Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Markey says oil companies pay nothing for Gulf drilling, costing taxpayers $50 billion

By Louis Jacobson

June 16, 2010

"Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on…

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Hayworth says McCain voted against Bush tax cuts because they tilted toward the rich

By Louis Jacobson

June 15, 2010

John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."

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McCain accuses Hayworth of earning ‘thousands’ as a Washington lobbyist

By Louis Jacobson

June 15, 2010

After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very…

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Hoyer says GOP ‘didn’t have a budget’ in 2002, 2004, 2006

By Louis Jacobson

June 14, 2010

"The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06."

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Boehner, defending GOP record, says House has always passed a budget resolution

By Louis Jacobson

June 14, 2010

"The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era."

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McConnell says that Kerry-Lieberman climate bill ‘essentially written by BP’

By Louis Jacobson

June 14, 2010

"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."

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George Will says final pitch by Don Larsen in 1956 was foot-and-a-half from strike zone

By Louis Jacobson

June 12, 2010

The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."

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Chain e-mail claims Muslims will be a majority in U.S. in 20 years

By Louis Jacobson

June 10, 2010

"In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves."

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Chain e-mail says three presidents deported a total of 15 million illegal immigrants

By Louis Jacobson

June 10, 2010

Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.

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Chain e-mail says U.N. treaty would force U.S. to ban, confiscate guns

By Louis Jacobson

June 9, 2010

Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."

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Kerry says U.S. imports more oil now than before 9/11

By Louis Jacobson

June 7, 2010

"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."

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Daily Kos founder admits slip-up on calling Turkey an Arab country

By Louis Jacobson

June 6, 2010

Turkey is an Arab country.

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