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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Twisting Health Care Taxes
Republicans are twisting the facts on taxes in the Affordable Care Act, grossly overstating the impact on families or lower-income earners. In what has become a Republican talking point, several GOP lawmakers have wrongly claimed that a Congressional Budget Office report said that 75 percent of the federal health care …
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Spotlight On: Burton ‘Bud’ Gotshall
Burton “Bud” Gotshall knew the Republican primary race in his Florida congressional district was going to get ugly. The proof arrived in his mailbox this week. Gotshall received a campaign mailer from veteran Rep. John Mica, who is running against freshman Rep. Sandy Adams because of congressional redistricting. Mica has …
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Florida Primary Flier Frames Republican
In a primary battle between two House Republicans, a Florida congressman claims in a campaign mailer that his opponent was someone President Barack Obama “counted on” to “approve” stimulus spending. Not really. The mailer’s target, Sandy Adams, is a freshman congresswoman who arrived in Washington nearly two years after the …
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Tagged John Mica, Sandy Adams, stimulus
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Romney and the Tax Return Precedent
Mitt Romney says he is following the “precedent” set by John McCain in releasing just two years of tax returns. That’s accurate. But McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee, bucked the trend of other recent presidential candidates. In more than three decades, no other nominees for either party have released fewer …
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Tagged financial disclosure, John McCain, Mitt Romney, tax returns
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of July 10-16
This week, readers sent us both positive and negative reviews of the website. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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Spotlight On: Jim Watson
Jim Watson was immediately skeptical of American Commitment’s attack ad, which he saw on Facebook. The ad’s narrator claimed Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, voted to increase electricity costs while displaying the text, “Ohio: Electric Bills Will Skyrocket.” “Like all political ads, the extreme language (skyrocket) and the improbable …
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