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Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on 2009-06-28 interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 2, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2009-05-24 an e-mail received by many people.:
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • July 1, 2009
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on 2009-06-24 an interview on Fox News:
During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 30, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on 2009-06-18 a Washington Post op-ed:
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
True
By Catharine Richert • June 29, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2009-06-17 an interview with the Washington Times.:
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 26, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on 2009-06-17 a Washington Times interview:
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • June 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-06-24 a town hall meeting:
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 25, 2009
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on 2009-06-20 a press release.:
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
True
By Catharine Richert • June 25, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on 2009-06-18 his MSNBC "Countdown" program:
"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."
False
By Robert Farley • June 24, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on 2009-06-22 a column:
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2009
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on 2009-06-17 a press release on the House GOP's blog.:
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 23, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on 2009-06-18 a Fox News interview:
Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500."
False
By Robert Farley • June 22, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on 2009-06-10 a column.:
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 19, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on 2009-06-10 his Fox News program:
"Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it."
False
By Robert Farley • June 19, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on 2009-06-16 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 2009-06-14 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 2009-06-15 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 2009-06-12 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 2009-05-30 a Twitter message:
"Obama has more czars than the Romanovs."
True
By Robert Farley • June 12, 2009
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on 2009-06-11 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
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