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Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 in a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."

Mostly False

By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012

Ron Paul
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in South Carolina:

Says the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913.

Half-True

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 31, 2012

Jim Jordan
stated on January 25, 2012 in a congressional hearing:

"Federal, state and local governments have subsidized the production of the Volt to the tune of estimates between $50,000 and $250,000 per vehicle sold."

Half-True

By Sabrina Eaton • January 31, 2012

Casey Cagle
stated on January 19, 2012 in a speech:

Savannah is home to "the fastest-growing port in the nation."

Mostly True

By Eric Stirgus • January 31, 2012

Barry Hinckley
stated on January 17, 2012 in a YouTube video:

"Sheldon Whitehouse's failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful..."

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 31, 2012

Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 in a chain e-mail and blog and Facebook posts:

In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.

True

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 28, 2012 in comments at a campaign event:

Students today "take more years to get through" college.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012

Penny Bernard Schaber
stated on January 27, 2012 in a legislative hearing:

A proposed mine in Wisconsin is "about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago."

Mostly False

January 30, 2012

Committee for Our Children's Future
stated on January 25, 2012 in a video ad posted on YouTube:

Says with "Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers" New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years."

Half-True

By Erin O'Neill • January 30, 2012

Nathan Deal
stated on January 10, 2012 in his State of the State address:

Siemens has been unable to fill approximately 200 skilled trade positions in metro Atlanta.

False

By Willoughby Mariano • January 30, 2012

Scott Walker
stated on January 3, 2012 in a television ad:

"We wiped out a $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes."

Half-True

By Dave Umhoefer • January 29, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on January 22, 2012 in an interview on “Meet the Press”:

Says the New York Giants "train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey."

True

By Erin O'Neill • January 29, 2012

James Stegmaier
stated on December 14, 2011 in a speech.:

"Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009."

True

By Sean Gorman • January 29, 2012

Stephen Fincher
stated on December 30, 2011 in an interview with the Union City Daily Messenger :

"Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon."

False

By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012

Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on January 7, 2012 in a press release:

"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."

Mostly True

By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012

Travis Rowley
stated on January 21, 2012 in an opinion column:

"Martin Luther King was a Republican."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."

Mostly False

By Becky Bowers • January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 26, 2012 in a debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."

False

By Amy Sherman • January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012

True The Vote
stated on December 12, 2011 in a Web post.:

"Eric Holder is supportive of the NAACP's efforts to get the United Nations involved in our elections."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • January 27, 2012

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