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Statement: Says a state bill checks the spending habits of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors by "bringing it in line with other county boards around the state.
Speaker: joe sanfelippo
About the speaker: Joe Sanfelippo was elected to the State Assembly in 2012 as a Republican from West Allis. He's a small businessman who owned and operated a landscaping business. He served a term on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors from 2008-12.
Date: April 10, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget;county government;states
Context: legislative testimony
Fact-check justification: Maher, now at Northern Illinois University, was referring to the bill’s underlying goal of restoring or increasing the power of the county executive at the expense of the county board in Milwaukee County. Our rating Sanfelippo said his bill checks the spending habits of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors by "bringing it in line with other county boards around the state." Milwaukee County’s board spending is significantly higher than most other large counties now, and it would fall to middle of the pack or lower under the bill depending on the measure. His comparison ultimately may shed limited light, but Sanfelippo’s  is on target, with the cautions we noted. We rate it .
Statement: There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.
Speaker: steny hoyer
About the speaker: Steny Hoyer is the current House minority whip, having served in the position once before from 2003 to 2007. He was majority leader of the House from 2007 to 2011, and is the dean of the Maryland congressional delegation, having served the 5th district since 1981.
Date: July 21, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a statement on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Are you leaving because you’re discouraged about finding a job?” By contrast, he said, “if you’re employed, you’re employed.”       So Hoyer’s figures  hold up under scrutiny. He's right if you calculate an average, but he's only right six of nine times when you look at the monthly changes. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton's State Department.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: September 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating Ryan said: "Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton's State Department." Ryan’s  avoids trouble by focusing on the State Department, then led by Clinton, rather than on Clinton herself. It’s well documented that the department didn’t honor requests for more security prior to the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans. We rate Ryan’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2bba7888-3630-46d1-ae74-ca5bc3ef249c
Statement: Says Obama administration delay of health care law's employer mandate affects about 1 percent of the American workforce.
Speaker: robert menendez
About the speaker: Robert Menendez, a Democrat, has been serving as one of New Jersey's U.S. Senators since January 2006. Menendez previously served as a member of the House of Representatives.
Date: July 7, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
Fact-check justification: Menendez said on Meet the Press that "we're talking about probably 1 percent of the American workforce that works for a company subject to the mandate that didn't get insurance." He cited a ballpark estimate by health economists based on the small number of large employers who don’t offer insurance. Critics of the estimate say that calculation misses uninsured workers for the 95 percent of large employers that do offer insurance. The problem is that no one’s sure how many of those workers would be subject to the mandate — as opposed to part-time or temporary workers who don’t qualify for employer insurance now, and wouldn’t in 2015, either. But that number, even if it's millions more, remains a small percentage of the U.S. workforce. We rate Menendez's  .
Statement: Sherrod Brown "has stood side by side" with President Barack Obama, presiding "over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years" and hurtling toward " the worst jobs record in the modern era.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: August 23, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;economy;jobs
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But it overlooks energy -- a major issue in Ohio in 2010, though potentially less so in 2012, and one on which Brown took a different position than the president. It is correct in a narrow way when it says that Brown and Obama "presided" over the most rapid rise in debt in 2 ½ years, but that  ignores much greater rises in the rate of growth during the 1940s, as well as the reason for some of the debt. As for being on track for the wost jobs record in the modern era, Obama may be headed for that ignominious distinction, but a single legislator generally lacks that kind of power. Put together, this compound  leaves out important details and context. On the -O-Meter, it merits a rating of .
Statement: Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill.
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: February 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;guns
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Sanders says he voted for the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill." There were many votes surrounding the crime bill. The trouble with Sanders’  is that his contention that he voted for the crime bill because of the assault weapons ban is at odds with votes for the bill that include no such ban. As often with congressional votes, there is a lot of gray area to determining a legislator’s motivations. We rate Sanders’  .   Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill."
Statement: A legal settlement that reined in Chicago police "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone.
Speaker: jeff sessions
About the speaker: Jeff Sessions is President Donald Trump's Attorney General. He was previously a U.S. Senator from Alabama.
 
Date: May 8, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: crime
Context: remarks to a conference
Fact-check justification: Citing a study by University of Utah researchers, Sessions claimed that a legal settlement over police conduct between the ACLU and the city "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone." Sessions misstated the ACLU’s involvement with the Chicago police department — there was no lawsuit. He did, however, correctly recite conclusions of the study. The overriding question, then, is whether the study reaches sound conclusions. On that, there is considerable disagreement. Chicago police stops did indeed dramatically plunge in the wake of a city agreement with the ACLU to overhaul its stop-and-frisk policy. A big jump in the city’s murder rate also coincided with the end of policy’s end. Even so, New York and other big cities did not experience hikes in violence and murders after curtailing stop-and-frisk. Other academics express serious reservations about the research methods used by the Utah study. The skeptics also point to an array of factors that may also have contributed to the murder and violence spike — not the least of which was the wrenching impact of the Laquan McDonald shooting video. There is considerable debate about that. There is some element of  in the statement made by Sessions, but it also ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. That is the boilerplate Politifact definition of .
Statement: In cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the United States is "the leader in the world by far.
Speaker: dan sullivan
About the speaker: Dan Sullivan is a Republican senator from Alaska.
Date: March 23, 2022
Location: national
Topics: climate change;energy
Context: a Senate hearing
Fact-check justification: Sullivan said the United States is "the leader in the world by far" in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.  In absolute terms, that is accurate — but it isn’t telling the full story. Relative to the scale of emissions in other leading economies, other countries show much deeper reductions. Sullivan also left out emissions per person in the United States. Although those have dropped, they’re still about twice as high as they are in China.  We rate this  .
Statement: We borrow money from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis.
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: February 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Austin, Texas
Fact-check justification: It's clearly a stretch to say the same capital China injects into the economy when it buys Treasury securities somehow winds up in the Saudis' pockets. Clinton might have noted that Saudi Arabia also is a big investor in Treasury securities. That means some of the money we pay for crude oil circulates back to our economy when they buy Treasuries. It's all proof that what goes around, comes around. Although Clinton is correct that China is a big investor in Treasuries, but her statement is  because it suggests that we're specifically using Chinese investments to pay for Saudi oil.
Statement: While she was mayor, Lois Frankel took a "police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party.
Speaker: adam hasner
About the speaker: Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is a former Majority Leader for the Florida House of Representatives.
Date: October 18, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;city budget;city government;message machine 2012
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Hasner’s ad says that while she was mayor of West Palm Beach, Frankel took a "police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party." But Frankel says she never took the helicopter to get to a private party -- only in her duties as mayor. Public records we found appear to support that. The ad left open to interpretation whether that was a private party or a mayoral event. So for making that unclear we rate this ad .
Statement: Says that according to "many reports and even our own data," the state of Texas spent more through Medicaid on orthodontia than all other states combined.
Speaker: lois kolkhorst
About the speaker: Lois Kolkhorst of Brenham, a former Texas House member, won election to the Texas Senate in December 2014.  She's formerly the chairwoman of the House Committee on Public Health. Her family runs Kolkhorst Petroleum in Navasota, according to biographical information on her campaign website.
Date: September 23, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: health care;medicaid;public health
Context: a breakfast at the Texas Tribune Festival
Fact-check justification: Kolkhorst said that according to "many reports" and "our own data," Texas outspent all other states combined on Medicaid-funded orthodontia. Texas experienced a toothsome spending spike; WFAA's reporting demonstrates the state spent more on orthodontic procedures funded by Medicaid in 2010 than the other most-populous states, combined. But relevant research has been limited to the spending in Texas and nine to 14 other states. Lacking complete backup information, this  rates as .
Statement: Says Andrew Gillum "wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars.
Speaker: republican governors association
About the speaker: the gubernatorial campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Date: September 12, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: education;taxes
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The Republican Governors Association said that "Gillum wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars." The ad leaves out the details that voters might want to know about Gillum’s proposal. Gillum proposes raising the corporate tax rate from 5.5 to 7.75 percent, generating about an extra $1 billion from Florida’s biggest corporations to put toward education. The tax wouldn’t directly target the average Floridian, but experts say at least some of the cost could trickle down. The  is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: February 28, 2019
Topics: immigration;elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The viral image said, "Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned." The meme significantly overstates the number of Somali refugees settled under Obama in Minnesota, the total number of Somali refugees in the state, and the impact that Somali voters could have had on the primary election results, much less the lopsided general election. In no way can Omar’s victory have been "planned," by Obama or anyone else. We rate the statement .
Statement: Former Las Vegas Raiders offensive tackle Bruce Campbell involved in altercation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 4, 2021
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Wow. #RaiderNation. "  The person who originally tweeted the video, however, didn’t identify anyone in the video or say where or when the incident occurred. Subsequent tweets and retweets from Raider Albert indicated he was amused by the attention his original tweet had gotten. We rate the post .
Statement: The folks in Washington" are "already forcing you to buy government health care.
Speaker: carlos beruff
About the speaker: Carlos Beruff is a Bradenton developer running for U.S. Senate. His company, Medallion Homes, operates in Manatee and Sarasota counties. He has never held an elected office, but then-Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 appointed him to the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport Authority, the Southwest Florida Water Management board and the State College of Florida board. Gov. Rick Scott reappointed him to all three positions and in 2015 picked Beruff to lead his hospital commission. 
 
Date: July 6, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Beruff said Washington politicians are "already forcing you to buy government health care." His statement makes a sweeping generalization, but there is some  to the "forcing" part. The individual mandate incentivizes individuals to have health care or face a tax penalty. Of course, the choice is still theirs. The bigger problem is Beruff’s use of "government health care." This talking point was flawed around the law’s passage six years ago, and it’s no more accurate now. Just as before, the country’s health care system largely depends on the free market. We rate the statement  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7b94aa27-a11f-4e36-84db-354ba5d567b8
Statement: FDR was called a socialist and a communist.
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: September 21, 2009
Location: national
Topics: history
Context: interview on "Late Night with David Letterman"
Fact-check justification: "I have simply said and shown that he does receive the support of these enemies of the American system of government, and that he has done his best to deserve the support of all such disturbing and destructive elements." Hearst's efforts were for naught. Roosevelt won the 1936 election in a landslide, while the Hearst newspaper chain slid into bankruptcy. There's not much controversy on this one, but it did provide an interesting opportunity to review American history. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to "twist [legislator's] arms to vote for deals like this.
Speaker: dawson hodgson
About the speaker: Dawson Hodgson was a state senator from North Kingstown, R.I., representing District 35 in East Greenwich, South Kingstown and Narragansett. A lawyer and businessman, he was first elected to the Senate in November 2010. In 2014, he made an unsuccessful run for attorney general as a Republican.
Date: May 27, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: bankruptcy;baseball;economy;history;jobs;message machine 2014;negative campaigning;state budget
Context: a radio commercial
Fact-check justification: Apparently he's unaware that PolitiFact's judges also take context into consideration.    Hodgson’s ad seems deliberately crafted to give the erroneous impression that Kilmartin worked with Fox to secure votes for the 38 Studios deal.      Taken in that context, Hodgson's  commands a less-than-accurate rating on the -O-Meter. We rate it . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Republicans offered Wisconsin bar patrons "free shots (of alcohol) to sign recall petitions against" Democrats.
Speaker: chris larson
About the speaker: Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in November 2010. A former member of the Milwaukee County Board, he is a candidate for Milwaukee County executive in 2016.
Date: April 22, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;labor;state budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Larson is correct that multiple free shots were offered. But the record so far shows they were offered by one person, whose party affiliation, if any, isn’t known. And the shots were offered for signatures against only one Democrat. Larson’s statement contains some element of , but wrongly suggests that the shots-for-signatures was more than an isolated incident. We rate his  .
Statement: Apple and Amazon already operate in many states that require levels of voter ID.
Speaker: civitas institute
About the speaker: Civitas is a Raleigh-based nonprofit organization that promotes conservative policies
Date: June 25, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections;states;technology
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: While some of their offices, such as in Washington state and Virginia, predate the laws, many others don’t. They have built offices, such as in Tennessee and Iowa, either after a voter ID bill became law, or the same year. PolitiFact North Carolina rates this statement . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke Reporters' Lab and PolitiFact, with funding from the International Center for Journalists and the NC Local News Lab. The story is available for publication by news organizations around the state.
Statement: Says Gov. Scott Walker "took away $1.6 billion from schools and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich.
Speaker: we are wisconsin 
About the speaker: We Are Wisconsin formed in summer 2011 for the state senate recall elections. It is a group composed of labor unions. We Are Wisconsin formed a political action committee and funded campaign advertising and other activities.
 
Date: May 25, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;education;message machine 2012;taxes
Context: campaign mail
Fact-check justification: Our rating We Are Wisconsin said Walker took $1.6 billion from schools "and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich," suggesting a direct transfer of funds. But Walker’s school cuts amount to $800 million to $900 million over two years and the tax breaks amount to only $212 million during that period. Moreover, had there been no tax breaks, there’s no telling how that revenue might have been used. We rate We Are Wisconsin’s statement . (You can comment on this item on the Journal Sentinel web page .)
Statement: In the last five years, 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Speaker: lamar smith
About the speaker: Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
Date: December 15, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;homeland security;crime
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Then that's what Smith should have said in the first place. Instead, his statement that 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border in the past five years fails a -test in a couple of ways. First, he misleads by failing to specify that all the deaths he is talking about were on the Mexican side of the border. Second, he claims the drug-related homicides took place in the border region, when the Mexican government says they occurred in other parts of the country as well. We rate Smith's statement as .