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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on December 20, 2010 in a newsletter:
"I stopped requesting earmarks in 2008."
True
January 5, 2011
Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
stated on January 2, 2011 in CBS's "Face the Nation":
"We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that don't exist for procedures that didn't happen."
False
By Robert Farley • January 4, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 in a news release.:
The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on December 1, 2010 in an op-ed:
"All but one of the 50 states already have some form of a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions."
Half-True
December 25, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on December 14, 2010 in a statement on the U.S. Senate floor:
Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included  "$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin."
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2010
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on December 13, 2010 in an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":
"Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2010
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
stated on November 9, 2010 in his book, "Decision Points.":
Says that in his first 17 months as president, the United States doubled its world-leading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 1, 2010 in a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission:
"One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on December 7, 2010 in a radio interview:
The Obama-GOP compromise "raises taxes, it raises the death tax."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • December 13, 2010
Herb Kohl
Herb Kohl
stated on December 3, 2010 in a news release:
"I have always been focused on reining in the deficit."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 13, 2010
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on November 30, 2010 in a presentation:
"Sixteen [federal] programs exist to fight homelessness" and some of them are duplicative.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 13, 2010
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010:
Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it." 
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • December 7, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 30, 2010 in an MSNBC interview :
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2010
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on November 30, 2010 in Senate floor votes:
On banning earmarks.
Full Flop
By Aaron Sharockman • December 1, 2010
Dave Obey
Dave Obey
stated on November 18, 2010 in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch.
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 1, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on November 16, 2010 in a statement:
On an earmark moratorium.
Full Flop
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 26, 2010
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on November 16, 2010 in a Twitter post:
Says President Obama has grown the federal government payroll by 141,000 workers and wants to add 125,000 more.
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • November 24, 2010
Ohio Department of Transportation
Ohio Department of Transportation
stated on October 25, 2010 in a news release:
"Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year."
True
By Joe Guillen • November 24, 2010
Tom Petri
Tom Petri
stated on November 17, 2010 in a news release :
On high-speed rail.
Full Flop
By James B. Nelson • November 23, 2010
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on November 17, 2010 in a news release:
"Because of (U.S. Sen.-elect Ron) Johnson’s leadership, Senate Republicans adopted a caucus ban on earmarks."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • November 22, 2010
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