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Latest Fact-Checks On Michele Bachmann

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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on April 13, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show
"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 26, 2011 a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."
Pants on Fire!
March 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on February 15, 2011 an interview on "The Laura Ingraham Show"
The government will "go out and buy my breast pump for my babies."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 18, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 a rebuttal to the State of the Union address
"While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 a response to the State of the Union address
The federal government "now tells us which light bulbs to buy."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 a rebuttal to the State of the Union address
The federal government "may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 a response to the State of the Union
"The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent."
Mostly False
January 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 16, 2010 an interview on "Good Morning America."
Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 17, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 3, 2010 a CNN interview
"The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."
False
November 4, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 17, 2010 a speech to the Values Voter Summit
"Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 11, 2010
"Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury."  
False
June 24, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 28, 2010 on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."
False
March 29, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 3, 2010 an interview on CNN's Larry King Live
"President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 30, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel.
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."  
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • November 3, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on July 27, 2009 a statement on the House floor
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."
False
August 12, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 an interview with the Washington Times.
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
Pants on Fire!
June 26, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 a Washington Times interview
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
Pants on Fire!
June 25, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 6, 2009 a press release
ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."
False
May 21, 2009
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