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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2014 in a speech to the NAACP in Las Vegas:
The Obama administration's policies "have reduced minority dropout rate by 25 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2014 in the White House Summit on Working Families:
"I don't own a single stock or bond … I have no savings accounts."
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By Lauren Carroll, Molly O'Connor • June 24, 2014
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 11, 2012 in the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.:
Paul Ryan "cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 11, 2012 in the vice presidential debate:
On ending the war in Iraq, "Gov. Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left 30,000 troops there."
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By Katie Sanders • October 12, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 11, 2012 in the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.:
Says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would "eliminate the guarantee of Medicare."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2012 in a speech:
Says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support "massive cuts in Social Security for future generations."
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By Dave Umhoefer • September 5, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 1, 2012 in an interview on "Face the Nation":
"The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon — other than these drug gangs taking on one another — end up being shot with their own weapon."
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By Molly Moorhead • April 16, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 12, 2012 in a speech in Exeter, N.H.:
The 30 percent tax rate called for under President Barack Obama’s proposed Buffett Rule "is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already -- not just for millionaires, for people making over $200,000."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2011 in Flint, Mich.:
"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 25, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 14, 2010 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 5, 2009 in a speech in Miami Beach, Fla.:
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 6, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 23, 2008 in a TV interview:
"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • October 27, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2008 in St. Clair Shores, Mich.:
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 15, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 in Denver:
John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 in Denver:
(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • August 27, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 in a rally in Springfield, Ill.:
Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • August 23, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2007:
"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 17, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 14, 2007 in a television ad.:
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2007
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