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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 a State of the Union speech
"For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 14, 2010 a speech to House Democrats.
"The Washington Times ... pointed out that we had succeeded where previous administrations had failed" on spending cuts.
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By Alex Holt • January 20, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 1, 2009 a speech at the United States Military Academy.
"In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a speech on health care reform
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
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By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a news conference.
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 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"
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By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 24, 2009 a town hall meeting
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 19, 2009 a news conference.
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
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April 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2009 in a news conference.
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
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March 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 19, 2009 remaks made at an electric car testing center
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 19, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2009 in a meeting with business leaders
"In Chicago, school is never canceled" because of winter weather.
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January 28, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 14, 2009 statement to reporters
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
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January 16, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 19, 2008 a TV interview
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
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By Alexander Lane • December 1, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 20, 2008 a TV ad
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
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October 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 29, 2008 North Carolina
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
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By Alexander Lane • October 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2008 a Web site
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
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By Alexander Lane • October 6, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 a debate in Oxford, Miss.
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."
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By Bill Adair • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2008 in a television ad
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2008
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