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Latest Fact-Checks On Paul Broun

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Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on March 25, 2014 an interview:
Says U.S. Reps. Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston have "even changed votes to what I voted, multiple times."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • April 9, 2014
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on March 18, 2014 a candidate forum:
Says his Patient OPTION Act is the only Republican plan "that completely repeals Obamacare and it takes the federal bureaucrat out of decisions for you."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • March 14, 2014
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on December 11, 2013 an interview:
"(Jack Kingston) had more earmarks at one time than every member of the Georgia delegation put together."  
False
By Eric Stirgus • December 30, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on December 5, 2013 a video:
"(U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston) voted to fund (Obamacare)."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • December 10, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on September 29, 2013 a newspaper op-ed:
According to a federal report, Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion.
Mostly False
By Janel Davis • October 22, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on July 19, 2013 a press release:
"While fat-cat bureaucrats at the Department of Education are getting paid an average salary of $102,000 a year, teachers in Georgia are getting paid half of that."
Mostly True
By Janel Davis • August 30, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on March 28, 2013 a meeting:
"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 9, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on February 13, 2013 a fundraiser letter:
Says that except for foreign policy, Ron Paul’s voting record and his voting record are virtually identical.
True
By Janel Davis • February 25, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on February 13, 2013 an interview:
"There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • February 20, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on February 13, 2013 fundraising letter:
"I was the first member of Congress to call him (Barack Obama) a socialist..."
False
By Janel Davis • February 15, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on August 10, 2012 a YouTube video:
A United Nations arms treaty would "almost certainly force" the U.S. to "create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 10, 2012
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on July 2, 2012 in a radio debate:
The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 23, 2012
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on May 23, 2012 a television interview:
A new manufacturing plant is slated to create about 3,000 jobs in central and northeast Georgia and "create about a $3 billion infusion" into the economy.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 11, 2012
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on December 13, 2011 a press release:
"The latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly 315,000 Americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • December 30, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on September 15, 2011 a tweet:
Stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost 378,000 jobs and $28.3 billion in sales. 
False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 27, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on April 12, 2011 a speech before Congress:
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.
False
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 19, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on April 1, 2011 a speech before Congress:
Says the federal government borrows "almost $60 billion per week."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • April 13, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on January 25, 2011 a tweet during the State of the Union address:
President Barack Obama supports immigration amnesty.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • February 1, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on January 25, 2011 a tweet during the State of the Union address:
Says government is a barrier to innovation and development.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2011