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Latest Fact-Checks On Tom Coburn

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Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN:
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on May 1, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • May 6, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 17, 2013 in Coburn's "Wastebook 2013":
"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention the word ‘insurance.’"
Mostly False
By Dana Tims • January 8, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on May 9, 2013 in an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2013
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2011
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 1, 2010 in a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission:
"One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on November 18, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
There are "10 or 20 deaths a year from foodborne illness" in the United States.
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 23, 2010 in comments to reporters:
"The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • March 26, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on August 24, 2009 in Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren:
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 in an interview on the Fox News Channel.:
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009