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Statement: Latino small businesses are 1 in 4 new businesses, but only 1% of venture capital funding goes to Latino businesses.
Speaker: kamala harris
About the speaker: Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. Harris was elected as a senator from California in 2016. She previously was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 until 2011, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris received a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Howard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in December. On Aug. 11, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate.
Date: April 21, 2023
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;race and ethnicity;small business
Context: an interview with Noticias Telemundo
Fact-check justification: Harris said, "Latino small businesses are 1 in 4 new businesses, but only 1% of venture capital funding goes to Latino businesses." The 1-in-4 statistic is supported by a 2021 brief from the Democratic members of a congressional committee and research from a nonprofit that provides grants to other nonprofits and businesses. A Census Bureau survey found a smaller percentage of new Hispanic-owned businesses in 2020 — 12.4%. The  about 1% of venture capital going to Latino-owned businesses matches estimates from a consulting firm’s 2021 report. That’s based on investments from 25 venture capitalists and private equity firms from 2007 to 2017. Investments in 2020 from these companies was under 1%, according to the report. Another source pegs that investment as high as 1.7%. We rate this  . CORRECTION, May 17, 2023 : This fact-check was updated to clarify Rep. Don Beyer’s former leadership of the Joint Economic Committee.
Statement: Fifty-seven" of  Rubio's 100 ideas "ultimately became law.
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: November 4, 2009
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: his campaign Web site
Fact-check justification: Rubio's  is that 57 of the ideas in his book 100 Innovative Ideas For Florida's Future are now law. Based on our analysis, he has fallen short. Using the most generous accounting, Rubio might be able to say that he got 34 ideas into state lawbooks (adding together those ideas that we marked "law" or "kind of" law). Rubio's campaign had almost two weeks to review our findings, and responded Feb. 26, 2010, with five pages of explanations. In two cases, their information changed our decisions. We also offered Rubio the chance to address our findings. He chose, through a spokesman, not to. That leaves us to make a -O-Meter ruling based on the information you see here, and in the corresponding chart. Based on our findings, 24 of Rubio's 100 ideas became law. Another 10 were partially enacted. That's not the kind of  you're likely to hear in a TV ad, but it's what we found. Rubio delivered on education and property insurance reforms, and his book and its ideas remain part of the lexicon of the Florida Legislature. But 23 of the ideas either aren't law or could not be law. We find his  . Kind of. Committee structure changed, but not by law. Broad goal; cannot be achieved in law. Kind of. Funding increased, but no recurring revenue source. Program now defunct. No. Legislature capped an affordable housing trust fund that lowered overall project funding. One specific program saw increased funding from 2006 to 2007. But it wasn’t funded in 2008. Kind of. State created a Web site with links to incentives and rewards, but did not create any new incentives.
Statement: As Jim Doyle's Commerce secretary, Mary Burke spent $12.5 million dollars to buy a vacant lot for a company that said it had no plans to create jobs in Wisconsin" and had laid off 800 workers.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: July 8, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;state budget
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: There’s a hint of mischief in the ad’s language in that it can be heard to mean that Burke was so incompetent she gave money to a firm with zero interest in a Wisconsin operation. That idea is off base. But as we say at PolitiFact, words matter, and the ad’s  closely mirrors what company officials said at the time of the award. And HUD officials found that even seven years later, no specific use for the land was proposed. We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Richard Belzer died because of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 19, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It’s become common to see vaccine skeptics on social media baselessly blame celebrity deaths on the COVID-19 vaccines. Scheft did not immediately respond to PolitiFact’s questions about the post, but he told The Associated Press that Belzer had been dealing with circulatory and respiratory problems.   After reviewing Belzer’s social media accounts and news reports, we found no  that he was vaccinated against COVID-19, much less that he died because of a COVID-19 vaccine. If  emerges that Belzer’s death is connected to the vaccine, we’ll reconsider our ruling.   For now, this  is baseless and we rate it .
Statement: 17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the border" in 2018.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: January 10, 2019
Topics: immigration;punditfact
Context: a monologue
Fact-check justification: Hannity said, "17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the border" in 2018. Broadly speaking, Hannity’s statistic includes people with criminal records stopped trying to come into the United States. But it’s important to note that non-U.S. persons with violent criminal records make up a small share of this population, and many of those people were attempting to enter the country through legal points of entry. They were not trying to sneak across the border. We rate this .
Statement: McDonald's removes their American flags in support of Antifa & BLM nationwide.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 17, 2020
Topics: race and ethnicity;patriotism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We reached out to the fast-food company about the  and received this statement from McDonald’s USA: "McDonald’s unequivocally stands behind the need for equality and social justice, and these rumors are not . "  In June, McDonald’s released an ad that mentioned George Floyd, among other Black people who died in police custody; the company’s recent donations to the NAACP and National Urban league; and this message: "WE do not tolerate inequality, injustice or racism. Black lives matter." But we couldn’t find any news coverage to corroborate the Facebook post’s .   We rate it .
Statement: Says Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling offered "unqualified support" for a plan to end Medicare
Speaker: we are wisconsin 
About the speaker: We Are Wisconsin formed in summer 2011 for the state senate recall elections. It is a group composed of labor unions. We Are Wisconsin formed a political action committee and funded campaign advertising and other activities.
 
Date: July 15, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;medicare
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The group qualifies the language at times, but the overwhelming impression left is that Ryan’s plan would mean the end of Medicare -- and that this is what Darling supported. PolitiFact has repeatedly ruled  the notion that Ryan’s plan would end the program. It would change dramatically, yes, but it would still exist. So where does that leave this two-part statement on the -O-Meter? On balance, we rate the statement from the group .
Statement: States with "the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates.
Speaker: mira signer
About the speaker: Mira Signer joined Mira joined NAMI Virginia as the executive in 2007. She received her Masters in Social Work-Administration, Planning, and Policy Practice from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from VCU.  In 2011, Signer was recognized as one of Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40. She received her undergraduate degree from James Madison University. Signer is originally from Arlington, Virginia.
Date: April 28, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: guns
Context: a conference
Fact-check justification: Signer said states that have "the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates." Exhaustive data collected by the CDC at the start of the century supports her statement. The three states with the highest percentage of household gun ownership - Alaska, Wyoming and Montana - also had the three highest suicide rates. The correlation between the availability of guns and suicide rates, while not as exact across the nation, certainly existed in most other states. The nine states with the lowest household gun rates also had the lowest suicide rates. The ranking of states by their suicide rates  has changed over the years. But the CDC has stopped surveying gun ownership in states, and nothing nearly as reliable has filled the void. A much smaller poll conducted in 2013 suggests the ranking of states by the percentage of  homes with guns hasn’t changed much either. And there’s no shortage of researchers, past and present, who have concluded there is a strong link between the presence of guns and suicides. So we rate Signer’s statement . Editor's Note:  An earlier headline on this story misspelled Signer's first name.
Statement: In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that's saying, 'Hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.'
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: January 8, 2017
Location: national
Topics: congress;ethics
Context: an interview on 'Face the Nation'
Fact-check justification: The ruling Booker said, "In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that’s saying, 'Hey, we should have all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.' " McConnell wrote a letter on Feb. 12, 2009 that advocated for completion of disclosure forms before hearings and as a condition of floor consideration. But most of the the people Obama nominated by the time of McConnell's letter had already been approved. We rate Booker’s  .
Statement: Last month, 44 of the 50 states saw an increase in the unemployment rate.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;states
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification: Walker’s statement that "last month, 44 of the 50 states saw an increase in the unemployment rate" is accurate, but it lacks some important context. In only 18 states, not 44, was the increase statistically significant. And longer-term employment data, particularly the year-over-year statistics, shows that the labor market has improved, suggesting that the labor picture is more complex than Walker’s  would indicate. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: In most Muslim countries, "We can't have a church. We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden.
Speaker: franklin graham
About the speaker: The Rev. Franklin Graham is a Christian minister and the president and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the international relief organization Samaritan's Purse.
Date: October 3, 2010
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;religion;this week - abc news
Context: ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden." That's demonstrably . The construction of churches is not forbidden in most Muslim countries, only Saudi Arabia. And so, on balance, we rate Graham's comment .
Statement: The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better.
Speaker: steve adler
About the speaker: Attorney Steve Adler won election as mayor of Austin in December 2014, drawing 67 percent of the vote in a December 2014 runoff. He was sworn in Jan. 6, 2015. He sought re-election in 2018.
Date: November 19, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;city government;water
Context: a TWC News debate
Fact-check justification: Adler said San Antonio reuses 40 percent of its water while Austin reuses just 5 percent, indicating that the capital should catch up to its sprawling southern neighbor. Those percentages are offered by the respective local water utilities. However, both cities have been piping about the same share of treated water to local industrial and irrigation customers. This statement failed to acknowledge that San Antonio lays  to even more recycling in ways Austin cannot match. This is mainly because, unlike San Antonio, Austin doesn’t own any of the treated wastewater it pours into its major river (while SAWS owns the water it puts into the San Antonio River). We rate this comparison .  – 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.
Statement: We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain.
Speaker: elizabeth dennigan
About the speaker: Elizabeth Dennigan is a nurse, lawyer and former 13-year member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. She ran for Congress in the 2nd District in 2010.
Date: June 28, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: afghanistan
Context: a statement on her campaign website
Fact-check justification: No. At least not without a higher security clearance than we'll ever get.    But for now it is the most up to date and official pronouncement we can locate. So unless and until we find a more accurate figure, we’ll rely on Panetta’s estimate and assume that Dennigan is right on that point. We rate this as .
Statement: In the House Republican health care bill, "we're expanding women's access to health services by redirecting Planned Parenthood dollars to community health centers, which vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics.
Speaker: barry loudermilk
About the speaker: Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. He previously served in the Georgia Senate.
Date: May 4, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: abortion;corrections and updates;health care;women
Context: an email to constituents
Fact-check justification: Loudermilk said that in the House Republican health care bill, "we’re expanding women’s access to health services by redirecting Planned Parenthood dollars to community health centers, which vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics." Purely on the numbers, he has a point that there are more federally qualified health centers than Planned Parenthood clinics. But the notion that bypassing Planned Parenthood would mean "expanding" access is dubious. Challenges of geography, capacity, specialization and cost raise significant questions about whether existing centers, even if they were provided with Planned Parenthood’s federal revenue stream, would be able to maintain the current patient load, much less expand it. We rate the statement . UPDATE, May 11, 2017 : This report has been updated to include material provided by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that we received a day after the article was published. Our rating remains the same.
Statement: Ford is moving all of their small-car production to Mexico.
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: October 20, 2016
Location: national
Topics: corporations;trade;workers
Context: Delaware, Ohio
Fact-check justification: Trump said that "Ford is moving all of their small-car production to Mexico." That’s correct as far as it goes, but framing it that way ignores an important qualifier -- that no U.S. jobs will be lost in the transition. The company says that workers at the Ford plant in question will instead make SUVs and pickups. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/0f5ed3db-289b-4d1c-a1d6-4c03ac61e82e
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book.
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: June 22, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy;history;foreign policy;trade
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book." The paperback removed a small reference to the TPP but the two pages that talked about it and why the agreement was important weren't deleted. The paperback edition continues to have text expressing support for the trade deal. Anyone who compares the hardcover and paperback versions of the book can see that the  is . We rate it !
Statement: Under Barack Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter's presidency.
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: January 12, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Williams said that under Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter’s presidency." This  doesn’t hold up in that far more people were working the past few years than in Carter’s time as president. According to a government calculation, about the same share of adults was employed during each Democrat’s presidency. We rate this statement .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: The health care law reduces "the number of uninsured in America by 3 percent for how much money? $2 trillion.
Speaker: john e. sununu
About the speaker: John E. Sununu served as a Republican U.S. senator from New Hampshire from 2003 to 2009. Before he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing New Hampshire's First Congressional District from 1997 to 2002. He lost his re-election bid for the Senate in 2008.
Sununu landed various board appointments after leaving office and became an op-ed contributor to the Boston Globe.
His father, John H. Sununu, is a former governor of New Hampshire.
Date: April 6, 2014
Topics: federal budget;health care;punditfact
Context: a panel on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Sununu used an imperfect methodology to arrive at his conclusion that Obamacare reduces "the number of uninsured in America by 3 percent for how much money? $2 trillion." He’s playing with numbers that aren’t fully known. What’s more, this pronouncement ignores two big places people are finding health insurance: through employers and the expansion of Medicaid in many states. The real focus of the health care law wasn’t just on enrolling people in the exchanges. It aimed to foster enrollment through many avenues of the health insurance market. We rate his statement . Correction : A  Rand survey put the previously uninsured rate at about 36 percent of new marketplace enrollees. An earlier version of this story described the percentage as the "insured rate."
Statement: Says there are "a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go in place" as a result of health care reform.
Speaker: jim renacci
About the speaker: Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Date: January 10, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a town hall forum
Fact-check justification: More savings would come from requiring seniors with yearly incomes over $85,000, or $170,000 for couples, to pay higher Medicare premiums. PolitiFact examined repeated claims by politicians and interest groups in 2010 that the health care reform bill would cut Medicare by $500 billion, including one by the 60 Plus Association in an attack ad against Renacci’s election opponent, Democrat John Boccieri. Each time the  was found to be , no matter who or where it was uttered. Neither a new year, nor the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives makes it any more accurate. We still rate the  as .