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FactCheck Mailbag
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 1-7.
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Author Archives: Lori Robertson
Cain’s False Attack on Planned Parenthood
Herman Cain has offered an alternate version of history in claiming that Planned Parenthood’s founder wanted to prevent “black babies from being born.” We find no support for that old claim. Cain also states that the organization built 75 percent of its clinics in black communities, but there’s no evidence …
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Romney Didn’t OK New Benefits for Illegal Immigrants
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is claiming that Mitt Romney “OKd health care for illegal immigrants” by signing Massachusetts’ 2006 health care overhaul law. But the law didn’t give illegal immigrants anything new. It merely continued and renamed a state program that had long allowed low-income, uninsured residents, including those in …
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Tagged health care, illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry
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FactChecking Health Insurance Premiums
Health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans jumped a startling 9 percent from 2010 to 2011, and Republicans have blamed the federal health care law. But they exaggerate. The law — the bulk of which has yet to be implemented — has caused only about a 1 percent …
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Recycled Spin at New Hampshire GOP Debate
At the latest debate, the Republican presidential candidates repeated several claims they’ve made before. The candidates participated in a roundtable-style discussion at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where they reiterated false and misleading lines about the federal health care law, the debt ceiling debate, job creation and more: Former Massachusetts …
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Tagged GOP debate, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry
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Romney’s Health Care Law Killed Jobs?
The Perry campaign has been pushing a questionable claim that the Massachusetts health care law, signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, “killed 18,000 jobs.” But that number was churned out by an economic model used by a conservative think tank, and it’s unknown whether the figure is accurate. At …
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American Future Fund
Republican-leaning group formed by Iowa political figures.
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Patriot Majority USA
A liberal-leaning group founded by a Democratic political strategist and heavily funded by labor unions.
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Texas-Size Recovery
Presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has boasted of significant job growth in his state in the past few years. And for good reason: It’s true. While Texas clearly hasn’t avoided the recession, the state has done well in terms of …
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Santorum’s Bragging Rights
Rick Santorum puffs up his credentials a bit in saying he "defeated three Democratic incumbents." He defeated two incumbents; in two other congressional elections, he was the incumbent. Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and representative, has touted his Democrat-defeating skills a few times recently. In the GOP presidential debate on …
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Howard Dean Overstates Cost of Tax Cuts
Howard Dean falsely claimed that "60 percent of the deficit is due to the Bush tax cuts." Last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that allowing the tax cuts to expire at the end of 2010 would decrease the deficit from $1.3 trillion in 2010 to $1.07 trillion in …
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