By CALVIN WOODWARD and TOM RAUM 

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions.

It will only be paid for if a committee he can’t control does his bidding, if Congress puts that into law and if leaders in the future - the ones who will feel the fiscal pinch of his proposals - don’t roll it back.

A look at some of Obama’s claims and how they compare with the facts:

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