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National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on June 3, 2011 a press release.:
"President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs."
False
By Jacob Geiger • June 20, 2011
Diane Allen
Diane Allen
stated on May 9, 2011 a press release:
Says Ocean Spray is moving its Bordentown processing facility to Pennsylvania largely because of costs associated with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
False
By Bill Wichert • June 20, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop:
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2011
Kim Guadagno
Kim Guadagno
stated on May 11, 2011 a radio interview on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show:
Says Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 10, 2011
Ward Armstrong
Ward Armstrong
stated on May 23, 2011 a news release.:
Under Gov. Bob McDonnell, more jobs have been lost than created in Southside and Southwest Virginia.
False
By Sean Gorman • May 28, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 16, 2011 an interview with Bloomberg television:
"In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 a presidential campaign announcement video:
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 a speech in Austin, Texas:
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on April 26, 2011 an online column:
Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will  "immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."
False
By Stephen Koff • May 4, 2011
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
stated on April 17, 2011 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2011
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2011
Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security."
False
By Lucas Graves • February 17, 2011
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
stated on January 20, 2011 a report:
"The most significant driver of out-migration [from Rhode Island] is the estate tax."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Peter Lord • February 13, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM:
"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . ."
False
By Tom Feran • February 9, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on February 2, 2011 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
In the 1980s, "The lowest income people had the biggest gains."
False
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on November 23, 2010 an MSNBC interview:
"Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 28, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 19, 2011 a bill introduced on the House floor.:
The health care law is "job killing."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • January 20, 2011
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