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Statement: A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline "is an earmark" under House rules.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: May 21, 2013
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change;federal budget;infrastructure
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Grayson said a bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline "is an earmark" under House rules. Officially, the House -- the only entity that can make this ruling -- has not rendered a judgment on Grayson’s . But several experts on earmarks that we checked with were unanimous that Grayson was  by the clear language of the rule. The House’s definition of "earmark" is based on the notion that the provision in question spends federal money, which the bill in question does not -- a difference that Grayson carefully edited out when he made his argument to Boehner. We rate Grayson’s  .
Statement: The Republican from Georgia [U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston], he hasn't even been to a NASCAR race.
Speaker: dale earnhardt jr.
About the speaker: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a NASCAR driver.
Date: May 18, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget;sports
Context: remarks to reporters
Fact-check justification: A May 17 article in USA Today said Kingston himself acknowledged it. A May 22 story in the Savannah Morning News says that Kingston’s never been to a race, but he did display an Earnhardt license plate on the front of his pickup for five years. It’s strange but . Kingston has never been to a NASCAR race. Earnhardt earns a .
Statement: The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today.
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: October 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;marriage;new hampshire 2012
Context: a Republican presidental primary debate
Fact-check justification: Santorum said the poverty rate "among families that have two -- that have a husband and wife working in them? It's 5 percent today. A family that's headed by one person? It's 30 percent today." U.S. Census data backs the general point Santorum is making, that households with two adults fare better than those with a single head of household. But his numbers are off on both ends, so the difference is not as great as he suggests. For married couples, the percentage in poverty is higher than he said -- 5.8 percent in 2009 and 6.2 percent in 2010, versus 5 percent. And for households with a single head, it was lower -- roughly 27 percent for both 2009 and 2010. Santorum represented the general trend correctly, but his numbers were off in both cases. More importantly, not only marriage, but also the job market is important to families staying out of poverty. We rate the  .
Statement: Oregon has never before tried to create a land-use plan for "what it should look like for 50 years.
Speaker: brian clem
About the speaker: State Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, is a fifth-generation Oregonian, who was born in Coos Bay and earned a college degree from Oregon State University in Corvallis. He and his wife, Carol, live in Salem with their daughter.
Date: February 28, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: urban
Context: a newspaper story
Fact-check justification: In his , he used the words "reserves" in referring to the first-ever inclusion of both urban and rural reserves in the same bill. The reporter who wrote the story that included his  backed Clem’s account. So while it’s  that a plan was developed nearly 20 years ago that looked out far more than five years, that rocky iteration of Oregon’s land-use history was never actually put into effect. We rate Clem’s  . Return to OregonLive.com/politics to comment on this ruling.
Statement: DMX received COVID vaccine days before heart attack.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 8, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;pop culture;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Instagram posts claimed, "DMX received COVID vaccine days before heart attack." The rumor can be sourced to a website that purported to quote an unnamed family member. Statements from the rapper’s family and the hospital that kept him on life support after a heart attack did not mention the coronavirus or a COVID-19 vaccine.  DMX’s attorney told PolitiFact that the rapper did not die because of the COVID-19 vaccine. Because this  lacks supporting , we rate it . UPDATE, April 15, 2021: This fact-check was updated to reflect comments from Murray Richman, DMX’s attorney, confirming that the rapper did not die from a COVID-19 vaccine. Our ruling remains the same.
Statement: More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: February 12, 2019
Location: california
Topics: environment;agriculture;infrastructure;public health;public safety;water
Context: a State of the State Address
Fact-check justification: Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed "more than a million Californians" don’t have "clean water to bathe in or drink." A group that advocates for clean drinking water and a UC Davis researcher agreed with Newsom’s figure, with the researcher saying the number is significantly higher than one million. They pointed to a state water board report showing nearly 600,000 people lived in a regulated public water district that received a water quality violation in 2017. They noted that many thousands more people live in districts with unregulated and contaminated private wells but are not counted on the water board’s tally. The deputy director of the water board’s drinking water division added that a report from this month, which adds violations for a new cancer-causing contaminant, boosts the number of people in regulated water districts alone to more than one million people. Based on this information, we rated Newsom’s statement .   – 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.
Statement: A DeKalb sewer project "will create up to 4,000 direct jobs per year at peak production, many of which will be set aside exclusively for DeKalb residents.
Speaker: dekalb county
About the speaker: DeKalb County, which includes a portion of the city of Atlanta, is Georgia's third highest-populated county.
Date: November 11, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: water
Context: a brochure
Fact-check justification: This overstatement would be a serious concern, given that DeKalb has only confirmed that seven workers have been hired under the current First Source rules. But it’s not a serious concern in this case. The First Source ordinance is brand new and the county is still collecting hire data.   Also, the ordinance appears to have real teeth since the county established a pilot project to monitor ONE DeKalb Works contracts. We therefore rate DeKalb’s  .
Statement: Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud.
Speaker: tom coburn
About the speaker: Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a physician.
Date: August 24, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren
Fact-check justification: He added that Coburn "doesn't know any more than you or I do." Because of the uncertainty about how much Medicare fraud actually exists, we think Coburn oversteps when he states definitively that "Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year." Not only is there a statistical disagreement over how big the problem currently is, but all the key players also agree that there are simply no good data to rely on. Still, because Coburn's estimate is considered plausible by a leading academic in the field, we can't dismiss it as undeniably . We rate Coburn's statement .
Statement: Obama's flush with cash, returning to Wall Street for even more money. … Wall Street sure supports President Obama.
Speaker: american future fund
About the speaker: American Future Fund is a conservative organization.
Date: February 27, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: campaign finance;financial regulation;message machine 2012;voting record
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The American Future Fund’s ad says, "Obama’s flush with cash, returning to Wall Street for even more money. … Wall Street sure supports President Obama." It is  that Obama has received millions of dollars from Wall Street this cycle. But the intention of the ad is to suggest that Obama is Wall Street’s preferred candidate, just like in 2008. In reality, the numbers don’t bare that out -- Romney is the preferred candidate, based on both campaign contributions and news coverage. The fund’s ad relies on data from Center for Responsive Politics, but it uses the data in a  way. Whether we looked at the broader finance/insurance/real estate industry or the more narrow securities and investment sector, the Romney campaign is far ahead of the Obama campaign in dollars. We rate the statement .
Statement: We have empowered state insurance commissioners to review the rate hikes that are taking place in states. And in some states like North Carolina, they have already used it and rolled back premium increases by 25 percent.
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 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: children;health care
Context: an interview on Comedy Central's "Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
Fact-check justification: "But up until that point, there's really nothing in this bill that doesn't allow these insurance companies to raise rates," Stewart said. "Not ," Obama retorted. "In fact, what we have done is we have empowered state insurance commissioners to review the rate hikes that are taking place in states. And some states, like North Carolina, they've already used it and rolled back premium increases by 25 percent." There's a lot packed into the hundreds of pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , and the issue of empowering states to limit rate hikes hasn't gotten much press, so we decided to take a look.
Statement: Says Mitt Romney raised business taxes 20 percent in Massachusetts.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: December 15, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: message machine 2012;taxes
Context: an Iowa TV ad
Fact-check justification: By the time Romney’s term as governor was ending, Massachusetts businesses were ponying up about 20 percent more in tax revenue due to actions he approved. To be sure, those increases were not due to hikes in corporate or other tax rates. Still, Perry’s  has a reasonable basis. We rate his statement .
Statement: John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous.
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: May 12, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: Charleston, W.V
Fact-check justification: The stipend for individuals who complete at least 12 years of service would rise to $2,000. Graham's plan offered other benefits, as well, though it did not guarantee money for a full college education. The Graham plan was defeated, but 42 senators voted for it. That, on top of the fact that 21 other senators were early proponents of the cheaper alternatives puts McCain in the company of more than "a few." With that in mind, we conclude that Obama's description of McCain as some kind of rare dissenter in discussions to improve education benefits for veterans to be .
Statement: Says his elections proposal would allow "a potential of 168 hours (of early voting), which I think is the most we've ever had.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: January 18, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Scott said that his proposal would allow "a potential of 168 hours, which I think is the most we’ve ever had" for early voting. He’s right that his proposal would give supervisors of elections the option to offer 168 hours of early voting, and that would be a record. We should note that supervisors would also have the option to only offer 48 hours of voting, which is less than previous law. But Scott was very careful with his wording, noting that 168 hours was the maximum and outlining the specific days and hours. A  from his critics, Pink Slip Rick, said the law "only mandates 48 hours of early voting." We rated that  , because it didn't leave open the possibility of more hours. Scott's statement, on the other hand, specifically notes that the 168 hours are a maximum. Scott chose his words carefully and precisely. We rate his statement .
Statement: We cut property taxes by one-third in the state of Texas while I've been governor.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: October 1, 2011
Location: national
Topics: new hampshire 2012;taxes
Context: Hampton, N.H
Fact-check justification: Perry was correct if you only look at school tax rate, but his comment referred to all property taxes. If you look at total property tax revenue, Texans paid about the same amount in 2010 as they did in 2005. If you adjust for inflation, he's closer (it's about 9 percent less) but it's still far short of one-third. We find his  .
Statement: Under Scott Walker's "tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at least $1,400 per year.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: October 8, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;income;state budget;wealth;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The $610 million applies to small businesses as well as corporations. And it’s correct that millionaires got at least $1,400 per year in tax reductions.  In short, the  uses different figures that when mashed together are . For a statement that is partially accurate, but takes things out of context, our rating is . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: April 23, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: housing;taxes
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: O'Rourke said in an April 23 Instagram video on rising inflation in Texas that, "Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion." Data presented in biennial reports and on the comptroller's website show that estimated revenue collected through property taxes increased by more than $20 billion. O'Rourke's figure was accurate. But property taxes are set locally, not by the state. Although state policies might indirectly affect property taxes, the governor's role in setting property taxes is indirect. We rate this as .
Statement: Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess.
Speaker: steve latourette
About the speaker: Steve LaTourette, a Republican, is a former member of the House of Representatives from Ohio's 14th Congressional District. He served from 1995 to 2013.
Date: March 17, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: bipartisanship;debt;deficit;federal budget
Context: an interview on “Fox News Sunday”
Fact-check justification: That scenario persists today. LaTourette is correct that the federal budget was balanced in the 1990s, at a time when a Democratic president was forced to find common ground with Republicans who controlled Congress. He’s also correct that the nation’s budget woes have escalated since then. Spending is no doubt a major factor, but there are a variety of reasons. With that point of clarification, we rule that LaTourette’s statement is .
Statement: Mark Finchem "wants to strip Arizona's citizens of their capacity to vote by mail.
Speaker: adrian fontes
About the speaker: Adrian Fontes won the election for the Arizona Secretary of State in November 2022. Fontes served as County Recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, from 2017 to 2020. Previous positions include prosecutor with the Denver District Attorney, the Maricopa County Attorney’s office and head of the Foreign Prosecution Unit at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. 
Date: September 22, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;arizona
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Fontes said that Finchem "wants to strip Arizona’s citizens of their capacity to vote by mail." Arizona allows people to vote early by mail without citing a specific reason for doing so. In the 2020 election, 89% of ballots were cast by mail or drop box. Finchem co-sponsored a bill to limit who could vote by mail and to revoke the active early voter list. People on that list automatically receive a mail ballot if they’ve voted at least once in two consecutive two-year election cycles.   While Finchem supports voting by mail for select groups of people, his efforts aim to eliminate that option for many Arizonans. We rate this  . RELATED: Arizona Republican secretary of state candidate  about ‘’ mail ballots RELATED: How could U.S. voting be affected if election deniers win?
Statement: Says NASCAR announced that driver Bubba Wallace mistook a serpentine automotive belt for a noose in his garage stall.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 22, 2020
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says NASCAR announced that Wallace mistook a serpentine automotive belt as a noose. This isn’t accurate. NASCAR has made no such statement as investigations continue.  We rate this ! ( Update : On June 23, 2020, NASCAR released a subsequent statemen t about the incident. It read: "The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The FBI report concludes, and photographic  confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall. This was obviously well before the 43 team’s arrival and garage assignment. We appreciate the FBI’s quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba. We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing.")
Statement: The United States has "the most number of deductions available to corporations" for the corporate income tax.
Speaker: bob beckel
About the speaker: Bob Beckel is a former Democratic consultant and current Fox News co-host of "The Five."
Date: September 1, 2014
Topics: corporations;taxes;punditfact
Context: a discussion on Fox News' "The Five"
Fact-check justification: Beckel said the United States has "the highest number of deductions available to corporations." Counting and comparing deductions internationally isn’t practical, and the only plausible alternative -- estimating the gap between the nations’ statutory and effective tax rates -- shows that the gap in the United States is about average among advanced, industrialized countries. We rate Beckel’s  .
Statement: Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans – Obama's strongest supporters – have lost their jobs.
Speaker: new jersey tea party
About the speaker: The New Jersey Tea Party is a conservative advocacy group.
Date: September 2, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: a retweet
Fact-check justification: The Tea Party blames Obama for an additional half million blacks being unemployed since he took office. The group’s number of 540,000 unemployed is correct, and the NAACP concurs that blacks are among Obama’s biggest supporters. We heard varying opinions on whether the president is to blame for that job loss and it’s clear there are a variety of factors at work -- some under the president’s jurisdiction, some not. Partially accurate claims that leave out important details fits the definition of our ruling: .  To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .