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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 4, 2011 an op-ed in USA Today
Repealing the health care law "would save $95 billion in 2016."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 4, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 the CNN Republican presidential debate.
Says Rick Perry wrote a newspaper item saying he was "open to amnesty" for illegal immigrants in the United States.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 26, 2011 a press release.
Says Texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during Rick Perry's governorship. Also, the Texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during Barack Obama's presidency.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 27, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 a campaign video.
Says more than 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • October 20, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate
"I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 19, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
"The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
Says Barack Obama "never worked in the private sector" before he was elected president.
False
By John Gregg • October 18, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.
Says that illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • September 28, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 22, 2011 newspaper article
Says Texas’ unemployment rate has doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • September 23, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 22, 2011 a debate in Orlando, Fla.
President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 23, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says that in his book, Rick Perry said that "Social Security is unconstitutional."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 12, 2011 the CNN-Tea Party Express debate in Tampa
"In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that … by any measure Social Security has been a failure."
True
By Becky Bowers • September 13, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 5, 2011 a Republican candidates' forum in South Carolina
The Massachusetts health care plan "dealt with 8 percent of our population," far less than the "100 percent of American people" affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 15, 2011 a town hall in Litchfield, N.H.
Says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year.
Mostly True
By Kevin Landrigan • September 3, 2011
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