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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on November 3, 2011 a conference call with reporters
Says Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on November 1, 2011 a speech on energy policy at University of New Hampshire
The United States sends "$300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes."
Half-True
By John Gregg • November 8, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 a speech in Manchester, N.H.
"We spend half a trillion dollars a year in tax preparation."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 4, 2011 an op-ed in USA Today
Repealing the health care law "would save $95 billion in 2016."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 4, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 1, 2011 a Fox television interview
"Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law."
False
By Molly Moorhead • November 3, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2011 a talk at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H.
In Libya, "America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • November 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 3, 2011 a campaign ad
"Because of Barack Obama the mission in Iraq ended."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • November 3, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 28, 2011 a web advertisement
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on gun control.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 2, 2011 a campaign ad
"Because of Barack Obama 32 million new people will have healthcare."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • November 2, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 28, 2011 a web advertisement
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 31, 2011 an interview on "PBS Newshour"
China is "trying to develop nuclear capability."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 2, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 24, 2011 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney’s housing policy is, "Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 25, 2011 a speech at a fundraiser
"I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... We've got about 60 percent done in three years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 28, 2011 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer
"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on October 19, 2011 a segment on The Rachel Maddow Show
"A recent Department of Labor study guessed Wall Street fees cost a worker 28 percent of the value of your plan over the span of your career."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 28, 2011
Jeb Hensarling
Jeb Hensarling
stated on October 26, 2011 a hearing of the congressional "Supercommittee"
The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 25, 2011 a chain e-mail
Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on September 24, 2011 a chain e-mail
Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2011
Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta
stated on October 23, 2011 congressional testimony
"After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2011 Flint, Mich.
"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 25, 2011
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