Latest Fact-Checks In Government Regulation

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Connie Mack
Connie Mack
stated on August 11, 2012 remarks
"A small business in my district" needed "31 different permits and fees just to be able to expand."
Mostly True
By Brittany Alana Davis • August 21, 2012
Gloria Romero Roses
Gloria Romero Roses
stated on July 18, 2012 a mailer
Says Joe Garcia "voted to raise our utility rates."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 13, 2012
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on July 29, 2012 a commentary in The Providence Journal
Rhode Island has "the most burdensome level of health-insurance mandates in the nation."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 12, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on August 3, 2012 a TV ad
Says U.S. Senate rival Eric Hovde "refused to pay his property taxes until he was taken to court."
Mostly True
August 10, 2012
Salmon for All
Salmon for All
stated on August 1, 2012 a guest column
"This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River."
Half-True
By Janie Har • August 9, 2012
Chuck Fleischmann
Chuck Fleischmann
stated on July 17, 2012 in a blog post on his campaign website.
Says that President Obama said that "Small Businesses Succeed Because of Government."
False
By Michael Collins • August 6, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 13, 2012 tweets
Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.
False
July 15, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 19, 2012 a speech to the Business Roundtable in Frankenmuth, Mich.
Says Dow Chemical decided to build a plant in Saudi Arabia rather than Oklahoma due to the impact of environmental regulations on the supply of natural gas.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 3, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 19, 2012 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 2, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on June 20, 2012 an interview
Says "Barack Obama and his team" are "socialists in every respect of the word."
Pants on Fire!
June 29, 2012
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
stated on June 18, 2012 prepared remarks at a Congressional field hearing.
"Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma."
True
By Zack McMillin • June 24, 2012
John G. Edwards
John G. Edwards
stated on June 5, 2012 a debate on the House floor
Decriminalizing marijuana "will save the state anywhere from $4 (million) to $11 million dollars."
False
By Tom Mooney • June 17, 2012
Jefferson Smith
Jefferson Smith
stated on April 30, 2012 a debate
Says the mayor’s job "is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we don’t have, we don't say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to."
False
By Janie Har • May 5, 2012
Eileen Brady
Eileen Brady
stated on April 30, 2012 a debate
Says we could have saved ourselves the cost of building the Powell Butte water reservoir.
False
By Janie Har • May 5, 2012
Jefferson Smith
Jefferson Smith
stated on April 30, 2012 a debate
Says  "I don’t agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics."
Mostly True
By Janie Har • May 5, 2012
AARP
AARP
stated on March 26, 2012 a news release
"Large phone companies and their trade association have hired 35 registered lobbyists to influence and pass SB 271 (deregulation legislation)."
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • April 19, 2012
Eric Kearney
Eric Kearney
stated on March 28, 2012 a speech in the Ohio Senate
An effort to repeal voting-reform legislation would be "the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum."
True
By Joe Guillen • April 9, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on March 29, 2012 a news release
Sherrod Brown opposed blocking a new EPA emissions rule, "despite acknowledging that the EPA's cap-and-trade regulations are ‘burdensome’ and could harm economic growth in Ohio."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • April 5, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 23, 2012 a speech in Miami
"We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 11, 2012 speech at CPAC
"We are poised to get rid of over 1,000 more regulations in 2012."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • February 17, 2012
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