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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2011 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 26, 2011 a comment on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor":
Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on July 4, 2011 a house party in Belmont, N.H. :
Says that when he was governor of Utah, he worked with the state Legislature to create a flat tax that "cut income taxes by 30 percent."
Mostly False
By Kevin Landrigan, Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2011
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley":
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised speech:
The House passed "cut, cap and balance" with "bipartisan support."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 24, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Most countries have no debt ceiling."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 18, 2011 a tweet:
"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2011
Ann Marie Buerkle
Ann Marie Buerkle
stated on June 24, 2011 a news release:
Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, "even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2011
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