Latest Fact-Checks By Willoughby Mariano

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Chambliss: Debt ceiling deal creates largest increase in U.S. history

August 8, 2011

The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the "largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history."

Ex- APS Superintendent Hall says recent tests “given under the strictest security possible”

August 5, 2011

Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were "given under the strictest security possible."

Gingrey claims federal health care board can decide if you get dialysis, chemo

August 2, 2011

Under last year’s health care reform, "a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy."

Georgia Republican Tom Price says paying debtholders first will stave off default

July 26, 2011

"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in…

Olens accuses Mexico of having harsher immigration laws than Georgia

July 26, 2011

"If you're from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed."

FTA says Atlanta streetcar to create thousands of jobs

July 25, 2011

The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.

Johns Creek mayor says transportation vote covers less than 10 percent of need

July 20, 2011

"[L]ess than one-tenth of Atlanta's transportation needs are covered" in a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax.

Ex-Mayor Franklin says small percent of educators named in APS cheating

July 15, 2011

"95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all."

Ex-Mayor Franklin says former APS school chief improved district

July 11, 2011

Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."

Gingrich says campaign problems “exactly the same” as Reagan’s

July 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.

Republicans blame Blue Dog Democrats for federal “spending spree”

July 5, 2011

U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."

Lawmaker compares immigration law to Black Codes

July 1, 2011

Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.

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