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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 29, 2012 a speech in the Rose Garden
Last year, "Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour."
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By Becky Bowers • April 2, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 20, 2012 a web video ad
President Barack Obama "reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011."
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By Molly Moorhead • March 27, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union speech
"Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity."
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By James B. Nelson • February 1, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union address
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
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By Molly Moorhead • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 30, 2011 a speech in Scranton, Pa.
For "the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2011 a speech.
Says his proposed payroll tax cut "will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing."
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By Warren Fiske • October 21, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised address
"The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office."
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July 27, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised address
"President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times.  George W. Bush did it seven times."
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July 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter town hall
"Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn’t serve."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 a speech in El Paso
The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.
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May 11, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 a speech in El Paso
"The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004."
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May 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech.
"Foreign aid makes up about 1 percent of our entire budget."
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By Jacob Geiger • April 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."  
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2010 a television interview
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2010 an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
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By Martha M. Hamilton • October 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2010 a town hall meeting
"There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2010 a speech at the University of Texas at Austin
"The unemployment rate for folks who've never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have."
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August 17, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 2, 2010 a town meeting in New Hampshire
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
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