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Staff Writer, PolitiFact.com

Alexander Lane is a reporter for PolitiFact based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a staff writer for the New Jersey Star-Ledger. As a freelance journalist, he has contributed to This American Life, Chow.com, Portland Magazine and other publications. He has also worked as a musician and a cook.

Featured Statements

Joe Scarborough
stated on April 7, 2009 in a discussion on MSNBC:

President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.

By Alexander Lane • April 15, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 8, 2009 in a radio broadcast:

"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 in an episode of her MSNBC show:

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 25, 2009 in a press release.:

"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.

By Alexander Lane • April 1, 2009
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2009 in a speech at the White House. :

"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."

By Alexander Lane • March 31, 2009
House Republican Conference
stated on March 24, 2009 in a press release and Web post:

"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."

By Alexander Lane • March 30, 2009
Arlen Specter
stated on March 24, 2009 in a speech on the Senate floor:

The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the "elimination of the secret ballot."

By Alexander Lane • March 27, 2009
House Republican Conference
stated on March 23, 2009 in a blog post.:

Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"

By Alexander Lane • March 24, 2009
Barack Obama
stated on March 22, 2009 in a television interview:

"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."

By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009
Chris Dodd
stated on March 19, 2009 in a CNN interview.:

On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.

By Alexander Lane • March 23, 2009