Fact Check Posts – Page 168

Barack Obama
stated on January 8, 2015 a speech in Phoenix, Ariz.:

"Today, home sales are up nearly 50 percent from where they were in the worst of the crisis."

By Joshua Gillin • January 21, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 a speech in Knoxville, Tenn.:

"We’ve doubled the production of clean energy."

By Joshua Gillin • January 20, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Wayne. Mich.:

Over the past five years, the American automobile industry has "created about 500,000 new jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 remarks in Clinton, Tenn.:

"Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades."

By Lauren Carroll • January 20, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on January 14, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire:

"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts."

By Steve Contorno • January 16, 2015

John McCain
stated on January 13, 2015 a press conference:

"About 30 percent" of those released from Guantanamo "have re-entered the fight."

By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on January 13, 2015 a meme on social media:

Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on January 13, 2015 his book, "American Dreams":

"If people work and make more money, they lose more in benefits than they would earn in salary."

By Steve Contorno • January 14, 2015

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages:

"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."

By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 a book:

Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."

By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on January 11, 2015 an interview on CBS "Face the Nation":

Western Europeans "can fly in the United States without even having a visa."

By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2015

Chris Coons
stated on January 11, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

"Keystone means unlocking the Canadian tar sands."

By Lauren Carroll • January 11, 2015

Mitch McConnell
stated on January 7, 2015 a Senate floor speech:

A recent economic uptick appears to "coincide" with "the expectation of a new Republican Congress."

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2015

Louie Gohmert
stated on January 5, 2015 a Fox news interview:

Says President Barack Obama has "not proposed one thing that would change" the fact that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.

By Lauren Carroll • January 7, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on December 11, 2014 social media postings:

"Newly Elected Republican Senators Sign Pledge to Eliminate Food Stamp Program in 2015."

By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2015

Chain email
stated on January 1, 2015 a chain email:

New tax increases that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, "all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."

By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2015

John Thune
stated on January 4, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

Says President Barack Obama's own administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, "all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment."

By Jon Greenberg • January 4, 2015

Amy Klobuchar
stated on January 4, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We're now the No. 1 producer of oil in the world. We've surpassed Saudi Arabia."

By Lauren Carroll • January 4, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"We're spending millions for each individual" held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

By Lauren Carroll • December 21, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."

By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014

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