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Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on November 28, 2010 an interview on "NBC's Meet the Press"
Said the Washington Post argued that a failure to pass the START treaty this year would be "no calamity," and that the Associated Press said "the administration concedes the security risk is not immediate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on November 4, 2010 a statement
Says Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas, is "the largest military installation in the free world."
Half-True
November 15, 2010
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 7, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2010
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 21, 2010 a campaign Web ad
Says John Raese said he wants "1,000 laser systems put in the sky, and we need it right now."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 31, 2010
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on September 22, 2010 a campaign ad
"Decorated Marine, two-tour Iraq war vet."
True
By Joe Guillen • October 29, 2010
Alexi Giannoulias
Alexi Giannoulias
stated on October 15, 2010 a TV ad
"Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment’s not that big an issue."
Mostly False
October 19, 2010
Mark S. Zaccaria
Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on October 1, 2010 a news release
Says James Langevin voted to spend "$3 billion for a jet engine no one wants."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 10, 2010
Allen West
Allen West
stated on September 21, 2010 a candidate forum
"If you look at the application for a security clearance, I have a clearance that even the president of the United States cannot obtain because of my background."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2010
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on September 1, 2010 a campaign fundraising e-mail
"Ganley said that if elected, he wants to ‘cut the dickens’ out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans’ benefits."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • September 20, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 31, 2010 an editorial board interview
"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
Pants on Fire!
September 3, 2010
Barney Frank
Barney Frank
stated on July 7, 2010 MSNBC's Morning Joe
The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.
Half-True
By Erin Mershon • August 13, 2010
Gen. Peter Chiarelli
Gen. Peter Chiarelli
stated on August 8, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
About 106,000 soldiers had "a prescription of three weeks or more" for pain, depression or anxiety medication.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 1, 2010 on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
The Bush administration "pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 remarks at a bill signing
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on June 10, 2010 a statement posted to his website
"The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure."
True
By Robert Higgs • July 23, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on July 5, 2010 a CNN interview
"We're spending $1 trillion a year on our foreign policy."
True
By Lukas Pleva • July 15, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 30, 2010 a Facebook posting
The U.S. "only ranks 25th worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Alexi Giannoulias
Alexi Giannoulias
stated on July 8, 2010 a campaign commercial
"He (Kirk) did violate Pentagon rules, twice actually, for improperly mingling politics with his military service."
True
July 8, 2010
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