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Statement: The Wisconsin Legislature raised taxes more than $5 billion in 2009.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: September 27, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a statement on campaign web site
Fact-check justification: Where does that leave us? In emphasizing that taxes are too high, Kleefish overstated by nearly $2 billion how much taxes were raised in 2009 by the Legislature and Gov. Jim Doyle. That’s no rounding error. The Walker-Kleefisch campaign, in an attempt to get past the $5 billion threshold Kleefisch set, adds in property taxes, which are ultimately set at the local level, and then throws in redoubled efforts to collect existing taxes. We rate Kleefish’s statement .
Statement: Thanks to restrictive and anticompetitive ballot laws," candidates in November 2014 ran unopposed in nearly half of Wisconsin's state representative races but in Michigan and Minnesota nearly all races had challengers.
Speaker: andy craig
About the speaker: Andy Craig ran unsuccessfully in 2014 for Wisconsin Secretary of State as a Libertarian. He is lead coordinator for Competitive Elections Wisconsin, advocating for easier ballot access for minor party candidates.
Date: May 11, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Strong candidates, he said, typically wait to run until the incumbent is forced from office. Our rating Andy Craig of Competitive Elections Wisconsin claimed: "Thanks to restrictive and anticompetitive ballot laws," candidates in November 2014 ran unopposed in nearly half of Wisconsin’s state legislative races but in Michigan and Minnesota were challenged in nearly all races. There’s no dispute that Wisconsin dramatically lags those states in competitive races, and ballot access rule differences are one possible factor in that gap. But it’s clear that other factors are at play as well. We rate his  .
Statement: Oregonians have an "amazing no-cost way to fight abortion" with free political donations
Speaker: oregon right to life pac
About the speaker: Oregon Right to Life is an affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee. It has a candidates political action committee and an issues political action committee.
Date: December 5, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: abortion;campaign finance
Context: a newspaper ad
Fact-check justification: Here are the details: Under Oregon tax law, an individual can donate up to $50 (again, $100 for a couple jointly filing) to a candidate or their principal campaign committee, a political action committee or a political party (national, state or local) and  an equal credit on their return. Read more here . The ruling is pretty evident; weird as it may seem, Oregon does allow you to make a small political contribution ‘for free’ by giving you a tax credit of up to $50. We rate this  . Comment on this item.
Statement: Obamacare has caused millions of full-time jobs to become part-time.
Speaker: andy puzder 
About the speaker: Andrew F. Puzder is chief executive of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.
Date: January 13, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;health care;jobs
Context: the Wall Street Journal
Fact-check justification: Puzder said that "Obamacare has caused millions of full-time jobs to become part-time." The statistics, in this case, are inadequate to either prove or disprove that "millions" of Americans have seen their job go from full-time to part-time due to the law. That number is possible, but unsupported. That said, there’s  suggesting that hundreds of thousands of workers may have seen their hours cut as the law’s impact began to be felt. That’s not "millions," but it’s not insignificant either. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: On average, women make 77 cents for every dollar men make.
Speaker: michelle nunn
About the speaker: Michelle Nunn was the chief executive officer of the Points of Light Foundation, a charitable organization. She is the daughter of former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, a Democrat from Georgia. Michelle Nunn is running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat.
Date: April 10, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;women
Context: statements
Fact-check justification: And she did not say there was a pay gap for women doing the same work as men. That puts Nunn’s statement more in line with the U.S. Census Bureau study. Nunn made no attempt to equate equal work with equal pay -- a comparison that has landed some of her fellow politicians on shaky -O-Meter terrain. Her statement could have used a little context, but she is  on target. We rate Nunn’s statement .
Statement: Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.
Speaker: jon kyl
About the speaker: Jon Kyl represented Arizona in the U.S. Senate from January 3,1995 to January 3, 2013. He served as the Republican party whip from 2007 to 2013. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey appointed Kyl to succeed Sen. John McCain, who died while in office Aug. 25, 2018.
Date: April 8, 2011
Location: national
Topics: abortion;federal budget
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Still, even with those caveats, we do think that Kyl has vastly overstated the share of abortions. We checked with Kyl’s office but did not hear back. However, a few hours after the speech, CNN anchor T.J. Holmes told viewers that the network had received a statement from Kyl’s office saying that the senator’s remark "was not intended to be a factual statement but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions in taxpayer dollars, does subsidize abortions." The statistics from Planned Parenthood and the statement from Kyl's office make it clear that he erred by saying abortion counts for well over 90 percent of the group's services. We find his  .
Statement: Decorated Marine, two-tour Iraq war vet.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: September 22, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: candidate biography;iraq;message machine 2010;military;public service;veterans
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The criteria for earning the achievement medal, according the Marine Corps, is for "meritorious service or achievement in a combat or noncombat situation based on sustained performance or specific achievement of a superlative nature, and shall be of such merit as to warrant more tangible recognition than is possible by a fitness report or evaluation sheet, but which does not warrant a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal or higher." Haney, of the manpower and reserve affairs department, pointed out that Mandel’s achievement medals, while earned in Iraq, do not include the valor device, which denotes performance in combat. Other medals he earned, such as the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, are known as unit medals, given to soldiers who participated in specific operations defined by the military. Given the list of medals Mandel has earned and the Marine Corps’ inclusive definition of the term "decorated Marine," Mandel certainly qualifies. We find the statement .
Statement: The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers'
Speaker: ann coulter
About the speaker: Ann Coulter is a conservative columnist and author.
Date: June 8, 2017
Topics: immigration;homeland security;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, Coulter said the Trump administration granted amnesty to "Nearly 100,000 'Dreamers.' "  Trump assumed office Jan. 20. Data from USCIS shows more than 124,000 people have been approved for DACA from January to March. Calculations of the total applications approved January through March that only include days Trump has been in office show that, at least, about 98,000 were approved. Whether the program is amnesty is subject to interpretation. For that reason, we rate Coulter’s  .
Statement: Statistics show 2 to 3 Texas women per week have major complications and 10 women per week seek help at an ER after an abortion.
Speaker: ken paxton
About the speaker: As a Republican state senator, Ken Paxton won election as Texas attorney general in 2014. He previously served as a Texas House member from McKinney.
Date: February 5, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office said in a press release that "statistics show 2 to 3 Texas women per week have major complications and 10 women per week seek help at an ER after an abortion." These statistics were based on a study of abortions in California, not Texas. That study included a higher percentage of abortions performed in the second and third trimesters than occurred in Texas, making a direct extrapolation to attribute those numbers to women in the Lone Star State  problematic. Moreover, the researchers who calculated the number of abortion-related complications in the study characterized those rates as "low." The numbers do not lead to the conclusion that abortion providers are operating "outside the parameters of the medical profession," as the attorney general’s office says. To recap, Paxton characterized Texas abortion practices and outcomes based on a California study that included twice the number of women at risk for complications as exists in the Lone Star State. He also presented the figures in a  way to suggest that abortion providers were operating outside of medical norms. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Paul Pelosi hasn't been seen in public for months because he had mpox.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 5, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post suggested Paul Pelosi had not been seen in public for months because he had mpox, not because he was recovering from being attacked in his home. The post appears to play off baseless claims that Pelosi had a sexual relationship with his attacker. News photos from the Kennedy Center Honors do not show any scars on Pelosi’s chin. There’s no  Pelosi and his attacker knew each other, federal authorities have said. There’s also no  Pelosi had mpox. We rate this  !
Statement: Says people in Africa "literally walk two and three hundred miles" in order to vote.
Speaker: mike bennett
About the speaker: Mike Bennett is a Republican state senator representing District 21. He was first elected to the Senate in 2002.
Date: May 5, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: comments made on the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: None of the African elections officials we spoke with heard of any case of someone walking 200 to 300 miles to vote. In fact, they wanted to know where Bennett got his information from. We would, too. We searched news accounts of the recent elections in Chad, Uganda, Nigeria and elsewhere and found no instance of people walking hundreds of miles in order to vote. No doubt about it: This  is !
Statement: H.R. 1 "would allow the Boston bomber to have a right to vote.
Speaker: charlie kirk
About the speaker: Charlie Kirk is the founder and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative group that advocates for limited government and free markets.
Date: March 4, 2021
Topics: congress;criminal justice;elections;pundits;punditfact
Context: a radio show segment
Fact-check justification: Kirk said H.R. 1 "would allow the Boston bomber to have a right to vote." That’s . The proposed legislation would restore federal voting rights for felons only once they’ve completed their sentence and been released from incarceration. Tsarnaev, the convicted bomber, is serving a life sentence in prison.  In Massachusetts and several other states, voting rights for felons are already restored when they’re released.  We rate this  .
Statement: Bill McCollum "diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources.
Speaker: let's get to work
About the speaker: Let's Get To Work is a 527 group formed to help Rick Scott, a Republican running for governor in Florida.
Date: July 14, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: ethics;legal issues;state budget;transparency
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: It's interesting to note that since the first Times/Herald story ran in summer 2009, McCollum has drastically reduced his use of the state plane. Between July and October 2008, before the stories ran, McCollum used the state plane 25 times. In the same four months in 2009, he used the plane only twice. So far in 2010, according to the Department of Management Services, McCollum has used the plane on only four days, all for travel related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. One of the trips was with Crist. The ad by the Scott-backed group Let's Get to Work claims that McCollum diverted his plane to the airports closest to his home (Sanford and Orlando) 53 times and that an auditor labeled those diversions likely a misuse of state resources. The ad is technically accurate on both marks, but leaves out critical information about the outcome of the investigation. The 53 trips to Central Florida were found to have a public purpose by the Florida Commission on Ethics, and an ethics complaint against McCollum was dismissed. The auditor who labeled those trips a likely misuse of state resources did not include those findings in her final report. Because of those omissions, we rate the Let's Get to Work ad .
Statement: In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses.
Speaker: jason smith
About the speaker: Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in June 2013. 
Date: November 9, 2018
Location: missouri
Topics: economy;jobs;small business
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Smith said that seven out of 10 new jobs are due to small businesses. Based on our calculations, he is correct for job gains. Factoring in job losses, as is standard with most economic measurements, would put the statistic closer to two out of every three new jobs. That’s pretty close, though — the difference between 66 percent and 70 percent. We rate this statement .
Statement: Ending federal funding for National Public Radio would jeopardize 9,000 jobs.
Speaker: jim moran
About the speaker: Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th, was first elected in 1990 to represent a district covering Falls Church, Alexandria, Arlington County and part of Fairfax County.
He serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, as well as serving on the Defense Subcommittee.
Moran previously served as the mayor of Alexandria from 1985 to 1990.
Moran was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., in 1967, and received a master of public administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970.
Date: March 17, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: jobs
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: And with NPR’s revenues growing each year by amounts far exceeding the $5 million at stake, it would seem jobs should be safe at the parent company. If you take $5 million and divide by the 8,400 jobs supposedly at risk, you get a salary per person of $595. We’re certain NPR pays better than that. Moran suggested this bill could put every public radio job in America at risk. We rate his  .
Statement: The Chinese government provides their people no access to the Internet.
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: March 14, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: china;technology
Context: a CPAC speech
Fact-check justification: In describing a litany of offenses by China’s Communist government, Rubio said, "The Chinese government provides their people no access to the Internet." This is not . The Chinese can access the Internet, and they do it in numbers higher than any other country. However, the government blocks many popular Internet sites and censors content, limiting the access for Chinese people. We rate his statement .
Statement: Attacks on Planned Parenthood "come at a time when the poverty rate among women is the highest in nearly two decades and 1 in 5 women under 65 don't have access to health care.
Speaker: tim ryan
About the speaker: Tim Ryan is a representative of Ohio’s 13th Congressional District. Ryan served the state’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 until 2013, when he assumed office to represent the 13th District. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president. In 2022, he is running for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat.
Date: September 28, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;poverty;women
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: On the second part he said 1 in 5 women age 18 to 65 don’t have access to health care. That differs from the census database, which said 1 in five do not have health insurance. That’s a point that needs clarification. And that also consistent with  Ryan’s underlying point, that the number of women in poverty is at a high point, and that getting access to health care would be difficult for many women without services of agencies like Planned Parenthood. On the -O-Meter we rate Ryan’s  .
Statement: In COVID-19 crisis, "only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.
Speaker: desiree rogers
About the speaker: Desiree Rogers is the CEO of Black Opal Beauty and former White House social secretary in the Obama administration.
Date: June 10, 2020
Location: national
Topics: race and ethnicity;punditfact;coronavirus
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Rogers said that only 20% of African Americans have jobs where they could work from home. That’s pretty much exactly what government data show. We rate this  .
Statement: David Dewhurst "has never once cut one penny from the state budget.
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: April 13, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Context: Dallas
Fact-check justification: Cruz’s  rests on overall spending by state government escalating in the first four two-year budgets adopted with Dewhurst as lieutenant governor. State government spent 62 percent more in 2010-11 than it did before Dewhurst filled his post. However, these results do not mean Dewhurst never once cut the budget. Indeed, expenditures of state revenue alone were reduced by nearly $1 billion -- some 960 million pennies -- in the 2004-05 budget. Also, the 2012-13 budget -- overlooked by Cruz -- spends less than what the state spent in 2010-11, even after adjusting for major current costs to be paid for in the next budget period. Cruz's "never once" is absolute, which also makes it .
Statement: Joe Biden was sworn in on a "Masonic/Illuminati Bible.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 21, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a series of images
Fact-check justification: While many former presidents were Freemasons , we did not find  that Biden is a member of the fraternity. The Facebook post is  and . We rate it ! RELATED:   Kamala Harris was sworn in on a stack of Bibles — not a clutch purse
Statement: Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago.
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: March 5, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a White House conference on health care
Fact-check justification: In Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook (2004), Jennie Kronenfeld, a sociology professor at Arizona State University, writes that "this was the first inclusion of a health insurance plank in any national platform with a major candidate, although the Socialist Party had endorsed a compulsory system as early as 1904." Roosevelt and the Progressives, nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, lost the election to Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic Party candidate. Republican William Taft finished third. Clearly, Obama is on solid ground tracing the push for national health care back to Theodore Roosevelt. We find this  to be .
Statement: As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don't have health insurance.
Speaker: bill pascrell
About the speaker: Bill Pascrell is Democratic member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey.
Date: July 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech on the House floor
Fact-check justification: But for us, Kronick’s study raises questions about the reliability of the Institute of Medicine’s death estimate. We acknowledge that there is not yet a consensus among the experts. But in re-evaluating Pascrell's , we can no longer rate it . We recognize that the Institute of Medicine is still widely respected, but an ideologically diverse group of experts is giving credence to Kronick's findings. That leaves us with something of a split decision, and so we downgrade our rating to .
Statement: Says Russ Feingold supported a stimulus plan that allowed a company to create 3,000 jobs in China.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: October 10, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: message machine 2010;stimulus;trade
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: Johnson tries to bolster this  by citing a specific Texas project involving China and some 3,000 related jobs to be created there. But he twists Democratic objections to the possibility into alleged support for it. And the outcry itself has prompted revisions that mean more jobs here -- and so far no application has been made by project officials for any stimulus money. What’s more, Feingold backed the Buy American provisions that were included in the bill, saying they were a step forward. We rate Johnson’s  .