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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2010 an op-ed in 'USA Today'
"In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • February 17, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 14, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 17, 2010 a fundraiser in Florida
"As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators."
False
By Catharine Richert • January 22, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 30, 2009 an interview on "The Today Show"
"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 4, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 5, 2009 a speech in Miami Beach, Fla.
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 6, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 23, 2008 a TV interview
"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 27, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 2, 2008 a debate in St. Louis, Mo.
"John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill Adair • October 6, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 2, 2008 St. Louis
"John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem."
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • October 2, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 2, 2008 vice presidential debate in St. Louis
Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • October 2, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 2, 2008 St. Louis
John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill Adair • October 2, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2008 St. Clair Shores, Mich.
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 15, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver
McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
Mostly False
By Richard Rubin • September 8, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 Denver
John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver
Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded."
True
By David DeCamp • August 28, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver
McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase.
True
By Richard Rubin • August 28, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 Springfield, Ill.
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."
Mostly True
By Kathryn A. Wolfe • August 27, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 Denver
(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • August 27, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2008
On whether he wants to be vice president.
Full Flop
By Robert Farley • August 24, 2008
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