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Rand Paul
stated on February 27, 2015 in a speech at CPAC:

U.S. military involvement in Libya "allowed thousands of surface-to-air missiles to fall into the hands of radical Islamists."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • March 9, 2015

Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The labor participation rate is at an all-time low."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • March 8, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on March 4, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay."

False

By Lauren Carroll • March 4, 2015

John Boehner
stated on March 1, 2015 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

Says President Barack Obama made "unilateral changes" to Obamacare "38 times."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • March 1, 2015

Mike Lee
stated on February 16, 2015 in an email through Protect Internet Freedom:

The FCC’s net neutrality policy includes what is "essentially a massive tax increase."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 26, 2015

Eric Holder
stated on February 17, 2015 in remarks at the National Press Club:

Last year, "we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years."

True

By Lauren Carroll • February 23, 2015

Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2015 in remarks at a White House summit:

"There is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware.

Pants on Fire!

By Lauren Carroll • February 19, 2015

Peter DeFazio
stated on February 12, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Monarch butterflies are becoming extinct" because of increased use of crops genetically modified to withstand pesticides.

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 17, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 in a statement:

"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."

False

By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on February 1, 2015 in interview on Fox News Sunday:

Under Common Core standards, it takes "more than a minute" to teach a student "how to add nine plus six."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 3, 2015

Jack Keane
stated on February 1, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2015

John Cornyn
stated on January 27, 2015 in a press conference:

The Super Bowl has "one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • January 29, 2015

John Kasich
stated on January 25, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it."

Pants on Fire!

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 in his 2015 State of the Union address:

"America is No. 1 one in oil and gas."

True

By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 in his 2015 State of the Union address:

"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 in remarks in Clinton, Tenn.:

"Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • January 20, 2015

Ted Olson
stated on January 18, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right" and never said "it had to be between a man and a woman."

True

By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2015

John McCain
stated on January 13, 2015 in a press conference:

"About 30 percent" of those released from Guantanamo "have re-entered the fight."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2015

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 in a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages:

"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015

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