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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 9, 2012 an appearance on 'This Week.':
Says he and Mitt Romney "always said that we agree with the 2014 deadline" for leaving Afghanistan.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • September 11, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 28, 2012 a chain email:
On new dollar coins, "'In God We Trust' is gone!"
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 8, 2012 a speech in Seminole, Fla.:
"We've doubled our use of renewable energy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • September 10, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a convention speech:
The Obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements "only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent."
True
By Molly Moorhead • September 10, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says President Barack Obama "gives students the right to repay (federal) loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 a convention speech:
Says Romney called Russia our No. 1 enemy.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"I've cut taxes for ... middle-class families, small businesses."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic convention:
Says his budget plan "would cut our deficits by $4 trillion."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic convention:
Says that Mitt Romney's response to the crisis in the auto industry was, "Let Detroit go bankrupt."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 7, 2012
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, "Republicans stood on the sidelines"
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on September 2, 2012 an appearance on Meet the Press:
Says Mitt Romney asked for a waiver from federal welfare rules.
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • September 6, 2012
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on August 5, 2012 a "Face the Nation" interview:
Ohio has "created 45,000 new manufacturing jobs since 2010. And that's due in large part to the fact that the auto rescue has helped Ohio."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 6, 2012
Bob King
Bob King
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, "since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs."
True
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for "the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget."
True
By Becky Bowers • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"In the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 his Democratic National Convention speech:
The stimulus program "cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 5, 2012 a convention speech:
Mitt Romney said we should let foreclosures "hit the bottom."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • September 6, 2012
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