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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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