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Charlene Lima

Charlene Lima

Pants on Fire!

No refund for you!

Rhode Island "didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes."

Saxby Chambliss

Saxby Chambliss

Pants on Fire!

Genocide, mass slaughter are distressingly common

"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."

Christine Whitman

Christine Whitman

Mostly True

Off by a decade

"We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."

Stephen Martin

Stephen Martin

False

Claim leads to apology

Says Democratic Party created Planned Parenthood

Stephen Martin

Stephen Martin

False

Martin regrets statement

Says Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan.

Keith Faber

Keith Faber

True

Buckeye State played a huge role

"During the Civil War, more than 300,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army -- more per capita than any other state."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Half-True

On eve of war, opposed secession, not slavery

Says Sam Houston opposed slavery and as governor said Texas should not leave the union over slavery.

David Cicilline

David Cicilline

Mostly False

90 percent was for two years in the 1980s

Historically, the Social Security tax has been assessed on about 90% of U.S. income. Now it captures 83% because there's been such a growth of income among the highest earners.

John DePetro

John DePetro

Pants on Fire!

Try 74 miles

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried "not far" from President Kennedy’s grave.

Bee Moorhead

Bee Moorhead

True

Election, what election?

Says more Austinites voted in the city’s 1973 election featuring a mayor’s race than in the city’s most recent mayoral election.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse

Half-True

A question of degree(s)

"Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s."

Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan

Half-True

Claim goes too far

Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico "and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners."

Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio

Mostly False

We found isolated examples, not 'extensive' writing

Ché Guevara "wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent."

Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney

False

Bush, Thatcher agreed she said it

Says it’s "an old wives’ story" that Margaret Thatcher told George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly.

Trey Martinez Fischer

Trey Martinez Fischer

Half-True

One way yes, the other no

Says that since 1975, redistricting by Texas lawmakers has always been found in violation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld

True

Abe could put you in a half nelson

Says wrestling was a favorite sport of Abraham Lincoln.

Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio

Mostly False

In some cases and places, not always

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

Keith Faber

Keith Faber

True

Claim in step with Statehouse lore

Abraham Lincoln "visited and some say even danced in (the Ohio Senate) chamber."

Lincoln Chafee

Lincoln Chafee

True

Make that at least two and a half decades

The state budget proposal has been submitted "on time and [it's] the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades."

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Kay Bailey Hutchison

True

Twenty, nearly 20 years after KBH arrived

Says the Senate will have a record number of female senators in 2013.  

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