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Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on 2010-05-02 a roundtable discussion on ABC's 'This Week':
"At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on R&D."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 3, 2010
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on 2010-05-02 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 3, 2010
Lamar McKay
Lamar McKay
stated on 2010-05-02 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on 2010-05-02 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on 2010-04-29 his radio program:
Alaska's Prince William Sound "is pristine now."
False
By Robert Farley • April 30, 2010
Ann Kirkpatrick
Ann Kirkpatrick
stated on 2010-04-28 a speech on the House floor:
Members of Congress "have not reduced their salaries ... since the Great Depression," meaning they've gone "eight decades without a pay cut."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2010
Tim James
Tim James
stated on 2010-04-26 a press release:
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."
False
By Robert Farley • April 29, 2010
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
stated on 2010-04-21 an interview on MSNBC's Daily Rundown:
 "Congress can tell [the Supreme Court] which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority."
True
By Catharine Richert • April 29, 2010
Alfredo Gutierrez
Alfredo Gutierrez
stated on 2010-04-26 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on 2010-04-26 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-04-25 a panel discussion on ABC This Week:
 "What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • April 28, 2010
Ed Whitacre
Ed Whitacre
stated on 2010-04-21 a TV ad:
GM has "repaid our government loan, in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 27, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on 2010-04-25 an interview on "This Week.":
"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 27, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on 2010-04-13 a segment on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor:
"We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on 2010-04-25 an interview on ABC's This Week:
The financial services bill will end "too-big-to-fail."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2010
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on 2010-04-25 an interview on ABC's This Week:
The Banking Committee voted a 1,336-page bill "out of committee in 21 minutes with no amendments, with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor, we would reach this bipartisan agreement."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • April 25, 2010
House Natural Resources Committee Republicans
House Natural Resources Committee Republicans
stated on 2010-04-05 a news release posted on his website.:
"Obama did not open new lands to offshore drilling – all of these areas were already open for drilling once Congress and President Bush lifted the moratorium in 2008. Instead, President Obama yesterday announced what areas he would CLOSE to offshore drilling."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • April 23, 2010
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
stated on 2010-03-09 an op-ed article:
"No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power — a record unmatched by other fuels."
True
By Hadas Gold • April 22, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-04-21 an interview with CNBC's John Harwood :
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2010
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on 2010-03-31 a speech to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs:
In 2004, "20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. ... Another 20 percent were receiving almost 40 percent."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • April 21, 2010
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