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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on April 19, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
The financial services regulatory bill "will end taxpayer bailouts."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 in a press conference:
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on April 14, 2010 in a speech at a Tea Party rally in Boston:
"Americans now spend 100 days out of the year working for government before we even start working for ourselves."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2010
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 8, 2010 in a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference:
When the United States "first created the federal income tax, frankly, nobody below a million dollars a year paid anything."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on April 12, 2010 in an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on March 25, 2010 in a news release:
"Florida Statutes require (Attorney General Bill) McCollum to consult with members of Florida's Congressional delegation" before filing a lawsuit against the health care reform law.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 3, 2010 in a comment on Newsweek magazine's Web site :
"I never considered myself a maverick."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2010
Gil Kerlikowske
Gil Kerlikowske
stated on March 31, 2010 in an interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal:
"More people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol. A recent roadside survey showed that 16 percent of the people tested, tested positive for illicit or licit drugs. That's significantly higher than alcohol."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 30, 2010 in an interview on NBC's Today show:
"A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2010
Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk
stated on March 21, 2010 in a floor speech in the House:
"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates" of the health care bill.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 24, 2010 in an op-ed in the Des Moines Register:
"Our national debt ... is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy ... in just two more years."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2010
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on March 21, 2010 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
The health care bill will subsidize families of four that make more than $80,000 a year.
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2010
Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer
stated on March 22, 2010 in comments on CBS's Face the Nation:
The Iraq war has been "our longest war."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2010
Todd Tiahrt
Todd Tiahrt
stated on March 16, 2010 in a speech on the House floor.:
The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth
stated on March 16, 2010 in a speech on the House floor:
A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on March 14, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2010
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on March 9, 2010 in a speech on the House floor:
"The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2010
America's Health Insurance Plans
America's Health Insurance Plans
stated on March 11, 2010 in an advertisement:
"Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2010
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on March 8, 2010 in a New York Times article:
"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2010
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