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As Obama heads to Gulf, the facts on the spill

President Barack Obama departs on a trip to visit the Gulf Coast. President Barack Obama departs on a trip to visit the Gulf Coast.

President Barack Obama departs on a trip to visit the Gulf Coast.

Bill Adair
By Bill Adair May 28, 2010

With cable television stations showing live images of oil gushing from a broken well, President Barack Obama is visiting the Gulf Coast today.

We've been checking claims related to the spill, such as Ed Schultz's Pants-on-Fire claim about Sen. Mary Landrieu's contributions from BP, a False claim by Landrieu that Louisiana doesn't get a single penny from offshore revenues and Katrina vanden Heuvel's True claim that energy companies spend 0.25 percent of their revenue on R&D.

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