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Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 20, 2011 in a speech to the Heritage Foundation:
"Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 16, 2011
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on January 10, 2011 in a town hall forum:
Says there are "a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go in place" as a result of health care reform.
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • February 2, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on November 23, 2010 in an MSNBC interview:
"Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 28, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 6, 2011 in a FoxNews interview:
Says the Defense Department shrink-wrapped $10.8 billion in American money, loaded it on 175 pallets and put it on a transport plane to Iraq where they passed out $100 bills and no one has any receipts.
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 24, 2011
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on December 7, 2010 in a news release:
Says Jim Renacci ran against the Washington establishment in the election, but is now "hypocritically embracing it with big money, special interest fundraisers."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • December 13, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 10, 2010 in a news conference:
"It’s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • November 18, 2010
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on October 25, 2010 in testimony given at a public hearing:
Electric utility FirstEnergy's annual revenues are greater "than the GDP of Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Iceland, or 15 African nations."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • November 10, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 3, 2010 in a news conference:
Says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings.  
True
By Sabrina Eaton • November 9, 2010
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on October 18, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
On privatization of Social Security.
Full Flop
By Robert Higgs, Sabrina Eaton • October 19, 2010
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on October 4, 2010 in a television election ad:
Says that "93 percent of the time John Boccieri voted with Nancy Pelosi."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • October 8, 2010
Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs
stated on September 23, 2010 in an campaign e-mail:
On protecting Social Security benefits and changing the retirement age.
Full Flop
By Sabrina Eaton • October 4, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on September 13, 2010 in an appearance at The Plain Dealer:
Says he took down the mob in Northeast Ohio
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • September 28, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on August 18, 2010 in an interview with The Plain Dealer:
On the success of "Cash for Clunkers"
Full Flop
By Sabrina Eaton • September 24, 2010
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on September 1, 2010 in a campaign fundraising e-mail:
"Ganley said that if elected, he wants to ‘cut the dickens’ out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans’ benefits."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • September 20, 2010
John Boccieri
John Boccieri
stated on August 18, 2010 in an interview:
"I don’t understand what Republicans are doing against this. It was their idea. John McCain introduced cap and trade legislation three times."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 13, 2010
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on August 17, 2010 in a television election ad:
"Jim Renacci cheated on his income taxes" and is a "deadbeat citizen."
Mostly True
By Jane Kahoun, Sabrina Eaton • August 27, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on July 6, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
"The Arizona law basically parrots the federal immigration law."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • July 24, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 13, 2010 in a news release:
"The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvania to set up a new high-risk insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • July 23, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 15, 2010 in an op-ed in the Detroit News:
"Since February 2009, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs while the federal government has grown by more than 400,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Sabrina Eaton • July 15, 2010
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