Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Jim Moran
stated on December 2, 2010 in a news release.:

The Bush-era tax cuts failed to increase employment and "work-force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000."

By Wes Hester • December 11, 2010

Mark Warner
stated on December 6, 2010 in a floor speech.:

The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.

By Wes Hester • December 9, 2010

Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010 in :

Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it."

By Wes Hester • December 7, 2010

Bob McDonnell
stated on November 30, 2010 in :

"The tuitions in Virginia colleges...have doubled -- 100 percent -- in the last 10 years."

By Wes Hester • December 2, 2010

Virginia Tea Party Patriots
stated on November 15, 2010 in a letter to Congress.:

Since the Fed was created in 1913, "the U.S. Dollar has lost 98% of its purchasing power."

By Wes Hester • November 24, 2010

Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010 in in a news release.:

The health care reform law "reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades."

By Wes Hester • November 23, 2010

Virginia Tea Party Patriots
stated on November 15, 2010 in a letter to Congress.:

The dollar "has fallen over 44% since Bernanke began pumping money into the system beginning back in 2002."

By Wes Hester • November 19, 2010

George Allen
stated on November 13, 2010 in :

President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi passed a "$1.2 trillion stimulus bill."

By Wes Hester • November 16, 2010

Mark Warner
stated on November 11, 2010 in n Op/Ed in The Financial Times:

$65 billion "would be added to the deficit if we keep the cuts for people on the highest incomes."

By Wes Hester • November 14, 2010

Richard Saslaw
stated on November 9, 2010 in a statement to Alexandria City Council :

$65 million from ABC privatization will not pay for "even an overpass in Tysons Corner."

By Wes Hester • November 14, 2010

George Allen
stated on November 5, 2010 in a newspaper Op/Ed:

The debt is "nearly $6 trillion more than when President Obama was sworn into office."

By Wes Hester • November 9, 2010

Eric Cantor
stated on October 30, 2010 in a letter to the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

"The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined."

By Wes Hester • November 7, 2010

Bobby Scott
stated on October 12, 2010 in a statement in the Times-Dispatch voters' guide:

"If all of the [Bush-era] tax cuts expire on schedule, the budget will be close to being balanced in four years."

By Wes Hester • November 5, 2010

Scott Rigell
stated on September 8, 2010 in a statment on his website:

"Congressman Nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the $5-10 billion" the IRS needed to implement health care legislation.

By Wes Hester • November 1, 2010

Tom Perriello
stated on October 12, 2010 in a TV ad:

"Senator Robert Hurt voted for a bill that’s raised your electric rates seven times."

By Wes Hester • October 30, 2010

Robert Hurt
stated on October 14, 2010 in a statement on candidate's web site:

"Congressman Perriello voted in lock step with Nancy Pelosi 90 percent of the time."

By Wes Hester • October 30, 2010

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on October 1, 2010 in a TV ad:

"Rigell's car dealership made over $400,000 off the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ bailout."

By Wes Hester • October 30, 2010

Morgan Griffith
stated on September 20, 2010 in a TV ad:

Rick Boucher "helped write" the cap-and-trade bill

By Wes Hester • October 28, 2010

Scott Rigell
stated on October 4, 2010 in a TV ad:

Says Glenn Nye voted "in lock step with Nancy Pelosi" 83 percent of the time.

By Wes Hester • October 25, 2010

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