claim: "in the history of the united states, 168 presidential nominees have been filibustered, 82 blocked under president obama, 86 blocked under all the other presidents."
author: harry reid
evidence_1: nov 26, 2013 ... “in the history of the united states, 168 presidential nominees have been  filibustered: 82 blocked under president obama; 86 blocked under all other  presidents”. — tweet by senate majority leader harry reid (d-nev.), nov. 21,  2013. this tweet by the senate majority leader echoed a line in his floor ...
evidence_2: apr 9, 2017 ... in 2013, then-senate majority leader harry reid was much closer to being  correct when he said, "in the history of the united states, 168 presidential  nominees have been filibustered, 82 blocked under president obama, 86  blocked under all the other presidents." his figure included non-judicial  nominees.
evidence_3: nov 22, 2013 ... ever get the feeling obama's been treated a little differently? ... they did it 86  times to every other president combined. ... the senate democrats just  announced their plans to go forward with the so-called "nuclear option," which  means they're changing the filibuster rules to allow judicial appointments to be ...
evidence_4: nov 21, 2013 ... "in the history of the united states, 168 presidential nominees have been  filibustered, 82 blocked under president obama, 86 blocked under all the other  presidents." we found reid mischaracterized the filibusters -- he was counting  cloture votes, not individual nominees. after politifact asked about the ...
evidence_5: american presidentspresidential nomineessocial justicethe republicanliberal  politicsthe goprepublican partypoliticianspolitical views. in the history of the  united states, 168 presidential nominees have been filibustered. 82 have been  blocked under president obama. 86 have been blocked under all the other ...