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Latest Fact-Checks In Stimulus

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Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on June 30, 2010 a news release
Since the Democrats’ stimulus went into effect last year, Ohio has lost about 150,000 Jobs.
Half-True
By Mark Naymik • July 28, 2010
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on July 20, 2010 an MSNBC interview
"For every dollar we put in unemployment, it pays back about $1.60."
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • July 27, 2010
Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen
stated on April 15, 2010 a story about taxes from Associated Press
"The fact is, in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our nation's history."
Half-True
April 16, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 17, 2010 an interview with Fox News
"Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 17, 2010 a press release
The stimulus includes "$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen."
Half-True
February 19, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 19, 2010 a press release
The stimulus includes "$7 million to build a bridge in Thedford, Nebraska, to help 168 residents avoid a 30-second wait at a local train crossing. Not one full-time job will be created."
Half-True
February 19, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 17, 2010 an address at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
"So far, the Recovery Act is responsible for the jobs of about 2 million Americans who would otherwise be unemployed. ... [And] the Recovery Act is on track to save or create another 1.5 million jobs in 2010."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on February 4, 2010 a press conference
The House passed a pay-as-you-go rule that said, "If you wanted to have an investment, an entitlement, etc., you had to pay for it."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on February 6, 2010 an address at the Tea Party convention
"One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects."
Half-True
February 9, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union address
"Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed."
Half-True
January 28, 2010
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on January 10, 2010 the Washington Post
The Obama administration "raised discretionary spending by 24 percent from President George W. Bush's last full-year budget and will run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years."
Half-True
January 15, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 9, 2009 a speech
"We've created or saved up to 1.6 million jobs, according to the CBO -- the Congressional Budget Office -- through the Recovery Act."
Half-True
December 14, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on December 8, 2009 a speech on the House floor
"To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law."
Half-True
December 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 1, 2009 Fox News Sunday
"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
Half-True
November 3, 2009
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
stated on August 2, 2009 on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that "if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 his weekly radio address
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
stated on July 15, 2009 a news release.
The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2009
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on February 24, 2009 the Republican response to Obama's speech to Congress
The stimulus bill includes "$8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 3, 2009 interview with CBS News
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."
Half-True
February 9, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on February 1, 2009 in a Fox News interview.
The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes "millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines."
Half-True
February 3, 2009
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