Latest Fact-Checks By Julie Kliegman

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Joe Barton
Joe Barton
stated on October 24, 2013 in a Fox News interview:
"Hidden" in the healthcare.gov code is language that means users "waive any reasonable right to privacy of your personal information."
False
By Julie Kliegman • October 29, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2013 in a public address:
Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans "can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 28, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 21, 2013 in Facebook posts:
Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • October 24, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2013 in a public address:
"Half of all CEOs say that the shutdown and the threat of shutdown set back their plans to hire over the next six months."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 21, 2013
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on October 15, 2013 in in a mayoral forum:
"Since Mr. Foster's been mayor, we have less small businesses in the city of St. Petersburg."
False
By Julie Kliegman • October 17, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 8, 2013 in in a press release:
Chris Christie "cut equal pay for women, calling it 'senseless bureaucracy.' "
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • October 17, 2013
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on October 3, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:
The health care marketplaces have "no privacy protections."
False
By Julie Kliegman • October 9, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2013 in an NPR interview:
"At the time that (Medicare Part D) was passed (it) was actually less popular than the Affordable Care Act, according to the polls."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 4, 2013
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 25, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:
"(Texas Republicans) believe in abolishing Social Security, abolishing V.A. health care."
False
By Julie Kliegman • October 2, 2013
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 24, 2013 in on CNN's "Crossfire":
"(Obamacare) is a bill which has never once had a majority of Americans favor it."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • September 26, 2013
C.W. Bill Young
C.W. Bill Young
stated on September 20, 2013 in a House address:
If the government shuts down, "all military personnel will continue to serve and accrue pay but will not actually be paid until appropriations are available."
True
By Julie Kliegman • September 24, 2013
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton
stated on September 16, 2013 in a press conference:
"There are more guns than there are people in the United States."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • September 19, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on September 11, 2013 in a CNN interview:
The United States "stood alone in the war in Iraq."
Pants on Fire!
By Julie Kliegman • September 13, 2013
BookerFail
BookerFail
stated on August 1, 2013 in a YouTube video:
"Three years after getting the $100 million (from Mark Zuckerberg), less than two-thirds of students in Cory Booker's Newark graduate."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • August 27, 2013
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on August 18, 2013 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"There are only four countries in the world that ... legalize abortion after five months -- China, North Korea, Canada and the U.S."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • August 22, 2013
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on August 14, 2013 in a mayoral forum:
"Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in (St. Petersburg) are caused by people leaving their keys in the car."
True
By Julie Kliegman • August 14, 2013
Kathleen Ford
Kathleen Ford
stated on August 6, 2013 in a mayoral debate:
"If we use (Tax Increment Financing) funding, that's going to take funds from the general fund for Pinellas County, as it will take funds from the general fund for the city of St. Pete."
False
By Julie Kliegman • August 9, 2013
Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on August 6, 2013 in a mayoral debate:
"If we don't spend money on a pier, then that money does wipe into the general funds of the city or the county, and if you send it to the county, you never see it again."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • August 9, 2013
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 14, 2013 in an email:
"U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told banks -- in writing -- it may inspect safe deposit boxes without warrant and seize any gold, silver, guns or other valuables it finds inside those boxes!"
Pants on Fire!
By Julie Kliegman • July 26, 2013
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