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Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 a town hall on CNN
"Wall Street comes out en masse with its money against House Democrats every election."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 18, 2017 a senate confirmation hearing
"All of our taxpayers are paying roughly 22% of the U.N. budget."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on January 24, 2017 a Senate floor speech
Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 1, 2017
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on January 27, 2017 in a press release
"The chances of being killed by a refugee committing a terrorist act is 1 in 3.6 billion."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • February 1, 2017
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 18, 2017 an interview on Fox News
"The Taliban went after and murdered" people identified in the Chelsea Manning leaks. 
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2017
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 27, 2017 a speech at the March for Life
The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 a press briefing
"Obamacare has failed."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 30, 2017 a daily press briefing
The language that's part of the president's National Security Council memo "is identical to the language" used by President George W. Bush in 2001 and President Barack Obama in 2009.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • January 31, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 9, 2017 a headline
Says "Meryl Streep just got fired from a major project for lying about Trump."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • January 31, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.
Mostly False
By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017
Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on January 30, 2017 a press release
Says former President Barack Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as President Donald Trump did in his executive order.
False
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2017
Joe DeFelice
Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017
"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017
Don Willett
Don Willett
stated on January 12, 2017 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event
"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with "CBS This Morning"
"Here's the fact: The No. 1 source of income into Mexico are Mexicans working here and sending the money back."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 29, 2017 a statement
"My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • January 30, 2017
Deborah Glick
Deborah Glick
stated on January 17, 2017 a debate in the Assembly chamber
"New York state law says you are alive when you begin to breathe."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • January 30, 2017
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview
"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with CBN
"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."
False
By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 17, 2017 his executive budget presentation
"Thirty years ago we were the most college-educated country on the globe. Today we are No. 11."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • January 27, 2017
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission
North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.
Mostly True
By Will Doran • January 27, 2017
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