Latest Fact Checks By Catharine Richert

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Axelrod claims Bush saddled Obama with a big deficit

By Catharine Richert
January 15, 2010
When President Bush took office in 2001, he inherited a $236 billion budget surplus, with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When he ended…
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Inhofe claims that e-mails ‘debunk’ science behind climate change

By Catharine Richert
December 12, 2009
The Climatic Research Unit e-mails show that the science behind climate change "has been pretty well debunked."
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Proposals allow emerging economies more carbon emissions

By Catharine Richert
December 11, 2009
"President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions," but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.
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Robinson claims the fall of USSR meant a big drop in greenhouse gas emissions

By Catharine Richert
December 9, 2009
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
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Murtha claims the U.S. will have more troops in Afghanistan than Russia

By Catharine Richert
December 4, 2009
"We're going to have more troops (in Afghanistan) . . . than the Russians had."
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McConnell gets it right on medical malpractice reform

By Catharine Richert
December 2, 2009
The Senate health care bill does not contain limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.
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$6,800 for cap and trade not a CBO estimate

By Catharine Richert
November 27, 2009
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap…
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Chain e-mail claims cap-and-trade will require home retrofits, license before sale

By Catharine Richert
November 23, 2009
Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.
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Boehner claims that the Senate health care bill includes an abortion fee

By Catharine Richert
November 21, 2009
Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
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Industry group claims that we have 100 years’ worth of natural gas

By Catharine Richert
November 18, 2009
The United States has a supply of "more than 100 years of natural gas."
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Democratic cap and trade plans have credits to offset electricity rate increases

By Angie Drobnic Holan , Catharine Richert
November 17, 2009
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."
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