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Statement: Says Planned Parenthood provides about 140 visits for prenatal care in each state.
Speaker: michael doherty
About the speaker: Michael Doherty is a Republican state Senator representing parts of Warren, Somerset and Hunterdon counties. He previously served in the state Assembly from 2002 to 2009.
Date: July 11, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care
Context: a speech on the Senate floor by Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Warren)
Fact-check justification: Back to Doherty’s statement: The senator said Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide many prenatal visits, saying the figure was "about 140 visits for each state in the entire country." That figure is way off, because Doherty was using the number of clients. The actual number would be more like 800 visits per state. Figures provided by Planned Parenthood confirm that prenatal care represents a small part of the services offered, but since the senator’s figures were  to such a large degree, we rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: At a Wisconsin school, a 12-year-old girl "was transitioned into a boy by school officials without parental consent," and Protasiewicz supports it.
Speaker: american principles project
About the speaker: American Principles Project is the premier national organization engaging directly in campaigns and advocacy on behalf of the family. A conservative super PAC.
Date: March 8, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;lgbtq;supreme court
Context: Campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  The American Principles Project PAC ad claims that "an innocent 12-year-old girl was transitioned into a boy by school officials without parental consent … and Janet Protasiewicz supports it. "  The ad distorts the incident, both in its language and accompanying imagery.  And there’s no  that Protasiewicz supports what happened.   The statement is not accurate and makes a  . We rate it  !
Statement: 75 percent of the (air traffic control) towers the Obama Administration is closing are located in Republican Congressional Districts.
Speaker: jim sensenbrenner
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., has served in Congress since 1979. He represents a district covering Milwaukee suburbs.
Date: March 22, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;transportation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Three days after we asked about it, Sensenbrenner removed the  and, in at least in one version of the statement, included a note saying a previous version relied on "unverifiable" information. It would have been more accurate to say that the statement was unverified. We verified the numbers. And we rate the statement . (Click here to search an interactive map of the location of the towers slated to close, along with the details of the congressional district where the tower is located)
Statement: In February, John McCain "suggested" the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls "outrageous and dangerous.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: June 4, 2014
Topics: afghanistan;foreign policy;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of the "Rachel Maddow Show"
Fact-check justification: Maddow said the deal that McCain opposes today is one he suggested in February. In a key interview, McCain did say he "would be inclined to support" an exchange involving five hard-core Taliban leaders. The identities of four of those five were public knowledge and McCain sat on committees that would discuss such matters. McCain did not propose the swap but said he was ready to entertain it if it led to Bergdahl’s release. He has since said the swap would put Americans at risk, which is pretty much the same as calling it dangerous. We rate Maddow’s  .
Statement: Twenty two years ago, when he was running for governor, Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House.
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: July 24, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;voting record
Context: a letter from the campaign to the Tampa Bay Times
Fact-check justification: Mack’s campaign manager said that in 1990, when Nelson was running for governor, he missed 56 percent of his votes -- the worst record in Congress. CQ data confirms that 22 years ago, Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes, placing him last in voter participation. It is worth noting, however, that Nelson went on record with his position on some votes rather than simply skipping the vote. We rate this  .
Statement: The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes.
Speaker: john carter
About the speaker: Carter, of Georgetown, was initially elected to the U.S. House in 2002. He is a former state district judge.
Date: August 31, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America
Fact-check justification: The number ignored an amendment that could end up further shrinking the size of the tax hit. It invoked Romer's position even as it contradicted her view of whether her formula was legitimate to use in this situation. And most importantly, it used a calculation that increased the scale of job losses by a factor of 10. So we find Rep. Carter's  to be a major distortion, not just because of the questionable math he based it on, but because he distorted who said it. We find his statement .
Statement: Says a Sanders campaign ad "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not.
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: February 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Durham, N.H
Fact-check justification: In the debate, Sanders said one of his campaign ads "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not." Sanders is glossing over the initial version of his campaign ad. It originally included text that said Sanders had been "endorsed" by the Valley News , a word that was later removed after it became clear that the newspaper had made no such endorsement. We rate Sanders’  in the debate .
Statement: The Justice Department has been "calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.
Speaker: kat cammack
About the speaker: Congresswoman Kat Cammack proudly serves Florida’s 3rd Congressional District as the youngest Republican woman in the 117th Congress. 
Date: March 2, 2023
Location: national
Topics: education;crime;florida
Context: a speech at CPAC
Fact-check justification: Cammack said, "you have the DOJ, the Department of Justice, calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists."  That’s not accurate. In a 2021 memo, Garland directed the FBI to address criminal threats against school officials. But his memo didn’t use the word "terrorist" and noted that "spirited debate" is protected by the Constitution.  The FBI created an EDUOFFICIALS "threat tag" to track threats of violence against school officials, not to flag parents for questioning curriculum. A 2021 bulletin from the National Terrorism Advisory System about the level of threat environment in the U.S. has fueled claims that those who oppose coronavirus safety restrictions were labeled domestic terrorists, but that is not the case. We rate this statement .  RELATED : FBI, DOJ tagged threats against school officials, not parents for attending school board meetings RELATED : No, parents who question school curriculums haven’t been labeled domestic terrorists RELATED : Rick Scott wrongly warns FBI coming after loud parents at school board meetings
Statement: New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00.
Speaker: american automobile association
About the speaker: The American Automobile Association is a national member association for motorists in the United States and Canada.
Date: April 27, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: energy;transportation
Context: a news report
Fact-check justification: A news report cited the American Automobile Association in saying that "New York is one of only 12 states where the average gallon of gas costs more than $2.00." AAA provided us the full data, confirming that the statement is correct, as long as the District of Columbia is counted as a state. Among the 50 states and D.C., New York ranked seventh highest in per-gallon prices for regular unleaded. Another gasoline price metric, from GasBuddy, had eight states above $2.00, with four additional states between $1.95 and $1.99. We rate the statement .
Statement: The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: May 9, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: public health
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: "His overall point is accurate," Robinson added. "Obesity comes at a high cost to our state and Governor Deal wants to give children a chance to learn about healthy living and engage in healthy living practices." The $2.4 billion estimate was used by various Georgia news organizations and mentioned to students. We appreciate the efforts of the governor’s office to clarify the estimate. Still, it was the  estimate and rates the  .
Statement: Says U.S. greenhouse gas "emissions are at 20-year lows.
Speaker: joe barton
About the speaker: Joe Barton is a Republican congressman from Texas. He was formerly the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee and served as that committee’s ranking member while the Democrats were in the House majority.
Date: February 12, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: climate change;corrections and updates;energy;science
Context: reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address
Fact-check justification:     The congressman said domestic greenhouse gas emissions are at a 20-year low.     This statement depends on a comparison of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions—not all greenhouse gases--over three unusually warm winter months of 2012 to such emissions in the same months of 1992. But the latest information available when Barton tweeted indicates that total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions were higher in 2010 than they were 20 years earlier, though the 2010 emissions were lower than they were 13 years earlier.     We rate this  .     CORRECTION, 10:42 a.m. April 8, 2013: Thanks to a reader's nudge, this story was amended to say that the discussed levels of carbon dioxide were in millions of metric tons, not metric tons alone. This did not affect our original rating of the .
Statement: I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: October 1, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;education;small business;taxes
Context: a blog post on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: Dewhurst said: "I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history." This statement paints an incomplete picture. About 63 (or 54) measures giving someone a tax break passed into law on Dewhurst’s watch, but it's not like Texans are less tapped by such taxes of late than before. Notably, too, most of the touted laws targeted particular beneficiaries. Also, Dewhurst didn't personally cut any taxes; those decisions involved the House, Senate and governor, though Dewhurst was a leader. The 2006 school property-tax-rate reduction was historic. But this statement fails to acknowledge that actions Dewhurst helped usher into place the same year led to hundreds of millions of dollars in lesser tax increases. All told, this  contains an element of , but overlooks critical facts that would give a full, accurate impression. We rate it as .  – 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: Says Hillary Clinton "is under investigation with the FBI right now.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: January 14, 2016
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;debates
Context: the Fox Business Network debate
Fact-check justification: Bush said Clinton is "under investigation with the FBI right now." Not quite. The FBI is conducting a general inquiry into the security of Clinton’s private email server. But law enforcement officials have said Clinton herself is not the target of the inquiry, and it is not a full-blown criminal investigation. Clinton’s actions are clearly front-and-center in an FBI investigation. But Bush goes too far to  Clinton herself is under investigation. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that "profited off pollution.
Speaker: nextgen climate action committee
About the speaker: Next Generation Climate Action Committee, or NextGen, is a Democratic-aligned super PAC promoting awareness and solutions to global warming. The group was founded by Thomas Steyer, a billionaire who in 1986 founded Farallon Capital Management, a San Francisco hedge fund.
Date: August 8, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: environment;climate change;energy;message machine 2014
Context: TV ad
Fact-check justification: NextGen’s ad states that "Rick Scott drank from a fountain of campaign cash from the company that profited off pollution" and received $200,000 from oil interests. Scott’s campaign received $50,000 from four different members of the Collier family. The Collier Resources Co. leased mineral rights on its land to Hughes for drilling, so it’s fair to refer to those donations as being from "oil interests."  However, there are two key elements of the  that are . The ad doesn’t name the company or campaign donor, so it’s possible for viewers who are knowledgeable about the controversy to mistakenly assume that the donations were by Hughes.  The other problematic part is that there isn’t proof that pollution occurred. The state’s preliminary tests indicated there was no contamination. Though environmentalists say additional testing is needed, we rate claims based on information available at the time. We rate this  .
Statement: Up until 1913 Americans kept all of their earnings.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 23, 2019
Topics: history;taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says Americans kept "all of their earnings" up until 1913. The modern income tax structure, including Form 1040, was, indeed, adopted in 1913.  But the post disregards pre-1913 efforts to impose an income tax, one of which was in place for a decade, and it ignores early state income taxes. We rate this .
Statement: For African American families in particular, the homeownership rate remains relatively unchanged since 1968, the year the Fair Housing Act was signed into law.
Speaker: tim scott
About the speaker: Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican senator, announced he is running for president in May 2023. He joined the Senate in 2013. Scott was previously elected to the Charleston County Council, the South Carolina House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
Date: April 11, 2023
Location: national
Topics: housing;race and ethnicity
Context: Senate Banking Committee press release
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "For African American families in particular, the homeownership rate remains relatively unchanged since 1968, the year the Fair Housing Act was signed into law." Data shows his numbers are correct. In 1970, about a year and a half after the law was enacted, about 42% of Black Americans owned homes. In 2022, Black homeownership stood at 44%.  We rate this  . PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says Judge Gonzalo Curiel "is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican.
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: June 5, 2016
Location: national
Topics: legal issues
Context: an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Trump said Curiel belonged to a group that is very strongly pro-Mexican. The California La Raza Lawyers Association does advance the interests of the Latino legal community and works on issues that matter in Latino communities more broadly.  However, it has stayed on the sidelines in the immigration debate. The one exception is one letter from a dozen years ago which objected to a television show on the grounds that the program encouraged people to enter the country without documentation. The group’s rare court filings focus on civil rights in general. Trump’s statement is accurate only in the sense that the association’s mission aims to support Latinos, but even that is flawed because he said the group was pro-Mexican and the Latino designation reaches a wider set of people. The  ignores critical facts that would give a very different impression. We rate this assertion . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/65caa1ee-d498-4628-bfb0-06dfb82e4b14
Statement: The State of Rhode Island has the worst state-funded pension in the country.
Speaker: helen glover
About the speaker: Helen Glover has been with WHJJ radio since 2005 and was a finalist in the 2002 season of the TV show Survivor.
Date: October 24, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: deficit;pensions;state budget
Context: an introduction to a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Helen Glover said Rhode Island's pension system is the  poorly funded in the U.S. Her statement was based on sources that either misread the numbers or mixed old data with new. Using the latest 2010 numbers from Pew, Rhode Island ranks no lower than second from the bottom, and the state's standing may improve as other states report their figures. And when we sought out other sources, such as Moody's and Boston College, we couldn't find any ranking that put Rhode Island at the bottom of the barrel when it came to pension funding. That doesn't detract from Rhode Island's profoundly perilous pension problem. But being in last place is a very specific distinction, and we're not there -- yet. Because Glover was so definitive, we rule that her statement "contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression" -- PolitiFact's definition of  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says there were only "about eight or 10" inflammatory sentences in his newsletters.
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: December 29, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Paul says the newsletters that bore his name contained only eight to 10 sentences of "bad stuff." Although "bad stuff" is in the eye of the beholder, we found nearly three dozen sentences that we think many would find inflammatory — and that's just in the excerpts we had access to. Paul's statement is .
Statement: Every year the First Coast Guard District saves 350 lives in the Northeast.
Speaker: coast guard
About the speaker: Government agency responsible for marine safety from New Jersey to Canada
Date: July 20, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: public safety
Context: news release
Fact-check justification: And the average for the past three years is 383 not 350. So the news release understates the value of the Coast Guard’s work. The service is strong on the sea, weak in math. But because in two of the last three years the service saved more than 350 lives, we rate this   . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent.
Speaker: christine lagarde
About the speaker: Christine Lagarde is managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
Date: December 9, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;women
Context: an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation
Fact-check justification: Lagarde said if women were in the American workforce at the same rate as men, the country’s GDP would be up by 5 percent. The likely source is a 2012 article that used a simple formula to yield the 5 percent result. Two economists told us that the article’s approach skipped over several key factors, such as how quickly GDP would change and how the entry of millions of new women workers might change other aspects of the labor market and put a drag on economic growth. But in the end, it is generally accurate that if millions of women got into the job market, the economy would grow more than if they didn’t. We rate this  .
Statement: Proposition 2 on November's Texas ballot "does not cost state taxpayers any money.
Speaker: h204texas pac
About the speaker: H204TEXAS describes itself as a nonprofit corporation seeking to increase awareness of critical water shortfalls facing Texas and to mobilize support for a dedicated funding source for fulfilling the state’s water plan. The PAC is its political arm.
Date: October 24, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: elections;water
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: "But as of today, based on the will of the (2011) Legislature and the direction provided to lawmakers by Texans, the bonds are completely self-supporting," Harward said by email. She added that the proposal "does not encumber any state funds." We’re ready to cash out: The group's  sidesteps the fact that taxpayers of jurisdictions benefiting from the bonds will face bond-related costs. And while the additional bond authority sought in the proposition would not cost state taxpayers--up front--state lawmakers could still exploit their standing authority, as before, to spend state revenue on related debt. This possibility is unacknowledged in the group’s , which we rate .