Latest Fact Checks By Lauren Carroll

Does sex trafficking increase around the Super Bowl?

By Lauren Carroll

January 29, 2015

The Super Bowl has "one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country."

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich puts words in Abraham Lincoln’s mouth about tax policy

By Lauren Carroll

January 25, 2015

"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it."  

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Obama: America is No. 1 producer of oil, gas

By Lauren Carroll

January 21, 2015

"America is No. 1 one in oil and gas."  

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Obama: Since 2010, U.S. has created more jobs than ‘all advanced economies combined’

By Lauren Carroll

January 21, 2015

"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."

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Obama: more factories opening today than two decades ago

By Lauren Carroll

January 20, 2015

"Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades."

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Ted Olson: Supreme Court never said marriage was between a man and a woman in 15 cases

By Lauren Carroll

January 18, 2015

"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right" and never said "it had to be between a…

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McCain: 30% of past Guantanamo detainees ‘re-enter the fight’

By Lauren Carroll

January 15, 2015

"About 30 percent" of those released from Guantanamo "have re-entered the fight."

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Warren: the average family in the bottom 90 percent made more money 30 years ago

By Lauren Carroll

January 13, 2015

"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."

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Chris Coons: Keystone means ‘unlocking’ Canadian oil sands

By Lauren Carroll

January 11, 2015

"Keystone means unlocking the Canadian tar sands."

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Louie Gohmert says Obama has ‘not proposed one’ tax policy that implements ‘Buffett rule’

By Lauren Carroll

January 7, 2015

Says President Barack Obama has "not proposed one thing that would change" the fact that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.

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Klobuchar says U.S. is world’s No. 1 oil producer

By Lauren Carroll

January 4, 2015

"We're now the No. 1 producer of oil in the world. We've surpassed Saudi Arabia."  

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Giuliani: Obama ‘propaganda’ says ‘everybody should hate the police’

By Lauren Carroll

December 23, 2014

Says President Barack Obama has said "that everybody should hate the police."

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