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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 15, 2010 in a press release:
The financial regulatory bill "will kill jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2011
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on January 18, 2011 in comments on the House floor:
Between 2000 and 2006,  "health insurance company profits quadrupled."  
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • January 19, 2011
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on January 18, 2011 in comments on the House floor:
"Between the year 2000 and 2006, (insurance) premiums in this country doubled."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • January 19, 2011
Newsmax
Newsmax
stated on January 14, 2011 in an e-mail solicitation:
"The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2011
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on January 11, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:
"When we look at the number of murders in the United States (in) 2009, we had 9,500 people murdered. When we look around the world, we see ... large countries, the U.K., Germany, Japan had 200 or less killed in a year."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2011
Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas
stated on January 9, 2011 in a report on ABC News' "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Saturday's shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2011
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on January 4, 2011 in a news release:
In preparing a rules package for the 112th Congress, the GOP had no discussions with Democrats.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2011
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 2, 2011 in a statement published in the "Bakersfield Californian":
"The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2011
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on January 2, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We have the highest (corporate tax rates) in the world right now."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 3, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on December 13, 2010 in an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":
"Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2010 in a television interview:
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2010
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
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on December 12, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
"Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 in a press conference:
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 in a press conference:
"There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think it's a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 7, 2010
Wesley Clark
Wesley Clark
stated on December 5, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
The Pentagon's survey about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy found that 92 percent of service members "agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat" without compromising "mission readiness."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2010
National Association of Manufacturers
National Association of Manufacturers
stated on December 2, 2010 in a statement:
Says the CBO estimates that fully extending the Bush tax cuts would add 600,000-1.4 million jobs in 2011 and 900,000-2.7 million jobs in 2012.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2010
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