Latest Fact Checks By Becky Bowers

Rick Perry says Mitt Romney’s book deleted line that Mass. health care law “should be the model for the country”

By Becky Bowers

December 11, 2011

Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"

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Florida Democrats say Mitt Romney dismissed middle-class tax cuts as ‘little Band-Aids’

By Becky Bowers

December 7, 2011

Says Mitt Romney belittled middle-class tax cuts "as nothing more than 'little Band-Aids.' "

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Gov. Rick Scott says ‘Obamacare’ is ‘not the law of the land’

By Becky Bowers

December 1, 2011

The Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land."

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Mitt Romney says Hezbollah in Latin America poses an imminent threat to the United States

By Becky Bowers

November 23, 2011

"We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent…

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Republican lawmakers classified pizza as a vegetable for school lunches, Democrats say

By Becky Bowers

November 22, 2011

"House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a 'vegetable' for the purpose of school lunches." 

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Mitt Romney says failed solar company Solyndra ‘had robots that whistled Disney songs’

By Becky Bowers

November 17, 2011

Solyndra "had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding."

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Did the program that funded the Solyndra loan start under George W. Bush? David Plouffe says so

By Becky Bowers

November 17, 2011

The loan guarantee program that helped Solyndra "was a program that was supported by President Bush."

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Solyndra ad claims President Barack Obama gave taxpayer money to help his campaign donors at failed solar company

By Becky Bowers

November 15, 2011

"(President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the…

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Ag chief Adam Putnam says Florida’s giant snail ‘carries human meningitis’

By Becky Bowers

November 3, 2011

Says the giant African land snail "carries human meningitis."

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U.S. Rep. Connie Mack said he wouldn’t run for U.S. Senate — now adviser says he’s in

By Becky Bowers

October 27, 2011

On whether he would run for U.S. Senate in 2012.

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Sen. Bill Nelson said his battle for BP video allowed scientists to calculate Deepwater Horizon flow

By Becky Bowers

October 26, 2011

Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to "wrangle the actual streaming video" from BP that scientists were able to calculate…

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Sen. Marco Rubio said his parents ‘came to America following Fidel Castro’s takeover’ of Cuba

By Becky Bowers

October 21, 2011

Says his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover" of Cuba.

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