Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Victoria Jackson
stated on July 15, 2011 in a column by Victoria Jackson:

"A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall in New Hampshire:

Said his mother had to fight with health insurance companies for treatment because of a pre-existing condition.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2011

Grover Norquist
stated on July 13, 2011 in an interview on CNN:

"Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 19, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2011 in a press conference:

"The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2011 in a press conference:

"Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2011

Scott Rigell
stated on June 23, 2011 in a newsletter.:

Under Ryan plan, "those 54 and younger would receive the same kind of healthcare options now enjoyed by members of Congress."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Wes Hester • July 15, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on July 12, 2011 in an interview with CBS News:

Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2011 in a press conference:

"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 12, 2011

Chain email
stated on June 22, 2011 in a chain e-mail:

Says that President Obama said, "Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?"

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 in a press conference:

"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011

John Boehner
stated on June 24, 2011 in a press conference:

"The American people don't want us to raise taxes."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 29, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on June 22, 2011 in an interview on "Morning Joe.":

The U.S. is spending "one out of every six Defense Department dollars on Afghanistan."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on June 13, 2011 in a Republican presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire:

"Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and funds Obamacare."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2011

Rick Santorum
stated on May 5, 2011 in a debate in South Carolina:

The Medicare drug program "resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 15, 2011 in in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"A large number of the uninsured earn $75,000 or more a year."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 13, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 13, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

"The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on May 26, 2011 in a YouTube video:

"When I became president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, it was supposed to go bankrupt . . . We turned it around with common-sense business principles."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2011

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 25, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:

The Democratic health care law "added 12 years of solvency to Medicare."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 27, 2011

Democratic National Committee
stated on May 22, 2011 in a Web ad:

Says that Tim Pawlenty eliminated health insurance for 33,000 to 35,000 people when he was governor of Minnesota.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 26, 2011

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