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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 a speech in Knoxville, Tenn.
"We’ve doubled the production of clean energy."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 20, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Wayne. Mich.
Over the past five years, the American automobile industry has "created about 500,000 new jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 remarks in Clinton, Tenn.
"Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • January 20, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"We're spending millions for each individual" held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
True
By Lauren Carroll • December 21, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2014 a statement of policy from the Executive Office of the President
A bill from U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho attempts to restrict the administration's ability to conduct national security and criminal background checks on undocumented immigrants.
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • December 16, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2014 a speech to business leaders
"We are younger than our competitors, and this is entirely because of immigration."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • December 9, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 20, 2014 a speech
Citing his efforts to secure the border, Obama said, "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 20, 2014 a speech announcing new immigration actions
"The actions I’m taking" are "the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half-century."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 a press conference in Australia.
"My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues.
False
By Steve Contorno • November 20, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 14, 2014 a press conference in Burma
Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • November 20, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 Brisbane, Australia, for the G20 summit
Says Jonathan Gruber was "some adviser who never worked on our staff."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 19, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 a press conference after the G20 summit
"Over the last few years, we’ve put more people back to work than all the other advanced economies combined."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • November 18, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 9, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"We've created more jobs in the United States than every other advanced economy combined since I came into office."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 9, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 28, 2014 a speech
Wisconsin Republicans "repealed a statewide fair pay law" that made "sure women are treated fairly on the job."
Mostly True
October 31, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2014 the president's weekly national address
"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2014 a speech in Princeton, Ind.
"The states that have raised the minimum wage (this year) have had faster job growth than the states that haven’t raised the minimum wage."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2014 a speech at Northwestern University
The cost of "health care is now the single-biggest factor driving down" the federal budget deficit.
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • October 8, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2014 a speech at Northwestern University
"When I took office, the deficit was nearly 10 percent of our economy. Today, it's approaching 3 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 7, 2014 an interview on "Meet the Press."
Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn’t specifically referring to" Islamic State.
False
By Steve Contorno • September 7, 2014
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