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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 4, 2012 an interview on "Fox & Friends"
"We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. (Creating 115,000 jobs, the total from April 2012) is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2012 a Facebook post
"In 1993 the Republicans embraced a health platform that proudly features an individual mandate as its main component."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 16, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in South Carolina
Says the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 31, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on December 29, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today"
Says he has "been able to attract independents and Democrats to win" elections in Pennsylvania.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 3, 2012
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on December 5, 2011 an interview on NBC's "The Daily Rundown"
Says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 9, 2011 a written opening statement for a debate
Under President Barack Obama, "more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Progress Texas
Progress Texas
stated on October 20, 2011 an opinion column.
"The Confederate battle flag never flew over Texas, but... you might soon see it on our license plates."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 9, 2011
Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta
stated on October 23, 2011 congressional testimony
"After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 17, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes"
More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2011
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on September 3, 2011 a speech.
Thomas Jefferson expressed "strong support" for a balanced budget amendment in 1798.
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • September 9, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 30, 2011 a speech to the American Legion
The United States "won every major battle" of the Vietnam War. "Every single one."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 31, 2011 remarks from the White House
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 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
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
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
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
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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 31, 2011 his radio program
Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Half-True
February 4, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 a rebuttal to the State of the Union address
"While the government grew, we lost more than 2 million jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2011
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