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George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 a press conference:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 9, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2010
Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
stated on May 4, 2010 an interview with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC:
Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the "second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2010
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema
stated on April 30, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's "lawn is overgrown" or if a dog is "barking too loudly."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on April 30, 2010 a news release:
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Ann Kirkpatrick
Ann Kirkpatrick
stated on April 28, 2010 a speech on the House floor:
Members of Congress "have not reduced their salaries ... since the Great Depression," meaning they've gone "eight decades without a pay cut."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2010
Alfredo Gutierrez
Alfredo Gutierrez
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on April 13, 2010 a segment on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor:
"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
The financial services bill will end "too-big-to-fail."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on April 5, 2010 a town hall in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.:
"We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance."
Mostly False
By Carol Rosenberg, Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on April 19, 2010 a Senate floor speech:
The financial services regulatory bill "will end taxpayer bailouts."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference:
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on April 14, 2010 a speech at a Tea Party rally in Boston:
"Americans now spend 100 days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on March 25, 2010 a news release:
"Florida Statutes require (Attorney General Bill) McCollum to consult with members of Florida's Congressional delegation" before filing a lawsuit against the health care reform law.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2010
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