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Portland Public Schools
Portland Public Schools
stated on April 15, 2011 a mailer:
Per-student K-12 state funding for Portland Public Schools has dipped from $6,036 in the 2007-2008 school year to $5,644 in the 2010-2011 school year
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • April 23, 2011
Peter Nehr
Peter Nehr
stated on April 20, 2011 comments published in the 'St. Petersburg Times':
An Internet sweepstakes cafe is "a legitimate business that has been vetted and found to be completely legal in the state."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 20, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on April 6, 2011 a radio interview:
General Electric "hasn't really created any jobs in this country, doesn't  pay any taxes, and they're making historic profits."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • April 20, 2011
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on April 15, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":
According to David Cay Johnston, "the average American pays about 22 percent of their income to federal taxes. The richest 400 Americans … pay about 16 percent of their income to federal taxes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 31, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"In this bill that I’ve just signed, we don’t cut anybody’s salary. We don’t take away their pension. And we don’t destroy their health care."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • April 19, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 14, 2011 a fundraising e-mail:
"Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on February 10, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives:
"What we have done with the PATRIOT Act, we've given the government enormous powers. We've given the government the right to reach deeply into people's private lives, into their business affairs, without a court order."
Half-True
By James Ewinger • April 18, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on April 5, 2011 an e-mail.:
Tim Kaine proposed "over $6 billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governor’s mansion until the time he left."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • April 16, 2011
Jeff Cogen
Jeff Cogen
stated on February 4, 2011 a speech:
Multnomah County has faced "11 straight years" of cuts
Half-True
By Janie Har • April 16, 2011
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on March 30, 2011 an interview:
"When we lower tax rates, we generate more in revenues. That happened in '86 with the Reagan plan, happened in 2001, following the Bush plan."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech at George Washington University:
"In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 14, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech:
"By the end of this decade, the interest we owe on our debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2011
Michael Turner
Michael Turner
stated on April 30, 2010 a letter from the Ohio congressional delegation to NASA:
A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be "within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • April 14, 2011
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on February 23, 2011 a discussion at a town hall meeting:
"The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don’t even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee. I just experienced that myself. They’re not nearly as good."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 12, 2011
Stefani Carter
Stefani Carter
stated on February 16, 2011:
Says the Beaumont school district’s superintendent is the highest-paid in the state.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 11, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"I have the No. 1 show on NBC."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 5, 2011 a public statement:
"We’ve introduced a bill that includes $12 billion in cuts over the next week."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2011
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on March 22, 2011:
"Across the United States, 25 percent of voting age African Americans do not have the photo ID that this bill would require."
Half-True
By Aaron Marshall • April 7, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 4, 2011 a public appearance:
Under a House Republican appropriations bill, "6 million seniors are deprived of meals."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on April 1, 2011 a column in the "Wall Street Journal":
The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
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