Staff Writer, PolitiFact.com
Angie Drobnic Holan is a reporter and researcher for PolitiFact, the politics fact-checking Web site of the St. Petersburg Times, Florida's largest daily newspaper. Holan was a member of the PolitiFact team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its coverage of the 2008 election. Currently, she covers health care, taxes, government transparency and the federal budget. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and is finishing a master's of library and information science at the University of South Florida. She previously was a news researcher at The Tampa Tribune and a business reporter at the Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register. She is a proud graduate of Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts.
The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Angie Drobnic Holan
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
Reconciliation was used "for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush."
In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan "justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt."
"I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me."
"One of the most recent polls said 75 percent of the American people have said either don't do anything or start over (on health care reform)."
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
Recent stories from Angie Drobnic Holan
Top 5 lies about health careWe look at five persistent talking points that don't have much to them.
Top 10 facts to know about health care reformWe boil down more than a year's worth of reporting and research to ten important points.
Fact-checking the new Mitt Romney book "No Apology"Republican Mitt Romney lays out his ideas for America in his new book. We check the facts.
Chain e-mail evolves to Facebook updatesWe check out a chain Facebook status update on President Obama and whether he gave a puny raise to the military. PLEASE RE-POST THIS!!!
Fact-checker's delight: Bachmann vs. GraysonCould we resist fact-checking the most quotable firebrands of the right and the left when they appeared together on CNN? No, we could not.
Mailbag: Bipartisan bouquets and brickbatsReaders sound off on our recent fact-checks, and one suggests a bipartisan "revolution."
No need to pay down the debt? Not what he said.Hillary Clinton takes a few liberties in remembering Alan Greenspan's thoughts on the 2001 Bush tax cuts.
Health care reform: A simple explanation, updatedWe summarize the latest versions of the Democratic and Republican health care reform plans.
Fact-checking Obama's bipartisan health care reform meetingWe're watching the president's health care summit with our Truth-O-Meter handy.
The Sunday VeepstakesCurrent and former vice presidents faced off on the Sunday news shows, and we check the facts.
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