October 06, 2011 2:01 pm ET filed under Fact Check
The House GOP's Crusade Against Reproductive Rights
In September, Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, initiated an investigation of Planned Parenthood's financial records looking for misappropriated federal funds and requesting paperwork going back over 13 years. This Republican vendetta against Planned Parenthood is part of a larger fight in which Republicans are trying to prevent women from being in control of their reproductive health. To that end, House Republicans introduced a multitude of bills and amendments since January that would chip away at women's reproductive rights by eliminating Title X funding, defunding Planned Parenthood, imposing harsh restrictions on funding for abortions, replacing sexual education programs with abstinence-only programs, redefining rape to limit abortion exceptions, reinstating the global gag rule, supporting crisis pregnancy centers and imposing harsher parental notification laws.
July 29, 2011 5:20 pm ET filed under Video
Remember When Republicans Were Worried About Uncertainty?
As Republicans risk massive uncertainty for small businesses by playing chicken with the debt ceiling, Political Correction takes a look back at GOP leaders from the House and Senate bemoaning the risk of uncertainty for job creators in order to push the extension of the Bush tax cuts.
June 14, 2011 4:46 pm ET filed under Video
GOP Politicians Tout Medicaid Cuts
At the 2011 Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C., Political Correction asked Republican leaders if they support cuts to Medicaid in order to address the national deficit. Here are their responses:
June 13, 2011 1:24 pm ET filed under Blog
Pence Has A "Bold Vision" For Indiana, But Won't Say What It Is
April 18, 2011 3:43 pm ET filed under Blog
Typo In Tax Day Press Release Calls Attention To Rep. Pence's Support For Cutting Taxes On The Rich
April 11, 2011 10:27 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - April 10, 2011
April 11, 2011 10:13 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - April 10, 2011
With a government shutdown narrowly averted this weekend, the Sunday shows focused naturally on spending issues. On CBS, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) made the absurd assertion that government spending caused the recession (and not rampant fraud on Wall Street), and falsely claimed that a balanced budget amendment would help our fiscal situation. On Fox, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) repeated a favorite GOP lie about entitlement programs — that they "are not gonna be there for me when I retire" unless voters allow conservatives to rip holes in the safety net. And on NBC, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) misled viewers about his budget proposal that would undo safety net programs like Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps while cutting taxes for the richest Americans and protecting special interest tax loopholes for Big Oil. Meanwhile on ABC, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) seemed to have forgotten that he voted in February to eliminate all Title X funding for family planning services.
April 08, 2011 5:55 pm ET filed under Blog
The Shutdown Fight Isn't About Abortion? Rep. Pence Disagrees
April 08, 2011 10:48 am ET filed under Blog
Now Rep. Pence Says It's Democrats Who Want To Force Shutdown Over Abortion
April 05, 2011 10:57 am ET filed under Blog
Would Rep. Pence Shut Down The Government Over Planned Parenthood Funding? "Of Course"
March 30, 2011 1:21 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence Frames Attack On Planned Parenthood As Populist Fight Against "Big Business"
March 09, 2011 11:59 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence's "Fundamental Disconnect" With The American People
February 10, 2011 6:21 pm ET filed under Blog
Fretting About GOP's "First Impression," Rep. Pence Recommits To $100B Cuts Goal
February 08, 2011 6:33 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Mike Pence Brings Planned Parenthood Hoax Videos To Subcommittee Hearing
February 08, 2011 2:56 pm ET filed under Blog
House Subcommittee Calls Lila Rose's Funder For Abortion Testimony
January 25, 2011 5:44 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Pence Ignores Recent History In State Of The Union Prebuttal
January 25, 2011 4:53 pm ET filed under Blog
The GOP Scheme To Take Credit For The Recovery
January 25, 2011 4:19 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Rep. Pence Ignores Recent History In State Of The Union Prebuttal
In a one-minute speech at the outset of today's House session, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) predicted President Obama will portray the past two years of economic policy as "pulling the economy back from the brink," and disagreed with that view of the recent past. "Far from pulling our economy back, the weight of debt and taxes and regulation have stifled our economic recovery," Pence said. "Mr. President, we will not win the future with the failed economic policies of the past." Yet the private sector has added jobs each month for the past year, for a total of 1.3 million new private jobs in 2010. This steady job growth stands in stark contrast with the 800,000 job losses per month — a product of President Bush's "failed economic policies of the past" — that greeted President Obama at the start of his term.
January 25, 2011 7:15 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence Suggests Congress Should Focus On Abortion Over Jobs
January 12, 2011 2:57 pm ET filed under Fact Check
A Year Later, Rep. Pence Still Lying About Imaginary "Permanent Bailout Authority" In Wall Street Reform Bill
Last January, Republican message maven Frank Luntz released a memo advising the GOP that "the single best way to kill any legislation is to link it to the Big Bank Bailout." With Democrats pushing to reform the casino-style practices on Wall Street that led to the recession, Republicans dug in and attacked the effort as a "permanent bailout" at every opportunity, but the bill became law last July. Now Republicans are talking about repealing the bill, and recycling the "permanent bailout" lie in the process. Today on C-SPAN, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) used Luntz's language to call for repeal, but the fact remains that the law actually ends the bailout culture — which is why Wall Street started giving money hand-over-fist to Republicans like Pence in the last election cycle.
January 12, 2011 11:08 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence: Guns At Political Events Are Like "Placards" At Anti-War Rallies
January 06, 2011 11:22 am ET filed under Blog
On First Day, Republicans Vote To Make House Less Representative
December 17, 2010 11:11 am ET filed under Blog
"Government Takeover" Is PolitiFact's "Lie Of The Year"
December 16, 2010 11:09 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence Moves The Goal Posts On Tax Cuts, Suggests Compromise Is Unconstitutional
December 15, 2010 11:03 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence Announces Opposition To Tax Cuts For Everybody
December 10, 2010 11:28 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence Rewrites Bush Tax Cuts History
December 01, 2010 10:38 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Pence: The Best Thing For The Unemployed Is Tax Cuts For Millionaires
December 01, 2010 10:27 am ET filed under Video
Rep. Pence: The Best Thing For The Unemployed Is Cutting Taxes For Millionaires
November 29, 2010 2:24 pm ET filed under Blog
Why Republicans Are Wrong When They Say 'Nobody's Talking About Tax Cuts'
