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President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout health care reform negotiations. | true |
Charlie Crist broke the quarter record for fundraising in a U.S. Senate race in Florida. | true |
President Obamas proposal calls for serious cuts in our own longterm carbon emissions but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions. | true |
The Senate health care bill does not contain limits on medical malpractice lawsuits. | true |
The Senate health care bill would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage. | true |
Obama has visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office. | true |
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to skyrocket. | true |
The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority. | true |
Barack Obama wont even use the term war on terrorism. | true |
Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine. | true |
President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan. | true |
History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth. | true |
A fairly limited number of people 25 million to 30 million will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange. | true |
A request for an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House during the presidency of George W. Bush including the vice presidents for more than eight months a resource request filled by President Obama in March. | true |
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missiledefense facilities at the last minute in midnight phone calls. | true |
A report by the health insurance industry ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill. | true |
Other Western countries have ended their Dont Ask Dont Tell policies. | true |
Health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001. | true |
Barack Obama and the Democrats have proposed a tax for not having health insurance. | true |
In a nowviral video impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama. | true |
Goldman Sachs was Barack Obamas No. 1 private contributor. | true |
FDR was called a socialist and a communist. | true |
The Baucus bill contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and governmentchartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion. | true |
In some states it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because shes been the victim of domestic violence. | true |
Mathematically the White Sox can still get in the playoffs. | true |
As a candidate President Obama declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion and vowed that this right would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president. | true |
The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie plain and simple. | true |
If you already have health insurance through your job or Medicare or Medicaid or the VA nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. | true |
Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers and they do so for much less cost. | true |
Since World War II only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama. | true |
Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a preexisting condition. | true |
Preventive care does not save the government money. | true |
Health care reform will not affect veterans benefits. | true |
The health care plan for members of Congress is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices. | true |
A loophole still exists which allows members of Congress and highpowered executive branch appointees to exploit insider knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit. | true |
All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. | true |
Now there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95plus votes. | true |
During a town hall meeting on health care ABC didnt even allow ads that opposed the presidents health care plan to be aired. | true |
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II more than AIDS cocaine heroin alcohol vehicular accidents homicide and suicide combined. | true |
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a capandtrade program would cost the average family the equivalent of a postage stamp a day. | true |
In Texas the No. 1 name for new male babies many of whom will vote one day is Jose. | true |
Obama has more czars than the Romanovs. | true |
Contends that President Obama literally said if his capandtrade proposals were to pass that utility rates his words now would necessarily skyrocket. | true |
In the first round of repayments from financial institutions that received TARP money the government has actually turned a profit. | true |
President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent. | true |
The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earths 2054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests. | true |
Youve heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists. | true |
Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal supermax prisons. | true |
The reality is we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing the shoe bomber the Unabomber and many others. | true |
Our government has now spent lent or committed $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession. | true |
The president of the United States ... agrees with me that marriage should be between a man and a woman. | true |
Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages. | true |
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough makes a huge difference in reducing transmission of the flu. | true |
In Iraq civilian deaths incidents of bombings etc. remain very low relative to what was going on last year. | true |
About halfway through fiscal year 2009 Washington has run out of money. | true |
Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets. | true |
2008 was the deadliest year of the war in Afghanistan for American forces. | true |
The Republican leaderships budget proposal doesnt contain any numbers. | true |
Obamas budget plan would take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically its been about 40 percent. | true |
Warren Buffett still does support me. | true |
Tens of billions of dollars from taxpayerfunded bailouts ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks. | true |
AIG said they were giving $57 million in retention payments to people who were being terminated. | true |
Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter. | true |
I dont do earmarks. Ive never done one. Im not going to do one. | true |
Amiddleclass family donates $1 to charity they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity he takes 35 cents off his income tax. | true |
Teddy Roosevelt first called for health care reform nearly a century ago. | true |
The president campaigned against this type of legislation. | true |
We are making the largest investment in education in our nations history. | true |
The omnibus spending bill has 9427 pork barrel items. | true |
When the salmonella source was finally identified FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the peanut recall. | true |
If we got solar energy from an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side that would be enough in and of itself to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year. | true |
Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented. | true |
The stimulus bill contains $20 million for the removal of small to mediumsized fish passage barriers and $25 million to rehabilitate offroading trails for ATVs. | true |
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then you still wouldnt have spent $1 trillion. | true |
Democrats have said that even one hearing on the stimulus bill would be one too many and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions. | true |
The Capitol was built by slaves. | true |
Geithner still didnt correct the same type of error for some years even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years. | true |
Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue. | true |
Fidel Castro has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me. | true |
John McCains health care plan wont guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care. | true |
Medicare spends $15billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies. | true |
98 percent of small businesses make less than $250000 and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obamas plan. | true |
Congressman John Lewis an American hero made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And Senator Obama you didnt repudiate those remarks. | true |
Under Barack Obamas health care proposal if youve got a health care plan that you like you can keep it. | true |
Barack Obama voted against born alive legislation in Illinois that was virtually identical to the federal law. | true |
Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke and told them subprime lending is something we have to deal with. | true |
Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks and thats good but earmarks account for about $18billion of our budget. | true |
I have disagreed strongly with the Bush administration on this issue of global warming. | true |
John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops. | true |
You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief. | true |
Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line. | true |
Palin supports aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife. | true |
Palin proposed a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf. | true |
Says that under his tax plan seniors making less than $50000 per year wont pay any income taxes. | true |
The average South Korean is3 inches taller than the average North Korean a huge gulag. | true |
John McCain wants to give oil companies another $4billion in tax breaks. | true |
Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists from Bermuda gave McCain $50000. | true |
Obamas tax plan cuts taxes for 95 percent of all working families. | true |
John McCain said last year he didnt know of a solution to the mortgage crisis. | true |
My grandfather came home from ... World War II exhausted from the burdens he had borne and died the next day. | true |