Latest Fact-Checks By James McCarty

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Dennis Kucinich
stated on March 3, 2011 in a House committee hearing:

"Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government."

Half-True

By James McCarty • March 24, 2011

Sherrod Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 in a newspaper column:

"For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated."

True

By James McCarty • March 3, 2011

William G. Batchelder
stated on February 4, 2011 in an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM:

"75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy."

Mostly True

By James McCarty • February 21, 2011