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Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 12, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 11, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week"
"President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 9, 2010 chain e-mail
Obama said troops "whine about bearing the costs" of going to war.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 9, 2010
Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry
stated on April 1, 2010 an op ed article
"Early census returns are showing that conservatives have been measurably less likely than liberals to return their census forms."
False
By Robert Farley • April 7, 2010
Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry
stated on April 1, 2010 an op ed article
"The most private question on this year’s form asks for an individual’s race, and that question has been asked by every census since the 1790 census conducted under then-President George Washington."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 7, 2010
Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry
stated on March 29, 2010 a press release
"This census is also the shortest and least intrusive count in modern history."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • April 7, 2010
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
stated on April 4, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 3, 2010 a comment on Newsweek magazine's Web site
"I never considered myself a maverick."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2010
Gil Kerlikowske
Gil Kerlikowske
stated on March 31, 2010 an interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal
"More people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol. A recent roadside survey showed that 16 percent of the people tested, tested positive for illicit or licit drugs. That's significantly higher than alcohol."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2010 a prepared statement
On recess appointments.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 1, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 30, 2010 an interview on NBC's Today show
"A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 31, 2010 an announcement at Andrews Air Force Base
On oil drilling
No Flip
By Catharine Richert • March 31, 2010
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 24, 2010 an appearance on the Fox News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."
False
By Catharine Richert • March 30, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 28, 2010 on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."
False
By Robert Farley • March 29, 2010
Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
stated on March 21, 2010 a floor speech in the House
"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates" of the health care bill.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 23, 2010 comments to reporters
"The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • March 26, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 24, 2010 an op-ed in the Des Moines Register
"Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2010
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on March 24, 2010 a comment on his "Morning Joe'' program on MSNBC
The health care reform bill "is the largest tax increase in U.S. history."
False
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2010
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