Latest Fact-Checks By Becky Bowers

Showing 1-12 of 168 items

Chain email says Nancy Pelosi will earn “$803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical”

October 17, 2013

Congressional lawmakers earn their salaries "FOR LIFE," which for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would add up to "$803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including…

Rep. Louise Slaughter says 80% of antibiotics are fed to livestock

October 15, 2013

"Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock."

‘Obama Declares November National Muslim Appreciation Month,’ bloggers claim

October 3, 2013

"Obama Declares November National Muslim Appreciation Month."

Robert Reich says under sanctions, ‘Iran is suffering 30% inflation, 20% unemployment’

September 27, 2013

Under economic sanctions, "now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment."

Betsy McCaughey says on next doctor visit, ‘Obamacare will question your sex life’

September 19, 2013

"Obamacare will question your sex life."

Crossfire’s S.E. Cupp cites CDC on armed citizen safety, gun control laws and buybacks

September 18, 2013

"The CDC issued a report commissioned by President Obama just earlier this year, and it found some very inconvenient facts. Armed citizens are less likely…

Bloggers say Warren Buffett recently turned against Obamacare

September 17, 2013

Warren Buffett recently said "Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over."

Secretary of State John Kerry says as a senator he ‘opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq’

September 13, 2013

Says he "opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq" in 2003.

Rep. Ted Yoho says chemical weapons have been used ‘probably 20 times’ since 1990

September 10, 2013

Chemical weapons have been used "probably 20 times" since the Persian Gulf War.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says there’s a ‘100-year-old international norm’ against use of chemical weapons

September 5, 2013

Says there's a "100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons."

Bloggers say Obamacare provision will allow ‘forced home inspections’

August 21, 2013

Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents.

Sen. Ted Cruz says Obama ‘just granted all of Congress an exception’ to Obamacare

August 14, 2013

Says "President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception" to Obamacare.

Showing 1-12 of 168 items