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Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 7, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 8, 2012 in a presidential primary debate in New Hampshire:
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on January 5, 2012 in a news release:
Says area near proposed northern Wisconsin iron ore mine is "15 hours away" from where public hearing on mining was held.
False
January 8, 2012
Anna Little
Anna Little
stated on December 29, 2011 in a message on her campaign website:
"Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • January 8, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing:
"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • January 8, 2012
Matt Wingard
Matt Wingard
stated on January 2, 2012 in a news story online:
"Oregon’s per capita income is 9 percent below the national average and getting worse. This is a state that’s actually getting poorer."
Half-True
By Janie Har • January 6, 2012
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on December 12, 2011 in an interview on CNN’s ‘Out Front’:
Says taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 28, 2011 in an editorial board meeting with an Iowa newspaper:
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 in a TV airing in Florida:
Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on December 19, 2011 in a speech.:
Says he’s proposed "the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history."
True
By Sean Gorman • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 in an Obama for America video:
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 6, 2012
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 27, 2011 in tweets:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated "cancer screenings for uninsured women" and offered "no alternatives."  
Pants on Fire!
January 6, 2012
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 19, 2012 in a news conference:
"We are now eighth in the nation in job creation . . . we are No. 1 in the Midwest."  
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • January 6, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 8, 2011 in a letter:
Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 6, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on December 25, 2011 in an appearance on WPRI's Newsmakers:
"I think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years, we were at 100 percent" when it came to contributing to the Providence pension fund.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 in a web video advertisement:
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 in a video ad:
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
False
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 5, 2012
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on December 15, 2011 in a television interview:
Says Milwaukee County buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • January 5, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 29, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • January 5, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on December 9, 2011 in a telephone campaign:
Says Rep. Jim Renacci was "trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 5, 2012
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