Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Michele Bachmann
stated on September 13, 2011 in several media interviews:

Says the vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation.

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2011

Gail Collins
stated on September 8, 2011 in a column:

Mitt Romney "drove to Canada with the family dog Seamus strapped to the roof of the car."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on September 12, 2011 in the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa:

"We know that President Obama stole over $500 billion out of Medicare to switch it over to Obamacare."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on September 7, 2011 in a debate at the Reagan Library:

"Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster" than Mitt Romney.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2011

SEIU
stated on September 7, 2011 in a political mailing:

"Republicans fought to protect tax loopholes for corporations that send our jobs overseas."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 7, 2011

Donna Brazile
stated on August 21, 2011 in a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour':

"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2011

Thaddeus McCotter
stated on August 16, 2011 in an op-ed in the "National Review":

"When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 in a campaign stop in New Hampshire:

Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011

Warren Buffett
stated on August 14, 2011 in a "New York Times" op-ed:

The "mega-rich" pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class "fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2011

Paul Krugman
stated on August 15, 2011 in a column in the "New York Times":

"One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 15, 2011

Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 in an interview with the 'Miami Herald.':

"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on August 11, 2011 in a debate in Ames, Iowa:

When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2011

Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 in a debate in Ames, Iowa:

"Obamacare was patterned after (Mitt Romney's) plan in Massachusetts."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2011

Paul Krugman
stated on July 31, 2011 in on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":

"The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2011

Eric Cantor
stated on August 1, 2011 in a message on Twitter:

"There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 2, 2011

Allen West
stated on July 27, 2011 in an interview on CNN:

"This is the first time in the history that we've had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 29, 2011

Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 24, 2011 in a statement from the campaign:

Michele Bachmann's legislative record is "offering failed amendments."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 28, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on July 24, 2011 in a prepared statement:

Says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, "The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2011

John Boehner
stated on July 25, 2011 in a televised speech:

The House passed "cut, cap and balance" with "bipartisan support."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2011 in an interview on NPR:

Says Ronald Reagan "repeatedly talked about how irresponsible it would be to allow the full faith and credit of the United States to be impaired in any kind of way."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2011

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