Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 21, 2010
Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak
stated on June 15, 2010 in a Congressional hearing:
"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 10, 2010 in a chain e-mail:
Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on May 30, 2010 in an interview on ABC news "This Week'':
The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 1, 2010
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 30, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":
"The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on March 10, 2010 in a Web ad:
Sen. Barbara Boxer "passed only three bills in 18 years" into law.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 28, 2010
Danny Tarkanian
Danny Tarkanian
stated on May 5, 2010 in a Nevada U.S. Senate race campaign commercial:
"Sue Lowden gave Harry Reid's campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections, helping his Senate dreams come true."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 21, 2010
stated on May 10, 2010 in a column:
Elena Kagan "has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 17, 2010
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on May 10, 2010 in an interview on Fox News:
On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 10, 2010
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 2, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 3, 2010
Lamar McKay
Lamar McKay
stated on May 2, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' 'This Week':
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 27, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 21, 2010 in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood :
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on April 19, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
The financial services regulatory bill "will end taxpayer bailouts."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 in a press conference:
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"I don't answer hypotheticals."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 13, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 in in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":
"President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2010
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