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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 remarks at an economic summit in Orlando
"You can fill out your tax return in Estonia online in five minutes."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2015
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on June 2, 2015 an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper
The USA Freedom Act undercuts privacy because "the phone records will be in the hands of the phone companies with hundreds of people available to look at the records, versus 20 or 30 people in the government."
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 4, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando
"Sixty million Americans depend on Social Security, and one-third of all the seniors in America depend on Social Security for 90 percent of their income."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 4, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2015 remarks at the White House
Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on May 30, 2015 his presidential announcement speech
"The CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • June 2, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on May 30, 2015 his presidential announcement speech
"Today in America, 70 percent of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago, and this is the first time that that has happened this side of World War II."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech in Orlando, Fla.
"For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
The Supreme Court "can’t overrule the other two" branches of government.  
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 29, 2015
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2015 a meme on social media
"During Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2015
Trey Gowdy
Trey Gowdy
stated on May 15, 2015 an interview on Fox News
Says the State Department has "had half a year" to respond to a Benghazi document request, yet "I have not gotten a single, solitary scrap of paper."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 21, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 18, 2015 an appearance in Mason City, Iowa
Hedge fund managers "pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2015
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 13, 2015 remarks to reporters
"It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 13, 2015 a response to a question after a town hall meeting
"We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops" in Iraq.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • May 18, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 17, 2015 on CNN's "State of the Union"
"Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority.
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • May 17, 2015
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 5, 2015 remarks at the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Proposed fast-track legislation allows presidents to "easily use a future trade deal to override our domestic financial rules."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • May 14, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2015
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on May 4, 2015 a Facebook meme
"Ben Carson is running for president to ‘eliminate dependency on government.’ But he doesn’t mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college."  
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 11, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard)."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2015
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