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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 28, 2012 in a campaign rally in Boca Raton, Fla.:
"If Gov. Romney's plan goes into effect … the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 5, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2012 in a speech:
"$500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families."  
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • September 9, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2012 in a speech:
Says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support "massive cuts in Social Security for future generations."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • September 5, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 22, 2012 in a speech at Keene State College:
Says in the last six months of the Bush administration, the U.S. lost 3.5 million jobs, including 760,000 jobs during January 2009 alone.
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • June 1, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 8, 2012 in a speech:
"When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran."
False
By Eric Stirgus • May 14, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 1, 2012 in an interview on "Face the Nation":
"The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon — other than these drug gangs taking on one another — end up being shot with their own weapon."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • April 16, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 12, 2012 in a speech in Exeter, N.H.:
The 30 percent tax rate called for under President Barack Obama’s proposed Buffett Rule "is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already -- not just for millionaires, for people making over $200,000."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 1, 2012 in a “Face the Nation” interview:
"General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again."
False
By Becky Bowers • April 9, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 6, 2012 in a speech in Tallahassee:
"Nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today Show":
In Iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 20, 2011 in speaking at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University:
"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
True
By Maryalice Gill • November 18, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2011 in a talk at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H.:
In Libya, "America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • November 3, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2011 in Flint, Mich.:
"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 25, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 30, 2011 in remarks at a campaign fundraiser:
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal "eliminates Medicare" in 10 years.
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 7, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 19, 2011 in a speech in Cleveland:
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
Mostly True
By Mark Naymik • April 28, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 8, 2011 in a speech in Philadelphia:
"If you shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, it's estimated you'd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"I never called for a partition" of Iraq.
True
By Robert Farley • July 21, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"The health care numbers are going up."
Mostly False
By Alex Holt • July 20, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 14, 2010 in a news conference:
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2010
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