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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2012 an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes"
"Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession.
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2012
Reid Ribble
Reid Ribble
stated on August 30, 2012 an interview
Says President Barack Obama "built this $16 trillion debt."
False
September 12, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 a TV debate
"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."
False
By Tom Mooney • September 5, 2012
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on August 14, 2012 an Americans for Prosperity attack ad
Says President Obama said of the national debt, "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 16, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on August 8, 2012 campaign website statements
Says he never voted for a "tax increase."
False
August 8, 2012
Michael Riley
Michael Riley
stated on July 26, 2012 a taped debate on "State of the State"
The Congressional Budget Office "has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on June 13, 2012 an interview
If the U.S. didn't borrow $1.2 trillion every year "to fund government operations," that money would be available "for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses."
False
July 8, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on June 28, 2012 a fundraising letter
President Obama’s health-care law will "add trillions of dollars in debt."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on June 8, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”
Says Joe Kyrillos "voted to raid the state's pension funds by $2.8 billion that is costing New Jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly $15 billion dollars to repay that money."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 17, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on April 21, 2012 an interview on State of the State
President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 27, 2012
Dolores Gresham
Dolores Gresham
stated on February 29, 2012 an interview with reporters following presentation of improved lottery revenues.
"Right now we have sufficient reserves to take care of Tennessee's lottery scholarship students for a few years more."
False
By Richard Locker • March 29, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 an interview on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight”
Says "we had to cut 13 billion dollars in state spending over two years."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 4, 2012
Red, White and Blue Fund
Red, White and Blue Fund
stated on February 24, 2012 a campaign ad
Mitt Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
False
By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on December 6, 2011 a telephone town hall meeting
Says in 1944 "we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now."
False
By Erin O'Neill • December 18, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 9, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Michigan
"By 2015, we will be sending so much interest" to China that "we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Occupy Providence
Occupy Providence
stated on October 19, 2011 a protest sign
"Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour."
False
By Lynn Arditi • October 26, 2011
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 19, 2011 a news release
Says U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is backing President Barack Obama’s plan to pass a $1.5 trillion tax increase.
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 23, 2011
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on September 3, 2011 a mailer posted on bluejersey.com
The deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling will "directly link a debt ceiling increase to spending cuts for the first time ever."
False
By Bill Wichert • September 9, 2011
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