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Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on March 26, 2009 a statement during a press briefing
The Republican leadership's budget proposal "doesn't contain any numbers."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 27, 2009
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 25, 2009 a Fox News interview
Obama's budget plan would "take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent."
True
March 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 22, 2009 a television interview
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 17, 2009 a TV interview
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
True
March 20, 2009
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
stated on March 16, 2009 in a TV interview
AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."
True
March 18, 2009
Christina Romer
Christina Romer
stated on March 15, 2009 an interview on Meet the Press.
"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 17, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 12, 2009 a news conference
"I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one."
True
March 16, 2009
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on March 5, 2009 a White House briefing
"A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2009 a White House conference on health care.
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
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By Alexander Lane • March 5, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 25, 2009 a speech on the House floor.
"The president campaigned against this type of legislation."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 17, 2009 a bill signing ceremony in Denver.
"We are making the largest investment in education in our nation’s history."
True
By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 25, 2009 an interview on CNN's American Morning.
The omnibus spending bill has "9,427 pork barrel items."
True
By Bill Adair • February 25, 2009
Rosa DeLauro
Rosa DeLauro
stated on February 4, 2009 a news conference
"When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall."
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By Alexander Lane • February 19, 2009
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on January 28, 2009 a Senate committee hearing
If we got solar energy from "an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year."
True
By Alexander Lane • February 18, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 9, 2009 a news conference
"Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented."
True
February 10, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on February 3, 2009 a speech
The stimulus bill contains "$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers" and "$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2009 appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation"
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."
True
February 3, 2009
Joe Barton
Joe Barton
stated on January 22, 2009 a statement at a committee meeting.
Democrats have said that "even one hearing (on the stimulus bill) would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions."
True
January 26, 2009
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on December 2, 2008 a speech.
"The Capitol was built by slaves."
True
January 20, 2009
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
stated on January 14, 2009 a news release
"Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years."
True
January 16, 2009
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