Latest Fact-Checks In Bush Administration

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stated on June 12, 2012 in an interview:
Since President Barack Obama took office, "you have 1,700 employees just at the Department of Transportation" earning over $170,000.
False
June 21, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2012 in a speech at Port of Tampa:
"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 18, 2012
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly
stated on February 13, 2012 in a TV interview:
Says Obama has "doubled the stock market from where we started when he was sworn into office"
Mostly False
March 8, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 6, 2011 in an interview on NPR’s “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin:
Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • July 14, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on April 13, 2011 in a radio interview:
The Bush tax cuts "helped to create a substantial part of the deficit."
True
By Tom Feran • April 29, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 in a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.:
Under former President George W. Bush’s administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • February 26, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 6, 2011 in an interview with President Barack Obama:
Tells President Barack Obama that he also asked former President George W. Bush about how he felt about Americans hating him.
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2011
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 31, 2010 in an editorial board interview:
"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
Pants on Fire!
September 3, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on July 12, 2010 in a campaign statement:
Rob Portman’s "plan to tax, slash and privatize" Social Security "would devastate Ohioans."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • July 28, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 14, 2010 in an interview with Rachel Maddow :
Twenty-two million jobs were created during Clinton’s two terms but only 3 million during Bush’s.
True
By Stephen Koff • July 25, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 in comments on her MSNBC show.:
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 26, 2010 in an interview on FOX.:
"On the pace that we're on with job creation in the last four months ... we will have created more jobs in this year than in the entire Bush Presidency."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 18, 2010
Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank
stated on March 7, 2010 in a column in the Washington Post:
George W. Bush was "the least popular president in modern history."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on October 22, 2009 in "The Rachel Maddow" show:
"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2008 in St. Clair Shores, Mich.:
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
Half-True
September 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 in a speech at Democratic National Convention:
"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time."
True
August 28, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Ill.:
Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."
True
By Bill Adair • August 23, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 in a rally in Springfield, Ill.:
Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • August 23, 2008
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
stated on June 18, 2008 in a radio interview with Democracy Now!:
"He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps."
True
By Alexander Lane • June 30, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 4, 2008 in a news conference in Baton Rouge, La.:
"I've supported every investigation (into Hurricane Katrina) and ways of finding out how – what caused the tragedy. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the governor."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 11, 2008
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