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Statement: Says President Barack Obama "built this $16 trillion debt.
Speaker: reid ribble
About the speaker: Reid Ribble is a Republican U.S. House member representing Wisconsin's 8th District, which covers the Green Bay area. He defeated U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen, D-Appleton, in the 2010 election.
Date: August 30, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: debt;deficit;federal budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Ribble said Obama "built this $16 trillion debt." His spokeswoman said Ribble meant that the debt had reached that level because of Obama. But Ribble used the $16 trillion figure, not the roughly $5 trillion that the debt has increased under Obama. Moreover, the debt grew not only due to Obama’s actions, but those taken by present and past presidents and Congresses. We rate Ribble’s statement .
Statement: Says that this year is the first time during his 27 years as senator "that two African Americans have ever served on the same (Senate) committee.
Speaker: royce west
About the speaker: Royce West is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate and has represented District 23 in Dallas since 1993. West ran for election to the U.S. Senate, but lost in the Democratic primary runoff in 2020.
Date: November 23, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: history
Context: a committee meeting
Fact-check justification: West said during a Senate committee meeting last month that Patrick made history this year when he appointed the Senate’s only two Black members to the Senate Chamber Review Committee. West said it’s the first time during his 27 years as senator "that two African Americans have ever served on the same (Senate) committee." However, it appears West was forgetting when he served on committees with Ellis in 1995 and 2001.   The first time two Black members of the Texas Senate served together on a standing committee since Reconstruction was in 1987.   We rate this  .
Statement: Country singer Miranda Lambert is giving away "free belly melt kits.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 7, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In 2019, Lambert’s Twitter account warned fans to "be aware there are lots of scammers on the internet that create  accounts, pretend to be Miranda, and ask for money." It listed her sole social media accounts, none of which are connected to this weight loss post or product.   Fact-checking site Lead Stories recently examined  a similar  in which Lambert was allegedly hawking a weight loss "mineral," and a representative told the outlet that "these are scam videos — it is not Miranda’s voice promoting the product and she is not affiliated with any such products. Her lawyer is actively working to get them taken down, however new versions continue to pop up daily. "  We rate this post .
Statement: Says no one has died from the coronavirus in the United States.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: March 1, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The victims were all in Washington state .   Of course, the Instagram post was published on March 1. But the first death was reported on Feb. 29 . Officials announced four more deaths on March 2. We rate this Instagram post .
Statement: There are a "multitude" of vaccines that do not prevent deadly and crippling diseases.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: September 16, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: public health
Context: the second GOP debate
Fact-check justification: Ben Carson, one of two medical doctors running for the GOP nomination, said during the second Republican debate that there is a "multitude" of vaccines for diseases that are not deadly or disabling. The diseases targeted by the vaccines recommended for children on a set schedule, however, are nearly universally lethal. The one obvious exception, rubella, is a disfiguring disease that can lead to birth defects. A medical doctor would surely know that. We rate Carson’s  .
Statement: An overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites support restoring #Roe and legalizing marijuana.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: November 14, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;marijuana
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Evers said "an overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites support restoring #Roe and legalizing marijuana. "  The latest Marquette Law poll shows clear majorities on both fronts, though support for restoring Roe v. Wade was not as overwhelming as Evers painted it to be.   A rating of  means that the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.   That fits here.     window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a super PAC.
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: September 28, 2015
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: comments on Twitter
Fact-check justification: Sanders tweeted, "Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a Super PAC which collects money from billionaires and corporations." Out of the 21 presidential candidates, Sanders is one of five who doesn’t have an affiliated super PAC. Sanders’ qualifier -- "virtually" -- makes his  more accurate. If we narrow the count to major candidates, only Sanders and Trump can  that, but both have two unaffiliated super PACs backing their candidacy. Trump has appeared at a fundraiser for one super PAC that’s also received donations from his in-laws. Sanders, meanwhile, has disassociated himself with these groups, through statements and legal action. We rate Sanders’  .
Statement: A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
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: April 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: the White House Rose Garden
Fact-check justification: Obama said a "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation." Two fully independent polls showed that NRA members or households support expanded background checks, but the polls couldn’t have asked about the "legislation" Obama referred to because those measures had not been introduced yet. We rate the statement .
Statement: Only in Washington would politicians spend $27 million to teach Moroccans how to make pottery.
Speaker: karen handel
About the speaker: Karen Handel is the former secretary of state of Georgia. She is also the former chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. Handel, a Republican, lost the runoff for the GOP nomination for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: August 7, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget
Context: a website posting
Fact-check justification: But a closer look at the facts shows that the $27 million was for an entire economic development program in Morocco, of which the pottery training was only a fraction of the cost -- about 8 percent of the total program. Some may still consider that amount, $2.2 million, a large expense for pottery training and promotion, but it is not close to the $27 million that Handel claimed. Her overall point that the program was a failure is supported by an inspector general’s audit that found that the pottery training was mismanaged, poorly organized and ineffective. Her statement contains an element of  but overstates the cost and ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rated Handel’s  .
Statement: Says "5 out of 10" GOP candidates don't live in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District.
Speaker: stony rushing
About the speaker: Stony Rushing is a Republican candidate in the special election for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District.
Date: April 9, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We rate this  . Staff reporter Carli Brosseau contributed. This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: The House impeachment rules resolution "does not provide the president with due process protections that were afforded to both President Clinton and President Nixon.
Speaker: bryan steil
About the speaker: Bryan Steil, R-Janesville was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. 
Date: October 31, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: impeachment
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Steil said Trump isn’t being afforded the "due process protections" that presidents Clinton and Nixon received in their impeachment proceedings since he can’t participate in the Intelligence Committee phase and can lose his protections before the Judiciary Committee if he doesn’t cooperate. But the Intelligence Committee  doesn’t hold up since that body is filling a unique investigative role. The closest analog from past impeachments is the investigative work done before the matter even reached the House — and Clinton and Nixon had no role or protection during those. The potential for Trump to lose protections if he doesn’t cooperate is indeed unique this time, but it doesn’t inherently limit Trump. It just imposes consequences if the President fails to cooperate with the inquiry. What’s more, the House is only the investigative side of an impeachment inquiry; the trial side — where due process more directly applies —  is handled in the Senate. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Says President Trump's mother said, "Yes, he's an idiot with zero common sense, and no social skills, but he is my son. I just hope he never goes into politics. He'd be a disaster.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 13, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The quote cannot be found in any interviews or books and only appears to exist in the form of memes and social media posts. Other fact-checking websites have also been unable to locate the statement outside of social media. Mary Anne Trump passed away in 2000 , and if she had said such an inflammatory statement about her son, it would have likely come up in the news cycle during his 2016 presidential campaign.   There is no credible  to suggest this quote is real. !
Statement: Half of the proposed federal tax breaks ​"would go to the wealthiest 1 percent.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: November 30, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: taxes
Context: a blog
Fact-check justification: Cooper said half of the tax breaks in Senate Republicans’ proposal would go to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. If key changes in the plan remain temporary, Cooper’s  would come to fruition, but not for 10 years. Cooper’s op-ed doesn’t explain that change. On balance, we rate his  .
Statement: Non-defense discretionary spending has increased "by over 80 percent in the last two years.
Speaker: robert hurt
About the speaker: Robert Hurt, Republican, represents Virginia's 5th District, which is composed of 19 counties and two independent municipalities and is Virginia's largest, in Congress. Hurt was first elected to the U.S. House in 2010. He serves on the Financial Services Committee and on its Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises and Housing and Insurance subcommittees.
Hurt, a Pittsylvania County native, previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2007 and in the state senate from 2008 to 2010.
Hurt graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, in 1991 and earned a law degree from Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, Miss., in 1995.
Date: June 3, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: deficit;federal budget;stimulus
Context: an e-mail newsletter
Fact-check justification: Moreover, data from the White House budget office provide strong  that the GOP has double-counted the stimulus. The White House budget office shows non-defense discretionary spending rose 26 percent from 2008 to 2010. The CBO, which Hurt and other Republicans cite as their source, puts the increase at 23.7 percent. That’s a long way from the "over 80 percent"  increase claimed by Hurt. We rate his statement .
Statement: A photograph shows a woman doing cocaine with a child.
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: April 28, 2019
Topics: children;drugs;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s because the photo was staged by actress and sketch comedian Janell Lenfert . In 2015, she posted the image on the account with this caption: "If you need a babysitter, please let me know!" She also included a caveat: "Can’t believe I need to say this but THIS IS . IT’S BAKING FLOUR PEOPLE!! "  We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Sen. Marco Rubio has "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate.
Speaker: val demings
About the speaker: Val Demings is running against U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio in 2022. Demings won her race for U.S. Representative in 2016 and subsequently won re-election. She represents a central Florida district. She previously served as Orlando's police chief.
Date: July 13, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: congress;voting record
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Overall, Rubio missed more than 9% of votes since 2011 — well above the average of 2.3% among members of the Senate. One of the reasons for this is his unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2016. Rubio’s attendance record in the 117th Congress is a bit better. So far, he has missed 41 votes, making him the 27th most absent member of the Senate. We rate Demings'  .
Statement: Says the GOP is "helping pay for" Justice Rebecca Bradley's campaign and "she recently skipped court to attend an event paid for" by Scott Walker's "lobbyist friends.
Speaker: joanne kloppenburg
About the speaker: JoAnne Kloppenburg of Madison is state Court of Appeals judge and a former assistant state attorney general. She ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2011 and is running for the high court again in 2016. 
Date: March 15, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;legal issues;supreme court
Context: TV ad
Fact-check justification: The state and county Republican parties have given $9,262 in cash and in-kind contributions to Bradley's campaign. She didn't entirely skip court one day, but did leave oral arguments the Supreme Court was hearing early in order to speak at a Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce event. WMC, the state's largest business lobby, is a major supporter of Walker. We rate Kloppenburg's statement . (Note: This item was updated to clarify that in-kind contributions from the state GOP paid for wages for its own staff, not for Bradley's campaign staff.)
Statement: The Republican leadership in the House has refused to address the issues that matter the most to Rhode Island, such as passing a jobs bill.
Speaker: jonathan boucher
About the speaker: Jonathan Boucher is the executive director of the Rhode Island Democratic Party.
Date: January 31, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;climate change;congress;economy;energy;jobs;workers
Context: a Providence Journal commentary
Fact-check justification: The bottom line: The House, under the current Republican leadership, has passed bills with the goal of encouraging employment. Whether one thinks that the bills will do more harm than good is a matter for debate, and beyond the scope of this fact check. Boucher's statement is , enough for a ruling of . But because he's making a  defense to justify it, we rate it  ! (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: The United Kingdom's "Parliament closed its borders to prevent Harry and Meg from flying to the UK in order to protect the king.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 4, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: But there are no news reports to corroborate the post’s claims.   The video’s narrator claimed that all 650 members of Parliament suggested closing the U.K.’s borders, and unanimous agreement on such a momentous decision would also likely make news. There’s none. And finally, flights have continued to arrive at London Heathrow Airport. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Karen Handel voted with Donald Trump, "gutting health care for millions, supporting horrific child separation policies" and for "abortion bans.
Speaker: lucy mcbath
About the speaker: Georgia Democrat Lucy McBath, a gun control advocate, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.
Date: September 9, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: abortion;immigration;border security;health care
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: McBath’s ad gets some details  in saying that when Handel was in the House, she voted with Trump, "gutting health care for millions, supporting horrific child separation policies" and for "abortion bans." Handel supported repealing Obamacare, but a House vote on a Republican replacement bill occurred before she took office. Handel opposed Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border. She did vote for a bill that would have outlawed certain abortions. We rate McBath’s  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Says Gov. Tony Evers is "a big proponent of this defund the police movement.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: April 30, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;crime;public safety
Context: Public statement
Fact-check justification: Kleefisch claimed Evers is "a big proponent of this defund the police movement ." She and her team did not offer any  to back her , but there is plenty that contradicts it – notably direct statements made by Evers, who has also used federal pandemic aid to provide more than an additional $100 million to local law enforcement. We rate the  .
Statement: I've got a 94 percent" career voting record in Congress while Bill Nelson has "a 92 percent voting record.
Speaker: connie mack
About the speaker: Connie Mack was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2004. Mack, of Fort Myers, lost a U.S. Senate race to Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003.
Date: October 17, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;voting record
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Mack said that his own career voting participation rate is 94 percent, while Nelson’s is 92 percent. The available data supports those numbers. Both candidates have political reasons for times when they missed votes: Nelson missed more than half of his votes in 1990 when he ran for governor. Mack missed about 30 percent so far this year running for Senate. So while Nelson criticized Mack for missed votes this year, Nelson has also missed votes in the past, and their career voting rates are roughly equivalent. We rate this  .
Statement: Portland Public Schools invites "well-paid, well-fed school bureaucrats, administrators, teachers, other staff, non-needy students, affluent parents of students, and other adults, including on the other extreme the adult homeless, illegal aliens, fanatical Muslim terrorists, or drug addicted street people, to enjoy cheap breakfasts in taxpayer-paid school facilities amidst school children.
Speaker: rees lloyd
About the speaker: Rees Lloyd is an attorney who contributes to the blog of Portland talk-radio host Victoria Taft.
Date: December 10, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: education
Context: a website posting
Fact-check justification: School districts and educational experts argue that breakfast helps students to concentrate. Lloyd is wise to question government use of taxpayer money. But the  that breakfast is truly open to anyone and everyone is . Only students and adults allowed on campus can partake of school breakfasts. Comment on this item.
Statement: We've seen the increase of alcohol use for underage kids even though alcohol has been illegal ... for kids under 21.
Speaker: nancy denuccio
About the speaker: Nancy DeNuccio, of Narragansett, R.I., is chairwoman of the Ocean State Prevention Alliance, a coalition of substance-abuse prevention specialists and mental-health professionals that is opposing proposals for more lenient laws toward marijuana possession.
Date: March 6, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: alcohol;drugs;marijuana
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Nancy DeNuccio said, "We've seen the increase of alcohol use for underage kids even though alcohol has been illegal ... for kids under 21." We note that DeNuccio immediately acknowledged that she had misspoken. Given the  we found, we rate the