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Latest Fact-Checks In Stimulus

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.
Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad
"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."
False
July 7, 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
June 11, 2009
Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford
stated on February 23, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.
Says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill "won't actually stimulate the economy."
False
By Bill Adair • February 25, 2009
Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford
stated on February 23, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.
"The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019."
False
By Bill Adair • February 23, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on February 12, 2009 a statement on Fox News Channel.
The stimulus has "$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 13, 2009
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on February 5, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor.
There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that "students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study."
False
February 13, 2009
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on February 2, 2009 a comment at the daily White House press briefing.
"There are no earmarks" in the stimulus bill.
False
By Bill Adair • February 4, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2009 a news conference
"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 30, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 23, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."
False
January 27, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 21, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
Says a Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it "is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow."
False
January 23, 2009
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