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Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 4, 2011 a public appearance
Under a House Republican appropriations bill, "6 million seniors are deprived of meals."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 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
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on April 1, 2011 a press release
Says House Republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of Congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 6, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 22, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business Channel
The federal government has "77 different means-tested social welfare programs."
True
By Stephen Koff • April 5, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2011 an interview on ABC's "The View"
South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 17, 2011 a TV interview.
Discretionary spending has "increased over 20-some percent in two years if you don’t include the stimulus. If you put in the stimulus, it’s over 80 percent."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • April 1, 2011
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on March 31, 2011 a news release.
Says Majority Leader Eric Cantor called for "abolishing Social Security and Medicare."
False
April 1, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 7, 2011
The "House-passed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe, slash more than $1.7 million in anti-terror funds for Ohio."
True
By Stephen Koff • March 30, 2011
Young Americans for Liberty
Young Americans for Liberty
stated on March 24, 2011 a press release
"Every taxpayer owes about $130,000 to pay off the national debt."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 29, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on February 17, 2011 a House committee hearing
Says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse."
True
By Tom Feran • March 28, 2011
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily
stated on July 10, 2010 a news report
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 25, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on March 3, 2011 a House committee hearing
"Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government."
Half-True
By James McCarty • March 24, 2011
Ted Poe
Ted Poe
stated on February 9, 2011 a House floor speech
The U.S. gives foreign aid to Cuba and Venezuela, even though those countries are our enemies.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on March 14, 2011 a Tweet.
The GOP budget plan "would cut nearly a million jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 21, 2011
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on February 25, 2011 a column.
The House budget plan proposes "the largest discretionary spending cut in history."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • March 18, 2011
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on March 3, 2011 a House committee hearing
"Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • March 18, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 4, 2011 a press release.
"Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 16, 2011
George Will
George Will
stated on March 13, 2011 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
Federal spending is "all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2011
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on March 1, 2011 an interview on C-SPAN
"There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • March 15, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Secretly, unbeknownst to members of Congress, over $105 billion was hidden in the Obamacare legislation."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2011
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