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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 6, 2011 in an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour:
"Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople."
False
By Molly Moorhead • November 10, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:
"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
stated on April 17, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2011
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 6, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2011
Sameh Shoukry
Sameh Shoukry
stated on January 30, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
In the past 20 years, Egypt has made "great strides" in political and democratic reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 31, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on November 14, 2010 in "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
A recent report from the president's deficit commission was "completely empty" on controlling health care costs.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 16, 2010
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 7, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour:
"The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on November 7, 2010 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
"Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 9, 2010
Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham
stated on October 3, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
In most Muslim countries, "We can't have a church. We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden."
False
October 6, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on September 19, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
It's "not true" that since he's been the president, executions in Iran have increased by four times.
False
September 23, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on September 19, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "was never sentenced to stoning."
False
September 22, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
John Boehner has called for "repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people."
False
September 13, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on August 22, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area."  
False
August 23, 2010
Daniel Senor
Daniel Senor
stated on July 4, 2010 in ABC's 'This Week':
Japan's "interest on its own debt" is "25 percent of its national budget"
False
By Lukas Pleva • July 6, 2010
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 21, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 13, 2010 in a discussion on ABC's 'This Week':
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 15, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on June 6, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ... shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon."
False
June 8, 2010
Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on June 6, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 11, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
April 13, 2010
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