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Statement: Ashley Hinson's and Mariannette Miller-Meeks' no votes on the infrastructure bill are "denying rural Iowa broadband internet.
Speaker: dave loebsack
About the speaker: Dave Loebsack, a Democrat, served as U.S. representative for Iowa from 2007 to 2021.
Date: November 6, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: corrections and updates;technology
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Dave Loebsack wrote on his existing Twitter account that Hinson and Miller-Meeks denied rural Iowans broadband by voting no on the infrastructure bill. That happened in this instance. And, while Miller-Meeks said she supported the original Senate-passed infrastructure bill, she still cast her no vote on the bill before her. But both congresswomen voted when members of the Iowa House in 2019 in favor of an Iowa bill to increase rural broadband funding. With more than just broadband in the infrastructure package, and given Miller-Meeks’ and Hinson’s previous records in the Iowa Legislature supporting rural broadband funding, we rate this statement to be . CORRECTION, Nov. 22, 2021:  An earlier version of this fact-check said that comments from Hinson expressed her opinions on the infrastructure bill. But Hinson’s campaign said her comments were about on a motion to add Build Back Better to the consideration. We have corrected the fact-check to reflect her views.
Statement: Says "President Obama hijacked the farm bill (and) turned it into a food stamp bill.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: September 18, 2014
Location: national
Topics: agriculture;congress;voting record;welfare
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Cotton said that Obama "hijacked the farm bill (and) turned it into a food stamp bill." That’s not correct -- food stamps have been part of every farm bill enacted since 1973. One could say that Cotton and his allies in the House, by seeking a farm bill stripped of food stamp provisions, were actually the ones taking a more radical step, one that Congress ultimately voted against. We rate this  .
Statement: My position hasn't changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues.
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: November 16, 2014
Location: national
Topics: immigration;legal issues
Context: Australia
Fact-check justification: When asked to explain why he suddenly feels he can use executive action to address immigration issues, Obama said, "My position hasn’t changed." Obama has been asked about his ability to use his office to change immigration rules in the U.S. in many ways throughout the years. Sometimes, he has been asked broadly, but other times, he was asked about very specific measures, such as not splitting up families or freezing deportations for parents of DREAMers. In answering those questions, Obama’s position has clearly changed. Whereas he used to say his ability to take action ended at deferring action on DREAMers, he now is saying there are at least some things he can do and intends to do. Even absent the specifics of his plan, it’s very clear his tune is much different now. We rate the  .
Statement: In some cases, a sex offender "who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry" would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft when ride-hailing is allowed upstate in July
Speaker: thomas croci
About the speaker: Thomas D. Croci is a New York State Senator from Long Island.
Date: April 27, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: crime;transportation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Croci, a state senator from Long Island, said that in some cases a sex offender "who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry" would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft. Level 1 sex offenders are not listed on the national sex offender registry, and would therefore be allowed to drive for ride-hailing companies seven years after they are released from prison or, if they were not incarcerated, after their conviction.  Croci’s statement is .
Statement: COP26 luxury EVs to be recharged using diesel generators
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 24, 2021
Location: national
Topics: climate change
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said the organizers of the COP26 climate change summit were using diesel generators to recharge electric vehicle batteries. Organizers are using generators, but they run on a type of vegetable oil that has much lower emissions than diesel fuel. The fuel, hydrotreated vegetable oil, is sometimes called a biodiesel, but it is not a fossil fuel and is chemically distinct from diesel. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;history
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: According to Hull's research, Alexander -- who was president of the American Philosophical Association in 1918-1919 -- was commissioned to design the decorative scheme, and write inscriptions for the Nebraska State Capitol building, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building in Philadelphia and the Oregon State Capitol building. In other words, Alexander had a varied and illustrious career, none of which would suggest putting his words atop the DOJ website is any kind subliminal socialist message. This whole issue is much ado about nothing. The authors cooked up a conspiracy theory based on misinformation about who authored the quote on the DOJ website (and the side of the DOJ Building), and then they ran with it. We rate the  .
Statement: The IRS "also investigated liberal groups, groups that had progressive in their name. ... The IRS was basically looking at everybody.
Speaker: donna brazile
About the speaker: A longtime Democratic political consultant and campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. Currently a political commentator for CNN and frequent commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Date: June 22, 2014
Topics: elections;taxes;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Brazile said the IRS was "looking at everybody" including liberal groups and progressive groups. Yes, some progressive groups did have their tax-exempt status applications flagged as the IRS reviewed whether nonprofit groups were engaging in political activities. But it wasn’t to the same degree as tea party and other conservative groups, nor did it result in the same actions. The list targeting tea party groups resulted in delayed processing that in some cases lasted almost three years and inquiries into their donors. Further, the inspector general found tea party groups were systematically singled out as part of an office-wide effort, while progressive groups were not. Weighing all of this, we rate Brazile’s comments .
Statement: Says Tony Evers "didn't revoke the license of a teacher caught spreading pornography and commenting on the bodies of middle-school girls.
Speaker: republican party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Republican Party works to elect Republicans to state and federal offices and advance the GOP agenda.
Date: August 1, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education;legal issues;government regulation;sexuality
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: But what’s left out is that Evers concluded that state law at the time didn’t allow for a revocation because the teacher’s behavior didn’t endanger children. The same conclusion had been reached by an arbitrator, who ruled the teacher had been fired improperly and gave the teacher back his job. And two courts upheld the arbitrator’s decision. The importance of the endangering standard was underlined by the fact that the Legislature later made sure to take that clause out. The attack on Evers is partially accurate, but leaves out important details  — our definition of .
Statement: I'll be the only economist in the (U.S.) House.
Speaker: dave brat
About the speaker: Dave Brat represents Virginia's 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected to the seat in 2014 after pulling of a stunning upset of Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican Primary. He is active in the Freedom Caucus, a conservative wing of Republican congressmen.
Prior to Congress, Brat was chairman of the business and economics department at Randolph-Macon College. 
Brat, a midwestern native, has obtained a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in economics from American University. He began teaching at Randolph-Macon in 1996.
Brat served two Governors on the Joint Advisory Board of Economists. He was president of the Virginia Association of Economists.
Date: October 15, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Brat said he would be the only economist in the House. We only found two members who list economist among the jobs they’ve held before entering Congress. Both went on to other professions. Brat has been an economics professor since 1996 and would be the only congressman with a Ph.D. in the field. We’ll leave it to you decide whether Brat’s distinct background will better enable Congress to resolve economic issues. But as for his  of uniqueness, we rate it .
Statement: The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.
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: March 15, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a Democratic primary debate
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "The World Health Organization offered, offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them."  Biden has a point that the U.S. did not attempt to use the WHO test. But the U.S. would never have needed complete kits from WHO. Even if it had adopted the WHO testing approach, it already had access to all the necessary materials.  WHO said there was never any talk of WHO sending testing kits to the United States. Biden’s words leave out other important context and information.  The U.S. chose to use its own test, rather than the one circulated by WHO. Other nations, such as China, Japan and France, also developed their own tests. Multiple public health experts said that is not unusual.  Biden’s emphasis on WHO offering kits is simply . We rate this  .
Statement: Said he "opposed every budget Republican and Democrat.
Speaker: jim marshall
About the speaker: Jim Marshall, congressman District 8
Date: October 1, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget
Context: campaign video
Fact-check justification: We talked to budget experts from think tanks of various stripes, from left-leaning to Libertarian to conservative -- the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the New America Foundation. The experts concurred that the budget resolution is an important part of the budget process. But they also concluded that strictly talking about the budget resolution without discussing the underlying spending bills omits critical context.    Marshall’s statement is accurate, but it leaves out important details that could lead viewers of his campaign video to a different conclusion. We rate his statement .
Statement: The Virginia GOP education agenda (would) erase slavery from VA history.
Speaker: democratic legislative campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee helps Democrats get elected to state legislatures. It is an arm of the Democratic National Committee.   
Date: December 4, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: education;history
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The committee and many other critics of Youngkin’s plan said it failed to connect the role of slavery to current U.S. racial issues. Without that tie, they say the "legacy" of slavery has been erased. But the committee’s tweet does not make that distinction. We rate the statement . Editor's note: This fact-check contains a statement from Virginia House Minority Leader Don Scott that was not in the original version that ran on VPM's website.
Statement: The Biden administration wants to create an international oversight committee" to alter or cancel Second Amendment rights.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: September 29, 2021
Location: national
Topics: constitutional amendments;foreign policy;guns
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: The  stems from a letter that Republican senators addressed to Biden asking for clarification of comments during a United Nations conference from a State Department official. The senators said these comments indicated that the Biden administration would rejoin the Arms Trade Treaty, which they were concerned could impede American gun owners’ rights. But the letter was not accusing the Biden administration of creating an international oversight committee to regulate U.S. gun rights. The White House affirmed that the creation of such a committee is not in the works. We rate this  .
Statement: The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie (Crist) wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: October 10, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: a gubernatorial debate
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs."  Scott is referencing the CBO’s rough estimate for the effect of Obama’s plan to lift the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour on employment. It’s not necessarily what would happen, as he said, but what could happen. In other words, a loss of 500,000 jobs is the agency’s best guess, and other possibilities include a slight effect on jobs to about 1 million lost jobs. More importantly, its analysis pertained to the country as a whole. Scott's comments came in a discussion about Florida jobs, which means the number is being taken out of context.  The average Floridian may not know that the CBO report does not apply to "the way Charlie wants" to raise the minimum wage in Florida. Florida’s minimum wage is slightly higher at $7.93 in 2014. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: For more than 80 years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year. This is simply not the time to break with decades of bipartisan practice.
Speaker: jennifer horn
About the speaker: Jennifer Horn, the chairman of the Republican Party of New Hampshire, is a two-time challenger for the New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. She won the Republican nomination in 2008, but eventually lost to Paul Hodes in the general election. In 2010, she lost to Charles Bass in the Republican primary. Horn lives in Nashua, New Hampshire, with her husband William Horn.
Date: March 16, 2016
Location: new hampshire
Topics: bipartisanship;history;supreme court
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: New Hampshire Republican chairwoman Jennifer Horn said that "For more than eighty years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year." The time elapsed is actually 76 years, but Horn’s statement is otherwise accurate. Her following sentence, that this means there are "decades of bipartisan practice" of not filling seats, is more dubious. Few such positions have come open during that time and when they have, presidents have pushed forward with nominees. On balance, we rate her statement
Statement: Seth Magaziner "plans to spend billions more of your money.
Speaker: ernest almonte
About the speaker: Ernest Almonte served as Rhode Island's Auditor General from 1994 to 2010. He has served as president of the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of State Auditors. He is founder of the Almonte Group, an accounting firm. He is married with five sons. In 2014 he made an unsuccessful run for Rhode Island General Treasurer as an independent.
Date: October 19, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: debt;deficit;economy;education;jobs;message machine 2014;negative campaigning;pensions;small business;state budget;unions;taxes
Context: a television commercial
Fact-check justification: Ernest Almonte said Seth Magaziner "plans to spend billions more of your money." Almonte is referring to Magaziner’s Blueprint for Rhode Island, which outlines a series of economic development proposals. If any were implemented, there would certainly be a cost, but the lack of specifics in the blueprint make it impossible to calculate. Almonte told PolitiFact Rhode Island that he is simply doing what a good general treasurer should do -- evaluate proposals and offer realistic estimates about what they would cost. He said the total eventual price tag could be more than $2 billion. But extrapolating worst-case costs from vaguely defined programs, piling assumption onto assumption and extending them over several years is not realistic at all. Because the statement contains some elements of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, 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: If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today.
Speaker: herman cain
About the speaker: Herman Cain is an author, columnist and talk radio host. Cain, a former pizza franchise CEO, ran for president as a Republican in 2012.
Date: September 15, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: And it’s fair to dispute whether this is a good way to measure Obama’s economic record. Also, Cain could have been more clear. He should have emphasized that he meant that there would be 14 million more jobs if this recession were more typical of the most severe postwar recessions, rather than postwar recessions in general. That said, Cain’s calculation that we would have 14 million jobs was within reason, if a bit high. We therefore rate Cain’s statement .
Statement: When you get a commercial pilot's license, you learn to communicate in English no matter where you are in the world.
Speaker: don balfour
About the speaker: State Sen. Don Balfour is a Republican from Snellville.
 
Date: April 11, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration;states
Context: a flier
Fact-check justification: NATCA represents over 20,000 air traffic controllers, engineers and other safety-related professionals. She noted that some pilots’ English is better than others. Nonetheless, as Balfour said, commercial pilots across nearly the entire world are required to speak some English. Since there are a few countries not on the list, we believe there is a little context that needs to be understood. We rate his statement .
Statement: German News Agency Tracks 75 Prominent Athletes Suddenly Dead Of Heart Attacks After COVID Vax
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 10, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post included an article with the headline, " German News Agency Tracks 75 Prominent Athletes Suddenly Dead Of Heart Attacks After COVID Vax." The article cites a German news story that did not report that information. The athletes listed in the German news story did not all die, nor did they all have heart attacks. Some of the people listed were not vaccinated against COVID-19, and some who died had a history of heart problems or a family history of death by heart attack.   We rate this  .
Statement: Since President (Donald Trump's) election, 36,000 jobs have been created in WI.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: November 20, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Pence said 36,000 jobs have been created in Wisconsin since Trump took office. It’s an oversimplification to imply, as Pence does, that Trump deserves the credit for that bump. Jobs have actually trended in the other direction so far this year -- and changes in either direction are the product of many factors, not just who occupies the Oval Office. But Pence’s number lines ups with — and actually understates — the gains since January 2017, according to the latest data.  For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, our rating is .
Statement: California has instituted a "bacon ban.
Speaker: ashley hinson
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson is a Republican who represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.
Date: March 6, 2022
Location: california
Topics: agriculture;animals;food;food safety;iowa
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Hinson and other Republicans from Iowa in Congress are pushing back against California Proposition 12, which bans pork, egg and veal products from companies that don’t follow the law’s confinement area standards.  The product ban, which applies to companies in California but also out of state, is a way to enforce increased space requirements for housing livestock. More exists in the law but pigs raised under the conditions set out in California law may be sold for pork products.  Iowa pork would not be able to be sold in California if the housing conditions for Iowa pigs taken to market do not comply with the law’s rules. Calling what is happening in California a bacon ban is .