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David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on September 8, 2010 in an interview:
Says Texas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions said the GOP's goal is to "go back to the same exact policies that were in place before this president took office... policies that crashed the economy."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 5, 2010 in a speech on Labor Day:
John Boehner said the jobs of "teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters" are "'government jobs' that weren't worth saving."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2010
John Loughlin
John Loughlin
stated on August 20, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
After Ronald Reagan cut taxes in 1981 the U.S. enjoyed "exponential growth."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 5, 2010
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
stated on August 23, 2010 in an opinion column in "The Washington Examiner":
"Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva, Martha M. Hamilton • August 25, 2010
Keith Stokes
Keith Stokes
stated on August 7, 2010 in an interview on WJAR-TV:
"One of the things we found very clearly and consistently is that [video gaming] is a growth industry."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 25, 2010
Pete Sessions
Pete Sessions
stated on July 30, 2010 in a speech in the U.S. House:
"Over the time that President Obama has been in office, we have lost 2.5 million free enterprise system jobs, and, yet, 500,000 federal government jobs have been added."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2010
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 6, 2010 in a television campaign ad:
A bill to cap carbon emissions "could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • August 2, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on July 13, 2010 in a news release:
"As President George W. Bush’s trade representative, Portman failed to address China’s currency manipulation, which was inflated to as much as 40 percent in 2006."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • August 2, 2010
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on July 25, 2010 in an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press:
"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on July 12, 2010 in a campaign statement:
Rob Portman’s "plan to tax, slash and privatize" Social Security "would devastate Ohioans."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • July 28, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on June 22, 2010 in a Democratic U.S. Senate debate against Rep. Kendrick Meek:
"If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • June 28, 2010
Lainey Melnick
Lainey Melnick
stated on April 23, 2010 in an e-mail blast:
Says U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout in 2008, "but now he is standing in the way of reforms that would assure these bailouts would never happen again."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 19, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
The financial services bill will end "too-big-to-fail."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2010
House Natural Resources Committee Republicans
House Natural Resources Committee Republicans
stated on April 5, 2010 in a news release posted on his website.:
"Obama did not open new lands to offshore drilling – all of these areas were already open for drilling once Congress and President Bush lifted the moratorium in 2008. Instead, President Obama yesterday announced what areas he would CLOSE to offshore drilling."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • April 23, 2010
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 31, 2010 in a speech to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs:
In 2004, "20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. ... Another 20 percent were receiving almost 40 percent."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • April 21, 2010
Barbara Cargill
Barbara Cargill
stated on March 11, 2010 in a State Board of Education meeting:
"The Federal Reserve system has presided over about a 95... percent decline in the U.S. dollar."
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 22, 2010
Farouk Shami
Farouk Shami
stated on February 9, 2010 in a press release:
"Mayor White has major stake in Barnett Shale production company."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 22, 2010
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 27, 2010 in an article on his Web site RonPaul.com:
"The money supply has doubled in the last year."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • February 5, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"We cut property taxes by one-third."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 3, 2010
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