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Latest Fact-Checks On John McCain

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John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 8, 2016 remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered:
North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."
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By Anthony Cave • February 16, 2016
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 1, 2013 an interview on "Face the Nation":
Fleeing Syria, "a million children are now refugees."
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 3, 2013
John McCain
John McCain
stated on December 14, 2010 a statement on the U.S. Senate floor:
Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included  "$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 7, 2010 a campaign commercial:
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 30, 2009 a Twitter message:
"Obama has more czars than the Romanovs."
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By Robert Farley • June 12, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 25, 2009 an interview on CNN's American Morning.:
The omnibus spending bill has "9,427 pork barrel items."
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By Bill Adair • February 25, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.:
"Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue."
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By Shawn Zeller • December 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 29, 2008 a TV interview:
"Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me."
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By Robert Farley • October 29, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:
"Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And, Senator Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks."
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By David DeCamp • October 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
"I have disagreed strongly with the Bush administration on this issue" of global warming.
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By Bill Adair • October 7, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 26, 2008 a debate in Oxford, Miss.:
"The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean, a huge gulag."
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By Bill Adair • September 27, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 4, 2008 St. Paul, Minn.:
"My grandfather came home from ... (World War II) exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 5, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 3, 2008 a campaign news release.:
"Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country."
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By Robert Farley • September 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 30, 2008 Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Sarah Palin "has had 12 years of elected office experience."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 14, 2008 a town hall in Aspen, Colo.:
The musical Mamma Mia! has "been selling out for years."
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By Bill Adair • August 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 9, 2008 a news release from McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds :
Says Obama flip-flopped on warrantless wiretapping.
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By Alexander Lane • July 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 11, 2008 a TV ad airing Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico:
U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan include a "few thousand that are still green card holders who are not even citizens of this country."
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By Robert Farley • July 11, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 25, 2008 a Web ad.:
Says Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday.
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By Bill Adair • June 27, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 18, 2008 an interview with Springfield, Mo., News-Leader:
"You know, the approval rating of Congress is down to 13 percent."
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By Will Van Sant • June 24, 2008
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