Your privacy is important to us. We have updated our privacy policy to better explain how we use data on this site. Read it. Political trends come and go, but the classics endure. Such is the case with a chain email PolitiFact Ohio received to start the new year. When we received a nearly identical version a couple of years ago, we said it could be «a new classic of the genre. We examined one of the special perks mentioned in the email, that «the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. We gave the statement a rating of Pants on Fire mudh it was and is ridiculously false.