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Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 16, 2009 a press availability.
"Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • June 18, 2009
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 14, 2009 an Internet ad.
"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2009
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 15, 2009 a statement.
Oil money from federal leases "can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 15, 2009
Mike Murphy
Mike Murphy
stated on June 12, 2009 a column in Time magazine.
In Texas, "the No. 1 name for new male babies — many of whom will vote one day — is Jose."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 30, 2009 a Twitter message
"Obama has more czars than the Romanovs."
True
By Robert Farley • June 12, 2009
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on June 11, 2009 an op-ed.
Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 12, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox
Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."
False
By Robert Farley • June 11, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on June 10, 2009 MSNBC interview.
Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"
True
By Catharine Richert • June 11, 2009
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on June 8, 2009 an opinion piece.
Sixty-two percent of all personal bankruptcies are "caused by medical problems."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 9, 2009 a statement at the White House
"In the first round of repayments"  from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
True
By Robert Farley • June 10, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 30, 2009 an e-mail
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • June 8, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 8, 2009 a press release.
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 8, 2009
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on June 3, 2009 an op-ed.
Says he didn't call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what "some prolifers branded him."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 5, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2009 interview with Canal Plus Television
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on May 26, 2009 weekly Senate Republican radio address
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 3, 2009 a statement on the Human Events Web site
On calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • June 3, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 31, 2009 a CNN interview
"The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision" Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 1, 2009
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on June 1, 2009 a press release.
"President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent."
True
By Catharine Richert • June 1, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2009 a speech
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 29, 2009
North Korean foreign ministry
North Korean foreign ministry
stated on May 29, 2009 a released statement
"The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests."
True
By Robert Farley • May 29, 2009
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