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Statement: Says Paul Ryan is leading the effort to "pass a tax bill with divisive conception language by disguising it as a college savings plan" in "another attempt to ban abortion and rob women of their reproductive rights.
Speaker: naral pro-choice america
About the speaker: NARAL Pro-Choice America, formerly the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, is the country's oldest abortion rights advocacy group. It advocates for pro-choice rights on the issues of abortion, birth control, sex education and healthy pregnancies.
Date: November 15, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;education;legal issues;women;taxes
Context: an online popup ad
Fact-check justification: NARAL says Ryan is leading the effort to "pass a tax bill with divisive conception language by disguising it as a college savings plan" in "another attempt to ban abortion and rob women of their reproductive rights." Ryan is leading the effort to pass the tax bill. But while he supports the college savings plan provision, he hasn’t spoken out publicly to push that provision. Conception language in the provision is divisive among anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups. And it is ‘disguised’ in the sense that it inserts the concept of unborn children into federal law without making any material change to what are known as 529 college savings plans. The provision would not, however, ban or even restrict abortion rights -- although advocates fear that inserting unborn children language into federal law could be used to erode abortion rights in the future. NARAL’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details -- our definition of .
Statement: Wisconsin is one of the highest taxed states in the nation.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: September 17, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a statement on campaign web site
Fact-check justification: The campaign also cherry-picks a study by a conservative group that finds business taxes are high, but it does not account for other data that show Wisconsin’s business taxes are middle or low. Overall, we found the state ranked 13th for total tax burden in rankings released this year and 14th in last year’s. There is some room for argument over what "one of the highest" means. But when you look at all state and local taxes combined, we think it’s a stretch to put Wisconsin’s current ranking up on that pedestal. We find Walker’s  to be .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton has spoken "such lies about my foreign policy. They said I want Japan to … get nuclear weapons. Give me a break.
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 1, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: Sacramento, Calif
Fact-check justification: Trump said Clinton has spoken "such lies about my foreign policy. They said I want Japan to nuke, that I want Japan to get nuclear weapons. Give me a break."  Trump didn’t literally say he wants Japan to go nuclear. But he came just about as close as someone can without saying those specific words -- certainly enough to undermine his flip dismissal, "Give me a break." On more than one occasion, Trump publicly said that Japan, and the United States, might be better off if Japan had nuclear weapons, and he declined multiple attempts by interviewers to backtrack from that view. We rate Trump’s statement  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/95bd454f-b3ca-4291-b0ee-86d46e0e9dc6
Statement: Drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85 percent of inmate populations" in Wisconsin
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: February 18, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;marijuana
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Evers claimed in a news release and a tweet that drug-related crimes account for as 75 to 85 percent of the Wisconsin inmate population. That statistic was pulled from an  article published six years ago. Current DOC data shows the actual number of prison inmates sentenced for drug offenses is a fraction of that number — about one-quarter of the prison population. Indeed the numbers are so far off, and the sourcing — a six-year-old article based on a radio interview that focused on a different topic — is so remote, it’s . We rate the  .
Statement: Republican plan to extend Bush tax cuts "would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: September 19, 2010
Location: virginia
Topics: deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: "What he didn’t say is that the Democratic plan to extend taxes for 98 percent of the population shoots almost as big a hole in the budget as the Republican plan." We agree that the buyer must beware when browsing political statements. Kaine is correct in saying that the CBO estimates the Republican tax plan would double deficit in 2020. But he omits an important fact: The Democratic plan would would increase the deficit by almost as much. As a result, we rate Kaine’s statement .
Statement: In 1988, in response to Iran's attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts, President Ronald Reagan "destroyed half of Iran's Navy.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 10, 2020
Topics: iran;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In 1988, in response to Iran’s attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts, President Ronald Reagan "destroyed half of Iran’s Navy." The statement is accurate and nothing significant is missing. We rate it .
Statement: Says Bruce Braley "threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto (his) property.
Speaker: joni ernst
About the speaker: Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.
Date: September 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: animals;legal issues
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Ernst said Braley "threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto (his) property." Some might not like the way Braley and his wife handled a dispute with a neighbor -- by going to the neighborhood association and then consulting the association's lawyer. Even so, there is no material  that Braley threatened a lawsuit against the neighbor or was even considering one. Even the neighbor says that. We rate Ernst’s  .
Statement: The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: November 3, 2010
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: People familiar with presidential travel say that estimate is way off, and they question how a government official in India would know anyway. And a report by the independent GAO backs that up: A trip to India by Clinton, regarded at the time as perhaps the most expensive in history, was estimated to cost $50 million, or $10 million per day. That alone should cause someone to question the $200 million a day figure. In short, we don't see any  to back up this statistic. And we rate Bachmann's  .
Statement: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused four of the eight "deadliest days in American history.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 7, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A viral image claims that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused 4 of the 8 "deadliest days in American history." The image omits some historical events and only lists fatalities linked to specific causes.  However, the broad  of the image is accurate: the COVID-19 pandemic has seen daily death totals that have surpassed those of events memorialized as national tragedies, including Pearl Harbor and 9/11.  We rate this image . ​
Statement: ISIS is infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: May 31, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The ad said that "ISIS is infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it." ISIS may dream of carrying out this plan, but there is zero  so far of it having worked. In the few examples since 2001 of an "infiltration" leading to a terror attack, they have not involved ISIS terrorists from Syria. Indeed, the ad’s focus on infiltration amounts to misdirection from a concern that’s more worrisome to terrorism experts -- self-radicalization by people born in America or brought here as youngsters. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says a pandemic occurs exactly every 100 years.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 24, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A  on Facebook that a pandemic occurs exactly every 100 years cites four outbreaks that it says occurred in 1720, 1820, 1920 and 2020. But the first example was not a pandemic and the second and third started a couple of years before 1820 and 1920.  More importantly, the  ignores many other pandemics over several centuries that did not occur in such a neat pattern. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: August 23, 2008
Location: national
Topics: bush administration
Context: Springfield, Ill
Fact-check justification: So I strongly disagree with any assertion that I've been more at odds with the president of the United States than I have been in agreement with him." The interview makes interesting reading today because several of Russert's questions are based on comments from another senator who had just returned from Iraq in June 2005 — Biden. And the interview actually focuses more on McCain's differences with Bush (on issues such as global warming, judicial nominees and stem cell research) than it does on topics they agree about. But Biden is right that McCain said it. We rate his  .
Statement: The Uvalde, Texas, mass shooter was an "illegal alien.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 24, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos was a U.S. citizen. (Abbott’s comment came at the 13-minute mark in this video of a May 24 news conference.) Early reporting indicated that 14 students and one teacher died in the shooting, but those numbers were later updated to 19 students and two teachers. Ramos was shot and killed at the school by law enforcement. We rate the  that Ramos was illegally in the country .
Statement: Says the University of Wisconsin football program is spending almost all of its Bowl Championship Series payout on a Rose Bowl junket for politically connected officials
Speaker: charlie sykes
About the speaker: Charlie Sykes is a radio talk show host on 620-AM (WTMJ) in Milwaukee and runs the RightWisconsin website, a political site for conservatives. The station, like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is owned by Journal Communications Inc.
Date: December 15, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a comment made during his radio show
Fact-check justification: And he cheerfully e-mailed us to have at it: "All I want for Christmas is a "!" in my stocking!" Your Christmas wish is granted, Charlie. The -O-Meter is glowing Badger red. .
Statement: Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores.
Speaker: doonesbury
About the speaker: Doonesbury is a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip by G.B. Trudeau.
Date: June 14, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: military;states
Context: the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise
Fact-check justification:   Bernie, a Doonesbury character, said Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."   Abbott told the Guard to monitor the exercise though far as we can tell, no troops were dispatched or activated. It’s also worth noting Abbott has said Texans’ safety and rights were not threatened by the federal maneuvers.   On balance, we rate Bernie’s statement .  – 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: The standard of voting in North Dakota is the easiest in the country.
Speaker: kevin cramer
About the speaker: Kevin Cramer is a U.S. Congressman representing North Dakota's At-large congressional district. He is running for U.S. Senate.
Date: October 18, 2018
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: North Dakota Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Cramer said, "The standard of voting in North Dakota is the easiest in the country." North Dakota ranked near, but never at the top, of any voting ease lists in 2016. The state’s ease of voting is already falling by some metrics ahead of Election Day 2018 with a stricter voting ID law in place, despite North Dakota being the only state without voter registration. We rate this statement .
Statement: Americans haven't had a raise in 15 years.
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: February 20, 2016
Location: iowa
Topics: income
Context: a Hillary for America ad
Fact-check justification: Clinton’s campaign ad claims, "Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years." Inflation-adjusted median household income has indeed dropped 7 percent over that period, while earnings for wage and salary workers have increased a modest 2 percent. We rate Clinton’s statement .
Statement: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was "faking being arrested" during an abortion-rights protest outside the Supreme Court.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 19, 2022
Topics: abortion;congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said Ocasio-Cortez was "faking being arrested" during an abortion-rights protest outside the Supreme Court. Ocasio-Cortez’s arrest was not faked; it took place on video and was corroborated by news reports, social media postings and the offices of other lawmakers who were arrested alongside her. Ocasio-Cortez called the  "." We rate this post .
Statement: The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization.
Speaker: joe lieberman
About the speaker: Joe Lieberman, a lawyer from Stamford, Conn., now in his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, is perhaps best known as the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000. He lost the Democratic primary for Senate prior to the 2006 election but retained his seat after running on his own party line and beating the anti-war Democratic candidate Ned Lamont. He now calls himself an independent but continues to caucus with the Democrats. He is a friend and supporter of Sen. John McCain, and was one of his surrogates in the 2008 presidential race.
Date: May 6, 2010
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;human rights;legal issues;military;terrorism;this week - abc news
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: "The president’s intelligence finding does not make any exception for Americans," Banks testified, adding that "the defensive use of force — targeted at a known al-Qaida leader, for example — also has firm legal roots in customary international law." To recap, the Obama administration has not only claimed the authority to target and kill U.S. citizens linked to terrorist groups but may in fact be using that power already to target al-Awlaki. Many of our experts see ample justification for such actions in both domestic and international law, and both for political reasons and practical legal reasons (including finding someone with standing to file a court challenge) the president is unlikely to be curbed by the courts anytime soon. Still, even those who see strong arguments for this presidential prerogative acknowledge that a number of legal uncertainties could limit or undermine those powers in the future if court challenges were to be raised. So Lieberman is probably overstating his case when he says that "no one argues that a president doesn't have the right to issue such an order," but we still find his statement .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney "was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse" Marco Rubio.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: January 24, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: a prepared statement
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that Romney was "one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse me." Romney did endorse Rubio before Crist dropped out of the primary in 2010. But it was clear at the time that Rubio would have thumped Crist in a primary if Crist hadn’t dropped out. The main point of Rubio’s comments was to lower the temperature in the Republican race. But it bears noting that Romney’s endorsement of Rubio was something less than a pioneering stand. We rate Rubio’s statement .
Statement: Jason Kander supports [Obama's] plan to bring the remaining suspected terrorists to U.S. soil.
Speaker: roy blunt
About the speaker: Roy Blunt is the junior U.S. senator from Missouri. He was formerly a U.S. representative from Missouri’s 7th district, and served for six years as the Republican whip in that chamber.
Date: April 18, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: terrorism
Context: a petition against President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay
Fact-check justification: Even the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which seeks to get Republicans elected to the Senate, released a video last November saying the committee couldn’t find his stance on bringing the prisoners to the U.S. Blunt is going against the message from his fellow Republicans when he says Kander supported Obama’s plan in the past. Our Ruling Blunt says Kander supports Obama’s plan to bring the remaining prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. Kander voted against a 2009 resolution in the Missouri legislature that called on Congress to keep the facility open. But that doesn’t mean he supported Obama’s plan to close the prison. He took no official position until February, and even the National Republican Senatorial Committee said they weren’t sure where he stood before then. We rate this statement as .
Statement: Says he was "exonerated in every single case" in 1990s ethics violations charges.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: February 10, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: ethics
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: One was cleared -- with a caveat the IRS was unable to obtain important . Even if both groups were cleared, that would not blot out or negate the House of Representatives’ historic decision to reprimand him. Trying to  that it does is . Gingrich earns our lowest rating: . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/02e64cbe-e4c0-43d0-8a3d-3350ccfecf97