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Latest Fact-Checks On Michele Bachmann

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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 the Blooomberg/Washington Post Republican presidential debate.
Says Rick Perry increased spending in Texas by more than 50 percent.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • October 14, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 the Bloomberg/Washington Post Republican presidential debate.
Says Rick Perry co-chaired Al Gore’s campaign for president.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 Republican presidential primary debate
"Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in."
True
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando
"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 13, 2011 several media interviews
Says the vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 12, 2011 the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa
"We know that President Obama stole over $500 billion out of Medicare to switch it over to Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 7, 2011 a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library
"The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 26, 2011 a campaign event
President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2011 a campaign event
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 11, 2011 a debate in Ames, Iowa
When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on July 24, 2011 a prepared statement
Says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, "The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm."
False
July 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 27, 2011 several speeches and interviews
Says President Barack Obama said that if he doesn’t turn the economy around after three years in office, he’ll be a one-term president.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 CBS' Face the Nation
"Under Barack Obama the last two years, the number of federal limousines for bureaucrats has increased 73 percent."
Mostly False
June 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 1, 2011 an interview on WKXL-AM in Concord, N.H.
"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent."
False
By Jake Berry • June 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011
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