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Brendan Doherty

Brendan Doherty

Mostly True

Update: New ruling after additional evidence on loan repayment

"The Providence Economic Development Partnership . . .which you [Cicilline] chaired, loaned $103,000 in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers. The worker never paid back the loan."

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Half-True

UPDATE: His number includes last year's cuts

Says his budget plan "would cut our deficits by $4 trillion."

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Half-True

UPDATE: 'Making Work Pay' was for workers only

The stimulus program "cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people."

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Half-True

UPDATE: Reconsidering the differences

Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan "could raise future retirees’ costs more than $6,000."

Paul Begala

Paul Begala

Mostly False

Ryan plan didn't come up

Says Mitt Romney said at a January 2012 debate that under Paul Ryan’s tax plan, "I’d have paid no taxes in the last two years."  

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Half-True

UPDATED: Romney's vague plans don't pay for themselves

Says Romney would add "trillions" to the deficit while Obama would "cut the deficit by $4 trillion."

Gerard Robinson

Gerard Robinson

False

"Test-taking time" -- not "instructional time"

FCAT tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year."  

Mark Neumann

Mark Neumann

False

In raw dollars? Yes. By better measures: No.

"Obamacare" is the "biggest tax increase in American history."

Jackie Cilley

Jackie Cilley

True

It's all about the property tax in NH

Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country. 

American Commitment

American Commitment

False

A misreading corrected months ago

The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised."

Robert Gibbs

Robert Gibbs

True

Missing from seven disclosure forms

Says Mitt Romney "has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures."

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

False

No evidence it was near that amount

"The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett."

Kelly Ayotte

Kelly Ayotte

Mostly False

A big stretch

Says the Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and ‘profits’ on the loans go to help pay for the health care law.

Allen West

Allen West

False

UPDATE: Corrected ruling

An "Obamacare slush fund" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an "anti-obesity campaign."

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Mostly False

UPDATE: Based on outdated GOP plan

Says under Mitt Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan."

Facebook posts

Facebook posts

Mostly True

Surprise! Viral post is basically right

Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Full Flop

He's acknowledged a change of heart

On abortion

Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine

Half-True

Updated with new ruling to reflect GDP

George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."

Tom Rooney

Tom Rooney

Mostly False

Update: Labor department withdraws rules

A proposed U.S. Labor Department rule for children working on farms "would even ban youth from operating a battery-powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose."

Clay Dafoe

Clay Dafoe

False

Austin-area shoppers pay most of cost

Says bus riders subsidize the "expensive, romanticized" Leander-to-Austin train.

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