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Chain e-mails circulate on the Internet, making charges against a candidate.
Recent statements involving Chain e-mail
Members of Congress passed a pay raise for themselves of $10,000 over two years even as they voted not to raise Social Security benefits for 2010 and 2011.
The Democrats' health care bills would provide "free health care for illegal immigrants."
The House health care bill provides for "free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession."
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."
A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."
Recent stories featuring Chain e-mail
Another chain e-mail, another Pants on Fire:
A chain e-mail claims the cap-and-trade bill would require people to retrofit their homes for energy efficiency. We find -- surprise! -- the chain e-mail is wrong.
A chain e-mail full of praise:
An American Studies professor listed 90 accomplishments of the Obama administration and sent it to some Democratic friends, but the list went viral. We take a look to see if it's accurate.
'Obama phones'? No, they've been around for years :
The latest Internet rumor is that President Obama is giving out free phones to people on welfare.
Chiropractor ditches patient over chain e-mail:
When facts are in dispute, sparks fly.
E-mail 'analysis' of health bill needs a check-up:
Readers sent us a chain e-mail that comments on the House health reform bill page by page. Most of its factual assertions are wrong.
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