Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Herman Cain
stated on October 4, 2011 in :

"Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037."

By Willoughby Mariano • October 14, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 in a commentary published in Education Week:

Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests.

By Willoughby Mariano • October 7, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on September 22, 2011 in in a Republican presidential debate:

An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.

By Willoughby Mariano • October 5, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 in an op-ed:

"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."

By Willoughby Mariano • October 3, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on September 22, 2011 in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando:

"If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Willoughby Mariano • September 27, 2011

Paul Broun
stated on September 15, 2011 in a tweet:

Stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost 378,000 jobs and $28.3 billion in sales.

By Willoughby Mariano • September 27, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 in an op-ed :

"This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression."

By Willoughby Mariano • September 26, 2011

David Scott
stated on September 9, 2011 in a WABE-FM (90.1) radio interview:

Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers.

By Willoughby Mariano • September 16, 2011

Johnny Isakson
stated on August 23, 2011 in a speech before the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce:

The premiums on Medicare’s prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began.

By Willoughby Mariano • September 13, 2011

Chip Rogers
stated on August 22, 2011 in a meeting:

Rail "doesn’t do a great job in lessening traffic."

By Willoughby Mariano • September 6, 2011

Regina Benjamin
stated on August 18, 2011 in a radio interview:

"The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 26, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 in a commentary published in Education Week:

The results of Atlanta Public School’s 2010 and 2011 CRCT tests "have not been questioned."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 19, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2011 in the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa:

Says that he did "not exactly" say that communities have the right to ban mosques.

By Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2011

Sam Olens
stated on August 4, 2011 in a talk at the Atlanta Press Club:

"The governor having a meeting ... isn't covered by the open meetings act."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 16, 2011

Phil Gingrey
stated on August 1, 2011 in a press release:

Tax increases could "come into play" as a result of the debt ceiling deal.

By Willoughby Mariano • August 15, 2011

Sam Olens
stated on August 4, 2011 in a talk at the Atlanta Press Club:

There are cities and counties in Georgia that don’t have websites, and where elected officials don’t have email addresses.

By Willoughby Mariano • August 12, 2011

Saxby Chambliss
stated on August 2, 2011 in a press release:

The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the "largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 8, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on June 24, 2011 in a mailer:

Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were "given under the strictest security possible."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 5, 2011

Phil Gingrey
stated on June 22, 2011 in a news conference:

Under last year’s health care reform, "a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 2, 2011

Tom Price
stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley":

"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.

By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011

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