U.S. Representative
Total checked statements: 19
True: 0
Mostly true: 0
Half true: 2
Barely true: 3
False: 8
Pants on fire: 6
Egregious falsehood: In the '70s, "the swine flu broke out... under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."
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Former RNC Chairman
Total checked statements: 8
True: 4
Mostly true: 0
Half true: 1
Barely true: 0
False: 1
Pants on fire: 2
Egregious falsehood: "You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government—federal, state, local, or otherwise—has never created one job."—
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Former DNC Chairman
Total checked statements: 6
True: 1
Mostly true: 1
Half true: 1
Barely true: 0
False: 3
Pants on fire: 0
Egregious falsehood: "Every other democracy in the world has a health-care system that covers everybody, and we don't."—
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Former Republican Governor, Alaska
Total checked statements: 45
True: 10
Mostly true: 6
Half true: 7
Barely true: 6
False: 12
Pants on fire: 4
Egregious falsehood: The disabled and seniors "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."—
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U.S. Representative
Total checked statements: 7
True: 1
Mostly true: 0
Half true: 2
Barely true: 3
False: 0
Pants on fire: 1
Egregious falsehood: Regarding the collective-bargaining debate in Wisconsin, Ryan claimed the disagreements had led to "riots"... "It's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days."—
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House Minority Leader
Total checked statements: 14
True: 1
Mostly true: 2
Half true: 6
Barely true: 2
False: 2
Pants on fire: 1
Egregious falsehood: "We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."—
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Senate Majority Leader
Total checked statements: 10
True: 2
Mostly true: 1
Half true: 3
Barely true: 1
False: 3
Pants on fire: 0
Egregious falsehood: "We have solved the problem.... Scientists are now saying leave the nuclear waste where it is."—
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Senate Minority Leader
Total checked statements: 10
True: 2
Mostly true: 2
Half true: 2
Barely true: 1
False: 3
Pants on fire: 0
Egregious falsehood: Updated financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."—
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Speaker of the House
Total checked statements: 37
True: 14
Mostly true: 3
Half true: 3
Barely true: 5
False: 12
Pants on fire: 0
Egregious falsehood: "This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years."—
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Vice President
Total checked statements: 44
True: 10
Mostly true: 8
Half true: 10
Barely true: 8
False: 5
Pants on fire: 3
Egregious falsehood: "In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent-crime rates went down eight years in a row."—
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