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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 3, 2010 Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor"
"A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country."
True
February 10, 2010
Farouk Shami
Farouk Shami
stated on February 8, 2010 a debate.
Houston is "the third-most toxic city in the United States of America."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 9, 2010
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on February 2, 2010 a Senate budget hearing
"The law is very clear! 'The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of the public debt.'"
True
By Catharine Richert • February 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 2, 2010 a town meeting in New Hampshire
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on February 1, 2010 in a TV ad
"Our (Texas) graduation rate ranks 43rd out of 50 states."
True
February 5, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on January 31, 2010 NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses."
True
February 3, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 a debate.
"The State of Texas does not even use the E-Verify system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job."
True
February 1, 2010
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore
"Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions" on health care.
True
By Bill Adair • January 29, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 27, 2010 a blog post
"President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."
True
January 28, 2010
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on January 27, 2010 the Republican response to the State of the Union
"Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 30, 2009 a press release
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 27, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 22, 2010 a press release
"PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress."
True
January 25, 2010
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on January 21, 2010 a floor speech in the House
Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2010 a televised interview
"The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson
stated on January 4, 2010 a speech
"Most Texans aren't millionaires."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 a debate.
"We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year."
True
January 15, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on January 6, 2010 response to questions about fundraising totals
"No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 15, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on December 28, 2009 the biography on his campaign Web site
During his tenure as mayor, he "saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years."
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 13, 2010
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