Fact Check Posts – Page 11

Haley Barbour
stated on October 2, 2011 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

When he took office in 2009, President Barack Obama "had the biggest Democratic majorities in Congress since Lyndon Johnson."

By Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2011

Jay Carney
stated on August 16, 2011 in an interview.:

Says Rick Perry "wanted to secede from the union."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2011

Allen West
stated on July 27, 2011 in an interview on CNN:

"This is the first time in the history that we've had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 29, 2011

Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 26, 2011 in a comment on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor":

Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2011

Robert Brown
stated on June 2, 2011 in a press release:

Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.

By Willoughby Mariano • July 1, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 in an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop:

"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011

Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:

"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."

By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in in a speech announcing his presidential run:

In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

By Willoughby Mariano • May 25, 2011

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 16, 2011 in an interview with Bloomberg television:

"In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration."

By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2011

John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:

The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."

By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011

Doris Kearns Goodwin
stated on May 8, 2011 in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press":

During the Eisenhower Administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."

By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2011

Paul Broun
stated on April 12, 2011 in a speech before Congress:

Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.

By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 19, 2011

Peter DeFazio
stated on April 13, 2011 in a House floor speech:

"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support."

By Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy • April 15, 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

Steve Moore
stated on February 2, 2011 in HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

In the 1980s, "The lowest income people had the biggest gains."

By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011

Jay Hottinger
stated on January 11, 2011 in a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives:

"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death."

By Tom Feran • January 21, 2011

Raging Elephants
stated on January 7, 2011 in a web post:

"Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican!"

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 17, 2011

Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 2, 2011 in 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

Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 in a press conference:

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2010

Pam Bondi
stated on November 9, 2010 in an interview with Fox News.:

"We're the only system of federalism in the world."

By Aaron Sharockman • November 10, 2010

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