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Latest Fact-Checks On John Boehner

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John Boehner
stated on December 1, 2011 in a news conference:
“The Social Security trust fund … is already facing imminent bankruptcy.”
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • January 3, 2012
John Boehner
stated on December 15, 2011 in a news conference:
“We’ve got a personal tax system that’s so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code.”
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • December 12, 2011
John Boehner
stated on November 6, 2011 in an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour:
“Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople.”
False
By Molly Moorhead • November 10, 2011
John Boehner
stated on October 7, 2011 in a news release:
“Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the ‘stimulus.’ “
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • October 13, 2011
John Boehner
stated on September 19, 2011 in a television interview:
“We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.”
True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 26, 2011
John Boehner
stated on July 25, 2011 in a televised speech:
The House passed “cut, cap and balance” with “bipartisan support.”
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2011
John Boehner
stated on July 5, 2011 in a tweet on Twitter:
“POTUS’ economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per job.”
False
By Sabrina Eaton • July 15, 2011
John Boehner
stated on June 24, 2011 in a press conference:
“The American people don’t want us to raise taxes.”
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 29, 2011
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
The Bush tax cuts “created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We’ve lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 in an interview with ABC news:
President Barack Obama “took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
John Boehner
stated on April 5, 2011 in a public statement:
“We’ve introduced a bill that includes $12 billion in cuts over the next week.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2011
John Boehner
stated on March 14, 2011 in video:
Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains “a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight.”  
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • March 31, 2011
John Boehner
stated on February 15, 2011 in a press conference:
“Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011
John Boehner
stated on January 5, 2011 in a speech in the House of Representatives:
“Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.”
True
By Stephen Koff • January 10, 2011
John Boehner
stated on December 1, 2010 in comments to reporters:
“The American people spoke pretty loudly. They said stop all the looming tax hikes….”
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2010
John Boehner
stated on November 5, 2010 in a blog post:
Says the House Rules Committee is the only panel, other than the Intelligence and Ethics committees, not able to telecast proceedings in its main hearing room.
True
By Tom Feran • November 25, 2010
John Boehner
stated on November 10, 2010 in a news conference:
“It’s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker.”
False
By Sabrina Eaton • November 18, 2010
John Boehner
stated on November 3, 2010 in a news conference:
Says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings.  
True
By Sabrina Eaton • November 9, 2010
John Boehner
stated on October 30, 2010 in a Saturday address:
Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill “when the stimulus was rushed into law.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2010
John Boehner
stated on August 24, 2010 in a speech at the City Club of Cleveland:
Under the new health care law, “if a landscaper wants to buy a new lawnmower, or a restaurant needs a new ice-maker, they have to report that to the feds.”
True
By Stephen Koff • August 31, 2010
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