The Truth About Self-Executing Rules
March 17, 2010 12:00 PM
As the health care debate enters its final week, Republicans are amplifying their feigned outrage and hypocritical attacks. After it was reported that House Democrats may pass a "self-executing rule" to combine the Senate bill and their budget "fix" into...
Sen. Hatch Falsely Claims Health Care Reform Will "Double And Triple Our National Debt"
March 17, 2010 10:00 AM
During an interview on Fox News, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) declared that passing health care reform "is going to double and triple our national debt." In reality, while the national debt currently stands at $12.6 trillion, health care reform will...
Rep. Kingston Skews Health Care Comments By Speaker Pelosi
March 16, 2010 05:00 PM
During a floor speech on March 16, 2010, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) displayed a poster highlighting an out-of-context partial quote from Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in...
Rep. Gohmert Discusses "Passing" The Health Care Bill... After Eating It
March 16, 2010 03:15 PM
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Rep. Pence Wrongly Asserts Health Care Reform Funds Abortions
March 16, 2010 02:15 PM
During a floor speech on March 16, 2010, Rep. Mike Pence falsely claimed the health care reform bill contained "public funding of abortion." In reality, the bill explicitly bans federal money from funding abortion except in cases of rape, incest,...
Myths And Facts On U.S.-Israel Diplomatic Row
March 15, 2010 06:15 PM
A diplomatic crisis between the Israeli government and the United States erupted last week. It began when the Israeli government announced that it would expand settlements in East Jerusalem (the Palestinian part of the city) while Vice President Joseph Biden...
During Health Care Markup, Rep. Ryan Lies About Medical Treatment Research
March 15, 2010 04:15 PM
During the House Budget Committee's markup of the health care reform "fix" on March 15, 2010, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) falsely claimed comparative effectiveness research (CER) would "restrict" doctors' decisions about which treatment they could offer their patients. In reality,...
New Anti-Immigration Ads Leave The Facts Behind
March 15, 2010 02:15 PM
Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) has released a new set of anti-immigration ads falsely asserting that undocumented immigrants are at fault for the unemployment numbers in the United States. More......
Rep. Ryan Fills Health Care Op-Ed With Distortions
March 15, 2010 01:45 PM
On March 15, 2010, Rep. Paul Ryan published a wildly misleading op-ed in the Washington Post. In it, he uses false attacks to smear the Democratic plan to reform health care and lies about the would-be effects of two of...
American Solutions Repeats Tired Clean Energy Myths
March 15, 2010 11:45 AM
In a "Solutions Insider" published on March 15, 2010, Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future repeated the rightwing myth that clean energy legislation would "kill millions of jobs and raise costs for American families by thousands of dollars...
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 14, 2010
March 15, 2010 10:30 AM
On yesterday's political talk shows, Republican members of Congress repeated worn out obstructionist talking points about health care reform. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spread lies about the use of reconciliation and falsely equated it to the Republicans' attempt to change...
Americans For Prosperity Keeps Its "Hands Off" The Truth In New Anti-Health Care Ad
March 15, 2010 09:45 AM
The sheer number of lies in Americans for Prosperity's new anti-health care reform ad is astounding. Apparently unaware that it is March 2010, AFP has reverted to repeatedly debunked and obviously false talking points from fall of 2009.More......
Sen. Inhofe: Liddy An "Authority" On Gitmo Because He Was In Prison
March 12, 2010 07:30 PM
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Sen. Inhofe Reprises Debunked "$3,100" Cost Estimate For Clean Energy Bill
March 12, 2010 07:30 PM
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Sens. McCain and Alexander Keep Lying About Reconciliation
March 12, 2010 07:15 PM
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American Future Fund's Attack On Sen. Reid Is Breathtakingly Deceitful
March 12, 2010 06:30 PM
The conservative American Future Fund has created a new attack ad seeking to portray Democrats as hypocrites on the process of reconciliation. Their ad highlights various statements made in 2005 in which Senate Democrats opposed a Republican plan to change...
Sen. Inhofe Reprises False "$3,100" Cost Estimate For Clean Energy Bill
March 12, 2010 03:00 PM
During a March 12, 2010 appearance on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) reprised the early-2009 talking point that clean energy legislation would cost families $3,100 per year. In reality, investing in clean energy would boost America's...
Sen. Sessions Repeats Debunked Claim About Christmas Bomber
March 12, 2010 01:45 PM
On March 12, 2010, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) penned a column in the New York Daily News in which he claimed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab stopped talking after he was read his rights. In reality, the failed underwear bomber was...
GOP Earmark Banners Requested Over $240M In Earmarks Since 2008
March 11, 2010 10:30 AM
On March 10, 2010, ten Republican congressional leaders released a joint statement announcing their intention to ban earmarks because they have "become a symbol of a broken Washington." Yet despite their newfound disdain for the earmarking process, those same ten...
Rep. Blunt Misrepresents GOP Health Care Plan
March 10, 2010 06:15 PM
During a March 10, 2010 appearance on CNN's Rick's List, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) painted a deceptively rosy picture of the Republicans' health care alternative. Despite Blunt's claims, the Republican plan leaves 52 million Americans without health coverage, allows insurers...
