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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 9, 2010 chain e-mail
Obama said troops "whine about bearing the costs" of going to war.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 9, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2010 a prepared statement
On recess appointments.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 1, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 28, 2010 a debate on Fox News Sunday
Marco Rubio controlled funds that "out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 29, 2010
Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
stated on March 22, 2010 a press conference
Florida's cost for the Medicaid expansion will be $1.6 billion a year or more.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 23, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 his book "No Apology."
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on March 3, 2010 an interview on CNN's Larry King Live
Reconciliation was used "for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2010
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 25, 2010 a hearing before Congress
In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan "justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on February 20, 2010 an interview on Fox News
"One of the most recent polls said 75 percent of the American people have said either don't do anything or start over (on health care reform)."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 23, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010
Nancy Pfotenhauer
Nancy Pfotenhauer
stated on January 27, 2010 an interview on CNN
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech
"For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech
On a government spending freeze.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 22, 2009 an interview with the Washington Post
"I didn't campaign on a public option."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 23, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2009 comments at the White House
When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 7, 2009
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on November 30, 2009 an interview on 'The Ed Show.'
"In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 4, 2009
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