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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 28, 2008 West Palm Beach, Fla.
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mostly False
January 28, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 24, 2008 Boca Raton.
"Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 25, 2008 a campaign rally in Pensacola.
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
False
By Bill Adair, Jennifer Liberto • January 25, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 17, 2008 a news conference in a Staples store in Columbia, S.C.
"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."
False
By Bill Adair • January 18, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 14, 2008 a TV interview on CBS.
"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."
True
By John Frank • January 15, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."
Pants on Fire!
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 6, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 26, 2007 a press release
"Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 3, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 28, 2007 a TV ad
"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."
Mostly True
By Janet Zink • December 31, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 16, 2007 "Meet the Press" interview
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
False
December 31, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2007 College Station, Texas
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 19, 2007
Former business partner Robert Gay says: "The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney."
True
By David DeCamp • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 17, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa.
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 12, 2007 debate in Johnston, Iowa
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Half-True
December 19, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 10, 2007 a TV ad
Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 11, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 26, 2007 a TV ad
Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 5, 2007 an interview
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg
The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.
False
By Bill Adair • November 29, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 St. Petersburg, Fla.
"In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."
True
By Janet Zink • November 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg, Fla.
"The mayor said … 'if you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status . . . then we welcome you here. We want you here. We'll protect you here.' "
True
By Bill Adair • November 28, 2007
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