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Statement: Paul Ryan's budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits.
Speaker: bobby scott
About the speaker: Bobby Scott, D-3rd, has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. The district is comprised of all of Charles City and Surry counties and Petersburg and Portsmouth and portions of Henrico and Prince George counties and Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond. Scott has seats on the Judiciary and Education and Labor committees.
Scott previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1979-83 and in the state Senate in 1983-93. He was a member of the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. He was a lawyer in a private practice from 1973-91.
Scott was born in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1969 and a law degree from Boston College in 1973.
Date: March 25, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: congress;federal budget;health care;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Scott said the House budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits." There’s no doubt the GOP plan would eliminate the Affordable Care Act. But the tax part of Scott’s  has a bit of complexity. The House budget is based on revenue projections that assume Obamacare taxes will continue. What Scott didn’t say is that the plan calls for replacing the Obamacare levies with revenues that would come from reducing income tax breaks. We can’t entirely fault Scott for the omission, however, because the House budget doesn’t identify any tax breaks that would be pared -- it merely assigns that crucial work to a committee. So Scott’s statement is accurate, but needs some clarification. We rate it .
Statement: When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: August 27, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;ethics;message machine 2010;state budget;taxes
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Grayson's ad is unintentionally ironic in that Webster's "stairway to nowhere" actually now is a stairway to nowhere, as it's bolted to the ground of a seldom-used closet. The stairway leads to a concrete ceiling, which now serves as the floor of an office above. Those changes were made by Marco Rubio in 2006. The stairs haven't been used since then. But that's not how Webster left it. When he became speaker in 1996, Webster did what most every speaker has done in recent times -- he spent taxpayer money on House renovations. The amount has varied wildly over the years depending on the size of the renovation. Among the $100,000 or so Webster spent, he allocated just under $32,000 for a plain spiral staircase to internally link the Speaker's Office with the House Republican Offices below. While Grayson's ad is correct on the reported dollar amount and the type of staircase, we think it's slightly  for two reasons. First, the imagery displayed suggests an ornate staircase when the staircase is far from ornate and only a spiral staircase by necessity. Second, it fails to provide the context that most every speaker spends taxpayer dollars on renovations, and several spent more than Webster. We rate the  . Now cue the Led Zeppelin ... ( Update Sept. 1 : We reached out to the Webster campaign before publishing this story via phone and e-mail, but did not hear back. After publication, Webster spokesman Brian Graham said in an e-mail that the staircase actually cost less than published reports. The original construction contract was for $28,126. The state paid even less, $22,242, Graham said). ( Update Sept. 3: We noticed that the Grayson ad has been removed from his You Tube web page. We're not sure why).
Statement: The Obama administration "borrowed more than $10 trillion, right? And yet, we picked up $5.2 trillion just in the stock market. ... Maybe in a sense we're reducing debt.
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: October 11, 2017
Location: national
Topics: debt
Context: an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Fact-check justification: Trump said the Obama administration "borrowed more than $10 trillion, right? And yet, we picked up $5.2 trillion just in the stock market. ... Maybe in a sense we’re reducing debt." Trump seems to be signaling that the stock market gains can somehow be applied to paying down the debt. That’s not the case -- gains from a bull market accrue to stockholders, and the government doesn’t get its fractional cut until the assets are sold and taxed, if they ever are. So, whatever tax revenues from the stock-market run-up eventually flow to the government over the course of many years won’t make a dent in the debt, economists say. We rate the statement .
Statement: Charlie Crist's "personal approval numbers are plummeting.
Speaker: steven schale
About the speaker: Steven Schale is a Democratic strategist who ran President Barack Obama's Florida campaign in 2008. He is principal manager of Schale Strategies, LLC and maintains a blog, www.stevenschale.com.
Date: August 31, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: elections;pundits
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Bottom line, polls are numbers and depending on what poll you're looking at and what time period you're examining, you can reach different but defendable positions. Rasmussen had Crist's job approval rating at nearly 70 percent in July, the second highest it's ever been. Quinnipiac polled Crist's job approval rating down 5 percentage points since 2008. The polling group found that Crist's favorable rating, meanwhile, dropped a total of 20 points from 2008 to 2009, before bouncing back. Schale said Crist's personal approval numbers are "plummeting." Pollster.com's tracking of several polls starting in October 2008 shows that Crist's favorable rating has declined among voters from around 70 percent, to between 50 and 55 percent. But Crist's position in voters' minds hasn't changed all that much for most of 2010, and even has rebounded a little in some polls, according to the same figures. His job approval ratings, meanwhile, haven't changed all that much in nearly two years. And pollsters say his numbers remain solid. We rate Schale's  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton's "campaign hasn't been clear about when she wiped her server of her work emails.
Speaker: brianna keilar
About the speaker: Brianna Keilar is CNN's Senior Political Correspondent.
Date: July 12, 2015
Topics: elections;transparency;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Keilar said, "The (Clinton) campaign hasn’t been clear about when she wiped her server of her work emails." The Clinton campaign told us the work-related emails were deleted off the server "shortly after" she turned them over to the State Department on Dec. 5, 2014, but did not provide a date. The paper trail so far gives us a window of sometime between December 2014 and March 2015, but no more.   That’s better than nothing, but Keilar is largely correct when she says the picture isn’t clear. We rate her  .
Statement: In the last year, Wisconsin ranked third in Midwest job growth.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: October 8, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating In a new TV ad, Walker says "the " is that "in the last year, Wisconsin ranked third in midwest job growth." That’s old news. The updated ranking is fourth, closer to middle of the pack, something the governor knew before his ad aired. We rate the  . (Read our tipsheet on five things to watch for when you hear jobs claims)
Statement: Voting for "any Democrat" gets you "socialism ... undefended open borders ... immediate tax increases ... 100 percent government-run health care ...
Speaker: future45
About the speaker: Future45 is a conservative political action committee. 
Date: October 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;elections;medicare;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Future 45 said voting for "any Democrat" gets you "socialism ... undefended open borders ... immediate tax increases ... 100% government run health care ..." The Democratic Party is a tent that houses a wide variety of views. Some candidates are self-proclaimed socialists, but even their platforms don’t fit the narrow definition of traditional socialism. Some, not all, support expansions of Medicare, but that would not qualify as 100 percent government-run health care. These and other policies may raise taxes, but immediate tax increases are unlikely under a Republican president. The tax increases on the table  target the rich and corporations. And finally, Congressional Democratic leaders have called for a restructuring of ICE, but no candidate has called for undefended open borders. The ad cherry-picks extreme positions and suggests all Democrats support them. That is  and . We rate this statement .
Statement: Sen. Marco Rubio "refuses to accept the basic science" on climate change and is "a climate change denier.
Speaker: organizing for action
About the speaker: Organizing for Action is a group that supports President Barack Obama and his agenda.
Date: August 9, 2013
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change;science
Context: Florida
Fact-check justification: Organizing for Action said that Rubio "refuses to accept the basic science" on climate change and is "a climate change denier." Rubio’s 2010 comments to the Tampa Tribune -- when he said, "I don't think there's the scientific  to justify it" -- represent the clearest  in support of the group’s charge. In that comment, Rubio does sound like he is denying the existence of science that supports the climate change hypothesis. Since then -- including on four separate occasions this year -- Rubio has expressed opposition to climate change policies while speaking more cautiously about the science that proves climate change is happening. On one of those occasions in February, he even conceded that he’s seen "reasonable debate" about the question. But in none of those instances did Rubio walk back his 2010 remarks, even though he had several opportunities to do so. We rate the  .
Statement: Want a healthy, happy baby? Skip the Well Baby visits. They… make your baby sick.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 30, 2022
Location: national
Topics: children;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: While there is a risk a child could become sick following a visit to a pediatrician’s office,  linking these two is not conclusive. A study Margulis cited as  did indicate a small increase in the probability of a child under 6 getting sick with a flu-like illness two weeks after their well-child visit. But even the authors of that study emphasized the importance of well-child visits and said the data undergirded the need for strong infection control precautions — not an end to well-child visits. Regular check-ups for healthy babies and children are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, the Mayo Clinic and more as a means to monitor growth and development and assist with parent education and communication. We rate this  .
Statement: Ministros de Defensa de OTAN deciden invadir a RUSIA para prevenir ataque de Putin".
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 17, 2022
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia;politifact en español
Context: una publicación en Facebook
Fact-check justification: La alianza tampoco ha aplicado el Artículo 5, ya que Ucrania no hace parte de la OTAN.   Calificamos la publicación como Falsa. Lea más informes en español aquí.
Statement: Federal law requires residents to participate in the U.S. government's American Community Survey.
Speaker: u.s. census bureau
About the speaker: The U.S. Census Bureau oversees the decennial government census and related research including the annual American Community Survey.
Date: January 7, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: census;economy;housing;population
Context: a mailing to Austin's Bob Cole
Fact-check justification: The bureau said federal law requires U.S. residents to answer the ACS. Federal law mandates as much, but the bureau also doesn't seek to penalize individuals who fail to participate. The reality appears to be that recipients can refuse to comply. We rate the bureau's warning, which lacks this additional information, as .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: An annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class.
Speaker: sal albanese
About the speaker: Sal Albanese is a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City in 2013. A former New York City council member, Albanese later served as managing director of Mesirow Financial.
Date: March 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a joint mayoral candidates' appearance on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Albanese said that an annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class." In reality, the upper boundary of "middle class" in Manhattan is probably between $130,000 and $180,000, which is well short of the level Albanese cited (a level he later backed away from). We rate the  .
Statement: Says Obama "exempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the (health care) law.
Speaker: jim jordan
About the speaker: Jim Jordan is a member of the House of Representative from Ohio's 4th Congressional District. A conservative Republican, Jordan is chair of the Republican Study Committee.
Date: August 8, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: health care
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Although Jordan says the  Affordable Care Act ‘s wording would require the federal government to discontinue the copay for Congress members and employees when they buy insurance through the exchange, the language of the law does not address that question. Authoritative sources like the Congressional Research Service and a Senate report on the health care bill long ago said the Affordable Care Act could allow continuing the employer copay for Congress members and their staffers. So while Congress and their staffs will be treated differently than some others getting health care coverage through the insurance exchanges, Jordan’s  goes too far when he describes the Office of Personnel Management’s ruling on co-pays as one that "exempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the law." Nothing in the law says that congressional employees should be required to pay the full freight for their health insurance. On the -O-Meter, Jordan’s  rates as .
Statement: Says Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech to Hamas leaders thanking them for uniting Israel.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 11, 2021
Topics: israel;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: On May 13, 2021, he wrote a new blog post titled "I created a monster" that addresses how his made-up speech started to spread without context.   "I wrote a work of viral -news, completely unintentionally," he said. "I wasn’t specifically intending for my openly fictional prose to get copypasta ’d and circulated as if it were real. … It seems that every time Israel goes into yet another round of fighting with Hamas, my monster, seemingly of its own volition, creaks open the top of its coffin, lurches out into cyberspace, and storms around the world, now in multiple languages." We rate claims that Netanyahu made the speech that appears on this blog .
Statement: The government has released their initial plans to force a vaccine on everyone.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 16, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  The strategy also acknowledges that some people are wary of vaccines.   "Strategic communications and public messaging are critical to ensure maximum acceptance of vaccines," it says, "requiring a saturation of messaging across the national media. "  An information campaign is planned to "ensure maximum vaccine acceptance," the strategy says. Not force.   We rate this blog post .
Statement: The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: May 22, 2020
Topics: candidate biography;race and ethnicity
Context: an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run." The NAACP does not endorse candidates. Biden’s campaign said he was referring to past ratings by the NAACP when Biden was a U.S. senator. The civil rights organization gave him a grade of 90% or higher five times, though on three occasions in the 1990s he earned a lower score. Those grades show that Biden’s record generally aligned with the NAACP’s priorities for most of his tenure in the Senate. But it’s not the same as an endorsement in a campaign. We rate this statement .
Statement: When I was your governor, we reduced insurance rates by 10%.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: October 4, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: economy
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Homeowners' insurance rates initially fell then rose, leaving an overall reduction of 10% by the time Crist left office. Experts hesitated to give Crist full credit for the reduction, saying a large share of credit was due to revisions made to Florida's windstorm mitigation credits in 2006. It's also worth remembering that no major hurricane struck Florida during Crist's tenure.   Crist’s actions appear to be partially responsible for the 10-percent drop, though he likely attributed too much of an impact to his policies. With that clarification, we rate the  .
Statement: Under Phil Bredesen, in sexual harassment cases, his administration chose "to shred some of the documents so that women's voices would never be heard.
Speaker: marsha blackburn
About the speaker: Marsha Blackburn, a native of Laurel, Miss., was first elected to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in 2002. Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018,
Date: September 25, 2018
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;legal issues;women;workers
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: Blackburn said that documents in sexual harassment cases were shredded "so that women’s voices would never be heard." The attack stretches the facts of the case and ignores Bredesen’s remarks at the time. Out of 30 cases, investigation notes were shredded in two prominent cases. In both, the implicated officials were either demoted or resigned. When the issue came to light, Bredesen ordered that files be preserved going forward. The Nashville Women’s Political Caucus praised Bredesen for "his open concern for protecting complainants' rights." We rate this  .
Statement: Says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were "meticulously planned at least 10 years ago.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 6, 2021
Topics: government regulation;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A widely shared Facebook post says a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report shows the COVID-19 pandemic and the international response were "meticulously planned at least 10 years ago." The report, which focused on technology, was not a plan. It presented four possible scenarios of how the world might evolve, including one in which an influenza pandemic led to widespread government restrictions. We rate the post .
Statement: Images show COVID-19 victims being buried in mass graves in New York City.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 10, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: New York City’s Hart Island has been used as a public cemetery for unclaimed bodies since the 1800s, but the city’s staggering death toll amid the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the number of burials on the island.  Social media posts about the burials are  accurate, but many need additional information. We rate this .
Statement: A funeral home used a truck to advertise the message "Don't get vaccinated.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 27, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: posts on social media
Fact-check justification: Social media posts shared a photograph suggesting that a funeral home was seeking to increase its business by advertising on a truck with the message "Don't get vaccinated." The images are real, but the truck was part of a pro-vaccination campaign created by an advertising agency in Charlotte. No funeral home was involved. We rate the statement .