Latest Fact-Checks By Becky Bowers

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 15, 2013 in an email and social media posts:
Congressional lawmakers earn their salaries "FOR LIFE," which for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would add up to "$803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • October 17, 2013
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • October 15, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 27, 2013 in blog posts:
"Obama Declares November National Muslim Appreciation Month."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • October 3, 2013
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on September 22, 2013 in a roundtable on ABC’s “This Week”:
Under economic sanctions, "now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • September 27, 2013
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey
stated on September 15, 2013 in the New York Post:
"Obamacare will question your sex life."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • September 19, 2013
S.E. Cupp
S.E. Cupp
stated on September 13, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":
"The CDC issued a report commissioned by President Obama just earlier this year, and it found some very inconvenient facts. Armed citizens are less likely harmed by attackers. Effectiveness of gun control laws is mixed. Gun buybacks don't work."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • September 18, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 13, 2013 in posts on the Internet:
Warren Buffett recently said "Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2013
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on September 5, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC’s “All In”:
Says he "opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq" in 2003.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • September 13, 2013
Ted Yoho
Ted Yoho
stated on September 4, 2013 in an interview on Fox Business Network:
Chemical weapons have been used "probably 20 times" since the Persian Gulf War.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • September 10, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on September 2, 2013 in a CNN interview:
Says there's a "100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • September 5, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 15, 2013 in blog posts:
Obamacare provision will allow "forced home inspections" by government agents.
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • August 21, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 10, 2013 in a speech to the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa:
Says "President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception" to Obamacare.
False
By Becky Bowers • August 14, 2013
Ted Deutch
Ted Deutch
stated on August 1, 2013 in a letter with other Florida lawmakers to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius:
Says Florida refused to allow the insurance commissioner to "negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high" under Obamacare.
True
By Becky Bowers • August 8, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 30, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:
Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • August 2, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 25, 2013 in a FoxNews.com op-ed:
Under Obamacare, "75 percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • July 29, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:
Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."  
True
By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 11, 2013 in a news conference:
"This is the same (farm) bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences."  
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • July 17, 2013
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on July 7, 2013 in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”:
Says Obama administration delay of health care law's employer mandate affects about 1 percent of the American workforce.
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 12, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 in an op-ed in USA Today:
"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 8, 2013
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2013
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