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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on June 16, 2010 in an interview on the Fox Business network:
"We get 30 percent of our oil from the Gulf (of Mexico)."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 15, 2010 in a speech from the Oval Office:
"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on May 26, 2010 in YouTube video of a floor speech:
"Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 15, 2010 in a statement at a hearing of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee:
"Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on June 4, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 7, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on June 13, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The Republicans didn't have a budget in '02, '04, '06."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 13, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on June 9, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 in a chain e-mail:
"In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the president by themselves."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 9, 2010 in a chain e-mail:
Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 3, 2010 in a chain e-mail circulated on the Internet:
Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on June 6, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week'':
"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2010
Markos Moulitsas
Markos Moulitsas
stated on June 6, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Turkey is an Arab country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on June 2, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • June 4, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on June 4, 2010 in a news release:
"This year, we have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month, a majority in the private sector, a stark contrast to the Bush Administration record of losing an average of nearly 750,000 jobs per month in its last three months."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2010
Mark Critz
Mark Critz
stated on May 27, 2010 in a speech on the House floor:
"The Democratic Congress has already taken significant steps to create jobs and jump-start the economy, resulting in the lowest tax rates in over 50 years and the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2010 in a press conference at the White House:
"The Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they are continually waived."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 25, 2010 in a speech to young Republicans in Tampa:
Florida ranks "45th out of 50 states'' for its regulatory climate for business.
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2010
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