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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on Fox
"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, 'Hey, you're not going to succeed.' "
Mostly False
June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 1, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown"
"We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on May 26, 2011 a column in the Wall Street Journal
"In the late 1980s, the U.S. was nearly the lowest-taxed nation in the world, and a quarter century later we're nearly the highest."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2011
Mark Miller
Mark Miller
stated on May 18, 2011 remarks to reporters
"Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum."  
True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 30, 2011
Randi Shade
Randi Shade
stated on May 19, 2011 a statement.
Says that several times in the last 15 years, Austin City Council candidates have won seats after trailing by more than 4,000 votes in the election prompting the runoff.  
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 26, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in a speech announcing his presidential run
In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • May 25, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on May 23, 2011 a speech to announce his presidential candidacy
"For decades before I was elected, governors tried and failed to get Minnesota out of the top 10 highest-taxed states in the country. I actually did it."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 3, 2011 a chart posted on her Flickr account
Promotes a chart saying that Barack Obama has "increased the debt" by 16 percent, compared to George W. Bush, who increased it by 115 percent.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 16, 2011 an interview with Bloomberg television
"In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
stated on May 8, 2011 an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"
During the Eisenhower Administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on April 12, 2011 a speech before Congress
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.
False
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 19, 2011
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on April 13, 2011 a House floor speech
"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy • April 15, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on April 1, 2011 a column in the "Wall Street Journal"
The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
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