Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 in a presidential campaign announcement video:

"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."

By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011

Tom Petri
stated on April 29, 2011 in a constituent newsletter:

Says President Barack Obama’s debt commission recommended converting Medicare "to a system where Medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market."

By Tom Kertscher • May 10, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 in a press conference:

Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011

John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 in an interview with ABC news:

President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."

By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on April 16, 2011 in a speech in Iowa:

China holds 26 percent of the U.S. debt.

By Robert Farley • April 22, 2011

Jean Schmidt
stated on April 14, 2011 in a speech in the House of Representatives:

"For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion."

By Sabrina Eaton • April 21, 2011

Bill Maher
stated on April 15, 2011 in an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2011

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on April 13, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:

"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011

Paul Broun
stated on April 1, 2011 in a speech before Congress:

Says the federal government borrows "almost $60 billion per week."

By Willoughby Mariano • April 13, 2011

MoveOn.org
stated on April 6, 2011 in an email blast to supporters:

The newly proposed House Republican budget "abolishes Medicare within 10 years."

By Tom Kertscher • April 11, 2011

Jon Kyl
stated on April 8, 2011 in a Senate floor speech:

Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2011

Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "The View":

South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2011

Americans United for Change
stated on March 31, 2011 in a news release.:

Says Majority Leader Eric Cantor called for "abolishing Social Security and Medicare."

By Robert Farley • April 1, 2011

Ted Poe
stated on February 9, 2011 in a House floor speech:

The U.S. gives foreign aid to Cuba and Venezuela, even though those countries are our enemies.

By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 in a speech in Cleveland, Ohio:

The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011

Mitch Daniels
stated on February 11, 2011 in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:

"Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security."

By Lucas Graves • February 17, 2011

John Boehner
stated on February 15, 2011 in a press conference:

"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 in a press conference:

Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.

By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011

Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 in an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM:

"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . ."

By Tom Feran • February 9, 2011

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