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Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on April 1, 2011 in a column in the "Wall Street Journal":
The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 17, 2011 in a TV interview.:
Discretionary spending has "increased over 20-some percent in two years if you don’t include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, it’s over 80 percent."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • April 1, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on March 3, 2011 in a House committee hearing:
"Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government."
Half-True
By James McCarty • March 24, 2011
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on March 14, 2011 in a Tweet.:
The GOP budget plan "would cut nearly a million jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 21, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 4, 2011 in a press release.:
"Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 16, 2011
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 in a radio interview :
Says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost "20 or 40 million" dollars.
Half-True
By Tom Feran • February 28, 2011
Rob Woodall
Rob Woodall
stated on February 1, 2011 in a town hall meeting:
One half of federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money "borrowed from a foreign land."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 25, 2011
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on February 17, 2011 in a news release:
Since Sherrod Brown and the Democrats "rammed" the economic stimulus bill through, "Ohio's unemployment rate has risen to 9.6 percent, above the national average."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • February 22, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 14, 2011 in a speech:
The White House budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 13, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
The Obama administration "actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 20, 2011 in a speech to the Heritage Foundation:
"Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 16, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2011 in the GOP response to the State of the Union address:
"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies, an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 in a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:
"While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 in a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:
The federal government "may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 in the State of the Union address:
"We are living with a legacy of deficit-spending that began almost a decade ago."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 26, 2011
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on December 1, 2010 in an op-ed:
"All but one of the 50 states already have some form of a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions."
Half-True
December 25, 2010
Dave Obey
Dave Obey
stated on November 18, 2010 in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch.
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 1, 2010
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on November 16, 2010 in a Twitter post:
Says President Obama has grown the federal government payroll by 141,000 workers and wants to add 125,000 more.
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • November 24, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on November 14, 2010 in "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
A proposal to reduce the deficit "involved large tax cuts for the top bracket."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 17, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on October 14, 2010 in a campaign video:
"(John) Kasich was the architect who balanced the budget, cut spending, created a surplus, igniting record job creation."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • October 31, 2010
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