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Statement: Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that "it threatens our freedom of speech.
Speaker: ronna mcdaniel
About the speaker: Ronna Romney McDaniel (born January 19, 1973) is the current Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former Chair of the Michigan Republican Party. McDaniel is the granddaughter of two-term Michigan Governor and Nixon administration Cabinet member George W. Romney and niece of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Date: February 22, 2021
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;congress;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: McDaniel tweeted that the "ACLU opposes HR 1" on grounds that "it threatens our freedom of speech." The ACLU opposed the 2019 version of H.R. 1, saying multiple provisions would limit free speech. When Democrats unveiled the bill again in January, ACLU said it still held many of their earlier concerns and called some sections "onerous and dangerous." But the ACLU has stopped short of opposing the bill in 2021.  While it is clear that freedom of speech for political donors is among the ACLU’s concerns, the ACLU has not opposed the bill in 2021. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it . RELATED: Group makes bogus attack on HR 1 over congressional salaries RELATED: Fact-checking  attacks on HR 1, Democrats’ voting rights bill RELATED:  about congressional pensions is , once again RELATED: Fact-checking Mark Walker's video on HR 1’s campaign-finance provisions
Statement: Says Rick Scott changed his promise from 700,000 jobs created "on top of what normal growth would be" to just 700,000 jobs.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: October 14, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Crist’s ad says that Scott changed 2010 his 2010 promise of 700,000 jobs created "on top of what normal growth would be" to just 700,000 jobs. That’s a difference of 1 million jobs, as had been projected by economists. The ad provides a concise but accurate summary of Scott’s 2010 pledge and then his public statements that modified the terms. We rate the ad’s statement .
Statement: As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: January 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: children;families;poverty;welfare
Context: a New Hampshire town hall with voters
Fact-check justification: Santorum credited welfare reform for driving poverty down to the lowest level ever for African-American children. He’s right that the poverty rate did reach historic lows following the reform’s passage, but the reason why is not so clear cut. There’s good  that the policy changes took more people off the welfare rolls by requiring them to work. And working, it follows, makes people better off than reliance on relatively low levels of public assistance. But the booming economy of the late 1990s had a lot to do with former welfare recipients gaining employment, as there were ample jobs to be had. Experts say the law and the healthy employment picture combined to help lift people out of poverty. And recently, as the economy has weakened and unemployment increased, poverty rates have risen, too. On balance, we rate Santorum’s  .
Statement: Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his "top political adviser" and funded "political polling.
Speaker: tim ryan
About the speaker: Tim Ryan is a representative of Ohio’s 13th Congressional District. Ryan served the state’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 until 2013, when he assumed office to represent the 13th District. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president. In 2022, he is running for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat.
Date: July 19, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: drugs;ethics;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Ryan said that instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his "top political adviser" and funded polling. Vance’s nonprofit, which was founded partly to fight opioid abuse, paid Chabria $63,425 in 2017 to be its executive director. Chabria was a key political adviser to Vance and remains on Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign.  The nonprofit also spent $45,000 for a survey of the "social, cultural and general welfare needs of Ohio citizens." We could not find  documenting the survey’s exact questions. We rate Ryan’s  about Vance . RELATED: Fact-checking ads in the 2022 campaigns RELATED: Ohio fact-checks
Statement: Rick Perry thinks "injecting 11- and 12-year-old girls with a controversial drug (the HPV vaccine), without a parent's consent, is a good idea.
Speaker: lone star first
About the speaker: Lone Star First is an independent organization supported and funded by the Democratic Governors Association.
Date: September 28, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: children;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The order included an opt-out for parents who objected to the vaccine. But there's no  — not a scintilla of proof — that shots would have been given without parental consent, and saying so preys on the fears of parents who objected to Perry requiring the vaccine. Parents and guardians are gatekeepers for children getting the vaccinations required for students to go to Texas schools. Perry's failed mandate would not have changed that, and the ad sounds like Perry endorsed forcing families against their will to vaccinate their children with a scary drug. We rate Lone Star First's statement .
Statement: Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years.
Speaker: central falls police department
About the speaker: The Central Falls Police Department is located in Rhode Island's smallest municipality.
Date: January 28, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: animals;science
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Central Falls police, citing a cat adoption service, said, "Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years." In the real world, that's impossible. The idea that one female cat and her succeeding generations could produce that many cats in half a decade is just as . There are overwhelmingly good reasons to have a cat spayed or neutered. Trying to prevent a single male cat from producing more than 400,000 offspring in five years isn't one of them. We rate this cat stat  ! (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue.
Speaker: one wisconsin now
About the speaker: One Wisconsin Now is a liberal advocacy group that focuses on advancing "progressive leadership and values."
Date: July 28, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: china;economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: But whether Wisconsin is making a good deal isn’t part of this fact check. Our rating One Wisconsin Now says Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue." Walker does want to offer $200 million to $250 million per year over 15 years in incentives in order to get Foxconn to put its plant in Wisconsin, and the estimate is that the project will produce $181 million per year in tax revenue. But what’s left out of the statement is that Walker and others are pursuing the deal in large part because the massive development is expected to generate other new businesses, new housing and other economic activity that will, in turn, produce even more tax revenue. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, our rating is .
Statement: Barack Obama voted against "born alive" legislation in Illinois that was "virtually identical to the federal law.
Speaker: national right to life committee
About the speaker: The National Right to Life Committee is an advocacy group that seeks to reduce abortions and end the right to legal abortion.
Date: August 11, 2008
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: a published piece on their Web site
Fact-check justification: But the federal neutrality clause wasn't sufficient to reassure the Illinois legislators seeking to protect abortion rights. The law that passed had additional explicit protection for existing state law and generally accepted medical standards. The bill's sponsor said in 2008 that the extra language was included to satisfy "the most zealous prochoice legislators." But the National Right to Life Committee is correct that the 2003 version of the law did include a neutrality clause similar to the federal legislation, and Obama voted against it. We rule its  .
Statement: You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus.
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 18, 2014
Location: national
Topics: ebola;public health;transportation
Context: the president's weekly national address
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or a bus." He’s right in the sense that you can’t get it "just" from being on a plane or bus with someone who is infected. It would take additional steps: The infected person must be showing symptoms and you must have direct contact with that individual’s bodily fluids, i.e. blood or vomit. Could that happen? Hypothetically, sure. Experts confirmed as much, and the CDC goes so far as to warn people exposed to the virus that they should not take public transportation. But it’s also a very unlikely scenario. It’s rare that one would ever come in direct contact with bodily fluids from sick people while riding on a bus or plane. And someone in that stage of the disease is likely too sick to fly or ride. Experts said the probability of such a transmission occurring is so small that the sentiment is largely accurate. We rate the statement .
Statement: 50 U.S. politicians who received satellite phones were taken to an undisclosed government bunker facility to ensure a Continuation of Government.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 25, 2023
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: According to the CBS News report, Gibson opened an office "demonstration space" in the Russell Senate Office Building basement to show security upgrades such as "duress buttons," mail screening devices and safety glass. This is not an "undisclosed government bunker facility." Lawmakers are still working in view of the public . The Congressional Daily Digest showed the Senate met in a pro forma session and the House of Representatives held committee meetings May 25, and pro forma sessions for both chambers were also scheduled for May 26. We rate the  that 50 politicians were taken to a bunker facility .
Statement: Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, … living longer on average, and facing less income inequality.
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 16, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care;income;labor
Context: a speech at the New America Foundation
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that "Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, … living longer on average, and facing less income inequality." She’s indisputably correct on four of these five measures, and the data is more mixed on the fifth. On balance, we rate her  .
Statement: Defends his vote to push "retirement age to 70" by saying he is for "a process" that would not be fully implemented until "around the turn of the century.
Speaker: scott desjarlais
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais’ represents Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District, which takes in Middle Tennessee and parts of East Tennessee. He was elected for the first time to Congress in 2010.
Date: September 2, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: retirement;social security;voting record
Context: an interview with The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro
Fact-check justification: To defend himself against charges that he voted to raise the Social Security age to 70, the freshman congressman points to his support for Congressman Paul Ryan’s 2010 budgetary road map where the retirement age doesn’t hit 70 until the next century. But DesJarlais was not even in Congress in 2010, and the only vote he ever made on a plan that included a target date for raising the age to 70 came earlier this year.That plan called for raising Social Security age to 70 by 2047 or 2048 -- 52 years before the century turns. For that bit of misdirection, we give the congressman a ruling of .
Statement: Republicans recently passed a bill to eliminate early voting on Sunday" in Georgia
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: March 24, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: national;elections
Context: a Senate hearing
Fact-check justification: Schumer said that "Republicans recently passed a bill to eliminate early voting on Sunday" in Georgia. Schumer’s statement provides a  impression that Georgia Republicans completely got rid of Sunday voting. Republicans initially proposed getting rid of Sunday early voting, but by the time of Schumer’s remarks, the state House had passed a bill that allowed for one Sunday of voting. A day after Schumer spoke, a bill was signed into law that allowed the option of two Sundays of voting. Schumer misstated the effect of the bill that Republicans advanced and ultimately passed.. We rate this statement .
Statement: Omarosa Exposed: Turns out she was actually working for Hillary
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 22, 2018
Topics: jobs;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The Young Conservatives article featured the headline, "Omarosa Exposed: Turns Out She Was Actually Working For Hillary." This headline may mislead readers into believing Omarosa was a double-agent during her time in the Trump administration. There is no  this is . The article calls into question Omarosa’s loyalty to Trump from his campaign to her year in the White House given her previous record of supporting Hillary Clinton and working for Bill Clinton. After she had a falling-out with Hillary Clinton’s campaign organizers, Omarosa was recruited by Trump to help his campaign. The  is partially accurate but missing substantial context. We this  .
Statement: Eighty percent of all U.S. communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online.
Speaker: jim jordan
About the speaker: Jim Jordan is a member of the House of Representative from Ohio's 4th Congressional District. A conservative Republican, Jordan is chair of the Republican Study Committee.
Date: November 30, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;government regulation;transportation
Context: a congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: Jordan's statement originates with a credible source -- Rand McNally. And the cited data backs his  that "80 percent of all U.S. communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online." But it also should be noted that Rand McNally hasn’t produced the Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide "in many years," and it is that data that the American Trucking Associations used to generate the figure of 80 percent. That’s a piece of information that provides clarification. On the -O-Meter, Jordan’s  rates as .
Statement: Planned Parenthood has "now (been) found to also illegally sell baby parts.
Speaker: john stemberger
About the speaker: John Stemberger is the president of the Florida Family Policy Council, a conservative Republican group that advocates against same-sex marriage and adoptions.
Date: September 22, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: abortion
Context: a letter to Gov. Rick Scott
Fact-check justification: Stemberger said Planned Parenthood has "now (been) found to also illegally sell baby parts." Videos from the Center for Medical Progress have led to lots of debate among activists and politicians, but federal law allows for fetal tissue donations to researchers. Abortion providers also are allowed to charge a fee for facilitating those donations. At any rate, the Florida affiliates are not participating in these types of transactions. Stemberger’s letter makes it sound as if Planned Parenthood had been proven guilty of a crime, which is not accurate. He also made a host of other accusations against the Florida organization for which we can’t find . We rate his statement .
Statement: The post office right now, this year, is operating with about a $12 billion surplus.
Speaker: darin lahood
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood represents the 18th Congressional District of Illinois. Prior to his election to Congress in 2015, he served four years in the Illinois State Senate.
Date: August 24, 2020
Location: illinois
Topics: federal budget
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: LaHood said, "the post office right now, this year, is operating with about a $12 billion surplus." His spokesman told us he was referencing the nearly $13 billion "cash on hand" the agency reported at the end of June. But cash on hand is not a surplus, experts said. The agency has reported a net loss in every year since 2007, the year after Congress required it to more robustly fund its retirement health benefit system. We rate LaHood’s  !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.
Speaker: duane hall
About the speaker: Duane Hall is a Democratic member of the N.C. House of Representatives. He's a lawyer and lives in Raleigh.
Date: December 9, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: children;criminal justice;crime;state budget
Context: a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission
Fact-check justification: Rep. Duane Hall said that despite concerns over the cost of moving youthful offenders in North Carolina from the adult justice system to the juvenile justice system, the move could save the state "literally tens of millions of dollars." The state government would actually see increased costs according to one study – although the same study found the economy would reap a net benefit of tens of millions of dollars. Furthermore, the head of the state’s juvenile justice system said while previous reforms did cost millions to implement, they have since led to fewer youths in the system and corresponding savings of more than $40 million. Hall is also right that other states have found juvenile justice reforms including taking teenage offenders out of adult prisons do lead to less crime and long-term savings – possibly as much as $10 for every $1 spent on reform. Yet despite all the  about long-term savings, there’s also no denying there would be short-term cost increases for state government. For that reason we rate his  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9a456e6f-a40d-4b4c-be0f-f39fc85aeab2
Statement: Before this law, any group could go out anywhere, register voters, sit on the voter registration forms for unlimited amount of time.
Speaker: lenny curry
About the speaker: Lenny Curry is chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. His current term expires in January 2013.
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Before the 48-hour registration law was imposed, Curry explained that "any group could go out, register voters, sit on the voter registration forms for unlimited amount of time." Actually, the prior law had a 10-day rule for turning in voter registrations. Curry has a point that the state didn’t enforce the law -- an explanation he originally omitted. The state could have instituted measures to enforce the 10-day rule, instead of moving to the stricter 48-hour rule. Curry's comment gives the impression there was no rule at all. If third-party voter registration groups were sitting on registrations for unlimited amounts of time, even before the new measure, they were breaking the law. We rate Curry's statement .
Statement: A Chinese proverb says, "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.
Speaker: ivanka trump
About the speaker: Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman and the daughter of and assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: June 11, 2018
Location: national
Topics: history
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ivanka Trump tweeted, "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it" and attributed the quote to a "Chinese proverb." We found no  that links her quote to a Chinese proverb. Similar versions of the quote have been circulating for over 100 years and have been attributed to Confucius, possibly as a joke. Experts also could not speak to the quote’s origins, but said it was unlikely of Chinese origin. We rate this  .
Statement: Every president has raised the debt ceiling.
Speaker: richard codey
About the speaker: Richard Codey is a Democratic state senator representing parts of Essex and Morris counties. Codey served as New Jersey governor from November 2004 to January 2006.
 
Date: July 13, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: an interview on Hannity on Fox News
Fact-check justification: We rate Codey’s statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com . *Editor's Note: The total of 68 times failed to include all cases where the debt limit was temporarily increased or the expiration dates for temporary increases were extended. Factoring in those other instances, the debt ceiling was increased 86 times between the presidencies of Eisenhower and George W. Bush. Here is the revised breakdown: Eisenhower, 7; Kennedy, 8; Johnson, 8; Nixon, 9; Ford, 7; Carter, 9; Reagan, 18; George H.W. Bush, 9;  Clinton, 4; and George W. Bush, 7.