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Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 26, 2014 an interview with "Fox News Sunday"
"The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 26, 2014
Patty Murray
Patty Murray
stated on January 22, 2014 an online statement
In the past three years, state legislatures have "enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 24, 2014
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 21, 2014 an interview with MSNBC
Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 24, 2014
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on January 23, 2014 an interview on Fox News
"Forty years ago, hardly anybody in the country had health insurance."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2014 a Saturday radio address
"Thanks in part to our all-of-the-above strategy for American energy," the United States generates "more natural gas than anybody."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2014
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
stated on January 19, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony."
False
By Katie Sanders • January 19, 2014
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
stated on January 19, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
In Russia "all people are absolutely equal regardless of their religion, sex, ethnicity, or sexual orientation," while "70 countries of the world have criminal liability for homosexuality."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • January 19, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 16, 2014 a graphic on the Internet
"In 1916, the U.S. government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 16, 2014 a speech at North Carolina State University
"For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 17, 2014
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on January 13, 2014 an interview with NPR
On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was "a step forward" for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagan's defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 16, 2014
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on January 15, 2014 remarks at a news conference
"Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2014
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 5, 2014 a Facebook post
A judge's order means there's a "Constitution exemption zone" if you live "within 100 miles of the United States border."
False
By Julie Kliegman • January 13, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2014 a Facebook post
"Unemployment insurance kept more than 620,000 children out of poverty in 2012."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"Under Obamacare, when you turn Medicaid over to the states ... the money will be available up front for the expansion for a few years. Then, the money will go away."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 13, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech
Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
"There are many studies that indicate" that the longer people get unemployment insurance, "it provides some disincentive to work."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"Our economy still has three people looking for every job (opening)."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
X posts
X posts
stated on January 7, 2014 posts on Twitter
It’s warmer on Mars than it is in parts of the United States and Canada during the polar vortex.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The Obama administration offered "no magic number" of people that needed to sign up for health care on the marketplaces.
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 5, 2014
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