Claim: A meme showing a mug shot of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz suggests that the congressman has had “seven DUIs” and is responsible for the “suspicious” death of his college roommate. 
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Matt Gaetz
text: would not support changing "one damn comma," though he indicated that he would listen to both sides' testimony during the hearings. Following the conclusion of the hearings, he authored legislation that would allow defendants who successfully used a "stand your ground" defense during their trial "to apply for a 'certificate of eligibility' to expunge information related to 'stand your ground' from their criminal records." When his subcommittee was considering legislation that would "keep mug shots of people who are charged with crimes off the Internet until they are convicted," Gaetz brought up his 2008 arrest for driving under the influence,

title: Matt Gaetz
text: member of the Florida State Senate from 2006 to 2016 and served as Senate President from 2012 to 2014. Gaetz's grandfather, Jerry Gaetz, was the mayor of Rugby, North Dakota and a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota at the 1964 North Dakota Republican Party state convention, where he died of a heart attack while his son watched television coverage of the event. In 2008, Gaetz was arrested for a DUI as he was driving back from the Swamp, a nightclub on Okaloosa Island, Florida. While he was arrested and refused to take a breathalyzer test, "he didn't have

title: Matt Gaetz
text: between the congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Julian Assange in 2017. In April 2018, Gaetz received backlash for his association with controversial political consultant Roger Stone. This friendship drew scrutiny after Stone made comments about the recent death of First Lady Barbara Bush. In an appearance on the conspiratorial site "InfoWars", Stone called Bush a "mean-spirited, vindictive, drunk." Prior to the incident, Gaetz referred to Stone as "the brightest political mind in America" and posted a selfie with him on his personal Twitter account. Gaetz is the son of Florida politician Don Gaetz, who represented parts of Northwest Florida as a

title: Matt Gaetz
text: and 2014, Gaetz received 16 speeding tickets in Florida. Matt Gaetz Matthew Louis Gaetz II ( "gates"; born May 7, 1982) is the U.S. Representative for since 2017, where he serves on the Budget, Armed Services, and Judiciary Committees. He is a member of the Republican Party. Prior to serving in Congress he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 4th District, which includes most of Okaloosa County, from 2010 to 2016. He has also worked as an attorney in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Gaetz was born in Hollywood, Florida, to Victoria "Vicky" (Quertermous) and politician

title: Matt Gaetz
text: arguing that his mistakes made him who he is and that publicly available mug shots "could be a problem for those unaccustomed to publicity." In 2013, Gaetz announced that in 2016 he would run for the 1st district state senate seat then held by his father, State Senator Don Gaetz. His father was due to be term-limited out of the Senate in 2016. On March 21, 2016, Gaetz withdrew from the state race to run for the U.S. House seat representing Florida's 1st congressional district, since the incumbent, Jeff Miller, had announced on March 10 he would not seek reelection.

title: 2017 Congressional baseball shooting
text: "fair" on June 21, though he was readmitted to intensive care on July 5 due to concerns of infection. Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist, was shot multiple times in the chest and arm, injuring his lungs, sternum and ribs. He is a former baseball player and former legislative assistant for Congressmen Tim Walberg and Dave Camp, both Republicans from Michigan. Mika was taken to the George Washington University Hospital where he underwent surgery for his injuries. He was in critical condition immediately following surgery. The day after the shooting, his condition was upgraded from critical to serious. On June

title: Matt Gaetz
text: tweet: "To all who will kneel during the anthem today – just remember how José Fernández risked his life just for the chance to stand for it". In Congress, Gaetz is a member of the Climate Solutions Caucus, which seeks to find bipartisan, regulatory solutions to global warming. Previously, Gaetz was listed online as a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership from at least January to June 2017. Gaetz has been called "one of the most pro-gun members to have ever served in the Florida Legislature" by former NRA president Marion Hammer. Gaetz is a "Lifetime Member" of

title: Legislative violence
text: the chamber's ceremonial mace and brandished it over his head, but was restrained by Jim Prior, and after his departure legislative action was suspended for the day. Federalist Congressman Roger Griswold of Connecticut attacked Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon with a hickory walking stick in the chambers of the United States House of Representatives. Griswold struck Lyon repeatedly about the head, shoulders and arms, while Lyon attempted to shield himself from the blows. Lyon then turned and ran to the fireplace, took up a pair of metal tongs, and having armed himself thus returned to the engagement. Griswold then tripped Lyon

title: Matt Gaetz
text: which opt not to dedicate local law enforcement resources to prosecuting people solely for being undocumented. Upon announcing his run for Congress, Gaetz declared that illegal immigrants are "sucking us dry." In January 2018 Gaetz defended an alleged controversial comment on Haiti by Trump, saying that the country was in a "disgusting" condition. In October 2018, Gaetz falsely claimed that George Soros paid for a caravan of migrants from Central America. In its July–August 2017 issue, "Foreign Policy" reported that Devin Murphy, a Gaetz legislative aide, had crowdsourced the amended contents of a resolution that Gaetz brought to the House

title: Matt Gaetz
text: concealed carry reciprocity. In November 2017 Gaetz introduced a congressional resolution calling for Robert Mueller to recuse himself as Special Counsel due to conflicts of interest. In the resolution Gaetz also asked for a Special Counsel investigation into the handling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy by the FBI, undue interference of Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the investigation, and the acquisition of Uranium One by the Russian state corporation Rosatom during Mueller's time as FBI director. Gaetz stated that he did not trust him to lead the investigation because of Mueller's alleged involvement in approval of the Uranium One

title: Trent Kelly
text: Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight, and Regulations. On June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, scheduled for the following day. Also shot were David Bailey and Crystal Griner, a Capitol Police officer assigned to protect Scalise; Zack Barth, a congressional aide; and Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist. A ten-minute shootout ensued between the shooter—James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, a left-wing activist—and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police. Media reports state Hodgkinson began firing from the fence

title: Matt Gaetz
text: up the meeting." He also joined forces with State Senator Greg Evers to repeal legislation that requires that 10% of gasoline sold in Florida contain ethanol, saying, "This is the bill that removes and repeals Florida's burdensome ethanol mandate." Following the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin, Will Weatherford, the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, announced that he would order hearings on the "stand-your-ground" law that was raised as an issue during the trial. Gaetz, the Chairman of the Criminal Justice Subcommittee, was tasked with reviewing the legislation, and announced before hearings that he

title: Matt Gaetz
text: of President Trump on cable news" and a "proud Trump protege". On February 23, 2017, Gaetz, worried about protesters disrupting him from being able to speak at his town hall in Pace, Florida, prepared what his staffers called "the 'non-verbal town hall,' reminiscent of a scene from the movie "Love Actually". Gaetz has printed out part of a speech that gets some of his message across onto giant boards that he will hold up if he is unable to get a word in." One of the heavy signs prepared for Gaetz to hold up during the anticipated loud moments was

title: Chris Lee (New York politician)
text: what we need to look at is ensuring there are sufficient background checks to make sure that those who are unstable don’t have access to weapons of that nature." On February 9, 2011, Lee was found to have been soliciting at least one woman on Craigslist. Claiming to be a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist but using his real name, he used a Google Gmail account to send a woman a shirtless photo taken with his BlackBerry phone. The woman searched his name, discovered he was a married congressman, and turned over her email correspondence to the New York news blog Gawker.

title: Matt Gaetz
text: Matt Gaetz Matthew Louis Gaetz II ( "gates"; born May 7, 1982) is the U.S. Representative for since 2017, where he serves on the Budget, Armed Services, and Judiciary Committees. He is a member of the Republican Party. Prior to serving in Congress he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 4th District, which includes most of Okaloosa County, from 2010 to 2016. He has also worked as an attorney in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Gaetz was born in Hollywood, Florida, to Victoria "Vicky" (Quertermous) and politician Don Gaetz, and grew up in the Fort Walton

title: Don Gaetz
text: the opportunity even to discuss the issue of open carry and vote for or against the bill." Gaetz has received a 100% rating from the National Rifle Association. Don Gaetz Donald J. "Don" Gaetz (born January 22, 1948) is a Republican politician who served as a member of the Florida State Senate from 2006 to 2016, representing parts of Northwest Florida. He was Senate President from 2012 to 2014. His son is Congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz was born in Rugby, North Dakota, to Jerry Gaetz, a former mayor of the city and a state legislator. Jerry Gaetz was a candidate

title: Matt Gaetz
text: Judiciary Committee which he had revised with content derived from /r/The Donald, "a pro-Trump subreddit notorious for both its embrace of conspiracy theories and its gleeful offensiveness." One of the allegations was that James Comey had leaked investigative matters to New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt beginning when Schmidt would have been around 10 years old. Gaetz confirmed that the aide worked for him in an email to "Wired" magazine, adding, "It is the responsibility of our staff to gather as much information as possible when researching a subject and provide that information for consideration. We pride ourselves on

title: Matt Gaetz
text: the NRA, and accepted $1,000 USD in campaign donations from the NRA's Political Victory Fund in 2015–2016. Gaetz has an A+ rating from the NRA—its highest rating. When Gaetz served in the Florida House of Representatives, he led an effort to allow Floridians with concealed-weapons permits to carry those weapons openly in public, which was ultimately unsuccessful. In lobbying for the passage of the bill, Gaetz claimed that the open carry of weapons was a right "granted not by government but by God." Gaetz supports Florida's stand-your-ground law and supported legislation that strengthened it against legal challenges. Gaetz also supports

title: 1984 New York City Subway shooting
text: shooter and calling him a hero. Harvard Professor of Government James Q. Wilson explained the broad sentiment by saying, "It may simply indicate that there are no more liberals on the crime and law-and-order issue in New York City, because they've all been mugged." Some believed the version of the incident as told by the four men – that they were merely panhandling with neither intimidation nor threats of violence. This view was later discredited when Darrell Cabey, who had been paralyzed by Goetz's gunshot twelve years earlier, admitted in a newspaper interview with columnist Jimmy Breslin that his friends

title: Daniel Hernández Jr.
text: of Arizona in the fall. In 2011, while a student at the University of Arizona, Hernandez started an internship with the office of Gabby Giffords. During the first week of his internship, Hernandez was helping out at a "Congress on your Corner" event, which ended in an attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords. After Giffords was shot in the head, Hernandez immediately thought that the head injury might cause her to choke on her own blood, so he held her up and stanched the bleeding with his hand until employees from inside the nearby grocery store brought him clean smocks. In