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Statement: An overwhelming majority of Americans support passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces.
Speaker: organizing for america
About the speaker: Organizing for American was created from Barack Obama's campaign organization after the election of 2008. It is an advocacy group affiliated with the Democratic National Committee.
Date: December 6, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;education;families;military
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Forty percent said they'd vote against, We set aside the First Focus poll (in which 70 percent favored the act) and the FAIR poll (in which 54 percent opposed acting on it now) as unreliable. That leaves the Rasmussen poll, for which we have scant methodological information (52 percent of those voters favored the act), the poll taken for America's Voices (66 percent in favor) and the fresh Gallup poll ( 54 percent in favor of a key aspect of the act). "Overwhelming" public support? That's questionable. But polling consistently shows a majority of Americans favor giving undocumented immigrant children a way to gain legal residency.
Statement: Limberbutt McCubbins (a five-year-old cat) is a candidate" in the 2016 presidential election.
Speaker: limberbutt mccubbins
About the speaker: Limberbutt McCubbins is a five-year-old cat from Kentucky running for president in 2016.
Date: July 9, 2015
Location: national
Topics: animals;corrections and updates;elections
Context: comments on his website
Fact-check justification: McCubbins, a five-year-old cat, said, "Limberbutt McCubbins is a candidate" in the 2016 presidential election. Yes, this is the first time we're fact-checking a  made by a cat. (Though we have fact-checked a terrier who supported Mitt Romney in 2008.) Limberbutt’s campaign manager has filed official paperwork, but the FEC doesn’t deem him formally a candidate, because he hasn’t spent or received $5,000. (This is also the case for some human candidates.) Experts told us it’s very unlikely that he’ll appear on any ballots as a candidate, and it’s even more unlikely that his candidacy will stand in a court of law. We rate Limberbutt’s  .
Statement: Says ABC 7 reported the Santa Clarita high school shooting "3 weeks in advance.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 15, 2019
Location: national
Topics: fake news
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: All reporting about that shooting began Nov. 14, not earlier. This appears to be another example of a so-called " flag" theory fueled through social media that often follows mass shootings. Such theories seek to promote the notion that these mass horrors never happened and are the invention of a media conspiracy. They have no basis in . We rate the post !
Statement: Says "every school will be negatively impacted" if Education Stability Fund is not tapped.
Speaker: dave hunt
About the speaker: Dave Hunt is the Oregon House Democratic leader, representing Clackamas County's District 40.
Date: December 23, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: education;state budget
Context: an e-mail
Fact-check justification: So, back to the statement, would every school be negatively impacted without this cash? Well, each and every school budget would take a hit. Hunt had the analysis to prove his point. We rate this  . Comment on this item.
Statement: Dan Seals has been running for office "since before there were, like, iPods.
Speaker: robert dold
About the speaker: Robert Dold is a Republican congressman from Illinois’ 10th district, having won election in 2010 to succeed current Sen. Mark Kirk in that position.
Date: October 26, 2010
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: All cultural references are intended to be humorous and casual." Having waded through so much muck while reviewing this year's campaign commercials, we're all for light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek. And as you have probably picked up, we love this ad. But sometimes the -O-Meter has to exercise tough love. So, as much as we love the pinniped, the ad got it  about the iPod, so we rate it, like,  .
Statement: Says "our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.
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 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: deficit
Context: Illinois
Fact-check justification: Barack Obama said the deficit has fallen at the fastest rate in 60 years. While economists vary on how to best measure that decline, the president used an acceptable approach and his numbers are accurate. There are no statistical tricks in play. Our experts warned against reading too much into Obama’s . While Obama did not spend much time one way or the other on the significance of the decline in the deficit, he didn’t mention ongoing concerns over the national debt. We rate the statement .
Statement: The CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 12, 2020
Topics: health care;public health;coronavirus
Context: a post on the internet
Fact-check justification: Claims on the internet said "the CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention." The CDC does have the power to isolate people with certain infectious diseases and quarantine those who had contact with an infected person. But this  is  or  about many of the details. Most quarantine decisions will be up to states and localities, rather than the CDC. People can’t be quarantined for just having a fever; they have to be shown to have been exposed to a specific set of diseases. Most quarantines are done voluntarily, not by force of the state. And vaccination is not a ticket out of quarantine. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy has "sided with the GOP on key votes twice as often as he sided with Democrats.
Speaker: brook hines
About the speaker: Brook Hines is a marketing consultant for progressive political campaigns.
Date: April 6, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: congress;voting record
Context: an online op-ed column
Fact-check justification: Hines said Murphy has "sided with the GOP on key votes twice as often as he sided with Democrats." That’s  by looking at one small subset of data gleaned through one progressive website that compared Murphy with a small group of liberals. Murphy does break ranks relatively often in a partisan Congress, but other outlets show Murphy sides with his own party, the Democrats, more often than not in notable votes. We rate the statement .
Statement: A Republican bill in Michigan "would make it a crime for election officials … to share information about how to vote by mail and where to find a ballot drop box.
Speaker: jocelyn benson
About the speaker: Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, currently serves as Michigan's Secretary of State.
Date: May 20, 2021
Location: michigan
Topics: elections
Context: a campaign fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Benson’s campaign claimed that a GOP-backed bill would make it a crime for election officials to "share information about how to vote by mail and where to find a ballot drop box." Benson’s  is partially accurate. The bill, as it’s phrased now, would not broadly prohibit election officials from sharing such information, but election officials say that as a practical matter, it would bar them from many of the methods they currently use to help voters, and that the language of the bill would leave them exposed to criminal charges for routine communications with voters. We rate it .
Statement: Says NASA spent more than $165 million over 10 years to develop a pen that "writes in zero gravity, upside down" and in extreme temperatures while the "Russians used a pencil instead.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 14, 2019
Topics: congress;fake news;space;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An old myth that NASA and Congress spent over "$165 million" to develop the space pen while the Russians simply used pencils has recently resurfaced on the internet. Initially, both space programs used pencils. Both eventually started to use Fisher’s Space Pen, which was developed and funded with private money, not government money.   We rate this story .
Statement: Says Obama "called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: May 31, 2016
Location: national
Topics: supreme court
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Fact-check justification: McConnell said Obama has called his last two Supreme Court appointments "moderate." The president didn’t use that word, but he did use language that characterizes them as liked by both sides. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f9fcd97f-26c7-4121-8f9d-e58f3c78d3d2
Statement: Says a photo shows the "SAME EXACT PEOPLE" at "two different beaches" in Los Angeles County and Jacksonville, Fla.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 19, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: News aggregation apps like News Break have seen an increase in downloads amid the coronavirus pandemic. It’s possible the same glitch that erroneously attached a photo of Murphy to NBC News’ story about Los Angeles also attached the Jacksonville Beach photo at some point.   Either way, the photo from Jacksonville Beach is a real one by Getty. We saw no  that it was repurposed from media coverage on the West Coast or vice versa. We rate the Facebook post .
Statement: Any Floridian who has ever requested an absentee ballot henceforth gets one automatically.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: February 6, 2014
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: a "Washington Post" column
Fact-check justification: Will’s  that "any Floridian who has ever requested an absentee ballot henceforth gets one automatically" is not accurate. A Florida voter who requested an absentee ballot would get one automatically through the end of the calendar year of the second general election -- not "henceforth." Will used strong language to describe why Sink would have the edge, saying people get mail-in ballots in perpetuity in Florida. But that's not the way it works.  We rate the  .
Statement: Says Republican leaders "are working hard to cover up election corruption in Wisconsin.
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: June 25, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections;legal issues;party support;wisconsin
Context: Statement
Fact-check justification: Trump claimed that Wisconsin Republican leaders "are working hard to cover up election corruption in Wisconsin." That’s . If anything, Republican leaders have taken great criticism for the continued efforts to dig into the results of an election that has already seen a recount and numerous legal challenges. Republicans have gone so far as to say they will use taxpayer money to pay a former state Supreme Court justice to oversee an effort led by retired police officers, also to be paid by taxpayers. Critics may say that effort is a  exercise. But our focus here is on Trump, and his  Republican leaders have failed him and are doing nothing to examine the election results. That’s plainly . .
Statement: Says Donald Trump wrote in his book, "Being an atheist gives me an edge in every deal. Christians are too moral for business.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 15, 2019
Topics: fake news;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that in his book "The Art of the Deal," Trump said "being an atheist give me an edge in every deal. Christians are too moral for business." Those words could not be found anywhere in the business book and appear to be fabricated. This faux quote is !
Statement: Displaying the progress pride flag between two American flags during a White House pride event was "in breach of US Flag Code.
Speaker: roger marshall
About the speaker: Roger Marshall is a U.S. Senator from Kansas.
Date: June 11, 2023
Topics: lgbtq
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Marshall claimed that displaying the progress pride flag between two American flags at a White House pride event was a "breach of US Flag Code."  U.S. flag code provides average American civilians guidance for proper flag etiquette.  Marshall appeared to base his  on a portion of flag code that says the American flag "should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags" when flags are "grouped and displayed from staffs."  The flags in question weren’t flown from staffs, and, above the three-flag display, another American flag was flying from a staff. We rate this  . RELATED: The new colors in the progress pride flag represent trans people, not pedophiles RELATED: Bloggers say West violated federal law by diving with American flag RELATED: No, the black and white flag for police solidarity does not violate flag code
Statement: Third grade reading scores in the USA help correctional institutions predict how many beds they'll need in the future.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 14, 2022
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post touted the  that correctional institutions research third-grade reading scores to help them determine how many beds will be needed in the future.   The  is years-old and . Experts and reports have shown that there is no  to support it. Private prisons use inmate projections from state governments, not third-grade reading scores to plan for the future. We rate this  !
Statement: Joe Biden's open border" means that there are "more Democrat voters pouring into this country.
Speaker: j.d. vance
About the speaker: J.D. Vance won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 2022. He has also worked as an investor, commentator, and bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy. 
Date: April 5, 2022
Location: national
Topics: immigration;ohio;elections
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, and proven incidents of noncitizens casting ballots are rare. Even migrants who cross the border now and go through the process of gaining citizenship won’t be able to vote for over a decade or longer.   We rate this statement .   RELATED : No  for viral  that ‘22 million illegal aliens’ are ‘voting illegally’ RELATED : All of our fact-checks in the Ohio Senate race RELATED : The race for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat: A guide
Statement: ObamaCare enrollment lie: Obama counts an enrollee as a web user putting a plan in 'their online shopping carts.'
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: April 18, 2014
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said that the administration lies about enrollment figures because it counts people when all they have done is put a plan "in their online shopping carts." We've probably all put something in an online shopping cart, thought about it for a couple minutes, decided not to buy it and left it sitting there. If that same scenario occurs on healthcare.gov, does the White House consider a person enrolled? No. For a person to be considered enrolled, they must have submitted their application for health insurance. That information is transmitted to the federal government and the private insurance company. In a literal sense, that’s more than just popping something into an online shopping cart a la Amazon.  Trump also is guilty of oversimplifying a highly regulated private industry. While some insurance companies accept online payments and give Obamacare enrollees the option to pay immediately, many do not. In the Virginia-Maryland market for example, most companies mail bills to the new customers who come through the government marketplaces. That means customers don’t even have the option of paying straight away. Also, while customers may not have paid, most states require a grace period of 30 or 31 days where insurers are required to pay claims.  So maybe they don’t intend to pay and will eventually lose their coverage. But for now, they are treated as if they were enrolled. And they did a lot more than just load up an online shopping cart. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: In "reality," there have "been no problems whatsoever" with the Texas voter ID law.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: November 4, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: an Associated Press news story
Fact-check justification: Abbott said there were "no problems whatsoever" with the voter ID law leading up to the 2013 Texas elections. As Speaker Wright and some fellow Texans could attest, none is not correct. News stories reveal various if rare experiences that could be construed as problems, such as voters having to scramble to get the proper ID. There also was a surge in provisional (largely uncounted) ballots, though we did not determine whether the ID law was key to that. This  has an element of  but overlooks the overriding reality that there were some problems. Mark the statement .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted: "People can't really be convicted on such flimsy circumstantial evidence as 'having a similar gait' or 'owning the identical shoes' or 'being in DC and not having any alibi for that time' can they?! I don't recognize this America.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: October 27, 2021
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;fake news
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Responding to the story, Greene has maintained she had no involvement in protest planning.   There have been no credible reports or trending Twitter responses about the fabricated tweet, and no such post appears on Greene’s Twitter timeline .   The message also doesn’t show up in the PolitWoops database , which keeps track of politicians' deleted tweets. Greene’s spokesperson, Nick Dyer, confirmed to PolitiFact that the tweet is a ", doctored image. "  We rate it !
Statement: Says that as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney "condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people.
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: August 14, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;economy;energy
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: This even included new rules for mercury reductions -- the same substance from coal plants that now is prompting closures in Ohio. The debate over coal involves calculations of costs, the abundance or scarcity of natural resources, health and environmental risks, and attitudes about government regulation. It is not our role to say Romney was right or  at one time. But with additional information from emissions data, interviews and the public record of his governorship,  the Obama campaign  about Romney’s coal position of nine years ago is nearly as clear as a haze-free day. On the -O-Meter, it rates .
Statement: Sen. Mark Kelly "voted to legalize abortion up until the moment of birth.
Speaker: blake masters
About the speaker: Blake Masters is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona. Until 2022, Blake Masters was Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, the investment firm of billionaire Peter Thiel.
Date: July 22, 2022
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care;women;arizona
Context: Arizona
Fact-check justification: Masters said that Kelly voted to "legalize abortion up until the moment of birth." Kelly voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would have prohibited states from banning abortion of a viable fetus when the life and health of the woman are at risk. It also would have prevented the criminalization of abortions. Abortion in the last weeks of pregnancy are exceedingly rare. Abortion opponents we reached cited no example where abortions ocurred so late without a clear medical reason. Also, state civil liability laws — in place to ensure medical providers give patients the best treatment possible — already permit abortions in certain medical circumstances. The bill Kelly supported did not change that. We rate this  . RELATED: Fact-checking Pence’s  on Democrats and abortion ‘up to the moment of birth’ RELATED: Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth? RELATED: Anti-abortion group  how states regulate late-term abortions