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Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on 2010-04-19 a Senate floor speech:
The financial services regulatory bill "will end taxpayer bailouts."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on 2010-04-14 a press conference:
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on 2010-04-18 ABC's "This Week":
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on 2010-04-18 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on 2010-04-18 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"I never had a filibuster-proof Senate."
True
By Robert Farley • April 18, 2010
Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
stated on 2010-03-25 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner:
"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."
False
By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010
Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen
stated on 2010-04-15 a story about taxes from Associated Press:
"The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 16, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on 2010-04-14 a speech at a Tea Party rally in Boston:
"Americans now spend 100 days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on 2010-04-08 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on 2010-04-12 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
Julian Assange
Julian Assange
stated on 2010-04-12 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 14, 2010
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on 2010-04-12 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.
True
By Catharine Richert • April 14, 2010
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2010-04-11 an interview on "This Week.":
"I don't answer hypotheticals."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 13, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on 2010-04-11 ABC's "This Week":
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on 2010-04-11 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 2010-04-11 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 2010-04-11 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 2010-04-11 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 2010-04-09 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 2010-04-01 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
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