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Statement: Obamacare "already has caused millions of hardworking Virginians to lose their health insurance.
Speaker: barbara comstock
About the speaker: Barbara Comstock, a Republican, has represented Virginia's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. She represented Fairfax County in Virginia's House of Delegates from 2010 to 2014.
Prior to that, Comstock held various staff positions on Capitol Hill. She did opposition research for the Republican National Commiittee, was a staffer on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and  a consultant in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. She is founding partner and co-principal of Corallo Comstock, a public relations and public policy firm.
Comstock was born in Springfield, Mass. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and Georgetown University Law Center.
 
Date: July 7, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: Comstock’s website said that millions of Virginians lost their health insurance because of Obamacare. Her campaign acknowledged it erred and, after our inquiry, changed its site to say millions of "Americans" lost their health insurance. While we applaud the campaign’s admission of a , that does not unplug the -O-Meter. There’s no exact count on how many Virginians were notified last year that their plans would be ended because of Obamacare. A state health insurance lobbyist estimates the number at 850,000. But these people still had options; they or their employer could renew their old plans for another year or switch to new coverage. So Comstock’s  about millions of Virginians losing coverage was unfounded and we rate it .
Statement: The catalytic converter used in automobiles was invented in West Virginia.
Speaker: brian joseph
About the speaker: Brian Joseph is CEO of Touchstone Research Laboratory, a technology firm based in Triadelphia, W.Va.
Date: February 10, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: history;science;technology
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: Joseph said, "The catalytic converter used in automobiles was invented in West Virginia." One particularly important type of catalytic converter was co-invented by Keith, who was born in West Virginia. But he did not invent it in West Virginia. We rate his statement .
Statement: A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be "within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population.
Speaker: michael turner
About the speaker: Michael Turner, a former mayor of Dayton, is a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd District in the southwestern corner of the state.
Date: April 30, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: space;tourism
Context: a letter from the Ohio congressional delegation to NASA
Fact-check justification: A 500-mile range from the museum reaches across New Jersey, but doesn’t take in New York city or New England. The congressional delegation’s underlying point was accurate -- a large portion of the U.S. population would be within driving distance of a shuttle in Dayton. But by narrowing the starting point for the range from the entire state, as Smith-Daniels used, to just the museum, they also eliminated more than 40 million of people. Then again, they also were smart enough not to say how far they’d drive in a day. With that important detail mentioned, we rate the  as .
Statement: Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford.
Speaker: jeanne ives
About the speaker: Jeanne Ives is a former three-term Republican state representative from Wheaton, Ill. She unsuccessfully challenged former Gov. Bruce Rauner in Illinois' 2018 Republican primary election. 
Date: December 1, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: energy
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: State Rep. Jeanne Ives said, "Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford." In 2015, renewable energy accounted for nearly one-third of Germany’s total electricity generation, compared to 25.9 percent in 2014. During this same time period, carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly by 1.1 percent. While subsidies for wind and solar is part of the reason Germany’s residential consumers have seen electricity prices rise 50 percent between 1998 and 2015, the country’s aggressive push to eliminate nuclear energy by 2022 has been the main driver behind the coal and carbon comeback. Prematurely closing down nuclear power plants without having enough renewables on the grid to replace them led to an uptick in the use of lignite coal and therefore carbon emissions. As of 2015, coal supplied Germany with 40 percent of its power total power generation, even though renewables’ share surged to 30 percent.   This statement is accurate, but requires additional context about Germany’s energy transition. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ba45f7c9-ecba-4b3a-acae-f5a0a21790ba
Statement: Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "opposes faster broadband internet in small towns" and "got nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom special interests.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: June 23, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: infrastructure;technology
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Johnson’s voting record shows he opposed two particular proposals to grow faster broadband in rural areas and one signed letter to the FCC showed he was against a faster definition of broadband. But two other letters to the FCC suggest he’s in favor of faster rural broadband — but concerned with its execution. Johnson’s campaign has said he supports using the private sector to grow rural broadband. The second part of the  is on point — Johnson actually received somewhat more from the industry than the ad claimed. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters.
Speaker: john carlevale
About the speaker: John Carlevale of West Greenwich, R.I., has run for several offices, most recently in an unsuccessful bid for secretary of state in 2014 as a Republican. A graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School and the University of Rhode Island, he received a graduate degree in child development and family relations. Carlevale spent 33 years in human services,  helped found the Rhode Island chapter of the Social Service Employees Union International, and taught at the Community College of Rhode Island for 31 years. He is co-founder of the State of the State public access television show, which advocates for better government.
Date: August 10, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections;history
Context: an interview on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program
Fact-check justification: Secretary of State candidate John Carlevale said, "Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters." Data from the Rhode Island Board of Elections shows that the actual total was 50.4 percent. He's off the mark, but close enough to earn a  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Tim Ryan when he ran for president two years ago … supported banning fracking both on public lands and generally speaking.
Speaker: j.d. vance
About the speaker: J.D. Vance won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 2022. He has also worked as an investor, commentator, and bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy. 
Date: October 10, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Vance said that Ryan, "when he ran for president, two years ago ... supported banning fracking both on public lands and generally speaking." Ryan said during a 2019 event that he would "absolutely" consider banning fracking on federal lands. He also voted to stop the processing of fracking applications for drilling sites off the California coast in environmentally sensitive water. Ryan told The Washington Post that if the fracking industry cannot keep local residents safe, the federal government might need to "halt" fracking operations. However, Ryan’s full record of statements and policies on fracking is more nuanced than Vance suggests. Ryan’s focus has been on leveraging natural gas as a transitional fuel and a source of revenue and jobs for Ohio. He’s said he supports fracking as long as the industry keeps the environmental risks in check. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, so we rate it .
Statement: Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: April 20, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: This makes it hard to say exactly how much the plans will cost. ( We looked at this point previously when Obama said his plan would save more .) So Clinton's ad is pushing the envelope quite a bit to say that her plan would save $1,700 per person. Yes, there is  that a mandate lowers costs for everyone, but whether $1,700 would be the difference between her and Obama's plan is a different matter. We find her statement to be .
Statement: Obamacare is "one big fat VA system.
Speaker: kimberly guilfoyle
About the speaker: Kimberly Guilfoyle is a co-host of The Five.
Date: May 21, 2014
Topics: health care;veterans;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Guilfoyle said Obamacare is "one big fat VA system." We found no health policy expert who agreed with that comparison. The VA is owned and operated by the federal government. Its staff are government employees. In contrast, Obamacare builds upon the existing private sector health industry. The law sets standards for insurance and health care providers and it subsidizes premiums. Washington does run the Medicaid insurance program but even under that program, it is paying private providers. We rate the  .
Statement: In manufacturing, "I brought back 700,000 jobs. (Obama and Biden) brought back nothing.
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: September 29, 2020
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: the first presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said that in the manufacturing sector, "I brought back 700,000 jobs. They brought back nothing." Trump is  about the job gains on his watch; the actual increase is about 450,000 prior to the pandemic. As for the record under Obama and Biden, Trump wants to have his cake and eat it, too. If he’s going to ignore the coronavirus pandemic, then it’s fairest to ignore the Great Recession in comparing himself with Obama. And during the post-recession recovery, Obama oversaw gains of 916,000 manufacturing jobs. We rate the statement .
Statement: The CBO's latest report confirms what Republicans have been saying for years now. Under Obamacare, millions of hardworking Americans will lose their jobs.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: February 4, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;health care;jobs
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Cantor says the CBO confirmed a long-standing Republican talking point -- that millions of people would "lose their jobs" as a result of the health care reform. But the statement is . The CBO projected the law will lead to 2.5 million fewer full time equivalent workers by 2024, but the report does not say that those legions will "lose their jobs." That implies the employees will be laid off or forced out of work. To the contrary, the report takes pains to note that virtually all of those people will be working less due to their own choices, such as opting to receive higher federal subsidies for care rather than working more to boost their wages. The CBO said it’s not projecting the law would cause a bump in unemployment or underemployment. The report does not paint a rosy picture of the economy and it can be easy to miss the distinction between people leaving jobs because they want to as opposed to being laid off. But Cantor’s statement is deeply flawed and we rate it .
Statement: Hidden" in the healthcare.gov code is language that means users "waive any reasonable right to privacy of your personal information.
Speaker: joe barton
About the speaker: Joe Barton is a Republican congressman from Texas. He was formerly the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee and served as that committee’s ranking member while the Democrats were in the House majority.
Date: October 24, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care;technology;privacy issues
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Barton claimed healthcare.gov has "hidden" code indicating that consumers waive their rights to privacy when they apply for insurance. The website’s markup does include a sentence along these lines that isn’t visible to the user. But because it’s not displayed to the public, it carries no legal weight and consumers can’t consent to it. Bottom line, it doesn’t change a thing about the privacy protections in place at healthcare.gov. We rate Barton’s  .
Statement: Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events" in Wisconsin.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: November 6, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;climate change;weather
Context: Panel discussion
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Baldwin claimed that since she took office, two "500-year" storm events occurred in northern Wisconsin.   Data from the National Weather Service shows that 500-year storms did indeed strike the northernmost counties in Wisconsin in 2016 and 2018, overwhelming creeks and rivers.   But storms in Cashton and Madison in 2018 lso rose to the same level, meaning that there have been more than two such storms within two years in the state.   So Baldwin actually undershot the number of high-impact storms within the state between 2016 and 2018. We rate this  .
Statement: A photo of Trump having a stroke is really a virus that will wipe out all information on your computer.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 19, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A similar  warning came in 2016, claiming that a video of Trump getting arrested would infest computers if opened. That was also  .    Sharing  warnings, for any situation , may not appear to have any drawbacks, but people should not expect such things to keep their information safe. It is important to be cautious when clicking on links and visiting new websites, especially when it involves high-profile figures. We rate the warning !
Statement: Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion.
Speaker: tim pawlenty
About the speaker: Tim Pawlenty is the former governor of Minnesota, having served two terms in office from 2003-2011.
Date: January 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit
Context: his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story"
Fact-check justification: On Jan. 1, 2011, gross federal debt stood at just over $14 trillion, which works out to $45,433 for every American. So both of the figures Pawlenty used have a basis in reality, but they do not relate to each other the way he suggested. If Pawlenty wants to stick with the $30,000-per-person figure, he should have said that debt stands at more than $9 trillion. Alternately, if he prefers to stick with the "more than $13 trillion" debt figure, he should say that the amount of debt per person exceeds $45,000. Since both of his numbers are right -- just measuring different things -- we’ll give him some leeway and rate his statement .
Statement: Look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible.
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 18, 2017
Location: national
Topics: crime;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: Decrying countries who accept immigrants and refugees, Trump told supporters to "look at what’s happening last night in Sweden." We couldn’t find any reports that support Trump’s narrative. It’s possible Trump was referring to another event, but there hasn’t been a fatal terrorist attack in Sweden since 2010. Even though Sweden has taken in a large number of immigrants, nothing was amiss Feb. 17. We rate Trump’s  . UPDATE:  This fact-check was updated shortly after publishing to include Trump's tweet confirming he watched the Fox report. The rating did not change.  https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/1408093c-03fb-4409-a012-5eabe9c618f5
Statement: Monkey virus DNA found in COVID-19 shots
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 12, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts shared an Epoch Times article headlined, "Monkey virus DNA found in COVID-19 shots." There is no  to support this . Monkey DNA and the SV40 virus are also not listed among the ingredients for the COVID-19 vaccines that federal regulators approved. Pfizer also told PolitiFact that it did not use African green monkey DNA in its vaccines. The Epoch Times article cited a study, which has not been peer-reviewed, that found part of a DNA sequence called an SV40 promoter in two expired vials of the Pfizer vaccine. But the SV40 promoter is not the same as the SV40 virus and is not cause for concern, molecular biology experts told PolitiFact. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies.
Speaker: tom price
About the speaker: Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.
Date: March 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a post on Medium
Fact-check justification: Price, in the resolution his committee produced, wrote that the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies." Even granting Price some leeway for his use of the subjective term "protracted economic malaise," he cherry-picks what CBO wrote, offering its negative interpretation without acknowledging its positive interpretation. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is facing charges after "lying" to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 26, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The video was clipped from a Feb. 28 House Judiciary Committee hearing , led by committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. The hearing, on the judiciary authorization and oversight plan for the 118th Congress, does not show that Swalwell "faced charges instantly" after he spoke. We found no court records, news reports, or other  that Swalwell faced charges after he spoke at the hearing.   A few days before this  circulated, news reports and a statement from Swalwell revealed that the House Ethics Committee ended a two-year investigation into Swalwell’s conduct in connection with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative and decided against further action.   We rate the  that Swalwell is facing charges .
Statement: Personal income is growing faster in Tennessee on average than any other state in the country.
Speaker: bill haslam
About the speaker: Bill Haslam is the former mayor of Knoxville and is now the governor of Tennessee.
Date: April 20, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: economy;income
Context: a speech to Carter County Republican Party
Fact-check justification: Even if it was a  made at the conclusion of a long day, Haslam told an audience that personal income was growing faster in Tennessee than in any other state -- something that we see on video and that was then reported by a newspaper. In fact, 15 states showed better per capita income growth than Tennessee did, and the state only outpaced the national average by 0.3 percent. He also, in our determination, is trying to take premature credit for income growth that for the most part occurred before any of his policies had been put into place. We rule the governor’s  .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis "voted in favor of food stamps for illegal immigrants.
Speaker: uncle sam's misguided children
About the speaker: Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children is a website that says it is a "community founded by United States Marine Veterans to bring awareness of the lame stream media."
Date: March 23, 2018
Topics: immigration;congress;food;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children said that DeSantis "voted in favor of food stamps for illegal immigrants." The article fails to point out that even before the farm bill passed, undocumented immigrants were already generally blocked from getting food stamps. The farm bill that DeSantis voted against was a sweeping piece of legislation that mentions immigrants only briefly in the context of requiring states to verify their status. DeSantis stated at the time of his vote against the bill that he thought it was a bad deal for taxpayers and failed to rein in the food stamp program. By voting "no" he took a stand against the overall piece of legislation — that’s not  that he "voted in favor of food stamps for illegal immigrants." We rate this  !