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Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 remarks at an economic summit in Orlando:

"You can fill out your tax return in Estonia online in five minutes."

True

By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2015 remarks at the White House:

Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on May 30, 2015 his presidential announcement speech:

"Today in America, 70 percent of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago, and this is the first time that that has happened this side of World War II."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech in Orlando, Fla.:

"For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting."

True

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015

John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."

True

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015

Sarah Silverman
stated on May 22, 2015 a social media post:

Says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the "right to health care ... means you believe in slavery."

True

By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2015 a meme on social media:

"During Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 18, 2015 an appearance in Mason City, Iowa:

Hedge fund managers "pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2015

Charles Schumer
stated on May 13, 2015 remarks to reporters:

"It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2015

Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 5, 2015 an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.:

"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 23, 2015 a speech at the Women in the World conference:

"The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Anonymous cyber-squatter
stated on May 4, 2015 a website:

After laying off 30,000 people, Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, "I would have done them all faster."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 a video:

Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015

Represent.us
stated on April 30, 2015 a meme on social media:

"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 23, 2015 a monologue on his radio show:

"Eighty-five percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on April 20, 2015 an interview with NPR:

"We're not allowed to read it (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) before representatives vote on it."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2015

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

Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2015 a press conference:

Says Loretta Lynch’s nomination "has been now sitting there longer than the previous seven attorney general nominees combined."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2015

ForAmerica
stated on April 12, 2015 a meme on social media:

"American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2015

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