Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on August 15, 2012 a news release
"For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 15, 2012 remarks at a campaign event
Says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan "want to turn Medicare into a voucher system."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on June 26, 2012 a debate of Democratic primary runoff candidates for U.S. Senate in Dallas
Says federal debt "doubled during the Bush administration."
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By Sue Owen • July 19, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 30, 2012 a memo to the media
Says "Tommy Thompson's tax plan amounts to an average tax cut of almost $87,000 for the top 1 percent."
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June 10, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 2, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
"It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt."
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By Bill Wichert • June 8, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2012 on the Internet
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2012
Jamie Radtke
Jamie Radtke
stated on April 5, 2012 a statement
If Congress froze the current spending level and then cut it by 2 percent annually, "we could balance the budget in five years."
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By Nancy Madsen • May 10, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 17, 2012 a graphic posted on his website
"President Obama's suggested reduction in spending for next year: $0."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2012
Jamie Radtke
Jamie Radtke
stated on March 28, 2012 a web video
George Allen "voted for 40,000 earmarks."
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By Nancy Madsen • April 18, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on April 11, 2012 a campaign event.
The "Buffett rule" "raises virtually no money, maybe a day and a half of our borrowing per year."
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By Alex Kuffner • April 15, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio
"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 22, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.
"When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It's now 17 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on January 26, 2012 a news release
Says the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the "connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail."
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February 20, 2012
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert
stated on January 12, 2012 a U.S. Senate debate hosted by Empower Texans and the Texas Public Policy Foundation
Says "we brought crime rate down by 30 percent" when he was mayor of Dallas.
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By Sue Owen • February 3, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 23, 2012 a news release
Says U.S. Senate Democrats "have gone without any budget at all" for more than 1,000 days.
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February 2, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 26, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 26, 2012 a graphic circulating on the Internet
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on December 17, 2011 a news release
Says federal spending has increased 21 percent over the past three years.
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By Tom Feran • January 9, 2012
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on December 12, 2011 an interview on CNN’s ‘Out Front’
Says taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million.
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By Sue Owen • January 6, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 an online video
Says Rick Santorum voted for the Bridge to Nowhere.
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 2, 2012
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