Fact Check Posts – Page 21

Kendrick Meek
stated on February 20, 2010 a statement on his Web site

Florida "has the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation."

By Lukas Pleva • March 2, 2010

John Boehner
stated on February 11, 2010 a press release

Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, "The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year."

February 12, 2010

Jon Stewart
stated on February 3, 2010 an interview with Bill O'Reilly

One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.

By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore

Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010

Ronnie Earle
stated on January 18, 2010 a speech

"Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union speech

"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."

By Catharine Richert • January 28, 2010

Lamar Smith
stated on December 15, 2009 in a press release

"Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 12, 2010

Jeff Miller
stated on November 19, 2009 a newsletter

Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that "do not exist."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 24, 2009

Lou Dobbs
stated on October 15, 2009 on his television show

U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.

By Catharine Richert • October 19, 2009

Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story"

During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."

October 7, 2009

Cokie Roberts
stated on October 4, 2009 appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."

By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2009

Michael Moore
stated on September 29, 2009 a news conference in Washington, D.C.

"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."

By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2009

Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 a statement on the House floor.

There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.

"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."

By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009

Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous.

"Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent."

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2009

Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.

"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."

By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009

Paul Krugman
stated on June 22, 2009 a column

Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2009

Ron Wyden
stated on March 17, 2009 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show

"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."

By Alexander Lane • March 18, 2009

Bobby Jindal
stated on February 22, 2009 an interview on "Meet the Press."

Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 24, 2009

Fred Smith
stated on February 5, 2009 appearance on ABC's This Week

"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."

By Alexander Lane • February 6, 2009

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