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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a press conference
Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 a statement on the House floor.
There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 an editorial.
The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on July 17, 2009 the House Republicans' Web site
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 his weekly radio address
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2009 a television interview
On mandating health care coverage.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 20, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 a Washington Post op-ed
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • July 20, 2009
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
stated on July 15, 2009 a news release.
The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 1, 2009 public statements
On a single-payer health care system.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous.
"Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009
Presente.org
Presente.org
stated on July 13, 2009 a radio ad
Rep. Adam Putnam was silent when Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 14, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
False
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 14, 2009
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 13, 2009 a Senate hearing
"Now, there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95-plus votes."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 a television interview
A new Rasmussen poll shows people "oppose (Sotomayor's) confirmation. Only 37 percent support it."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on July 1, 2009 a column in Human Events.
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"
False
By Wes Allison • July 10, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 his radio show
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 a PBS interview.
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 9, 2009
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