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Statement: Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with.
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: October 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: There is an opportunity here to bring different interests together in the best interests of American homeowners and the American economy," he wrote. So yes, Obama characterized the letter accurately. In it, he not only called for action to head off the unraveling of the subprime mortgage market, but also warned about its impact on the nation's economy. He sent the letter about 18 months ago, a time frame for which "two years" is a fair estimate. We find his  to be .
Statement: Cheri Beasley was "encouraging (riots) all across our state and all across our country in 2020.
Speaker: ted budd
About the speaker: Ted Budd is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represents parts of central North Carolina between Greensboro and Charlotte. He joined Congress in 2017.
Date: October 7, 2022
Location: north carolina
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Budd says Beasley was "encouraging (riots) all across our state and all across our country in 2020." In speaking about protests of police brutality, Beasley referred to violence a "distraction" and called on people to focus on the protestors’ reason for protesting. She said it’s "not enough" to tell protestors to "go home and follow the rules." She also said violence should be decried and never explicitly encouraged it or even suggested that violence would lead to a change in police behavior. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn't build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: January 5, 2012
Location: national
Topics: labor;message machine 2012
Context: a video ad
Fact-check justification:     The Romney ad claimed that the NLRB told Boeing that it "can’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state." The NLRB’s complaint started a legal process that could ultimately have resulted in a factory closure, but the NLRB as a whole didn’t tell Boeing anything. What’s more, the legal basis for the action centered on whether Boeing was punishing the union for staging strikes, not that Boeing had opened a factory in a right-to-work state. We rate the statement .
Statement: Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program, 211,000 Floridians have lost their jobs.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: March 28, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday
Fact-check justification: It's the latter number that the Rubio campaign points to. Spokesman Alberto Martinez also shared a report from House Way and Means Republicans that seeks to highlight the stimulus as a job-killer, rather than a job creator, where Florida is said to have lost 240,400 jobs since the stimulus passed. Like any statistics, these are easily sliced and diced to make the key point. But Rubio is very close to the precise number, and in fact, he underestimates it slightly when his point is that Florida has lost a lot of jobs. So we rule this one .
Statement: Before Obamacare, Wisconsin's "high-risk pool" for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital they wanted, and their premiums and co-pays were cheaper than they are under Obamacare today.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: May 7, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;public health
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: And high-risk pools expert Jean Hall , a Kansas University health policy professor, told us that low-income people who qualify for subsidies under Obamacare are getting more coverage for less money than they were with Wisconsin’s high-risk pool -- even if there were cases where people with higher incomes got a better deal with the pool. Our rating Ryan says that before Obamacare, Wisconsin’s high-risk pool for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital they wanted, and their premiums and co-pays were cheaper than they are under Obamacare today." The House speaker slightly overstates the number of plans and the availability of providers, but is generally on target. But it can’t be flatly stated that the high-risk pool plans were cheaper than Obamacare plans for comparable coverage. For a statement that is partially accurate, we give Ryan a .
Statement: Recommendations for a major tax overhaul for Georgia are an "overall tax hike.
Speaker: americans for tax reform
About the speaker: Americans For Tax Reform was founded in 1985 by Grover Nordquist. It advocates a tax system in which the taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. It views the government's power to control one's life as derived from its power to tax and believes that power should be minimized.
Its flagship program is the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which it began promoting in 1986 and expanded to the state level in 1990. Those who sign on to the pledge commit to oppose any effort to increase income taxes on individuals or businesses.
Date: January 10, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: PolitiFact Georgia’s own analysis found that the tax overhaul could increase or cut taxes.    ATR also included a $1.23 billion boost in e-commerce revenue that recommendations cannot bring about on their own. Calling the recommendation an "overall tax hike" is therefore akin to telling Georgians there are shards of glass in their creme brulee before it reaches the table. ATR’s assessment contains some element of , but it is premature and ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. It therefore meets our definition of .
Statement: The 2013 immigration bill "expanded President Obama's ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: February 2, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Windham, N.H
Fact-check justification: Cruz said the failed immigration bill "expanded President Obama’s ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks." The key flaw with that assertion is the bill still required background checks for refugees. While there can be some debate over what constitutes a "meaningful" background check, the experts we reached said nothing would have directly changed the quality of the vetting performed on people attempting to enter the country. We rate this  .
Statement: Unemployment report shows "America is bouncing back.
Speaker: vicky hartzler
About the speaker: Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., represents Missouri's fourth district. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: November 6, 2020
Location: missouri
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Citing new jobs numbers, Hartzler said that "America is bouncing back." The unemployment rate, which had risen by more than 10 points from February to April, is steadily falling again. However, there is other jobs data that shows reason for continued concern about the state of the economy.  For example, the number of people with long term unemployment actually grew by about 1.2 million from September to October.  Because Hartzler’s  was accurate but left out some details, we rate her  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" caps are "made in China.
Speaker: celia israel
About the speaker: Celia Israel, an Austin Realtor, won election to the Texas House in a January 2014 special election.
Date: August 23, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;china;economy
Context: a press conference by Austin Democrats
Fact-check justification: Israel said Trump’s Make America Great Again caps are made in China. Far as we can tell, that’s still not correct--as widely reported starting 10 months ago. !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/50a7da93-cab3-4cdd-8668-f4149f2b9736
Statement: Governor Deal has increased education spending every year he's been in office.
Speaker: brian robinson
About the speaker: Brian Robinson is the communications director for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican.
Date: September 5, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Robinson’s numbers are correct. But there’s some context missing here. There have been continued "austerity cuts." And some would say there’s little or no increase once you factor in inflation. We rate Robinson’s statement .
Statement: In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: August 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview with This Week
Fact-check justification: Even when Coburn's motion narrowly passed, nine of 12 Democrats voted against it. We can't assess the Democrats' positions on the voice vote in the House education committee or the energy and commerce panel where the motion was ruled irrelevant. So we can't be sure that Democrats voted against it in every committee. But based on the counts that are available, Gingrich's underlying point is correct that Democrats have generally opposed it. So we find his  .
Statement: President Obama pushed through the stimulus "based on the promise of keeping unemployment under 8 percent.
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: March 16, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs;stimulus
Context: a written statement
Fact-check justification: Cantor said Obama’s stimulus was passed with the "promise" of keeping the unemployment rate below 8 percent. The majority leader says the vow was made in a January 2009 report issued by the incoming administration. But the study did not guarantee specific results from the stimulus, it offered economic projections that contained disclaimers saying the estimates had "significant margins of error" and a high degree of uncertainty due to a recession that was "unusual both in its fundamental causes and severity." Clearly, the Obama administration can be faulted for estimating the stimulus would hold unemployment just below 8 percent. But contrary to Cantor’s , Obama never promised that outcome, nor did his administration. Again, we rate the statement .
Statement: The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide.
Speaker: michael steele
About the speaker: Michael Steele is the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was formerly the lieutenant governor of Maryland, serving from 2003 to 2007.
Date: August 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;veterans
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: But we think Steele goes way too far and sensationalizes an important issue when he says the pamphlet "encourages (vets) to commit suicide" — particularly when you consider the pamphlet in its entirety. This is a pamphlet intended to encourage vets to make choices about the kind of advanced care they want. And for the record, there is nothing in the manual that tells vets "Are you really of value to your community?" We rule Steele's statement . Note: We added information about Dr. Pearlman on Aug. 28, 2009.
Statement: 14,000 abandoned wind turbines litter the United States.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: October 25, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The email chain argues that "14,000 abandoned wind turbines litter the United States." There is not now, nor has there ever been, research to support the . Industry experts have been fighting to debunk the myth for years. We rate this   .
Statement: Says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac "was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.
Speaker: greater wisconsin committee
About the speaker: The Greater Wisconsin Committee is a liberal group active in Wisconsin state politics, from legislative races to statewide offices. It receives money from a variety of sources, including labor unions. Its campaign ads are typically done through the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund.
Date: August 5, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The bottom line? The Greater Wisconsin Committee went after recall challenger Kim Simac for having delinquent property taxes in eight of the last nine years. Public records backed that . Indeed, Simac’s own understanding of the law, as articulated by her campaign, was off. We rate the group’s  .
Statement: In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.
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: January 24, 2012
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;jobs
Context: the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Obama is correct on the numbers. By mentioning his policies, he's making a modest linkage that they deserve credit for the improvement when economists say they are just one factor. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: September 15, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: congress;economy
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: A Club for Growth TV ad states that Trump supports the Wall Street bailout. Trump made multiple statements in support of TARP, the bailout of the banks, in late 2008 and 2009. However, the ad omits that he raised concern that the banks had received billions and were not loaning them out. Overall, we rate this  .
Statement: Says Texas leads the nation in fatal industrial accidents.
Speaker: jim marston
About the speaker: According to his biography at edf.org, Jim Marston is the founding director of the Texas office of the Environmental Defense Fund and the head of EDF's national energy program, and a leader of the Pecan Street, Inc., partnership of Austin Energy, the University of Texas, the Chamber of Commerce and tech companies.
Date: April 22, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: labor
Context: a Texas Tribune interview
Fact-check justification: Marston said that in Texas, "we lead the nation in fatal industrial accidents." Among the states, Texas ranked No. 1 in 2011 in the number of workplace deaths in four federal categories Marston tabbed as "industrial accident" deaths. Yet these results drew on raw counts of deaths, unadjusted for variations in state workforces. Our adjustment for each state’s relative workforce suggests that Texas, per worker, ranked 18th among the states in 2011. We rate his statement as .
Statement: We've been able to create about 60,000 net new jobs" in Virginia since February.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: November 2, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: jobs
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Regardless of credit, have "about 60,000 net new jobs" been created in Virginia since February? It depends how you measure "about." The correct number at  the time was 55,400. The governor was a little bit off, but he wasn’t blowing smoke. For that reason, we rate his  .
Statement: Passports aren't required to enter the United States from Mexico and Canada.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 20, 2021
Topics: border security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And the card can be used to enter the United States under some circumstances, too. Ultimately, travelers to the United States need something to prove their citizenship, Rhonda Lawson, a spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, told USA Today . That’s also  of travelers to Mexico and Canada. In most cases that’s a passport, but some people are able to cross borders without one if they qualify for another travel document proving their citizenship.   We rate this post .
Statement: Barack Obama urged people on Sept. 10, 2001, to "report to work tomorrow" at the World Trade Center.
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 11, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. ) This isn’t an authentic video announcement from Obama. YouTube didn’t exist in 2001, and Obama wasn’t president, or even a U.S. senator, then.    YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video — a clip of him at a zoo — on April 23, 2005.   We rate claims this is a real video message from Obama !
Statement: Says NASCAR "bans the confederate flag but FORCES all their drivers to do Muslim prayer.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 13, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post that displays a photo of NASCAR drivers kneeling down kissing the floor claims that the racing association forces its athletes to participate in Muslim prayer, yet banned the confederate flag. This isn’t . NASCAR doesn’t force or require drivers to partake in any religious activities. The image shows drivers taking part in a longstanding tradition called the "kissing the bricks" at the Indianapolis Speedway. This is !
Statement: Says he was the only statewide elected official to speak in favor of a federal guest worker plan at the 2012 Republican Party of Texas convention.
Speaker: jerry patterson
About the speaker: Jerry Patterson, who won election to three terms as state land commissioner starting in 2002, filed to seek the post afresh in the 2018 elections. The former state senator from Pasadena unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Date: March 30, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;economy;workers
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: Patterson said he was unique among statewide elected officials in speaking for the guest-worker section that became part of the Republican Party of Texas platform in 2012. .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.