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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 in a press conference:
"The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 in a press conference:
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
Joshua Marquis
Joshua Marquis
stated on November 27, 2011 in a blog comment:
Says 25 percent of Oregonians oppose the death penalty.
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 6, 2011
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on November 16, 2011 in a television commercial:
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown "voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • December 6, 2011
Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown
stated on November 7, 2011 in an interview:
"Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 6, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on December 5, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "The Daily Rundown":
Says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2011
Karen Harrington
Karen Harrington
stated on November 12, 2011 in an interview:
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "has blamed the Republicans for the creation of Hamas."  
False
By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on November 14, 2011 in a news conference.:
The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • December 5, 2011
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on October 24, 2011 in an article on NOLA.com:
"Last year we spent more than $40 billion on highways. And Lord knows we need that. But that's more than we spent on Amtrak in its entire 40-year history." 
True
By Caryn Shinske • December 5, 2011
Alan Simpson
Alan Simpson
stated on November 18, 2011 in a speech at the City Club of Cleveland:
Says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations.
True
By Tom Feran • December 5, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 in a speech:
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.
True
By Eric Stirgus • December 5, 2011
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 16, 2011 in a television interview:
The St. Norbert College/Wisconsin Public Radio poll has "been wrong in almost every election."
False
By James B. Nelson • December 4, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 9, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says Barack Obama had "huge majorities" in Congress during his first two years in office and "did nothing with them to create jobs in America."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert • December 4, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on November 22, 2011 in the CNN Republican presidential debate.:
Says the Department of Defense changed its definitions of al-Qaeda and the Taliban making it so almost anybody can be loosely associated with the groups.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 4, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 in an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.
True
By Jake Berry • December 2, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 in an op-ed in the "New Hampshire Union Leader":
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."
True
By John Gregg • December 2, 2011
Oregon Transformation Project
Oregon Transformation Project
stated on November 15, 2011 in online post:
Oregon has the sixth highest combined death tax rate in the country.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • December 2, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today Show":
In Iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2011
David Frum
David Frum
stated on November 28, 2011 in a New York magazine article.:
"Eighty percent of the net new jobs created in the state of Texas since 2009 went to the foreign-born."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 2, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 23, 2011 in a press conference:
Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers "a new doorway to amnesty."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 2, 2011
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