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." — politifact.com Alex Wong / Getty Images 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."— politifact.com Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Photo 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."— politifact.com Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo 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."— politifact.com AP Photo 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."— politifact.com J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo 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."— politifact.com Charles Dharapak / AP Photo 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."— politifact.com Alex Brandon / AP Photo 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."— politifact.com Chuck Burton / AP Photo 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."— politifact.com Tom Williams / Roll Call / Getty Images 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."— politifact.com See the ranking methodology here. AP Photo