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Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business network:
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on March 23, 2011 a news conference:
Says a photo ID voting law in Georgia didn't dissuade black voters from participating in voting. "It hasn't, it doesn't, and apparently, if you do cause and effect in that state, it's been helpful."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • April 4, 2011
James Cenerini
James Cenerini
stated on March 24, 2011 testimony before the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee:
When you compare our state pension system "to other systems throughout the country, our benefits are not gold-plated. They are not rich. They are actually average or below average."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 3, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 17, 2011 a TV interview.:
Discretionary spending has "increased over 20-some percent in two years if you don’t include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, it’s over 80 percent."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • April 1, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21 percent. … we brought that down dramatically, to about 1.7 percent per year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 1, 2011
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2011 a hearing:
Says that during the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the U.S. detained people from nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism on the southwestern border.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 1, 2011
Greater Wisconsin Committee
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on March 30, 2011 a television ad:
Says David Prosser = Scott Walker.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 31, 2011
Babur Lateef
Babur Lateef
stated on March 26, 2011 a YouTube video.:
Since Corey Stewart became chairman in November 2006, unemployment is up 150% and average home price sales are down $150,000.
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 30, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2011 a televised address:
"Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Joseph McNamara
Joseph McNamara
stated on March 16, 2011 a news release:
"About 22 percent of adults in Rhode Island and approximately 30 percent of youth (ages 10-17) are considered obese."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 25, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on March 3, 2011 a House committee hearing:
"Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government."
Half-True
By James McCarty • March 24, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on March 18, 2011 comments on his Fox News show.:
Says Allen West helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an Iraqi detainee, then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong.
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 23, 2011
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on March 11, 2011 a Twitter post:
"Since President Obama took office, gas prices have gone up 67 percent."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • March 23, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 8, 2011 his State of the State speech:
Ohio Director of Job Creation "Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didn't keep them."
Half-True
By Mark Naymik • March 23, 2011
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on March 9, 2011 an article published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Studies have shown that in the absence of federal reproductive health funds, we are going to see the level of abortion in Georgia increase by about 44 percent.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • March 22, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 18, 2011 a private briefing to Members of Congress:
"The Congressional Budget Office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward, and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year 2037 because their computer simulation can't conceive of any way in which the U.S. economy can continue."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2011
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on March 14, 2011 a Tweet.:
The GOP budget plan "would cut nearly a million jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 21, 2011
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 4, 2011 a newspaper interview:
"If you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector, it's out of whack. The government's growing and the private economy's shrinking."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • March 21, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 4, 2011 a press release.:
"Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
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