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Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
stated on April 16, 2010 a campaign commerical
Steve Poizner "increased his department's budget nearly 14 percent."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 a campaign commercial
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2010
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 11, 2010 a TV ad
"Minnick voted to let the government fund abortion under Obamacare."
False
May 19, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on May 11, 2010 an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz
Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on May 11, 2010 a speech on the Senate floor
On Sandra Day O'Connor: "I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience" before she joined the Supreme Court.
False
By Catharine Richert • May 12, 2010
Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
stated on May 4, 2010 an interview with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC
Royalties for oil and other energy sources are the "second-largest revenue source to the federal government after the IRS."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2010
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
False
May 5, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week'
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 29, 2010 his radio program
Alaska's Prince William Sound "is pristine now."
False
April 30, 2010
Tim James
Tim James
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release
Says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to "increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English."
False
April 29, 2010
John Huppenthal
John Huppenthal
stated on April 26, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Under the new Arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 21, 2010 an interview with CNBC's John Harwood
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
stated on March 25, 2010 a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
"The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."
False
By Catharine Richert • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
April 13, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2010
Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry
stated on April 1, 2010 an op ed article
"Early census returns are showing that conservatives have been measurably less likely than liberals to return their census forms."
False
April 7, 2010
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 24, 2010 an appearance on the Fox News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."
False
By Catharine Richert • March 30, 2010
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