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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."

By Becky Bowers • April 18, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 remarks in the White House Rose Garden:

"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2013

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."

By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2013

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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013

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."

By Janel Davis • February 5, 2013

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.

By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2012

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."

By Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2012

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.’"

By Stephen Koff, Molly Moorhead • October 17, 2012

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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2012

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.

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2012

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."

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on August 22, 2012 a campaign ad:

"Mitt Romney says class sizes don’t matter."

By Molly Moorhead • August 23, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2012 a campaign event:

Says Mitt Romney "wants to end tax credits for wind producers."

By Jon Greenberg • August 14, 2012

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.

By Jon Greenberg • August 8, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on July 14, 2012 a TV ad:

Says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.

By Molly Moorhead • July 17, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on July 14, 2012 a campaign ad:

Says Mitt Romney "had millions in a Swiss bank account."

By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2012

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."

By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2012

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."

By Molly Moorhead • April 23, 2012

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 10, 2012

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 5, 2012

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