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Category:Fact Check federal
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Pages in category "Fact Check federal"
The following 150 pages are in this category, out of 150 total.
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- Fact check/Alan Grayson, amendments and legislative effectiveness
- Fact check/Are Bernie Sanders' chances of winning the Democratic nomination slipping away
- Fact check/Are government estimates of health insurance coverage based on survey data
- Fact check/Are half of all Fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants or their children
- Fact check/Are people who have stopped looking for work counted in the unemployment rate
- Fact check/Are ratings for MSNBC's Morning Joe program high or low
- Fact check/Are teen pregnancy prevention programs facing a crackdown
- Fact check/Are the claims made by Ruben Kihuen’s campaign about Congressman Cresent Hardy’s record on immigration issues accurate
- Fact check/Are the presidential debates rigged in favor of major party candidates
- Fact check/Are there places where a single insurer is offering coverage through ACA exchanges
- Fact check/Are you allowed to set up a super PAC if you are the president
- Fact check/Can GOP convention rules be changed so that a candidate with only a plurality of delegates wins the nomination
- Fact check/Can the United States change the Iran nuclear deal
- Fact check/Cary Kennedy on Colorado teacher salaries
- Fact check/China, India, and the Paris Climate Agreement
- Fact check/Chris Christie "supported Common Core"
- Fact check/Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules on class action lawsuits, arbitration agreements
- Fact check/Could 36,000 people die if the ACA is partially repealed
- Fact check/Did 14.5 million gain health insurance through Medicaid expansion
- Fact check/Did 52,000 Canadians leave Canada for healthcare in 2014
- Fact check/Did 60 percent of Andrew Puzder's company's restaurants violate the Fair Labor Standards Act
- Fact check/Did 96% of U.S. Sen. Richard Burr's contributions come from big donors
- Fact check/Did a state ethics commission rule that Katie McGinty violated the law as Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection
- Fact check/Did Dean Heller change his policy positions in order to accommodate Donald Trump
- Fact check/Did Deborah Ross oppose legislation to create a sex offender registry while she led the North Carolina ACLU
- Fact check/Did Evan Bayh cash in after voting for Wall Street bailouts
- Fact check/Did Evan Jenkins support Hillary Clinton and cap-and-trade
- Fact check/Did federal debt fall over President Trump's first month in office
- Fact check/Did Frank Guinta switch his position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Fact check/Did Gary Johnson issue 750 vetoes as governor of New Mexico
- Fact check/Did GOP Rep. Steve Knight vote to allow federal contractors “to discriminate against the LGBT community”
- Fact check/Did Harry Reid make it easier to confirm President Trump's Cabinet and Supreme Court nominees
- Fact check/Did healthcare premiums for families double under George W. Bush
- Fact check/Did JFK campaign on tax cuts
- Fact check/Did John Bel Edwards vote to give "convicts" taxpayer funded pension plans
- Fact check/Did John Faso vote against equal pay four times in the New York State Assembly
- Fact check/Did Maryland Sen. Jamie Raskin vote against banning juvenile life without parole
- Fact check/Did Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke equivocate on selling or transferring public lands
- Fact check/Did Nevada Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson vote to raise taxes after promising not to
- Fact check/Did New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan vote to support sanctuary cities
- Fact check/Did New York Assemblyman Keith Wright raise a “staggering amount of real estate money” for his congressional race
- Fact check/Did President Trump make it harder to save for retirement and for first-time homebuyers to buy a home
- Fact check/Did President Trump's executive order include "a clause making it a crime to help an undocumented immigrant"
- Fact check/Did Rep. Mo Brooks refuse to endorse Donald Trump
- Fact check/Did Rob Quist advocate for a national gun registry
- Fact check/Did Sen. Dean Heller change his position on funding for Planned Parenthood
- Fact check/Did Sen. Kelly Ayotte vote six times to defund Planned Parenthood
- Fact check/Did Sen. Richard Burr vote against funding for the national sex offender registry
- Fact check/Did Sen. Richard Burr vote to cut Social Security
- Fact check/Did the EPA change its conclusion on the impacts of fracking
- Fact check/Did the media call the Democratic primary too early
- Fact check/Did the Supreme Court strike down major parts of the Voting Rights Act
- Fact check/Did Trump cut flood-proofing regulations
- Fact check/Did U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark sponsor a bill to include pets in restraining orders
- Fact check/Did U.S. Senate candidate Evan Bayh break with his party to vote against raising electric bills
- Fact check/Did U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold break “his promise to reject… massive out-of-state contributions”
- Fact check/Did U.S. Senator Mark Kirk vote against fixing military equipment
- Fact check/Did violent crime increase 10 percent in California under Attorney General Kamala Harris
- Fact check/Do "30 million Americans remain uninsured"
- Fact check/Do 67 percent of Americans think the EPA should stay the same or be strengthened
- Fact check/Do 97 percent of journalist donations go to Democrats
- Fact check/Do ACA premium hikes affect a "relatively small number of Americans"
- Fact check/Do all the Republican presidential candidates support the repeal of Dodd-Frank
- Fact check/Do congressional incumbents rarely face challengers and almost always win despite low approval ratings
- Fact check/Do the Government Accountability Office's annual recommendations "go ignored" every year
- Fact check/Do “most states” allow voters to register for presidential primaries “as late as the day of” the primary
- Fact check/Does Betsy DeVos owe Ohio taxpayers $5 million
- Fact check/Does child care cost the typical family a third of its income
- Fact check/Does congressional candidate Tom Nelson (D-WI) have a record of tax hikes and spending increases
- Fact check/Does Merrick Garland have the most federal judicial experience of any U.S. Supreme Court nominee in history
- Fact check/Does Mike Gallagher support a plan to reduce Social Security benefits to the poverty line
- Fact check/Does research show that federal student aid increases tuition
- Fact check/Does the AHCA make being a woman a pre-existing condition
- Fact check/Does U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland have "a disastrous record on the second amendment"
- Fact check/Does violating House ethics rules constitute breaking the law
- Fact check/Donald Trump on NFL ratings
- Fact check/Elizabeth Warren on Social Security in Trump's budget
- Fact check/Fact-checking Ben Sasse's floor speech in the Senate on November 3, 2015
- Fact check/Fact-checking David Vitter and John Bel Edwards on Syrian refugees in Louisiana
- Fact check/Fact-checking John Bel Edwards on David Vitter's legislative record
- Fact check/Fundraising in the Arizona Senate election
- Fact check/Getting the numbers right on Syrian refugees in Illinois' Senate race
- Fact check/Has Chuck Schumer ever held a job in the private sector
- Fact check/Has New Hampshire Congressional candidate Carol Shea-Porter consistently opposed Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Fact check/Has Republican Sen. John Boozman enacted only five bills in his congressional career
- Fact check/Has Ryan Zinke advocated for state control of energy development on federal lands
- Fact check/Has Ryan Zinke changed his position on climate change
- Fact check/Has Ryan Zinke repeatedly voted to block new national parks
- Fact check/Has Scott Pruitt opposed all laws providing minimal environmental protection
- Fact check/Has Sen. John McCain voted for tax hikes, bailouts, "massive new spending," and increases to the debt ceiling
- Fact check/Has U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers voted with "Obama ever since she's been" in Congress
- Fact check/Has U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) voted for every trade deal while he's been in Congress
- Fact check/Have 4.7 million insurance policies been canceled as a result of the Affordable Care Act
- Fact check/Have declines in state funding driven up tuition at public universities
- Fact check/Have more than 92 percent of Rep. Rob Bishop's campaign contributions come from out-of-state PACs and energy companies
- Fact check/Have most ACA exchange customers chosen bronze or silver plans
- Fact check/Have presidents before Donald Trump appointed family members to White House positions
- Fact check/Have the rules governing the 2016 Republican National Convention been established
- Fact check/How many GOP senators voted to repeal Obamacare
- Fact check/How many miles of fence stand along the U.S.-Mexico border
- Fact check/How rare are open seats in the U.S. House of Representatives
- Fact check/Is Bob Gray right about immigrant skill levels
- Fact check/Is Citizens United responsible for outside money in North Carolina’s 2014 Senate race
- Fact check/Is Donald Trump right that the debt has doubled under President Barack Obama
- Fact check/Is Donald Trump's claim that Hillary Clinton said no Americans were killed in Benghazi true
- Fact check/Is either candidate in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District correct about who most workers earning minimum wage are
- Fact check/Is everyone living in poverty covered by Medicaid in Wisconsin
- Fact check/Is hard money a larger share of political spending than outside money
- Fact check/Is Hillary Clinton right about guns "that end up committing crimes in New York" coming from Vermont
- Fact check/Is it too late for an independent presidential candidate to get on the ballot for the November election
- Fact check/Is it true that most people don't care whether Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump releases his tax returns
- Fact check/Is Jon Ossoff a small business owner
- Fact check/Is Maryland Sen. Jamie Raskin the only MD-08 candidate who's leading on environmental issues
- Fact check/Is NASA's budget less than 2 percent of the federal budget
- Fact check/Is Sen. Elizabeth Warren right about stagnating wages and rising costs
- Fact check/Is the term administrative state used only by conservatives
- Fact check/Is the United States the only advanced economy that doesn’t mandate paid sick or maternity leave
- Fact check/Is U.S. Senate candidate Patty Judge a "vocal supporter of CAFOs" whose political base is "big money industrial agriculture interests"
- Fact check/Jimmy Gomez on paid family leave in California
- Fact check/Joe Sestak on Pat Toomey and Syrian refugees
- Fact check/New Jersey's "tax burden"
- Fact check/Nutritional value of cow's milk and plant-based beverages
- Fact check/On legislative salaries in the Louisiana governor's race
- Fact check/One Nation vs. Manchin on Immigration
- Fact check/Public opinion on abortion
- Fact check/Public opinion on the two-party system
- Fact check/Ralph Northam on Virginia pipelines
- Fact check/Rep. Mia Love on human trafficking
- Fact check/Rob Portman on Ted Strickland's economic record
- Fact check/Sean Spicer on Trump White House visitor logs
- Fact check/Tammy Duckworth on Mark Kirk, mass incarceration and race
- Fact check/The EPA's "measurable effects"
- Fact check/The opioid crisis and national emergency declarations
- Fact check/Up and down: federal deficits from 2007 to 2015
- Fact check/Was economic growth sluggish during the Obama presidency
- Fact check/Was Hurricane Matthew a climate-related event
- Fact check/Was Russ Feingold the lone U.S. Senate opponent of the USA Patriot Act
- Fact check/Was Scott Garrett the only member of the U.S. House New Jersey delegation to vote against the Zadroga Act in 2010
- Fact check/Was Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey NeverTrump
- Fact check/Was the 1994 crime bill a primary driver of mass incarceration of African American men
- Fact check/Was Van Jones correct in calling the 2016 election a "white-lash"
- Fact check/When was the "motion to vacate the chair" rule last used in Congress
- Fact check/Who has the most union endorsements in the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate
- Fact check/Will three Supreme Court justices be past the court's average retirement age on election day
- Fact check/Would funding for the military, border security, and veterans’ services have ceased without the 2016 omnibus bill
- Fact check/Would it be "totally illegal" for delegates pledged to Donald Trump to vote for another candidate at the Republican National Convention
- Fact check/Would it be almost unprecedented for Donald Trump to terminate the Iran nuclear deal
- Fact check/Would it be “unprecedented in recent history” for a vacancy on the Supreme Court to last a year
- Fact check/Would the Clean Power Plan mitigate climate change
