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November 22, 2011 2:59 pm ET filed under Blog

Rep. Huizenga's $1 Trillion Lie

November 04, 2011 11:45 am ET filed under Blog

House Oversights - Week of October 30

A weekly roundup of what House Republicans are and aren't doing with their committees.

August 16, 2011 3:22 pm ET filed under Blog

Remember When President Obama Released His Birth Certificate? Rep. Walberg Doesn't

August 10, 2011 3:03 pm ET filed under Blog

GOP Super Committee Appointees Don't Understand What Caused The Debt

July 29, 2011 10:22 am ET filed under Fact Check

Rep. Camp Blames Obama For Debt From GOP Policies Camp Supported

During a July 28 speech on the House floor, Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) produced a chart comparing the debt accumulated under the Obama and Bush administrations. According to Camp, "President Obama's actions" have led to "twice the debt in half the time" as his predecessor. However, Camp's wildly misleading assertion blames President Obama for a projected FY 2009 deficit that was already over $1 trillion when he took office, while ignoring the fiscal impact that Bush's policies are still having. Not surprisingly, Camp voted for the Bush policies that caused the deficit to explode.

May 24, 2011 11:04 am ET filed under Blog

GOP Rep. Amash Stands Up For Businesses That Falsely Claim To Be Veteran-Owned

May 23, 2011 11:18 am ET filed under Blog

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - May 22, 2011

May 23, 2011 10:52 am ET filed under Fact Check

Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - May 22, 2011

The absurd ginned-up right-wing outrage over President Obama's reiteration of a long-standing tenet of mainstream Middle East peace plans continued on Sunday morning, even as the president drew applause from the crowd at AIPAC for repeating his call for a Palestinian state based on "the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps." Newt Gingrich, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) each misrepresented the president's words in order to attack him. Honest conservatives were no easier to find on domestic policy issues either. McConnell joined Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) in claiming the House GOP budget 'saves Medicare' (although it in fact replaces the program with something utterly different) and that the White House would ration seniors' care (another falsehood). McConnell also claimed tax cuts aren't driving the debt and lied about President Obama's position on the Bush tax cuts. Meanwhile, Ryan claimed the Republican Medicare scheme polls better when you explain the details (nope), insisted Democrats haven't put forth any debt reduction plans (wrong again), and said his plan cuts $6 trillion in spending when on net it only cuts $155 billion. On CBS, Gingrich repeated an exaggeration of his record as Speaker of the House. And, not to be outdone, pizza magnate Herman Cain misled Fox viewers about the Fair Tax and claimed that failing to raise the debt ceiling would increase "market confidence," even though the market is saying the opposite.

May 16, 2011 11:49 am ET filed under Blog