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Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
stated on January 24, 2012 a Republican response to the State of the Union address
"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union address
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union address
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union address
"Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union address
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
True
By Molly Moorhead • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate in Tampa, Fla.
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate
Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are "government-sponsored enterprises" like Freddie Mac.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 19, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C.
"I didn't inherit money from my parents."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 21, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 19, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate
President Obama has "said he is going to cut veterans' benefits."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 20, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 10, 2012 a video campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney "put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 20, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 10, 2012 a video ad
"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • January 20, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 16, 2012 a debate in South Carolina
Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.
False
By Molly Moorhead • January 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2012 a campaign ad
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 18, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2012
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