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Featured Statements

Tony Perkins
stated on October 12, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad."

By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2014
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on August 27, 2014 in an ad:

"Big Oil gave Scott Brown $454,260."

By Jonathan Van Fleet • September 5, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 30, 2014 in a statement to the media:

"Nearly 60 percent of women who use birth control do so for more than just family planning."

By Amy Sherman • June 30, 2014
Dan Sullivan
stated on April 29, 2014 in a radio ad:

Says Mark Begich "has taken campaign cash from the Kochs" while Dan Sullivan hasn’t.

By Julie Kliegman • May 19, 2014
Jerry Brown
stated on May 18, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Virtually no Republican" in Washington accepts climate change science.

By Julie Kliegman • May 18, 2014
Marco Rubio
stated on May 11, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate."

By Julie Kliegman • May 13, 2014
Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union.":

The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."

By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 6, 2014 in a keynote speech:

"A small majority of Americans don’t think they like the Affordable Care Act, but a large majority of Americans don’t want to do away with the protections that are in the Affordable Care Act."

By Julie Kliegman • May 7, 2014
Tom Coburn
stated on May 1, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."

By Julie Kliegman • May 6, 2014
Cokie Roberts
stated on May 4, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

In discussing the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "Ms. Rice did say 'a terrorist attack.' It’s not that she put the whole thing on the video."

By Julie Kliegman • May 4, 2014

Some politicians spoke the truth in 2014

By Louis Jacobson • December 24, 2014
The Alaska U.S. Senate race: the fact-checks so far

By Lauren Carroll • September 4, 2014
Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman • May 30, 2014
Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman • May 29, 2014
Attacks and claims about climate change heat up the Truth-O-Meter

By Amy Sherman • May 29, 2014
PunditFact fact-checks the May 18 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman • May 18, 2014
Fact-checking the May 18 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman • May 18, 2014
Fact-checking Benghazi: The rhetoric hasn't matched up with reality

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 16, 2014
Has Marco Rubio backtracked on climate change?

By Julie Kliegman • May 14, 2014
PunditFact fact-checks the May 11 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman • May 11, 2014