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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on May 12, 2013 in an interview on WPRI's Newsmakers program:
Historically, the Social Security tax has been assessed on about 90% of U.S. income. Now it captures 83% because there's been such a growth of income among the highest earners.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 19, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on May 9, 2013 in an op-ed:
"Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 16, 2013
Kathy Castor
Kathy Castor
stated on May 6, 2013 in a TV interview:
"70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • May 13, 2013
Fred Clark
Fred Clark
stated on May 7, 2013 in a legislative meeting:
A Wisconsin bill to limit use of food stamps for junk food would also "prevent -- or limit --  the extent to which" food stamps could be used for organic foods.
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • May 10, 2013
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on April 5, 2013 in an interview:
"The port provides more than 297,000 jobs directly to the state of Georgia."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 30, 2013 in a press conference:
Long-term federal investment in U.S. airports is urgent because "there was a recent survey of the top airports … in the world, and there was not a single U.S. airport that came in the top 25."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 1, 2013
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on April 23, 2013 in a tweet:
"Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight? FAA could cut other spending."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • April 26, 2013
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on April 9, 2013 in a column.:
Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.
True
By Nancy Madsen • April 26, 2013
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on March 26, 2013 in a Twitter post:
The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a "Star Trek" training video.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 15, 2013
Frederica Wilson
Frederica Wilson
stated on April 5, 2013 in a press release:
"Congresswoman Frederica Wilson successfully postpones closure of the North Perry airport tower."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 10, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on March 28, 2013 in a meeting:
"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 9, 2013
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on March 25, 2013 in a radio interview.:
Paul Ryan’s budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • April 8, 2013
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on March 22, 2013 in a press release:
"75 percent of the (air traffic control) towers the Obama Administration is closing are located in Republican Congressional Districts."
False
By James B. Nelson • April 3, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 1, 2013 in a press release jointly issued with U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.:
"Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on February 27, 2013 in a speech:
"Even Roger Williams National Memorial in my home state of Rhode Island attracted nearly 51,000 visitors in 2011, with non local visitors adding more than $3.2 million to the local economy."
Half-True
By John Hill • March 27, 2013
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 17, 2013 in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”:
"Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • March 26, 2013
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on March 10, 2013 in an interview:
The United States spends "$2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes" and pays for "the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama."    
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 24, 2013
X posts
X posts
stated on March 20, 2013 in tweets:
While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • March 22, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2013 in blog posts:
The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.
False
By Becky Bowers • March 22, 2013
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on March 19, 2013 in a Senate floor speech:
"In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2013
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