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Statement: Tim Kaine hiked tuition as governor, but now claims to champion affordability.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: September 12, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The RNC says, "Tim Kaine hiked tuition as governor, but now claims to champion affordability." As the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Kaine clearly is taking on college affordability by advocating debt-free college for everyone and tuition-free education for in-state students from families making less than $125,000 a year. When Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, in-state tuition and instructional fees rose 31.2 percent at four-year colleges and 24.5 percent at community colleges. But it’s  to say Kaine "hiked" the rates. Colleges largely are autonomous in Virginia and allowed to set their own student costs. Tuition has been rising steadily in Virginia and across the nation for decades. On the other hand, Virginia’s governor and its legislature do create political and budgetary conditions that can encourage or discourage colleges from steep tuition increases. While Kaine did not pull the lever for the tuition hikes, they did occur under his watch. So on the whole, we rate the RNC’s statement .
Statement: This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area.
Speaker: al hunt
About the speaker: Al Hunt is the executive editor for Washington for Bloomberg News.
Date: August 22, 2010
Location: national
Topics: religion;this week - abc news
Context: ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: It may be a "small portion" of the overall project, but it is a part. And so when Hunt said, "This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area," that's not accurate either. It's a cultural center that includes a mosque. And so we rate Hunt's comment .
Statement: When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
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: April 30, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;transportation
Context: an interview on "The Today Show"
Fact-check justification: If Biden had said people should be careful about touching contaminated surfaces, that would have been one thing. But his statement was "When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft." That's just . And he made the statement in the context of a highly sensitive public health matter where it's important to give the public accurate information. For fanning the flames of fear without having the facts on his side, we rate his statement !
Statement: Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: August 4, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: baseball
Context: an appearance on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: While the intangibles of baseball make proving it difficult, if not impossible, it is  that the on-field success of the Red Sox has tracked their off-field prosperity. And it is  that the team's salary ranking -- No. 3 -- gives it about the same relative position in baseball that drug companies occupy in industry. Brown checked his facts, but not his swing. And while Red Sox fans may protest, we call them as we see them. The -O-Meter waves Brown home with a .
Statement: Fauci says there will be 'two Americas': One for vaccinated, one for unvaccinated.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 30, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said, "Fauci says there will be ‘two Americas’: One for vaccinated; one for unvaccinated." The post shows a screenshot of a tweet and is based on comments Fauci made in an interview with CNN. But the full context shows that Fauci was answering a question about state vaccination disparities, and predicting that some of the states with low rates could experience more serious case outbreaks due to the delta variant. The Instagram post contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: A consent decree approved by Gov. Brian Kemp "invalidated all voter ID law" and "allowed fraudulent ballots to be accepted" in the 2020 race.
Speaker: david perdue
About the speaker: David Perdue is running in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Georgia. He was a U.S. Senator from January 2015 to January 2021. He has been the CEO of several businesses and is the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Date: April 24, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: national;elections
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Perdue said that a consent decree approved by Kemp "invalidated all voter ID law" and "allowed fraudulent ballots to be accepted into the race." Perdue’s statements are rife with inaccuracies.  There was no consent decree, which would have been overseen by a judge. Instead, there was a settlement agreement involving state and Gwinnett County election officials and state and national Democratic groups. Kemp had no role in the matter. The agreement spelled out that when an absentee ballot is rejected for a missing or mismatched signature, election officials have three days to contact the voter by mail, and if possible, by telephone and email. It also said that in the event of a signature mismatch, an election official has to  seek the review of two other officials. The agreement said nothing about voter ID law and we found no  that it opened the door to the counting of fraudulent ballots.  We rate this statement !  RELATED : Georgia’s David Perdue said elections were stolen from him and Trump. ! RELATED : Fact-checking an ad against Georgia’s Brian Kemp,  claims about the 2020 election RELATED : Fact-checks about Georgia
Statement: Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: May 17, 2012
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: remarks at a campaign fundraiser
Fact-check justification: Romney said at the fundraising event that "47 percent of Americans pay no income tax." He didn’t specify federal income tax, and many states do levy their own income taxes. But since Romney was referring to a sector of the entire American population, we think it’s clear he was talking about federal taxes. Research by the Tax Policy Center supports his . The think tank found that many Americans are so poor that they owe no taxes, and others qualify for enough breaks and exemptions to reduce their liability to nothing. Another report by the Joint Committee on Taxation from 2009 found an even larger share of Americans who owed nothing. We rate Romney’s statement .
Statement: Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.
Speaker: moveon.org
About the speaker: MoveOn.org is a left-leaning political advocacy group. It endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
Date: May 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: bankruptcy;elections;housing
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: Those senators included: Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.; Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.; Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.; and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. Getting back to the ads, MoveOn says the senators voted with Wall Street and the banks after accepting campaign contributions from them. We can't say if there is a cause and effect, but MoveOn is right about how the senators voted. MoveOn approximates numbers for the campaign contributions — and clearly labels them approximations — and those numbers closely track the actual data from the Center for Responsive Politics. We rule MoveOn's collective statement that senators accepted millions in campaign contributions and voted against cramdown legislation as .
Statement: One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants.
Speaker: lamar smith
About the speaker: Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
Date: July 19, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: remarks to the Texas delegation to the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: Smith told his fellow Texans: "One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants." Not so. Rather, this figure ties to the 37 percent share of individuals sentenced to prison in fiscal 2014 who weren’t legally living in the country--and there doesn't appear to be a more recent breakdown. More to the point, the government doesn’t sort all inmates by immigration status, which leaves us with its guidance that as of mid-2016, 22 percent of inmates weren’t U.S. citizens. It seems logical to conclude that unauthorized residents comprised a smaller share of all the prisoners. We rate Smith’s statement .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/061b950a-58b3-4d51-b712-94d9f1a9fdef
Statement: Says certain states are banning the sale of alcohol.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 30, 2020
Location: california
Topics: alcohol;facebook fact-checks;illinois;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: People in Pennsylvania can still buy alcohol, however. One distillery is selling bottles from a drive-thru and shipping to folks’ front doors. Another shop is selling vodka and whiskey for curbside pickup. California, meanwhile, is among the states to loosen alcohol rules for restaurants , allowing them to sell beer, wine and cocktails to go as people are preventing from dining in due to shelter-in-place orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus.   We rate these Facebook posts .
Statement: For the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget, and I think that context is important.
Speaker: joe negron
About the speaker: Sen. Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican, represents Florida Senate District 28 which includes portions of Palm Beach, Martin, Indian River, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties.
Date: February 15, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: a Health and Human Services Appropriations committee meeting
Fact-check justification: And Scott proposes to keep human services spending at almost the same level as this year. So if Negron had included the budget forecast in his statement, it would have easily been  no matter which method we used for comparison. But Negron's comment was that "for the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget." From the start of the decade to the end, the increase in the human services budget is double the rest of the budget, but the growth rate is not quite doubled. We rate this  .
Statement: Says "the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole.
Speaker: back to basics
About the speaker: Back to Basics is a political action committee that aims to "shed light on who are politicians are working for — themselves and their pals instead of hardworking Texas families," according to the group's website.
Date: October 5, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: economy;states;stimulus;workers
Context: a newspaper ad
Fact-check justification: (December 2000 was when Perry entered the governor's office, and January 2007 was the beginning of his current term.) When we asked Walker why Back to Basics started its time period of comparison with the month of Perry's letter to Obama, he told us that the group is "trying to draw attention to the fact that Perry took federal stimulus dollars — a fact that many Texans, more than a year and a half later, still do not know." Our take: Back to Basics' statement accurately recaps a specific time period — the 18 months following Perry's acceptance of federal stimulus aid for Texas in February 2009 — that shows unemployment rising faster in Texas than the nation as a whole. As our analysis shows, though, lengthening the time period often yields a different result, with unemployment in Texas rising more slowly than the nation. We rate the statement .
Statement: Barack Obama's health care bill is nothing new. Mitt Romney signed one just like it four years before.
Speaker: howard dean
About the speaker: Howard Dean is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, and was the longtime governor of Vermont before that.
Date: November 12, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a KLRU interview
Fact-check justification: (Being that Medicare is a federal program, the Massachusetts plan does not address it.) Both plans are financed in part by revenue generated from the individual and employer mandates. But the Massachusetts plan's financing is heavily dependent on leveraging federal matching funds, while the federal plan taps cost savings from levying new taxes on, for example, high-cost health care plans. Upshot: the federal law is similar to the Massachusetts law, but not an exact copy. We rate Dean's statement as .
Statement: U.S. households are on track to spend $19 billion more on energy by 2030.
Speaker: roger williams
About the speaker: Roger Williams won election to represent the newly created Congressional District 25 in 2012. He is a former Texas secretary of state, the state's chief elections officer. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 as chairman of the Republican National Finance Committee’s Eagles fundraising program and also has served as state finance chair for John Cornyn's 2002 Senate campaign, according to his campaign website.
Date: October 28, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: energy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Williams said, "U.S. households are on track to spend $19 billion more on energy by 2030" because of Biden energy policies. The figure was specific to banning all new leasing and development for oil and gas operations on federal lands and waters. A ban of that scale did not go into effect; only new leasing was banned. And that ban is currently blocked by a federal judge. The statistic also speaks to only one Biden policy among many climate policies,  some of which Biden claims aim to lower household costs . It's difficult to forecast household energy prices because a lot of factors affect them, and analysts have to hold a lot of factors constant to make predictions. For example, assuming laws and regulations remain the same, the Energy Information Administration estimates household expenditures will increase by $18 billion. We rate this as  as , which means the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Statement: H.R. 1 would "prevent removal of ineligible voters from registration rolls.
Speaker: elise stefanik
About the speaker: Elise Stefanik is a Republican member of Congress representing New York's 21st Congressional District. She was first elected in 2014.
Date: March 3, 2021
Topics: congress;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Stefanik said H.R. 1 will "prevent removal of ineligible voters from registration rolls." No section of the bill prevents an election official from removing an ineligible person on the voting rolls. One section of H.R. 1 details rules that states must follow for removing ineligible voters, including that it must notify the registrants.  We rate this statement . RELATED: Trump misleads about HR 1 and voter registration for welfare recipients RELATED: Yes, the ACLU has criticized HR 1. Here’s why RELATED: Group makes bogus attack on HR 1 over congressional salaries RELATED: Fact-checking  attacks on HR 1, Democrats’ voting rights bill
Statement: Barack Obama has "pledged to reduce the size of the military.
Speaker: jerome r. corsi
About the speaker: Jerome R. Corsi is the author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. He is a senior staff writer for the conservative news Web site WorldNetDaily.com. In 2004, he co-authored a book attacking Democratic nominee John Kerry, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.
Date: August 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: his book <i>The Obama Nation</i>.
Fact-check justification: "Increasing our end strength will help units retrain and re-equip properly between deployments and decrease the strain on military families." The policy also discusses building up "special operations forces, civil affairs, information operations, and other units and capabilities that remain in chronic short supply." Corsi says Obama has promised to reduce the size of the military, but he seems to be drawing that assumption from Obama's criticism of the Iraq war and Obama's promises to bring more transparency and rigor to the defense contracting process. Obama's written policy proposals say Obama intends to increase the size of the military. We find Corsi's statement .
Statement: Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power.
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: December 15, 2015
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;history;military;terrorism
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Cruz defined his desired approach for fighting ISIS -- "carpet bombing" -- as bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power." Since the defining characteristic of carpet bombing is the dropping of bombs indiscriminately, Cruz’s definition is essentially the opposite of carpet bombing. We rate his  . CORRECTION, Dec. 18, 2015: This story has been updated to correct the description of a March 1945 attack on Tokyo. The attack involved six tons of incendiary bombs for each of the 250 planes involved, not a total of six tons of bombs.
Statement: The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58.
Speaker: david mellon
About the speaker: David Mellon is President of the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers, which represents 1,300 correctional officers, stewards, inmate industries’ supervisors, office personnel, and medical and social work professionals at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston.
Date: October 27, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: crime;pensions;retirement;unions;workers
Context: testimony at a state pension hearing
Fact-check justification: We don't doubt that working as a correctional officer is hazardous and stressful, and we can understand how the funerals Mellon is attending could give him the impression that his coworkers are dying prematurely. But the hard  cited to back up such claims turns out to be unreliable, ethereal or contradicts his testimony. We rule Mellon's statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: They've planned this" COVID-19 "pandemic all along!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 8, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: How the pandemic started We and other fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic having been planned .   Scientists who have studied the coronavirus have generally concluded that it resembles naturally occurring viruses. They have considered the possibility that the virus somehow leaked from a lab, though there’s still no conclusive  of its exact source. And there is no  that the pandemic emerged from vaccinations. The  that the coronavirus pandemic was planned is  and  — .
Statement: The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire.
Speaker: scott galloway
About the speaker: Scott Galloway is a Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business.
Date: November 7, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: criminal justice;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Galloway tweeted that "the number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire." The populations of the states Galloway cited range from about 579,000 to 1.3 million million. The number of felons who are now eligible to register to vote is as many as 1.4 million, according to the ACLU and the Sentencing Project. However nonpayment of fines could bring that number down to 840,000. In that scenario, six of the 10 states on Galloway’s list have a higher population. Galloway’s tweet generally seems on point though it could be that the ultimate number of eligible felons is a lower number than some of the states’ populations he cited. We rate this  .