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Statement: Says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he "had nothing to do with" that provision in the law.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: October 18, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;health care;medicare
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Indeed, in 2007, when Democrats pushed legislation to repeal non-interference, Bush threatened a veto, arguing that competition among insurers was resulting in lower drug prices. Our rating Thompson said Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he "had nothing to do with" that provision in the final law. Democrats did introduce a version of the so-called non-interference provision, but it didn’t go as far as the provision that became law under Bush. Moreover, Thompson was the point man on Medicare Part D for the Bush administration, which supported non-interference. We rate Thompson’s statement .
Statement: Trump lawyers all quit on him at the same time.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 10, 2022
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A video shared on Facebook says, "Trսmp Lawyers ALL QUIT on Him at the SAME TIME." The headline is . There is no  to suggest that Trump’s lawyers have abandoned him as a client. His legal team submitted a filing to the court days after the video claimed they had quit. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Chris Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever.
Speaker: barbara buono
About the speaker:  Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.
Date: October 1, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview on NJToday
Fact-check justification: In a TV interview, Buono claimed Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever." The senator’s  isn’t far off. Based on Christie’s recommendations, state officials created a "severe misconduct" category in which individuals could be denied unemployment benefits for as long as they remain unemployed. But the Legislature agreed to create that category as well. Also, there is a scenario in which a person fired for severe misconduct could later receive unemployment benefits based in part on wages from that job. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is.
Speaker: seamless florida
About the speaker: Seamless Florida is a PAC supporting mayoral candidate Rick Baker.
Date: August 7, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: negative campaigning
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: A television ad paid for by Rick Baker’s PAC said he condemned racist comments from another candidate while Kriseman "just looked away." Baker did speak up during the mayoral forum. In doing so, he acknowledged that he was going against the organizers’ rules by not sticking to the question at hand and revisiting earlier comments. Kriseman did not comment on what Congemi said that night. Neither did four other candidates at the forum. Kriseman waited until the next day, and was criticized for it. He said he did not want to bring more attention to the message in the moment but regretted not doing so. The admaker misleads viewers by neglecting to include Kriseman's later condemnation of what Congemi said. This ad is partially accurate but omits substantial information about what happened. We rate it .
Statement: Back when Ted Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate floor, nobody invoked Rule 19 to censor him.
Speaker: jeanne shaheen
About the speaker: Jeanne Shaheen is a Senator from New Hampshire.
Date: February 8, 2017
Location: national
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: Shaheen said, "Back when Ted Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate floor, nobody invoked Rule 19 to censor him." Cruz didn't call him a "liar," exactly, but he did say in a 2015 floor speech that McConnell had told him a lie about whether the Senate majority leader had made a deal to renew the Export-Import Bank’s charter. Republicans chastised Cruz afterward, saying it was not the proper thing to do. But he was not silenced under Rule 19. We rate this statement .
Statement: Mitchell International Airport is the "the third busiest airport in the world and the number one busiest in the country.
Speaker: lee holloway
About the speaker: Lee Holloway is the chairman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. He represents the county's 5th District, which encompasses parts of Milwaukee's north side. He was elected to the board in 1992 and has served as chairman since 2004.
Date: January 21, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: transportation
Context: a statement at a candidate forum
Fact-check justification: Those rankings relate to passenger growth, not busy-ness. What’s more, the world ranking he used (third) came from the second quarter data from 2010 -- and that’s old data. We’re now No. 17 according to the latest figures.    Holloway’s   message went out to a wider audience and was echoed by media outlets covering the event. Holloway’s  is .
Statement: Says he never said he wanted to move Social Security "back to the states.
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: September 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: Romney says Perry wants to dismantle Social Security and leave it to the states. Perry says that's not . Perry’s not being entirely accurate when he contends that "we never said that we were going to move (Social Security) back to the states." He came close to that position when he said, "Let the states decide" on Parker/Spitzer and "Get it back to the states" on Morning Joe . But in other comments, he hedged, saying it was merely an idea worth discussing. And while Perry tried, during the Orlando debate, to draw a distinction between a state opt-out system and a mandate that every state have its own Social Security plan, we don’t see it as a major distinction in this context. He claimed to have "never said that we were going to move (Social Security) back to the states," yet allowing every state, or units within a state, to opt out of Social Security empowers states to make their own decisions and ultimately establish their own alternative plans. Perry brought up the opt-out idea by his own choice on two different television shows. Even if he  stopped short of explicitly advocating the let-the-states-decide idea, it’s clear that he was warm to the idea of allowing states to opt out of Social Security. We rate Perry’s statement .
Statement: Says Joe Biden tweeted, "I have consulted with Instagram's CEO to take the page @electionleaks down. They have supposedly 'video proof' of me using a hidden earpiece in tonight's debate. This is slander, and not true.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 29, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: We also didn’t find the tweet in a database of deleted tweets kept by ProPublica .   We visited the Instagram account mentioned in the doctored Biden tweet and on Sept. 29, the account posted a video of alleged proof that Biden was wearing a wire during the debate. But we’ve already fact-checked that, and it’s  .    So is the  that Biden tweeted this. We rate it .
Statement: Senator Robert Hurt voted for a bill that's raised your electric rates seven times.
Speaker: tom perriello
About the speaker: Tom Perriello, a Democrat, was elected in 2008 to represent Virginia's 5th Congressional District. He lost his 2010 re-election bid to Robert Hurt.
Before his election, Perriello was involved in international justice and sustainable peace.
Perriello was born and raised in Ivy. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1996 and a law degree in 2001, both from Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date: October 12, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: energy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: And yes, those seven rate increase requests were filed under 2007 legislation. But Perriello is distorting the significance of Hurt’s vote. The reality is that the cases were decided using a combination of the old regulatory system and a few new provisions. The SCC confirms that APCO’s rate increases were substantially the result of outside factors that would have been permissable under the previous legislation. For these reasons, we find the  to be .
Statement: Proposed changes to the Electoral Count act show Pence had the power and "could have overturned the election!
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: January 30, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;jan. 6
Context: a statement given to the press
Fact-check justification: Trump said that discussions about changes to the Electoral Count Act show Pence had the power to overturn the 2020 election results.  Legal scholars say that the law is poorly worded, and is vague on key points. But there’s broad legal agreement that the law never gave Pence the power to overturn the election. Lawmakers seeking to modify the law say they want to reduce the ambiguities and raise the bar for senators and representatives to challenge results from any given state. We rate this  . RELATED: What you need to know about the  Trump electors RELATED: How Democrats aim to define the lessons of Jan. 6
Statement: Rhode Island's graduated driving license "has saved hundreds of lives.
Speaker: joseph mcnamara
About the speaker: Rep. Joseph McNamara, who represents Warwick and Cranston, has served in the Rhode Island House since 1995. He chairs the Health, Education and Welfare Committee and is the health and wellness coordinator in the Pawtucket School Department.
Date: June 28, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: children;crime;public safety;regulation
Context: a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: McNamara said the Rhode Island graduated driving license law he authored "has saved hundreds of lives." To meet that standard, you would have to see at least 200 fewer deaths on the state's highways since the law took effect in 1999. But the data from five years before and five years after implementation -- even if viewed in the most favorable light -- show an impact that isn't even close to McNamara's . We rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: The (Ohio) economy is on the mend. … It is in better shape than it was when we took office.
Speaker: pari sabety
About the speaker: Pari Sabety was Ohio's state budget director under Gov. Ted Strickland.
Date: November 4, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;state budget
Context: a presentation at a conference
Fact-check justification: "Well, yes, because they have three points now, but they are still way behind. That’s kind of the position the state’s economy is in." So add it all up, and what do we have: Allowing for the  that Ohio’s economy is rebounding, we’ll give Sabety credit for the first part of her . But we take away points for the second part. We rate her statement that the economy is on the mend and that it is in better shape than when Strickland took office to be .
Statement: Sunlight actually can kill the (novel coronavirus.)
Speaker: greg murphy
About the speaker: Rep. Greg Murphy is a Republican from Greenville and the only North Carolina legislator who is a medical doctor. Murphy is a practicing surgeon.
Date: March 16, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Murphy said "sunlight actually can kill the virus." This  has not been proven . His whiteboard mentioned UV light in sunlight. But experts  the UV rays in sunlight aren’t intense enough to COVID-19. We found no conclusive  that someone could prevent the virus by exposing themselves to the sun for long periods of time. And we found no  that sunlight exposure could help an infected person defeat the virus. We rate this  .
Statement: When Phoenix dropped its sanctuary city policy in 2008, its murder rate fell 27 percent the following year.
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: November 9, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security;crime
Context: a Fox News post
Fact-check justification: Blackburn wrote, "When Phoenix dropped its sanctuary city policy in 2008, its murder rate fell 27 percent the following year." While the murder rate did decline, experts say the change is likely attributable to many factors, not just a single policy change. Phoenix officials  the city has never been a "sanctuary city," but some groups pegged the city as such based on a policy in place up to 2008. We rate Blackburn’s  .
Statement: Some 200,000 people are in jail for the crime of being poor and not being able to afford bail.
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: August 22, 2019
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: Still, experts told us Sanders’ overall point is right: Many Americans languish in jail for the sole reason they can’t afford bail.   In the end, we found his  was partially accurate but underestimates the total.   We rate it .     – 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.
Statement: Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia.
Speaker: la raza
About the speaker: Hispanic advocacy.
Date: July 20, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: health care
Context: newscast
Fact-check justification: Currently, about one in six Georgia residents is enrolled in Medicaid, and most of those are children. La Raza is highlighting the high percentage of Latino children on the Medicaid rolls as an argument against cutting the program to lower the federal deficit. That’s a subject for political debate, not PolitiFact. For the purposes of this fact-check,  the number in the WABE broadcast appears to be on target. We rate this  .
Statement: 83% of doctors have considered leaving the profession because of #Obamacare.
Speaker: jeff duncan
About the speaker: Jeff Duncan, a Republican from South Carolina, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
Date: July 10, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;polls and public opinion
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Duncan said "83% of doctors have considered leaving the profession because of #Obamacare." But that's an  description of the foundation’s poll. The poll did not specifically ask about the federal health care law and was meant to measure concerns about a wide range of changes in health care. Also, it's worth noting that the poll had a small return rate and the group that conducted it is opposed to the law. We rate the  .
Statement: 500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury.
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 14, 2015
Location: iowa
Topics: foreign policy;veterans
Context: comments at the Iowa Democratic debate
Fact-check justification: Sanders said 500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury." No firm numbers exist for the number of veterans who have returned from America’s most recent conflicts with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries, but Sanders’  of 500,000 does fall within the range of estimates provided by the VA and other sources. Sanders’ statement needs that caveat. As such, we rate it .
Statement: The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English.
Speaker: howard dean
About the speaker: Howard Dean is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, and was the longtime governor of Vermont before that.
Date: January 7, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on MSNBC's Hardball
Fact-check justification: And if Gupta does get the position, he and Obama have a certain amount of latitude to make of it what they like. But being doctor to the nation has traditionally involved more than just advising it on health issues — you have to check up on it first. Surgeon general is a public health position, not a public affairs position. Communication may be the "biggest part of the job" in a sense, but many other medical and administrative skills are required. We find Dean's statement .
Statement: Some Republican leaders in Congress" are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: his weekly address
Fact-check justification: As we noted earlier, Obama has gone to this well before. Accusing Republicans of trying to privatize Social Security no doubt scores political points with many, particularly seniors who depend on it. But as it was during the campaign, Obama's warning is a big stretch. The only "Republican leader" who is really talking about allowing personal retirement accounts is Ryan, and even his plan is a far cry from a wholly privatized system. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 14, 2016
Topics: immigration;elections;punditfact
Context: an article on InfoWars
Fact-check justification: Reports  3 million "illegal aliens" cast votes in this year's election. The articles point back to tweets from Gregg Phillips, who has worked for the Republican Party and has a voter fraud reporting app. But Phillips will not provide any  to support his , which happens to be undermined by publicly available information. If Phillips does release a more detailed report, we will consider that information. But for now, this  is . We rate it .
Statement: The "president has given 1,100 special waivers to his friends" for Obamacare.
Speaker: mick mulvaney
About the speaker: In December 2018, President Donald Trump named Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff. In 2017, Trump nominated Mulvaney to direct the Office of Management and Budget, and he was confirmed shortly after. Before, he served as the new U.S. Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District from 2010-2017. Mulvaney grew up in the Carolinas and went to Georgetown University. He attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later did additional course work at Harvard Business School.
His professional background includes law and real estate.
Date: October 16, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview with CBS News
Fact-check justification: Mulvaney said that under Obamacare, the president "has given 1,100 special waivers to his friends." He’s close on the number, but it’s  to say that all (or even most) went to his "friends" or political allies. It’s also doubtful that any of these were "special," since the option was widely publicized and  granted when applied for. We rate the  .