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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 in his State of the Union address:
"Veterans can now download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 31, 2011
Jeff Stone
Jeff Stone
stated on January 21, 2011 in a statement at a candidate forum:
Regulations on developers have thwarted construction on county-owned land in Milwaukee’s downtown Park East corridor.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • January 31, 2011
Oregon Senate Republicans (The Leadership Fund)
Oregon Senate Republicans (The Leadership Fund)
stated on January 20, 2011 in a press release:
In September, the Department of Business and Consumer Services enacted a sudden 39% workers' compensation premium assessment by rule with little notice to the public.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • January 31, 2011
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on January 26, 2011 in an online posting:
"The economy we preside over today is better than the one we inherited."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • January 31, 2011
Americans For Tax Reform
Americans For Tax Reform
stated on January 10, 2011 in in a news release.:
Recommendations for a major tax overhaul for Georgia are an "overall tax hike."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 28, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2011 in the GOP response to the State of the Union:
The health care law "is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 in a response to the State of the Union address:
The federal government "now tells us which light bulbs to buy."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 in a response to the State of the Union:
"The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 26, 2011
Cory Mason
Cory Mason
stated on January 13, 2011 in a news release:
"Republican (small business tax cut) bill spends $80 million for better Google searches, not job creation"
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • January 26, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 6, 2011 in a FoxNews interview:
Says the Defense Department shrink-wrapped $10.8 billion in American money, loaded it on 175 pallets and put it on a transport plane to Iraq where they passed out $100 bills and no one has any receipts.
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 24, 2011
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on January 12, 2011 in the State of the Commonwealth address:
"It is estimated that every $100 million spent on construction generates 3,000 new jobs."
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • January 22, 2011
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 15, 2010 in a press release:
The financial regulatory bill "will kill jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on January 16, 2011 in an interview after a town hall meeting:
"We had a debate on whether ‘ObamaCare’ was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • January 20, 2011
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on December 25, 2010 in a newspaper article:
The nation's food supply is "99.99 percent safe."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 19, 2011
Greg Walden
Greg Walden
stated on November 12, 2010 in a radio address:
"The incoming Republican freshman class – well, it’s no ordinary group: nearly half of its roughly 80 members have never served in elective office before."
Mostly False
By Charles Pope • January 17, 2011
Jeff Fitzgerald
Jeff Fitzgerald
stated on December 27, 2010 in a television interview:
Says 15,000 IRS employees "have to be added to administer ‘ObamaCare’ and look at the tax implications."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • January 14, 2011
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on January 4, 2011 in a news conference announcing his candidacy for Milwaukee County executive:
"I have fought for our shared values without being an ideologue or a partisan"
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • January 13, 2011
DeKalb County
DeKalb County
stated on December 23, 2010 in its website:
"The Greenest County in America."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • January 3, 2011
Texas Veterans Commission
Texas Veterans Commission
stated on December 5, 2010 in a newspaper article.:
Says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 1, 2011
Rees Lloyd
Rees Lloyd
stated on December 10, 2010 in a website posting:
Portland Public Schools invites "well-paid, well-fed school bureaucrats, administrators, teachers, other staff, non-needy students, affluent parents of students, and other adults, including on the other extreme the adult homeless, illegal aliens, fanatical Muslim terrorists, or drug addicted street people, to enjoy cheap breakfasts in taxpayer-paid school facilities amidst school children."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • December 25, 2010
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