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Statement: The federal government is providing free solar panel installation and $8,500 incentive checks to eligible homeowners.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 3, 2022
Topics: energy;infrastructure;facebook fact-checks
Context: video
Fact-check justification: A Sept. 3 video claimed that qualified homeowners could get solar panels installed for free and receive $8,500 "incentive" checks from the federal government. We found no  of a federal program that provides free panels and incentive checks. Some homeowners may be eligible for tax credits related to solar panel installation, but that is not equivalent to a cash payment. We rate this  .
Statement: Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower.
Speaker: tim echols
About the speaker: Tim Echols, a Republican, was elected to the five-member Public Service Commission in 2010. He supports a Heritage Foundation plan that would privatize the reprocessing and disposal of commercial nuclear "material."
Date: October 26, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: energy;nuclear;water
Context: a trade magazine
Fact-check justification: In explaining Georgia’s support of nuclear energy, Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols wrote in a trade publication that the state has no "major rivers to produce big hydropower." In the most simple terms, Georgia does have major rivers where hydroelectric plants are a key part of the mix in meeting the state’s energy demands. As a percentage of power generation, hydropower is destined to remain a relatively small part of that mix given the limitations of our rivers compared to massive waterways in places such as the Pacific Northwest. There is some room for growth in hydroelectric, which Echols’ statement ignores, even if other energy sources will always dominate. We rate Echols’ statement .
Statement: USPS currently has the most cash on hand in its history, (approximately) $15 billion.
Speaker: josh hawley
About the speaker: Josh Hawley took office as U.S. Senator from Missouri in 2019. Hawley previously served as Missouri’s Attorney General. 
Date: August 23, 2020
Location: missouri
Topics: federal budget
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Postal Service finance department could only confirm that this is the most cash on hand since 2004, according to a Postal Service spokesman. All of history is a lot longer than 16 years ago though, so it is hard to confirm this part of the  completely. With the losses the Postal Service has experienced, the cash on hand may not be as helpful as it may sound.   The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate Hawley’s  .
Statement: The Senate immigration bill "unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. … We're talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years.
Speaker: dan stein
About the speaker: Dan Stein is president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that "seeks to improve border security, to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent with the national interest — more traditional rates of about 300,000 a year."
Date: July 7, 2013
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Stein said the Senate immigration bill "unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. … We're talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years." While credible estimates do say the U.S. population could grow by 65 million between 2013 and 2033, only about 16 million of that would be increases resulting from the Senate bill. The remaining 49 million, or three-quarters of the total, would come from natural population growth among people already in America and by immigration that’s deemed legal under today’s laws -- and thus would have nothing to do with whether the Senate bill passes or not. We rate the  .
Statement: Turns out the critics of the Texas maternal mortality rate were just lying. It's less than half of what the critics said. It's about 1/10 of 1%.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: June 9, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: women
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Abbott said in a tweet, "Turns out the critics of the Texas maternal mortality rate were just lying. It’s less than half of what the critics said. It’s about 1/10 of 1%." While the figures in Abbott’s tweet are right — the state’s maternal mortality rate is about 14.6 deaths per 100,000 births — the idea that people "were just lying" when citing reports from 2016 on the state’s maternal death rate is . This characterization struck us as the key point in Abbott’s tweet, which is why we rate this  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: Disney CEO Bob Chapek was arrested for human trafficking.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 19, 2022
Location: national
Topics: education;facebook fact-checks;florida
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The company has also paused all political donations in the state. "I am committed to this work and to you all, and will continue to engage with the LGBTQ+ community so that I can become a better ally," Chapek said in a letter to employees . There’s no  whatsoever that Chapek was arrested for human trafficking. We rate that  ! RELATED ARTICLE : ‘Don’t say gay’ vs. ‘parental rights': Fact-checking claims about Florida’s HB 1557
Statement: Says Tony Evers will "raise the gas tax by as much as a dollar a gallon.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: October 9, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: gas prices;transportation;taxes
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Follow us on Twitter: @PolitiFactWisc . Our rating Walker says Evers will "raise the gas tax by as much as a dollar a gallon."    Evers has said he is open to raising the tax, which is now 32.9 cents per gallon, but the $1 figure comes from Walker. While Evers has said he "has no range" of how large an increase he would consider, he has called a $1 increase "." For a statement that has an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: U.S. Rep. Allen West wants to bring back earmarks.
Speaker: democratic congressional campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is responsible for assisting Democratic candidates for the U.S. House.
Date: April 24, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;federal budget;trade
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The DCCC said that West’s signature on a letter with dozens of House Republicans calling for a miscellaneous tariff bill means that he wants to bring earmarks back. Tariff breaks do raise some of the same concerns as earmarks. Business owners who can help fund candidates’ campaigns seek the financial benefit from their own representatives.  And some of the bills are written in such a way as to only benefit a select few. But the process and the particulars involved in earmarks vs. tariff breaks are very different. Earmarks direct spending; tariff bills are more like tax breaks. More importantly, the process for tariff breaks is transparent and relatively easy to track, unlike the earmarks of previous years. We rate the DCCC's statement .
Statement: One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: February 6, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;stimulus;transportation
Context: an address at the Tea Party convention
Fact-check justification: We'll leave it up to legislators and the American public to decide whether that's an appropriate use of stimulus funds. But we can say the $1 million figure for signs in Ohio is suspect and appears to be a back-of-the-envelope estimate, rather than a hard fact. Ohio transportation officials said the total for signs is likely significantly lower than that. But neither Palin nor ODOT (nor anyone else for that matter) can cite an exact figure. And so we rate Palin's  .
Statement: A photo shows a helicopter rescue mission in Afghanistan where wounded men were loaded onboard.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 3, 2022
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a photo
Fact-check justification: "The only place to land was basically this house on the side of a mountain. … I don’t remember thinking it was going to be any substantial challenge." Murphy said a combat cameraman was embedded with the unit, and the photos of the operation went viral, with many people questioning whether it was real. But the flight team was very experienced, and "something that looks extremely difficult was really just kind of routine," Murphy said. We rate the  that a photo shows a helicopter rescue mission where wounded men were loaded onboard .
Statement: Last month, more Americans stopped looking for a job than found one.
Speaker: cathy mcmorris rodgers
About the speaker: Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from a district in Washington state. As chair of the House Republican Conference, she is a member of her party's leadership.
Date: January 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: McMorris Rodgers said more people stopped looking for a job than found one in December. The congresswoman relied on figures that included a large fraction of people who retired from the workforce and she cherry-picked one of only two months in 2013 that supported her . The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Mike Enzi is "getting about 84 percent of his campaign funds from Washington-based PACs. That's more than any senator of either party.
Speaker: dick cheney
About the speaker: Dick Cheney served as Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush.
Date: October 27, 2013
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview on "This Week"
Fact-check justification: While Dick Cheney differed from our nonpartisan sources on the final number, the fact remains he was right: Enzi has received a higher proportion of his money from PACs than anyone in the Senate. It’s more a product of circumstances — Enzi’s from a small state and he’s facing a strong challenger — than  that Enzi has "gone Washington," as Cheney was implying. We rate it .
Statement: A report by the health insurance industry "ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill.
Speaker: nancy-ann deparle
About the speaker: Nancy-Ann DeParle is Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
Date: October 12, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on "The NewsHour"
Fact-check justification: The next step is for the Senate Finance bill to be combined with a bill from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Getting back to our ruling, DeParle criticized the health insurance industry report on the grounds that it was an incomplete analysis. She said it "ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill." The report itself admits as much. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump warned outgoing Ghana President against last-minute job appointments.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 4, 2017
Topics: global news service;elections;fake news;foreign policy
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A  news website said that Trump had warned the departing president of Ghana to avoid making last-minute job appointments. The article cited a New York Times interview that does not exist. We rate this  .
Statement: The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
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: July 1, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;income;retirement;social security;wealth
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: There is no fixed pie." Our rating Sanders said "the top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent." His  repeats a finding from a study by two internationally known economists that were supported by two other major economists we contacted. But the study has been criticized, for example, for not including Social Security in the wealth calculations. For a  that is accurate but needs additional information, a rating is .
Statement: Says Tommy Thompson favors Obama's health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson "says we can't repeal 'Obamacare.'
Speaker: eric hovde
About the speaker: Eric Hovde, a hedge fund manager and businessman from Madison, entered politics by running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012. He finished second in the GOP primary.
Date: July 26, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;message machine 2012;public health
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Indeed, the 2010 statement was an assessment on the political realities of the time, not whether the reform law could ever be repealed. Thompson is campaigning by saying that if elected, he would be the "51st vote" in the Senate to do so. Our rating In claiming Thomson supports "Obama’s health care mandate" and that Thompson "says we can't repeal "Obamacare," Hovde uses outdated statements that falsely portray Thompson’s current positions. And Hovde falsely claims that Obama thanked Thompson for supporting "Obamacare," when the president was citing Thompson’s support of reform in general. By our math,  +  +  = .
Statement: Says 74% of people in Texas are "crammed into 4% of the land.
Speaker: bennett sandlin
About the speaker: Bennett Sandlin is the Executive Director of the Texas Municipal League.
Date: April 22, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: census
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Sandlin said, 74% of people in Texas are "crammed into 4% of the land." The latest census data supports Sandlin’s . About 20 million Texans, or 74% of the state’s population, live in incorporated areas, which make up about 4% of the state’s land. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing.
Statement: Middle-class families throughout America (would) have to pay $6,000 per year" to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
Speaker: kendrick meek
About the speaker: Kendrick Meek is a former U.S. Representative for Congressional District 17 in Miami, serving from 2003 to 2011. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: October 24, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget;taxes
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Still, if the country is deficit-spending, it's foregone revenue that will have to be made up for some way. But this philosophical debate is a side note to our fact check because Meek said the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost middle-class families "$6,000 per year." That number is way off, by at least a factor of 10. Meek's campaign admitted he flubbed it. We rate Meek's statement .
Statement: A state report's "projection is that approximately half of public employees" would live outside municipal boundaries in a decade if the state bans local residency requirements.
Speaker: tom barrett
About the speaker: Tom Barrett served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee from 2004 until 2021. The mayoral position is non-partisan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003).
Barrett lost bids for governor in 2002, 2010 and in the 2012 recall race against Gov. Scott Walker. He was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg on Dec. 23, 2021.
Date: May 10, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city government;workers
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: There’s an element of  in his statement, in that the state memo said the experience elsewhere "may provide some insight" into Milwaukee’s fate. And the experience in other cities may well play out here over time. But the state report stops well short of predicting Milwaukee’s experience. The mayor overreached in claiming an independent state report put a number on that. We rate Barrett’s  .
Statement: A grant for $5,000 [from the Governor's Workforce Board] went to teach an employee at a company that makes ornamental business card holders how to use Facebook and Twitter.
Speaker: mike stenhouse
About the speaker: Mike Stenhouse is the chief executive officer of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a conservative think tank. A Cranston, R.I., native, he is a former player for the Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos. Previously, he was executive director of the Ocean State Policy Research Institute. He has an economics degree from Harvard University, served as chairman for the 2010 Rhode Island Clean Slate campaign, and as vice president of the Board of Directors for Rhode Island Special Olympics.
Date: April 2, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;federal budget;small business;state budget;workers;taxes
Context: The Providence Journal
Fact-check justification: Michael Stenhouse and his coauthor, David Williams, made this provocative : "A grant for $5,000 [from the Governor’s Workforce Board] went to teach an employee at a company that makes ornamental business card holders how to use Facebook and Twitter." So let's walk through the important elements. Was it a $5,000 grant? Yes. Was it just "an employee" who got $5,000 worth of training? No. And Stenhouse’s and Williams’ own report acknowledges that. Did the grant go for training to use Facebook and Twitter? Yes. But it was also spent on other forms of social media and involved a lot more than how to "friend" someone or keep a tweet below 140 characters. In addition, nearly 40 percent of the training time was spent on more-traditional sales training. 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: Republicans have already cut our neighborhood public schools three budgets in a row.
Speaker: katrina shankland
About the speaker: Katrina Shankland was elected as a Democrat to the State Assembly in 2012 and re-elected in 2014. As of 2015 she was serving as assistant minority leader. She lives in Stevens Point in Assembly District 71 in central Wisconsin.
Date: May 6, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Finally, we note that Shankland focused on general state aid, but school officials say that Walker’s pending budget would cut a more crucial form of special-purpose aid (categorical aids, in Madison parlance) over the two years from 2015-'17. Our rating Shankland claimed that "Republicans have already cut our neighborhood public schools three budgets in a row." There’s an element of  in her  in that general school aid is lower in Walker’s proposed third budget than it was before he took office. But it’s  to say three budgets "in a row" made cuts, when two of them actually restored some of the general aid lost in Walker’s first budget. We rate Shankland’s    .
Statement: Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: October 4, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: This is not intended to be an evaluation of how far the state has come or whether Ohio needs a cabinet-level jobs leader. It is merely an assessment of Portman’s : "Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining.    In using the figure to blast Fisher, then, you could say that Portman mixed apples and kumquats. That’s why we rate Portman’s  . Comment on this item .
Statement: Mitt Romney: 'Trump has some very serious emotional problems, he must resign before we…'
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 6, 2018
Topics: ethics;fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: During the same interview, Sanders said Trump should resign because of the multiple sexual assault allegations levied against him. The International Flash News story also included quotes that can be properly attributed to Sanders’ statement on CBS This Morning on Dec. 7, 2017. And Sanders — not Romney — has on multiple occasions accused Trump of "trying to divide us up by the color of our skin," including on Nov. 12, 2017, while visiting CBS’s Face the Nation . So the supposed Romney quote, along with several others included in the text of the story, is actually a misattribution of multiple different quotes from Sanders. We rate this statement !