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Statement: We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world.
Speaker: choose: new jersey
About the speaker: Choose: New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that markets the state to attract businesses and jobs to New Jersey.
Date: July 30, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy;jobs;science;workers
Context: the Wall Street Journal
Fact-check justification: Choose: New Jersey said in an advertisement that "we have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world," making the state’s workforce one of the most skilled and highly educated. Choose: New Jersey used a variety of data to reach its conclusion, from the U.S. Census Bureau to the CIA World Fact Book and more. PolitiFact New Jersey vetted the calculations and found that the Garden State does top the world in number of scientists and engineers per square mile: 29.8. We rate this statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland "voted, so the folks know, in Washington, D.C., to keep guns away from private citizens.
Speaker: bill o'reilly
About the speaker: Bill O'Reilly hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News until 2017. He formerly worked as a television news reporter and has authored numerous books.
Date: March 16, 2016
Topics: supreme court;punditfact;guns
Context: an episode of "The O'Reilly Factor"
Fact-check justification: O’Reilly said Merrick Garland "voted, so the folks know, in Washington, D.C., to keep guns away from private citizens." Garland never heard the case about Washington gun laws from the bench, and so he never voted on it. He voted in favor of reconsidering the case, but it’s impossible to extrapolate from that vote his position on the merits of the case. We rate O’Reilly’s  .
Statement: Forty-six cents of every dollar" Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion "is going to come from China or some other country that doesn't like us very much.
Speaker: ron maag
About the speaker: Ron Maag, a Republican from Salem Township, is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He represents the 62nd District, which includes part of Warren County. Maag, a former salesman for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., also served on the board of the Warren County Farm Bureau.
Date: April 12, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: debt;health care;taxes
Context: a statement during a state House Finance and Appropriations Committee hearing
Fact-check justification: We need not take up the last part of his sentence -- that the money would come from countries like China or others who don’t like the United States very much. But for the record, the Pentagon said last year that it does not view China’s holding of United States debt as a threat. Maag’s instincts tell him he is right. But the facts, projections and law, as they exist today, do not support his . We rate it .
Statement: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: July 22, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview with a Las Vegas news network
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said the Fourth Circuit Court in its ruling wrote, "If you ask for ham and pepperoni on your Pizza Hut pizza but then I actually go get your pizza from Domino’s, it’s implied if I bring back a pepperoni and ham pizza then that’s what you asked for." This wasn’t the ruling of the entire three-member court, just one judge’s concurring opinion. And she did miss the distinction that the person ordering the pizza said in advance they wanted Pizza Hut, but would be "fine with a pizza from Domino’s." We rate the statement .
Statement: More than 3,000 homicides were committed by "illegal aliens" over the past six years.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: July 17, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: an interview with Glenn Beck
Fact-check justification: Perry told Beck over 3,000 homicides were committed "by illegal aliens over the" last six years. This  is unsupported by the presentation he relied on, which indicates that since 2008 in Texas, more than 200,000 arrested immigrants -- foreign nationals living here with or without legal permission -- had among them accumulated 3,070 homicide charges (not convictions) in their lives. Put another way, for this declaration to hold water, one would have to assume illegal immigrants committed nearly half of the state’s homicides since 2008; we found no such data. This statement is both  and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says his barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real.
Speaker: evan longoria
About the speaker: Evan Longoria is the third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays and a spokesman for Gillette.
Date: May 19, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: baseball
Context: comments to reporters
Fact-check justification: From computer-added Gillette signage, to the reaction of the cameraman and the batter, from the way major league teams conduct batting practice, to the video , this viral YouTube video is a clever piece of advertising. And fiction. Longoria is a good sport -- and spokesman for Gillette -- for saying the catch is real. But we're not buying it. We say !
Statement: Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: November 30, 2010
Location: national
Topics: corporations;taxes
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: To his credit, Sanders did make that distinction in a June 9, 2010, speech , saying that ExxonMobil "reported to the SEC that not only did it avoid paying any federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million refund from the IRS." Still, while focusing on the negative-$156 million figure and saying that the company "paid zero in taxes" in 2009 was eye-catching, it is, at best, . And it ignores the fact that the company paid hundreds of millions in state income taxes, sales taxes and other types of taxes. We can't verify the company's  that its net tax was $500 million in 2009, but it's  for Sanders to say "paid zero in taxes." We rate his  .
Statement: Derek Chauvin's attorney said that space aliens "inhabited the body of Derek Chauvin and caused this death.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: April 21, 2021
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a TikTok video
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video went viral, claiming that Chauvin’s defense attorney said that space aliens inhabited Chauvin’s body and caused Floyd’s death. Nelson wasn’t using that as part of his defense, but as an example of a capricious or fanciful doubt. Nelson was arguing that the points made in his defense were not capricious or fanciful.  The jury did not agree with his points and convicted Chauvin on all counts of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Still, he wasn’t actually suggesting space aliens were to blame. We rate this post .
Statement: Says "the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S. (for) women under 50 is being killed by their spouse or domestic partner.
Speaker: rod monroe
About the speaker: Rod Monroe represents District 24 in the Oregon Senate.
Date: March 1, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: families;crime;women
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: Monroe didn't have one -- and after days of searching, we couldn't find one. There is no doubt that intimate partner violence is a serious issue, but there doesn't seem to be any  that it ranks as the No. 2 cause of the death for women under 50. The highest it might rank -- and even this is a stretch -- is sixth place, according to CDC data. We rate this  . Return to OregonLive to comment on this rating.
Statement: Hospitals get paid more to list patients as COVID-19.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 10, 2020
Topics: ethics;medicare;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post shared on Facebook claims hospitals have a financial incentive to  patients had COVID-19, saying payment is three times higher if a patient goes on a ventilator. An article the post links to includes comments from a doctor who suggests the number of coronavirus cases is being padded. It is standard for Medicare to pay roughly three times more for a patient with a respiratory condition who goes on a ventilator than for one who does not. That has nothing to do with the coronavirus. As part of a federal stimulus bill, Medicare is paying hospitals 20% more than standard rates for COVID-19 patients. Indications are that due to a lack of testing and other factors, the number of coronavirus cases has been undercounted, not padded. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is .
Statement: Loranne "Ausley's a financial train wreck for taxpayers -- pushing gas taxes, property taxes, taxes on seniors.
Speaker: jeff atwater
About the speaker: Jeff Atwater, a former state Senator from North Palm Beach, was elected Florida Chief Financial Officer on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014.
Date: October 13, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: message machine 2010;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Time to take out the dictionary . There are several definitions of the word push, but in this context we find a couple that make sense - "To cause to increase," and "To press forward energetically against opposition." Ausley didn't vote to cause those taxes to increase, nor did she press forward energetically with the taxes. She voted against cutting them. We find this  .
Statement: A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts "to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.
Speaker: marc schare
About the speaker: Marc Schare is a member of the Board of Education for the Worthington City School District in northern Franklin County. The District includes Worthington and portions of Columbus.
Date: February 1, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: education;tourism
Context: an Ohio House committee hearing
Fact-check justification: And knowing how schools would then react would require the ability to predict the future. As for Schare's  about what the bill would allow, his calculations check out. While the numbers he used apply specifically to his Worthington district,  he shows in his posted testimony that most districts in central Ohio would feel similar results. Regardless, in the statement we're checking, Schare said only that HB 191 would permit the 5-week shorter year, not require it. On the -O-Meter, Schare's statement rates .
Statement: More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students.
Speaker: robert singer
About the speaker: Sen. Robert Singer represents New Jersey's 30th Legislative District, which includes parts of Ocean, Monmouth, Burlington and Mercer counties.
Date: November 29, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: income;labor;workers
Context: a speech on the New Jersey Senate floor
Fact-check justification: During a speech on the state Senate floor about raising New Jersey’s minimum wage, Singer said, "More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students. Many of them work the Shore area." Data shows that high school-age students are part of the largest percentage of New Jerseyans earning minimum wage, but the data is for an age range of 16 to 21. That means nonstudents are included. Singer said his figure doesn’t include students who may be paid ‘off the books,’ but there’s no way to quantify that group. As a result, there’s no clear proof that more than half those in New Jersey earning minimum wage are high schoolers even though it’s likely some high school students are included. We rate Singer’s statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com . Update: The minimum wage bill that Singer voted against also included a provision providing automatic annual increases in the minimum wage, starting in September 2013, according to Senate Republicans spokesman Jeremy Rosen. Further, Singer voted in the same hearing against tabling an amendment to increase New Jersey's minimum wage to $8.50 an hour, over three years, Rosen noted.
Statement: Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce.
Speaker: thomas perez
About the speaker: Thomas E. Perez was chosen as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Feb. 25, 2017. Previously he was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as Secretary of Labor and was sworn in on July 23, 2013. He previously served as the Secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
Date: May 7, 2015
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;economy;jobs;race and ethnicity
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Fact-check justification: Perez said due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce." Perez has a point that incarceration has made it harder for many young black men to find jobs. Perez’s problem was choosing a statistic that doesn’t precisely support his point. The decline in employment rates for young black men stems at least partially from improved educational opportunities -- which is generally a positive development -- and the data he offers specifically excludes currently incarcerated individuals. The  is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: $3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials.
Speaker: joni ernst
About the speaker: Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.
Date: May 28, 2022
Location: iowa
Topics: immigration
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: Ernst’s May 28 newsletter claims that unused materials remain at construction sites, and that taxpayers are footing the bill to guard these materials. How much waste exists is a judgment call but Ernst is correct that around $265 million dollars in manufacturing materials, including panels, electrical supplies and light poles, were left at construction sites along the southern border with Mexico after Biden halted border wall construction. However, some of these materials are being used to repair gaps at insecure points in the barrier, while others have been sent to other government agencies, including the state of Texas for wall construction. No independent source has confirmed the $3 million daily cost that Ernst cites, and a nonpartisan government agency says reliable cost estimates for Defense Department work at the border are lacking or late. News organizations still are waiting to learn actual costs. We rate the  to be . Editor/Reporter Lyle Muller contributed to this story.
Statement: There's just one piece of legislation that is now law" with Sen. Ted Cruz's "name on it.
Speaker: dana bash
About the speaker: Dana Bash is a reporter for CNN and host of "State of the Union."
Date: March 29, 2015
Topics: candidate biography;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Bash said there’s only "one piece of legislation that is now law that has (Ted Cruz’s) name on it." Of the bills Cruz has sponsored, only one has been signed into law. However, he has cosponsored two eventual laws, as well as many resolutions that passed but didn’t have to go to Obama’s desk (and don’t carry the force of law). Experts told us that this isn’t a great measurement of a legislator’s effectiveness, and there are other ways to show his impact in Congress. Also, Cruz has had many factors working against him: He is a junior senator, and he spent his first two years as a member of the minority party. Bash’s  misses that additional information. We rate it .
Statement: My opponent supported policies that increased tuition by 18 percent.
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 20, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: We concluded it is off base to put responsibility for the state budget and its thousands of provisions on an appointed cabinet secretary. Likewise, it is  to blame a secretary for spending changes in another department. Our rating Walker said, "My opponent supported policies that increased tuition by 18 percent." Burke was in state government when that happened, but Walker offers no  that she backed tuition hikes other than Burke lauding her boss as she went to work for Doyle. We rate his  .
Statement: U.S. teenagers have now fallen behind their counterparts in Ireland, Poland and even Vietnam in math and science.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: May 12, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a speech at the Manhattan Institute
Fact-check justification: Bush said that "U.S. teenagers have now fallen behind their counterparts in Ireland, Poland and even Vietnam in math and science." Bush correctly cites data from PISA showing the United States trails the three countries in question. But it’s not so much that the United States has "fallen behind" -- the U.S. has been behind Ireland and Poland for years, and Vietnam was first tested in 2012. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin "unemployment's up" from 4.8% to 6.2%
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: March 5, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;economy;jobs
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Moreover, during Walker’s time as governor, unemployment started at 7.7 percent, not 4.8 percent. And rather than trending upward, the rate has steadily dropped to 6.3 percent. For a  that is  and , we give Burke a . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page . Follow us on Twitter and Facebook .
Statement: Says that under President Obama, there's been a substantial increase in federal government jobs.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: June 14, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a conference call with reporters
Fact-check justification: At the local government level, cities, towns, townships and counties dropped overall employment from 14.594 million when the stimulus passed to 14.077 million in May, a loss of 517,000 jobs. The losses came as local and state governments cut their payrolls in response to lower tax collections -- itself a result of the weak economy. As for federal employment, the subject of Portman’s , it  shows a net growth in the three-plus years since the stimulus passed, but that growth is modest at best, and it is now trending downward month after month. Characterizing a net increase of less than 1 percent as substantial is . On the -O-Meter, Portman’s  rates .
Statement: Says Rick Scott's proposal for election reform "only mandates 48 hours of early voting.
Speaker: pink slip rick
About the speaker: PinkSlipRick.com is an attack website that was created to measure the jobs Florida Gov. Rick Scott is eliminating or causing the state of Florida to lose by his decisions.
Date: January 17, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: Pink Slip Rick’s remark is accurate but leaves out part of the story. Scott’s proposal would mandate a minimum of 48 hours, but it would also let supervisors offer a maximum of 168 hours. Local supervisors would make the call, and the ones we spoke with said they would offer more than the bare minimum. Still, the group is right that 48 hours would be the mandated minimum. The statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: When Sara Gideon "knew the truth about" sexual allegations against a state lawmaker, "she could have called for an immediate investigation, but didn't…Gideon knew for months, using her power to cover up.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: October 6, 2020
Topics: children;ethics
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Senatorial Committee said that when Gideon "knew the  about" sexual allegations against a state lawmaker, "she could have called for an immediate investigation, but didn’t…Gideon knew for months, using her power to cover up." There is no  that Gideon knew "the ." She said that in early 2018 she heard rumors about the allegations, but did not know of any proof. There is also no  she took any action to cover up the matter. When a news article made the allegations public, Gideon called on the lawmaker to resign. We rate the statement . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.