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Latest Fact-Checks By Lauren Carroll

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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 27, 2015 a speech at CPAC
U.S. military involvement in Libya "allowed thousands of surface-to-air missiles to fall into the hands of radical Islamists."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • March 9, 2015
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The labor participation rate is at an all-time low."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • March 8, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on March 4, 2015 an interview on CNN
"A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 4, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Says President Barack Obama made "unilateral changes" to Obamacare "38 times."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • March 1, 2015
Mike Lee
Mike Lee
stated on February 16, 2015 an email through Protect Internet Freedom
The FCC’s net neutrality policy includes what is "essentially a massive tax increase."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 26, 2015
Eric Holder
Eric Holder
stated on February 17, 2015 remarks at the National Press Club
Last year, "we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years."
True
By Lauren Carroll • February 23, 2015
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2015 remarks at a White House summit
"There is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware.
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 19, 2015
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on February 12, 2015 an interview on MSNBC
"Monarch butterflies are becoming extinct" because of increased use of crops genetically modified to withstand pesticides.
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 17, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement
"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."
False
By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 1, 2015 interview on Fox News Sunday
Under Common Core standards, it takes "more than a minute" to teach a student "how to add nine plus six."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 3, 2015
Jack Keane
Jack Keane
stated on February 1, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years." 
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 27, 2015 a press conference
The Super Bowl has "one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 29, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 25, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it."  
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address
"America is No. 1 one in oil and gas."  
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address
"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 remarks in Clinton, Tenn.
"Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • January 20, 2015
Ted Olson
Ted Olson
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right" and never said "it had to be between a man and a woman."
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2015
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
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages
"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015
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