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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2011 a press conference
"Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on July 14, 2011 an interview with the 'New Hampshire Business Review"
"New Mexico is the second Hollywood" because of tax incentives for the film industry.
Half-True
By John Gregg • July 15, 2011
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on July 14, 2011 a television ad
"Our country's got this huge debt, and (President Barack) Obama says raise taxes and keep spending more."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 22, 2011 a chain e-mail
Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 12, 2011 an interview with CBS News
Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says scientists are "in dispute" over whether being gay is a choice.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"There's no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2011 a press conference
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 12, 2011
Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner
stated on June 24, 2011 a speech at Dartmouth College
For people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money." 
Half-True
By Jeffrey Good • July 12, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview with "Newsweek"
Slim Jims "just recently" cost 99 cents but now cost $2.69.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on July 11, 2011 a "New York Times" column
"There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2011
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on June 27, 2011 a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters
"Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • July 10, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 27, 2011 a roundtable with small business leaders in Salem, N.H.
By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • July 10, 2011
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on July 7, 2011 a Senate floor speech
"Fifty-one percent -- that is, a majority of American households -- paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter Town Hall
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter town hall
"Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn’t serve."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter town hall
"We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on July 3, 2011 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011
Shaun Donovan
Shaun Donovan
stated on July 3, 2011 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"
Housing prices dropped for the 30 months prior to Barack Obama taking office, "and they have stabilized, they've been about flat since the president came in."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 6, 2011
Steve Case
Steve Case
stated on July 3, 2011 an interview on CNN
"Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 6, 2011
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