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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 11, 2011 a debate in Ames, Iowa
When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on August 11, 2011 in a debate in Ames, Iowa
"The country's bankrupt." 
False
By Becky Bowers • August 12, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 26, 2011 a TV interview.
"Harry Reid’s plan is basically giving the president a blank check."
False
By Warren Fiske • July 29, 2011
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 27, 2011 a news release
Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is responsible for "over $14 trillion in debt."
False
By Mark Naymik • July 11, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on July 2, 2011 a TV interview.
"China owns more of our bonds than do Americans."
False
By Sean Gorman • July 8, 2011
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on June 3, 2011 a press release.
"President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs."
False
By Jacob Geiger • June 20, 2011
Robert Hurt
Robert Hurt
stated on June 3, 2011 an e-mail newsletter.
Non-defense discretionary spending has increased "by over 80 percent in the last two years."
False
By Jacob Geiger • June 10, 2011
Scott Rigell
Scott Rigell
stated on June 3, 2011 a newsletter.
"The (national) debt really added up $75 trillion in 2010 and is on track to hit $99 trillion this year."
False
By Sean Gorman • June 9, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 a presidential campaign announcement video
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Tom Petri
Tom Petri
stated on April 29, 2011 a constituent newsletter
Says President Barack Obama’s debt commission recommended converting Medicare "to a system where Medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market."
False
May 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 an interview with ABC news
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on April 16, 2011 a speech in Iowa
China holds 26 percent of the U.S. debt.
False
April 22, 2011
Jean Schmidt
Jean Schmidt
stated on April 14, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives
"For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • April 21, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on April 1, 2011 a speech before Congress
Says the federal government borrows "almost $60 billion per week."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • April 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio
The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference
Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on December 9, 2010 a CNN interview
The tax cut deal is giving "$700 billion to millionaires and billionaires."
False
By Stephen Koff • December 15, 2010
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