Fiscal cliff deal gets to heart of Obama’s tax promises

Promise: Extend child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes

Update: Variety of child and family tax cuts extended or made permanent in fiscal cliff bill

Promise: Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes

Update: Lower rates are permanent, thanks to fiscal cliff

Promise: Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes

Update: Tax rates rise for incomes over $450,000

Promise: Tax carried interest as ordinary income

Update: Effort to increase taxes on 'carried interest' falls short again

American International Group

Yes, unless you count the 'stealth bailout'

AIG has fully repaid the federal government "plus a profit of more than $22 billion."

Promise: Freeze the 2009 estate tax law

Update: Obama, Republicans split the difference on estate tax rates

Promise: Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch

Update: Congress permanently indexes the AMT for inflation

Promise: Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers

Update: Tax on capital gains, dividends goes up to 20 percent for families earning $450,000 or more

Promise: Phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners

Update: 'Fiscal cliff' bill limits tax breaks for higher-income taxpayers

Terry Russell

The figure for Ohio is actually worse

"Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness."

Paul Ryan

$1 trillion benefits more than just those in poverty

"Over $1 trillion" was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to "give every single poor American a check for $22,000."

Promise: Restructure and streamline USAID

Update: Obama better coordinates foreign aid, but restructuring stalls

Cory Booker

Not too far off

"You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.

Promise: Fully fund debt cancellation for heavily indebted poor countries

Update: Obama funds debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries

Promise: Boehner will fly commercial

Update: No evidence of military travel

Paul Ryan

On target, for public schools

"One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids don’t graduate."

Facebook posts

Ancient numbers, but trend persists.

"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States."

Promise: Better integrate efforts of federal agencies with the military through new Mobile Development Teams

Update: Military-civilian teams have operated in far-flung corners of Afghanistan

Promise: Revise regulations for export of aerospace technology

Update: At last moment, Senate, House approve bill changing regulations

Promise: Improve communications systems for first responders

Update: $7 billion for broadband network on its way, but challenges persist