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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly
stated on May 3, 2011 a House floor speech:
"America owns 3 percent of the world’s oil but consumes 25 percent of its global reserves."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Dan Boren
Dan Boren
stated on April 27, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"A vast majority of the production in the United States comes from small independent oil and gas companies."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 an interview with ABC news:
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:
"CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 14, 2011 an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News:
"Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2011
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on April 15, 2011 an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2011
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on April 15, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":
According to David Cay Johnston, "the average American pays about 22 percent of their income to federal taxes. The richest 400 Americans … pay about 16 percent of their income to federal taxes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on April 13, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 14, 2011 a fundraising e-mail:
"Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on April 13, 2011 a House floor speech:
"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy • April 15, 2011
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on April 10, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. They've demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech:
"By the end of this decade, the interest we owe on our debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2011
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 8, 2011 a Senate floor speech:
Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"I have the No. 1 show on NBC."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 5, 2011 a public statement:
"We’ve introduced a bill that includes $12 billion in cuts over the next week."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2011
Debbie Stabenow
Debbie Stabenow
stated on March 1, 2011 a news release:
A government shutdown "could disrupt ... veterans' benefits."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
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