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Latest Fact-Checks On John Boehner

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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 3, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 3, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 25, 2014 an op-ed for "USA Today"
"The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs."
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By Steve Contorno • June 26, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 2, 2014 a post on his website
New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year."
False
By Steve Contorno • June 2, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 13, 2014 a press conference
The United States has seen "a net loss of people with health insurance" because of Obamacare.
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By Steve Contorno • March 18, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 9, 2012 a news conference
"The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners."
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By Tom Feran • January 3, 2013
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 4, 2012 a news release
"The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt."
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By Tom Feran • September 19, 2012
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 6, 2011 an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour
"Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople."
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By Molly Moorhead • November 10, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 5, 2011 a tweet on Twitter
"POTUS’ economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per job."
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By Sabrina Eaton • July 15, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 an interview with ABC news
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference
"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on December 1, 2010 comments to reporters
"The American people spoke pretty loudly. They said stop all the looming tax hikes...."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 10, 2010 a news conference
"It’s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker."
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By Sabrina Eaton • November 18, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 8, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it."
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August 10, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 1, 2010 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 13, 2010 a news release
"The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvania to set up a new high-risk insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state."
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By Sabrina Eaton • July 23, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on November 19, 2009 the House GOP Web site
Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
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By Catharine Richert • November 21, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on October 26, 2009 a statement on his Web site
"Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 28, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 18, 2009 a press release
The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research "would be used by the government to ration care."
False
August 25, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 23, 2009 an op-ed for National Review
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
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August 7, 2009
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