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Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on 2010-05-16 ABC's "This Week":
Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 17, 2010
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on 2010-05-16 ABC's "This Week":
Elena Kagan "violated the law of the United States at various points" with her opposition to military recruiters.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • May 16, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on 2010-05-10 his website:
Elena Kagan is "a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2010
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
stated on 2010-05-10 his website:
"She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • May 14, 2010
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on 2010-05-05 a broadcast of the Ed Show:
"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • May 14, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on 2010-05-04 an interview on CNN:
"In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • May 13, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on 2010-05-11 an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz:
Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-05-09 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on 2010-05-11 a speech on the Senate floor:
On Sandra Day O'Connor: "I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience" before she joined the Supreme Court.
False
By Catharine Richert • May 12, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-05-09 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on 2010-05-06 a press conference:
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on 2010-04-19 comments on the MSNBC show Countdown :
The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was "his outreach to Muslims."
Half-True
By Alex Holt • May 11, 2010
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on 2010-05-10 an interview on Fox News:
On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 10, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2010-05-09 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2010
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on 2010-05-05 an op ed article:
"We can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn't have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47."
True
By Robert Farley • May 7, 2010
Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
stated on 2010-05-04 an interview with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC:
Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the "second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on 2010-04-28 an interview on the Fox Business Network:
"Up until two weeks ago, John McCain was a leading proponent of amnesty. Now with me challenging him, suddenly he has changed."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • May 5, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on 2010-05-02 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press' :
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
False
By Robert Farley • May 5, 2010
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema
stated on 2010-04-30 an interview on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
Under the Arizona immigration law, police are required to check immigration status if someone's "lawn is overgrown" or if a dog is "barking too loudly."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on 2010-04-30 a news release:
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
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