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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Author Archives: Eugene Kiely
Gutting Welfare-to-Work?
The Romney campaign says the Obama administration has adopted “a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements.” But FactCheck.org Deputy Director Eugene Kiely tells WCBS radio that the administration’s plan does no such thing. Read more about the president’s welfare changes in our Aug. 9 article, “Does Obama’s …
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Does Obama’s Plan ‘Gut Welfare Reform’?
A Mitt Romney TV ad claims the Obama administration has adopted “a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements.” The plan does neither of those things. Work requirements are not simply being “dropped.” States may now change the requirements — revising, adding or eliminating them — as part …
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Romney’s Impossible Tax Promise
Tax experts — including one who supports Romney’s plan — say the Republican presidential candidate’s promise to cut individual income tax rates without either favoring the wealthy or losing revenue isn’t mathematically possible. That’s the conclusion of the Tax Policy Center in a report the Romney campaign attacked …
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Romney’s Position on Abortion
On WCBS radio, FactCheck.org Deputy Managing Editor Robert Farley talks about an Obama campaign ad that falsely claims Mitt Romney “backed a bill that outlaws all abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.” See “Falsifying Romney’s Abortion Stance, Again” for more information about this TV ad.
Romney’s ‘Racist’ Reference to Palestinian Culture
Mitt Romney says he “did not speak about the Palestinian culture” at a fundraiser in Israel, where his remarks were denounced by a Palestinian leader as “racist.” It’s true that Romney didn’t directly disparage the Palestinian culture, but he did say “culture makes all the difference” when explaining why Israel’s …
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Texas-Size Mudballs in GOP Senate Runoff
A bitter GOP primary contest in Texas for a U.S. Senate seat has come to this: an ad featuring a grieving mother who links one of the candidates to her son’s suicide. A Texas super PAC is airing a TV ad that features a distraught mother who says Ted Cruz, …
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Sununu’s Out-of-this-World Outsourcing Claim
John Sununu claimed President Obama “outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians.” But it was President Bush who set NASA on a path eight years ago to retire the Space Shuttle and rely on the Russians for space travel. “[Bush] Administration policy is to retire …
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