Fact Checker Archive: Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann's 'bombshell' on a 'hidden' $105 billion

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) claims the Obama administration hid $105 billion in spending in the health care bill. She must have lost her reading glasses.

By Glenn Kessler  | March 9, 2011; 6:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (266)
Categories:  4 Pinocchios, Health, Michele Bachmann  
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Michele Bachmann's fuzzy tax math at CPAC

Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a tax lesson at the CPAC conference. But her math needed work.

By Glenn Kessler  | February 11, 2011; 6:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (58)
Categories:  3 Pinocchios, Michele Bachmann, Taxes  
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Bachmann on slavery and the national debt

Rep. Michele Bachmann has trouble with both history and her math in her evolving stump speech.

By Glenn Kessler  | January 28, 2011; 4:45 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (21)
Categories:  4 Pinocchios, Michele Bachmann  
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