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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 8, 2014 a news release
The authors of a report on CIA’s torture techniques "never interviewed a single CIA official."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 11, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 23, 2014 a speech at Catholic University
"Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 20, 2014 an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly
Surface temperatures on Earth "have stabilized."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 11, 2014 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate."
False
By Julie Kliegman • May 13, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2014 a speech to the NRA
"No other country has a constitutional right" like the Second Amendment.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 1, 2014 an interview on Fox's 'Hannity'
Says the goal of the Affordable Care Act was to get 30 million people insured, but it only got 7 million.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • April 4, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 23, 2014 a video to supporters
"Americans increasingly want (the Affordable Care Act) to be repealed."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • March 25, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"Under Obamacare, when you turn Medicaid over to the states ... the money will be available up front for the expansion for a few years. Then, the money will go away."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 13, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech
Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 6, 2014 a video
"In my home state, nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 23, 2013 a press release
"Just days ago, Iran's Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei, who will oversee implementation of this agreement, was calling Israel a 'rabid dog' and accusing the United States of war crimes."
True
By Julie Kliegman • November 27, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 a speech at the American Enterprise Institute
"I did not support the sequester."
True
By Amy Sherman • November 26, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 a speech at American Enterprise Institute
"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2013 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor."
In Florida, "300,000 people are going to lose their individual coverage because of Obamacare. Now those people next year, they don’t have health insurance."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 20, 2013 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"I never was in favor of shutting down the government. … (I) voted to fund the government fully."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 26, 2013 a statement given to the Tampa Bay Times
Common Core is being "used by the Obama Administration to turn the Department of Education into what is effectively a national school board."
False
By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 20, 2013 a press release
"The American people support defunding Obamacare and oppose shutting down the government."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 13, 2013 a radio interview
Says President Barack Obama could "basically" legalize all immigrants here illegally "by the sign of a pen."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • August 22, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 a Fox News interview
Under Obamacare, people who "have a doctor they’ve been seeing for the last 15 or 20 years, they won’t be able to keep going to that doctor."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
"Even the employees’ union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2013
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