Fact Check Posts – Page 12

Mary Landrieu
stated on May 11, 2010 an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:

Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.

By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2010

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."

By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2010

Richard Shelby
stated on March 25, 2010 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner:

"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."

By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010

Jeb Hensarling
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore:

"What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats."

By Robert Farley • January 30, 2010

Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 her book, Going Rogue:

Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."

By Robert Farley • November 16, 2009

Tom McClintock
stated on October 27, 2009 a speech on the House floor:

Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on May 6, 2009 a press release:

ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."

By Robert Farley • May 21, 2009

Charles Schumer
stated on March 8, 2009 a TV interview:

"No Bridge to Nowhere could occur."

By Robert Farley • March 12, 2009

Peter Orszag
stated on March 8, 2009 a TV interview.:

"Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent."

By Robert Farley • March 11, 2009

Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."

By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009

Democratic congressional leadership
stated on March 2, 2009 statements to reporters.:

The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.

By Bill Adair • March 2, 2009

Mark Sanford
stated on February 23, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:

Says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill "won't actually stimulate the economy."

By Bill Adair • February 25, 2009

Mark Sanford
stated on February 23, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:

"The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019."

By Bill Adair • February 23, 2009

Mike Pence
stated on February 12, 2009 a statement on Fox News Channel.:

The stimulus has "$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 13, 2009

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 8, 2009 during a news conference:

Bush's tax cuts for high earners "have been the biggest contributor to the budget deficit."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 16, 2009

John McCain
stated on September 16, 2008 Tampa, Fla.:

"I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."

By Shawn Zeller • September 16, 2008

John McCain
stated on April 7, 2008 a poll on McCain's Web site:

Democrats' budget resolution would raise America's tax bill by "$500-billion."

By Adriel Bettelheim • April 14, 2008

John McCain
stated on January 6, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:

"I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state."

By John Frank • January 15, 2008

Republican National Committee
stated on November 26, 2007 a Web site.:

"Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."

By David Baumann • November 26, 2007

John McCain
stated on July 25, 2007 a speech in Nashua, N.H.:

"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."

By David Baumann • October 12, 2007

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