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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a tweet:
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 17, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 6, 2012 a campaign mailer:
"Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times:
"President Obama has raised taxes 19 times."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 4, 2012 a news release:
Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray "is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be ‘the wrong thing to do.’"
Half-True
By Henry J. Gomez • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 4, 2012 a town hall meeting in Peterborough, N.H.:
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That’s what the president’s done.  He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 8, 2012 a presidential primary debate in New Hampshire:
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 28, 2011 an editorial board meeting with an Iowa newspaper:
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 a TV airing in Florida:
Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 a video ad:
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
False
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 5, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate:
"Only one president has ever cut Medicare for seniors in this country . . . Barack Obama."
False
By Molly Moorhead • December 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.
True
By Jake Berry • December 2, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 23, 2011 a press conference:
Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers "a new doorway to amnesty."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 2, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 22, 2011 a Republican debate in Washington:
"We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • November 23, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 a television ad:
Says Barack Obama said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 4, 2011 an Americans for Prosperity Foundation summit speech:
Solyndra "had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • November 17, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 29, 2011 a campaign video.:
President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perry’s "decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • November 10, 2011
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