Fact Check Posts – Page 174

Chain email
stated on July 14, 2009 a chain email:

"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."

By Catharine Richert • July 29, 2009

Betsy McCaughey
stated on July 16, 2009 on the Fred Thompson radio show:

The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."

By Catharine Richert • July 23, 2009

Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 an editorial.:

The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009

Chain email
stated on June 25, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.:

"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2009

Chain email
stated on May 24, 2009 an e-mail received by many people.:

The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."

By Robert Farley • July 1, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 an interview with the Washington Times.:

ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."

By Robert Farley • June 26, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 a Washington Times interview:

Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."

By Robert Farley • June 25, 2009

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 30, 2009 an e-mail:

Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • June 8, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2009 interview with Canal Plus Television:

"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."

By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009

Steve King
stated on May 6, 2009 a Fox News interview:

The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create "special protection for pedophiles."

By Robert Farley • May 14, 2009

Chain email
stated on May 2, 2009 a chain e-mail:

Obama used $20 million in federal money "to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA."

By Robert Farley • May 8, 2009

Joe Biden
stated on April 30, 2009 an interview on "The Today Show":

"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 4, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on April 27, 2009 an interview with Pajamas Media.:

In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."

By Bill Adair • April 30, 2009

House Republican Conference
stated on March 24, 2009 a press release and Web post:

"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."

By Alexander Lane • March 30, 2009

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."

By Robert Farley • March 24, 2009

Chain email
stated on March 18, 2009 a chain e-mail:

"AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!"

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 18, 2009

Chain email
stated on January 30, 2009 in many blogs and an email sent to many people.:

"The Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution."

By Bill Adair • February 11, 2009

Chain email
stated on January 12, 2009 Internet attack:

"Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income."

By Alexander Lane • February 11, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on January 31, 2009 a speech to House Republicans:

"You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government — federal, state, local, or otherwise — has never created one job."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 10, 2009

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."

By Robert Farley • January 27, 2009

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