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Raymond LaHood
Raymond LaHood
stated on February 25, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"There's going to be a slowdown and delays in flights" as a result of the sequester.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • February 27, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed for the Daily Caller:
"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union address:
Says he and Mitt Romney agreed on tying minimum wage increases to inflation.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • February 14, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union address:
"We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
False
By Molly Moorhead • February 14, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:
Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obama’s idea.
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • February 13, 2013
Zoe Lofgren
Zoe Lofgren
stated on February 5, 2013 in a House hearing on immigration:
"With the exception of slavery and the Chinese Exclusion Act, our laws have never barred persons from becoming citizens."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • February 8, 2013
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on January 29, 2013 in a radio interview:
Research shows that "a vast majority of arriving immigrants today come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity, and that's what they support."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • January 31, 2013
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on January 24, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Today, about 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 30, 2013
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 21, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:
The tax penalty that the government imposes if you don't buy health insurance "is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance."
True
By Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2013
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on October 31, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney "was director of a company that stole millions from Medicare."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • November 2, 2012
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on October 31, 2012 in at a Romney campaign rally:
An Obama campaign tactic for rallying voters is to "offer them cell phones."
Pants on Fire!
By Molly Moorhead • October 31, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney’s plan makes "catastrophic cuts to education."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 in a presidential debate:
"The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 in a presidential debate:
"The president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 in a presidential debate:
"A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 in in a town hall debate:
"George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • October 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 in in a town-hall debate in Long Island, N.Y.:
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’"
True
By Stephen Koff, Molly Moorhead • October 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 9, 2012 in a campaign ad:
As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 15, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 11, 2012 in a debate in Danville, Ky.:
"There's not one Democrat who endorses" the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan.
True
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 in a vice presidential debate:
Says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent.
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2012
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