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Susana Martinez
Susana Martinez
stated on 2010-08-31 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 2010-09-07 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 2010-06-25 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 2010-09-05 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 2010-09-05 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 2010-09-05 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 2010-08-31 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 2010-08-25 a campaign ad:
"Buck wants to privatize Social Security."  
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • September 2, 2010
Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln
stated on 2010-08-19 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 2010-08-24 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 2010-08-29 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 2010-08-23 a campaign commercial:
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2010
Joe Sestak
Joe Sestak
stated on 2010-08-31 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 2010-08-29 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
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on 2010-08-29 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2010
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on 2010-08-29 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on 2010-08-10 a page on her campaign website:
"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2010-08-25 comments on his TV show:
"The federal government is now on track" for the second-largest budget deficit "in 65 years."
True
By Lukas Pleva • August 30, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2010-06-28 comments on his radio program:
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 27, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-08-18 a response to a question during an appearance in Columbus, Ohio.:
Republicans "don't think it's a good idea" to make the child care tax credit "stronger."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • August 27, 2010
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