Fact Check Posts – Page 14

Chain email
stated on April 9, 2010 in chain e-mail:

Obama said troops "whine about bearing the costs" of going to war.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 9, 2010

Lawrence Summers
stated on April 4, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":

On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2010 in a prepared statement:

On recess appointments.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 1, 2010

Charlie Crist
stated on March 28, 2010 in a debate on Fox News Sunday:

Marco Rubio controlled funds that "out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 29, 2010

Bill McCollum
stated on March 22, 2010 in a press conference:

Florida's cost for the Medicaid expansion will be $1.6 billion a year or more.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 23, 2010

Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 in his book "No Apology.":

Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010

Alan Grayson
stated on March 3, 2010 in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live:

Reconciliation was used "for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2010

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 25, 2010 in a hearing before Congress:

In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan "justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2010

Jon Kyl
stated on February 20, 2010 in an interview on Fox News:

"One of the most recent polls said 75 percent of the American people have said either don't do anything or start over (on health care reform)."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 23, 2010

Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 in an interview on "Face the Nation":

"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in a State of the Union speech:

Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 29, 2010 in a Republican retreat in Baltimore:

Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • January 29, 2010

Nancy Pfotenhauer
stated on January 27, 2010 in an interview on CNN:

The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in a State of the Union speech:

"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in a State of the Union speech:

"For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in a State of the Union speech:

On a government spending freeze.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010

Charles Schumer
stated on January 21, 2010 in a press conference:

"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on December 22, 2009 in an interview with the Washington Post:

"I didn't campaign on a public option."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 23, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2009 in comments at the White House:

When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 7, 2009

Alan Grayson
stated on November 30, 2009 in an interview on 'The Ed Show.':

"In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 4, 2009

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