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Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on January 31, 2010 an interview with Barbara Walters:
"Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts."
False
By Catharine Richert • February 3, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"We cut property taxes by one-third."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 3, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore:
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 20, 2010 a press release:
"Under (Rick Perry’s) watch as governor, over six million Texans have no health care coverage, including one million children, homeowners suffer from the highest insurance rates in the country, and college tuition has skyrocketed 136 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 27, 2010 a blog post:
"President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."
True
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2010
Ronnie Earle
Ronnie Earle
stated on January 18, 2010 a speech:
"Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech:
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union speech:
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union address:
"Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 30, 2009 a press release:
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 27, 2010
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on January 21, 2010 a floor speech in the House:
Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"We lowered the business tax from 4 percent down to 1 percent."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2010 a televised interview:
"The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson
stated on January 4, 2010 a speech:
"Most Texans aren't millionaires."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 15, 2010 a video blog post:
Chile ranks third internationally in economic freedom, while the U.S. ranks 17th.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 the Jan. 14 GOP gubernatorial debate:
Says Gov. Rick Perry was for Wall Street bailout before he was against it.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 a debate.:
"We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year."
True
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 15, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2009 a press release:
Says approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 12, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on December 15, 2009 in a press release:
"Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 12, 2010
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