All False statements involving Newt Gingrich
"The biggest contribution" behind a decrease in U.S. unemployment "was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce"
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by 25 cents a gallon."
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."
In New York City, "an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher."
Says the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house.
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
During his time as House speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent)."
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
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