Fact Check Posts – Page 425

Glenn Beck
stated on November 30, 2009 in a statement on his show on Fox News Channel:

Less than 10 percent of Obama's Cabinet appointees "have any experience in the private sector."

By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2009

Chain email
stated on November 24, 2009 in a widely circulated e-mail:

"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."

By Catharine Richert • November 27, 2009

Marco Rubio
stated on November 25, 2009 in his campaign Web site:

"I have never voted for a tax increase."

By Aaron Sharockman • November 25, 2009

John Boehner
stated on November 19, 2009 in the House GOP Web site:

Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."

By Catharine Richert • November 21, 2009

Ron Wyden
stated on November 17, 2009 in MSNBC's 'Morning Meeting With Dylan Ratigan':

In the House health care bill, "Something like 2 percent of the people would [be] eligible even to get the public option."

By Louis Jacobson • November 18, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 in her book, Going Rogue:

"Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.

By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 in her book, 'Going Rogue':

The McCain campaign "did not elaborate" on Obama's ties to ACORN.

By Robert Farley • November 17, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 in her book, Going Rogue:

Says she couldn't take stimulus money because it required "universal building codes."

By Robert Farley • November 16, 2009

C.W. Bill Young
stated on November 9, 2009 in a meeting of Florida Republicans:

Claims that Obama said, "For those who oppose our policies, you should just shut up and go away."

By Aaron Sharockman • November 11, 2009

Charlie Crist
stated on September 25, 2009 in speaking to a group of Michigan Republicans:

"I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."

By Aaron Sharockman • November 10, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on November 2, 2009 in a Webcast:

"Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state" of Massachusetts.

By Catharine Richert • November 10, 2009

Nita Lowey
stated on November 7, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:

An amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money."

By Louis Jacobson • November 9, 2009

Americans United for Change
stated on November 5, 2009 in a TV ad:

The Republicans' alternative health care plan "will still let insurers raise premiums four times faster than wages."

By Robert Farley • November 5, 2009

House Republican Conference
stated on October 29, 2009 in a news release:

Health care reform "establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the 'Health Benefits Advisory Committee') to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 4, 2009

Tom McClintock
stated on October 27, 2009 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009

Patrick Kennedy
stated on October 27, 2009 in a speech on the House floor. :

"One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 30, 2009

John Boehner
stated on October 26, 2009 in a statement on his Web site:

"Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 28, 2009

Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 23, 2009 in a comment on the O'Reilly Factor:

When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2009

Mary Matalin
stated on October 22, 2009 in CNN's Situation Room program:

"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."

By Catharine Richert • October 27, 2009

Rachel Maddow
stated on October 22, 2009 in "The Rachel Maddow" show:

"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2009

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