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Raul Labrador
stated on May 5, 2017 in a town hall event:

"Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care."

By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2017
Carolyn Maloney
stated on March 16, 2017 in remarks on the House floor:

"More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas."

By Sarah Waychoff • March 24, 2017
Jack Kingston
stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

"I remember years ago looking at a CBO report that in 1964 predicted that Medicare would cost $9 billion 10 years later. And I think it was already over $100 billion at that point."

By Sarah Waychoff • March 20, 2017
Shenggen Fan
stated on March 2, 2017 in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C.:

Every dollar of foreign aid for agricultural research "will bring $4 in trade with the countries and the United States ... generating employment back in the U.S."

By Jon Greenberg • March 3, 2017

Trump and Democratic views on FBI's Comey at key turning points

By Jon Greenberg • May 10, 2017
Fact-checking Ivanka Trump's new book, 'Women Who Work'

By Katie Sanders • May 9, 2017
What's up with Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson?

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2017
Fact-checking Donald Trump's address to Congress

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2017
The list of 78 terror attacks the White House says the media didn’t cover — but they did

By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2017