Latest Fact Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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McCollum cites top estimate for Medicaid expansion

March 23, 2010
Florida's cost for the Medicaid expansion will be $1.6 billion a year or more.
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Obama’s remarks never a true ‘apology’

March 15, 2010
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
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Bush tax cuts were passed with reconciliation’s 50 votes

March 5, 2010
Reconciliation was used "for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush."
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Greenspan gave approval to tax cuts only if deficits were tamed

March 2, 2010
In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan "justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt."
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Polls show public dubious on current health care proposals

February 23, 2010
"One of the most recent polls said 75 percent of the American people have said either don't do anything or start over (on health care…
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Two of three convicted in military commissions have been released

February 16, 2010
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
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Health care reform estimates for deficit reduction are not that exact

February 1, 2010
Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."
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Obama inherited deficits from Bush administration

January 29, 2010
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt…
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Health care reform does not increase premiums and boot people out of their coverage

January 28, 2010
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current…
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Tax cut for 95 percent? The stimulus made it so

January 28, 2010
"We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families."
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White House visitor logs voluntarily released, with potential for exceptions

January 28, 2010
"For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online."
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