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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 5, 2015 an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.:

"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 23, 2015 a speech at the Women in the World conference:

"The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Anonymous cyber-squatter
stated on May 4, 2015 a website:

After laying off 30,000 people, Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, "I would have done them all faster."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 a video:

Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015

John Boehner
stated on May 3, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics."

False

By Jon Greenberg • May 3, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on April 13, 2015 an interview on National Public Radio:

"The Iranians are now saying that what we're saying the deal is and what they understand it to be are two different things."

True

By Lauren Carroll • May 1, 2015

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