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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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 8, 2015 a speech in Phoenix, Ariz.
"Today, home sales are up nearly 50 percent from where they were in the worst of the crisis."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 a speech in Knoxville, Tenn.
"We’ve doubled the production of clean energy."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 20, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Wayne. Mich.
Over the past five years, the American automobile industry has "created about 500,000 new jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 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
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 14, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire
"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts."
False
By Steve Contorno • January 16, 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 13, 2015 a meme on social media
Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 13, 2015 his book, "American Dreams"
"If people work and make more money, they lose more in benefits than they would earn in salary."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • January 14, 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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 a book
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on January 11, 2015 an interview on CBS "Face the Nation"
Western Europeans "can fly in the United States without even having a visa."
True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2015
Chris Coons
Chris Coons
stated on January 11, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Keystone means unlocking the Canadian tar sands."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 11, 2015
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 7, 2015 a Senate floor speech
A recent economic uptick appears to "coincide" with "the expectation of a new Republican Congress."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2015
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on January 5, 2015 a Fox news interview
Says President Barack Obama has "not proposed one thing that would change" the fact that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 7, 2015
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