Bob Corker's file

Bob Corker is a senator from Tennessee.

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In the right range

Bob Corker

"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."

— PolitiFact Global News Service on Friday, February 17th, 2017

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"Kicking and screaming"? Not really

Bob Corker

"The administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put in place (on Iran)."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

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Relying on short-term fixes

Bob Corker

"We haven’t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year."

— PolitiFact Tennessee on Friday, September 28th, 2012

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Little board-dom at TVA

Bob Corker

"We have only one person on the (TVA) board, to my knowledge, who even has any corporate board experience."

— PolitiFact Tennessee on Sunday, August 26th, 2012

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That disparity is real

Bob Corker

A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."

— PolitiFact Tennessee on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012