All Mostly True statements involving Barack Obama
"Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history."
"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations."
"The Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they are continually waived."
"A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."
Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."
"At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."
"For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online."
"The Washington Times ... pointed out that we had succeeded where previous administrations had failed" on spending cuts.
"In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
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