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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
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit:
"Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota:
"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015
Nationwide
Nationwide
stated on February 1, 2015 an ad during the Super Bowl:
"The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • February 2, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 25, 2015 a forum at the Freedom Partners 2015 California retreat:
"When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. We're looking at $20 billion to $30 billion."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • January 30, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 25, 2015 an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
The Affordable Care Act "basically puts a penalty or a tax on employers for every new job they create."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
"In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State’s) advance."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • January 27, 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
Andy Puzder
Andy Puzder
stated on January 13, 2015 an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:
"Obamacare has caused millions of full-time jobs to become part-time."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Detroit:
"The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • January 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
"America is No. 1 in wind power."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
The economy is "creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
"Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 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 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
The United States is "the only advanced country on Earth" that doesn’t guarantee "paid maternity leave to our workers."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 21, 2015
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 20, 2015 the Republican response to the State of the Union address:
"A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address:
We've seen "our deficits cut by two-thirds."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 21, 2015
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