Latest Fact-Checks By Michael Collins

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Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on September 22, 2012 in in a press release.:
"We haven’t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year."
True
By Michael Collins • September 28, 2012
Chris Devaney
Chris Devaney
stated on September 4, 2012 in Tennessee Republican Party web site posting:
President Obama campaign surrogate Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley "acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago."
Half-True
By Michael Collins • September 21, 2012
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on July 23, 2012 in column in the Huffington Post:
"After one year, Tennessee’s students made their biggest single-year jump in achievement ever recorded in the state."
Mostly True
By Michael Collins • August 16, 2012
Chuck Fleischmann
Chuck Fleischmann
stated on July 17, 2012 in in a blog post on his campaign website.:
Says that President Obama said that "Small Businesses Succeed Because of Government."
False
By Michael Collins • August 6, 2012
Lou Ann Zelenik
Lou Ann Zelenik
stated on July 26, 2012 in in an ongoing radio commercial.:
"Diane Black voted to fund Obamacare."
False
By Michael Collins • July 27, 2012
Julia Hurley
Julia Hurley
stated on June 23, 2012 in an email to constituents:
"If you have ever visited Nashville or Washington D.C. you will see MANY names and initials carved into ... desks."  
Mostly False
By Michael Collins, Tom Humphrey • July 18, 2012
Nick Ciparro
Nick Ciparro
stated on June 27, 2012 in Posted by Ciparro's website:
"In the last 10 years, only one piece of legislation has been cosponsored and passed by" John Duncan Jr.
Pants on Fire!
By Michael Collins • July 7, 2012
Diane Black
Diane Black
stated on June 1, 2012 in a press release.:
 The United States has experienced "40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher."
True
By Michael Collins • June 11, 2012
Tennessee Democratic Party
Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on April 25, 2012 in a blog post on the party’s web site on April 25, 2012:
Says U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher "breaks earmark pledge."
Mostly False
By Michael Collins • May 25, 2012
Beth Harwell
Beth Harwell
stated on May 7, 2012 in an interview about WTVF-TV’s “ghost voting” story.:
Says in U.S. Congress, members "don’t even have to be on the floor for debates or votes."
Half-True
By Michael Collins, Tom Humphrey • May 18, 2012
Scott DesJarlais
Scott DesJarlais
stated on April 24, 2012 in a blog post on his website.:
"The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world."
Mostly True
By Michael Collins • May 4, 2012
Jim Cooper
Jim Cooper
stated on March 20, 2012 in an op-ed published in The Hill.:
"Congress as a whole is less popular than it’s been since polling was invented."
True
By Michael Collins • April 19, 2012
Weston Wamp
Weston Wamp
stated on April 3, 2012 in in a press release.:
"The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old."
True
By Michael Collins, Elijah Herington • April 9, 2012
James Durkan
James Durkan
stated on April 6, 2012 in a statement on his campaign website.:
Adding ethanol to gas "raises food costs."
Mostly True
By Michael Collins • April 6, 2012
John Duncan
John Duncan
stated on December 1, 2011 in Washington Report newsletter to constituents.:
"Fewer than 10 percent of those in the House are what anyone would classify as wealthy."
False
By Michael Collins • February 17, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on January 5, 2012 in a press release.:
Congressman Scott DesJarlais "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January."
Pants on Fire!
By Michael Collins • February 2, 2012
Stephen Fincher
Stephen Fincher
stated on December 30, 2011 in an interview with the Union City Daily Messenger :
"Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon."
False
By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012
Tennessee Democratic Party
Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on January 7, 2012 in a press release:
"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."
Mostly True
By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on November 8, 2011 in a USA Today column.:
A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."
True
By Michael Collins • January 24, 2012