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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on November 20, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown":
"If you survey, most (North Carolina) Democrats also agree with our (election) laws and voter ID."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2013
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 28, 2013 in a campaign ad:
Says Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has "blocked the Senate over 400 times."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2013
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott
stated on November 12, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "Politics Nation":
"On (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you can’t even make half the poverty level."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 8, 2013 in an interview on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno":
"In the last four years, our economy has grown on average 0.9 percent a year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 13, 2013
Mr. Conservative
Mr. Conservative
stated on November 12, 2013 in a Web post:
Says the Obama administration is handing out a pamphlet titled, "What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mass Shooting"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 4, 2013 in a speech to Organizing for Action:
"What we said was, you can keep (your plan) if it hasn’t changed since the law passed."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2013
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on November 3, 2013 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
In 1929, the Secretary of State shut down a program that was "collecting information to protect America" because it was "unseemly," but that move led to "millions and millions" of deaths in World War II.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2013 in a speech in Boston:
Due to Obamacare, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 3, 2013 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Health insurance is more expensive in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the country."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2013
Suzanne Somers
Suzanne Somers
stated on November 28, 2013 in a column in the "Wall Street Journal":
"Even after Obamacare is fully implemented, there still will be tens of millions of people not covered."
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2013
Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett
stated on October 28, 2013 in a tweet:
"FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 30, 2013
John Fleming
John Fleming
stated on October 27, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "State of the Union":
In Massachusetts, "half of the primary care doctors are not accepting new patients."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2013
Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie
stated on October 22, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":
Emergency rooms account for "2 percent of all health care spending."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2013
Paul LePage
Paul LePage
stated on October 14, 2013 in a speech in Falmouth, Maine:
"About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2013
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
stated on October 17, 2013 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":
"Woodrow Wilson borrowed $30 billion to fund World War I in 1917. That money has not been paid back. And we are still paying interest on it."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 20, 2013 in 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
Tom Colicchio
Tom Colicchio
stated on October 20, 2013 in a tweet:
Says under President Barack Obama, the debt increased by 23 percent, which was less than under any president going back to Ronald Reagan.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2013
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on October 15, 2013 in an interview with Fox News:
"We went from $160 billion deficit spending in (President George W.) Bush's last year to $1.6 trillion the following year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2013
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on October 9, 2013 in a column:
"No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2013
Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross
stated on October 7, 2013 in an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times:
"For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2013
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