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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 12, 2011 a foreign policy debate with Jon Huntsman in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 12, 2011:
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."
False
By John Gregg • December 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on December 12, 2011 a debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.:
"You look at defense … we're spending more than the rest of the world combined."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • December 13, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate:
"Only one president has ever cut Medicare for seniors in this country . . . Barack Obama."
False
By Molly Moorhead • December 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
In New York City, "an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
stated on December 9, 2011 a column in the New York Times:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa:
Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa:
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
In 1993, Newt Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" for it.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 11, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on November 30, 2011 a house party in New Hampshire:
"The Fed created $15 trillion in the bailout process" and $5 trillion went overseas.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 9, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 6, 2011 a speech in Osawatomie, Kan.:
"Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on November 16, 2011 an editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph:
"We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • December 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 6, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:
Says the congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by "a very partisan political committee" in a way that "related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 3, 2011 a Republican presidential candidate forum:
"I never favored cap and trade."
False
By Molly Moorhead • December 7, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 a press conference:
"The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 a press conference:
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on December 5, 2011 an interview on NBC's "The Daily Rundown":
Says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.
True
By Jake Berry • December 2, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 an op-ed in the "New Hampshire Union Leader":
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."
True
By John Gregg • December 2, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today Show":
In Iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2011
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