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Chain email
Chain email
stated on November 28, 2011 in a message via the Internet:
While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free.
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 11, 2011
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on November 27, 2011 in in a debate:
I differed with my party on business legislation, on consumer protection, and on free trade agreements.
False
By Janie Har • December 10, 2011
Rob Cornilles
Rob Cornilles
stated on November 27, 2011 in in a debate:
Suzanne Bonamici votes with her party a partisan 98 percent of the time.
Half-True
By Janie Har • December 10, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 7, 2011 in an Iowa TV ad.:
Our "kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 9, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on November 30, 2011 in a house party in New Hampshire:
"The Fed created $15 trillion in the bailout process" and $5 trillion went overseas.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 9, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 5, 2011 in the Texas Patriots PAC debate in The Woodlands, Texas:
Says IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could "pay for" health care reform.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • December 9, 2011
Ohio Right to Life
Ohio Right to Life
stated on December 5, 2011 in a news release:
"Ohio’s Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • December 9, 2011
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on November 30, 2011 in a press release:
"[Former Georgia congressman] Bob Barr voted ... to raise his own pay."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • December 9, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on December 6, 2011 in a segment of "The Daily Show":
"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 9, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 6, 2011 in a speech in Osawatomie, Kan.:
"Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on November 16, 2011 in an editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph:
"We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • December 8, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate.:
The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate.
True
By Warren Fiske • December 8, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate.:
The United States "is number one in the world in energy resources; Russia is number two."  
True
By Jacob Geiger, Warren Fiske • December 8, 2011
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 30, 2011 in a TV interview:
Says recall organizers "started their website last November" and began work on their effort before he even took office.
False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 8, 2011
Bear Education and Resource Group
Bear Education and Resource Group
stated on December 6, 2011 in a website:
"99% of NJ voters do NOT support hunting."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • December 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 6, 2011 in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:
Says the congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by "a very partisan political committee" in a way that "related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 3, 2011 in a Republican presidential candidate forum:
"I never favored cap and trade."
False
By Molly Moorhead • December 7, 2011
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on December 1, 2011 in a news release:
Says Mitt Romney belittled middle-class tax cuts "as nothing more than 'little Band-Aids.' "
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • December 7, 2011
Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers
stated on November 30, 2011 in an interview:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making voting more difficult by closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices where "low-income voters" live.
False
December 7, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on December 2, 2011 in a newspaper column:
Sen. Sherrod Brown "has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources."
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2011
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