Latest Fact Checks

Showing 25093-25104 of 26084 items
...20902091209220932094...

Supreme Court nominees got Senate votes with big margins

By Angie Drobnic Holan
July 13, 2009
"Now, there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95-plus votes."
Read More

Poll on Sonia Sotomayor support shows even divide

By Angie Drobnic Holan
July 13, 2009
A new Rasmussen poll shows people "oppose (Sotomayor's) confirmation. Only 37 percent support it."
Read More

Ann Coulter wrong about Sotomayor unsigned opinion in Ricci New Haven firefighter case

July 10, 2009
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"
Read More

Limbaugh claims the climate bill wasn’t written when it came up for a vote

By Catharine Richert
July 9, 2009
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the…
Read More

Cantor and other Republicans say Obama promised stimulus would keep unemployment rates below 8 percent

July 9, 2009
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Read More

Boehner claims city uses stimulus money to hire someone to apply for more stimulus money

July 7, 2009
"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the…
Read More

Boehner ad says stimulus paid for a Bridge to Rusty’s

July 7, 2009
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Read More

Obama says that Californians use 40 percent less energy than most

By Catharine Richert
July 7, 2009
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
Read More

Mitch McConnell’s record distorted by Democratic campaign ad

By Angie Drobnic Holan
July 6, 2009
Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children," and…
Read More

No ACLU lawsuit over cross-shaped headstones

By Angie Drobnic Holan
July 2, 2009
"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
Read More

Claims that U.S. will only reduce carbon emissions by 1 percent unless others help

By Catharine Richert
July 2, 2009
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
Read More
Showing 25093-25104 of 26084 items
...20902091209220932094...