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Peter King
Peter King
stated on September 1, 2013 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"The House did vote against engagement in Kosovo, and Bill Clinton kept fighting anyway. And, then, ultimately, a vote did pass."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2013
Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia Lummis
stated on August 23, 2013 a radio interview
Under the Endangered Species Act, "only 1 percent of the species that have been listed have actually been delisted."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2013
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 1, 2013 an interview on "Face the Nation"
Fleeing Syria, "a million children are now refugees."
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 3, 2013
Ernest Moniz
Ernest Moniz
stated on August 26, 2013 a question and answer session at Columbia University
"We are about halfway" to the president’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and "about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2013
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on August 26, 2013 an event to launch her reelection bid
South Carolina has "the fastest-growing economy in the Southeast."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 19, 2013 an interview with Fox News
In the Wisconsin health insurance exchange, "the Society of Actuaries points out that there'll be, according to them, an 82 percent increase in individual premiums over the next couple years under Obamacare."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2013
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on August 20, 2013 a Facebook post
"America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2013
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on August 27, 2013 a speech at the National Press Club
The 2010 DREAM Act failed despite "strong bipartisan support."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2013
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
stated on April 15, 2013 an ad shared on social media
The book Little Red Riding Hood is something "that’s been banned in America," but not assault weapons.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2013
BookerFail
BookerFail
stated on August 1, 2013 a YouTube video
"Three years after getting the $100 million (from Mark Zuckerberg), less than two-thirds of students in Cory Booker's Newark graduate."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • August 27, 2013
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 18, 2013 an op-ed in the "Washington Post"
"New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been steeper than any other big city’s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2013
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on August 18, 2013 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"There are only four countries in the world that ... legalize abortion after five months -- China, North Korea, Canada and the U.S."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • August 22, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 15, 2013 blog posts
Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents.
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • August 21, 2013
Mike Lee
Mike Lee
stated on August 4, 2013 a 'USA Today' op-ed
Says unions call Obamacare "bad for workers."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 6, 2013 a speech on homeownership
"We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before."
True
By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2013
Organizing for Action
Organizing for Action
stated on August 9, 2013 an email to Obama supporters in Florida
Sen. Marco Rubio "refuses to accept the basic science" on climate change and is "a climate change denier."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"
Many uninsured Americans are "young."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"
"Why didn't (uninsured Americans) buy insurance? Because of the expense."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"
Of the roughly 15 percent of Americans who don’t have health insurance, "half of them made more than $50,000 a year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 10, 2013 a speech to the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa
Says "President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception" to Obamacare.
False
By Becky Bowers • August 14, 2013
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