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John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 13, 2015 a press conference
"About 30 percent" of those released from Guantanamo "have re-entered the fight."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 13, 2015 a meme on social media
Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2015
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
stated on January 11, 2015 a "Washington Post" op-ed
The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • January 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 13, 2015 his book, "American Dreams"
"If people work and make more money, they lose more in benefits than they would earn in salary."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • January 14, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2015 a Facebook post
"In 1913, it was legal to mail children."
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • January 13, 2015
Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer
stated on January 11, 2015 a red carpet interview before the Golden Globes
"The name Frank has risen in popularity by 20 percent" since the debut of 'House of Cards' on Netflix.
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2015
Chris Coons
Chris Coons
stated on January 11, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Keystone means unlocking the Canadian tar sands."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 11, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 17, 2014 remarks to reporters
"The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money."
Mostly False
January 9, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 6, 2015 his second inaugural address
"Estimates say individuals who escaped these high tax states have taken with them around $2 trillion in adjusted gross income."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 8, 2015
Craig Melvin
Craig Melvin
stated on January 5, 2015 an MSNBC segment
"There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, ‘If you give us more money we don't know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.’ "
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2015
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 3, 2014 an interview.
Regarding sexual assault against women, "It’s actually safer not to be in college than it is to be in college."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • January 4, 2015
Patrick Lynch
Patrick Lynch
stated on November 24, 2014 a newspaper commentary
Exposure to the electromagnetic fields from power lines "has been associated with childhood leukemia and other diseases."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2015
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on December 28, 2014 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"
"We've caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2014
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on December 10, 2014 a recent report
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
Mostly False
By April Hunt • December 19, 2014
Matthew Cooke
Matthew Cooke
stated on December 10, 2014 a Huffington Post column
The United States has "more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 16, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 10, 2014 an interview on Fox News
Terrorist detainees "were not covered by the Geneva Convention. They were unlawful combatants. And under those circumstances, they were not entitled to the normal kinds of courtesies and treatment."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2014
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2014 an interview
"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin. 
Mostly False
December 12, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on November 19, 2014 a TWC News debate
"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • December 11, 2014
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on November 24, 2014 a presentation.
Female students at UVA "have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • December 8, 2014
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 11, 2014 a radio interview
"We've had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare."  
Mostly False
December 5, 2014
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