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Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2015 a roundtable at a community college:

"The United States invented the community college. Nobody else had ever done anything like it."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2015

Mark Pocan
stated on April 9, 2015 a news conference:

"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."

Mostly True

By Dave Umhoefer • April 16, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on April 10, 2015 a speech to the NRA:

Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015

Mackubin Thomas Owens
stated on March 18, 2015 a commentary in The Providence Journal:

"In the early 1980s, Sen. Edward Kennedy secretly offered to help Soviet leaders counter the Reagan administration’s position on nuclear disarmament."

Mostly False

By Mark Reynolds • April 12, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on April 8, 2015 a town hall meeting in Milford, NH:

"The founders of New Hampshire came up with the motto Live Free or Die."

False

By Nick Reid • April 10, 2015

Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 11, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt:

"Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 13, 2015

Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 a video clip aired on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech:

"Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.’"

False

By Sean Gorman • March 9, 2015

Scott Surovell
stated on February 4, 2015 a floor speech.:

"When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (President George W.) Bush’s administration."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on February 16, 2015 a meme on social media:

Say George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern."

False

By Audrey Bowler • February 20, 2015

Adam Kinzinger
stated on February 15, 2015 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

The current debate over authorizing military action against the Islamic State "would be the first time Congress would place limits on the commander-in-chief's ability to be commander-in-chief."

False

By Steve Contorno • February 19, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 2, 2015 his radio commentary:

"A married couple that" use the same last name "is rarer and rarer in our country."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • February 13, 2015

Chain email
stated on February 9, 2015 a chain email:

"Over 200 years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!"

False

By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2015

Nicholas Mattiello
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "10 News Conference":

"There haven't been tax cuts for the rich" in Rhode Island.

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 8, 2015

Alfonso Lopez
stated on January 19, 2015 a floor speech.:

Ronald Reagan "banned ownership of fully automatic rifles. He supported the assault weapons ban."

Half-True

By Warren Fiske • February 4, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota:

"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on January 21, 2015 an interview:

"Documents released from the Soviet Union" show "the Soviet Union started treating" President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.

Pants on Fire!

By Tom Kertscher • January 28, 2015

Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary:

"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."

Mostly True

By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015

Arthur Cyr
stated on December 26, 2014 a Providence Journal commentary:

Says Nikita Khrushchev brought an extra shoe to a United Nations session in 1960, which he banged on the desk in protest.

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 18, 2015

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