Statements we say are Mostly True
Says he and Mitt Romney "always said that we agree with the 2014 deadline" for leaving Afghanistan.
Says President Barack Obama "gives students the right to repay (federal) loans as a clear, fixed, low percentage of their income for up to 20 years."
"I've cut taxes for ... middle-class families, small businesses."
"In the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs."
Women "receive only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns."
"Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans."
There has been "$5 trillion in debt added over the last four years."
Says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan "want to turn Medicare into a voucher system."
Mitt Romney is proposing a tax plan "that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year."
"One out of every two kids who are graduating college right now can't find a job."
"Gov. Romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top."
"Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. That's 270 people a day and 87 dead."
The Supreme Court said the individual mandate "is a tax. So it's a tax."
The DREAM Act "was written by members of both parties. When it came up for a vote a year and a half ago, Republicans in Congress blocked it. The bill hadn’t changed. ... The only thing that had changed was politics."
"Vagina. Because apparently, saying that word in the Michigan State House of Representatives can get you a two-day ban from speaking on the floor."
Says Obama broke his promise to help homeowners facing foreclosure.
Says Mitt Romney is wrong to claim that spending under Obama has "accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history," because it's actually risen "slower than at any time in nearly 60 years."
After they bought GST Steel, "Mitt Romney and his partners loaded it with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy."
There are "49 different federal job training programs that report to eight agencies."
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