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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-02-01 remarks on the budget:
"We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 4, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2010-02-02 comments at a congressional hearing.:
On whether he supports 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • February 4, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on 2010-01-31 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
The Senate-passed health care bill "is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2010
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on 2010-01-31 an interview with Barbara Walters:
"Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts."
False
By Catharine Richert • February 3, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2010-01-29 his Fox News program:
"Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on 2010-01-31 NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses."
True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on 2009-05-12 a speech on the Senate floor:
On a bipartisan task force on ways to improve fiscal policy.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-01-27 a State of the Union speech:
Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2010
Jeb Hensarling
Jeb Hensarling
stated on 2010-01-29 a Republican retreat in Baltimore:
"What were the old annual deficits under Republicans have now become the monthly deficits under Democrats."
False
By Robert Farley • January 30, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-01-29 a Republican retreat in Baltimore:
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on 2010-01-29 a Republican retreat in Baltimore:
"Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions" on health care.
True
By Bill Adair • January 29, 2010
Nancy Pfotenhauer
Nancy Pfotenhauer
stated on 2010-01-27 an interview on CNN:
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2010-01-27 a blog post:
"President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."
True
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2010-01-27 a live-blog post during the State of the Union address:
"President Obama pledged to go through the budget 'line by line,' but on his watch, non-defense spending has spiraled out of control, increasing by 67 percent in the last year alone."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2010-01-27 a live-blog post during the State of the Union address:
"A majority of Americans still oppose this health care bill."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2010
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on 2010-01-27 the Republican response to the State of the Union:
"The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on 2010-01-27 the Republican response to the State of the Union:
"Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-01-27 a State of the Union speech:
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-01-27 the State of the Union address:
"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-01-27 his State of the Union speech:
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • January 28, 2010
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