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National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on March 18, 2009 in a fundraising e-mail.:

"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses."

Half-True

By Alexander Lane • March 20, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on March 19, 2009 in remaks made at an electric car testing center:

"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."

Mostly True

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 19, 2009

Elijah Cummings
stated on March 16, 2009 in in a TV interview:

AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."

True

By Robert Farley • March 18, 2009

Ron Wyden
stated on March 17, 2009 in an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show:

"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."

Mostly True

By Alexander Lane • March 18, 2009

Chain email
stated on March 18, 2009 in a chain e-mail:

"AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!"

Pants on Fire!

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 18, 2009

Chuck Grassley
stated on March 16, 2009 in a radio interview:

In Japan, executives of failing companies "say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."

Half-True

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2009

Christina Romer
stated on March 15, 2009 in an interview on Meet the Press.:

"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."

True

By Alexander Lane • March 17, 2009

John Boehner
stated on March 12, 2009 in a news conference:

"I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one."

True

By Robert Farley • March 16, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on March 10, 2009 in a speech on education:

"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."

False

By Alexander Lane • March 13, 2009

Charles Schumer
stated on March 8, 2009 in a TV interview:

"No Bridge to Nowhere could occur."

False

By Robert Farley • March 12, 2009

Peter Orszag
stated on March 8, 2009 in a TV interview.:

"Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent."

False

By Robert Farley • March 11, 2009

Robert Gibbs
stated on March 5, 2009 in a White House briefing:

"A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax."

True

By Alexander Lane • March 11, 2009

Americans United for Change
stated on March 9, 2009 in a cable TV ad:

Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."

Mostly False

By Robert Farley • March 10, 2009

Joe Biden
stated on March 5, 2009 in a speech in Miami Beach, Fla.:

"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."

Half-True

By Robert Farley • March 6, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2009 in a White House conference on health care.:

"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."

True

By Alexander Lane • March 5, 2009

Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 in an interview on the Fox News Channel.:

"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."

False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009

Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."

False

By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009

John Boehner
stated on February 25, 2009 in a speech on the House floor.:

"The president campaigned against this type of legislation."

True

By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009

Democratic congressional leadership
stated on March 2, 2009 in statements to reporters.:

The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.

False

By Bill Adair • March 2, 2009

John McCain
stated on February 27, 2009 in a speech on the Senate floor.:

"The president's plan, even after the end of its withdrawal timeline is reached, will leave in place up to 50,000 U.S. troops."

False

By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009

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