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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-03-19 a health care speech:
"Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 19, 2010
John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth
stated on 2010-03-16 a speech on the House floor:
A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on 2010-03-18 a press release:
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 18, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on 2010-03-14 a radio interview:
"The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote, the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • March 18, 2010
Cliff Stearns
Cliff Stearns
stated on 2010-03-15 a speech on the House floor:
"There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception. ... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 17, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on 2010-03-14 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on 2010-03-09 his talk show:
People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • March 17, 2010
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on 2010-03-16 a TV ad:
"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • March 16, 2010
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on 2010-03-09 a speech on the House floor:
"The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2010-03-02 his book "No Apology.":
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on 2010-03-10 a message on Twitter:
"House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks."
True
By Robert Farley • March 12, 2010
America's Health Insurance Plans
America's Health Insurance Plans
stated on 2010-03-11 an advertisement:
"Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2010
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on 2010-03-08 a New York Times article:
"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2010-03-10 a Facebook status update message:
"Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • March 11, 2010
Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak
stated on 2010-03-04 a Good Morning America interview:
In the Senate version of the health reform bill, "Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards reproductive rights, which includes abortion."
False
By Robert Farley • March 11, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on 2010-02-21 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2010
Daniel Lipinski
Daniel Lipinski
stated on 2010-01-22 a press release:
The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • March 9, 2010
Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank
stated on 2010-03-07 a column in the Washington Post:
George W. Bush was "the least popular president in modern history."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on 2010-02-25 a statement at the health care summit:
The health care bill will "create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 8, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2010-02-16 comments on his television show:
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."
True
By Alex Holt • March 8, 2010
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