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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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2012 Players Guide
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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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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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
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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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged financial disclosure, John McCain, Mitt Romney, tax returns
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Group Blows Fuse With Electric Bill Claim
A conservative group goes too far in TV ads that claim a new EPA regulation on coal power plants will make Ohio’s electric bills “skyrocket.” Utility officials say it’s too soon to determine how big the impact will be. Nationally, projections from the Energy Information Administration show only a slight …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
Tagged American Commitment, coal, energy (39), Environmental Protection Agency, Sherrod Brown
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DCCC Calls Latham Out on TARP
A Democratic robocall in Iowa accuses GOP Rep. Tom Latham of “looking out for himself” by profiting from legislation he actually opposed. The Des Moines Register reports that the call from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee charges Latham with “only looking out for himself, not the middle class,” for having …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Iowa, Tom Latham, Troubled Asset Relief Program
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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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Romney’s Bain Years: New Evidence, Same Conclusion
New reporting cites strong evidence that Mitt Romney wasn’t actively managing Bain Capital while he was running the Olympics, despite what the Obama campaign (and some news reports) would have voters believe. Dan Primack, a senior editor at Fortune Magazine, reports on previously confidential “offering documents” that Bain circulated to …
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Tax Facts: Lowest Rates in 30 Years
Politicians talk about the burden of taxes incessantly. Now comes a rare chance to check the facts. And the fact is that federal tax rates had fallen to the lowest in 30 years when President Barack Obama took office — and fell again in his first year in office. This …
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Obama, Romney Surrogates Spin Jobs Data
A lackluster jobs report for June generated a flurry of false and misleading statements on the Sunday talk shows by surrogates for Obama and Romney: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, falsely claimed U.S. automakers “had a record June … 7,000 auto jobs created.” It’s true …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Bobby Jindal, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, George W. Bush, jobs, Martin O'Malley, Mitt Romney, President Obama
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