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Latest Fact-Checks On Paul Ryan

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.
"The Canadians — they (dropped) their tax rates to 15 percent. The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.
The Obama administration "called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 in a debate
Says Obama was in New York City the same day as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but went on a TV show instead of meeting with him.
False
By Amy Sherman • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 the vice-presidential debate
Says the Obama administration spent taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland (and) windmills in China.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 a vice presidential debate
Says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent.
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 30, 2012 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Says President Barack Obama "already passed all these Obamacare taxes. About a dozen of them hit middle-income taxpayers."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 7, 2012 a television interview
Based on the August 2012 national jobs numbers, "for every person who got a job, nearly four people stopped looking for a job."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • September 19, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 9, 2012 an appearance on 'This Week.'
Says he and Mitt Romney "always said that we agree with the 2014 deadline" for leaving Afghanistan.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • September 11, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 29, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
In Massachusetts under Mitt Romney, "unemployment went down, household incomes went up," and the state "saw its credit rating upgraded."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 29, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
Says President Barack Obama broke his promise to keep a Wisconsin GM plant from closing.
False
August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 29, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention
President Obama "funneled" $716 billion out of Medicare "at the expense of the elderly."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 27, 2012 an interview
Wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get "most of the deductions" in the tax code.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 29, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 27, 2012 a speech
"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 28, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 18, 2012 a campaign stop at The Villages
The Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare "does not affect" benefits for anyone 55 or older.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • August 24, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 18, 2012 a speech in The Villages, Fla.
Says Obama puts "15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare, who are required to cut Medicare ... that will lead to denied care for current seniors."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • August 23, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 12, 2012 a television interview
Says under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress.
True
By James B. Nelson • August 20, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 9, 2012 his keynote address at the Republican Party of Texas convention
Says if labor force participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama became president, unemployment would be 11 percent.
True
By Sue Owen • July 17, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 9, 2012 a speech to the Republican Party of Texas convention in Fort Worth.
Says a national Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their state; Wisconsinites ranked second.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 10, 2012 a congressional Web page
President Barack Obama "has doubled the size of government since he took office."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 23, 2012 a news release
Says U.S. Senate Democrats "have gone without any budget at all" for more than 1,000 days.
Mostly True
February 2, 2012
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