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Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 14, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2013
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on April 10, 2013 an interview with NPR:
"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 1, 2013 remarks in Austin, Texas:
"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2013
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on March 27, 2013 a tweet:
Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, "your insurance" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost "as much as a new Explorer."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2013
Charles Cooper
Charles Cooper
stated on March 26, 2013 arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court:
"Very few men outlive their own fertility."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2013
Sal Albanese
Sal Albanese
stated on March 24, 2013 a joint mayoral candidates' appearance on MSNBC:
An annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2013
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on March 19, 2013 a Senate floor speech:
"In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 16, 2013 a speech at CPAC:
"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2013
Frank Keating
Frank Keating
stated on March 17, 2013 an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In the United States, 50 percent of social services are provided by the Catholic church."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 16, 2013 a speech at the conservative CPAC conference:
Of every "three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the CPAC conference:
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the conservative CPAC conference:
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on March 12, 2013 a House floor speech:
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 6, 2013 a tweet:
"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
False
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 6, 2013 a Senate filibuster speech:
"When the president's spokesman was asked about (Anwar) al-Awlaki's son, … he said he should have chosen a more responsible father."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 5, 2013 his State of the State speech:
A "legacy of taxing and borrowing … crippled the economy we inherited two years ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2013
John Roberts
John Roberts
stated on February 27, 2013 a Supreme Court oral argument:
"Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2013
Ami Bera
Ami Bera
stated on February 26, 2013 a House floor speech:
Due to the sequester, "people are going to be unsafe. Homes are going to burn."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2013
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on February 21, 2013 an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan:
"When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 a speech in Washington, D.C. :
If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2013
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