Statements we say are Mostly True
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."
"Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years."
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Mitt Romney is "tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house."
The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."
"Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrich’s tax plan goes to the top 1 percent."
Says Newt Gingrich "made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion."
"Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still won’t."
In 1993, Newt Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" for it.
In Iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers "a new doorway to amnesty."
Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans
Says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagan’s policies.
The loan guarantee program that helped Solyndra "was a program that was supported by President Bush."
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