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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 3, 2012 in a graphical tool on the campaign website:
Says Mitt Romney "has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • May 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 5, 2012 in a campaign speech in Ohio:
Mitt Romney has "proposed cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million working families."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • May 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 5, 2012 in a speech in Columbus, Ohio:
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 3, 2012 in a graphical tool on the campaign website:
"Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2012 in a Web ad:
Says Mitt Romney's comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2012 in a speech in Elyria, Ohio:
Under Republican economic policies, "the typical American family saw their incomes fall by about 6 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2012 in a Rose Garden speech:
In the past three years, "we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some."
True
By Molly Moorhead • April 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2012 in a speech at Port of Tampa:
"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 18, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 10, 2012 in a speech at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. :
"98 percent of American families" make "under $250,000 a year."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 10, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2012 in a TV ad.:
 "Under President Obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high."  
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Warren Fiske • April 9, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 3, 2012 in remarks to a meeting of the Newspaper Association of America:
Under the House Republican budget, "if these cuts were to be spread out evenly … the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 3, 2012 in remarks to the Newspaper Association of America:
"Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 5, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 3, 2012 in remarks to the Newspaper Association of America:
Says Ronald Reagan "understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 2, 2012 in a Rose Garden press conference:
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
False
By Molly Moorhead • April 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 29, 2012 in a speech in the Rose Garden:
Last year, "Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour."
True
By Becky Bowers • April 2, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 20, 2012 in a web video ad:
President Barack Obama "reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011."
True
By Molly Moorhead • March 27, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 15, 2012 in in campaign video “The Road We’ve Traveled”:
"(GM and Chrysler) repaid their loans."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • March 21, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 16, 2012 in an Obama campaign film:
Because of the new health care law, "Americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 15, 2012 in a campaign video:
By the time Obama took office, "The Bush administration had given the car companies $13 billion and the money was now gone."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • March 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 16, 2012 in the campaign film "The Road We've Traveled":
Because of the new health care law, "17 million kids can no longer be denied for a pre-existing condition."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2012
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