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60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on November 7, 2011 in a television commercial:
An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is "like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • November 25, 2011
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on November 2, 2011 in a statement in the Congressional Record:
"Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece."
True
By Erin O'Neill • November 24, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 22, 2011 in a Republican debate in Washington:
"We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • November 23, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 22, 2011 in a foreign policy debate in Washington, D.C.:
Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 23, 2011
George LeMieux
George LeMieux
stated on October 27, 2011 in a press release:
U.S. Rep. Connie Mack "voted to raise his own pay several times."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 23, 2011
Our Oregon
Our Oregon
stated on November 14, 2011 in a statement on their website:
Says "we’re losing one voter every 13 minutes."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 23, 2011
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on November 15, 2011 in a video:
A recall election for Wisconsin governor would cost "$7.7 million -- $7.7 million that may already be allocated to merit raises for teachers or health care for the poor or school books for your kids."
Half-True
November 23, 2011
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on November 3, 2011 in a news conference:
Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."
False
By Joe Guillen • November 23, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 22, 2011 in a Republican debate in Washington:
Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30,000 engineers.
True
By Bill Adair • November 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 22, 2011 in the CNN Republican presidential debate:
"When you sanction the Iranian central bank, that will shut down (Iran's) economy."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 23, 2011
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on November 13, 2011 in a newspaper advertisement.:
President Obama plans to "impose a tax of at least 23 percent on the Medicare prescription drug benefit for low-income beneficiaries."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 22, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 in a television ad:
Says Barack Obama said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 17, 2011 in an e-mail message:
"House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a 'vegetable' for the purpose of school lunches." 
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • November 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 1, 2011 in remarks at a campaign stop October 1, 2011, in New Hampshire:
"I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • November 22, 2011
D.A. King
D.A. King
stated on October 11, 2011 in an op-ed:
Says Rick Perry "proposed a binational health insurance program with Mexico."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 22, 2011
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on November 20, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal urged raising $2 trillion in new revenue.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2011
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 17, 2011 in Facebook:
1 percent of Americans are millionaires. 47 percent of House Reps. are millionaires. 56 percent of Senators are millionaires.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 11, 2011 in remarks at Mandester, N.H. campaign headquarters:
"Community banks … are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 21, 2011
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on November 10, 2011 in a TV ad:
"(Stimulus money) went to critically important projects like studying ants in Africa."
True
By Sean Gorman • November 21, 2011
Donna Seidel
Donna Seidel
stated on November 7, 2011 in a press release:
A Republican-led softening of firearms training rules means that "untrained individuals" would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit.  
True
By Dave Umhoefer • November 21, 2011
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