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Latest Fact-Checks By Katie Sanders

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Kai Ryssdal
Kai Ryssdal
stated on February 18, 2014 a "Marketplace" segment:
A Congressional Budget Office report says President Barack Obama’s executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers "will cost the economy 500,000 jobs."
False
By Katie Sanders • February 20, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on February 11, 2014 a segment on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell":
Chris Christie "helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • February 19, 2014
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed
stated on February 3, 2014 a CNN "Crossfire" segment:
A government report shows that alternatives to the Keystone XL pipeline "are worse" for the environment.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • February 13, 2014
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on February 3, 2014 a segment on CNN's "Crossfire":
The Keystone pipeline creates "35 permanent jobs" after construction, according to a government report.
True
By Katie Sanders • February 10, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on February 6, 2014 a "Washington Post" column:
Says President Barack Obama carried Congressional District 13 "by 8.2 points in 2008 and 5.6 points in 2012."
False
By Katie Sanders • February 6, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on February 6, 2014 a "Washington Post" column:
"Any Floridian who has ever requested an absentee ballot henceforth gets one automatically."
False
By Katie Sanders • February 6, 2014
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on February 2, 2014 an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend":
A friend’s sister "died from Obamacare" because Blue Shield "completely just pulled out of California."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • February 5, 2014
Roger Goodell
Roger Goodell
stated on January 20, 2014 an interview on NFL.com:
"The extra point is almost automatic. … (The NFL) had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd" attempts.
True
By Katie Sanders • January 31, 2014
Joel Klatt
Joel Klatt
stated on January 29, 2014 a Fox Sports panel about Super Bowl XLVIII:
Says Marshawn Lynch is "second all-time in terms of average yards per rush only to Terrell Davis."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • January 31, 2014
Marshall Faulk
Marshall Faulk
stated on January 28, 2014 comments on the NFL Network:
Quarterbacks "won the (Super Bowl) MVP more than 50 percent of the time."
True
By Katie Sanders • January 30, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 26, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
Under President Barack Obama, "We’ve got the lowest labor force participation in over three decades, since 1978."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 26, 2014
Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace
stated on January 14, 2014 a segment on 'Nancy Grace':
People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families."  
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2014
Josh Fox
Josh Fox
stated on January 19, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry":
"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012" with "more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 23, 2014
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
stated on January 19, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony."
False
By Katie Sanders • January 19, 2014
Lisa Bloom
Lisa Bloom
stated on January 14, 2014 an interview with Piers Morgan:
"Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries."  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 17, 2014
Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 a CNN interview:
"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"Under Obamacare, when you turn Medicaid over to the states ... the money will be available up front for the expansion for a few years. Then, the money will go away."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 13, 2014
Robert Gibbs
Robert Gibbs
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We have been in Afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nation’s history."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 12, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on January 2, 2014 comments on her show:
The Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a "Koch brothers affiliated group."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • January 9, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on January 6, 2014 comments on his radio show:
Says the media created the term "polar vortex" and the cold air proves "the ice isn’t melting."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • January 8, 2014
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