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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

Joe Biden
stated on March 9, 2015 a statement released to the media:

"The vast majority of our international commitments take effect without congressional approval."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on March 9, 2015 a letter to Iranian leaders:

If President Barack Obama strikes a nuclear deal with Iran, "the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2015

Ron Johnson
stated on March 8, 2015 an interview on 'Fox News Sunday':

"The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no on this deal, and I think the United States Congress should have the exact same input into the process."

Mostly False

By Steve Contorno • March 10, 2015

Charles Schumer
stated on March 8, 2015 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"The State Department asked all secretaries of state to send their emails over." Hillary Clinton's "the only one who’s done it."

Mostly False

By Steve Contorno • March 8, 2015

American Crossroads
stated on February 23, 2015 a video:

"The Clintons' foundation took millions from foreign governments" including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

True

By Steve Contorno • February 26, 2015

Michael Morell
stated on February 18, 2015 a broadcast of "Charlie Rose":

The potential Iran nuclear agreement would limit Iran to the number of centrifuges needed for a weapon but too few for a nuclear power program.

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2015

Rudy Giuliani
stated on February 23, 2015 an op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal':

Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."

False

By Steve Contorno • February 23, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on February 13, 2015 a radio interview:

ISIS is "now the predominant Islamist group in Benghazi."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • February 19, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015

Molly White
stated on February 3, 2015 an online statement:

The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin "was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 6, 2015

Jack Keane
stated on February 1, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 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

Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:

"In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State’s) advance."

Half-True

By Steve Contorno • January 27, 2015

Jonathan Turley
stated on January 11, 2015 a "Washington Post" op-ed:

The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 14, 2015

Stephen Hayes
stated on December 28, 2014 a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday":

"We've caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • December 31, 2014

Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on December 18, 2014 a press conference:

Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • December 23, 2014

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 a TV interview:

The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014:

"The reason why Cubans don't have access to 21st century telecommunications — like smart phones, like access to the Internet — is because it is illegal in Cuba."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll, Steve Contorno • December 19, 2014

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