Fact Check Posts – Page 18

Bill Clegg
stated on June 24, 2010 candidate web page

The U.S. deficit "increases at $3 million per second."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 2, 2010

Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 4, 2010 a candidate forum

"Fifty-three percent of teens in Central Falls are getting pregnant."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 25, 2010

Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference

New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010

Richard Shelby
stated on March 25, 2010 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."

By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010

Lindsey Graham
stated on March 24, 2010 an appearance on the Fox News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren

"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."

By Catharine Richert • March 30, 2010

Farouk Shami
stated on February 8, 2010 a debate

"My opponent... lost 43,000 jobs in Houston since he took over; we are losing jobs."

February 18, 2010

Bill White
stated on February 2, 2010 a questionnaire

"As Houston's mayor, I helped our area lead the nation in job growth."

February 18, 2010

Sarah Palin
stated on February 6, 2010 a speech to members of the Tea Party

Vice President Joe Biden's meeting "with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public."

By Catharine Richert • February 9, 2010

Scott Brown
stated on January 31, 2010 an interview with Barbara Walters

"Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts."

By Catharine Richert • February 3, 2010

Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate

"The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010

Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2009 a press release

Says approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas.

By W. Gardner Selby • January 12, 2010

Rush Limbaugh
stated on December 8, 2009 his radio show

A recent drop in the unemployment rate is questionable because it was calculated "over two days of the Thanksgiving week."

By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2009 comments at the White House

When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 7, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on November 30, 2009 a statement on his show on Fox News Channel

Less than 10 percent of Obama's Cabinet appointees "have any experience in the private sector."

By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 her book, Going Rogue

"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.

By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2009

Tom McClintock
stated on October 27, 2009 a speech on the House floor

Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009

Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 the movie Capitalism: A Love Story

All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day.

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2009

Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 a column in Investor's Business Daily.

The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."

By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009

John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad

"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."

July 7, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on March 25, 2009 a press release.

"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.

By Alexander Lane • April 1, 2009

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