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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
By Tom Kertscher • 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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