Latest Fact-Checks By Becky Bowers

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Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2013 in blog posts:

The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.

False

By Becky Bowers • March 22, 2013

Ted Cruz
stated on March 16, 2013 in a speech at CPAC:

"We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats."

True

By Becky Bowers • March 21, 2013

Dianne Feinstein
stated on March 7, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball:

"We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use."

False

By Becky Bowers • March 11, 2013

Rand Paul
stated on March 6, 2013 in a tweet:

"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."

False

By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2013

Al Cardenas
stated on March 1, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:

Of $60 billion Congress approved in response to Hurricane Sandy, "only 10 percent was for disaster relief."

False

By Becky Bowers • March 6, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on March 1, 2013 in a press briefing at the White House:

Says a majority of Americans -- and Republicans -- support his approach for deficit reduction.

Mostly True

By Becky Bowers • March 1, 2013

Kevin McCarthy
stated on February 25, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:

Says the federal government is earning more tax revenue now "than any other time."

Mostly False

By Becky Bowers • February 28, 2013

Bill Nelson
stated on February 21, 2013 in an interview on Central Florida News 13:

In a budget deal struck in 2011 "a trillion dollars of cuts went into effect immediately, and then a special committee was set up ... to get agreement on another $3 trillion of cuts."

Half-True

By Becky Bowers • February 25, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:

Says if Congress doesn’t avoid the sequester, "tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids."

Half-True

By Becky Bowers • February 22, 2013

Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an article in the Daily Caller:

Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!"

Mostly False

By Becky Bowers • February 20, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union Address:

Says "overwhelming majorities of Americans" support gun legislation "like background checks."

Mostly True

By Becky Bowers • February 13, 2013

Stephen King
stated on January 25, 2013 in a Kindle Single essay, 'Guns':

Says since Australia passed tough gun laws, "homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent."

Mostly True

By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2013 in an interview on Fox News:

"Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed."

Half-True

By Becky Bowers • January 28, 2013

Jackie Speier
stated on January 15, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:

"Even members of the NRA, when they were polled recently, were under the impression that everyone has a criminal background check."

Mostly True

By Becky Bowers • January 23, 2013

American International Group
stated on January 1, 2013 in a TV ad:

AIG has fully repaid the federal government "plus a profit of more than $22 billion."

Mostly True

By Becky Bowers • January 2, 2013

Priorities USA Action
stated on November 2, 2012 in in a TV ad:

"Mitt Romney made over a hundred million dollars by shutting down (a Marion, Ind. paper) plant."

Mostly False

By Becky Bowers • November 5, 2012

Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in in a TV ad:

"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."

Half-True

By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 in the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.:

Says Romney said "we should ask Pakistan for permission" to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.

Half-True

By Becky Bowers • October 23, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 in the second presidential debate:

Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America."

Mostly True

By Becky Bowers • October 22, 2012

Planned Parenthood
stated on October 10, 2012 in in a mailer:

Says Mitt Romney and George Allen "would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk."

Half-True

By Becky Bowers • October 19, 2012

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