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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2010 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 27, 2008 in 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 23, 2008 in 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 in 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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