Latest Fact-Checks By Sabrina Eaton

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Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on August 8, 2013 in a news release:
Says Obama "exempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the (health care) law."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • September 5, 2013
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House of Representatives floor speech:
"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 in a tweet:
"If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on April 11, 2013 in House of Representatives floor speech :
"The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • May 15, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on April 9, 2013 in a Facebook posting:
"Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • April 24, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 in a congressional hearing:
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 17, 2013 in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”:
"Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • March 26, 2013
Dave Joyce
Dave Joyce
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:
"There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 19, 2013
Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty
stated on January 14, 2013 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:
Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.  
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 8, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on December 19, 2012 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:
"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 1, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on January 17, 2013 in a panel discussion on poverty:
"When George Bush became president of the United States, 17 million people were in poverty. When he left, 30 million people were in poverty."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 30, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 6, 2013 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
Seven of America’s 10 wealthiest counties are in the Washington, D.C., area.
True
By Sabrina Eaton • January 14, 2013
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on December 21, 2012 in a newspaper column:
Obamacare includes "a $63 charge every American will begin paying (in 2013) as a way to cover some of the increased costs associated with providing health insurance to those with pre-existing conditions." 
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 10, 2013
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on October 17, 2012 in an interview on CNN:
Says Gov. John  Kasich incorrectly claimed Ohio’s economy was 38th in the nation when he took office. "We were sixth in the nation in terms of economic job growth."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • October 25, 2012
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on October 17, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
"Jim Renacci tried to avoid paying taxes on nearly $14 million that he made."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • October 22, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on September 13, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
"We need a Senator who shows up to work. Sherrod Brown missed over 350 official votes."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • October 10, 2012
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on August 24, 2012 in a news release:
"In Cuyahoga County ... 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 14, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 4, 2012 in a press statement:
President Obama’s lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period.
False
By Sabrina Eaton • August 6, 2012
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 8, 2012 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Eighty out of 82 counties in Ohio ... have an auto manufacturing facility."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • July 18, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on July 2, 2012 in a news release:
"Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Jim Renacci’s Republican majority."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • July 12, 2012
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