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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 22, 2013 a blog post
President Barack Obama has "announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2013
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on July 1, 2013
Says Obama policies contributed to gas prices rising from $1.89 in January 2009 to $3.51 today.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • July 23, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on July 14, 2013 an interview with World Net Daily
"The president … by executive order" could grant voting rights to illegal immigrants who are newly legalized under pending legislation.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2013
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on June 5, 2013 U.S. House floor debate.
Says the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to "release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2013
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 3, 2013 a chain email
Says "At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment" under Affordable Care Act.
Pants on Fire!
By Janie Har • June 8, 2013
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 3, 2013 a news release
Says President Barack Obama is trying to "pack" the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 1, 2013 a tweet
Says President Barack Obama’s proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 17, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 30, 2013 a Fox News interview
"We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to enforce the immigration law."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • May 7, 2013
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on April 14, 2013 a TV appearance.
Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are "down 40 percent" under President Barack Obama.
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • May 1, 2013
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on April 24, 2013 a House floor speech
"In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama," compared to zero "in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 5, 2013 an interview on CNN.
Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 25, 2013
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 14, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference
Says Obama called Medicaid "broken" four years ago.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • April 9, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 28, 2013 blog posts
Forty aides who serve President Barack Obama "owe $333,485 in back taxes."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • April 3, 2013
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on March 27, 2013 a tweet
Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, "your insurance" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost "as much as a new Explorer."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2013
Steve Stockman
Steve Stockman
stated on February 22, 2013 a tweet
Says president is ‘spending $2.2 billion to give away "ObamaPhones." ’
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • March 15, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 6, 2013 a tweet
"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
False
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 an op-ed for the Daily Caller
"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 the Republican response to the State of the Union
Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obama’s idea.
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • February 13, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 the Republican response to the State of the Union Address
"Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
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