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Latest Fact-Checks In Stimulus

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Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller
stated on November 19, 2009 a newsletter
Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that "do not exist."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 24, 2009
Recovery.gov
Recovery.gov
stated on November 17, 2009 data on its Web site
52 jobs have been saved or created in Florida's 34th Congressional District.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 her book, Going Rogue
Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."
False
November 16, 2009
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 4, 2009 an interview on CNN
"I didn't endorse" the federal stimulus bill.
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • November 5, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 1, 2009 Fox News Sunday
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Half-True
November 3, 2009
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on October 15, 2009 on his television show
U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • October 19, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 a speech to investors in Hong Kong
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
Mostly True
By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.
Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
stated on August 2, 2009 on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that "if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 a statement on the House floor.
There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 his weekly radio address
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
stated on July 15, 2009 a news release.
The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous.
"Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 a PBS interview.
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Mostly False
July 9, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad
"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."
False
July 7, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Mostly False
July 7, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
False
June 11, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 30, 2009 an e-mail
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 8, 2009
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