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Latest Fact-Checks In Oil Spill

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National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on September 2, 2010 a television commercial
Proposed tax changes are a "handout" to BP.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Carol Browner
Carol Browner
stated on August 4, 2010 NBC's "Today Show."
"More than three-quarters of the oil is gone."
Half-True
August 16, 2010
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on July 26, 2010 a mailer
Dave Aronberg "was the first to demand that BP create a billion-dollar fund to pay for the devastation."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on July 20, 2010 remarks to reporters.
House Republicans who complained they didn't have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling "shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • July 21, 2010
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on July 2, 2010 an e-mail to supporters.
Dan Gelber's employment by BP's law firm "could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 15, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 9, 2010 a press release
"$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crist's political photo-op special session."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 14, 2010
Sharron Angle
Sharron Angle
stated on July 7, 2010 a local radio interview
On whether BP's $20 billion fund to compensate oil spill victims is "a slush fund."
Full Flop
By Martha M. Hamilton • July 13, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on July 6, 2010 a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
stated on July 8, 2010 a campaign ad
"Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist."
Mostly False
July 8, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 26, 2010 an interview on "Fox & Friends"
"We are picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags."
True
By Laura Figueroa • July 7, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 1, 2010 a speech at the Florida Association of Counties conference
"You know, when this thing first hit, I signed a declaration of emergency for the six counties that were directly affected, impacted in the Panhandle, then I extended that not long thereafter down into Sarasota County."
Mostly True
July 6, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 1, 2010 a speech at the Florida Association of Counties conference
"I have spent virtually every weekend since Memorial Day in the Panhandle."
True
July 2, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 a campaign speech in Grand Junction, Colo.
On the use of presidentially appointed commissions.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2010
Ron Klein
Ron Klein
stated on June 28, 2010 a fundraising e-mail
"West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2010
Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise
stated on June 15, 2010 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News
It was President Obama's "inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor's plan to protect our marsh."
Half-True
By Alex Holt • June 29, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on June 20, 2010 comments on 'Meet The Press'
Canada "does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States."
Mostly True
By Alex Holt • June 28, 2010
Florida Conservation Alliance
Florida Conservation Alliance
stated on June 19, 2010 a television commercial
"Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 11, 2010 a TV commercial
"Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
stated on June 7, 2010
"In fact, oil spills from tankers are far more common than the very rare leaks from rigs or pipelines."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 24, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on June 22, 2010 a debate
The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, "many of whom are our enemies."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2010
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