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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 16, 2008 Flint, Mich.:
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • June 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2008 Cape Girardeau, Mo.:
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 20, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 17, 2008 a comment by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 a campaign e-mail to reporters:
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."
Mostly True
By Shawn Zeller • June 17, 2008
Bob Barr
Bob Barr
stated on May 12, 2008 a news conference announcing his Libertarian candidacy in Washington, D.C.:
Eliminating earmarks "would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit."
Mostly True
By Shawn Zeller • May 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 20, 2008 a television interview.:
"My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years."
Mostly True
By Will Van Sant • May 7, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 7, 2008 a poll on McCain's Web site:
Democrats' budget resolution would raise America's tax bill by "$500-billion."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • April 14, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on February 29, 2008 a graphic on the RNC website.:
"Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • February 29, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 3, 2008 a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn.:
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • February 4, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 30, 2008 a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.:
"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 12, 2008 a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich.:
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 16, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 6, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state."
False
By John Frank • January 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on November 28, 2007 St. Petersburg, Fla.:
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
True
By Tom Tobin • November 29, 2007
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on November 26, 2007 Web "Spend-O-Meter":
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."
Mostly True
By David Baumann • November 26, 2007
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on November 26, 2007 a Web site.:
"Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."
False
By David Baumann • November 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 1, 2007 "Innovators in Action" magazine:
"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."
Half-True
By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 6, 2007:
"Mayor Giuliani's lawsuit killed the line-item veto."
Mostly True
By David Baumann • November 7, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 9, 2007 an interview on CNBC.:
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Half-True
By David Baumann • November 7, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 21, 2007 a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.:
"Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum."
True
By Sasha Bartolf • October 19, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 8, 2007 a campaign Web site.:
"Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years."
Half-True
By David Baumann • October 12, 2007
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