Latest Fact Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Former Reagan budget director says Ryan’s plan saves debt reduction for later

By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 4, 2011
Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts "nothing" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and "in three years, he…
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Obama regrets 2006 vote against raising the debt limit

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 29, 2011
On whether the federal debt limit should be raised
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Barack Obama says birth certificate drowned out budget proposals in media coverage

By Angie Drobnic Holan , Louis Jacobson
April 28, 2011
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.
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Paul Krugman said large majorities favor higher taxes for the rich and no cuts to Medicare

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 25, 2011
"Large majorities" of the public "oppose major changes to Medicare" and favor higher taxes on the wealthy.
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Democrats say Republicans voted to end Medicare and charge seniors $12,000

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 20, 2011
"Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare."
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Rep. Joe Walsh said that every time we’ve cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 19, 2011
"Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown."
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Mike Pence said Republican Medicare proposal gives seniors the same health care as Congress

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 13, 2011
A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will  "participate in the same kind of health plan that members of…
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Tim Pawlenty said in 2009, “we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years”

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 12, 2011
"In 2009, we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years."
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Libya sells most of its oil to Europe, not China

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 11, 2011
"Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya."
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Congress can’t agree on cutting its own pay in the event of a government shutdown

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 6, 2011
Says House Republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of Congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown.
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Tim Pawlenty said he brought Minnesota state spending growth down “to about 1.7 percent per year.”

By Angie Drobnic Holan
April 1, 2011
"From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21…
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Planned Parenthood funding: Did the GAO really find millions missing?

By Angie Drobnic Holan
March 25, 2011
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from…
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