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Latest Fact-Checks In Congress

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Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Rep. Pramila Jayapal was not wearing a mask in Congress during the U.S. Capitol mob.
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • January 14, 2021
Jake Tapper
stated on January 13, 2021 in remarks in a CNN broadcast:
The second presidential impeachment of Donald Trump was “the most bipartisan impeachment in American history.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2021
Devin Nunes
stated on January 10, 2021 in an interview on Fox:
“Republicans have no way to communicate” after tech companies cut off Parler.
False
By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2021
Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2020 in a television interview:
Says Charles Schumer supports “putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 4, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on November 7, 2020 in a Tweet:
“Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every. Single. One.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 17, 2020
Eric Trump
stated on October 17, 2020 in a tweet:
A mansion in photo is Joe Biden’s house.
Mostly False
By Hayat Norimine • October 20, 2020
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on October 1, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Steve Bullock “failed to act” when his “most senior political aide was caught sexually harassing women. Bullock knew about the harassment but said nothing, remaining silent when the aide took another job where he harassed women again.”
Half-True
By Noah Y. Kim • October 15, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 10, 2020 in a comment to reporters:
Senate Republicans’ move to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in an election year is “not constitutional.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • October 13, 2020
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on September 22, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says “Lucy McBath voted to release criminals from prison. Murderers, rapists.”
False
By Noah Y. Kim • October 12, 2020
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 25, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Sri Kulkarni attended “notorious desert drug parties” and was arrested for cocaine.
Half-True
By Noah Y. Kim • October 6, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on September 17, 2020 in a campaign website:
Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2020
Michigan Democratic Party
stated on September 24, 2020 in an email:
“James is the only Senate candidate in a battleground state who has refused to take a position” on whether the Senate should promptly vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee
Mostly True
By Clara Hendrickson • September 25, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 19, 2020 in a statement:
On whether to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year
Full Flop
By Eric Litke • September 22, 2020
Ron Johnson
stated on September 19, 2020 in interviews:
On whether to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year
Full Flop
By Eric Litke • September 22, 2020
Mitch McConnell
stated on September 18, 2020 in a statement:
On confirming a Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
Full Flop
By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2020
Charles Schumer
stated on September 18, 2020 in a tweet:
On confirming a Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
Full Flop
By Miriam Valverde • September 22, 2020
Paul Junge
stated on September 11, 2020 in an interview on 'Detroit Today':
“Candidate Slotkin had presented herself as a moderate and as someone who’d be independent-minded, but her time in office was making it increasingly clear that no, she was very partisan, voting 96% of the time with Speaker Pelosi.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • September 21, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on September 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2020
Viral image
stated on August 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Kamala Harris and other Democratic senators “voted to let babies scream until they die if born alive.”
False
By Noah Y. Kim • September 1, 2020
John James
stated on August 26, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is “known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2020
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