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Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on July 31, 2011 on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
"The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 31, 2011 remarks from the White House:
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 29, 2011 an e-mail:
"If the debt ceiling is surpassed, our nation will not go into default as some suggest."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Martha M. Hamilton • August 2, 2011
Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America
Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America
stated on August 1, 2011 a television ad:
A Waushara County school closed because of state budget cuts supported by Republican Wisconsin state Sen. Luther Olsen.
Half-True
By James B. Nelson • August 2, 2011
Judson Phillips
Judson Phillips
stated on July 27, 2011 a "Washington Post" opinion piece:
"Our government has spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 29, 2011
We Are Wisconsin
We Are Wisconsin
stated on July 15, 2011 a news release:
Says Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling offered "unqualified support" for a plan to end Medicare
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 29, 2011
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on July 17, 2011 a column:
"Recently we have seen our government debt grow by $3.4 trillion during the first 29 months of the Obama administration -- the equivalent of about $4 billion per day."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • July 28, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 19, 2011 debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:
"The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003."
Half-True
By Therese Bottomly • July 25, 2011
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on July 19, 2011 a campaign video.:
"This past (legislative) session, we passed out of the Legislature a resolution requiring Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the (U.S.) Constitution."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 25, 2011
Raymond Lesniak
Raymond Lesniak
stated on July 12, 2011 testimony during a Senate hearing:
Says "the most dangerous time for children" is from "3 to 6 p.m., during which time juvenile crime rates triple"
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • July 25, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 12, 2011 a radio ad:
Says the state budget "doubled property tax credits for seniors and middle class New Jerseyans" and had "no tax increases for any New Jersey family for the second year in a row."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • July 24, 2011
Dominick Marino
Dominick Marino
stated on June 6, 2011 a column on PolitickerNJ.com:
"The firefighter and police officer pension system is not headed for bankruptcy, far from it. That’s because New Jersey first responders -- fire fighters and police officers -- have never missed making payments to the retirement system." 
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • July 22, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 18, 2011 a tweet:
"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2011
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on June 24, 2011 a news release:
Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, "even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate:
"Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 19, 2011
Jack Murphy
Jack Murphy
stated on June 27, 2011 a press release:
Georgia’s illegal-immigration legislation "simply follows existing federal law."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • July 18, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on June 24, 2011 a radio interview:
"Sherrod Brown was just voted two years in a row the most liberal senator in the United States of America" and is more liberal than Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • July 18, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on July 6, 2011 a radio interview:
Says the U.S. borrows "42 cents of every dollar Washington spends today and about half of that comes from countries like China."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 15, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on July 14, 2011 an interview with the 'New Hampshire Business Review":
"New Mexico is the second Hollywood" because of tax incentives for the film industry.
Half-True
By John Gregg • July 15, 2011
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