Latest Fact-Checks

Clear
Doreen Costa
Doreen Costa
stated on August 10, 2011 in a radio interview:
"The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money"
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2011
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on August 15, 2011 in :
On serving out his gubernatorial term
Full Flop
By Warren Fiske • August 26, 2011
Regina Benjamin
Regina Benjamin
stated on August 18, 2011 in a radio interview:
"The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 26, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 in a speech at "Politics and Eggs" in Bedford, N.H.:
Says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2011
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on June 30, 2011 in a news release:
"Before Medicare, only 51 percent of Americans 65 and older had health care coverage and nearly 30 percent lived below the poverty line. Today, thanks to Medicare ... nearly all seniors have coverage and 75 percent fewer struggle in poverty."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 25, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 19, 2011 in a television interview:
"We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • August 25, 2011
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on August 22, 2011 in a letter to the state’s acting education commissioner:
Says enrolling a student in a subsidized lunch program triggers an "at risk" designation, resulting in an extra $6,000 to $7,000 of state school aid per student.
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • August 25, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 23, 2011 in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library:
"When Social Security first started, there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • August 24, 2011
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 21, 2011 in a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour':
"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2011
Jonathan Steitz
Jonathan Steitz
stated on August 3, 2011 in a radio ad:
The 2009-11 state budget that Democrats approved left Wisconsin taxpayers $3.6 billion in debt.
False
By James B. Nelson • August 24, 2011
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on August 6, 2011 in a Texas Capitol rally.:
Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2011
Thaddeus McCotter
Thaddeus McCotter
stated on August 16, 2011 in an op-ed in the "National Review":
"When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2011
Michael Schrunk
Michael Schrunk
stated on July 23, 2011 in a guest column for The Oregonian:
Says "under our current sentencing laws, about 75 percent of all convicted felons in Oregon do not go to prison."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • August 23, 2011
Chip Rogers
Chip Rogers
stated on July 11, 2011 in a town hall meeting:
"Recent international reports show the United States near the bottom among industrialized nations for k-12 academic achievement."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • August 23, 2011
Albert Papp Jr.
Albert Papp Jr.
stated on August 20, 2011 in an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show:
"Last year -- actually, this year in May -- we saw New Jersey Transit fares rise anywhere from 25 percent to 47 percent."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • August 23, 2011
Florida voter
Florida voter
stated on August 17, 2011 in a robocall from the Pink Slip Rick website, played on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" show.:
Says Gov. Rick Scott is "spending a quarter of a million of our tax dollars to robocall people."
False
By Amy Sherman • August 22, 2011
Florida voter
Florida voter
stated on August 17, 2011 in a robocall from the Pink Slip Rick website, played on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" show.:
Says Gov. Rick Scott cut state funding for PBS.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 in a campaign stop in New Hampshire:
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2011 in an op-ed piece in the Washington Times:
The Dodd-Frank financial-reform law’s hundreds of new rules will force small banks and credit unions to burn up "an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 22, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 2, 2011 in a television interview:
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers "pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland."
True
By Tom Feran • August 22, 2011
Previous Next