Statements we say are Mostly False
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."
"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.
Mitt Romney’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were "described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’"
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
"In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
"You look at defense … we're spending more than the rest of the world combined."
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"
"The Fed created $15 trillion in the bailout process" and $5 trillion went overseas.
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