Latest Fact Checks By Catharine Richert

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Biden says job losses have fallen from 750,000 per month to 35,000 per month

By Catharine Richert
February 17, 2010
"In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs…
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Stewart claims that the stimulus bill is one-third tax cuts

By Catharine Richert
February 10, 2010
One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.
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Palin claims Biden held a transparency board meeting behind closed doors

By Catharine Richert
February 9, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden's meeting "with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public."
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Gregg claims that TARP money must be used to pay down the deficit

By Catharine Richert
February 5, 2010
"The law is very clear! 'The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the treasury for the reduction of…
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McCain flips on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By Catharine Richert
February 4, 2010
On whether he supports 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'
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In PolitiFact debut, Brown says federal jobs pay twice as much as private sector jobs

By Catharine Richert
February 3, 2010
"Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts."
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Obama inherited deficits from Bush administration

By Angie Drobnic Holan , Catharine Richert
January 29, 2010
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt…
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Obama claims U.S. budget went from surplus to deficit in 10 years

By Catharine Richert
January 28, 2010
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had…
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Obama says lobbyists have been excluded from policy-making jobs

By Catharine Richert
January 28, 2010
"We've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."
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Armey says Tea Party is more popular than Democrats, Republicans

By Catharine Richert
January 25, 2010
"Right now the Tea Party polls higher than the Republicans and the Democrats."
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Biden says every Senate decision now requires 60 votes

By Catharine Richert
January 22, 2010
"As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators."
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