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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 a speech from the White House Rose Garden
A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry.  Plain and simple, right there in the text."
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By Becky Bowers • April 18, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 remarks in the White House Rose Garden
"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 the State of the Union Address
"The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years."
True
By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 the State of the Union Address
"After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 16, 2013 in a speech
"A majority of Americans agree with" a ban on assault weapons. "And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan."  
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By Janel Davis • February 5, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate
Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 the second presidential debate
Says Mitt Romney suggested that "employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage."
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By Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 in a town-hall debate in Long Island, N.Y.
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’"
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By Stephen Koff, Molly Moorhead • October 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 the first presidential debate
The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 a presidential debate in Denver
Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 22, 2012 a campaign ad
"Mitt Romney says class sizes don’t matter."
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By Molly Moorhead • August 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2012 a campaign event
Says Mitt Romney "wants to end tax credits for wind producers."
True
By Jon Greenberg • August 14, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 4, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.
True
By Jon Greenberg • August 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 14, 2012 a TV ad
Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.
True
By Molly Moorhead • July 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 14, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney "had millions in a Swiss bank account."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 5, 2012 a speech in Columbus, Ohio
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2012 a Rose Garden speech
In the past three years, "we've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some."
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By Molly Moorhead • April 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 10, 2012 a speech at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla.
"98 percent of American families" make "under $250,000 a year."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 10, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 3, 2012 remarks to the Newspaper Association of America
"Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 5, 2012
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