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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Tag Archives: Mitch McConnell
Pelosi Stretches an Old McConnell Quote
Rep. Nancy Pelosi seized on an old talking point, miscasting a now-famous quote by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in 2010 about the goal of making Obama a “one-term president.” On CNN’s “State of the Union” on March 10, host Candy Crowley asked the leader of the House Democrats if …
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Underselling the Sequester Cuts
An ad from a fiscally conservative group makes a true but misleading claim that the sequester only amounts to “a 3 percent cut in federal spending.” A majority of federal spending is exempt from the sequester cuts, so the parts that are not will be cut much more deeply than …
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Tagged federal budget, Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, Public Notice, sequester
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McConnell Fudges Fiscal Facts, Too
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell twisted some fiscal facts in his appearances on the Sunday talk show circuit: McConnell said the Obama administration has “driven spending as a percentage of our economy from 21 percent up to almost 25 percent.” But it was already projected to be almost 25 percent …
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Tagged debt, federal spending, Fiscal Cliff, Mitch McConnell, taxes
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McConnell Misreads Oil Report
Mitch McConnell incorrectly claimed that oil production is “up 96 percent on state-owned land and private land,” which isn’t close to being true. Production rose 11 percent on those lands in fiscal year 2011, the period to which McConnell alluded. Even over the last five fiscal years, the rise has …
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Tagged energy (39), Mitch McConnell, oil (24), President Obama (42)
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Twists and Turns on the Debt
Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Xavier Becerra made misstatements about the debt ceiling debate and Social Security. McConnell, R-Ky., was incorrect when he claimed that "nobody is talking about not raising the debt ceiling." In fact, Rep. Michele Bachmann said she would not vote to raise the debt limit in …
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Tagged debt ceiling, deficit, Mitch McConnell, Social Security, Xavier Becerra
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Does the U.S. ‘Look a Lot Like Greece’?
Sen. Mitch McConnell strained the facts when he claimed that "[w]e look a lot like Greece already." The public debt of Greece is double that of the U.S. in relation to the size of each nation's economy McConnell made his comment in a July 6 news conference held prior to …
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Sunday Replay
Almost all of the misinformation coming from politicians on the Sunday shows this week had to do with the expiring Bush tax cuts, which Congress is expected to vote on this week. Coming in second was the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy for gay servicemembers — we’ll post Tuesday …
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Tagged Bush tax cuts, John Kerry, Jon Kyl, Mitch McConnell, Richard Durbin, sunday talk shows
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