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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 7, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library:
"The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on September 7, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library:
Utah was "the No. 1 job creator in this country during my years of service" as governor, with a 5.9 percent increase in jobs.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 5, 2011 in 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 5, 2011 in a Labor Day speech in Detroit:
A bipartisan payroll tax cut championed by the White House has meant that "the average family has an extra $1,000 in their pocket" this year.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 30, 2011 in a speech to the American Legion:
The United States "won every major battle" of the Vietnam War. "Every single one."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 26, 2011 in a campaign event:
President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on August 29, 2011 in an opinion column:
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2011 in a campaign event:
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2011
Bob Casey
Bob Casey
stated on August 26, 2011 in a conference call with reporters:
In Afghanistan, "it is very, very rare that someone who is killed in action is not killed by an" improvised explosive device, or IED.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 11, 2011 in the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa:
Says that under President John F. Kennedy, "government took up" 27 percent of the economy, and today it "consumes 37 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 11, 2011 in the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa:
"We created a flat tax in the state of Utah."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 11, 2011 in the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa:
"We're inches away from no longer having a free economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on August 3, 2011 in an interview with "The State" newspaper:
The debt-ceiling bill "doesn’t cut the debt. It will add about $7 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2011
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2011
Raul Labrador
Raul Labrador
stated on July 31, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Tax increases under Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm led to state unemployment going from 6.8 percent to 15.3 percent.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2011
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on July 31, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I cut more as a percentage out of government than any state in the country this past decade. And where is Michigan in terms of its economic growth? Cutting did not result in economic growth."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on August 2, 2011 in a Senate floor speech:
There was a "loss of eight million jobs during the Bush eight years."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 31, 2011 in remarks from the White House:
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 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
Ken Langone
Ken Langone
stated on July 28, 2011 in an interview on CNBC:
In contrast to President Barack Obama, who "is not acting presidential," President Ronald Reagan "would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on — that's how much he revered the presidency."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2011
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