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Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on September 12, 2010 a White House news release
Says John Boehner changed his position on extending Bush tax cuts.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2010 a speech on Labor Day
John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole "that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on September 2, 2010 a television commercial
Proposed tax changes are a "handout" to BP.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 8, 2010 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio.
"When these same Republicans –- including Mr. Boehner –- were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2010
Susana Martinez
Susana Martinez
stated on August 31, 2010 a campaign ad
The Richardson-Denish administration "gave" 50,000 driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in New Mexico.
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • September 9, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on June 25, 2010 a TV interview
"Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 5, 2010 a speech on Labor Day
John Boehner said the jobs of "teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters" are "'government jobs' that weren't worth saving."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 31, 2010 an editorial board interview
"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 3, 2010
Michael Bennet
Michael Bennet
stated on August 25, 2010 a campaign ad
"Buck wants to privatize Social Security."  
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • September 2, 2010
Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln
stated on August 19, 2010 a TV ad
John Boozman supports "privatizing Social Security"
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • September 2, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on August 24, 2010 an interview on CNN
Dan Webster supports "privatization of Social Security, deep cuts in Social Security."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2010
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
stated on August 29, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country."  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 2, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on August 23, 2010 a campaign commercial
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2010
Joe Sestak
Joe Sestak
stated on August 31, 2010 a campaign commercial
"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2010
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver
stated on August 29, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 31, 2010
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