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Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
The United States has a supply of "more than 100 years of natural gas."
A cap-and-trade plan promoted by Barack Obama would hit hardest "those already struggling to make ends meet."
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
"The public option is not funded with public money. It's funded with private insurance premiums."
"Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state" of Massachusetts.
Women pay 48 percent more for health insurance.
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
Sen. Joe Lieberman's "home state has a public option which covers about 10,000 of its citizens that was introduced by its Republican governor."
Recent stories from Catharine Richert
Fact-checking new claims in the Sarah Palin bookWe examine Sarah Palin's claims on the Reagan recession, cap and trade and the McCain tactics on ACORN.
Are they vaccinating detainees at Gitmo?We examine some of the claims about vaccines being given to detainees at the camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
GOP health bill analysis meets the Truth-O-MeterA Republican rebuttal to the House health care bill includes a number of distortions.
'Obama phones'? No, they've been around for yearsThe latest Internet rumor is that President Obama is giving out free phones to people on welfare.
Health care reform: A summary of recent distortionsA PolitiFact guide to distortions in the health care reform debate
New exaggerations in cap-and-trade battleAn industry group says gas prices would hit $4 a gallon and 2 million jobs could be lost. We find the group is stretching the truth.
Hey SNL! We've rated Obama's promises!Saturday Night Live says President Barack Obama hasn't accomplished anything. The Obameter shows a more nuanced picture.
"Tea party" photo shows huge crowd — at different eventBloggers contend a photo shows a huge crowd for anti-Obama protests. But the photo was taken years ago at another event.
Obama makes the case for health care reformPresident Obama delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress. We check the facts.
Rush claims Obama 'wants to mandate circumcision'We examine the latest claim from the talk show host and find he's ridiculously wrong.
Catharine Richert is a staff writer for PolitiFact. Previously, she covered agricultural policy and the Senate leadership for Congressional Quarterly. In 2008, Catharine was named Agricultural Journalist of the Year by the North American Agricultural Journalists. In the same year, she was one of the National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting fellows, and in 2009, she was was one of three journalists to be given the Milena Jesenská Fellowship, a grant that allowed her to travel to Vienna, Austria, to research and write about the European biofuels industry. Catharine has a bachelors of arts from Oberlin College and is completing her masters in public policy at the University of Minnesota.
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