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Dave Brat
stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "Meet the Press":

Says Republican Rep. Charlie Dent wants to kick the Freedom Caucus out of the Republican conference "for voting our conscience."

False

By Linda Qiu • October 11, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2015 in remarks following a school shooting in Oregon:

"States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on September 3, 2015 in an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard:

"100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 6, 2015

Glenn Hegar
stated on September 10, 2015 in a speech in Georgetown, Texas:

"We have 650 people who move to Texas every day."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 1, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2015 in a press conference:

The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2015

Chuck Todd
stated on September 27, 2015 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular."

True

By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File":

There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015

Martin Shkreli
stated on September 21, 2015 in comments on Bloomberg TV:

"Daraprim is still underpriced, relative to its peers."

False

By Linda Qiu • September 24, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 9, 2015 in a tweet:

"The Iran Deal will facilitate and accelerate the nation of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons."

False

By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2015

Jorge Ramos
stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News:

"Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented) immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • September 8, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 in an interview with Bill Maher:

The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "That number was pulled out of thin air."

False

By Linda Qiu • September 2, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on August 12, 2015 in a web post:

"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • August 24, 2015

Harry Houck
stated on July 21, 2015 in a panel debate on "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon":

"The law says ... when a police officer stops you, do whatever he says and then deal with it later."

False

By Will Cabaniss • July 30, 2015

John Oliver
stated on July 19, 2015 in a segment on "Last Week Tonight":

"With the exception of baby formula, the federal government does not require any food to carry an expiration date, and state laws vary widely."

True

By Will Cabaniss • July 27, 2015

Limberbutt McCubbins
stated on July 9, 2015 in comments on his website.:

"Limberbutt McCubbins (a five-year-old cat) is a candidate" in the 2016 presidential election.

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • July 14, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 in remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

Mostly False

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."

Mostly True

By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 in a press release:

"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015

Garnet Coleman
stated on May 6, 2015 in a committee hearing:

"Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2015

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