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Randy Bryce
Randy Bryce
stated on July 9, 2017 a TV interview
Says Paul Ryan "has not had a public town hall within the district for over 600 days."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • July 21, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 6, 2017 a blog post
"Kim Jong Un dead: North Koreans calling Trump an assassin"
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • July 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 17, 2017 a speech
"We’ve signed more bills -- and I’m talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 20, 2017
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 5, 2017 a Facebook ad
"Elizabeth Warren doesn't think Obamacare goes far enough: ‘The next step is single payer.' Does Sen. Nelson agree? He has in the past ... Sen. Nelson votes with Warren 90 percent of the time."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2017
Joe Straus
Joe Straus
stated on July 16, 2017 an email blast
"One" Texas school "district alone -- Austin ISD -- is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017
Evan Smith
Evan Smith
stated on July 10, 2017 as quoted in a story in The New Yorker
"The last majority-Anglo high school class in Texas graduated in 2014."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017
Casey Cagle
Casey Cagle
stated on June 22, 2017 a meeting with small business owners
Says of Georgia, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 4, 2017 a television interview
"In the ‘40s, 68 cents of every health care dollar was actually paid for by the patient, today it’s only 11 cents."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech on the House floor
"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017
George Will
George Will
stated on July 12, 2017 a column
"America has more people employed as tax preparers (1.2 million) than as police and firefighters."
False
By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 16, 2017 Internet posts
Shepard Smith was fired from Fox News.
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • July 18, 2017
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on July 15, 2017 a broadcast of the "Greg Gutfeld Show"
Says Ted Kennedy met "with the KGB in order to beat Ronald Reagan in 1984."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2017 a CBN interview
"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 18, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 11, 2017 a headline
"There was someone else on that plane for the secret Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch meeting."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • July 18, 2017
FreedomCrossroads.us
FreedomCrossroads.us
stated on June 29, 2017 a blog
"Malia Obama Fired From Cushy Internship At Spanish Embassy"
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 13, 2017 a video
"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017
HalfwayPost.com
HalfwayPost.com
stated on July 6, 2017 a headline
"White House chef quits because Trump has only eaten fast food for 6 months."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • July 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 16, 2017 a tweet
Says his job approval poll numbers are "not bad" relative to other presidents at this point in his presidency.
False
By John Kruzel • July 17, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview with President Donald Trump
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 14, 2017 a speech to the National Governors Association
In Ohio, due to Medicaid expansion, "nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists ... leaving them without the care they need for months or even years."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2017
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