Latest Fact-Checks In Oil Spill

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Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on July 6, 2010 in a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Ron Klein
Ron Klein
stated on June 28, 2010 in a fundraising e-mail:
"West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2010
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
stated on June 7, 2010 in a blog post:
"The last major oil spill from a drilling accident in America happened over 40 years ago in 1969."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 17, 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
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on June 9, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on May 11, 2010 in an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:
Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 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