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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

David Plouffe
stated on February 17, 2013 in an interview:

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

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2013

Ron Johnson
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:

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

Mostly True

By Dave Umhoefer • February 20, 2013

Paul Broun
stated on February 13, 2013 in an interview:

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

Pants on Fire!

By Eric Stirgus • February 20, 2013

Bob Stacey
stated on November 26, 2012 in in a memo:

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 responsibility."

False

By Christian Gaston • February 20, 2013

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed in the Daily Caller:

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

False

By Louis Jacobson • February 19, 2013

Steny Hoyer
stated on February 12, 2013 in a media availability with reporters:

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

Mostly True

February 19, 2013

Dave Joyce
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:

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

True

By Sabrina Eaton • February 19, 2013

Pete Winstead
stated on February 6, 2013 in a KUT-FM news story:

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

False

By Sue Owen • February 19, 2013

Eric Cantor
stated on February 5, 2013 in a speech.:

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

True

February 19, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in a speech:

"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 crime."

Half-True

By Eric Stirgus • February 19, 2013

Donald Rumsfeld
stated on February 17, 2013 in an op-ed in the "Washington Post":

Says wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln.

True

By Bill Adair • February 18, 2013

John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor:

Says of a failed cloture vote on nominating Chuck Hagel for defense secretary: "This is not a filibuster."

Mostly False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 18, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on January 30, 2013 in a blog post on RedState.com:

"Agriculture has always required a significant workforce from abroad."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on January 30, 2013 in a blog post on RedState.com:

The United States does "not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2013

Ed Fallone
stated on February 5, 2013 in an interview:

Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to."

False

February 18, 2013

Grover Norquist
stated on February 7, 2013 in a radio interview.:

In Virginia "there has been a billion dollars in surplus over the last three years. The legislature has spent less than 1 percent of that on roads."

False

By Sean Gorman • February 18, 2013

Patience Roggensack
stated on February 6, 2013 in a campaign TV ad:

Says she heard more than 2,400 cases as a Wisconsin appeals court judge

Mostly True

By Dave Umhoefer • February 17, 2013

Cory Booker
stated on February 1, 2013 in an appearance on "Bill Maher Overtime":

Says 2012 was the "first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority."

Half-True

By Caryn Shinske • February 17, 2013

Brian Patrick Kennedy
stated on February 6, 2013 in a news release:

Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 17, 2013

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