Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Barack Obama
stated on February 17, 2009 in a bill signing ceremony in Denver.:

"We are making the largest investment in education in our nation’s history."

By Alexander Lane • February 27, 2009

Rosa DeLauro
stated on February 4, 2009 in a news conference:

"When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall."

By Alexander Lane • February 19, 2009

Al Gore
stated on January 28, 2009 in a Senate committee hearing:

If we got solar energy from "an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year."

By Alexander Lane • February 18, 2009

Chain email
stated on January 12, 2009 in Internet attack:

"Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income."

By Alexander Lane • February 11, 2009

Fred Smith
stated on February 5, 2009 in appearance on ABC's This Week:

"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."

By Alexander Lane • February 6, 2009

Howard Dean
stated on January 7, 2009 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball.:

"The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English."

By Alexander Lane • January 14, 2009

John McCain
stated on October 23, 2008 in remarks by chief strategist Steve Schmidt:

"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."

By Alexander Lane • December 3, 2008

Sarah Palin
stated on October 24, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Mo.:

Obama would "experiment with socialism."

By Alexander Lane • December 3, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 19, 2008 in a TV interview:

"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."

By Alexander Lane • December 1, 2008

John McCain
stated on October 31, 2008 in a TV interview:

"We are within the margin of error."

By Alexander Lane • October 30, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 29, 2008 in North Carolina:

McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.

By Alexander Lane • October 29, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2008 in a television advertisement:

McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"

By Alexander Lane • October 28, 2008

National Republican Trust PAC
stated on October 21, 2008 in a television ad:

"Barack Obama's plan gives a driver's license to any illegal who wants one."

By Alexander Lane • October 23, 2008

Republican National Committee
stated on October 21, 2008 in a direct mail piece:

"Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to."

By Alexander Lane • October 22, 2008

Chain email
stated on October 10, 2008 in our inbox:

"If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers."

By Alexander Lane • October 17, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:

"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."

By Alexander Lane • October 16, 2008

John McCain
stated on October 15, 2008 in Hempstead, N.Y.:

"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."

By Alexander Lane • October 15, 2008

John McCain
stated on October 9, 2008 in a Web ad:

"(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."

By Alexander Lane • October 10, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:

"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."

By Alexander Lane • October 8, 2008

John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn.:

"1.3-million people in America make their living off eBay."

By Alexander Lane, Janet Zink • October 7, 2008

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