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Statement: Says GOP leaders have "made overtures to meet on a regular basis," but Gov. Tony Evers has "refused to even meet with us.
Speaker: jim steineke
About the speaker: Rep. Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna) was first elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2010 and represents the 5th district in the Fox Cities area. He was named by his fellow Republicans as Assembly Majority Leader in the fall of 2014.
Date: March 31, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: an appearance on WISN-TV's UpFront
Fact-check justification: But Steineke is off base claiming there was a refusal to meet. His staff offered no  of a specific meeting being refused. And in fact, the opposite appears . Evers’ staff reached out to facilitate a meeting between Evers and Republican leaders in the days before Steineke’s TV appearance, and they received no immediate response. That makes Steineke’s  .
Statement: According to an article in the Economist magazine, Americans are "guaranteed" to live above the poverty line if they graduate from high school, keep their first job for over a year and get and stay married.
Speaker: barry smitherman
About the speaker: According to his Railroad Commission biographical information, Barry Smitherman was appointed to the state Public Utility Commission in 2004 and became chairman in 2007, then was appointed to the Railroad Commission in 2011 and became its chairman in 2012. Barry Smitherman lost his bid for attorney general of Texas in spring 2014.
Date: August 26, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: economy;education;jobs;marriage
Context: prepared remarks for speech to Texas Alliance for Life
Fact-check justification: Smitherman said that according to an article in the Economist, Americans are "guaranteed" to live above the poverty line if they graduate from high school, keep their first job for over a year and get and stay married. We did not pinpoint what Smitherman saw in the Economist. Setting that aside, Sawhill and Haskins wrote in 2009 that Americans "who finish high school, work full time and marry before having children are virtually guaranteed a place in the middle class." The pair did not refer to the import of keeping a first job for any time. Significantly, too, the authors stressed the economy would need to be strong for their hypothetical to fully work; that is, no roaring economy, no guarantee. We rate Smitherman’s  as . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Andrew Gillum "oversaw a 52 percent increase in murder.
Speaker: florida strong
About the speaker: Florida Strong is a conservative PAC that is attacking Democrat Andrew Gillum who is running for governor in 2018.
Date: October 17, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: city government;crime
Context: a Facebook video
Fact-check justification: A video by Florida Strong says Gillum "oversaw a 52 percent increase in murder." This attack is hollow. The attack stems from data showing that the murder rate increased from 4.6 per 100,000 residents between 2002-09 — when Gillum was on the city commission — to 7 per 100,000 residents between 2010-17, when Gillum was on the commission and then became mayor. The math works out to 52 percent. Highlighting this number with no context is a scare tactic. The annual numbers of murders are small, where any increase can lead to a large rate spike. By stating that Gillum "oversaw" that murder increase suggests that he is to blame when in fact he is one of a handful of votes on the commission. Crime is influenced by factors beyond a mayor’s control. We rate this statement .
Statement: Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's "No. 1 private contributor.
Speaker: michael moore
About the speaker: Michael Moore directed the movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" and is a well-known documentary filmmaker. His movies includes "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11," and "Sicko." He won the Academy Award for best documentary in 2002 with "Bowling for Columbine," and he was a nominee in 2007 for "Sicko." Michael Moore's Web site is www.MichaelMoore.com.
Date: September 23, 2009
Location: national
Topics: elections;regulation
Context: an interview on "The Colbert Report"
Fact-check justification: View Obama's complete list and amounts here. Incidentally, Goldman Sachs ranked No.4 on John McCain's list of employee contributions, at $230,095. Moore said that Goldman Sachs is Obama's "No. 1 private contributor." The data shows that is correct. We rate his statement .
Statement: You don't see Norway losing population, and its taxes are astronomical.
Speaker: jonathan harris
About the speaker: Jonathan L. Harris, an assistant professor of engineering studies at Johnson & Wales University, is chairman of the Sierra Club of Rhode Island’s transportation committee.
Date: December 24, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: taxes
Context: a newspaper commentary
Fact-check justification: Jonathan Harris of the Rhode Island chapter of the Sierra Club said, "You don’t see Norway losing population, and its taxes are astronomical." Census data shows he’s correct on the first point. On the second point, by the OECD measure, Norway’s relative tax burden is among the highest in the world. Federal taxes would need to be hiked 77 percent in the United States to reach Norway’s level. Is Norway’s ranking, seventh out of 34, "astronomical"? We believe it’s close enough for a  . (If you hear a  you’d like us to check, email us at [email protected] . And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021.
Speaker: west virginia republican party
About the speaker: The West Virginia Republican Party is the official Republican state party organization in West Virginia.
Date: August 23, 2022
Location: west virginia
Topics: drugs;public health
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The West Virginia Republican Party said "overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021"  National data from the CDC supports this: There were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2021, a 15% increase over what was already a record-setting year in 2020. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "New Jersey's $1 billion horse racing industry … employs 13,000 individuals and ensures the preservation of 176,000 acres of horse farmland.
Speaker: raymond lesniak
About the speaker: State Sen. Raymond Lesniak is a Democrat representing parts of Union County.
Date: September 9, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: environment;gambling;jobs
Context: an opinion article
Fact-check justification: Horse racing generates $780 million in annual economic impact in New Jersey. It's responsible for 7,000 jobs and equine operations tied to horse racing account for 34,000 acres of farmland in the state, according to a 2007 study. Lesniak exaggerated the impact of horse racing by incorrectly applying figures for the overall equine industry in New Jersey to one segment of that industry. But the numbers for horse racing alone -- particularly the annual economic impact figure -- are a significant portion of the statistics for the industry at large and there’s consensus about a broad impact if horse racing disappears from New Jersey. We rate his statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Free health allowance is available at no cost.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 12, 2022
Location: national
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: Kaiser Health News reported that the new law, which Biden signed Aug. 12, expanded the subsidies through 2025.   Facebook posts claimed Americans could sign up to receive credits or cash allowances totaling more than $5,000 to cover health care costs. One post included a link that claimed to be for registration, but led to a website with no program details and a photo from a newspaper story unrelated to health care.   Biden hasn’t announced a new initiative to give Americans a $5,000 cash award to cover health care. We rate the Facebook posts’  .
Statement: In the first three quarters of 2022, "the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends" and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave.
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: November 29, 2022
Topics: corporations;labor;transportation;unions
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that in the first three quarters of 2022, "the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends," and that CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave." The dollar figures he cited are correct for the seven major rail carriers in the U.S.  Sanders is  correct on paid sick days. The vast majority of workers at the largest railroads have none, but a small percentage do. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate Sanders’ statement . RELATED: Fact-checks about labor RELATED: Bernie Sanders’ PolitiFact file
Statement: Secure Communities "has a proven track record of enhancing public safety by focusing on violent offenders and those that pose a threat to our communities and our national security.
Speaker: peter kilmartin
About the speaker: Peter Kilmartin has been Rhode Island's attorney general since Jan. 4, 2011. He is a lawyer and retired captain in the Pawtucket Police Department who, until his election, had been a state Representative since 1991.
Date: January 11, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Kempe, after checking back with ICE officials, said the attorney general believes people convicted of even relatively minor crimes -- selling marijuana, painting graffiti or vandalizing a neighborhood -- are threats to the community. That may be. But we believe that, in the light of the ICE data, Kilmartin went too far when he said Secure Communities "has a proven record" of focusing on "violent offenders" and "threats to communities and our national security." That may be the intent, but the numbers show a mixed result. We rule his statement .
Statement: Before NAFTA, trade between the US and Mexico was around $50 billion. Now it stands at more than $500 billion.
Speaker: jeff flake
About the speaker: Jeff Flake, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 2012, after serving in the U.S. House.
Date: April 27, 2017
Location: national
Topics: economy;trade
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Flake tweeted, "Before NAFTA, trade between the US and Mexico was around $50 billion. Now it stands at more than $500 billion." Flake is close on the numbers. NAFTA went into effect in 1994. The year before that, trade between the United States and Mexico was about $81.5 billion, according to Census figures. Flake’s office said he looked at other years, 1988 and 1989, in which trade was closer to $50 billion. Data for 2016 show about $525 billion in trade between the two countries. Economists and trade experts told us that NAFTA has played an important role in trade growth, but several other factors must also be taken into consideration. With those caveats, we rate this  .
Statement: Says he "had to impose tougher cost controls on state employees than" any previous Wisconsin governor.
Speaker: jim doyle
About the speaker: Jim Doyle, a Democrat, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was elected to the post in 2002, after serving as the state's attorney general, and was re-elected in 2006. He did not seek a third term in 2010 and went to work for a Milwaukee-based law firm.
Date: December 19, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Doyle said he did more than any previous Wisconsin governor in controlling state employee costs. Doyle did limit pay raises, make some pay cuts and make employees pay more for benefits. It’s difficult to do a valid governor-by-governor comparison across the generations, so based on available statistics and consulting with experts, we went back 40 years. For that time frame, experts agreed Doyle’s  was correct for that period -- but noted his actions were largely a product of the time during which he served. We rate Doyle’s  .
Statement: The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 7, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Nashville, Tenn
Fact-check justification: So first, when McCain talks about this legislation, it's not the cure-all he suggests it may have been; the focus then was on corruption in Fannie and Freddie, which isn't really what the financial crisis is about. Democrats may have opposed it, but it didn't appear to have all that many champions in a Republican-controlled Senate, either.   And last, if you look back in time, Democrats and Republicans supported an easing of lending standards in the late 1990s. So for McCain to lay Fannie and Freddie woes entirely at the feet of the Democrats is unfair. We rate his statement .
Statement: Kid Rock tweeted, "Some people wouldn't recognize tyranny if it slapped a mask on their face, made them stand 6 feet apart, and forced them to take a vaccine for a virus with a 99.8% survival rate.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 26, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: According to the @KidRockOfficial bio , it was a "Kid Rock fan page. "  We couldn’t find a Gettr account for Kid Rock, and it’s not listed among the social media accounts on his website . We also found no tweets about tyranny on his Twitter account.   In April 2020, he tweeted "protect yourself and others by making a homemade mask" and in December of that year he shared a photo of himself in a Waffle House mask and said, "My mask game is getting strong!" We rate claims that this post was from Kid Rock .
Statement: [The state ethics commission] took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. … They were somewhere in the 7 percent range – same as the governor's office.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: September 1, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: ethics
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The governor appoints three of the five board members to the ethics commission; the General Assembly appoints the other two. It was up to the commissioners to figure out how to spend their smaller budget. The contemplated cut to Kalberman’s salary and the elimination of Streicker’s position accomplished that. For sake of context, the ethics commission’s budget has been slashed 42 percent since fiscal 2008, but the new governor had no say in it until this year. While this likely does little to settle questions over the staffing changes at the ethics commission, it does verify Deal’s statement to Georgia Trend, which we rate .
Statement: Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.
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: September 17, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: campaign finance;health care;legal issues
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Davis said that weeks "after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon. Davis’ statement needs clarification – that Abbott’s intervention was limited to defending the constitutionality of Texas’ tort-reform laws. That makes this statement .  – 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.
Statement: Photo shows Tom Hanks after "wife Rita exposed his condition after he was spotted in a bad state. Tom will spend the remainder of his life in and out of hospitals.
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: June 3, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: You’ve got type 2 diabetes, young man,’" Hanks said at the time.   He told Letterman that the disease is "controllable." In 2020, Hanks and Wilson were diagnosed with COVID-19 , but we couldn’t find any  to support the  that Wilson has recently revealed something tragic about her husband’s health.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on an assault weapons ban.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: November 28, 2011
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2012;guns
Context: a campaign advertisement
Fact-check justification: The DNC ad has some problems. It uses some deceptive editing, and it ignores the fact that Romney was pretty consistent in both of the comments to frame his support for an assault-weapons ban in the context of a compromise that also expanded other types of gun rights. The difficulty of analyzing this charge is that Romney's position on an assault-weapons ban in the 2008 debate was so muddled that it's hard to pin down whether he actually flip-flopped. It's more an example of an internal inconsistency than a flip-flop per se. In fact, the DNC might have made a more convincing argument simply by quoting the confilcting parts of Romney’s 2008 debate comment. So the DNC made some procedural missteps, but it's on to something about Romney's delicate dance on gun control. On balance, we rate the DNC’s charge .
Statement: Says "Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: November 15, 2020
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: In a tweet that became a viral Instagram post, Paul said, "Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate?"  Paul’s post mischaracterized Biden’s position at that time, and Biden has further clarified it since. Biden said in August that he would support a national lockdown if scientists determined it was necessary to curb the disease.  In October, he said he would not shut down the country or economy. And after the election —  before Paul made his  — Biden and members of his COVID-19 task force indicated again that a nationwide shutdown is not part of their plans. Biden has come out even more forcefully against the prospect of a nationwide shutdown since Paul published his tweet.  While Biden’s earlier comments suggest he is open to seeking a lockdown if it’s warranted, he and his team have made it clear that they neither intend nor want to impose a national shutdown, as Paul claims.  We rate this  .
Statement: A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize.
Speaker: ginny brown-waite
About the speaker: Ginny Brown-Waite is a former Republican congresswoman from Brooksville in Florida’s 5th Congressional District. She halted her re-election campaign in April 2010 citing health reasons.
Date: October 26, 2009
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;foreign policy
Context: a letter to President Obama
Fact-check justification: The Nobel Foundation is not part of the Norwegian government; it's a private Swedish foundation. And we haven't found any  to show that Roosevelt, Wilson or Kissinger sought permission from the government to accept the prize. But the tenuous link is enough to earn a .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: November 30, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: economy
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: When the ceiling issue comes up, members of the minority party can vote "no" knowing the other side will muster the votes to do it. Hutchison’s five “no” votes occurred when Democrats controlled the Senate. With Democrats holding the Senate majority, she voted for raising the ceiling as part of the Wall Street rescue plan approved in October 2008 and earlier voted for raising the ceiling in June 2002. Perry got all of Hutchison’s “yes” votes right. We rate his  as .
Statement: Ninety six percent of employers in the Granite State are considered small businesses.
Speaker: jeanne shaheen
About the speaker: Jeanne Shaheen is a Senator from New Hampshire.
Date: October 9, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: congress;government regulation;small business
Context: remarks from the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: Shaheen said that 96 percent of employers in the Granite State are considered small businesses. Shaheen specifically cited the Small Business Administration and their threshold of 500 employees is a long-standing and widely used definition. Other definitions used by the SBA say a company with as many as 1,500 employees and up to $21 million in revenue, can be considered small, which may defy belief.   Under the common definition, SBA calculates the number of small businesses in New Hampshire at 96.1 percent, so Shaheen was correct under either definition. We rate this  .