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Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on 2011-05-05 a debate in South Carolina:
The Medicare drug program "resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right." 
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on 2011-06-06 a Republican presidential debate:
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on 2011-05-15 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"A large number of the uninsured earn $75,000 or more a year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on 2011-06-12 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-06-13 a debate in New Hampshire:
Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on 2011-06-13 a debate in New Hampshire:
"There was a recent report out that the premiums for Medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. So it is not financially solvent."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 14, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-06-13 a debate in New Hampshire:
"The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on 2011-06-12 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
The Obama administration has cut taxes on small businesses 17 times.
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 13, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on 2011-06-12 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on 2011-06-09 a New York Times column:
"The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on 2011-05-26 a YouTube video:
"When I became president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, it was supposed to go bankrupt . . . We turned it around with common-sense business principles."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on 2011-06-07 a web news story:
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
By Robert Farley • June 9, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on 2011-06-05 an interview with political commentator Roland Martin:
By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2011
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
stated on 2011-05-24 a congressional subcommittee hearing:
The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 8, 2011
Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn
stated on 2011-06-07 a TV ad:
Says that Sarah Palin and Craig Huey "would ban a woman's right to choose in every case"
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 8, 2011
Janice Hahn
Janice Hahn
stated on 2011-06-07 a TV ad:
Says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a "murder mill."
True
By Robert Farley • June 8, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2011-06-07 a chain e-mail:
Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on 2011-06-05 an interview on Fox:
"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, 'Hey, you're not going to succeed.' "
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on 2011-06-05 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on 2011-06-05 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
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