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Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 10, 2009 an interview with Rachel Maddow:
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 a mailing:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall on health care:
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert, Robert Farley • August 12, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 his radio show:
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 a PBS interview.:
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 9, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad:
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on July 2, 2009 a television ad:
Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 6, 2009
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 17, 2009 a press release on the House GOP's blog.:
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 23, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 10, 2009 a column.:
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 19, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 8, 2009 a press release.:
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 8, 2009
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on May 26, 2009 weekly Senate Republican radio address:
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2009 a speech:
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 29, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 26, 2009 his radio program:
Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • May 28, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 17, 2009 an interview on Fox News Sunday.:
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 10, 2009 a television interview:
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 13, 2009
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
stated on April 27, 2009 a television ad:
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2009 a speech at Georgetown University:
"Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2009
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on April 15, 2009 a news release:
It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 16, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 24, 2009 a press release.:
"Some even advocate wiping out 401(k)s entirely and replacing them with government-run accounts."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2009
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