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Statement: I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me.
Speaker: charles rangel
About the speaker: Charles Rangel is a Democratic congressman from New York City and the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Date: February 26, 2010
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: But we have to place our confidence appropriately, and we’re held responsible for that." You can agree with the ethics panel ruling or not, but the fact is it found that even if Rangel had no direct knowledge of the staff memos warning him about corporate sponsorship, Rangel "was responsible for the knowledge and actions of his staff in the performance of their official duties." There's just no way to spin that into "exoneration." To the contrary, the ethics report included a public admonishment of Rangel. And so we rule Rangel's comment !
Statement: Certainly we're going to be the most restrictive state in the land … in terms of who can get medical marijuana, how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace.
Speaker: nicholas scutari
About the speaker: Nicholas Scutari is a Democratic state senator representing the 22nd Legislative District, which includes parts of Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties.
Date: July 27, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: drugs;government regulation;public health;marijuana
Context: a NJToday interview
Fact-check justification: The ruling Scutari said New Jersey will be the most restrictive state in the nation for medical marijuana because of who can get it, how a doctor can recommend it and how it is distributed. Most experts we spoke with agreed New Jersey is one of the most restrictive states for medical marijuana overall. But by Scutari’s three measures, PolitiFact New Jersey found that the Garden State is generally the most restrictive. So, we rate Scutari’s statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: The Legislature spent the last decade passing laws deliberately making it even harder for people to access these critical supports when they need it most, exacerbating the problems with our already-outdated system.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: January 12, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;families;jobs;states
Context: Speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Evers claimed the Legislature has made it harder for people to access unemployment insurance over the last decade. The changes made to the unemployment system by Republicans over the past decade is well documented. And the changes have been grafted into an outdated computer system. But those changes are not entirely to blame for the problems getting the system functioning smoothly today. We rate this  .
Statement: None of the polls being conducted right now have us on the top line. None of them. It's always Trump and Clinton and then second question, third question. ... If we were included in the top line, as Johnson/Trump/Clinton, we'd be at 20 percent.
Speaker: gary johnson
About the speaker: Gary Johnson is the Libertarian nominee for president in 2016. He was also the party's nominee in 2012. He previously served as governor of New Mexico as a Republican.
Date: August 22, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: media appearances
Fact-check justification: Johnson said that polls ask about a straight Clinton/Trump race first, cueing them to ignore his name when it appears later. He said that including his name in the first questions pollsters asked about the horse-race could increase his support to 20 percent. Many polls do include Johnson’s name in their first horse-race poll, and Johnson does not do better in these polls. Experts say the jump Johnson is talking about is implausible. We rate the  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/5b71a65b-45a3-4b7b-bb80-9222bc73ff4e
Statement: Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: March 17, 2016
Location: national
Topics: drugs;economy;federal budget;health care;poverty;public health
Context: a political ad
Fact-check justification: Club for Growth says Trump promises "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it." It's clear from Trump's website and some of his public comments that he wants a market-based approach to healthcare, not a system run by the government, which makes the Club for Growth ad . Because Trump wants a program to cover the poor — "the lower 25 percent that can't afford private" insurance — doesn't mean, as the ad contends, that "he wants more government healthcare." After all, the poor already get health coverage under Medicaid, which is jointly funded by the states and the federal government. We rate Club for Growth's  .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton called the Trans-Pacific Partnership "the gold standard. You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it's the finest deal you've ever seen.
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: September 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy;history;foreign policy;trade
Context: a Presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said Clinton called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the "gold standard" of trade deals. Clinton did use that language in 2012 when discussing TPP in Australia. And unlike her rebuttal, she didn’t couch it by saying she "hoped" it would be the gold standard. It’s worth noting that at this point the deal was still under negotiation and because that was done behind closed doors, there’s no way to know how much it changed. Before the final version came out, she advocated more of a wait-and-see approach. We rate Trump’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/90008ff2-1952-4383-8676-be3604594811
Statement: Video shows Sen. John Kennedy telling Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, "You will be impeached.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 9, 2022
Topics: immigration;homeland security;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Outside of this hearing, Republicans have called for Mayorkas’ impeachment. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., in sending a letter in October to the secretary, saying he has failed "t​​o faithfully enforce this nation’s immigration laws" and that it could be grounds for impeachment. This week, one GOP faction held a press conference asking for an impeachment investigation. But this video does not show anyone calling for Mayorkas’ impeachment. We rate this  .
Statement: Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 21, 2022
Topics: environment;climate change;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claimed 90% of plankton in the Atlantic Ocean had vanished. The post based its information on a study by the Global Oceanic Environmental Survey Foundation that claimed water samples it took in a part of the Atlantic Ocean showed the dramatic reduction. The organization said its findings could not be applied to the entire ocean, only the specific area from which the samples were taken. However, marine biologists and oceanographers have several issues with the organization’s sampling method and findings and say they have not seen a dramatic drop in the plankton population. In some cases, these experts say, plankton have been increasing. If such a dramatic drop in plankton occurred, it would have a disastrous impact on marine life that would have already been observable.   We rate this .
Statement: Says North Carolina moved "from among the worst business rankings in the country, to the top 10.
Speaker: paul newton
About the speaker: Paul Newton is a Republican representing Cabarrus and Union counties in the North Carolina state Senate.
Date: May 25, 2021
Location: north carolina
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Newton said "Our pro-business policies moved North Carolina from among the worst business rankings in the country, to the top 10." This statement gives the impression that North Carolina was ranked among the worst states for business in the country prior to 2013, when the Republicans ushered in sweeping tax reforms. That’s . While the Tax Foundation ranked North Carolina’s tax structure low in 2011, three media outlets with longstanding state rankings of business environments placed the Tar Heel State among the best states for business even before Republicans took control of the legislature. We rate Newton’s  .
Statement: U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told banks -- in writing -- it may inspect safe deposit boxes without warrant and seize any gold, silver, guns or other valuables it finds inside those boxes!
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: July 14, 2013
Location: national
Topics: homeland security
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: Various chain emails over the past seven years have warned readers about the possibility of Homeland Security seizing items like gold, silver and guns from their safe deposit boxes at the bank. This isn’t possible without first obtaining a search warrant, since those boxes are private property. And banking officials told us random seizures just aren’t happening. We rate this statement .
Statement: St. Pete Beach's local version of Amendment 4 resulted in "seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate.
Speaker: citizens for lower taxes and a stronger economy
About the speaker: A political action committee opposing Florida's proposed Amendment 4.
Date: March 10, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: elections;florida amendments;infrastructure
Context: an Internet ad
Fact-check justification: In its ad, the group Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy says St. Pete Beach's local version of Amendment 4 resulted in "seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate." Yes, there were lawsuits, but they weren't the only costs mentioned for the city legal department. Yes, the city slightly raised its rate in 2009 -- although the net result still was a decrease on most homeowners because of sharply falling property values. But the discussion at a town meeting indicates that the decision was motivated by several factors, most notably the decline in property values, as well as legal fees. So we find the  .
Statement: Suicide comes from federal government largesse "saying you are not worth anything but you are going to get something for nothing.
Speaker: don young
About the speaker: Don Young, a Republican, heldAlaska's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 until his death in March 2022.
Date: October 22, 2014
Location: national
Topics: race and ethnicity;public health
Context: Alaska
Fact-check justification: Young said that suicide comes from federal government largesse "saying you are not worth anything but you are going to get something for nothing." Data suggests high suicide rates among Alaska Natives stem more from cultural changes, including the transition from rural, traditional practices to urban life. We rate the  .
Statement: Says "nothing" in Obama's $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border.
Speaker: steve king
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Steve King is a Republican congressman from Iowa.
Date: July 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates;federal budget
Context: an interview on Fox news
Fact-check justification: King said there is "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigration situation "that actually secures the border." King has a point that a majority of the funding request would cover basic necessities for children crossing the border as well as additional resources for the legal process. But somewhere between $177 million and possibly as much as $1 billion of the total request would be spent on items that can be described as aiding efforts to secure the border. Because this is not a trivial amount, King is  to say it’s "nothing." On balance, we rate his  . Correction: The White House's supplemental budget request was made July 8. Our report initially gave an earlier date.
Statement: Says "at the state level we're spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety, health care and education combined.
Speaker: jefferson smith
About the speaker: Jefferson Smith represents Oregon State House District 47.  He is a native of east Portland, the district he represents.
Date: March 10, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: education;health care;public safety;state budget;taxes
Context: a candidates' forum
Fact-check justification: The state does spend more on tax breaks than it does on public safety, health care and education. This holds  whether you look at the larger all funds budget, or the smaller general and lottery funds budget. But there is some important context here, including the fact that many of those tax breaks are off limits to state lawmakers. We rate this   -- accurate but it requires some clarification. Return to OregonLive to comment on this ruling.
Statement: We are making the largest investment in education in our nation's history.
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: February 17, 2009
Location: national
Topics: education;stimulus
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Other departments in the federal government also spend money on education through scholarship programs, school lunches and the like, amounting to total federal spending of about $170 billion a year. But there's no reason to believe those other programs won't continue this year as well, pushing total federal education spending to new heights. "It is the largest federal investment in education," Skelly wrote of the stimulus money, standing behind Obama's . It does appear that the stimulus money will push federal spending on education — both within the Education Department and across the federal government as a whole — higher than it has ever been. We find Obama's  .
Statement: Black people are eight times more likely to be arrested than white people" in Madison.
Speaker: young, gifted and black coalition
About the speaker: The Young, Gifted and Black Coalition is an activist group in Madison, Wis.
Date: January 9, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city government;civil rights;criminal justice;crime;public safety;guns
Context: an open letter
Fact-check justification: For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is .   To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page . Note: After we published this item, the author of the research report cited above said she generated new figures strictly for the City of Madison, rather than Dane County, and provided them to PolitiFact Wisconsin. Erica Nelson said that based on a preliminary review of the Madison Police Department’s 2013 annual report, black adults are 10.9 times more likely than white adults to be arrested in Madison.
Statement: The Associated Press called Charlie Crist's attacks "over the top," "out of context," and "not true.
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 24, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a TV advertisement
Fact-check justification: The paragraph, the second in the story, includes each of the phrases Rubio cites in his television ad -- "out of context," "over the top," and "not " (the actual wording in the article was "aren't "). It's worth noting that Crist's new TV ad references only two of the six attacks Farrington focused on in the AP article - about spending of GOP political donations and that Rubio was a lobbyist - and it's unclear from the article how Farrington would describe those specific attacks. In two short television ads, Rubio tries to soften Crist's attacks with the help of the respected and impartial Associated Press. He uses the AP's words correctly to help make his case. We rate his  .
Statement: Says in the last five years "Senate Republicans have placed a filibuster on every piece of legislation and every nominee.
Speaker: carla axtman
About the speaker: Carla Axtman is a writer for Blue Oregon, a left-leaning political blog.
Date: November 22, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: congress
Context: an online article
Fact-check justification: There’s little question that Senate Republicans took using the filibuster as a tool of obstruction to a new extreme. But Axtman undercut herself by using superlatives. Twice in her piece, she hammered home that filibusters happened "not just some of the time. ALL of the time." While we appreciate her move to change the words after we brought them to her attention, we rate this  .
Statement: Phoenix, Arizona, is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: June 27, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: comments on 'Meet the Press'
Fact-check justification: However, we couldn't find reliable around-the-planet  to confirm that only Mexico City experiences more of them. In fact, experts advise that such rankings can't be made based on available information. If they could, they speculate, other cities would prove to have more kidnappings than Arizona's capital. We found nothing confirming Phoenix as No. 2 in kidnappings worldwide. We'll reconsider our rating if compelling  surfaces, but for now McCain's statement is .
Statement: When asked by a reporter whether he's at the center of a "criminal scheme" to violate campaign laws, Gov. Scott Walker nodded yes.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: June 24, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance;legal issues;negative campaigning
Context: a web video
Fact-check justification: Neither wanted to comment on the Dem video. Our rating A Democratic Party web video making the rounds on social media shows a grim-faced Gov. Scott Walker appearing to bob his head yes to a reporter’s question about whether he was at the center of a "criminal scheme" to evade campaign finance laws. In real life, the governor answered an emphatic "no" --  not surprising given he’s been denying any wrongdoing since new documents were released in the John Doe investigation. The Dem video, in its editing of the WTMJ clip, leaves the viewer with the  and  impression that Walker is somehow admitting guilt in the case. That’s the definition of .
Statement: In fact, there's more state funding for education today than any other time.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: November 2, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a response to a public school teacher
Fact-check justification: Christie last week said during an argument with a teacher, "In fact, there’s more state funding for education today than any other time." Critics frequently call the governor out for the massive funding cuts he’s made to education since taking office, and for either increasing state aid by a minimal amount or not at all. But the fact of the matter is that despite the cuts, New Jersey’s education funding level is the highest it’s ever been. For that reason, we rate Christie’s statement . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: 7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won't have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill "don't exist.
Speaker: marc short
About the speaker: Marc Short is the White House director of legislative affairs under President Donald Trump.
Date: July 2, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an episode of "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Short said that 7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won't have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill "don't exist." It is plausible that CBO overestimated the drop in health care coverage under the Senate replacement for Obamacare because it based its estimates on data from 2016 rather than 2017. But the thought process that led Short to say the projection was off by 7 million is an oversimplification. Until CBO redoes its analysis with the more recent data, we may not know how exactly its projections change. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years' worth of Austin's water use.
Speaker: austin water utility
About the speaker: The Austin Water Utility, part of city government, is responsible for water and wastewater services in the Texas capital.
Date: May 27, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: water
Context: a StateImpact Texas news story
Fact-check justification: Meszaros said billions of gallons of river water released to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years worth of Austin’s water use. Equaled or exceeded is the long and short of it. We rate this  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.