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Statement: Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women's restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc.
Speaker: tim moore
About the speaker: Tim Moore is a Republican from Cleveland County and the speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives.
Date: May 5, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: civil rights;lgbtq;polls and public opinion;sexuality
Context: a conversation with reporters
Fact-check justification: A prominent conservative group, Civitas, did find 70 and 80 percent in two polls, although we had some serious doubts about the question that found the 80 percent support. Two polls from the less partisan SurveyUSA in partnership with local TV stations have found 56 percent and 51 percent of North Carolinians support the idea. That’s still a majority, but it’s certainly not the "nearly unanimous," "80 percent support" that Moore claimed. We rate this  .
Statement: Says last year "13 million (health insurance) rebates went out, in all 50 states. Another 8.5 (million) rebates are being sent out this summer, averaging around 100 bucks each.
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 18, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech at the White House
Fact-check justification: Obama said "millions of Americans opened letters from their insurance companies" and got rebates from  companies that failed to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on care. Then he talked about 13 million rebates going out last year and about 8.5 million this year. Those numbers are generally accurate. But while Obama gets the numbers right, he left a  impression about the rebates going directly to so many people. In fact, more than half of the rebates went to the employers that run health plans for their workers. Federal law says the employers have to use the money on health care, but they can also use it shore up the health plans. So not all of these policy holders are getting $100 directly. For these reasons, we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Said that man wearing racist shirt was working at a polling station in Mississippi.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 7, 2018
Topics: elections;fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The day after the election, Regional One tweeted that it was "aware of a photograph in circulation" and that they "are investigating and will take appropriate action." Regional One did not respond to our inquiry. The viral photo of a man with a racist shirt at a polling station in Mississippi is not photoshopped. However, the man was not a poll worker. We rate this  .
Statement: The Legislative Ethics Commission continues to function.
Speaker: michael madigan
About the speaker: Attorney; born April 19, 1942, in Chicago; graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Loyola University Law School; House Majority Leader, 80th and 81st General Assemblies; House Minority Leader, 82nd and 89th General Assemblies; Speaker of the House, 83rd to 88th General Assemblies and 90th to 98th General Assemblies; married (wife, Shirley), has three daughters, one son, and three granddaughters.
 
Date: October 31, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: ethics
Context: a committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Madigan said the Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission continued to function for nearly three years while the Office of Legislative Inspector General was vacant. To the extent that the eight-member commission continued to schedule monthly meetings and saw to internal matters, it did "continue to function." This included its executive director receiving numerous reports of alleged ethics violations. But without an inspector general, it could not function in its capacity to take substantive action on alleged ethics violations. This is why Denise Rotheimer’s complaint saw no action until she went public with her allegations in a House committee hearing. There’s an element of  in Madigan’s statement but there’s a lot more that’s missing. We rate it .
Statement: Says she "never received nor sent any material that was marked classified" on her private email server while secretary of state.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: July 2, 2016
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;ethics;foreign policy;technology
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified." Clinton has made this  over and over again. An independent FBI investigation has found that to be . It’s important to remember that only "a very small number" of her emails, two, were marked classified when they were first sent, and just 110 out of the 30,000 she turned over were classified but unmarked.  seems to suggest that Clinton generally dealt with classified information in an appropriate manner. But over the course of a year, Clinton and her staff have painted a picture of an email setup where absolutely zero classified information slipped through the cracks, case closed. We rate this statement . Editor's note:  The day after we published this fact-check, Comey testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 7. Comey said he believes three emails on Clinton's server contained information labeled classified at the time they were sent. This information was not properly marked in that the emails did not have a classification header, even though a "(c)" immediately preceded text in the body of the emails, designating confidential information. Without the clear classification header, it's reasonable to infer that Clinton did not realize these three emails contained classified information, he said.
Statement: America (is) trying to overthrow the Ukraine government just as the shadow government has infiltrated and overthrown the US government.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 16, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video says, "America (is) trying to overthrow the Ukraine government just as the shadow government has infiltrated and overthrown the US government." The U.S. has provided more financial, humanitarian and military support to Ukraine than any other nation since the outbreak of the war. On the flip side, the U.S. has not sent combat troops to Ukraine. We were unable to identify any  to support the  that a shadow government has infiltrated and overthrown the U.S. government. We rate this  .
Statement: The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.
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: January 27, 2023
Topics: debt;deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: an interview with reporters
Fact-check justification: Ocasio-Cortez said, "The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts." A little more than two-thirds of today’s debt was already on the books before Trump’s 2017 inauguration. Of the remaining debt added since 2017, Trump’s tax cut played a significant role. But three other bills are expected to add nearly as much or more to the debt, and each received Democratic support: a 2019 spending bill and the CARES Act under Trump, and the American Rescue Plan under Biden. Finally, looking at the spending and revenue reductions so far, both the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan have added more to the debt than Trump’s tax cuts have. Other measures accounted for a greater share of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 annual deficits than did the Trump tax cuts. We rate the statement .
Statement: (McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq.
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: August 27, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: McCain clearly was not comfortable embracing the idea of a timetable for withdrawal. But nor was he comfortable opposing it in all cases. His answers in both the CNN and ABC interviews suggest that he could be okay with a timetable if it were dependent on conditions on the ground. Biden did not acknowledge the gray area in McCain's approach to a timeline, instead implying that McCain was unequivocally opposed to any timeline at all. Since McCain has spoken out repeatedly against timelines — but indicated he was open to them on other occasions — we find Biden's  to be .
Statement: Senate report admits Clinton 'gifted' children to human traffickers
Speaker: yournewswire.com
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: June 17, 2018
Topics: immigration;children;fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We could not find any  that Clinton, who led the Department of State during President Barack Obama’s first term in office, played a part in the rollback of the safety standards governing the protection of migrant children. Not only are the State Department and HHS separate executive agencies, but Clinton also stepped down as secretary of state in February 2013, months before HHS decided to stop fingerprinting in the first of many decisions that led to the children’s mistreatment. Your News Wire tried implicating Clinton in an old but otherwise real Senate report. The website did not respond to a request for comment. We rate this statement .
Statement: Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million "for the year" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers
Speaker: robert hagan
About the speaker: Robert Hagan is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 60th District, which is comprised of part of Mahoning County, including Youngstown.
Date: December 8, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;state budget
Context: the Ohio House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: Hagan’s method is something PolitiFact Ohio and The Plain Dealer might try to get a ballpark figure when exact figures aren’t available, but Hagan presented it as a precise figure. He later acknowledged his figures were not 100 percent exact, but said the goal of his failed legislation was to shed light on companies with thousands of workers on welfare. Even if Ohio taxpayers don’t pay exactly $67 million in Medicaid and food stamps, it is clear they are subsidizing Wal-Mart’s health care costs, Hagan said. So where does Hagan land on the -O-Meter?    On that basis, we rate the statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump has said "he would be neutral between Israel and its enemies.
Speaker: conservative solutions pac
About the speaker: Conservative Solutions PAC is a super political action committee based in Tampa, Fla., that supports Marco Rubio for president.
Date: February 26, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: israel
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: A PAC that supports Rubio says Trump "says he would be neutral between Israel and its enemies." Trump has said that in order to negotiate between Israelis and Palestinians he can’t take sides. "Let me be sort of a neutral guy," he said at a town hall. But the ad omits that Trump has had ties to Israel for years -- he has called himself "pro-Israel" and endorsed Netanyahu’s re-election in 2013. That is a good indication Trump isn’t neutral. We rate this  .     Says Donald Trump has said "he would be neutral between Israel and its enemies."
Statement: The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws.
Speaker: brian kemp
About the speaker: Brian Kemp, a Republican, was elected governor of Georgia in 2018. Previously, he served as secretary of state.
Date: June 20, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: elections
Fact-check justification: Another case involved a woman who faxed previously used absentee ballots for members of a church to election officials in DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. The woman said she was unaware her efforts violated Georgia election law. There were several cases of people who voted in elections in one county, although they lived in another county. These cases and others we found put the total over the $275,000 mark that Kemp mentioned. We rate his statement as .
Statement: Members of Congress and their families and staff are exempt from repaying student loans.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: January 7, 2011
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: In 1995, Congress passed the Congressional Accountability Act, which applied 13 laws to members that hadn't applied previously. Several of the laws involved discrimination in the workplace, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Getting back to the question at hand, though: The chain e-mail said that members of Congress, their families and staff members do not have to repay student loans. This is  . We rate it .
Statement: As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known in order to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump.
Speaker: louie gohmert
About the speaker: Louie Gohmert, a U.S. House member since 2005, is a former chief justice of the Texas 12th Court of Appeals and Smith County state district judge. He lives in Tyler.
Date: October 21, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: impeachment
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Gohmert said: "As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known in order to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump." This  echoes one made earlier by Trump and it relies on an article that builds on an  theory promoted by The Federalist. No rules regulating whistleblower complaints were changed. The Office of the Inspector General altered the form for submitting complaints to make it more clear that whistleblowers can supply either first or second-hand information, as has been the case since 2014. Gohmert repeated a debunked  circulated by Trump and could not provide  to support his statement. We rate his  .
Statement: Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation.
Speaker: tom price
About the speaker: Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.
Date: June 29, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Ways and Means Republicans said that about 16,000 "employees," not "agents," may be hired to enforce the bill’s provisions. They also acknowledged that the actual number of hires may be lower. IRS budget requests for the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years show they asked for about 375 more agents so far --  far less than 16,000. And like other pols who have used versions of this talking point, Price used such a specific figure that he suggests a degree of certainty that doesn’t exist. Price therefore earns a .
Statement: We are looking at "150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after" because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the Obama administration.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: May 31, 2011
Location: national
Topics: energy;oil spill;regulation
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Then, the EIA projected oil production from the Gulf of Mexico would drop by 100,000 barrels a day between 2010 and 2011. In other words, even before the oil spill and ensuing moratorium, the EIA expected a drop in oil production from the Gulf of Mexico. After the moratorium, the projected drop went from 100,000 barrels to 130,000 barrels a day. Since most of the forecast decline predates the oil spill and the moratorium, it is  to attribute it entirely to the moratorium.   And so we rate Palin's  .
Statement: Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial service when NC Republicans held a controversial vote
Speaker: various media reports 2
About the speaker: this is for hate crimes story. fact-check of reports in news media.
Date: September 11, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: history
Context: reports
Fact-check justification: Various media outlets said NC Democratic legislators were at a 9/11 memorial service when Republicans held a controversial budget vote. PolitiFact is aware of only one Democrat besides Gov. Cooper who claimed to be at a 9/11 event. We rate this  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: Says it's documented that City of Austin fees for building an apartment complex are nearly 10 times what Dallas levies.
Speaker: paul workman
About the speaker: Paul Workman is the founder of Workman Commercial Construction and director of development for T. Stacy & Associates. He was initially elected to the Texas House in 2010.
Date: June 15, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: city government;housing;population
Context: the Austin American-Statesman
Fact-check justification: On balance, it looks like city fees for building the project in Austin could exceed Big D’s fees by eight times or more, still making for a considerable difference. We rate the  .  – 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: During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users … had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable.
Speaker: dennis prager
About the speaker: Dennis Prager has been broadcasting on radio in Los Angeles since 1982. His show became nationally syndicated in 1999.
Date: November 8, 2021
Topics: drugs;polls and public opinion;public health;sexuality
Context: an interview with Newsmax
Fact-check justification: Prager said, "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users … had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable." To suggest that gay men and intravenous drug users were not considered pariahs during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s is entirely . The  of the opposite abounds: contemporary survey data on attitudes about homosexuality; the existence of laws against consensual gay sex; the near-passage of an AIDS quarantine law in California; calls by prominent commentators for banning HIV-positive people from certain jobs or even tattooing them; jokes about the disease by White House officials; and the need for the gay community to build their own institutions to grapple with the disease because existing institutions were insufficient. We rate the statement .
Statement: Quotes President John F. Kennedy as saying "If the United States ever experienced [a coup to overthrow the government] it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 7, 2019
Topics: fake news;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims President John F. Kennedy once said "If the United States ever experienced [a coup to overthrow the government] it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon." But there is no  that proves JFK said the statement. A news article from October 1963 quoting an anonymous "U.S. official" appears to be the original source for the quotation. In the years since, people have assumed that person was Kennedy, but JFK scholars have not made that explicit leap. We rate this .
Statement: In Rick Perry's Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries.
Speaker: bill white
About the speaker: Bill White, an author, is a San Antonio native who was mayor of Houston from 2004-2009. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor of Texas.
Date: June 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention
Fact-check justification: The center said that to meet the demand for registered nurses by 2020, the number of graduates will need to triple from the 2009 level, when 8,211 people graduated. Texas nursing schools are still turning away qualified applicants -- about 8,700 in 2009, primarily because the schools lack sufficient faculty, the center reports. Upshot: White is correct that Texas imports nurses from abroad. But implying that Perry is to blame for that disregards the governor's efforts to address a shortage that existed before he became governor, and has persisted despite efforts by the state to produce more Texas-trained nurses. We rate White's statement as .
Statement: Says Joe Biden is proposing a tax increase that's "the largest in American history.
Speaker: preserve america pac
About the speaker: Preserve America is a super PAC that supports Donald Trump's re-election campaign. 
Date: October 1, 2020
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A PAC ad said Biden is proposing a tax increase that’s "the largest in American history." According to a detailed analysis by the Tax Foundation, Biden’s proposed tax increase would be the fifth largest since 1940, when measured as a share of the economy. We rate this  . ​