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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on 2009-11-10 his radio show:
The health care bills will be "mandated spending. You can't cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2009
Loretta Sanchez
Loretta Sanchez
stated on 2009-11-10 an interview on "Morning Joe":
The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 12, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on 2009-11-09 his Fox News program:
"Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'"
True
By Robert Farley • November 12, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on 2009-11-02 a comment on his television show:
Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine.
True
By Catharine Richert • November 11, 2009
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on 2009-09-25 speaking to a group of Michigan Republicans:
"I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 10, 2009
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
stated on 2009-11-09 an alert to members:
"President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan."
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2009-11-02 a Webcast:
"Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state" of Massachusetts.
False
By Catharine Richert • November 10, 2009
Nita Lowey
Nita Lowey
stated on 2009-11-07 a speech on the House floor:
An amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 9, 2009
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on 2009-11-07 a statement on the House floor:
Women pay 48 percent more for health insurance.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • November 9, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-11-06 remarks from the White House:
"History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth."
True
By Robert Farley • November 9, 2009
Wall Street Journal editorial page
Wall Street Journal editorial page
stated on 2009-11-02 an editorial:
The House health care bill pays for "about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 6, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on 2009-11-05 a press release:
"As a result of the House Republican bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now confirms that families will see their health care premiums reduced by up to 10 percent."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • November 6, 2009
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on 2009-11-05 a TV ad:
The Republicans' alternative health care plan "will still let insurers raise premiums four times faster than wages."
False
By Robert Farley • November 5, 2009
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on 2009-11-03 a press release:
The GOP health care plan "would allow health insurance companies to continue engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices like denying coverage to people because of a pre-existing medical condition." 
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • November 5, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on 2009-10-29 a news release:
Health care reform "establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 4, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on 2009-10-29 a news release:
Health care reform "requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 4, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on 2009-10-29 a news release:
Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would "place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 4, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on 2009-11-01 Fox News Sunday:
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • November 3, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2009-10-30 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel.:
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."  
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • November 3, 2009
Tom McClintock
Tom McClintock
stated on 2009-10-27 a speech on the House floor:
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009
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