All Half-True statements involving Barack Obama
"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration."
Under the House Republican budget, "if these cuts were to be spread out evenly … the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each."
"(GM and Chrysler) repaid their loans."
The U.S. has a "record number of oil rigs operating right now – more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined."
"For the first time in 13 years, our dependence on foreign oil is below 50 percent."
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker."
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
"We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will."
The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Says Texas wildfires are linked to climate change.
"A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be paying higher tax rates than the guy who’s making $50 million a year. And that’s how it’s working right now."
The United States "won every major battle" of the Vietnam War. "Every single one."
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.
"Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan."
"In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each."
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