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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on September 12, 2010 a White House news release:
Says John Boehner changed his position on extending Bush tax cuts.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2010
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on September 8, 2010 a column:
"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
National Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers Union
stated on September 2, 2010 a television commercial:
Proposed tax changes are a "handout" to BP.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on August 23, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2010
Joe Sestak
Joe Sestak
stated on August 31, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 29, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2010
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on August 29, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on August 10, 2010 a page on her campaign website:
"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on July 14, 2010 a television commercial:
"Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2010
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
stated on August 10, 2010 a press release.:
"U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Rauf’s trip to the Middle East."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on August 15, 2010 an interview on ABC's ''This Week with Christiane Amanpour.'':
The United States is "number 14, number 15" in college graduation rates, and "we're leading the world in high school dropout rates."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on August 15, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
"Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on August 15, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 10, 2010 a news release:
A bill to aid state and local governments "is fully paid-for by closing costly corporate tax loopholes."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 13, 2010
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 28, 2010 an interview with Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren":
"People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
House Democrats "have a two-to-one advantage money-wise" against House Republicans.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 1, 2010 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"This is the first time since the Depression that unemployment has stayed above 9 percent for two consecutive years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
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