020

The week in fact-checking: Swabs & reagents, stay-at-home protests

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 24, 2020

Large majorities of Americans support keeping stay-at-home policies for now

By Bill McCarthy, Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2020

Fact-checking the Democratic debate in Detroit, night two

By PolitiFact Staff • July 31, 2019

Fact-checking the Democratic debate in Miami, night 1

By PolitiFact Staff • June 27, 2019

Robert Mueller DOJ statement end of Russia probe May 29 2019

The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources (updated)

By John Kruzel • July 16, 2018