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Latest Fact-Checks On Jim Sensenbrenner

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Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on December 11, 2019 in a tweet:
"104 House Democrats voted for impeachment before the Ukraine call took place." 
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • December 20, 2019
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on April 15, 2014 in a town-hall meeting:
President Barack Obama’s budget threatens national security by proposing "an Army of fewer personnel than we had before Pearl Harbor."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • May 4, 2014
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on July 1, 2013 in an op-ed article:
"Currently, it takes up to 25 years to obtain U.S. citizenship legally" but the Senate bill "would allow immigrants who came to the United States illegally to obtain citizenship in just 13 years."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 7, 2013
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on May 9, 2013 in an interview:
An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine "because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 28, 2013
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on March 22, 2013 in a press release:
"75 percent of the (air traffic control) towers the Obama Administration is closing are located in Republican Congressional Districts."
False
By James B. Nelson • April 3, 2013
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on December 8, 2011 in a House Judiciary Committee hearing:
"I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country."
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on September 29, 2011 in an interview:
"We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. It’s 35 percent."
True
By Tom Kertscher • October 9, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on July 24, 2011 in a discussion at a town hall meeting:
"One of the biggest polluters in our country is the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 3, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on January 16, 2011 in an interview after a town hall meeting:
"We had a debate on whether ‘ObamaCare’ was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • January 20, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on September 10, 2010 in a radio ad for the Scott Walker gubernatorial campaign:
Like me, Scott Walker opposed the 1998 transportation bill and the $9 billion of wasteful spending.
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 11, 2010