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Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy
stated on July 11, 2012 in a discussion on "Fox & Friends":
"If you make more than $250,000 a year … you only really take home about $125,000."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 8, 2012 in a newspaper op-ed:
The health care law "adds around $800 billion of taxes on the American people. It does not discriminate between rich and poor."
False
July 16, 2012
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on July 6, 2012 in a Web advertisement titled “College vs. Smokes.”:
"Bill O'Brien's Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • July 16, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on July 2, 2012 in a news release:
"Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Sean Duffy’s Republican Majority."
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • July 16, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 in 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."
False
By Bill Wichert • July 16, 2012
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson
stated on June 5, 2012 in a telephone town hall meeting:
"The state of Ohio has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and is leading the pack in terms of job creation."
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • July 16, 2012
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on June 28, 2012 in a TV interview.:
Because of the health care act, "The people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to keep what they have."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • July 16, 2012
Brian Robinson
Brian Robinson
stated on July 8, 2012 in an article:
Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will "require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget."
False
By Eric Stirgus • July 16, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 13, 2012 in tweets:
Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.
False
July 15, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on July 11, 2012 in 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."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 15, 2012
Vincent
Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on July 11, 2012 in a question to a candidate:
President Obama’s health care law says "when you sell your house now you have to pay a 3.8 percent tax."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 15, 2012
Ovide Lamontagne
Ovide Lamontagne
stated on July 12, 2012 in a Republican gubernatorial debate at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.:
"There are 60,000 fewer jobs today in this state than we had in 2008."
Half-True
By Jake Berry • July 13, 2012
Charles Bass
Charles Bass
stated on June 11, 2012 in a speech after he filed to run for reelection at the New Hampshire Statehouse:
"America used to be the third easiest country to get established in a business. It's now number 17."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • July 13, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 3, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
"Mitt Romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 13, 2012
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on July 9, 2012 in news conference remarks:
Says she "stood up to" Gov. Scott Walker on tax cuts "for wealthy corporations" while her congressional opponent voted with Walker.
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 13, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on July 9, 2012 in a fundraising email:
Sherrod Brown’s approval rating "has plummeted to 38 percent among Ohio voters" in a poll by a Democratic pollster.
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • July 13, 2012
Jeff Duncan
Jeff Duncan
stated on July 10, 2012 in a tweet:
"83% of doctors have considered leaving the profession because of #Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2012
Secure America Now
Secure America Now
stated on July 4, 2012 in a TV ad:
"For his first interview as president, Barack Obama chose Arab TV for an apology."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • July 12, 2012
stated on July 2, 2012 in a news release:
The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of "more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • July 12, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 in 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."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 12, 2012
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