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Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Washington Correspondent, Knoxville News Sentinel and Scripps Howard News Service

The Knoxville News Sentinel's Washington correspondent also writes for Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, where he has been based since 2001. Before that, he was a reporter for The Cincinnati Post and spent five years in Frankfort, Ky., as the state capital bureau chief for The Kentucky Post. He also served as night city editor and editorial writer. A native of Whitesburg, Ky., Collins earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Kentucky University, where he was editor of the award-winning student newspaper, the College Heights Herald.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Michael Collins

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Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on September 22, 2012 in a press release.
"We haven’t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year."
True
By Michael Collins • September 28, 2012
Chris Devaney
Chris Devaney
stated on September 4, 2012 Tennessee Republican Party web site posting
President Obama campaign surrogate Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley "acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago."
Half-True
By Michael Collins • September 21, 2012
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on July 23, 2012 column in the Huffington Post
"After one year, Tennessee’s students made their biggest single-year jump in achievement ever recorded in the state."
Mostly True
By Michael Collins • August 16, 2012
Chuck Fleischmann
Chuck Fleischmann
stated on July 17, 2012 in a blog post on his campaign website.
Says that President Obama said that "Small Businesses Succeed Because of Government."
False
By Michael Collins • August 6, 2012
Lou Ann Zelenik
Lou Ann Zelenik
stated on July 26, 2012 in an ongoing radio commercial.
"Diane Black voted to fund Obamacare."
False
By Michael Collins • July 27, 2012
Julia Hurley
Julia Hurley
stated on June 23, 2012 an email to constituents
"If you have ever visited Nashville or Washington D.C. you will see MANY names and initials carved into ... desks."  
Mostly False
By Michael Collins, Tom Humphrey • July 18, 2012
Nick Ciparro
Nick Ciparro
stated on June 27, 2012 Posted by Ciparro's website
"In the last 10 years, only one piece of legislation has been cosponsored and passed by" John Duncan Jr.
Pants on Fire!
By Michael Collins • July 7, 2012
Diane Black
Diane Black
stated on June 1, 2012 a press release.
 The United States has experienced "40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher."
True
By Michael Collins • June 11, 2012
Tennessee Democratic Party
Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on April 25, 2012 a blog post on the party’s web site on April 25, 2012
Says U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher "breaks earmark pledge."
Mostly False
By Michael Collins • May 25, 2012
Beth Harwell
Beth Harwell
stated on May 7, 2012 an interview about WTVF-TV’s “ghost voting” story.
Says in U.S. Congress, members "don’t even have to be on the floor for debates or votes."
Half-True
By Michael Collins, Tom Humphrey • May 18, 2012
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