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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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