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Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on July 8, 2012 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says Mitt Romney "has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures."
True
By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2012
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 8, 2012 a speech
"The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett."
False
June 20, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on May 8, 2012 an email to the news media
Says the Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and ‘profits’ on the loans go to help pay for the health care law.
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • June 1, 2012
Allen West
Allen West
stated on May 14, 2012 a newsletter
An "Obamacare slush fund" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an "anti-obesity campaign."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 3, 2012 a graphical tool on the campaign website
Says under Mitt Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • May 24, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2012 on the Internet
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 10, 2011 various statements
On abortion
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate
George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • May 15, 2012
Tom Rooney
Tom Rooney
stated on March 27, 2012 a press release
A proposed U.S. Labor Department rule for children working on farms "would even ban youth from operating a battery-powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 26, 2012
Clay Dafoe
Clay Dafoe
stated on April 16, 2012 a mayoral candidate debate on KXAN-TV
Says bus riders subsidize the "expensive, romanticized" Leander-to-Austin train.
False
By Ben Wear, Sue Owen • April 25, 2012
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on March 28, 2012 a radio interview
Says she made a "cold call" and persuaded an Illinois company to relocate to Wisconsin. 
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • April 25, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on March 23, 2012 a campaign speech
Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia."
False
April 19, 2012
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on April 14, 2012 a speech to a national meeting of the National Rifle Association
"By the time I finish this speech, two Americans will be slain, six women will be raped, 27 of us will be robbed, and 50 more will be beaten."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2012
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on April 10, 2012 a Web ad
Says oil "production's down where Obama's in charge."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 13, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 6, 2012 Mitt Romney's website
"Women account for 92.3 percent of the jobs lost under Obama."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • April 10, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 10, 2012 a congressional Web page
President Barack Obama "has doubled the size of government since he took office."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2012
Dennis Baxley
Dennis Baxley
stated on March 21, 2012 an interview on MSNBC
"We’ve had a dramatic drop in violent crime since this law (‘stand your ground’) has been in effect."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 23, 2012
The Tax Foundation
The Tax Foundation
stated on March 5, 2012 a map published on its blog.
Says Tennessee has some of the lowest beer excise tax rates in the country.
Half-True
By Tom Humphrey, Zack McMillin • March 20, 2012
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on February 9, 2012 an interview
Says 85 percent of Milwaukee shootings involve "people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records."
Half-True
March 19, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 9, 2012 a speech at the CPAC conference
"The majority of Americans are conservatives."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 24, 2012
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