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Statement: The state budget has increased almost $800 million a year in each of the last two years.
Speaker: jeff amason
About the speaker: attorney and Libertarian candidate for House District 21
Date: September 1, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: state budget
Context: interview on The Monica Perez Show, WSB
Fact-check justification: Helping to drive up the recent state budgets were increases in enrollment in public schools, Medicaid and the state’s health insurance program for children, as well as pension costs, according to state documents. Current spending levels are 26.7 percent above 2005 levels, not adjusted for inflation, an OPB report shows. In summary, Amason said the state budget increased nearly $800 million a year in each of the last two years. He was very close, if not conservative in his assessment.. We rate his statement .
Statement: In Australia, "All joggers must wear a helmet.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 16, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: According to The New York Times , "a wowser is someone who looks to crack down on enjoyment." The jogging sign was the group’s first public street art, the Times said. Wowser Nation co-founder Francis Merson told The Guardian that the group’s work was intended to alert people that "their lives were becoming more and more restricted." Some people weren’t in on the joke, including this Facebook post about the  helmet-jogging law. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Texas has one state inspector for every 4,500 oil and gas wells.
Speaker: jeff weems
About the speaker: Jeff Weems was the Democratic party's 2010 nominee for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission. He practices law in Houston representing operating companies, energy service companies, royalty and land owners, according to his campaign website.
Date: June 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: However, we recognize the budget constraints facing the state. Therefore the RRC prioritizes its inspections, uses outriders (inspectors who work from home) located near the oil fields they inspect to maximize efficiency, and has not included inspector positions in the hiring freeze that is currently at the agency." All in all? Weems accurately recaps the number of oil wells per inspector in Texas. His statement is .
Statement: If the Stamp Farm wind turbine is built, the "health risk of 'flicker' impact created by shadows of blades of turbines poses real and significant health risks, particularly seizures.
Speaker: laurence ehrhardt
About the speaker: Laurence W. Ehrhardt was a State Representative from District 32 from 2005 through 2012.
Date: January 3, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;energy
Context: The Providence Journal
Fact-check justification: The "real and significant" health risks that they say turbine flicker poses are undocumented. If they exist, they are probably not very significant. To say that seizures are the best example is . We wish there were a more environmentally-friendly solution, but the -O-Meter calls for some carbon-based combustion. !
Statement: We all know China created COVID.
Speaker: dave mccormick
About the speaker: Dave McCormick, the former chief executive of the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund and a former U.S. Treasury Department official, is a candidate for the 2022 Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania.
Date: January 31, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: china;ad watch;coronavirus
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: McCormick claimed: "We all know China created COVID." There is no clear  that China "created" the virus. Scientists have not reached a consensus on how the virus originated. Researchers believe it could have originated naturally or from an accident in a lab. We rate the  .
Statement: The Medicare drug program "resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: May 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare;retirement
Context: South Carolina
Fact-check justification: And the reason it was, is because the design was right." We found that Santorum is right that the program came in under budget, but he picked the high end of the estimate for how much the savings were. We also found that there is a good bit of disagreement on why the program came in under budget. Some credit the design, but design is just one of several factors that may have kept the program under budget, and there's not much clarity on how much weight each factor should get. Overall, we rate Santorum's statement .
Statement: Obama regime planned the influx of illegal alien children at the border.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: June 24, 2014
Topics: immigration;children;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show"
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said the Obama administration planned the rapid influx of children attempting to get into the country. Not that the administration planned for the influx, but actually planned it. Limbaugh did not return our requests for comment, but his  was a request for contract services from early 2014 that projected that about 65,000 children would need to be moved to temporary shelters. Limbaugh viewed that estimate with suspicion. In reality, the rising number of unaccompanied children arriving at the border was well established by the end of 2013. Catholic relief workers and a past Homeland Security commissioner said all the data pointed to a continued increase into 2014. Many of the factors behind the surge of children lie outside the control of the administration. No expert we reached gave any credence to the idea that the administration planned this crisis on the border. We rate the  .
Statement: Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012.
Speaker: texas state employees union
About the speaker: The Texas State Employees Union says it has more than 12,000 members who work in state government, including higher education. It is part of the Communication Workers of America, a national telecommunications workers union.
Date: April 1, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: economy;state budget;workers
Context: an organization web page
Fact-check justification: The employees union says most state employees did not receive a raise from 2009 to 2012. The last across-the-board raises took effect in 2008. Otherwise, lawmakers gave most employees a one-time, one-month bonus in 2009 and legislated consecutive raises for more than 34,000 other workers in 2009 and 2010. But a bonus is not a raise. Meantime, it appears that no more than 14 percent of workers across most state agencies got a merit raise any of the three years. Even if one assumes, perhaps improbably, that a completely different set of workers got each year’s merit raises, less than half of agency workers would have gotten those pay bumps. We rate this  as .
Statement: If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have.
Speaker: john edwards
About the speaker: John Edwards is a former U.S. senator from North Carolina who was John Kerry's running mate in 2004. A personal injury attorney, Edwards was born in South Carolina in 1953 and now lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. He graduated from North Carolina State University and earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School. He is married to Elizabeth Edwards, who has been diagnosed with cancer. They have three children; a fourth was killed in an auto accident. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: January 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: poverty
Context: Myrtle Beach, S.C
Fact-check justification: Net worth is measured as the total value of a household's financial assets — such as bank accounts, property and vehicles — minus the household's financial liabilities. Though the measurement is an oft-used indicator of financial health, it doesn't always tell the whole story because the amount of income generated by a household's assets is a key factor in maintaining a desired standard of living. Still, because Edwards correctly cites Census data showing a tenfold disparity between black and white net worth, we judge his statement . UPDATE: This corrects our first version, which mistakenly used the term family income when we meant net worth.
Statement: Says Joe Biden executive orders caused price increases of 50 cents in gas and 10% in food.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 7, 2021
Topics: food;gas prices;government regulation;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that Biden executive orders caused price increases of 50 cents per gallon in gas and 10% in food in the less than two months since he took office. The average price of gas is about 34 cents per gallon higher since Biden took office, not 50 cents. Experts say Biden’s orders on the Keystone pipeline and oil and gas leasing might affect future gas prices, but have no effect on current prices. Grocery store prices are 3.5% higher than they were one year ago and have risen less than 1% in 2021. That’s far short of 10%. We rate the post .
Statement: Poverty in WV is more than 5% higher than the national average.
Speaker: kendra fershee
About the speaker: Kendra Fershee is a 2018 Democratic candidate for a U.S. House seat in West Virginia. She is a professor of law at West Virginia University.
Date: September 19, 2018
Location: west virginia
Topics: poverty
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Fershee said, "Poverty in WV is more than 5% higher than the national average." Only a slip-up in her mathematical terminology keeps this from being fully accurate. The poverty rate in West Virginia was 5.7 percentage points higher than the national rate, not more than 5 percent higher. We rate the statement .
Statement: Gov. Maggie Hassan's budget proposal "raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million.
Speaker: americans for prosperity
About the speaker: Americans for Prosperity is a conservative group advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal and regulatory restraint.
Date: August 11, 2015
Location: new hampshire
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: TV ad
Fact-check justification: The state chapter of Americans for Prosperity says that Gov. Maggie Hassan’s budget proposal "raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million." Hassan indeed proposes changes that would result in more tax money being paid by businesses in the state. Yes, some small businesses would receive a tax break under the governor’s compromise plan, but the other changes still apply. And looking at a list of tax and fee changes the governor put together in February -- including the tweaks to the tax code -- easily adds up to $100 million. Overall, we find the statement to be accurate, but it could use additional clarification and documentation. We rate it .
Statement: I co-sponsored the Rebuild America Jobs Act" for transportation and infrastructure.
Speaker: jeff merkley
About the speaker: Jeff Merkley is a Democratic senator from Oregon. He was elected in 2008. Merkley won his first campaign for the Oregon Legislature as a representative in 1998. He was elected Democratic leader in 2003 and speaker of the House in 2007. He studied international relations at Stanford University and earned a graduate degree in public policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Date: July 9, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an economic issues statement
Fact-check justification: His campaign staff admitted the assertion was a  and sent along revised language characterizing Merkley not as a co-sponsor of the act, but as a "vocal supporter." Based on the original submission, however, we rate the senator’s  . Comments? Questions? Click over to our entry on OregonLive.com and let us know what you think.
Statement: Hank Johnson voted against legislation to help "first responders, teachers, vets and troops.
Speaker: liz carter
About the speaker: Liz Carter is a Republican running for Georgia's 4th Congressional District.
Date: August 5, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: voting record
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Carter still said Johnson must answer why he voted against legislation that would help veterans and troops overseas. We're sure Carter and Johnson will debate that as the Nov. 2 election nears. As for her statement, the version of the resolution that Johnson voted against did not include funding for domestic first responders or teachers. It did include money for military veterans and operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. We rate Carter's attack against Johnson as .
Statement: The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: July 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;polls and public opinion;taxes
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: In that poll, 43 percent of Republicans said cut existing programs, while 44 percent favored including tax increases. That result was within the margin of error. In conclusion, we don't find that "poll after poll" showed a "clear majority" of Republicans supporting tax increases. We found one recent poll that supported Obama's statement and two other polls that showed a much more evenly divided picture. We rate it .
Statement: The media has "a lower approval rate than Congress.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: February 16, 2017
Location: national
Topics: congress;polls and public opinion
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said he thought that the media had lower favorability ratings than Congress. But Congress actually ranks below the news media, according to surveys from three different research groups spanning several years. In two polls, mistrust in the media broke 40 percent, which is hardly anything to brag about. But in those studies, mistrust in Congress was over 50 percent. Trump had a point that the media has a trust issue, but he got the ranking  in terms of Congress. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f5ffb7a0-03e5-4e96-961c-886767c0397d
Statement: Job growth in the United States is now at the "fastest pace in this country's history.
Speaker: david simas
About the speaker: David Simas is the assistant to President Barack Obama and director of the office of political strategy and outreach
Date: March 18, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview on CNN's "New Day"
Fact-check justification: Simas said job growth in the United States is now at the "fastest pace in this country's history." He would have been right if he’d stuck to the duration of the recovery: At 60 months and counting, it’s the longest post-war recovery, though earlier recoveries would have been longer had brief blips not intruded. However, looking at how Simas phrased it on CNN, he’s : The current recovery actually ranks second-to-last among post-World War II recoveries when judged by the rate of growth in jobs. We rate the  .
Statement: The fiscal cliff deal "ultimately raised taxes.
Speaker: tom price
About the speaker: Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.
Date: January 2, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: The fiscal cliff deal raises taxes compared with prior policy, but it lowered them compared with prior law. Or, in other words, if Congress kept the 2012 law, our taxes would be higher than they are now. But if our taxes stayed at 2012 levels, they’d be lower.    This means Price’s statement that the fiscal cliff deal "ultimately raised taxes" is . It is accurate but leaves out important details.
Statement: Georgia and Kansas Capitol buildings have been stormed by protesters.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 6, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: According to the Kansas Capitol Police, the group caused no problems. "There was no breach," an NBC News affiliate in Topeka reported . We rate this  .   This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: I've always supported protections for our DREAMers.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: January 19, 2019
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "I’ve always supported protections for our DREAMers." In 2010, Scott said, "I'm against the Dream Act," and called the legislation "amnesty." In 2013, he criticized Obama’s deferred action program for Dreamers, saying that Obama bypassed Congress. He also vetoed a bill to give Dreamers driver’s licenses. Scott has softened his position in recent years, and politicians are allowed to change. But his rewrite of his Dreamers record doesn't match what really happened. We rate his statement .
Statement: It's highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940.
Speaker: bob goodlatte
About the speaker: Bob Goodlatte, a Republican, was first elected to Congress in 1993. He represents Virginia's 6th District, centered in Roanoke.
He is currently the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the vice chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.
Goodlatte earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, in 1977. His undergraduate degree in government was earned at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1974.
Date: February 15, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: history;supreme court;voting record
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Goodlatte said: "It’s highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940." Clearly, such confirmations are rare in modern times; it’s happened only once during the past 18 presidential elections. That doesn’t mean that the Senate has a long tradition of refusing to consider high court nominations when the White House is up for grabs. What it shows  is that Supreme Court justices avoid retiring during presidential election years. There’s an obvious flaw, however, in Goodlatte’s contention that 1940 was the last time a justice was confirmed during a presidential election year. Kennedy was unanimously confirmed in February 1988. So on the whole, we rate Goodlatte’s statement .
Statement: Biden's banking nominee demands all 'private bank accounts' be eliminated
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 14, 2021
Topics: financial regulation
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  that Omarova, a Biden administration nominee for comptroller of the currency, is demanding that private bank accounts be eliminated.  During a January 2021 conference, Omarova said that she wrote a paper exploring what would happen if the Federal Reserve system offered deposit accounts, and private banks did not. She called her paper a thought experiment. She did not demand that this happen. The conference occurred more than six months before she was nominated.  The headline and story use words like "demand," and "vowed," to give the impression that she said that she would eliminate private bank accounts in her position as comptroller of the currency. She has not done that.  The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper.
Speaker: tom tancredo
About the speaker: Tom Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In 2010, Tancredo ran for governor of Colorado as a member of the Constitution Party and placed second to Democrat and then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Date: November 20, 2007
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: He continued to say the same thing even after we explained it." We took this information to the Tancredo campaign, and press secretary Alan Moore disagreed with our findings. "We stand by our statement," Moore said. He added, "How do you define regular?" We'll skip the linguistics discussion and rule Tancredo's statement .
Statement: My state of Florida is now the third-largest state. We have surpassed New York in population.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: April 8, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: census;states
Context: remarks at a committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Nelson said, "My state of Florida is now the third-largest state. We have surpassed New York in population." Based on official information from the U.S. Census, as of July 2013, New York was in third place in population with about 100,000 more residents than Florida. Demographers have predicted that Florida will soon overtake New York and it’s possible that it has already happened, but demographers said we won’t know for certain until the census releases updated information later this year. We rate politicians’ claims based on information available at the time, so at this point we can’t declare for certain that Florida has inched ahead of New York. We rate this  .