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Statement: Says Connie Mack "is protecting Chevron oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests.
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: October 11, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: congress;oil spill
Context: a TV attack ad
Fact-check justification: Nelson’s TV ad hits Mack for "protecting Chevron oil from a multibillion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rain forests." Mack’s act of protection is a yet-to-be-heard congressional resolution listing the Chevron case as one of many reasons to withhold trade preferences with Ecuador. Resolutions are symbolic gestures, so it would take a law for Congress to take real action on Ecuadorian trade practices. The Chevron case is also particularly complicated. Chevron says it did not get a fair trial in Ecuador and should not be held responsible anyway. Still, the resolution seems designed to exert political pressure on the country in Chevron’s favor. We rate Nelson’s  .
Statement: PPP on average probably provided a grant of around $11,000 per employee.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: July 1, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;workers
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Sen. Johnson said the "PPP on average probably provided a grant of around $11,000 per employee." Although the methodology used to calculate this figure is an approximation due to lack of access to detailed tax information, it largely aligns with the $10,200 average the PPP data shows. But both figures assume businesses are applying 100% of the loans toward payroll, which is not always the case. Our definition of  is "the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information." That fits here. window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up" due to the House health care bill.
Speaker: ed schultz
About the speaker: Ed Schultz is the host of the Ed Show on MSNBC.
Date: November 20, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;pundits;taxes
Context: MSNBC's the 'Ed Show'
Fact-check justification: But while making estimates is tricky, it's likely that many more people will choose to pay the individual penalty, most likely pushing the numbers above the 2 percent level Schultz cited. And if we had chosen to include the device tax, the percentages would climb higher still. So we rate his statement .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: The (health care) law does not demand that all of these cancellations go out.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: November 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said the Affordable Care Act doesn’t require insurance companies to send out the cancellation notices that people have been getting. While there’s some element of  to this statement, one of the major thrusts of the law is it sets minimum standards. The law intentionally makes it difficult for companies to avoid these minimums and the industry has responded by moving away from sub-par plans. Pelosi’s statement ignores the factors in the law that push companies in a certain direction. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Will Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park.
Speaker: pete gallego
About the speaker: Pete Gallego, initially elected to the Texas House in 1990, won election to the U.S. House in November 2012. He lost his re-election bid in 2014. In July 2018, he ran in a special election to represent Texas Senate District 19.
Date: April 22, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;congress;corrections and updates;drugs;elections
Context: Pete Gallego campaign press release
Fact-check justification: Gallego said Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park." Gallego accurately recapped key elements of the Secure Our Borders First Act backed by Hurd and other Texas Republicans in the House. The legislation would clear the way for construction of 192 miles of new roads, towers and law enforcement facilities along the border on federal lands in the vast Big Bend region of Texas. But whether these mandated moves entail carving up the treasured national park remains to be seen—or at least, Gallego didn’t prove nor could we confirm that outcome. On balance, we rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE, 6:00 p.m., May 27, 2016: After we published this fact check, the Gallego campaign pointed out that the Hurd-backed bill exempts both private and state-owned land, leaving only federal lands available for construction of roads and other border security measures called for in the legislation. We’ve corrected this fact check to show this exemption; it did not change our rating of this .
Statement: During her first four years in Washington Sen. Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers nearly 90 percent of the time.
Speaker: maggie hassan
About the speaker: New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She formerly served as governor and as a state lawmaker in New Hampshire. 
Date: September 15, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: congress;voting record
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Hassan said Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers "90 percent of the time" during her first four years in Washington. Ayotte earned a 90 percent rating during those years from an organizations the Koch brothers helped to found, Americans for Prosperity. But, the men don’t vote in the U.S. Senate and the organization said the brothers don’t play a direct role in choosing the votes. Further, Hassan only cited Ayotte’s first four years in office, ignoring her most recent grade. We rate the  .
Statement: By releasing only basic tax information, former U.S. Congressman Nathan Deal is "hiding more than he's disclosed" about his business dealing with the state.
Speaker: emil runge
About the speaker: Emil Runge is a campaign spokesman for Roy Barnes, the Democratic Party's nominee for governor.
Date: September 3, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: taxes
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: "[Barnes] has pretty much shown everything," Winkler said. However, much of Barnes' supplemental information involves his rental properties. The CPAs we spoke with said Deal's 2009 Schedule E form would include some more data about his business interests, but the grand totals are already on his 1040 form. Therefore, we believe to say Deal "is hiding more than he disclosed" is a nuanced proclamation. We rate the statement about Deal as .
Statement: Says required state septic inspections would cost septic tank owners $100 to $150 every five years.
Speaker: dennis jones
About the speaker: Dennis Jones has served in the state Senate since 2002. Prior to that, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1978-2000.
Date: January 26, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: environment
Context: a state Senate committee hearing
Fact-check justification: In talking about making changes to a law requiring septic tank inspections once every five years, Sens. Dean and Detert didn't question the need to have properly functioning septic tanks but argued that the inspection itself was unnecessary for many people. Jones countered that the cost of the inspection alone isn't that great, especially when spread out over five years. Jones said an inspection would cost $100 to $150, citing a Department of Health estimate. Spread over five years, that's an investment of as little as $30 a year -- much less than homeowners with a central sewer system pay. But that's not telling the entire story. Experts we talked to said the price of an inspection could cost up to $500 and depends on a number of variables. On top of that, the inspection could result in finding problems that could require repairs at additional cost. That's obviously part of the intent of the bill, but it comes at a cost nevertheless. We think that's enough of difference to rate this  .
Statement: Suggests that an immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a child entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration.
Speaker: citizens for sanity
About the speaker: Citizens for Sanity is a conservative nonprofit whose leaders are associated with the America First Legal Foundation, which was founded by former Trump administration official Stephen Miller.
Date: October 5, 2022
Location: national
Topics: immigration;border security;elections;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Despite the ad’s claims, a study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison found U.S. citizens are twice as likely to be arrested for violent felonies than immigrants in the U.S. illegally.   A Citizens for Sanity ad suggested an immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a child entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration.   Puente has been in the U.S. since at least 2011 and was arrested several times over the years, including in 2019, when he was arrested and then released by Chicago police. He has been jailed in relation to the sexual assault charges since February 2020. We rate this  .
Statement: January 2022 fentanyl seizures show "illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden's open border.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: February 20, 2022
Topics: immigration;border security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet by the RNC claimed that drugs are flowing into the U.S. at an alarming rate because of Biden’s "open border." It cited stats that show 839 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the southern border in January. While that figure is accurate, the tweet leaves out the context that seizures of fentanyl at the southwest border spiked when Trump was president. The DEA said such seizures have risen steadily since 2016. The notion of an "open border" under Biden is . Although there has been a record surge of migrants at the border since Biden took office, the majority of those encountered by border agents are expelled, including by the continued use of a public health order put into place by Trump. We rate this  . Louis Jacobson contributed to this report.
Statement: We have never done business with Donald Trump.
Speaker: patrick murphy
About the speaker: Patrick Murphy won his first seat in 2012 for the U.S. House of Representatives representing District 18 in Florida. Murphy lost a U.S. Senate race against Marco Rubio in 2016. 
Date: October 23, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a TV interview on WFLA
Fact-check justification: Murphy said in an interview, "We have never done business with Donald Trump." Murphy’s family’s construction firm, Coastal Construction, built Trump condo projects in Hollywood and Sunny Isles Beach. The owners of the projects -- not Trump -- hired Coastal as the builder, and then separately the owners reached licensing agreements with Trump. So while Coastal built projects that carried Trump’s name, even boasting about it at least once, they didn’t directly strike a partnership together. But they did work on the same condo projects. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ec3b900e-4eaa-4ad0-8b92-8dcab035d162
Statement: The health care reform bill "is the largest tax increase in U.S. history.
Speaker: joe scarborough
About the speaker: Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, is the host of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC. He is a lawyer with Beggs and Lane, the oldest firm in Florida and a former publisher and editor of "The Florida Sun," a newspaper.
Date: March 24, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a comment on his "Morning Joe'' program on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Blumberg, of the Urban Institute, said both Republicans and Democrats would be wise to get away from the "biggest" jargon. Again, here we're are looking at Scarborough's side of the hyperbole wars. There's ample  that the health care bills result in a net tax increase. But when Scarborough characterized it as "the largest tax increase in U.S. history," that doesn't hold up when you level the playing field and compare several tax increases in recent decades to the GDP at the time. And so we rate his  .
Statement: In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: June 3, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: New Orleans
Fact-check justification: If McCain had made a more general statement about Obama's ideology, he could have been more accurate. But McCain's statement that Obama "has accumulated the most liberal voting record" suggests it is a cumulative rating for all of Obama's time in the Senate. But in fact, it is  for only one rating for one year. Measurements for other years and by other groups show Obama is not the No. 1 liberal — in some cases, far from No. 1. So we find McCain's statement to be .
Statement: Before Leaving, Obama Enacts Rules to Take $3,000 From EVERY American.
Speaker: conservative tribune
About the speaker: The Conservative Tribune is a conservative website.
Date: December 2, 2016
Topics: government regulation;punditfact
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: The Conservative Tribune published a post titled, "Before Leaving, Obama Enacts Rules to Take $3,000 From EVERY American," and other websites offered posts with similar headlines. The figure is based on a calculation from an anti-regulatory group, though we do give the conclusion some credence because the number is drawn from the federal government’s own estimates. However, the headline glosses over several important caveats. The costs were not solely imposed under Obama, and the ones that were on his watch occurred over an eight-year period, rather than just "before leaving" the White House. Finally, contrary to the headline’s implication, Americans will not be charged a $3,000 fee because of action taken in Obama’s final weeks. Rather, they would experience higher consumer costs or lower wages over many years, with a lot of variation from person to person, and going many years into the future. The calculation completely ignores the estimated benefits of these regulations, with a value that balances out about three-quarters of the cost figure cited. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: Over half of the young people" in medical, dental and law schools are women.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: January 26, 2014
Location: national
Topics: education;health care;legal issues;women
Context: an interview with CNN
Fact-check justification: Paul said more than half of the enrollees in medical, dentistry and law schools are female. While women are close to 50 percent of enrollees in all three fields, they’re not a majority in any of them. And in both law and medicine, the trendlines for female enrollment have actually fallen in recent years. We rate Paul’s statement .
Statement: Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer became a federal judge" and "was the person to sign off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 17, 2022
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says, "Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer became a federal judge" and "was the person to sign off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant."  The judge, Reinhart, did not represent Epstein. He represented people who worked for Epstein and who were accused of abetting Epstein’s crimes.  We rate this  .  RELATED: Photo doctored to look like Ghislaine Maxwell was massaging Judge Bruce Reinhart’s feet
Statement: 25 percent of our economy is the financial sector.
Speaker: david gregory
About the speaker: David Gregory is a veteran broadcast journalist who is the host of NBC's long-running Sunday morning public-affairs show Meet the Press.
Date: July 25, 2010
Location: national
Topics: corporations;economy;financial regulation;pundits
Context: an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: CORRECTION: The initial version of this item mistakenly paraphrased Burtless as saying that Gregory may have been thinking of "corporate profits as a share of the economy." The story has been corrected above to say, "financial-sector corporate profits as a share of all corporate profits."    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: In New York City, "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments.
Speaker: alexandria ocasio-cortez
About the speaker: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was elected to New York's 14th Congressional district seat in November 2018.
Date: July 23, 2018
Location: national
Topics: housing
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ocasio-Cortez said that "for every one person experiencing homelessness here, there are about three vacant apartments." The number of homeless people is about 63,000. The number of vacant apartments is harder to judge, but no matter how we jiggered the numbers, the lowest ratio we found was 1-to-2.4. And the high could get close to 1-to-6. There’s a lot push and pull in the underlying statistics, but in the main, Ocasio-Cortez’s math holds up. We rate this  .
Statement: New York state spends more than $8 billion in taxpayer money each year on job-creation programs - more than the combined total of the next three largest states
Speaker: brian kolb
About the speaker: Brian Kolb is a Republican Assemblymember from the Rochester area. He was a 2018 candidate for New York governor, but dropped his bid early in the race.
Date: December 9, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: economy
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Kolb said "New York state spends more than $8 billion in taxpayer money each year on job-creation programs - more than the combined total of the next three largest states." Research suggests Kolb is right on the amount, but  about New York state exceeding the next three states combined. The report Kolb cited also includes local government spending, so the $8 billion cannot be attributed completely to the state. His statement is partially accurate. On balance, we rate it .
Statement: If you were forced to use a Sharpie" to fill out your ballot, "that is voter fraud.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 4, 2020
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed: "If you were forced to use a Sharpie" to fill out your ballot, "that is voter fraud." Some in-person voters complained that election officials gave them Sharpie pens at their polling place and that the ink spoiled and invalidated their ballots. In some cases, Sharpies are actually recommended as the best type of pen to use on ballots, and election officials have taken steps to guard against ink "bleed-through" on ballots. There is no  that elections officials used Sharpies to invalidate ballots. We rate the statement .
Statement: The impeachment inquiry hearings "going on behind closed doors over which Congressman Schiff is presiding—they are consistent with the rules" of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Speaker: andrew napolitano
About the speaker: Andrew Napolitano is a Fox News political commentator and legal analyst.
Date: October 24, 2019
Topics: impeachment;punditfact
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Napolitano said: "I read the House rules. And as frustrating as it may be to have these hearings going on behind closed doors—the (impeachment inquiry) hearings over which Congressman Schiff is presiding—they are consistent with the rules." House rules give House committees wide latitude in how to conduct impeachment inquiries and they allow for witnesses to be questioned with only members of the committees and their staffs present. We rate Napolitano’s statement .
Statement: Says Oregon is "near the top or at the top of the list" when it comes to capital gains tax
Speaker: tobias read
About the speaker: Tobias Read is a member of the Oregon House, representing District 27, which includes parts of Beaverton, southwest Portland and parts of unincorporated Multnomah and Washington counties. He is serving his third term.
Read is a product developer of kids’ footwear for Nike.
Date: March 10, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a legislative hearing
Fact-check justification: Well, Read was right -- we’re among the highest in the nation. If you don’t count Massachusetts’ system, we tie for the No. 1 spot. Even when 2012 rolls around and the rate drops to 9.9 percent, Oregon will still rank as one of the highest -- second only to Hawaii (and, in some cases, Massachusetts). We rate this  . Comment on this item.