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Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on 2010-06-13 a discussion on ABC's 'This Week':
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 15, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on 2010-06-14 a statement on ABC News' 'This Week.':
Ninety percent of the people in Arkansas still love Bill Clinton.
Half-True
By Alex Holt • June 15, 2010
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on 2010-06-13 an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2010-06-13 an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on 2010-06-09 a Senate floor speech:
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-06-06 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2010-06-07 his Fox News program:
"The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on 2010-06-07 a video on his campaign website:
California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."
True
By Alex Holt • June 11, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-06-10 a chain e-mail:
Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-06-09 a chain e-mail:
"In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-06-09 a chain e-mail:
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-06-03 a chain e-mail circulated on the Internet:
Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on 2010-06-06 an interview on "This Week.":
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on 2010-06-08 a rumor widely discussed on the Internet.:
Barack Obama appeared in the video for 'Whoomp! (There it is!)'
Pants on Fire!
By Cristina Silva • June 8, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on 2010-06-06 ABC's "This Week":
"Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ... shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon."
False
By Robert Farley • June 8, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on 2010-06-06 an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2010
Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on 2010-06-06 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on 2010-06-02 a campaign commercial:
"Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • June 4, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on 2010-06-04 a news release:
"This year, we have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month, a majority in the private sector, a stark contrast to the Bush Administration record of losing an average of nearly 750,000 jobs per month in its last three months."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2010
VoteVets.org
VoteVets.org
stated on 2010-05-26 a TV ad:
The American Power Act "would cut our dependence on oil in half."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 3, 2010
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