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Latest Fact-Checks By Robert Farley

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Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 25, 2009 in a Fox News interview.
Obama's proposed budget "doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2009
Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia Lummis
stated on March 24, 2009 a news conference.
Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are "going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • March 24, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 17, 2009 a TV interview
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
True
By Robert Farley • March 20, 2009
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
stated on March 16, 2009 in a TV interview
AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."
True
By Robert Farley • March 18, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 12, 2009 a news conference
"I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one."
True
By Robert Farley • March 16, 2009
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 8, 2009 a TV interview
"No Bridge to Nowhere could occur."
False
By Robert Farley • March 12, 2009
Peter Orszag
Peter Orszag
stated on March 8, 2009 a TV interview.
"Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent."
False
By Robert Farley • March 11, 2009
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on March 9, 2009 a cable TV ad
Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • March 10, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 5, 2009 a speech in Miami Beach, Fla.
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 6, 2009
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on February 5, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor.
There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that "students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study."
False
By Robert Farley • February 13, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 9, 2009 a news conference
"Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented."
True
By Robert Farley • February 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 3, 2009 interview with CBS News
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 9, 2009
Fidelis
Fidelis
stated on February 3, 2009 a news release
"Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 6, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on February 1, 2009 in a Fox News interview.
The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes "millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2009 appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation"
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."
True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 26, 2009 a news release
"The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 2, 2009
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on January 28, 2009 a news release
"The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • January 29, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2009 in a meeting with business leaders
"In Chicago, school is never canceled" because of winter weather.
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 23, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."
False
By Robert Farley • January 27, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 23, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
The stimulus bill includes "$300,000 for a sculpture garden in Miami."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • January 27, 2009
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