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Latest Fact-Checks By Becky Bowers

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2013 blog posts
The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.
False
By Becky Bowers • March 22, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 16, 2013 a speech at CPAC
"We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats."
True
By Becky Bowers • March 21, 2013
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on March 7, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
"We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use."
False
By Becky Bowers • March 11, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 6, 2013 a tweet
"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
False
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2013
Al Cardenas
Al Cardenas
stated on March 1, 2013 an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Of $60 billion Congress approved in response to Hurricane Sandy, "only 10 percent was for disaster relief."
False
By Becky Bowers • March 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 1, 2013 a press briefing at the White House
Says a majority of Americans -- and Republicans -- support his approach for deficit reduction.
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • March 1, 2013
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on February 25, 2013 an interview on Fox News
Says the federal government is earning more tax revenue now "than any other time."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 28, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on February 21, 2013 an interview on Central Florida News 13
In a budget deal struck in 2011 "a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee was set up ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • February 25, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 a speech in Washington, D.C.
Says if Congress doesn’t avoid the sequester, "tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • February 22, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 an article in the Daily Caller
Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 20, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 the State of the Union Address
Says "overwhelming majorities of Americans" support gun legislation "like background checks."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • February 13, 2013
Stephen King
Stephen King
stated on January 25, 2013 a Kindle Single essay, 'Guns'
Says since Australia passed tough gun laws, "homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2013 an interview on Fox News
"Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 28, 2013
Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier
stated on January 15, 2013 an MSNBC interview
"Even members of the NRA, when they were polled recently, were under the impression that everyone has a criminal background check."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • January 23, 2013
American International Group
American International Group
stated on January 1, 2013 a TV ad
AIG has fully repaid the federal government "plus a profit of more than $22 billion."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • January 2, 2013
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on November 2, 2012 in a TV ad
"Mitt Romney made over a hundred million dollars by shutting down (a Marion, Ind. paper) plant."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • November 5, 2012
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in a TV ad
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
Says Romney said "we should ask Pakistan for permission" to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 the second presidential debate
Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • October 22, 2012
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
stated on October 10, 2012 in a mailer
Says Mitt Romney and George Allen "would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 19, 2012
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