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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2007:
Nearly half of Hispanic voters in Arizona's last election supported four measures that were "very tough on illegal immigration."
True
October 19, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 21, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.:
"Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum."
True
By Sasha Bartolf • October 19, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on September 7, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa:
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Mostly True
By John Frank • October 18, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2007:
"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007
Log Cabin Republicans
Log Cabin Republicans
stated on October 19, 2007:
Mitt Romney has "a pro-choice record."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2007:
"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 20, 2007 in Davenport, Iowa:
"What happens is people like Warren Buffett — and he says this himself...pay 15 percent on the millions of dollars that they earn from wealth income... while their secretary is paying a higher rate on her work income. It's not right."
True
By David DeCamp • October 17, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2007:
"First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2007 in a radio ad.:
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Mostly True
By Alex Leary • October 16, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on September 10, 2007:
In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were "very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them."
Mostly False
By Amy Hollyfield • October 16, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 20, 2007 in a television interview.:
"John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever." -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser
Half-True
By Michael Van Sickler • October 16, 2007
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on October 3, 2007:
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
Mostly True
By David Baumann • October 15, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2007:
"With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program."
True
By David Baumann • October 15, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 9, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.:
"Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'"
False
By David Baumann • October 15, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 5, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa:
"This (SCHIP) is socialized medicine. It is going to go to families that make $60,000 a year. Those aren't poor children."
True
By Sasha Bartolf • October 15, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 8, 2007 in a campaign Web site.:
"Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years."
Half-True
By David Baumann • October 12, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 25, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H.:
"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
False
By David Baumann • October 12, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 4, 2007 in a comment to a reporter.:
"We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country."
True
By David Baumann • October 12, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 11, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 21, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.:
"Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding."
False
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • October 10, 2007
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