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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on 2010-06-30 a Facebook posting:
"We spend three times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on 2010-07-06 a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
stated on 2010-06-30 a campaign video:
"At his father's bank, Alexi made tens of millions in risky loans to convicted mobsters. Then, the bank collapsed."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 8, 2010
Alexi Giannoulias
Alexi Giannoulias
stated on 2010-07-08 a campaign commercial:
"He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service."
True
By Robert Farley • July 8, 2010
Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
stated on 2010-07-08 a campaign ad:
"Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 8, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on 2010-07-01 a Fox News interview with Greta Van Susteren:
"Law enforcement in the state of Arizona supports" the state's new immigration law.
Half-True
By Martha M. Hamilton • July 8, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on 2010-07-04 an appearance on ABC's "This Week.":
"Crime is down in Arizona."
True
By Alex Holt • July 7, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2010-07-04 an interview on "This Week.":
As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 7, 2010
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
stated on 2010-06-28 comments on the 'Glenn Beck' show:
"There are mechanisms in place to shut down the Internet privately."
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • July 6, 2010
Daniel Senor
Daniel Senor
stated on 2010-07-04 ABC's 'This Week':
Japan's "interest on its own debt" is "25 percent of its national budget"
False
By Lukas Pleva • July 6, 2010
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on 2010-07-04 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 6, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on 2010-06-14 a campaign commerical:
John McCain "began his career in Washington as a lobbyist when he was appointed in 1976 as the Navy's liaison to the United States Senate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-07-01 a speech:
"Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-09-17 a campaign speech in Grand Junction, Colo.:
On the use of presidentially appointed commissions.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2010
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
stated on 2010-06-29 the Kagan confirmation hearing:
During the year Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard Law School's Office of Career Services, "military recruiting actually went up."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 30, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on 2010-06-25 a television interview:
"The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2010
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on 2010-06-28 the Kagan confirmation hearing:
"In her first appellate argument, Ms. Kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the First Amendment would allow the federal government to ban the publication of pamphlets discussing political issues before an election."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 29, 2010
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
stated on 1995-04-01 a law review article:
On whether a U.S. Supreme Court nominee should be forthcoming at confirmation hearings.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 29, 2010
Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise
stated on 2010-06-15 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News:
It was President Obama's "inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor's plan to protect our marsh."
Half-True
By Alex Holt • June 29, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on 2010-06-28 a hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan:
"The ABA's own criteria for a judicial nominee call for, among other things, at least 12 years' experience in the practice of law, and they mean actual practice of law."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2010
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