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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 24, 2013 an interview with Fox News:
The Senate immigration bill "has immediate legalization ... and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it's designed never to come into being."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 27, 2013
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on June 27, 2013 an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation”:
The immigration bill "has a specific provision that says that Secretary Napolitano does not have to build any fence if she chooses not to."  
False
By Becky Bowers • June 27, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2013 a speech on climate change:
As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, "there were days where folks couldn't go outside. … because of all the pollution in the air."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2013
Stephen Nodine
Stephen Nodine
stated on June 21, 2013 statements to the media:
Says he can be on the ballot for Congress while serving time in jail.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 21, 2013 a meme on social media:
"There are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the U.K.," compared to "466 violent crimes per 100,000" in the United States.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2013
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee
stated on June 17, 2013 an interview with MSNBC:
Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean "2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 17, 2013 an interview with Charlie Rose:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court "is transparent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2013
Dana Rohrabacher
Dana Rohrabacher
stated on June 16, 2013 an interview on WND Radio:
On immigration reform, Marco Rubio "all along has been saying, 'We have to have border security first' " and then "he gets on Spanish TV, he ends up saying, 'No, no. That will never get in the way.' "
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • June 20, 2013
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 18, 2013 a tweet from Barack Obama's Twitter feed:
"Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan."
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2013
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on June 16, 2013 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The IRS scandal "clearly showed some criminal behavior."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 14, 2013 a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference:
"Immigrants are more fertile."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2013
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on June 13, 2013 an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room":
"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2013
Peter Roskam
Peter Roskam
stated on June 12, 2013 an interview with Fox News:
"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2013
Jim Bridenstine
Jim Bridenstine
stated on June 11, 2013 a House floor speech:
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2013
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on June 9, 2013 an interview on ABC’s "This Week":
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • June 13, 2013
Mark Udall
Mark Udall
stated on June 9, 2013 a Senate speech rebroadcast on ABC's "This Week":
Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."
True
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2013
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 6, 2013 his radio show:
"One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2013
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 9, 2013 an interview on Face the Nation:
The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 11, 2013
Tim Griffin
Tim Griffin
stated on June 4, 2013 a House Ways and Means hearing:
"There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010."
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 4, 2013 remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
"My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my Republican predecessor."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2013
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