Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Steve Lonegan
stated on October 24, 2012 in an op-ed on the Asbury Park Press' website:

"Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients."

By Bill Wichert • November 14, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on November 4, 2012 in a campaign rally:

Says under President Barack Obama, the United States has created "five million jobs."

By Bill Wichert • November 12, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on October 24, 2012 in a campaign event in New Hampshire:

Says New Jersey lost private-sector jobs between 2000 and 2009 because Democrats increased taxes, fees, regulations and state spending.

By Bill Wichert • October 29, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos
stated on October 15, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:

Says Chris Christie was "behind" in the polls against Jon Corzine during the 2009 governor's race.

By Bill Wichert • October 24, 2012

Leonard Lance
stated on October 11, 2012 in a debate:

Says Barack Obama "said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened."

By Bill Wichert • October 21, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on October 10, 2012 in a debate on New Jersey 101.5-FM:

Says the U.S. Senate has passed "a budget" over the last three years "called the Budget Control Act."

By Bill Wichert • October 14, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on October 1, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:

Says Chris Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever."

By Bill Wichert • October 11, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on October 4, 2012 in a debate on NJTV:

"When (Joe Kyrillos) had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care, not once, not twice, but six times, he voted against women’s health care in our state."

By Bill Wichert • October 8, 2012

Robert Menendez
stated on October 4, 2012 in a debate on NJTV:

Says Paul Ryan’s budget would turn Medicare into a "voucher."

By Bill Wichert • October 5, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on September 30, 2012 in an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press”:

"(Barack Obama) says he’s going to reduce the long-term debt and deficit by $4 trillion, doesn’t say how he's going to do it."

By Bill Wichert • October 4, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on September 24, 2012 in a news conference:

Says Ronald Reagan "was behind in the polls in 1980 going into the debate with Jimmy Carter and then turned around 10 days later and won 40 states."

By Bill Wichert • October 1, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on September 23, 2012 in a campaign speech:

Says there are "fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president."

By Bill Wichert • September 26, 2012

Rob Andrews
stated on September 12, 2012 in an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey:

Says the "number-one source" of illegal immigration "is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again."

By Bill Wichert • September 23, 2012

Shelley Adler
stated on September 12, 2012 in a video posted on YouTube:

Says Congressman Jon Runyan has a "plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year."

By Bill Wichert • September 16, 2012

Leonard Lance
stated on September 5, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:

"The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years, not a good budget, not a bad budget, no budget."

By Bill Wichert • September 12, 2012

Upendra Chivukula
stated on August 31, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:

Says Republicans "have declared that they’re going to convert the Medicare program into a voucher program."

By Bill Wichert • September 10, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on September 5, 2012 in an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon:

Says Bruce Springsteen played in 1975 at Seton Hall University in South Orange at Walsh gym.

By Bill Wichert • September 5, 2012

Cory Booker
stated on September 4, 2012 in a rally at the Democratic National Convention:

"The first (state) budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood...It resulted in the reduction of hours, the elimination of days, elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state."

By Bill Wichert • September 5, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on August 28, 2012 in an interview on "CBS This Morning":

Says Chris Christie was the "first governor in America to endorse" Mitt Romney.

By Bill Wichert • September 3, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on August 28, 2012 in the keynote address at the Republican National Convention:

Says the United States has "the world’s greatest health care system."

By Bill Wichert • August 30, 2012

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