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Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on July 6, 2010 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
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on July 4, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 6, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on June 14, 2010 a campaign commerical:
John McCain "began his career in Washington as a lobbyist when he was appointed in 1976 as the Navy's liaison to the United States Senate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 a campaign speech in Grand Junction, Colo.:
On the use of presidentially appointed commissions.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on June 25, 2010 a television interview:
"The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on June 28, 2010 a hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan:
"The ABA's own criteria for a judicial nominee call for, among other things, at least 12 years' experience in the practice of law, and they mean actual practice of law."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2010
Florida Conservation Alliance
Florida Conservation Alliance
stated on June 19, 2010 a television commercial:
"Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 24, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 11, 2010 a TV commercial:
"Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Vern Buchanan
Vern Buchanan
stated on June 24, 2010 a tweet:
The national debt "has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2010
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on June 22, 2010 a commentary on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama "has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 22, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
Under President George W. Bush, "the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 20, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"We only have 2 percent of the oil reserves in the world, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a daily basis."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2010
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on June 16, 2010 an interview on the Fox Business network:
"We get 30 percent of our oil from the Gulf (of Mexico)."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 15, 2010 a speech from the Oval Office:
"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on May 26, 2010 YouTube video of a floor speech:
"Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 15, 2010 a statement at a hearing of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee:
"Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on June 4, 2010 a campaign commercial:
John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 7, 2010 a campaign commercial:
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 13, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
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