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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on 2011-02-04 an interview with ABC News:
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat
stated on 2011-01-30 a newspaper column:
Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, "Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on 2011-01-18 an interview on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston":
Nevada will be "energy independent within the immediate future."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on 2011-02-02 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
In the 1980s, "The lowest income people had the biggest gains."
False
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on 2011-01-21 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011
Blake Farenthold
Blake Farenthold
stated on 2011-01-23 an op-ed:
"Despite claims that you can 'keep the health care plan you like,' the Obama Administration has predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2011
Sameh Shoukry
Sameh Shoukry
stated on 2011-01-30 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
In the past 20 years, Egypt has made "great strides" in political and democratic reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 31, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-01-25 his State of the Union address:
"Veterans can now download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 31, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on 2011-01-25 a tweet during the State of the Union address:
Says government is a barrier to innovation and development.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on 2011-01-27 a Senate Tea Party Caucus meeting:
Says President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he "now is against earmarks."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2011
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on 2011-01-23 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
"We're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2011
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
stated on 2011-01-23 "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The American people say, don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense. That's 84 percent of the federal budget."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on 2011-01-25 the GOP response to the State of the Union:
The health care law "is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-01-25 a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:
"While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-01-25 a response to the State of the Union address:
The federal government "now tells us which light bulbs to buy."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-01-25 the State of the Union speech:
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-01-25 a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:
The federal government "may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2011-01-25 a response to the State of the Union:
"The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 26, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on 2011-01-25 a response to the State of the Union address:
"The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy."
True
By Stephen Koff, Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2011-01-25 the State of the Union address:
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
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