Latest Fact Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

Bush asked for change at General Motors and gave Obama the ability to rescind loans

By Angie Drobnic Holan

June 21, 2010

"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."

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Exxon oil spill clean-up plan has long, detailed media-relations section

By Angie Drobnic Holan

June 16, 2010

"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for…

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2011 W-2 tax forms and HR 3590: No, you won’t have to pay taxes for health insurance

By Angie Drobnic Holan

June 10, 2010

Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."

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Halliburton, KBR, and Iraq war contracting: A history so far

By Angie Drobnic Holan

June 9, 2010

Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."

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Jindal slams Feds over skepticism about Louisiana plan to build sand barriers against the oil spill

By Angie Drobnic Holan

June 1, 2010

The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.

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Obama has increased troops in Afghanistan

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 30, 2010

"The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the…

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‘Hot Air’ movie not accurate on Boxer’s laws

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 28, 2010

Sen. Barbara Boxer "passed only three bills in 18 years" into law.

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Nevada GOP Senate candidate says rival was Democrat Harry Reid “insider”

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 21, 2010

"Sue Lowden gave Harry Reid's campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections, helping his Senate dreams come true."

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Elena Kagan law articles not so easy to count

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 17, 2010

Elena Kagan "has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues."

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Supreme Court rejected arguments Kagan promoted

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 10, 2010

On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong."

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Facts on illegal immigrants show nuances of “enforcement actions”

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 3, 2010

Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."

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BP letter to MMS urges reduced regulation

By Angie Drobnic Holan

May 2, 2010

A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them."

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