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Statement: I am the only member of Congress that voted for both inquiries -- the Clinton inquiry and now the Trump inquiry.
Speaker: ron kind
About the speaker: Democrat Ron Kind has represented Wisconsin's third congressional district since 1996.
Date: November 17, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: congress;ethics;impeachment;legal issues;foreign policy
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: In all, 55 current members of the House -- 40 Democrats, 15 Republicans -- were also in office during the time the House voted to start an impeachment inquiry into Clinton. Our research shows Kind, indeed, was the only one to vote for both. Our rating Kind said he was "the only member of Congress that voted for both inquiries -- the Clinton inquiry and now the Trump inquiry." We found Kind did vote yes to both inquiries and of the 55 members of the Congress who took part in both votes, he is an outlier.   We rate his  .
Statement: To deprive" underprivileged children "of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day.
Speaker: todd staples
About the speaker: Staples was first elected agriculture commissioner of Texas in 2006 after previously serving in the Texas Senate and House. He unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, afterward resigning for another job.
Date: September 8, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: children;education
Context: oped commentary
Fact-check justification: Staples wrote: "To deprive" underprivileged children "of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day." He offered no full-fledged backup for this  while the Austin-area school he singled out as demonstrating this shortcoming follows a menu written to satisfy federal requirements schools serve a protein meeting dietary needs, whether it’s meat or not, every day. Fire up the smoker. This statement is !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Broward County was one of three counties in the nation "pivotal to an Obama victory" in 2012.
Speaker: broward democratic executive committee
About the speaker: The Broward Democratic Executive Committee consists of hundreds of activists elected by their neighborhood precincts to represent the party. The volunteers work to elect Democrats to local, state and national office.
Date: April 11, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The Broward County Democratic Party said in a press release that Broward County was "pivotal to an Obama victory" in 2012, citing a news article. It’s mathematically possible to point to Obama’s margin in Broward and say that the votes were more than his margin over Romney. But Broward wasn’t really that special. There was never a question that Obama was going to win Broward, and voter-turnout there wasn't particularly high. Miami-Dade, for example, also delivered a big margin for Obama. The author of the news article said he could have just as easily chosen Miami-Dade rather than Broward County for the statement. Election experts we interviewed did not identify Broward as pivotal to Obama’s victory, and a few noted that Obama took more a more surprising win in swing-voting Hillsborough County. We rate this  .
Statement: In 1993 the Republicans embraced a health platform that proudly features an individual mandate as its main component.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 19, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;history;message machine 2012
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It would be accurate to say that a number of Republicans -- including several high-profile senators -- supported a bill or a subsequent proposal that included an individual mandate provision. But the Facebook post  when it says that "the Republicans embraced" the idea, a phrasing that suggests widespread support inside the party. Less than half the Senate Republican conference went public in support of Chafee’s bill, most of them from the party’s more moderate wing. The Facebook post also stumbles when it says the proposals in question "proudly" featured the individual mandate "as its main component." The mandate was a mechanism that would have taken effect from eight to 11 years after enactment, and only if other policies failed to expand insurance coverage enough. Breaux, the bill’s co-sponsor, suggested that it may never need to be put into effect at all. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: February 14, 2012
Location: national
Topics: cap and trade;climate change;corrections and updates;message machine 2012
Context: Michigan
Fact-check justification: Santorum’s ad says a machine-gun wielding Romney is firing mud to hide his own support of "job-killing cap and trade." While Romney appears to have favored cap and trade in the past, his actions as governor better prove his skepticism of the policy than his support for it. When he could have signed it into law, he declined. And more recently, Romney has repeatedly said he’s opposed to it. And when asked for  of Romney's support for cap and trade, the Santorum campaign failed to produce any. We rate the  . UPDATE, Feb. 22, 2012 After we published this story, a reader pointed us to an air pollution plan Romney proposed that was specific to Massachusetts power plants. It was separate from the regional compact that we noted in the original item. The state proposal set emissions limits on power plants and included a "safety valve" feature which allowed the companies to buy emission offsets from environmental programs rather than make the reductions in their own facilities. "You could reduce your emissions or pay into some alternative compliance fund," said Billy Pizer, a Duke University professor who helped develop the plan. "He (Romney) was looking for mechanisms that would still serve the goals of the program but would limit the financial exposure of the regulated firms." To Pizer, these carbon limits don’t fit the definition of cap and trade. "Maybe you’d call it the same family, but it’s different because you’re telling each source, ‘here’s what your limit is, but you can buy reductions from these other programs.’ This idea of trying to limit businesses’ exposure from compliance costs is not a feature of cap and trade." We also talked to Fred Bayles, a former reporter for the Associated Press and USA Today who covered Romney’s administration. He now teaches at Boston University. In Bayles’ opinion, the Massachusetts pollution regulations "fit the broad definition of cap and trade." But he added, "it’s in the eye of the beholder." We think the emission limits Romney put in place might still raise the hackles of Santorum and other critics of cap and trade. But his program lacked the feature most commonly associated with cap and trade -- namely, an allowance for companies that come in below their emission caps to sell credits to other polluters. The new information adds some helpful details about Romney's position in the past. It is consistent with what we said in our original story, above, that Romney had expressed some support for cap and trade but backed away from it when he declined to sign on to a regional cap and trade pact. He has opposed it since, which is the basis for ruling Santorum's ad  .
Statement: Photos reveal Greta Thunberg is a trained actress who comes from a long line of actors.
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: December 21, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that Thunberg is a trained actress who comes from a long line of actors. It also points to photos that supposedly show her acting, as well as her film career. Thunberg’s father is an actor, but there is no  that she is. The photos featured in the post are not of her, and her IMDb filmography page primarily depicts her appearances as herself in recent climate change documentaries. We rate this .
Statement: Says actor Morgan Freeman said, "Jailing Hillary" is the best way to "restore public faith in government.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 29, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: The 80-year-old actor has been an ardent Clinton supporter, narrating political advertisements and a biographical video about the former secretary of state for the Democratic National Committee during her campaign. The post appeared Oct. 29 on the  news site YourNewsWire.com , under the byline of Baxter Dmitry. YourNewsWire.com has spread  stories putting words in the mouths of famous people before, such as when they wrongly posted that Vladimir Putin had said Pope Francis was "not a man of God." As in that case, there’s no proof that Freeman made any of the comments about jailing Clinton. We rate this statement !
Statement: Actor Tom Holland is "confirmed to have died.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 12, 2022
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: Instagram posts
Fact-check justification: In one post, the account shared a screen grab of Google search results showing headlines debunking the rumor. A day later, the account shared a close-up video of what appears to be a horse’s face. The caption read: "Please redirect all media outlets covering this page to this post as our official statement regarding the Tom Holland post. Squishy honse (sic)." We rate the Instagram post’s  that Holland died .
Statement: I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.
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: March 17, 2020
Location: national
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a White House news conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said that he’s "always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."  Until late February, Trump spoke as though the U.S. problem was limited and well under control. That description is at odds with the nature of a pandemic. We can’t know what was in Trump’s mind when he aimed to reassure the public, but his words did not fit with the threat of a pandemic. Trump’s  that he was always aware of it being a pandemic is contradicted by his many early comments. His statement now is not accurate. We rate this  !
Statement: Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: May 13, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: a gubernatorial campaign television ad
Fact-check justification: A Christie for Governor TV ad claims, "Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes." Although a narrator only mentions tax increases, scrolling text in the ad also mentions fee increases. And in this case, the ad is accurate: Buono did vote on 154 bills that would increase fees and taxes on things ranging from the purchase of new vehicle tires to those New Jerseyans earning six-figure incomes exceeding $400,000. We rate the  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Donald Trump would "engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: October 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: the 2016 vice presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Kaine said that Trump would "engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security." Kaine cited an old stance, but it needs updating. Back in 2000, Trump did support privatization and call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. But now, 16 years later, Trump has offered relatively vague -- but relatively consistent -- statements that support keeping the structure of the program as is, without enacting changes as significant as private accounts. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f5ba48df-5efa-48ca-aa2d-4104c36b02e3
Statement: In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families...
Speaker: e.w. jackson
About the speaker: Earl Walker Jackson Sr. was the 2013 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia. He lost to Democrat Ralph Northam. Jackson was previously an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nod in the 2012 U.S. Senate race.
Jackson served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years. He graudated from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1975 and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1978. He practiced law in the Boston area for 15 years.
 In 1996, Jackson joined with the Christian Coalition to head "The Samaritan Project," an outreach program that distributed $500,000 to churches that were victim of arson. In 1998, he was consecrated a bishop and went on to establish Exodus Faith Ministries, a nondenominational church in Chesapeake.
Date: June 19, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: families;welfare
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Jackson said in 1960 most black children were raised in two-parent, married households and now only 20 percent of them live in two-parent households. In 1960, about two-thirds of black children were living with two parents so that part of Jackson’s statement is correct. The most recent figures show that 34 percent are living with two married parents. So Jackson’s latest figure is off, but that doesn’t harm his gist that there’s been a significant decline in traditional black families. We rate his statement .
Statement: A single mother of two can't qualify for basic healthcare through Medicaid if she makes more than $3,504 dollars a year.
Speaker: chris koster
About the speaker: Chris Koster is the Missouri attorney general, and is running for governor as a Democrat.
Date: January 20, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Kansas, which also has not expanded Medicaid, covers parents at 38 percent of the poverty level — more than double Missouri’s 18 percent of the poverty level standard. Our Ruling Koster may be off by a little more than $100 when it comes to the maximum income a single mother of two can have and still qualify for Medicaid. But his point that Missouri’s maximum yearly income for parents on Medicaid is one of the lowest in the nation is on target. The statement is accurate but benefits from additional context. We rate this  .
Statement: Dr. Fauci sat on Microsoft's board of directors.
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: May 7, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Fauci was among five people named to the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration leadership council , which was formed to oversee the collaboration’s planning efforts, according to the press release. A 2003 Gates Foundation press release about a partnership with the National Institutes of Health said Fauci, among other scientists, was named to a scientific board to "guide and direct" an initiative to "identify critical scientific challenges in global health and increase research on diseases that cause millions of deaths in the developing world. "   But we found nothing to corroborate what this Facebook post says, and Microsoft denies the .   We rate it .
Statement: There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: May 1, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: poverty
Context: an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters
Fact-check justification: Bush said, "There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s." Bush’s figures are correct based on the official poverty rate, which showed the rate was 14.5 percent in 2013, while during the 1970s the range was between 11.7 and 12.6 percent. Some poverty researchers say the official poverty rate between the 1970s and now doesn’t take into account certain benefits that help poor people, such as food assistance and tax credits. However, despite those caveats, it is fair for Bush to point to the official poverty rate. We rate this  .
Statement: Under the White House's budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.
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: February 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: So we rate Obama’s statement . UPDATE: Shortly after we posted this article, the White House responded to an earlier request for comment, arguing that Obama was not referring to actual dollars but to the fact that the budget will not increase the debt as a share of the economy. While it’s  that the debt as a proportion of GDP – at least when adjusted for financial assets held by the government – would fall slightly between 2013 and 2017 (from 67.7 percent to 66.8 percent), that's not the explanation Obama gave in the news conference. Our rating is unchanged.
Statement: Photo shows a copycat 'QAnon shaman' at attack on Brazil's capital.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: January 8, 2023
Location: national
Topics: elections;jan. 6
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "Seeing pictures of ‘the Brazilian QAnon Shaman’ being shared as people compare the scenes currently unfolding in Brazil with the Jan 6 Capitol riot. These pictures are from a rally by Bolsonaro's supporters in September 2021, not today," Shayan Sardarizadeh tweeted Jan. 8.   Seeing pictures of "the Brazilian QAnon Shaman" being shared as people compare the scenes currently unfolding in Brazil with the Jan 6 Capitol riot. These pictures are from a rally by Bolsonaro's supporters in September 2021, not today. pic.twitter.com/8h7PWuJfE1   We rate the  that this photo shows a copycat ‘QAnon shaman’ at the attack on Brazil’s capital .
Statement: Says Republicans just won two congressional seats in North Carolina "that were not supposed to be won.
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: February 6, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said Republicans "just won two seats in North Carolina ... that were not supposed to be won." In 2019, Republicans Dan Bishop and Greg Murphy won their respective special elections. But neither was considered an underdog. Some polls showed Bishop trailing McCready, and there are more registered Democrats than Republicans in that district. But it’s a stretch to suggest the Democrat was expected to win. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Says David Dewhurst "went out for drinks" during Senate debate on abortion bill.
Speaker: todd staples
About the speaker: Staples was first elected agriculture commissioner of Texas in 2006 after previously serving in the Texas Senate and House. He unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, afterward resigning for another job.
Date: October 29, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;corrections and updates
Context: an interview on a Lubbock radio station
Fact-check justification: Staples said, "The current incumbent lieutenant governor went out for drinks during the legislative session when that bill was originally on the Senate floor." Dewhurst has said that he stepped out to a restaurant during part of a lengthy Senate debate on abortion legislation June 18. But Staples did not prove he had drinks, and we found no such confirmation either. Given that going "out for drinks" has connotations that just aren't supported by the available , we rate Staples’ statement as .  – 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. CLARIFICATION: Oct. 11, 2013, 4:39 p.m. This story was amended to clarify the ruling, which did not change.