Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on July 30, 2012 a video posted on YouTube

Says Congressman Jon Runyan does not want to cut taxes for the middle class, but only for millionaires.

By Bill Wichert • August 5, 2012

Scott Garrett
stated on July 29, 2012 an op-ed on NorthJersey.com

"The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending."

By Erin O'Neill • August 3, 2012

Shirley Turner
stated on July 30, 2012 a speech on the State Senate floor

"The judicial system is the most underfunded in this state, able to only pay 52 percent of its obligations. Meanwhile, judges get some of the richest pensions of all public employees."

By Bill Wichert • August 2, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on July 24, 2012 a news conference

Says under federal law "we do not have any limitation on the number of guns and bullets we can buy."

By Bill Wichert • August 1, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 a news conference

"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."

By Erin O'Neill • July 30, 2012

Dannel Malloy
stated on July 23, 2012 a radio interview

Says Chris Christie "has refused to fund pensions by billions of dollars," and got legislative approval to begin "properly funding pensions" in 2018.

By Bill Wichert • July 29, 2012

Rush Holt
stated on July 20, 2012 an e-mail newsletter

"As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies."

By Erin O'Neill • July 27, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 a news conference

"We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000."

By Erin O'Neill • July 26, 2012

Chain email
stated on July 10, 2012 a chain e-mail

Says President Barack Obama "doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year."

By Bill Wichert • July 25, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution

"I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor."

By Erin O'Neill • July 23, 2012

Bill Pascrell
stated on July 18, 2012 an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

Says President Barack Obama "has not raised taxes."

By Erin O'Neill • July 22, 2012

Lou Greenwald
stated on July 15, 2012 an interview on 6abc’s “Inside Story”

Says raising the state income tax rate on millionaires to offset property taxes for other residents is "not a tax increase. It's a tax shift."

By Bill Wichert • July 19, 2012

Lou Greenwald
stated on July 15, 2012 an interview on 6abc’s “Inside Story”

Says "the money is in the budget" to give a tax break to "everyone," including people making more than $1 million.

By Bill Wichert • July 18, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 an appearance at the Brookings Institution

"New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition."

By Bill Wichert • July 16, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos
stated on July 11, 2012 an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show

"We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs."

By Erin O'Neill • July 15, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution

Says New Jersey’s tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure."

By Erin O'Neill • July 12, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on June 28, 2012 an interview on Richard French Live

Says as a result of the national health care reform, "the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 trillion in savings in terms of health care."

By Bill Wichert • July 11, 2012

Stephen Sweeney
stated on July 2, 2012 an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show

Says "tenure still exists but it's been overhauled" for teachers in New Jersey.

By Erin O'Neill • July 9, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on June 26, 2012 a video posted on YouTube

Says state Sen. Paul Sarlo "said in February on NJTV, ‘there will be no tax increases in this budget’" and "voted the other night in the Senate Budget Committee to raise income taxes $800 million."

By Bill Wichert • July 8, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 3, 2012 an interview on CNBC

"If you look at most of the polls, this is a margin-of-error race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president."

By Erin O'Neill • July 5, 2012

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