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Statement: Any state tax law has to start in the House and the renewal of the state hospital bed tax this year started in the Senate, which is unconstitutional.
Speaker: david pennington
About the speaker: David Pennington is mayor of Dalton, Ga.
Date: September 19, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: taxes
Context: a public meeting
Fact-check justification: The mayor and gubernatorial candidate is correct that tax laws must begin in the House of Representatives. But because the bill called for a state agency -- and not lawmakers -- to levy the fee, a legislative law opinion deemed the approval process acceptable. Also, challenges to the bill’s constitutionality would be difficult because the Georgia Supreme Court has not overturned legislation that has been duly passed by both houses and signed into law. Pennington and others may not agree with the process, or how the hospital levy is classified, but the law appears not to be on their side. We rate his  .
Statement: A 1993 example of voter fraud in Philadelphia is "exactly what happened to us" in the 2020 election.
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: November 13, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;pennsylvania
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: It is not, and there is no  the Trump campaign is making that argument in court. The 1993 case at the heart of Trump’s tweet involved a rare, verified case of voter fraud. The Trump campaign has not alleged a specific case of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, and there is no  of any. Trump’s statement is not accurate and makes a  .   We rate it .
Statement: A Koch brothers group is "going to college campuses, giving away free booze to try to bribe young folks out of getting health insurance.
Speaker: organizing for action
About the speaker: Organizing for Action is a group that supports President Barack Obama and his agenda.
Date: March 26, 2014
Location: national
Topics: alcohol;health care
Context: a fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Organizing for Action said Generation Opportunity is "going to college campuses, giving away free booze to try to bribe young folks out of getting health insurance." The Koch brothers-backed group holds Opt-Out events to encourage young people to consider buying health insurance off the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. At some of their education campaign events near college campuses, they did offer free alcohol to entice attendees. At campus events, students brought the booze themselves. Generation Opportunity didn’t bribe students, but they did offer alcohol to young people who wanted to hear about alternatives to the health care reform’s marketplaces. We rate Organizing for Action’s statement .
Statement: Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
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: July 29, 2018
Location: national
Topics: history;polls and public opinion
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan." Credit where credit is due: Trump is very popular among Republicans, and at one point, his approval rating within his own party trailed only George W. Bush among postwar Republican presidents. However, no pre-1936 president served in an era with scientific polling, so Trump’s comparison of himself to Lincoln is spurious. Meanwhile, Trump’s approval rating at the time of the tweet ranked in the middle of the post-World War II Republican presidents, and measured in other ways, his support among Republicans was actually worse than every post-war Republican president except for Gerald Ford. We rate the statement .
Statement: The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation.
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: June 12, 2011
Location: national
Topics: social security
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: There are several proposals already on the table to do just this, and they would solve between 30 percent and 100 percent of the solvency issues facing Social Security." Santorum’s statement to PolitiFact explains what he was trying to say, but we make our ruling based on the initial statement, since that’s what viewers saw. In this case, Santorum’s original statement -- that "the cost of living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation" -- is flat . It’s not, because COLAs for existing beneficiaries are based on price increases for consumer goods. So despite Santorum’s subsequent clarification, we rate his comment .
Statement: I didn't say" it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president.
Speaker: ralph nader
About the speaker: Ralph Nader, 74, ran for president in 2000 and 2004. Born in Winsted, Conn., in 1934, he graduated from Princeton University with a major in East Asian studies, and earned his law degree from Harvard. After a stint in the Army, he made his name as a consumer advocate with exposes on the auto industry, notably the 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile." He and his activist-disciples, known as "Nader's Raiders," successfully advocated consumer-banking laws, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Freedom of Information Act and a host of other reforms. A bachelor, he still resides in Winsted, though he spends much of his time in Washington, D.C.
Date: June 18, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program
Fact-check justification: " Maybe he said that, but without a fuller quote, we have to allow for the possibility that he stopped just short of saying it, as he did in most of his campaign appearances. So no, Nader never explicitly said "it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president." But his talk of "Republicrats," "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum," and "one corporate party" left many people — friend, foe and impartial observer alike — with the impression that that's what he believed. We find Nadar's statement that he "never said" it to be .
Statement: If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it.
Speaker: vincent fort
About the speaker: State senator representing District 39, which runs from East Point to Buckhead.
Date: October 29, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: occupy wall street
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: "I think [Fort] is painting history with a very broad brush." Much of the anger toward the mayor from some Occupy Atlanta supporters is based in feelings of betrayal. Reed is mayor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s hometown and has spoken reverently of the civil rights movement and its leaders. The comparison in actions between Reed and an infamous figure such as Connor was too extreme to the experts we interviewed. Our rating: .
Statement: You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.
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: May 21, 2020
Topics: history;guns;ask politifact
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual." The campaign was unable to come up with an example of a law banning private ownership of cannons, and historians of the period doubt that any existed. To the contrary, there are documented instances of privateers, or privately owned vessels, setting sail with cannons during the period. We rate the statement .
Statement: Wisconsin dropped "from second in the country to 41st" among states where more than half the students took the ACT exam.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: January 14, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education;state budget;states
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: And when we shared that with Brandon Weathersby, spokesman for the Democratic Party, he acknowledged the party had "flubbed" the data.    Our rating The state Democratic Party said Wisconsin dropped "from second in the country to 41st" among states where more than half the students took the ACT college preparation exam. The party admits it erred, by comparing scores of two different groups of students. In fact, Wisconsin ranked second in the 2014-’15 ACT testing among states where more than half the students took the exam, not 41st. For a statement that is  and , our rating is .
Statement: The Republican tax bill passed in 2017 "gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: March 14, 2021
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said the Republican tax bill passed in 2017 "gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%." That’s the case in 2027, due to the expiration of several important middle-income tax cuts and a change in how inflation is calculated. However, through 2025, the share of benefits going to the top 1% is much smaller, at roughly 20% to 25%. Pelosi has cherry-picked by focusing on the tax bill’s impact by 2027, rather than the impact for the nearly a decade leading up to then. We rate the statement .
Statement: The infrastructure bill itself is only 10% true infrastructure.
Speaker: bob good
About the speaker: Bob Good is the 2020 Republican nominee for Virginia's 5th Congressional District seat. A self-described biblical conservative, Good is a former associate athletic director at Liberty University, and served a term on the Campbell County's Board of Supervisors.
Good defeated incumbent Rep. Denver Riggleman at a convention in June 2020 to win the 5th District's GOP nominaion. He is opposed in the general election by Democrat Cameron Webb, a Charlottesville physician.
Webb graduated from Liberty in 1988 with a degree in finance.
Date: November 4, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: congress;federal budget;infrastructure
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: "For decades, and in some cases centuries, the federal government has supported direct investment in these physical capital systems and related policies like workforce development and planning grants." Good said that in the infrastructure bill that just passed the House, "only 10% is   infrastructure." This is a version of a Republican talking point that was  months ago and has been rendered even more  since then. Because Biden and congressional Democrats split their agenda into an infrastructure-only bill and a separate measure that deals with social safety-net spending, the bill that passed the House was almost entirely pure infrastructure spending. We rate Good’s statement !
Statement: John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq.
Speaker: votevets.org
About the speaker: VoteVets is an advocacy group.
Date: February 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: VoteVets has joined a coalition of liberal-leaning groups such as MoveOn.org that will be running ads against McCain. The VoteVets ad does not make the  Obama does. It says, "John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq." That careful wording might imply the war might drag on that long, but it does not say it explicitly and we find the words are a fair summary of McCain's remarks. We find the statement to be .
Statement: The Postal Service's financial losses result from "a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts.
Speaker: save america's postal service
About the speaker: Save America's Postal Service is a campaign launched by postal service workers' unions.
Date: September 29, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The postal unions' ad blames financial problems on "a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts." The ad is right that the law did require payments of approximately that amount and that those payments have had a significant effect on the post office's bottom line. The additional overpayments are subject to debate. Even so, the law is hardly the only challenge the post office faces; it's also facing continuing declines in first-class mail. So we rate the ad's  .
Statement: The Biden administration inherited gains of "50,000 jobs a month. We're now finally back to 500,000 jobs a month. We inherited a country where 4,000 people a day were dying from Covid. That's now down 75%.
Speaker: ron klain
About the speaker: Ron Klain is President Joe Biden's chief of staff. Klain served as Biden's first Chief of Staff when he became Vice President (2009-11); Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Biden’s tenure as Chair of the Committee (1989-92); and Policy Advisor on the Judiciary Committee staff (1986-87). Klain also worked as an advisor on Biden’s 1988 and 2008 Presidential campaigns. Klain served as White House Ebola Response Coordinator (2014-15).
Date: November 7, 2021
Topics: economy;jobs;public health;coronavirus
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Klain said the Biden administration inherited gains of "50,000 jobs a month. We're now finally back to 500,000 jobs a month. We inherited a country where 4,000 people a day were dying from COVID. That's now down 75%." The Biden administration can trumpet gains in both areas, but they are not as dramatic as Klain said.  The job gains under Biden are almost twice as big as they were late in the Trump administration, not 10 times bigger. And the rate of coronavirus deaths has fallen by 61%, not 75%, on Biden’s watch. We rate the statement .
Statement: Farmers stand in silence at auction so a young man can buy back his family farmhouse.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 8, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  A Facebook post claimed that a picture of a crowd depicted farmers standing "in silence at auction so a young man can buy back his family farmhouse. "  There is no  to support this story that has circulated online for at least three years.   The story can be traced back to a tale shared on a UK-focused travel blog. In that blog post, the story lacks specific biographical details such as when this supposedly happened, the last name of the farmer involved or the location of the auction or the farmhouse. Finding no factual basis for this account, we rate this  .
Statement: Undocumented immigrants "pay $12 billion a year into Social Security.
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: August 5, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;social security
Context: remarks at journalists' convention
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that if elected president her administration would focus on deporting violent criminals, not "hard-working mothers and fathers and people who go to work, help support this economy, pay $12 billion a year into Social Security." The Social Security Administration estimates about $12 billion was paid into the administration’s trust funds from earnings of unauthorized workers in 2010 (after deducting about $1 billion from possible benefits paid out). This number includes contributions on behalf of employees as well as their employers. Workers and employers pony up about the same amount into the system. A calculation by another group excluded employer contributions and came up with a total of $7 billion paid into the system by undocumented immigrants. Clinton’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details. We rate her statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f35b6a7f-9188-454b-a0f0-82e989f45642
Statement: At the Democratic convention, the Pledge of Allegiance was read with the words 'under God' removed.
Speaker: republican party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Republican Party works to elect Republicans to state and federal offices and advance the GOP agenda.
Date: September 17, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;patriotism;wisconsin
Context: Campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: The Wisconsin Republican Party in a mailer sent to voters said "the Pledge of Allegiance was read with the words 'under God' removed" at the Democratic National Convention.  There is some  here, in that this happened at two of the 30 or so caucus and council meetings. But that’s not the impression left by the GOP mailer. Videos from the convention show that "under God" was included on all four nights of the main event, which were livestreamed and carried by many TV stations. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Leticia Van de Putte "opposed putting National Guard troops on the border, would send millions to Central American governments instead and wrote the law giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: October 8, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Patrick said Van de Putte "opposed putting National Guard troops on the border, would send millions to Central American governments instead and wrote the law giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants." Van de Putte was the Senate sponsor of the House-originated 2001 proposal authorizing in-state tuition for immigrants not living here with legal permission. She also opposed this summer's National Guard deployment. However, she didn’t say that instead of placing  troops near the border, the state should aid countries in Central America. Rather, Van de Putte earlier and separately urged congressional approval of an Obama request that included federal aid to such countries. Suggesting she conflated spending on the Texas troops with the sought federal funding amounts to a  stretch. On balance, we rate Patrick'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: Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: March 17, 2015
Location: national
Topics: climate change;science
Context: an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers"
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, "Satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming." Cruz does have a point: There’s been little global temperature change since 1998, and the temperatures measured are lower than what many computer models had predicted. However, focusing on that period essentially means cherry-picking a timeframe that starts at an extremely warm year and ignores that the first decade of the 21st century -- even as it’s been stable -- has been the warmest on record. While scientists don’t deny that there’s been a recent "pause" in warming, they expect it to be a temporary trend. Not only is one anomalous period not enough to undercut longer-term projections, but other types of measurements do show  of continued global warming over the past two decades, including rising ocean temperatures and shrinking sea ice. Cruz’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health.
Speaker: marcus low
About the speaker: Marcu Low is the policy director for the Treatment Action Campaign, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Date: March 19, 2016
Topics: global news service;federal budget;foreign policy;public health
Context: an interview with a South African journalist
Fact-check justification: Low said that most funding for tuberculosis research comes from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Whether he used those exact words is a bit unclear, but in the sense that the NIH is the single-largest funder of research, the statement is correct. The only caveat is that when we factor in the size of the economy, the United States as a whole falls to third and Singapore rises to the top.  We rate this  .
Statement: Travis County is "surrounded by red counties.
Speaker: lloyd doggett
About the speaker: Rep. Lloyd Doggett was initially elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: November 22, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship;elections
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Doggett said Travis County is "surrounded by red counties." That’s supported in each of the six counties by the outcome of presidential elections since 2000, though there has been some purpling in that Democrats won a few countywide offices in Bastrop, Caldwell and Hays counties in 2012 and 2010. Color this statement, with nothing significant askew, as .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.