Debate fact check shows mixed claims on cap and trade
Michele Bachmann accuses Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney of supporting cap and trade. Gingrich defends himself saying he never opposed cap and trade and helped defeat it in the Senate. The piece notes Gingrich did back the idea in 2007 and that cap and trade once had Republican interest before fading amid controversy.
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Romney Obama Medicare clash and health reform edits
The excerpt reviews Medicare spending cuts under past presidents and Romney’s revised No Apology text. It notes Obama’s changes to Medicare, Clinton and Bush era cuts, and Romney’s book edits altering a passage on individual mandates and state level health reform.
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Gingrich Recounts Conservative Health Insurance Mandate
The article notes that Newt Gingrich says conservatives backed a universal health insurance mandate during Hillarycare and later deemed it unconstitutional. It counters his claim he dropped the idea after Clinton's reform failed, citing his 2008 book and later statements endorsing insured purchase or bonds and personal responsibility to help pay for care.
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Romney cites corporate tax rates being world high
Romney argues employers face the world’s highest rates. The FACTS note Japan has the highest rate, while the U S top rate sits at 35 percent but many firms pay far less due to loopholes and breaks less common abroad.
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Ron Paul on TARP and debt burden
The piece contrasts Ron Paul’s claim that TARP dumped debt on Americans with the fact that the $700 billion program funded to rescue banks began under Bush and Congress in 2008 and largely paid back with interest. It notes the Fed’s independence from the Treasury and its yearly profits.
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Arab League decries Gingrich Palestine remark as racist
Arab League official denounces Newt Gingrich as racist and politically opportunistic for calling Palestinians an invented people. He stresses the claim undermines Palestinian statehood and international law, while noting Landau’s contrary reaction in Israel and Regev’s denial of policy alignment.
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