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Allen West
Allen West
stated on October 21, 2011 a TV interview
The EPA "wants to hire 230,000 new government regulators that will cost the taxpayer $21 billion."
False
By Amy Sherman • November 7, 2011
Ward Armstrong
Ward Armstrong
stated on September 27, 2011 in TV ads.
Appalachian Power Company is making "record profits."
Pants on Fire!
By Warren Fiske • October 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 11, 2011 the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa
"We're inches away from no longer having a free economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Joseph Trillo
Joseph Trillo
stated on June 29, 2011 a House debate over mandatory seat belt use
"There are 30,000 people that have been killed with seat belts."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 13, 2011
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on June 14, 2011 a statement.
"The Federal Register - which houses all Washington regulations - is 34,000 pages in length and weighs in at more than 340 pounds."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 a press conference
"What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'"  
Pants on Fire!
June 29, 2011
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
stated on May 24, 2011 a congressional subcommittee hearing
The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 8, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview on Fox
"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."
Pants on Fire!
June 3, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 an interview on Fox News
We are looking at "150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after" because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the Obama administration.
Mostly False
June 3, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 2, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential campaign
"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2011
Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne
stated on May 24, 2011 a press release
"Less than two years ago, we made a commitment to repay the U.S. . . .taxpayers in full, and today we made good on that promise."
Half-True
May 26, 2011
AmeriPAC
AmeriPAC
stated on May 16, 2011 a fundraising letter
Compact fluorescent light bulbs are "toxic" and "not environmentally friendly."
Half-True
May 24, 2011
AmeriPAC
AmeriPAC
stated on May 16, 2011 a fundraising letter
"The new light bulbs will cost roughly six times the cost of the light bulbs we now use."
Mostly False
May 23, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 16, 2011 a fundraising letter
Next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs."
Pants on Fire!
May 20, 2011
AmeriPAC
AmeriPAC
stated on May 16, 2011 a fundraising letter
"The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs."
Pants on Fire!
May 20, 2011
John Whitmire
John Whitmire
stated on May 3, 2011 remarks on the Senate floor
Says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of "3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance."
Mostly True
May 16, 2011
Ward Armstrong
Ward Armstrong
stated on March 31, 2011 a Twitter post.
"[Appalachian Power] wants another 10 percent rate increase. The compensation package for CEO Mike Morris rose 22 percent to $8.7 million in 2010."
True
By Jacob Geiger • April 19, 2011
Robert Hurt
Robert Hurt
stated on March 25, 2011 a newsletter.
A cap-and-trade bill would "destroy over 50,000 jobs in Virginia."
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • April 12, 2011
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on April 22, 2011 a press conference
"The only segment in the beer market that is growing is the craft beer segment."
True
April 6, 2011
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