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Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 25, 2010 a speech to young Republicans in Tampa
Florida ranks "45th out of 50 states'' for its regulatory climate for business.
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2010
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
stated on May 20, 2010 an interview with Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2010
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on May 2, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's 'This Week'
"At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on R&D."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 3, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Richard Shelby
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."
False
By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
stated on April 4, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on March 14, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
"Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 the State of the Union address
"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 21, 2010 a press conference
"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 a Republican gubernatorial debate
"We lowered the business tax from 4 percent down to 1 percent."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate
"The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 3, 2010 an interview on 'Meet the Press.'
"Most of the people that work in finance make $70,000, $80,000 a year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2010
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on October 27, 2009 a speech on the House floor.
"One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 30, 2009
Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
stated on September 21, 2009 a column in the newspaper Roll Call
Insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 a television advertisement
Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a press conference
Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 an editorial.
The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on March 17, 2009 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • March 18, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 18, 2009 a chain e-mail
"AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!"
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 18, 2009
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