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Latest Fact-Checks On Bill Clinton

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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 29, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th century when I took office."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 29, 2014
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 4, 2013 a speech in Little Rock, Ark.:
According to a recent poll, "there are more young Republicans enrolled in their parents' (health insurance) plans than young Democrats."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2013
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 20, 2012 an interview on "The Daily Show":
Says the government has "gotten the TARP money back plus a profit."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 28, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a convention speech:
The Obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements "only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent."
True
By Molly Moorhead • September 10, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says President Barack Obama "gives students the right to repay (federal) loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • September 7, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for "the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget."
True
By Becky Bowers • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"In the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 his Democratic National Convention speech:
The stimulus program "cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 13, 2012 an interview on 'Today':
It’s "typical" for a presidential candidate to release 10 or 11 years of tax returns.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 1, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 2, 2012 a video posted on YouTube:
"It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • June 8, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on November 8, 2011 an interview on The Daily Show:
Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2011
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 19, 2010 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We paid down the debt for four years -- paid down $600 billion on the national debt."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"I never had a filibuster-proof Senate."
True
By Robert Farley • April 18, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 22, 2008 Pittsburgh:
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 10, 2008 Boonville, Ind.:
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on March 16, 2008 an interview with the mtvU editorial board:
Obama spent "40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians."
True
By Robert Farley • March 27, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on March 16, 2008 an interview with the mtvU editorial board:
"(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee."
True
By Robert Farley • March 27, 2008
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