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Latest Fact-Checks By Catharine Richert

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 his radio show
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2009 a newspaper interview
"We import more oil today than ever before."
False
By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 28, 2009 interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 2, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on June 18, 2009 a Washington Post op-ed
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
True
By Catharine Richert • June 29, 2009
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 20, 2009 a press release.
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
True
By Catharine Richert • June 25, 2009
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 17, 2009 a press release on the House GOP's blog.
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 23, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 10, 2009 a column.
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 19, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on June 10, 2009 MSNBC interview.
Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"
True
By Catharine Richert • June 11, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 8, 2009 a press release.
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 8, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2009 interview with Canal Plus Television
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on May 26, 2009 weekly Senate Republican radio address
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 3, 2009 a statement on the Human Events Web site
On calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • June 3, 2009
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on June 1, 2009 a press release.
"President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent."
True
By Catharine Richert • June 1, 2009
Libertarian National Committee
Libertarian National Committee
stated on May 26, 2009 a press release from May 26, 2009
"Sotomayor has had her rulings thrown out by the court a troubling four times."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • May 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech.
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on May 20, 2009 a speech on the Senate floor.
"The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009
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