Latest Fact-Checks By Becky Bowers

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Rick Perry says Mitt Romney’s book deleted line that Mass. health care law “should be the model for the country”

December 11, 2011

Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"

Florida Democrats say Mitt Romney dismissed middle-class tax cuts as ‘little Band-Aids’

December 7, 2011

Says Mitt Romney belittled middle-class tax cuts "as nothing more than 'little Band-Aids.' "

Gov. Rick Scott says ‘Obamacare’ is ‘not the law of the land’

December 1, 2011

The Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land."

Mitt Romney says Hezbollah in Latin America poses an imminent threat to the United States

November 23, 2011

"We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent…

Republican lawmakers classified pizza as a vegetable for school lunches, Democrats say

November 22, 2011

"House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a 'vegetable' for the purpose of school lunches." 

Mitt Romney says failed solar company Solyndra ‘had robots that whistled Disney songs’

November 17, 2011

Solyndra "had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding."

Did the program that funded the Solyndra loan start under George W. Bush? David Plouffe says so

November 17, 2011

The loan guarantee program that helped Solyndra "was a program that was supported by President Bush."

Solyndra ad claims President Barack Obama gave taxpayer money to help his campaign donors at failed solar company

November 15, 2011

"(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the…

Ag chief Adam Putnam says Florida’s giant snail ‘carries human meningitis’

November 3, 2011

Says the giant African land snail "carries human meningitis."

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack said he wouldn’t run for U.S. Senate — now adviser says he’s in

October 27, 2011

On whether he would run for U.S. Senate in 2012.

Sen. Bill Nelson said his battle for BP video allowed scientists to calculate Deepwater Horizon flow

October 26, 2011

Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to "wrangle the actual streaming video" from BP that scientists were able to calculate…

Sen. Marco Rubio said his parents ‘came to America following Fidel Castro’s takeover’ of Cuba

October 21, 2011

Says his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover" of Cuba.

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