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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitch McConnell

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Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on July 9, 2014 a YouTube video
Says Alison Lundergan Grimes "supports Obamacare, which cuts $700 billion from seniors’ Medicare."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 26, 2014 an interview with "Fox News Sunday"
"The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 26, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 21, 2013 speeches
On changing the rules for filibusters on presidential nominees
Full Flop
By Lilly Maier • November 22, 2013
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on September 18, 2013 a campaign ad
"The president’s own advisers have said there’s a war on coal."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2013
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on August 5, 2013 a campaign ad
Says Matt Bevin has repeatedly failed to pay his taxes.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 14, 2013
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on July 14, 2013 an interview on 'Meet the Press'
"The president has had 1,540 of his nominations confirmed, only four defeated."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2013
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on July 14, 2013 an interview on 'Meet the Press.'
Says Barack Obama is getting his nominees confirmed "faster than President (George W.) Bush was at the same time in his second term."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2013
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 19, 2013 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told insurance companies "they couldn't inform their policyholders of what they thought the impact of Obamacare would be on them."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • May 28, 2013
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on June 9, 2010 a Senate floor speech
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on April 14, 2010 a press conference
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 17, 2010 a press release
The stimulus includes "$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 19, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 17, 2010 a press release
"$100,000 in stimulus funds (were) used for a Martini Bar and Brazilian Steakhouse."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 19, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 12, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor
On a bipartisan task force on ways to improve fiscal policy.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on December 1, 2009 a floor speech
The Senate health care bill does not contain limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.
True
By Catharine Richert • December 2, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 31, 2009 a CNN interview
"The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision" Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 1, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 17, 2009 an interview on Fox News Sunday.
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 27, 2009 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference
"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."
False
By Alexander Lane • March 3, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2009 appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation"
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."
True
By Robert Farley • February 3, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 4, 2009 in a news interview
If Obama's economic plan creates 600,000 new government jobs, "that's about the size of the post office work force."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 5, 2009
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