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Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on July 15, 2010 a special order speech on the U.S. House floor
"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working."
False
July 21, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on June 28, 2010 a speech at the state Democratic convention
Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 12, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech
"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 24, 2010 a Senate floor speech
"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 22, 2010 a Senate floor speech
Under President George W. Bush, "the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 a chain e-mail
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview
Says he said last year there's "absolutely no reason" for Texas to secede.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer
stated on March 22, 2010 comments on CBS's Face the Nation
The Iraq war has been "our longest war."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 16, 2010 comments on his television show
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."
True
By Alex Holt • March 8, 2010
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on January 21, 2010 a floor speech in the House
Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2010
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on December 30, 2009 a conference call
"I haven't missed a vote since 1993."
True
By Catharine Richert • January 6, 2010
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on December 16, 2009 a 'Wall Street Journal' column
President Obama has "the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on November 23, 2009 MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 her book, Going Rogue
"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2009
Tom McClintock
Tom McClintock
stated on October 27, 2009 a speech on the House floor
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009
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