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Latest Fact-Checks On Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 26, 2011 a news conference.:
The 2009 stimulus bill "failed to get people back to work."
False
By Sean Gorman • June 3, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 18, 2011 a Town Hall conversation.:
"If you look at the benefits and wages of recorded federal employees, they far outstrip the market rates of the private sector."
True
By Wes Hester • May 31, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 20, 2011 a press conference:
Says the United States is "the Saudi Arabia of coal."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 27, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on April 27, 2011 an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box":
There is "a situation in this country where you're nearing 50 percent of people who don't even pay income taxes."
True
By Wes Hester • May 9, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on April 27, 2011 a TV appearance.:
"You’ve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs."  
True
By Jacob Geiger • May 4, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 17, 2011 a TV interview.:
Discretionary spending has "increased over 20-some percent in two years if you don’t include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, it’s over 80 percent."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • April 1, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 4, 2011 a press release.:
"Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 16, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 19, 2011 a bill introduced on the House floor.:
The health care law is "job killing."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • January 20, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 6, 2011 a statement.:
The health care reform law "offset[s] 6 years of benefits with 10 years of tax increases."
Half-True
By Wes Hester • January 15, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on November 3, 2010 a TV interview.:
Letting the Bush tax cuts expire would raise taxes on small businesses.
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • November 26, 2010
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on October 30, 2010 a letter to the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
"The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined." 
True
By Wes Hester • November 7, 2010
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on October 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
In the past two years, Democrats have "spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2010
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
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 23, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.:
"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."
False
By Robert Farley • January 27, 2009
Eric Cantor
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • January 27, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 21, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.:
Says a Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it "is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow."
False
By Robert Farley • January 23, 2009
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