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Daniel Senor
Daniel Senor
stated on July 4, 2010 in ABC's 'This Week':
Japan's "interest on its own debt" is "25 percent of its national budget"
False
By Lukas Pleva • July 6, 2010
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on July 4, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 6, 2010
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"If the Republicans were the majority, (Rep. Barton) would have actually the gavel and the chairmanship."
Half-True
June 23, 2010
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 21, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 13, 2010 in a discussion on ABC's 'This Week':
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 15, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 14, 2010 in a statement on ABC News' 'This Week.':
Ninety percent of the people in Arkansas still love Bill Clinton.
Half-True
By Alex Holt • June 15, 2010
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 13, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 13, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 9, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on June 6, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ... shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon."
False
June 8, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2010
Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on June 6, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on May 30, 2010 in an interview on ABC news "This Week'':
The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 1, 2010
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
stated on May 30, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":
"The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2010
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2010
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week.':
The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates "both got more votes than Rand Paul did."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • May 23, 2010
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week.':
In Hawaii, "they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • May 23, 2010
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on May 16, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."
Half-True
May 17, 2010
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on May 16, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
Elena Kagan "violated the law of the United States at various points" with her opposition to military recruiters.
Mostly False
May 16, 2010
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