Claim: The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.
Fact-check: Supercommittee co-chair Jeb Hensarling cites huge spending increases in four agencies
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-10-28T00:00:00