Fact Check: Biden on bin Laden
This is what Romney said about bin Laden in a 2007 interview with the Associated Press: ”It’s not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.” But...
View ArticleFact Check: Iran sanctions
The debate on Iran sanctions is rather familiar. If you go back four years, you will see that it was the Obama campaign that made claims of weakness and fecklessness on Iran. President George W. Bush...
View ArticleFact Check: Biden on letting Detroit go bankrupt
Biden claimed that Romney wanted the auto industry to go bankrupt. This statement is drawn from a headline — “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” — on an opinion article written by Romney for the New York Times....
View ArticleFact Check: Ryan allies on Medicare
Biden is right — Ryan did work with former OMB director Alice Rivlin and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on his Medicare plan but both have distanced themselves from the final proposals, saying they did not...
View ArticleFact Check: Ryan says Medicare going ‘bankrupt’
Ryan: “Medicare and Social Security are going bankrupt. These are indisputable facts.” It is highly misleading to use the phrase “bankrupt.” There are different parts of Medicare, much of which is paid...
View ArticleFact Check: That Medicare debate
The $700 billion figure comes from the difference over 10 years (2013-2022) between anticipated Medicare spending (what is known as “the baseline”) and the changes that the law makes to reduce...
View ArticleFact Check: State Department contradicts Biden
“We weren’t told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there.” — Biden, speaking of the consulate in Libya But this was contradicted by State Department officials just...
View ArticleFact Check: The defense cuts
Confused about the debate over the looming defense cuts? Moderator Martha Raddatz put it best when she said no one wants them to happen. Here’s a primer: In 2011, Democrats and Republicans had a bitter...
View ArticleFact Check: Losing health insurance
What does Ryan mean when he says 20 million Americans will lose their health insurance under Obamacare? He is referring to a recent CBO study that gave several scenarios for what could happen to...
View ArticleFact Check: Biden goes a bit far on birth control
Vice President Biden said the Affordable Care Act would not require religious groups to finance coverage of birth control. Here is his statement: “With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church,...
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Fact Check: Romney’s 12 million jobs
President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University. (AP Photo/Pool-Michael Reynolds) Romney once...
View ArticleFact Check: Pipelines around the globe
Obama claimed that during his administration enough oil and gas pipelines have been added to circle the Earth. But it’s kind of meaningless — and it’s missing some important context. Obama made this...
View ArticleFact Check: Romney misleads on middle class taxes
Romney’s claim that Obama would raise taxes on the middle class by $4,000 has earned him three Pinocchios in the past. The figure is drawn from a very dry report titled “A Simple Measure of the...
View ArticleFact Check: Obama’s $3,600 tax cut
Obama says he has cut taxes by $3,600. But he makes it sound like it is one big tax cut. The $3,600 figure is over four years — $800 in each of 2009 and 2010 due to the Making Work Pay tax credit and...
View ArticleFact Check: China investments
President Obama declared that Mitt Romney was “the last person who is going get tough with China.” He cited Romney investments in Chinese companies some of which were “pioneers” in outsourcing and in...
View ArticleFact Check: Libya attack
What did Obama say in the Rose Garden a day after the attack in Libya? ”No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this nation,” he said. But he did not say “terrorism”—and it took the...
View ArticleFact Check: Pioneers of outsourcing
Obama said that Romney invested in companies that were “pioneers” of outsourcing. Here, Obama is referencing an article in The Washington Post that has been frequently exploited by his campaign. The...
View ArticleFact Check: Romney’s ‘territorial’ tax system
The president said that Romney wants to expand tax breaks for companies that move overseas and essentially enact a policy that says, “If you invest overseas, you don’t have to pay U.S. taxes.” Obama...
View ArticleFact Check: Immigration
Romney suggested that the president couldn’t answer during a Univision interview for a failed 2008 campaign promise to overhaul the immigration system during his first year in office. The Fact Checker...
View ArticleFact Check: Obama on Romney’s 60 Minutes interview
The president referred to a 60 Minutes interview during which Romney supposedly said taxing millionaires at a lower rate than bus drivers would boost the economy. Here’s how the president characterized...
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