Latest Fact-Checks By Stephen Koff

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NRSC blasts Brown for standing by Obama, his jobs record and debt increases

September 8, 2011

Sherrod Brown "has stood side by side" with President Barack Obama, presiding "over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years"…

Sen. Rob Portman says U.S. debt now matches size of gross domestic product

August 18, 2011

U.S. debt is "now equal to 100 percent of the GDP."

Rep. Marcia Fudge says 11 percent of eligible voters lack a government ID

August 10, 2011

Says that voter identification laws "keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting."

Sen. Rob Portman says most debt-ceiling increases have been short-term solutions

July 27, 2011

"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's…

Josh Mandel says Sen. Sherrod Brown rates as the most liberal in the United States

July 18, 2011

"Sherrod Brown was just voted two years in a row the most liberal senator in the United States of America" and is more liberal than…

Sen. Rob Portman says a year since the ‘Recovery Summer’ there’s still no recovery

July 5, 2011

A year since the "Recovery Summer," there has been been "a fall, winter and spring of no recovery."

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s campaign warns there is a Republican plan to end Medicare

June 27, 2011

There is a Republican "plan to end Medicare."

Economic adviser Brian Deese says auto industry has rebounded with 115,000 jobs

June 9, 2011

"We've seen 115,000 jobs created in the American auto industry since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy."

NRCC says Gerry Connolly maxed out U.S. debt

June 2, 2011

"Gerry Connolly and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."

We said what? NRCC claims PolitiFact Ohio confirmed claim that Rep. Betty Sutton “maxed out federal debt”

June 1, 2011

Says that PolitiFact Ohio confirms that Betty Sutton "maxed out federal debt"

NRCC says Rep. Betty Sutton’s ‘spending spree’ maxed out federal debt

May 31, 2011

"Betty Sutton and her fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."

Sen. Rob Portman says health care reform has hampered hiring by driving up business costs

May 26, 2011

"The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire" because it’s increased costs for employers.

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