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Statement: Under the new health care law, the elderly will be denied care when they have "passed the age limit for treatment.
Speaker: dan fanelli
About the speaker: Dan Fanelli is a retired airline pilot running for Congress in Florida's 8th District.
Date: June 3, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare;message machine 2010
Context: a video on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: So to recap, Fanelli's ad offers a dramatic scene that has no solid facts behind it. He claims it portrays "Obamacare," but he cannot cite any provisions in the health care bill -- other than vague fear of a European system -- that could cause such a tragic scene. He referred us to his wife's dermatologist -- who also happens to be the star of the commercial -- but the dermatologist did not produce any conclusive , either. So the ad has lots of melodrama but no facts. We find the  .
Statement: Breaking: UK Prepares For Full Lockdown After Hundreds Of New Cases — Wuhan Super Virus Updates.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 11, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says: "Breaking: UK Prepares For Full Lockdown After Hundreds Of New Cases — Wuhan Super Virus Updates." There are fewer than 10 coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom and no signs that travel or other aspects of life in Britain have been shut down by the virus. We rate the statement .
Statement: Only one member of Iowa's federal delegation" voted in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation.
Speaker: progress iowa
About the speaker: Progress Iowa is a liberal, progressive political advocacy organization in Iowa. 
Date: November 15, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: infrastructure
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Progress Iowa’s executive director initially said the afternoon of Nov. 15 that Rep. Cindy Axne was the only member of Iowa’s congressional delegation to vote for the infrastructure bil. That was , and Sinovic corrected it quickly after PolitiFact Iowa contacted Progress Iowa the morning of Nov. 16. Sinovic wrote in an email that he had been planning the correcti on. The statement was not on Progress Iowa’s  press website  on Nov. 16. The correction set the record straight. But, the initial statement was out there for news organizations and others on Progress Iowa’s email list to read for almost a day. Additionally, Progress Iowa’s Twitter account  had an item  that remained public the morning of Nov. 17 that thanked Biden and Axne but omitted Grassley’s name as an Iowa supporter of the bill. We rate the  to be .
Statement: When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security "was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.
Speaker: jb pritzker
About the speaker: J.B. Pritzker is Illinois' 43rd governor and a former Chicago venture capitalist and entrepreneur.
Date: August 4, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: economy
Context: remarks at a news conference
Fact-check justification: Pritzker said when COVID-19 struck, IDES "was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime." His office pointed to two weeks when state data show new unemployment claims surged by as much as 12 times the number of initial claims received in the same weeks during the 2008 recession. Those two weeks of peak claims fall within the range Pritzker cited, if not hitting 20. His spokeswoman also told us the governor was referring to the difference between the claims IDES is seeing this year and the numbers it normally receives, which is supported by the data too. However, that more accurate comparison wasn’t made clear in his remarks. We rate his  .  — 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: I have always been focused on reining in the deficit.
Speaker: herb kohl
About the speaker: Herb Kohl served four terms in the U.S. Senate. He is a Democrat  from Wisconsin. The owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, Kohl was elected in 1988, his first run for public office. He retired from the Senate at the end of 2012, and was succeeded by Democrat Tammy Baldwin.
Date: December 3, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: And he has voted for numerous big-ticket items, whatever the rationale for the individual votes. Kohl’s fiscal rating of votes in recent years puts him in the most-liberal third of the Senate. That alone may not make him a big spender -- being a Republican conservative hasn’t necessarily meant deficit reduction in recent years -- but it’s a general clue that his agenda has often been focused more on spending than on cost controls. Thus, the slam dunk attempt falls short. We rate Kohl’s statement .
Statement: Obama "has no experience or background at all in national security affairs.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: April 3, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Fact-check justification: The pair later collaborated on an effort to triple spending for programs to counter the spread of conventional weapons, but the bill never made it to a Senate vote. In 2005, Obama also participated in a more parochial national security debate, arguing against the Base Realignment and Closure Commission's decision to move some operations at the Rock Island Arsenal in his home state of Illinois to military installations in Texas. It's  that Obama's freshman rank and committee assignments didn't throw him in the middle of the national security fray, and it's  that his background is no match for McCain's. But to say he has absolutely no national security background or experience is an overstatement. For this reason we rule McCain's statement to be .
Statement: Many states without collective bargaining, such as Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, have far larger budget deficits than many that do, including Ohio.
Speaker: david pepper
About the speaker: David Pepper, a former Hamilton County commissioner, ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Ohio auditor in 2010.
Date: March 10, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: an Ohio House committee hearing
Fact-check justification: States with no collective bargaining for public employees had an average budget gap of 24.8 percent in 2010, according to Policy Matters Ohio. Meanwhile, states with collective bargaining for all public employees had an average deficit gap of 24.1 percent. Pepper was right on the money in terms of percentage gaps. He was correct in terms of actual dollars and cents for two of the three states he cited. On the -O-Meter, we rate Pepper’s statement .
Statement: Says he was the first person to call for invoking the Defense Production Act.
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: September 2, 2020
Topics: military;public health;coronavirus
Context: Wilmington, Del
Fact-check justification: Biden has said several times he was the first person calling for use of the Defense Production Act.  But Biden was far from the first. A full 18 days before Biden made his first public comment on the act, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary had publicly floated the idea, and Trump made it official the same day Biden made his remarks. In between, dozens of Democratic lawmakers publicly called for the act to be used, and Biden did not mention it in a Democratic primary debate. We rate the statement .
Statement: BP is setting up claims offices throughout the state.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: June 6, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley
Fact-check justification: Crist's use of the word "throughout," kind of has us stumbling a bit. The claims centers are concentrated primarily in the Panhandle, with two others in the Florida Keys. There are no centers between Cedar Key and Naples on the west coast of the state and none on the east coast. While it is  that reports of oil have been concentrated to the Panhandle and the Keys, the spill has the potential to impact all parts of the state, regardless how close the oil is to the shore. Trying to balance it all out, we rate Crist's statement .
Statement: A photo taken on Jan. 6, 2021, at the United States Capitol riot was "doctored to look as if the Capitol was on fire.
Speaker: jack posobiec
About the speaker: Jack Posobiec is a conservative activist who frequently supports Donald Trump on Twitter.
Date: October 24, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;jan. 6
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The photo was not doctored. It was taken at dusk, at a moment when intense light from a flash grenade briefly illuminated the Capitol and tear gas was deployed. MSNBC captured the same moment on video, with a timestamp that matches the time the photographer said the photo was taken. Another Reuters photographer and videographer also captured images of the same scene, with similar details. We rate this  .
Statement: The RI Board of Elections has heard official testimony from Providence residents who claim to have witnessed known illegal aliens voting in local elections.
Speaker: travis rowley
About the speaker: Travis Rowley is a Brown University graduate and chairman of the Rhode Island Young Republicans.
Date: July 19, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: immigration;elections
Context: a commentary
Fact-check justification: Perez did report one case. But because Rowley substantially overstated the  regarding illegal immigrant voting, the -O-Meter rates his statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.) (We amended this item on Aug. 1 to reflect Perez's  that the woman she complained about was in the country illegally.)
Statement: Every major religion is opposed to same-sex marriage.
Speaker: phil burress
About the speaker: Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values
Date: June 26, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: lgbtq;religion
Context: news story
Fact-check justification: But "most" is not "all." The opposition is not unanimous. Views vary within Judeo-Christian tradition. The number of denominations accepting same-sex marriage has been increasing . We rate his statement .
Statement: Hollywood celebs: We will go on 'total strike' if Trump does not resign.
Speaker: nourtey
About the speaker: Nourtey.com posts fake news about Democrats.
Date: December 30, 2017
Topics: fake news;pop culture;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: #LoveTrumpsHate #ResistTrump Please don't leave hateful comments or memes on my page. Stay Rosie." So Nourtey.com said, "Hollywood celebs: We will go on ‘total strike’ if Trump does not resign." While O’Donnell was among the celebrities who signed a Refuse Fascism petition calling for protests leading up to Trump’s inauguration and has continued to criticize Trump, we found no  that there was a plan for a mass strike among celebrities. We rate this headline .
Statement: Guess who is the marketing CEO of Zoom? Pelosi's daughter/Newsome's cousin.
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: September 19, 2020
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Nancy Pelosi has five children : four daughters — Nancy Corinne Prowda , Christine Pelosi , Jacqueline Kenneally and Alexandra Pelosi — and one son, Paul Pelosi. There is a connection between Nancy Pelosi’s family and Newsom’s family, as FactCheck.org has reported . Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, Ron Pelosi, was married to Gavin Newsom’s aunt, making Ron Pelosi Newsom’s uncle by marriage.   But none of those family connections make either politician kin to Zoom’s marketing officer.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Sources show (Connie) Mack as a resident of California, living with his wife in Palm Springs.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: May 7, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: They also owned their own homes and had professional careers in their respective states before they married. Given that context, we don’t think the deed to a vacation home in Colorado is definitive proof that Mack is living in California. One of our principles at PolitiFact is that campaigns have the burden to offer proof for what they say. In this case, the LeMieux campaign doesn’t have much. We rate this  .
Statement: More than half of women under 30 who give birth do so outside of marriage...
Speaker: don beyer
About the speaker: Donald S. Beyer Jr. is the Democratic nominee for 8th District congressional seat Democrat in Northern Virginia. The seat has been occupied since 1992 by Democrat Jim Moran, who is not seeking reelection.
Beyer served two terms as Virginia's lieutenant governor from 1990 to 1998. He ran for governor in 1997 and lost to Republican Jim Gilmore. From 2009 to 2013, he was ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.  
Beyer and his younger brother, Michael, are the owners of nine car dealerships in Northern Virginia.
Beyer was born in 1950 in Trieste, Italy, the son of a U.S. Army officer. He was raised in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Williams College, magna cum laude, with a degree in economics.
 
Date: June 15, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: families;women
Context: a website post
Fact-check justification:   Beyer said "more than half of women under 30 do so outside of marriage."   Government figures back up his assertion. We rate his statement .
Statement: An image shows "a medical oddity that is characterized by having two pupils in each eyeball.
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 15, 2022
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An image of a wide-open eye with not one but two irises and pupils is being shared on social media with a description of a condition that might cause ophthalmologists to close their own in disbelief. "The Pupula duplex is a medical oddity that is characterized by having two pupils in each eyeball," text appearing with the image says.   A post sharing it was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)
Statement: Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database.
Speaker: edward snowden
About the speaker: A former National Security Agency contractor based in Hawaii, Edward Snowden released secret documents about NSA surveillance programs to journalists for the Washington Post and Guardian before fleeing to Hong Kong. He now lives in Russia, which granted him permission to stay there three years.
Date: April 5, 2015
Topics: homeland security;technology;terrorism;punditfact
Context: an interview on "Last Week Tonight"
Fact-check justification: Snowden said, "Even if you sent it to someone within the United States, your wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the database." In Oliver’s context of a naked picture, the comment may be surprising. But to experts familiar with the laws governing surveillance practices and the NSA programs brought to light through his leaks, Snowden is correct that this could happen. But this isn’t the most likely scenario for most Americans emailing other Americans day-in, day-out. Moreover, the NSA is supposed to "minimize" domestic emails that get caught up in a broader sweep, either by deleting them or not searching or using the information. Snowden’s  is accurate but misses that context. We rate it .
Statement: Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average
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: June 29, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a speech at the White House
Fact-check justification: The state's level was about 30 percent less than the national average of 333 Btu, which ranked the state 47th in the nation. Statemaster.com, a database that compares states by demographics and economics, shows a similar pattern based on statistics from 2001; then, California ranked 46th in per capita energy consumption.    So Obama is correct with his underlying point that California's energy efficiency measures have reduced consumption dramatically, but he is off target with his statistic. It's actually 30 percent lower, not 40 percent as he said. We rate his  .
Statement: If you're over 65 years old in America today, you have no choice but to be in Medicare. Even if you want out of Medicare, you have to forfeit your Social Security to get out of it.
Speaker: dick armey
About the speaker: Dick Armey is the former Republican Leader in the House of Representatives and the current chairman of FreedomWorks, a group that advocates for lower taxes and small government.
Date: August 13, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview with Judy Woodruff
Fact-check justification: It turns out the NewsHour got a few viewer inquires angry that host Judy Woodruff did not do enough to challenge Armey on that point, according to Michael Getler, PBS ombudsman. Instead, Woodruff asked the other guest, Richard Kirsch with the liberal advocacy group Health Care for America Now, to challenge Armey's , but he didn't offer a specific rebuttal, leaving Armey's  up in the air.    So, back to Armey's . He's  that Medicare is required for everyone over the age of 65, but he's correct that those who want out of the program will lose their Social Security benefits as well. To us, that's a clear-cut .
Statement: Says "Romney supported a law that could have made most common forms of birth control illegal.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: October 26, 2012
Location: national
Topics: abortion;sexuality
Context: a mailer to voters
Fact-check justification: The mailer from the Florida Democratic Party says Romney supported a law that could have made most common forms of birth control illegal. Romney supports laws that define life as beginning at conception, but we have not found that these laws bar the use of contraceptives -- at least, certainly not the most common forms. Personhood laws could limit some forms of birth control, but Romney has not supported those measures. And Romney has repeatedly said he supports the use of contraceptives. We rate the statement .
Statement: John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem.
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: October 2, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: St. Louis
Fact-check justification: But McCain also said he didn't know if 'surprised' was the word. And he issued a blanket caveat about how greed and excess among capitalists never surprised him. So the context undermines Biden's  a bit. (Not to mention that Biden flubbed the month that McCain made his comments.) We give Biden a .