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Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2014 a meme on social media:

"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014

Tom Cotton
stated on July 25, 2014 campaign email:

Says Mark Pryor "continues to insist" that Obamacare is "an amazing success."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • July 29, 2014

Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2014 a speech to the NAACP in Las Vegas:

The Obama administration's policies "have reduced minority dropout rate by 25 percent."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014

Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":

"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."

Mostly True

By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014

Rob Astorino
stated on July 25, 2014 an interview on "Fox & Friends":

The state of New York is the "worst in the nation in economic recovery."

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2014

Lindsey Graham
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2014

Patriot Majority USA
stated on July 22, 2014 a television ad:

A tax plan promoted by North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis will "overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 25, 2014

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 22, 2014 an interview with a Las Vegas news network:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut.

Mostly True

By Steve Contorno • July 24, 2014

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 22, 2014 an interview with a Las Vegas news network:

"There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange."

Mostly False

By Molly O'Connor • July 24, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on July 17, 2014 a speech in Delaware:

"We've recovered (from the recession) faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 23, 2014

Mitch McConnell
stated on July 17, 2014 a press release:

Says a new report shows the "devastating tax hikes (in the health care law) will have on middle-class Kentuckians."

Mostly False

By Steve Contorno • July 23, 2014

Fresh Start PA
stated on July 15, 2014 a campaign ad:

Under Gov. Tom Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2014

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview on PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show":

The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on July 18, 2014 a meme on social media:

Says former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that "if the workers are more insecure, that's very healthy for the society" because "they'll serve the masters gladly and passively."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2014

John Kerry
stated on July 20, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 20, 2014

Mitch McConnell
stated on July 10, 2014 remarks to voters in Kentucky:

"More women are graduating from college now than men."

True

By Molly O'Connor • July 18, 2014

Phil Gingrey
stated on July 7, 2014 a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2014

Mark Begich
stated on July 14, 2014 a radio ad:

Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich "vote as much as 80 percent of the time together."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 17, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on July 16, 2014 a meme on social media:

Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are "unable to visit Europe due to outstanding warrants."

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2014

Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 13, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"We spend $18 billion a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement agents. That's more than DEA and the ATF and the FBI and all the other enforcement (agencies) combined."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2014

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