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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 1, 2010 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on July 15, 2010 a special order speech on the U.S. House floor
"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working."
False
July 21, 2010
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on June 28, 2010 a speech at the state Democratic convention
Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 12, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech
"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 24, 2010 a Senate floor speech
"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 22, 2010 a Senate floor speech
Under President George W. Bush, "the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 a chain e-mail
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer
stated on March 22, 2010 comments on CBS's Face the Nation
The Iraq war has been "our longest war."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 her book, Going Rogue
"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2009
Tom McClintock
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."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show
"All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on October 31, 2007 a Fox News interview
"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."
False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
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