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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2013 in a public address:
"Half of all CEOs say that the shutdown and the threat of shutdown set back their plans to hire over the next six months."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 21, 2013
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on October 13, 2013 in an interview:
"We’re 49th in the United States in new businesses created."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • October 20, 2013
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on October 15, 2013 in an interview with Fox News:
"We went from $160 billion deficit spending in (President George W.) Bush's last year to $1.6 trillion the following year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2013
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on October 18, 2013 in a letter:
Says "by reducing chronic health care costs in the State of Georgia, we can reduce the $32.8 billion lost each year due to lack of productivity and economic costs."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • October 18, 2013
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on October 15, 2013 in in a mayoral forum:
"Since Mr. Foster's been mayor, we have less small businesses in the city of St. Petersburg."
False
By Julie Kliegman • October 17, 2013
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on October 12, 2013 in an opinion piece. :
Says "nearly 30,000" federal employees in Oregon were furloughed during the government shutdown.
False
By Ian K. Kullgren • October 17, 2013
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 6, 2013 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Because of the 2011 debt ceiling fight, "the stock market lost 2,000 points."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 in Senate floor speech on the Obamacare law:
"Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 8, 2013
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on October 6, 2013 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"This year, the federal government will have more revenue than any year in the history of our country."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 1, 2013 in a tweet:
The shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 3, 2013
Dan Gelber
Dan Gelber
stated on September 13, 2013 in an op-ed:
"For the last decade, Floridians’ salaries have shrunk substantially" when adjusted for inflation.
Mostly True
By Rochelle Koff • October 1, 2013
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on September 22, 2013 in a roundtable on ABC’s “This Week”:
Under economic sanctions, "now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • September 27, 2013
Michael Turner
Michael Turner
stated on April 22, 2012 in a news release:
Some "20,000 Delphi salaried retirees lost up to 70 percent of their pensions" as a result of "political favoritism and backroom deals."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • September 24, 2013
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on September 18, 2013 in an episode of CNN's "Crossfire":
"One out of 10 minimum-wage workers in the U.S. live in Texas."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 18, 2013 in an interview on CNN's "Crossfire":
"Ninety-five percent of all the wages in Texas are above minimum wage."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2013
Barry Smitherman
Barry Smitherman
stated on August 26, 2013 in prepared remarks for speech to Texas Alliance for Life:
According to an article in the Economist magazine, Americans are "guaranteed" to live above the poverty line if they graduate from high school, keep their first job for over a year and get and stay married.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 18, 2013
John Currie
John Currie
stated on September 9, 2013 in a guest blog post:
Unemployment in Texas has risen over two percentage points with Rick Perry as governor.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2013
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 12, 2013 in a press conference:
According to the most recent jobs report, "we've got more Americans leaving the workforce than we have finding jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2013
Joe Atkins
Joe Atkins
stated on August 29, 2013 in an interview:
"Minnesota is kicking butt relative to Wisconsin on everything from employment and job creation to school test scores, educated work force and a host of other factors and rankings"
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 16, 2013
James O'Neil
James O'Neil
stated on September 1, 2013 in an appearance on "10 News Conference.":
"Wind power is the most undependable form of renewable energy."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 8, 2013
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