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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on 2009-07-14 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 2009-07-15 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 2009-07-14 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 2009-07-01 public statements:
On a single-payer health care system.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on 2009-07-12 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 2009-07-09 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 2009-07-13 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 2009-07-07 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 2009-07-07 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 2009-07-13 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 2009-07-12 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 2009-07-01 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 2009-06-29 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 2009-07-08 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-07-06 a newspaper interview:
"We import more oil today than ever before."
False
By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2009-07-02 a Web ad:
"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."
False
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2009-07-02 a Web ad:
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-06-29 a speech at the White House.:
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on 2009-07-02 a television ad:
Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 6, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2009-06-25 an e-mail received by many people.:
"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2009
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