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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 8, 2012 in a press release:
The RESTORE Act started as an "effort to dedicate as much BP fine money as possible towards Gulf Coast restoration" but now "could steer money to places like the Great Lakes and West Coast."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 9, 2012 in a speech at the CPAC conference:
"The majority of Americans are conservatives."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 24, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 9, 2012 in a speech at the CPAC conference:
Says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law.
False
By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2012 in a TV interview:
"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 24, 2012 in a prepared statement:
Says Mitt Romney "was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse" Marco Rubio.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 25, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 21, 2011 in a biography on his U.S. Senate website:
Says his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover" of Cuba.
False
By Becky Bowers • October 21, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 23, 2011 in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library:
"When Social Security first started, there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • August 24, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 29, 2011 in an e-mail:
"If the debt ceiling is surpassed, our nation will not go into default as some suggest."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Martha M. Hamilton • August 2, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 17, 2011 in interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"We have not had unemployment this high for this long since the Great Depression."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 7, 2011 in an interview with CBS:
"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 13, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 14, 2011 in his first speech on the U.S. Senate floor:
"Anywhere in the world, when someone uses a mobile phone, e-mail, the Internet or GPS, they are enjoying the benefits of the American miracle."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • June 15, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2011 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"The only people in this town that have voted to cut Medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of Obamacare. That’s a fact."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Laura Figueroa • May 10, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 30, 2011 in an opinion article in the 'Wall Street Journal':
To pay for government growth, leaders of both parties "borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with today's $14 trillion debt."
Mostly True
By Laura Figueroa • April 15, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 30, 2011 in a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed:
"Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • April 4, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2011 in comments to reporters.:
"Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 17, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2010 in a debate:
Of the more than 1.3 million temporary mortgage modifications, over half have defaulted.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 27, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 24, 2010 in a U.S. Senate debate on CNN’s “State of the Union.”:
Charlie Crist "attacks me for positions he held, like, six months ago, (when) he was running in the Republican primary."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • October 24, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 6, 2010 in an ABC News U.S. Senate debate.:
"The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • October 8, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 27, 2010 in a campaign website:
"Charlie Crist has six different positions on ObamaCare."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 2, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 2, 2010 in a campaign video:
"If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2010
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