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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 13, 2010 in a news release:
"The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvania to set up a new high-risk insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • July 23, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 6, 2010 in a campaign speech:
"In Ohio, we invested in our children, raising school funding by 5.5 percent in the last budget."
False
By Aaron Marshall • July 23, 2010
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on July 18, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"Recent data showed Nevada ranks 50th in the money received from" the stimulus bill.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2010
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 17, 2010 in conservative blogs:
Obama's dog has his "own plane"
False
By Lukas Pleva • July 22, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2010 in a press conference:
"Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on July 15, 2010 in 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
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 21, 2010
Charles Clark
Charles Clark
stated on June 24, 2010 in a telephone interview:
Some city of Atlanta employees "have not had raises in eight years."
False
By Eric Stirgus • July 18, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on July 9, 2010 in a Talking Points Memo article:
"There have been 30 published polls in this election cycle and Harry Reid's been trailing in every single one."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 17, 2010
National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee
stated on July 13, 2010 in a prepared statement:
The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover "any legal abortion."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2010
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on June 28, 2010 in a statement on Cicilline's website:
He has "ushered in $3 billion in new investment."
False
By Cynthia Needham • July 16, 2010
Helen Glover
Helen Glover
stated on July 9, 2010 in a comment on her talk show:
Phoenix is the kidnapping capital "of the Western Hemisphere."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 15, 2010
Rob Teilhet
Rob Teilhet
stated on July 13, 2010 in a telephone interview:
"Ken Hodges badly botched this investigation and, as a result, justice wasn't done in this case."
False
By Eric Stirgus • July 15, 2010
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on June 28, 2010 in 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
Leslie Curran
Leslie Curran
stated on May 13, 2010 in a city council meeting:
Tarpon Springs takes its homeless to St. Petersburg.
False
By Michael Van Sickler • July 9, 2010
Trent Franks
Trent Franks
stated on July 7, 2010 in an interview on MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show':
"The top 1 percent pay over half of the entire revenue for this country."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on July 6, 2010 in a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann':
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in 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
Daniel Senor
Daniel Senor
stated on July 4, 2010 in ABC's 'This Week':
Japan's "interest on its own debt" is "25 percent of its national budget"
False
By Lukas Pleva • July 6, 2010
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on July 5, 2010 in a Cobb County Republican Party breakfast speech June 5:
Says his GOP challenger, Doug MacGinnitie, "hadn’t voted in a Republican primary for almost 20 years until 2008.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 4, 2010
Bill Clegg
Bill Clegg
stated on June 24, 2010 in candidate web page:
The U.S. deficit "increases at $3 million per second."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 2, 2010
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