Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Mitt Romney
stated on February 23, 2012 in Feb. 23, 2012, in a campaign ad:

Says "Rick Santorum supported (Arlen) Specter over conservative candidates twice."

By Becky Bowers • February 29, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 19, 2012 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":

"Amniocentesis, does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortion."

By Becky Bowers • February 27, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on February 22, 2012 in in a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.:

"This president ... could have gotten crippling sanctions against Iran. He did not."

By Becky Bowers • February 24, 2012

U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on February 8, 2012 in an ad against Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.:

"Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes."

By Becky Bowers • February 16, 2012

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 10, 2012 in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns."

By Becky Bowers • February 13, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2012 in a campaign blog post:

On fundraising for super PACs

By Becky Bowers • February 8, 2012

Cecilia Muñoz
stated on February 1, 2012 in a post to the White House Blog:

"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."

By Becky Bowers • February 6, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 in a speech in Tampa, Fla.:

"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."

By Becky Bowers • February 1, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 in a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."

By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."

By Becky Bowers • January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 in comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.:

"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."

By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 in the State of the Union address:

"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker."

By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.:

Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."

By Becky Bowers • January 24, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 19, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C.:

"I didn't inherit money from my parents."

By Becky Bowers • January 21, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:

"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."

By Becky Bowers • January 18, 2012

Winning Our Future
stated on January 11, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" :

Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.

By Becky Bowers • January 13, 2012

Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 in an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:

Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."

By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 in an Obama for America video:

President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."

By Becky Bowers • January 6, 2012

Steve Southerland
stated on December 5, 2011 in in direct mail:

"The fact is, over 2.4 million jobs have been lost since the 'Stimulus' bill was signed into law in February of 2009."

By Becky Bowers • December 21, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Iowa:

Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."

By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011

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