Fact Check Posts – Page 13

Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2012 in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":

"Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession.

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2012

Jennifer Beck
stated on September 20, 2012 in an interview with NJToday:

"We have more people working in the state of New Jersey today than we've ever had in our history."

By Erin O'Neill • September 27, 2012

Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2012 in a Fox News interview:

"A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter."

By Becky Bowers • August 29, 2012

Paul Ryan
stated on August 27, 2012 in a speech:

"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts

By Dave Umhoefer • August 28, 2012

Stephanie Cutter
stated on August 22, 2012 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than "in the Reagan recovery."

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2012

Priorities USA Action
stated on August 7, 2012 in campaign ad:

Says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a woman’s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked.

By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on July 25, 2012 in an introduction to a web video:

President Obama was saying success "is the result of government," not "hard-working people," when he said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos
stated on July 11, 2012 in an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show:

"We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs."

By Erin O'Neill • July 15, 2012

Mark Neumann
stated on June 13, 2012 in an interview:

If the U.S. didn't borrow $1.2 trillion every year "to fund government operations," that money would be available "for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses."

By Tom Kertscher • July 8, 2012

Rob Portman
stated on June 14, 2012 in a conference call with reporters:

Says that under President Obama, there’s been a substantial increase in federal government jobs.

By Stephen Koff • June 20, 2012

Christopher Blazejewski
stated on June 5, 2012 in a debate on the House floor:

Most tips left at Dunkin’ Donuts don’t go to employees.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 13, 2012

Wes Riddle
stated on October 22, 2011 in a speech.:

Says combined inflation and unemployment rates in October 2011 were the highest since Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2012

Sherrod Brown
stated on May 14, 2012 in an email campaign statement:

Says Josh Mandel opposed federal loans to the auto industry.

By Henry J. Gomez • May 18, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on May 8, 2012 in a speech in Albany, N.Y.:

"The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me."

By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2012

Bob McDonnell
stated on April 21, 2012 in a TV interview.:

The U.S. economy is "recovering slower than Europe "

By Sean Gorman • May 7, 2012

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:

"If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 6, 2012

Kathleen Falk
stated on April 17, 2012 in a newspaper interview:

Wisconsin women "are paid 81 cents to the dollar of a man doing the same job."

By Tom Kertscher • May 2, 2012

Bill Haslam
stated on April 20, 2012 in a speech to Carter County Republican Party:

"Personal income is growing faster in Tennessee on average than any other state in the country."

By Tom Humphrey • April 27, 2012

Barry Hinckley
stated on April 21, 2012 in an interview on State of the State:

President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 27, 2012

Tommy Thompson
stated on March 23, 2012 in a campaign speech:

Every time the price of gasoline rises 1 cent, "it's a billion dollars out of our economy that goes to Saudi Arabia."

By Tom Kertscher • April 19, 2012

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