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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2007 an interview with the "Boston Globe"
On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack "that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."
Half-True
March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference
If there’s a government shutdown, "people don’t get their Social Security checks."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio
The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 14, 2011 a speech
The White House budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Half-True
February 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference
Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 7, 2011 a speech to the Chamber of Commerce
"Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets."
Mostly True
February 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview on Fox
Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional."
False
February 8, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview on Super Bowl Sunday
"I lowered taxes over the last two years."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview on Super Bowl Sunday
"I didn't raise taxes once."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 his State of the Union address
"Veterans can now download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse."
Mostly False
January 31, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union speech
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"We are living with a legacy of deficit-spending that began almost a decade ago."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"As many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high school."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."  
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2010 a television interview
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 a press conference
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2010
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