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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 16, 2011 in comments announcing Florida would reject federal dollars for a Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail line.:
"It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually. Keep in mind that Amtrak's Acela train in Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 million riders in 2010."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • February 16, 2011
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2011 in the GOP response to the State of the Union address:
"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies, an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on January 25, 2011 in a response to the State of the Union:
"The White House promised us that all the spending would keep unemployment under 8 percent."
Mostly False
January 26, 2011
Lars Larson
Lars Larson
stated on December 21, 2010 in Twitter:
TriMet is "spending 4.2 million in fed funds to save $168K per year."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • January 15, 2011
Victoria Taft
Victoria Taft
stated on December 22, 2010 in a website posting:
Portland spent nearly $1 million in federal stimulus money to install bike path signs where they already existed.
False
By Janie Har • January 8, 2011
Brent Larkin
Brent Larkin
stated on January 2, 2011 in a newspaper column:
Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935."
True
By Tom Feran • January 7, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 in a news release.:
The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 20, 2010 in a message via the Internet:
Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire.
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 22, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on November 22, 2010 in an op-ed piece.:
Says that "on average, Democratic congressional districts received 81 percent more stimulus funds than Republican districts."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 21, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 19, 2010 in a CNN interview:
"They tried to give us $400 million to build a high-speed train that goes 39 miles an hour."
Half-True
By Reginald Fields • December 8, 2010
George Allen
George Allen
stated on November 13, 2010 in :
President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi passed a "$1.2 trillion stimulus bill."
Pants on Fire!
By Wes Hester • November 16, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 7, 2010 in a "60 Minutes" interview:
"One of the interesting things about the Recovery Act was most of the projects came in under budget, faster than expected, because there's just not a lot of work there."
Half-True
November 10, 2010
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on November 8, 2010 in an Orlando rail conference.:
"The amount of the revenue required by the state (for the construction of high-speed rail) is around 10 percent."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • November 9, 2010
Jim Doyle
Jim Doyle
stated on October 15, 2010 in an interview with the BBC NewsHour:
About 1 in 10 public school teachers in Wisconsin would have been laid off without federal stimulus funds.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • November 8, 2010
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on November 2, 2010 in an election-night interview :
"Discretionary spending went up 84 percent in the last two years"
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • November 7, 2010
Mike Prendergast
Mike Prendergast
stated on October 29, 2010 in a campaign mailer:
"Congresswoman Kathy Castor voted to spend $2.6 million to teach prostitutes in China to drink responsibly."
Pants on Fire!
November 1, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on October 30, 2010 in a Saturday address:
Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill "when the stimulus was rushed into law."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2010
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on October 1, 2010 in a TV ad:
"Rigell's car dealership made over $400,000 off the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ bailout."
Half-True
By Wes Hester • October 30, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on October 24, 2010 in a debate:
"The Recovery Act saved 60,000 jobs among law enforcement officials, firefighters in the state of Florida, plus another 20,000 educators."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • October 29, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2010 in an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart":
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
True
By Martha M. Hamilton • October 28, 2010
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