Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Ad from Save America’s Postal Service claims rule from Congress is causing USPS’s financial problems

September 29, 2011

The Postal Service’s financial losses result from "a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is…

Herman Cain said government bureaucrats will determine when you get a CAT scan once the new health care law begins

September 27, 2011

"If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed…

Mitt Romney repeats claim that Obama went around the world apologizing for the United States

September 23, 2011

President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America."

Rachel Maddow said Social Security is keeping older Americans out of poverty

September 19, 2011

"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.

Mitt Romney and the dog on the car roof: one columnist’s obsession

September 13, 2011

Mitt Romney "drove to Canada with the family dog Seamus strapped to the roof of the car."

Did President Barack Obama “steal” $500 billion from Medicare?

September 13, 2011

"We know that President Obama stole over $500 billion out of Medicare to switch it over to Obamacare."

Dukakis created jobs three times faster than Mitt Romney, says Rick Perry

September 8, 2011

"Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster" than Mitt Romney.

Did Republicans oppose closing corporate tax loopholes for outsourcing?

September 7, 2011

"Republicans fought to protect tax loopholes for corporations that send our jobs overseas."

Brazile said 53 percent of black wealth has disappeared in the downturn

August 24, 2011

"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."

Thaddeus McCotter says lenders lose 30 percent on foreclosures

August 23, 2011

"When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home."

Rick Perry says more and more scientists are questioning global warming

August 22, 2011

Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being…

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