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Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on 2011-07-10 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 2011-07-11 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 2011-06-24 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 2011-07-10 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 2011-07-11 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 2011-06-27 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 2011-06-27 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 2011-07-07 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 2011-07-06 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 2011-07-06 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 2011-07-06 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 2011-07-03 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 2011-07-03 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 2011-07-03 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
United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy
stated on 2011-06-07 a chart:
From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2011-06-22 a chain e-mail:
Says that President Obama said, "Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?" 
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-06-29 a press conference:
"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011
Richard Swett
Richard Swett
stated on 2011-06-21 a conference call with reporters.:
Says that in 2009, Jon Huntsman "said that the Recovery Act wasn't large enough and as governor he asked for $14.4 billion in federal stimulus funds. Now he's saying that he never supported it."
Half-True
By Jake Berry • July 3, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-06-26 an interview on Fox News:
"My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm."
False
By Robert Farley • July 1, 2011
Renewable Fuels Association
Renewable Fuels Association
stated on 2011-06-22 an advertisement in Washington, D.C., Metro stations:
Ethanol reduced gas prices by 89 cents per gallon in 2010, and if ethanol disappeared, gas prices could rise by as much as 92 percent.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2011
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