Checking on the GOP’s constitutional promise
In a nod to Tea Party supporters, House Republican leaders promised to require constitutional justifications with every bill. We check to see if the promise has been kept.
In a nod to Tea Party supporters, House Republican leaders promised to require constitutional justifications with every bill. We check to see if the promise has been kept.
We've been so busy covering the hectic first weeks of the 2011 Florida legislative session, we forgot to celebrate an important milestone. We've turned 1. Read about our busy first year.
We use our GOP Pledge-O-Meter to rate the progress on the Republicans' health care promises. It's two steps forward, one step back.
Defending his energy policy in a press conference, President Barack Obama made several claims about oil production and a decreasing reliance on foreign imports. We check the things Obama said, and then rate one of his campaign promises broken for something he didn't say.
The legendary Washington Post political writer was an early promoter of fact-checking.
We always call the person who made the claim and ask where he or she got the information that his or her statement was based on. Sometimes the answers are a little surprising.
During a conference call that reached thousands Monday night, Gov. Rick Perry said lawmakers will balance the budget without raising taxes. We’re tracking that promise, but we’ve previously checked other claims that Perry aired.
We figured that claim was made in an error. That number would mean an almost 18 percent drop in the number of workers in Virginia -- estimated at 3.9 million in January by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
We examine recent claims about government regulation and find that sometimes the claims outrun the facts.
Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell survived his debut on the Texas Truth-O-Meter last week while statements from three legislators, a Democratic activist and a New York Times columnist also rocked the needle.
Read on. It's the debut of the PolitiFact Texas Flashback.
We've covered a lot of topics since last November's elections, from estate taxes to immigration to sex offenders to welfare.
Despite predictions that we might struggle in the post-election lull, we knew that in Rhode Island, we'd never have a shortage of claims to run through the Truth-O-Meter.
We've told you what we think. Now it's time to share what readers think of our work. (Hint: Not all of them agreed with our rulings.)
Last week, PolitiFact Georgia did its fair share of cluck-clucking.
Claims about a proposed immigration measure, a reading of the U.S. Constitution by the backer of a "birther" bill and a take on federal law about the U.S. Supreme Court all ruffled the Truth-O-Meter’s feathers.
We also updated the progress Gov. Nathan Deal made on his promise to end the Ga. 400 tolls and discerned whether a candidate for Gwinnett County chairman was a faux chicken farmer -- the accuser laid an egg on that one.
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