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Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 18, 2010 in a press release:
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 18, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 14, 2010 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on February 4, 2010 in a press conference:
The House passed a pay-as-you-go rule that said, "If you wanted to have an investment, an entitlement, etc., you had to pay for it."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on February 6, 2010 in an address at the Tea Party convention :
"One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 9, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in a State of the Union speech:
Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2010
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on January 27, 2010 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:
"The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in his State of the Union address:
The "pay-as-you-go law ... was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s."
Half-True
By Bill Adair, Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in the Jan. 14 GOP gubernatorial debate:
Says Gov. Rick Perry was for Wall Street bailout before he was against it.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2010
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on January 10, 2010 in the Washington Post:
The Obama administration "raised discretionary spending by 24 percent from President George W. Bush's last full-year budget and will run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • January 15, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on December 8, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
"To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • December 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 10, 2009 in his radio show:
The health care bills will be "mandated spending. You can't cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2009
Wall Street Journal editorial page
Wall Street Journal editorial page
stated on November 2, 2009 in an editorial:
The House health care bill pays for "about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 6, 2009
The Freedom Project
The Freedom Project
stated on October 19, 2009 in a press release:
"Democrats rang up a $1.42 trillion budget deficit in 2009 — the single largest in American history."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • October 22, 2009
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on October 18, 2009 in an interview on CBS's Face the Nation:
"The first installment of health care reform ... will raise the deficit by $250 billion."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 20, 2009
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 2, 2009 in CNN's State of the Union with John King:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. "spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy" and "trillions" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 7, 2009 in a speech at the White House.:
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • May 7, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
Obama "voted for ... $3-million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago."
Half-True
By David DeCamp • October 10, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on September 30, 2008 in a TV ad:
"Under Barack Obama's plan, the government would spend $1-trillion more."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • October 1, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 3, 2008 in a speech at the Republican Nationention in St. Paul, Minn.:
"I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 21, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors:
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 25, 2008
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