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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on April 10, 2011 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a news release:
A government shutdown "could disrupt ... veterans' benefits."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 4, 2011 in a public appearance:
Under a House Republican appropriations bill, "6 million seniors are deprived of meals."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on April 1, 2011 in a column in the "Wall Street Journal":
The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 5, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"We’ve lost 26 million jobs … since (Obama’s) been president."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
stated on April 4, 2011 in an interview on the Fox Business network:
"Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2011
George Will
George Will
stated on April 3, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 in his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "The View":
South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 29, 2011 in a radio interview:
"A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 in his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation," the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 "because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2011 in a televised address:
"Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on March 23, 2011 in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News:
"American troops have never been under the formal control of another nation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on March 23, 2011 in televised interviews:
On whether the United States should intervene in Libya.
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2007 in an interview with the "Boston Globe":
On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack "that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2011
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