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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 3, 2012 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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