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Republican from Kentucky
Rand Paul is a U.S. senator from Kentucky. A physician by trade, Paul defeated Democrat Jack Conway in 2010 for the seat formerly held by Sen. Jim Bunning.
Recent statements involving Rand Paul
"The average (public school) teacher in Wisconsin’s making $89,000 a year" in salary and benefits.
The federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget."
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
Says President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he "now is against earmarks."
"We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So we've taken 5 percent away from the private sector."
Recent stories featuring Rand Paul
Dewhurst a career politician?:
Tom Leppert, the former Dallas mayor running for the U.S. Senate, wasn’t impressed with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s joining the 2012 field of candidates. Leppert reacted to Dewhurst’s declaration by deriding him as a "career politician."
That descriptive of Dewhurst also has been levelled by a U.S. senator who’s backing another Republican running for the Texas seat.
Fact-checking the federal budget fight:
A deadline looms for the federal budget on Friday, with even more deadlines to come.
Fact-checking claims on Egypt and Israel:
We look at three statements about the Middle East.
Looking for some truth about the federal budget:
On the heels of a draft recommendation from the president's deficit advisory panel, we check the accuracy of several claims about spending and taxes.
With the election's end, 'truthiness' improves:
The election cycle might have ended, but the old Truth-O-Meter kept spinning last week at AJC PolitiFact Georgia.
Topics ranged from animal abuse to the national debt to high school graduation rates. And just about the time Georgians were finishing off the last of the Halloween candy and beginning to plan for the Thanksgiving feast, we took a look at childhood obesity.
It was an unusually "truthy" week, as it turned out. We'd like to take some credit for keeping the power brokers a little more honest. But then we'd probably have to give ourselves a "Pants on Fire."
We hear the state Legislature will be returning to Atlanta in a few months. So it's fitting, we had a bit of a break from the usual mendacity. The Truth-O-Meter needs all the rest it can get before the General Assembly's calamitous return.
In the meantime, we'll keep the Truth-O-Meter primed.
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