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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 23, 2013 in an interview with MSNBC:
"One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2013
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on April 24, 2013 in a House floor speech:
"In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama," compared to zero "in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2013
Peter King
Peter King
stated on April 22, 2013 in an interview with MSNBC:
The Boston Marathon bombing "is the fifth case" in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism "and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 in remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 in remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on April 17, 2013 in an op-ed in the "New York Times":
Polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks."  
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2013
John Duncan
John Duncan
stated on April 13, 2013 in a letter to a constituent:
"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2013
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 14, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2013
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on April 10, 2013 in an interview with NPR:
"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 1, 2013 in remarks in Austin, Texas:
"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2013
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on March 27, 2013 in a tweet:
Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, "your insurance" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost "as much as a new Explorer."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2013
Charles Cooper
Charles Cooper
stated on March 26, 2013 in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court:
"Very few men outlive their own fertility."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2013
Sal Albanese
Sal Albanese
stated on March 24, 2013 in a joint mayoral candidates' appearance on MSNBC:
An annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2013
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on March 19, 2013 in a Senate floor speech:
"In the last two years, we have reduced the deficit by $2.5 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 16, 2013 in a speech at CPAC:
"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2013
Frank Keating
Frank Keating
stated on March 17, 2013 in an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In the United States, 50 percent of social services are provided by the Catholic church."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 16, 2013 in a speech at the conservative CPAC conference:
Of every "three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 14, 2013 in a speech at the CPAC conference:
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 14, 2013 in a speech at the conservative CPAC conference:
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on March 12, 2013 in a House floor speech:
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
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