Latest Fact-Checks

Showing 19081-19092 of 26085 items

Wayne LaPierre says Obama ignores border fence law

By Molly Moorhead February 20, 2013

"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."

David Plouffe says Latinos supported health care law the “most”

By Amy Sherman February 20, 2013

"The group that supported the president’s health care bill the most? Latinos."

Ron Johnson says Republican budget proposals don’t cut spending, just reduce budget growth

By Dave Umhoefer February 20, 2013

"Nobody in total is proposing cutting anything. We’re trying to reduce the rate of growth in government."

Congressman uses wrong words on gun claim

By Eric Stirgus February 20, 2013

"There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns."

Will Washington leave Oregon ‘holding the bag’ on Columbia River Crossing?

By Christian Gaston February 20, 2013

Says "If Oregon’s Legislature simply authorizes $450 million for the CRC, it will … leave Oregon holding the bag for a great deal more cost…

Wayne LaPierre says Phoenix is ‘one of the kidnapping capitals of the world’

By Louis Jacobson February 19, 2013

"Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world."

Steny Hoyer: House Democrats won majority of 2012 popular vote

February 19, 2013

"The majority of (the American people) voted for a Democratic House."

Rep. Dave Joyce says millions of U.S. jobs go unfilled each month

By Sabrina Eaton February 19, 2013

"There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country."

Pete Winstead says Austin is the largest U.S. city without a nonstop flight to Europe

By Sue Owen February 19, 2013

Says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. without nonstop flights to Europe.

Cantor says states are spending more on Medicaid than on public schools

February 19, 2013

"Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K-12 education."

Does Obama get an A for early care claim?

By Eric Stirgus February 19, 2013

"Every dollar we invested in high-quality, early education programs can save more than $7 later on by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing…

Donald Rumsfeld says Abraham Lincoln loved wrestling

By Bill Adair February 18, 2013

Says wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln.

Showing 19081-19092 of 26085 items