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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 4, 2012 a speech
"Over $1 trillion" was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to "give every single poor American a check for $22,000."
Half-True
December 30, 2012
The Campaign to Fix the Debt
The Campaign to Fix the Debt
stated on December 17, 2012 a press release
"If lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff, 18 percent of the federal money that is sent to the states will be eliminated."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 20, 2012
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 21, 2012 a letter.
Says budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker.
True
By Nancy Madsen • December 17, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on December 2, 2012 in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union.
President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal "couldn't get support from either party in the House or the Senate."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • December 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 a report
"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on November 16, 2012 a press release
Says Gov. Scott Walker has "led people to believe that if Wisconsin doesn’t implement a (health-care) exchange, Obamacare doesn’t happen here."  
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • November 25, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on November 9, 2012 a newspaper interview
Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  "take us into a recession and kill jobs."
True
By Stephen Koff • November 15, 2012
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on November 8, 2012 an interview
"Revenues are 15 percent of GDP — it’s still in the range of the lowest it’s ever been."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 12, 2012
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on October 15, 2012 a TV ad
Says U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin "proposed a $3.9 trillion tax increase -- a tax increase so extreme" that "even Nancy Pelosi voted against it."
Mostly True
November 2, 2012
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
stated on October 31, 2012 a radio ad
Says Mitt Romney wants to "get rid of Planned Parenthood."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 26, 2012 debate comments
On support for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan  
Half Flip
By Dave Umhoefer • November 1, 2012
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on October 22, 2012 a League of Women Voters guide for Texas and Austin voters
Says U.S. corporate tax rate is "highest in the world at 35 percent."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 1, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 25, 2012 an interview
On a single-payer healthcare system  
Half Flip
By Dave Umhoefer • November 1, 2012
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in a TV ad
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on October 17, 2012 a U.S. Senate debate
Says Connie Mack initially said he would have voted "yes" for the Paul Ryan budget plan, and then, "you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 a debate
Rhode Island has taken its federal Medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more cost-effectively than the federal government.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 28, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 18, 2012 a debate
Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ran Medicare "into the ground" and "nine years closer to bankruptcy."
False
October 26, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 24, 2012 a TV ad
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson "personally made over $3 million" from a federal contract granted to his healthcare company, but left  9/11 first responders "without the care they were promised."  
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 26, 2012
Workers' Voice
Workers' Voice
stated on October 1, 2012 a campaign flier
Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson supports a plan for "privatizing Social Security."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate
"The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 24, 2012
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