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Latest Fact-Checks In This Week - ABC News

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Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 a press conference
The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 9, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
Says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2010
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
Numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 3, 2010
Lamar McKay
Lamar McKay
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week'
A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on May 2, 2010 an interview on ABC News' 'This Week'
"Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 2, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
"Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 27, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 25, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
The financial services bill will end "too-big-to-fail."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2010
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on April 25, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
The Banking Committee voted a 1,336-page bill "out of committee in 21 minutes with no amendments, with the understanding that before the bill came to the floor, we would reach this bipartisan agreement."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • April 25, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."
Mostly False
April 20, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
"I never had a filibuster-proof Senate."
True
April 18, 2010
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
"I don't answer hypotheticals."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 13, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
April 13, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops."
Mostly True
April 12, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2010
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities."
Half-True
April 11, 2010
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 11, 2010 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week"
"President Obama himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2010
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
stated on April 4, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on February 28, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
The Democrats' health care bills would end "the denial of ... coverage to those who have a pre-existing condition," while the Republican bill would not.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2010
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on February 14, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2010
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