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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."
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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."
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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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By Robert Farley • 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."
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By Robert Farley • 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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By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009
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