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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate in Tampa, Fla.
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 11, 2012 comment to reporters.
Rick Santorum says Rick Perry requested 1,200 earmarks as governor of Texas.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Glueck • January 20, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 19, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate
President Obama has "said he is going to cut veterans' benefits."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 20, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 16, 2012 a debate in South Carolina
Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.
False
By Molly Moorhead • January 19, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 4, 2012 a New Hampshire town hall with voters
As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 9, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 8, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate
Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on December 29, 2011 a video ad
Rick Santorum "reformed welfare."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 4, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on December 29, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today"
Says he has "been able to attract independents and Democrats to win" elections in Pennsylvania.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 3, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 a speech
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.
True
By Eric Stirgus • December 5, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 an op-ed in the "New Hampshire Union Leader"
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."
True
By John Gregg • December 2, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 9, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Michigan
"The unemployment rate among (the) non-college-educated is well into the double digits in America. It's 4 percent or 5 percent for people who have college degrees."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate
Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, "You took it out of your book."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 19, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidental primary debate
The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 13, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says that in 2001, Rick Perry spoke favorably of binational health insurance between Mexico and Texas.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 4, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 1, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.
Says Rick Perry "provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants."
True
By Sue Owen • September 23, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on July 18, 2011 a house party in Henniker, N.H.
In Europe, "church attendance rates (are) in the single digits" because churches are supported by taxes.
Mostly False
By Josh Rogers • July 27, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on May 5, 2011 a debate in South Carolina
The Medicare drug program "resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right." 
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
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