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Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 19, 2011 a television interview:
"We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • August 25, 2011
James Bennett
James Bennett
stated on August 15, 2011 a news conference:
Providence's port is "200 miles closer to Europe than any other Eastern port."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 21, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 a press conference:
"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 16, 2011 a Tallahassee press conference:
"Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... (Canadians) buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state."
True
By Katie Sanders • June 21, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 a speech in Austin, Texas:
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on May 26, 2011 an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.:
"China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt, our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars."
True
By Wes Hester • May 3, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 18, 2011 his weekly radio address.:
"According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 21, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 15, 2011
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Heritage Foundation:
"Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 16, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 7, 2011 a chain e-mail:
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce:
Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations."
True
By Stephen Koff • February 1, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 11, 2010 a news release:
More than 10 years of free trade "has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • November 22, 2010
John Boccieri
John Boccieri
stated on October 18, 2010 a debate:
"Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • November 1, 2010
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 10, 2010 a campaign TV ad:
Says Russ Feingold supported a stimulus plan that allowed a company to create 3,000 jobs in China.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 19, 2010
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on September 30, 2010 campaign TV and radio ads:
"According to independent analysis, unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over 64,000 jobs in Wisconsin ... But Ron Johnson favors those deals."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • October 12, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on August 27, 2010 a campaign video:
"Kasich’s trade deals cost Ohio thousands of jobs - 49,000 jobs to Mexico, 91,000 to China."
False
By Tom Feran • September 21, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2010 a speech on Labor Day:
John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole "that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
American Federation for Children
American Federation for Children
stated on September 10, 2010 campaign literature distributed by an outside group:
"Senator Jeff Plale saved my job" -- and some 300 others at Bucyrus International.
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • September 13, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
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