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Bob Goodlatte
stated on February 15, 2016 in a TV interview.:

"It’s highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • February 22, 2016

Richard Blumenthal
stated on February 15, 2016 in an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball:

"There's never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 18, 2016

Sheri Gallo
stated on January 28, 2016 in an Austin City Council meeting:

Since January 2015, the "majority of our" Austin City Council "meetings have extended past 10 p.m." and "many of our meetings have gone past midnight."

Mostly False

By Mary Huber • February 15, 2016

A.J. Jacobs
stated on February 6, 2016 in an interview:

Says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.

True

By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 in comments during the New Hampshire Democratic debate:

"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated" before deciding whether to endorse it.

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 25, 2016 in a CNN town hall:

When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn’t make that a partisan issue."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016

Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 in an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Glenn Beck
stated on January 23, 2016 in an appearance in Ankeny, Iowa:

"In 40 years of broadcast, I have never endorsed any candidate."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016

Philip Van Cleave
stated on January 18, 2016 in a speech:

Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."

False

By Sean Gorman • January 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 18, 2016 in comments at a campaign organizing event:

"Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 20, 2016

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 4, 2016 in a posting on the Clinton website:

"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 7, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."

False

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 22, 2015 in a TV interview.:

Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.

False

By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate:

Says President Dwight Eisenhower "moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 4, 2015 in an edited Facebook post:

"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2015

Trevor Noah
stated on November 3, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

"Iowa's Republican caucus stopped mattering years ago. It in no way determines the party nominee."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • November 4, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 9, 2015 in his book "A More Perfect Union":

"German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Jon Voight
stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview with "Cigar Aficianado":

"The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2015

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