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Charles Schumer
stated on March 8, 2015 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"The State Department asked all secretaries of state to send their emails over." Hillary Clinton's "the only one who’s done it."

Mostly False

By Steve Contorno • March 8, 2015

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

Marco Rubio
stated on February 27, 2015 a speech at CPAC:

"There are at least three sectors of the border, one in particular, that are just completely insecure."

Mostly False

By Steve Contorno • March 5, 2015

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

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 24, 2015 a conference in Silicon Valley:

"You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2015

John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • March 1, 2015

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

American Crossroads
stated on February 23, 2015 a video:

"The Clintons' foundation took millions from foreign governments" including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

True

By Steve Contorno • February 26, 2015

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
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

Robert McDonald
stated on February 15, 2015 an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"Nine hundred people have been fired since I became secretary (of Veterans Affairs). We’ve got 60 people that we fired who have manipulated wait times."

False

By Steve Contorno • February 20, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on February 16, 2015 a meme on social media:

Say George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern."

False

By Audrey Bowler • February 20, 2015

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

Adam Kinzinger
stated on February 15, 2015 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

The current debate over authorizing military action against the Islamic State "would be the first time Congress would place limits on the commander-in-chief's ability to be commander-in-chief."

False

By Steve Contorno • February 19, 2015

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

Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys:

"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015

Roy Moore
stated on February 12, 2015 an interview with CNN:

Alabamians "haven’t changed their opinion" on same-sex marriage since voting to ban it in 2006.

Half-True

By Steve Contorno • February 13, 2015

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

Chain email
stated on February 9, 2015 a chain email:

"Over 200 years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!"

False

By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"92 million Americans aren't working."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2015

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