Yet another congressional resume too good to be true Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.), a newly elected member of Congress, has been the subject of a series of news reports by a local television station for having exaggerated his background. Now The Fact Checker has uncovered more evidence of resume-inflation by Ogles — this time about his business career — that sheds light on a politician who said in his recent congressional campaign that you shouldn't be in Congress "if you don't have the integrity to just be you and run on what you've done." Our reporting shows that Ogles's resume enhancement is not a recent development. In a 2009 resume, he claimed numerous roles with businesses and organizations that were exaggerated or could not be corroborated. A consulting firm he claimed to run from 2003 to 2010 cannot be found in Tennessee corporate records. Indeed, during his various efforts to run for public office in this period, local newspapers described him as a restaurateur, not a business consultant. We gave him Four Pinocchios. Click the link to learn why. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Josh Hawley presses Merrick Garland on claims of 'anti-Catholic' bias Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and a number of other Republican senators confronted Attorney General Merrick Garland at a recent Senate hearing with allegations that the Biden administration has an anti-Catholic agenda. Hawley's exchange with Garland about two incidents — an internal FBI memo on recruiting sources in the Catholic Church, and the arrest of an antiabortion activist — was especially prosecutorial and quickly went viral on social media. This is one of those instances in which something may be well-covered in right-wing media and virtually ignored by more mainstream news outlets. For readers unfamiliar with the news reports, it might seem strange that an administration led by a president who is a practicing Catholic is accused of being anti-Catholic. But President Biden also supports abortion rights, which Catholic doctrine rejects. At their heart, both incidents raised by Hawley concern the battle over abortion. As a reader service, we delved deep into the two issues raised by Hawley — the arrest of the antiabortion activist and the memo, written by the FBI office in Richmond. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other biographical fact checks | 
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