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Anatomy of a statistic: Do 80 percent of Americans oppose sanctuary cities?

February 24, 2017

On Feb. 22, websites favorable to President Donald Trump touted a poll result that showed wide support for one of the president’s highest-profile immigration policies -- cracking down on "sanctuary cities."

Did Donald Trump inherit ‘a mess’ from Barack Obama?

February 17, 2017

Did Donald Trump inherit "a mess" when he took the oath of office? He certainly thinks so.

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Did Elizabeth Warren break the rules? Plus 5 other questions about Rule 19

February 8, 2017

Before the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, few people outside the Senate had ever heard of Rule 19. -- the provision that Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used to stop Warren from speaking on the Senate floor. Did Elizabeth Warren break the rules? McConnell said she did. Some of this is a matter of interpretation, but if Warren did break the rules, her penalty is clearly an instance of selective enforcement. We’ll explain.

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6 questions answered about ‘the nuclear option,’ the filibuster, and Supreme Court nominations

February 3, 2017

Now that President Donald Trump has tapped Neil Gorsuch to fill an open seat on the Supreme Court, the Senate is once again careening toward a showdown over "the nuclear option," an obscure but important rule that governs how the chamber conducts its business.

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What would the impact be if the Affordable Care Act is repealed?

January 5, 2017

Republican Congress and the incoming Trump administration opened 2017 by trying to decide how -- and how quickly -- to repeal President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. What path lawmakers decide to take will determine how much of an impact the repeal will have on the American public. But members of Congress have no shortage of analyses and projections about what the impact of a repeal would be -- and how much slack a replacement plan would have to pick up following a repeal.

The House GOP’s ethics vote: What was all that about, anyway?

January 4, 2017

As Washington controversies go, the one over the Office of Congressional Ethics went by in the blink of an eye. So what was it really about?

The House GOP’s ethics vote: What was all that about, anyway?

January 3, 2017

As Washington controversies go, the one over the Office of Congressional Ethics went by in the blink of an eye. So what was it really about?

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The biggest flip-flops by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

November 4, 2016

At PolitiFact, we’ve rated hundreds of statements by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. But we’ve also been on the lookout for examples of the presidential nominees flip-flopping on significant policy issues.

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Was James Comey’s letter ‘unprecedented,’ as Hillary Clinton says?

November 1, 2016

The letter by FBI director James Comey -- in which he apprised lawmakers of new emails potentially relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton -- has prompted lots of second-guessing. But was his letter unprecedented?

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What is the Hatch Act, and what does it have to do with James Comey?

October 31, 2016

The Hatch Act, a relatively obscure law governing political engagement by federal employees, has people clucking this week, amid controversy over FBI director James Comey’s letter to lawmakers about potential new evidence in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

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Errónea asociación de Hillary Clinton entre recortes fiscales y la Gran Recesión

October 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton dijo que la Gran Recesión emergió "en gran parte a las políticas fiscales que recortaron los impuestos a los ricos, fallaron en invertir en la clase media, dejaron de vigilar a Wall Street y crearon la tormenta perfecta".

 

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In context: Bill Clinton’s remarks on health care

October 6, 2016

Is former president Bill Clinton one of Donald Trump’s best surrogates? Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, joked that he might be, following comments on health care policy on Oct. 3 that were quickly seized upon by Republican opponents of the Affordable Care Act, sometimes known as Obamacare.

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