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Statement: In Austin, I've got half-a-dozen or more schools on a list to be closed — one of which I presented a federal blue-ribbon award to for excellence. And several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations.
Speaker: lloyd doggett
About the speaker: Rep. Lloyd Doggett was initially elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: February 16, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a column
Fact-check justification: But, Dohl said, "the school closure list seems to still be a very real issue" and Doggett believes school closures should be avoided. All told, Doggett’s comment accurately refers to Zilker Elementary and possible district layoffs. At the time he spoke, though, the task force that aired school closing suggestions had backed off the specifics. And it's not certain any schools are to be closed. We rate Doggett’s statement .
Statement: A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U.S. Constitution.
Speaker: loren collins
About the speaker: Atlanta lawyer Loren Collins is author of the anti-birther blog Barackryphal. He ran in 2008 as a write-in candidate for U.S. Congress.
Date: March 4, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: obama birth certificate
Context: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fact-check justification: People born in a colony were considered citizens of that colony, Price said. "It may be that some of the founders intended to include only birth on U.S. soil as their understanding of ‘natural born citizen’, but it certainly would not have included that their parents also had to be U.S. citizens," Price said. Collins is right. HB 401 does create eligibility requirements that aren’t in the Constitution. We rule his  .
Statement: Says most illegal immigrants draw "welfare benefits, they're sending their kids to school, they're using the public services.
Speaker: tom delay
About the speaker: Tom DeLay, a former members of the U.S. House and Texas House, is a former House majority leader. He resigned his seat in June 2006. In 2010, a Travis County jury convicted him of laundering corporate donations to help Texas House candidates in 2002, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the convictions Oct. 1, 2014.
Date: September 1, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;education;welfare
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: DeLay said most illegal immigrants draw "welfare benefits, they’re sending their kids to school, they’re using the public services." People living in the U.S. without authorization indeed draw on public services including government-supported hospitals. Also, children of all origins attend public schools. But counter to DeLay’s prime point, adults lacking legal residency are barred by law from government programs that fit the "welfare" category. Parents still may seek benefits, though, for their child-citizens. All told, we rate this  .  – 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b69dcb57-6c15-48a7-9787-bcf169f7d9ea
Statement: Catherine Cortez Masto "was the deciding vote" to send COVID-19 stimulus checks to more than 1 million prisoners.
Speaker: club for growth action
About the speaker: Club for Growth Action is a conservative super PAC affiliated with Club for Growth.
Date: October 21, 2022
Location: nevada
Topics: federal budget;stimulus;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Club for Growth Action said Cortez Masto "was the deciding vote" to send COVID-19 stimulus checks to more than 1 million prisoners. The Senate passed three bills on stimulus checks, prisoners qualified for the payments because of broad eligibility rules. A vote to exclude inmates was held only for the third round of checks.  Cortez Masto was one of 50 senators who voted against the amendment. But describing hers as the "deciding vote" suggests Cortez Masto had some extraordinarily pivotal role, and that’s not the case.  We rate the  . RELATED : Fact-checking ads in the 2022 election campaigns RELATED: Nevada fact-checks RELATED: Yes, Democrats voted to send stimulus checks to prisoners, as Republicans did last year
Statement: Says "we got a chance to pass what I think is Oregon's first human trafficking bill which has increased by 66 percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline.
Speaker: jefferson smith
About the speaker: Jefferson Smith represents Oregon State House District 47.  He is a native of east Portland, the district he represents.
Date: November 21, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: human rights
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: That brings us to our ruling. The number of calls to the hotline has increased significantly over the past couple years -- even more so than the 66 percent Smith cites if you consider the 2011 figures. That said, there’s not much  that Oregon’s "hotline law" was the driving force. Nationally, the figures are up by about the same degree and most callers don’t report that they found out about the hotline by way of a poster or other such material. We rate this   -- there’s a grain of , but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: Greitens accuser admits photo session may have been a 'dream.'
Speaker: the sentinel
About the speaker: The Sentinel is a website that says it holds media and government accountable in Missouri and Kentucky.
Date: April 8, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: A headline by the Sentinel website said that "Greitens accuser admits photo session may have been a ‘dream.’ " News articles state that the woman made that comment during a lengthy deposition. Since we don’t have a transcript of the deposition, it is difficult to evaluate her comment but it appears to be cherry-picking from a deposition that lasted several hours. We rate this  .
Statement: Joan Rivers was killed for revealing that Barack Obama is gay and Michelle Obama is transgender.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 10, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The family reached a settlement with the clinic in May 2016.   As for the Obamas, this is not the first time this  has circulated and been debunked. We previously rated two claims that Michelle Obama is a man ! Photos and accounts from her memoir show that she is a cisgender woman.   We rate the  that Rivers was killed for revealing that Barack Obama is gay and Michelle Obama is transgender !
Statement: We now do have evidence" that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.
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: May 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: history;terrorism
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "We now do have . We have seen how Donald Trump is being used to essentially be a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism." That wasn't the case the first time Clinton claimed this. But now two different terror groups have used Trump's words in propaganda videos. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/0a716119-4fdd-4c8e-abba-67d977ca9fff
Statement: Oregon schools receive millions of dollars per year in federal school lunch assistance and yet they are required to spend that money almost anywhere but Oregon.
Speaker: ron wyden
About the speaker: Ron Wyden is the Democratic U.S. Senator from Oregon.
Date: June 20, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: congress;education;federal budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: So we conclude with records that all point in the same direction. Following federal procurement rules, which schools have to do to get federal money, leaves them little choice about what to buy and where to buy it, at least for USDA Foods. It’s unknown whether the portion of out-of-state food is similarly lopsided for the entire school nutrition effort in Oregon. But for USDA Foods, the one definitive document we found shows unambiguous results -- 96 percent of food served in Oregon schools and purchased with federal dollars came from another state. That fits within any definition of "almost anywhere but Oregon," which is why we rate this : .
Statement: When President Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, "there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army.
Speaker: chuck baldwin
About the speaker: Chuck Baldwin is a radio broadcaster, syndicated columnist, and pastor.
Date: July 9, 2015
Topics: history;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Baldwin said that 300,000 slaveholders fought in the Union army. The closest we can get to that figure is an estimate that 300,000 men from states that allowed slavery put on the Union blue uniform. But that provides no  that all of them owned slaves, either directly themselves or through their families. The historians we reached said the actual number of slaveholders who fought for the Union was tiny, perhaps a few thousand. The data from the 1860 census show that if Baldwin were correct, an overwhelming fraction of all of the young men from slave-owning families across the Deep South and beyond would needed to have broken with their communities and fought for the Union. Had that happened, it is hard to see how the Confederacy would have been able to fight at all. The chance that a few thousand slaveholders fought for the Union, rather than the 300,000 as Baldwin said, does little to keep this statement in the realm of reality. We rate it .
Statement: Says Donald Trump used farmers' struggles "to push through a multi-billion dollar bailout program that was nothing more than a handout for large agricultural companies.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: June 18, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: agriculture;coronavirus
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin claimed in a news release that bailouts under Trump have been "nothing more than a handout for large agricultural companies." The first of the two farm bailouts did indeed skew toward large farms, with 10% of recipients receiving 55% of the funding. We don’t yet have detailed data on the second bailout that would conclusively confirm or rebut this , so the state Democratic party can’t prove whether their assertion holds  for this program. But we do know the government changed the payment caps to limit how much the largest farms can receive. And the  wasn’t simply that payments skewed toward large farms, it was that the bailouts were "nothing more than a handout" for large producers. That’s a significant exaggeration. We rate this  .
Statement: I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce.
Speaker: fred thompson
About the speaker: Fred Thompson was a U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He graduated from Memphis State University and earned a law degree at Vanderbilt University. Thompson practiced law and served a variety of government counsel positions, including as minority counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities ("Watergate Committee"). In his acting career Thompson has appeared in 18 films, and recently worked as a TV actor, playing a prosecutor on the series Law and Order. Thompson was born in Alabama in 1942. He has been married to Jeri Kehn since 2002, and has four children, two from his first marriage. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 22, 2008.
Date: October 21, 2007
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: Orlando, Fla
Fact-check justification: The legislation went on to be passed without the protections for doctors and limits on frivolous suits. Also in 1995, Thompson voted with fellow Republicans on a bill that made it harder for shareholders to file class-action lawsuits against companies. When that law caused more and more class-action securities fraud lawsuits to be filed in state courts, Thompson voted for a 1998 law that required such cases to be handled by federal courts. He is correct that most states have passed some sort of tort reform, according to Darren McKinney, spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association, a group that advocates state and federal tort reform. Overall, we find Thompson's response to Giuliani's attack to be .
Statement: It's been confirmed that the Pfizer" COVID-19 "vaccine isn't guaranteed after six months.
Speaker: kimberly klacik
About the speaker: Conservative commentator Kimberly Klacik, a Republican, lost her 2020 campaign for a U.S. House seat from Baltimore.
Date: October 5, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Klacik said "it's been confirmed that the Pfizer" COVID-19 "vaccine isn't guaranteed after six months" and suggested it loses all effectiveness. The vaccine never came with any guarantee.  Klacik’s  alludes to a study that found that the Pfizer vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing infection dropped from 88% to 47% after five months. In preventing hospital admission, the vaccine remained 90% effective over six months, the study found.  The  contains only an element of . We rate it .
Statement: Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They're buried beneath the ground.
Speaker: energy transfer
About the speaker: Energy Transfer is a natural gas and propane pipeline company based in Dallas, Texas.
Date: February 26, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: climate change;energy
Context: testimony
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  A pipeline company executive testified before a legislative panel last week and pushed back on claims that pipeline infrastructure froze during Texas winter storm. Ruckel said that pipelines don’t freeze because they are "naturally insulated" by being buried underground.    Gas pipelines are required to be buried underground by the U.S. Department of Transportation, although the purpose of burial is more for protection than insulation from winter weather.    It’s also accurate that natural gas itself doesn’t freeze, and only reaches a liquid state under a cryogenic process. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Joe Scarborough is party to an "unsolved mystery" from his time as a congressman in Florida.
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: November 29, 2017
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a post on Twitter
Fact-check justification: Trump said Scarborough is party to an "unsolved mystery" from his time as a congressman in Florida. The guts of the attack are nothing more than an unproven conspiracy theory -- no different than President Barack Obama being born outside the United States or Ted Cruz’s father being involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy . This case is not unsolved. It is not a mystery. Trump's  rates !
Statement: Seven out of ten doctors are not taking any new Medicaid patients as lower reimbursement rates make it cost-prohibitive.
Speaker: donna campbell
About the speaker: Donna Campbell, a New Braunfels physician, won election to represent Texas Senate District 25 in November 2012. In 2010, she was the Republican nominee for the U.S. House seat held by Democrat Lloyd Doggett of Austin.
Date: March 22, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: health care;medicaid
Context: an email blast after meeting with President Trump
Fact-check justification: Campbell said: "Seven out of ten doctors are not taking any new Medicaid patients as lower reimbursement rates make it cost-prohibitive." Texas Medicaid payment rates indeed trail those for other kinds of insurance. But the crux of this statement, the 7-in-10 statistic, lacks factual footing partly because it combines different answers to an outdated Texas physician survey. In contrast, a 2016 national survey indicated about 2 in 10 U.S. physicians were not accepting Medicaid patients with about 6 in 10 accepting them. The same year, a survey found about four in 10 Texas doctors weren't accepting new Medicaid patients. It's worth noting, still, a 2017 study suggesting far more Texas specialists weren't accepting new Medicaid patients. We rate this  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget.
Speaker: nick tsiongas
About the speaker: Dr. Nick Tsiongas, a physician, is a former Rhode Isalnd state legislator and past president of the Rhode Island Medical Society. He also is a founding board member of HealthRIght, a Rhode Island group working for “the passage and implementation of comprehensive health care reform."
Date: September 6, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care;medicaid;state budget
Context: newspaper commentary
Fact-check justification: But, he said, "historically the Medicaid and health-care issue has been the largest driver of costs." State Budget Officer Thomas A. Mullaney agreed that pension costs could become a much bigger factor in the budget, if nothing is done. But, he said, "over the last several years, particularly in the area of Medicaid, health-care costs have been the largest driver in the budget, from an absolute dollar amount standpoint." So Tsiongas had the correct diagnosis when he said that health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget. We rate his   .
Statement: An Alton, Ill., man caught a 736-pound Giant Mekong catfish in the Mississippi River.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 1, 2016
Topics: animals
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Flathead catfish are native to the Mississippi River, but they don’t grow heavier than 123 pounds or longer than 5 feet according to FishBase . Mekong catfish can grow to be 650 pounds , which is closer to 736 pounds, but they have never been seen outside of Southeast Asia’s Mekong River. They are endemic to the area and are also categorized as critically endangered .   At PolitiFact, we’ve seen before that people get excited about seemingly giant fish , but we have to categorize this story as a tall (and heavy) tale. We rate this !
Statement: U.S. Rep. Matt "Cartwright proposes to defund the Wilkes-Barre police.
Speaker: jim bognet
About the speaker: Jim Bognet is a Republican running to represent Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District 
Date: June 12, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;pennsylvania
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The Bognet campaign said that "Cartwright proposes to defund the Wilkes-Barre police."  He does not. Instead, he explained to a participant in a recent virtual listening session that public officials in places like Wilkes-Barre, and in Congress, have the power to decide how public funds are spent on the police, as for any other public agency.  During the same event, Cartwright said explicitly that he does not agree with the idea of defunding the police. We rate the statement .
Statement: You can have an active warrant for your arrest for murder and legally pass a background check system in the state of Texas" to purchase a gun.
Speaker: gina hinojosa
About the speaker: Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat, was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2016 to represent Texas House District 49.
Date: September 4, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;public safety;guns
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Hinojosa’s  needs more context. It’s  that certain people with active arrest warrants for murder could legally pass a background check in Texas and purchase a gun — but only if the warrant was issued prior to an indictment and if it originated in Texas. If an arrest warrant for murder was the result of an indictment or was issued in another state, the person could not pass a background check. We rate this  .  — The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
Statement: Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher.
Speaker: george will
About the speaker: George Will is a conservative columnist syndicated by the Washington Post.
Date: July 11, 2010
Location: national
Topics: pundits;stimulus;this week - abc news
Context: ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: The administration never characterized it that way and included plenty of disclaimers saying the predictions had "significant margins of error" and a higher degree of uncertainty due to a recession that is "unusual both in its fundamental causes and its severity." In short, it was an economic projection with warnings of a high margin for error, not  a take-it-to-the-bank pledge of an upper limit on unemployment.            So we find Will's  .      Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are negotiating with the United Nations about doing a treaty that will ban the use of firearms.
Speaker: craig james
About the speaker: Craig James has been a football analyst for ESPN. He's a former star running back who played in Texas for the Southern Methodist University Mustangs. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in 2012.
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: foreign policy;guns
Context: Tyler, Texas
Fact-check justification: We found no  of Obama or Clinton indicating they want the UN conference on an arms trade treaty to ban the use of firearms; the recent speech by an administration underling states the government will not back a treaty that infringes on the Second Amendment. This  runs so substantially counter to reality, it’s . !
Statement: Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: March 10, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: economy;women;workers
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Davis said that Texas women are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in the state. Her figure, based on a 2011 federal survey, reflects median earnings for adults who worked full time in the past 12 months, leaving out part-time workers. It’s also outdated in that according to the latest available survey, taken in 2012, Texas women earned 79 cents for every dollar earned by men (again working full time in the past 12 months), less than what Davis said. We rate this  as .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.