Over her career, PolitiFact rated 15 Bachmann claims to be "pants on fire" ratings, its harshest rating. PolitiFact called her retirement "shocking. Bachmann was a fact-checker's dream because she was prominent, she got lots of attention, and she didn't mind throwing out easily disprovable statistics. But she's only a four-term member of Congress from Minnesota, and she doesn't have an important leadership role in the House.
Nevertheless, she was elevated to national stardom by the cable news appearances that offered fact-checkers so much great material. And that helped her launch a presidential campaign. Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke was elected the same year as Bachmann, But PolitiFact didn't bother with Clarke when she went on The Colbert Report in September and said that Brooklyn still had slavery in , five decades after New York abolished slavery, and three decades after the Civil War ended.
PolitiFact did not rate this claim. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U. House of Representatives Republican said his party does not deserve to win majorities in congressional elections next year if it pushes lies and conspiracy theories, saying that it "desperately needs to tell the truth.
He also blasted House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's warning to private companies not to cooperate with a House committee investigating the deadly Jan. Capitol as "pretty scary. Many Republican lawmakers have embraced former President Donald Trump's false claims that his November election defeat was the result of widespread fraud, allegations that have been rejected by multiple courts, state election officials and members of Trump's own administration. Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan.
Nearly people have been arrested on charges related to the attack, which is being investigated by a select House committee headed by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat.
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A conservative talking point has been that President Biden, 78, is not actually in charge of his own White House. But Fleischer said otherwise. After writing off inflation as a temporary challenge, the White House is now confronting the issue as it stands to get in the way of passing major social spending legislation.
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