Latest Fact-Checks By Catharine Richert

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Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 in a news release.:

"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."

Mostly True

By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 in his radio show:

On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2009 in a newspaper interview:

"We import more oil today than ever before."

False

By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2009 in a speech at the White House.:

"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"

Mostly True

By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009

Chuck Grassley
stated on June 28, 2009 in interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."

Half-True

By Catharine Richert • July 2, 2009

George Will
stated on June 18, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:

Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.

True

By Catharine Richert • June 29, 2009

Edward Markey
stated on June 20, 2009 in a press release.:

Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."

True

By Catharine Richert • June 25, 2009

Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 17, 2009 in a press release on the House GOP's blog.:

The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • June 23, 2009

Ann Coulter
stated on June 10, 2009 in a column.:

Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • June 19, 2009

Mike Pence
stated on June 10, 2009 in MSNBC interview.:

Contends that President Obama "literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, 'necessarily skyrocket.'"

True

By Catharine Richert • June 11, 2009

John Boehner
stated on June 8, 2009 in a press release.:

Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • June 8, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2009 in interview with Canal Plus Television:

"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."

Pants on Fire!

By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009

John Barrasso
stated on May 26, 2009 in weekly Senate Republican radio address:

There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009

Newt Gingrich
stated on June 3, 2009 in a statement on the Human Events Web site:

On calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist.

Full Flop

By Catharine Richert • June 3, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on June 1, 2009 in a press release.:

"President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent."

True

By Catharine Richert • June 1, 2009

Libertarian National Committee
stated on May 26, 2009 in a press release from May 26, 2009:

"Sotomayor has had her rulings thrown out by the court a troubling four times."

Half-True

By Catharine Richert • May 27, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2009 in a speech.:

"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."

True

By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009

Richard Durbin
stated on May 20, 2009 in a speech on the Senate floor.:

"The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others."

True

By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009

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