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stated on June 1, 2016 in Facebook post by Liberals are Cool:
“Tuition-free public universities and colleges are just a pipe dream. False. They were both free up until the Vietnam War.”  
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 22, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“The only two (Donald Trump tax returns) we have show that he hasn’t paid a penny in taxes.”
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 24, 2016
Sheri Gallo
stated on January 28, 2016 in an Austin City Council meeting:
Since January 2015, the “majority of our” Austin City Council “meetings have extended past 10 p.m.” and “many of our meetings have gone past midnight.”
Mostly False
By Mary Huber • February 15, 2016
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 in an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert:
“When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015
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stated on September 6, 2015 in a Facebook post:
“Unions did not create” the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. “Henry Ford did.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 7, 2015 in a news release:
Says Russ Feingold cast the “deciding vote” for the “largest tax increase” in history
Mostly False
By Lucas Daprile • August 31, 2015
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stated on June 15, 2015 in a social media post:
Says Bill Clinton “gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs” and said “we needed a regime change,” even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.
Mostly False
By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2015
Mike Huckabee
stated on May 24, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
The Supreme Court “can’t overrule the other two” branches of government.  
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 29, 2015
Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 10, 2015 in an interview on CNN:
“We had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in) all but 4 states.”
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • May 10, 2015
Rick Santorum
stated on April 10, 2015 in a speech to the NRA:
Says Howard Zinn, “an anti-American Marxist,” wrote “the most popular textbook that’s taught in our high schools in America.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015
Mackubin Thomas Owens
stated on March 18, 2015 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
“In the early 1980s, Sen. Edward Kennedy secretly offered to help Soviet leaders counter the Reagan administration’s position on nuclear disarmament.”
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • April 12, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on March 11, 2015 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
“Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day.”
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 13, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 2, 2015 in his radio commentary:
“A married couple that” use the same last name “is rarer and rarer in our country.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 13, 2015
Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 in an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota:
“The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ “
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015
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stated on January 12, 2015 in a Facebook post:
“In 1913, it was legal to mail children.”
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • January 13, 2015
Facebook posts
stated on December 2, 2014 in a meme:
“The U.S. Constitution owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois Tribes.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2014
Gina Raimondo
stated on October 7, 2014 in in television commercial:
“I fought 38 Studios from the beginning.”
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 30, 2014
Rachel Maddow
stated on March 27, 2012 in her book "Drift":
“Not even old Gen. Eisenhower … saluted military personnel” as president.
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • September 24, 2014
Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on August 3, 2014 in an interview on "10 News Conference.":
Sen. Jack Reed “cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the Affordable Care Act.”
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 17, 2014
Pete Hegseth
stated on May 26, 2014 in a segment on "Outnumbered":
Redskins is “used historically” as “a term of respect.”
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • June 4, 2014
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