Latest Fact Checks By Catharine Richert

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House Republicans say the government will take old wood stoves

By Catharine Richert
July 22, 2009
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do…
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Obama overstates tax relief to individuals and businesses

By Catharine Richert
July 22, 2009
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
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Palin claims that the cap-and-trade bill includes a $4.2 billion worker program

By Catharine Richert
July 16, 2009
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector,…
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Vice President Biden claims $174 billion of stimulus has been committed

By Catharine Richert
July 15, 2009
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
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Limbaugh claims the climate bill wasn’t written when it came up for a vote

By Catharine Richert
July 9, 2009
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…
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Obama says that Californians use 40 percent less energy than most

By Catharine Richert
July 7, 2009
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
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Claims that U.S. will only reduce carbon emissions by 1 percent unless others help

By Catharine Richert
July 2, 2009
"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."
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Claims that smoking kills more people annually than other dangerous activities combined

By Catharine Richert
June 29, 2009
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
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Claims that the CBO predicts cap-and-trade will cost about as much as a stamp a day

By Catharine Richert
June 25, 2009
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
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Claims that the war spending bill does more for the IMF than the wars

By Catharine Richert
June 23, 2009
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."
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