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Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 19, 2011 a television interview
"We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • August 25, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on July 26, 2011 a speech at Dartmouth College.
China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.
Half-True
By John Gregg • August 19, 2011
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on June 24, 2011 a news release
Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, "even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 1, 2011 an address to the nation
"Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan."
Half-True
May 5, 2011
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business network
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2011 a televised address
"Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 13, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
The Obama administration "actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 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
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on November 28, 2010 an interview on "NBC's Meet the Press"
Said the Washington Post argued that a failure to pass the START treaty this year would be "no calamity," and that the Associated Press said "the administration concedes the security risk is not immediate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2010
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 21, 2010 a campaign Web ad
Says John Raese said he wants "1,000 laser systems put in the sky, and we need it right now."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 31, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on September 2, 2010 a television commercial
Proposed tax changes are a "handout" to BP.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on June 22, 2010 a debate
The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, "many of whom are our enemies."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities."
Half-True
April 11, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on November 19, 2009 a widely circulated e-mail
Obama "closed offshore tax safe havens."
Half-True
November 20, 2009
Bono
Bono
stated on October 23, 2009 an interview with the Associated Press
When it comes to aid, "the United States is still about half as what European countries give as a percentage."
Half-True
October 30, 2009
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 11, 2009 during a U.S. Senate debate
"The truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world, reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • October 5, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2009 a GOP survey
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Half-True
July 14, 2009
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