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• Bachmann’s absurd claim of a vast IRS health database of ‘sensitive, intimate’ information May 24, 2013
  “So now we find out these people are making decisions based on our politics and beliefs, and they’re going to be in charge of our health care. There’s a huge national database that’s being created right now. Your health care, my health care, all the Fox viewers health care, their personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest secrets will be in that database, an […]
  Glenn Kessler
• GOP lawmaker questions how Harry Reid ‘obtained’ false claims about Mitt Romney’s taxes May 23, 2013
  REP. PAUL GOSAR: “Are you aware that in July 2012 Senator Harry Reid claimed Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes for the last 10 years and claimed to have the information supporting that? Are you aware of that? I’m sure you are.” Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Has anyone been ‘fired’ because of the Benghazi attacks? May 22, 2013
  “Why does Benghazi go on? No one was ever fired? So, people made tragic errors. No one’s accepting responsibility and no one was fired.” — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on CNN’s “State of the Union,” May 19, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• The White House claim of ‘doctored e-mails... to smear the president’ May 21, 2013
  “That’s a very serious offense that happened where Republicans on the Hill, we voluntarily provided these e-mails to, took one of them, doctored it and gave it to ABC News in an attempt to smear the president.” Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner May 20, 2013
  In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury inspector general’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt organizations divis […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Holder’s incorrect claim on the ‘Fast and Furious’ criminal citation decision May 17, 2013
  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.): “In the AP [Associated Press] case you have appointed Ronald Machen, and I’m sure he is a fine U.S. attorney, but can he be considered to be independent when in fact when this Congress held you in contempt he was the individual who refused, on your orders, to prosecute the case? If he will obey your orders in not living up to a […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Barbara Boxer’s claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security May 16, 2013
  “I believe if we want to know what happened in Benghazi, it starts with the fact that there was not enough security. There was not enough security because the budget was cut.” — Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), speech on the Senate floor, May 14, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• How many pages of regulations for ‘Obamacare’? May 15, 2013
  “Obamacare is fully implemented January 1st, even though the regulations haven’t been written yet. And Brian, we’ve got 33,000 pages of regulations that they’ve already written. If we stacked it up here, it would be seven feet tall.” Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• Obama’s claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’ May 14, 2013
  “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” — President Obama, remarks at a news conference, May 13, 2013 Read full article >>     […]
  Glenn Kessler
• The claim that Senate Democrats have produced a ‘balanced budget’ May 13, 2013
  “I first want to thank the chair of our committee, the budget committee, for doing such a terrific job in bringing us all together. My colleagues on the committee, as we all know, we worked very, very hard together in order to be able to put together a balanced budget that reflects the values of the American people, that’s fair, that’s balanced in values and […]
  Glenn Kessler