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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 in a book:
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 7, 2015 in a Senate floor speech:
A recent economic uptick appears to "coincide" with "the expectation of a new Republican Congress."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 11, 2014 in social media postings:
"Newly Elected Republican Senators Sign Pledge to Eliminate Food Stamp Program in 2015."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 1, 2015 in a chain email:
New tax increases that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, "all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 in a press conference:
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014
Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov
stated on December 16, 2014 in an interview with the French television network France 24:
"Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN:
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
stated on December 10, 2014 in an interview on Fox News:
Terrorist detainees "were not covered by the Geneva Convention. They were unlawful combatants. And under those circumstances, they were not entitled to the normal kinds of courtesies and treatment."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 5, 2014 in a meme on social media:
"When (Barack Obama) took office, 2.3 million people were out of work. Five-plus years later, we have 5 million-plus out of work."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2014
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
stated on December 2, 2014 in an interview with Salon.com:
"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2014
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 5, 2014 in a meme on social media:
"In 1990, the U.S. led the world in the percentage of 25-34 year olds with college degrees. Today we are in 12th place."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 2, 2014 in a chain email:
Says a man in Ferguson, Mo., was photographed holding a sign that said, "No mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2014
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on December 2, 2014 in a speech:
Says Barack Obama has "the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 2, 2014 in a meme on social media:
"794 law enforcement officers have fallen in the line of duty since B.H. Obama took office, with no special recognition from the White House."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 2, 2014 in a meme:
"The U.S. Constitution owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois Tribes."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 20, 2014 in a news release.:
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen • November 30, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 20, 2014 in 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
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2014 in an interview on Fox News:
In the 2014 elections, "the American people overwhelmingly said we don't want Obamacare … and we don't want amnesty."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 12, 2014 in a media availability:
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 in 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
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