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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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