Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 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 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 a speech in Iowa

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

April 22, 2011

Jean Schmidt
stated on April 14, 2011 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 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 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 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 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 an email blast to supporters

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

April 11, 2011

Jon Kyl
stated on April 8, 2011 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 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 a news release.

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

April 1, 2011

Ted Poe
stated on February 9, 2011 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 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 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 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 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 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

Paul Broun
stated on January 25, 2011 a tweet during the State of the Union address

Says government is a barrier to innovation and development.

By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2011

Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 2, 2011 a statement published in the "Bakersfield Californian"

"The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined."

By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2011

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