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Number could change, but correct
"30,000 Arizonans may have no choice" on Affordable Care Act coverage.
— PolitiFact Arizona on Friday, June 10th, 2016
From Russia with love
"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."
— PolitiFact Arizona on Friday, January 29th, 2016
Obama publicly wanted the full withrawal
Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 12th, 2014
Some big names were for it
"(Obama's) entire national security team, including his secretary of state, said we want to arm and train and equip (Syrian rebel forces), and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 11th, 2014
Meet the McCain
Says he holds the record for "most appearances on 'Meet the Press'."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
All five were rated as "high" risks by U.S. officials
The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Projects were tucked in massive appropriations bills
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 16th, 2010
Yes, but Obama voted for overall package
As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Based on cost to taxpayers, he's right
A new presidential helicopter "is now going to cost as much as Air Force One."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, February 27th, 2009
Different statements, different numbers
Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Closer to 40 percent than 50 percent
Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 20th, 2008
Obama's been critical of NAFTA
"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The idea is old, but the plan is McCain's
A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 9th, 2008
McCain right on amount of Obama's pork requests
"He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Bear study funding actually undersold
"You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana."
Their employees have donated
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 19th, 2008
McCain's got Obama over a pork barrel
"Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
He butted heads with Big Pharma
John McCain "took on the drug industry."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
McCain's bear story is no bull
"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 25th, 2008
McCain hits the mark on Georgian history, more or less
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008