Fact Check Posts – Page 152

American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad

The health care law "imposes the largest tax increase in history on the middle class."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012

Nick Ciparro
stated on June 27, 2012 Posted by Ciparro's website

"In the last 10 years, only one piece of legislation has been cosponsored and passed by" John Duncan Jr.

By Michael Collins • July 7, 2012

Bob McDonnell
stated on June 29, 2012 a TV interview.

States still face a "mandate" to expand Medicaid coverage under President Obama's health care reform law.

By Sean Gorman • July 6, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on June 29, 2012 a TV interview with Greta Van Susteren

A company with "20 employees" could go "out of business" because of health care law requirements to buy insurance.

By Katie Sanders, Tia Mitchell • July 3, 2012

Helio Melo
stated on June 7, 2012 a House floor debate

"People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Tom Mooney • July 1, 2012

Mark Neumann
stated on June 20, 2012 an interview

Says "Barack Obama and his team" are "socialists in every respect of the word."

By Tom Kertscher • June 29, 2012

Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 28, 2012 comments on his radio show

"Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world."

By Aaron Sharockman • June 28, 2012

Chain email
stated on June 26, 2012 a message forwarded to many people

Says "a lip-reading instructor at the River School, a Washington, D.C., school for the deaf" has determined that during 9/11 ceremonies, Michelle Obama said, "All this for a damn flag."

By Bill Adair • June 26, 2012

Pat Kreitlow
stated on June 6, 2012 a news release

Says GOP U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin "voted twice to end Medicare."

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2012

Tommy Thompson
stated on June 7, 2012 a television ad

Federal health care reforms amounted to ‘the government takeover of health care.’

By James B. Nelson • June 24, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 10, 2012 a widely circulated posting

"Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in U.S. are illegals."

By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2012

Dave Weldon
stated on June 17, 2012 a statement on Central Florida News 13’s 'Political Connections'

"There’s no wildlife" in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

By Katie Sanders • June 21, 2012

Oregon Lottery
stated on June 17, 2012 an advertisement

Says 97 cents of every dollar played "represents over $500 million dollars that is returned to Oregonians every year to help support job creation, schools, state parks and watersheds."

By Ian K. Kullgren • June 20, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2012 on the Internet

"More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals."

By Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2012

Josh Mandel
stated on May 23, 2012 a campaign commercial

Sherrod Brown "gave huge bonuses to executives."

By Tom Feran • June 15, 2012

National Rifle Association
stated on June 11, 2012 a mailer

Says Barack "Obama admits he’s coming for our guns, telling Sarah Brady, ‘We are working on (gun control), but under the radar.’ "

By Aaron Sharockman • June 14, 2012

Roger Williams
stated on June 5, 2012 an Austin appearance with Wes Riddle, fellow GOP hopeful for US House.

Says Barack Obama is a socialist.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2012

Chain email
stated on April 1, 2012 e-mail messages circulating on the Internet

Says Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a late-night visit to Kinko’s to forge President Barack Obama’s birth certificate two days before Obama unveiled it to the media.

By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2012

Kasim Reed
stated on March 13, 2012 press conference

The new Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal was "on time and on budget."

By Willoughby Mariano • June 6, 2012

stated on May 31, 2012 a web ad

"Scott Walker has a plan to privatize state lands" and "wants to sell our deer to the highest bidder."

By James B. Nelson • June 4, 2012

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