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Statement: Since the stimulus package was passed, "Ohio's lost over 100,000 more jobs.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: October 6, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;message machine 2010;stimulus
Context: a television campaign ad
Fact-check justification: So Portman was accurate and then some with his recent, more cautious statement. The  ruling nevertheless stands for his June , because PolitiFact doesn’t believe in fortune-telling and Portman’s numbers were in fact off when he made that statement. But we give credit where credit is due. So the -O-Meter takes a turn to the right and rules on Portman’s newest : . Comment on this item .
Statement: On the pace that we're on with job creation in the last four months ... we will have created more jobs in this year than in the entire Bush Presidency.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: May 26, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: bush administration;economy
Context: an interview on FOX
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz gets her numbers right in saying that the U.S. in 2010 is on a pace to add more jobs to the economy than during the eight years George W. Bush was president. But the comparison is  because it ignores the job losses in 2009, and compares one year to eight. In fact, you can take the same statistics and reach an entirely different point. Not that we recommend that. We rate Wasserman Schultz's statement .
Statement: Iran's "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital.
Speaker: michael mccaul
About the speaker: Michael McCaul was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.
Date: September 12, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: iraq;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: the Republican weekly radio/TV address
Fact-check justification: McCaul said Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital." McCaul has backing for this statement, although it needs clarification. To our query, a military spokesman stopped short of confirming the number of injuries the Pentagon associates with allegedly Iranian-connected explosives and Iran (perhaps unbelievably) has denied any connection to the Texas-tied plot to hire a hit man to plant a bomb in Washington, D.C. We rate this statement .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: The media is pretty quiet about Florida's decline in COVID cases. No mask mandates or vaccine mandates.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 10, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post stated: "The media is pretty quiet about Florida's decline in COVID cases. No mask mandates or vaccine mandates." News media have reported for weeks on the recent decline in COVID-19 cases in Florida. Florida does have measures that restrict mask mandates in schools and limit requirements to show proof of vaccination. But the decline in cases occurred only after Florida led the nation, and Florida still ranks among states with the highest case rate. The statement contains only an element of . We rate it .
Statement: Kohl's confirmed that they will be selling BLM merchandise" but are not selling "back the blue" at this time.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts  that Kohl’s is selling Black Lives Matter merchandise but not selling items supporting the Blue Lives Matter movement. Kohl’s partnered with a Black-owned business from Milwaukee to produce a T-shirt collection that features anti-racism slogans and symbols that overlap with ones used by Black Lives Matter. But the collection is not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter organization, and Kohl’s does sell at least one item that features symbols affiliated with the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement. We rate this .
Statement: Says Mark Kelly took to space a "Chinese communist banner.
Speaker: martha mcsally
About the speaker: Martha McSally, a Republican, is a former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Representative from Arizona. McSally served 26 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 2010 as a full colonel. She was the first female fighter pilot to fly a combat mission and command a fighter squadron. She was elected to public office for the first time when she won election to Congress in 2014.
Date: October 6, 2020
Location: arizona
Topics: space
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Kelly took to space a banner made for him commemorating both his space flight and his participation in young leaders conferences in 2003, 2004, and 2005. A U.S. flag was also on board. The annual Young Leaders Forum is organized by a U.S. group that seeks to bring together young American and Chinese professionals, so they better understand each other’s country.   The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations said China did not pay for Kelly’s participation, and that the U.S. organization’s interaction with a Chinese institute was only for administrative purposes. We rate McSally’s  .
Statement: Prior to 1962, everybody prayed before school started," and "the Bible was the principal textbook in all schools.
Speaker: rafael cruz
About the speaker: Rafael Cruz is a nondenominational pastor and father of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. Rafael Cruz is seen as a vocal "super-surrogate" to his son's campaign.
Date: July 31, 2015
Topics: religion;supreme court;punditfact
Context: an interview with the Austin American-Statesman
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, "Prior to 1962, everybody prayed before school started," and "the Bible was the principal textbook in all schools." Surveys and state laws from the era show school prayer and Bible reading were not as universal as Cruz said. Survey results of superintendents from the time show the nation’s schools were split roughly down the middle when it came to either religious activity. State laws also varied widely, though 38 had laws that at least permitted it (13 required it). This means the Bible textbook was also not the "principal textbook" in "all" schools. Cruz exaggerated the scope of school prayer and Bible readings before the Supreme Court decisions. We rate his  .
Statement: Says abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.
Speaker: ron hood
About the speaker: Representative for Ohio's 78th House District.
Date: June 12, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: abortion
Context: House Bill 200
Fact-check justification: Women who have had a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) have the same risk of breast cancer as other women. Cancers other than breast cancer also appear to be unrelated to a history of induced or spontaneous abortion. The credible research overwhelmingly contradicts the statement in Hood’s legislation. It’s a  , and even more  to force doctors to spread this misinformation to patients. !
Statement: Georgia's new voting law "makes it a JAIL-TIME CRIME to drop off grandma's absentee ballot in a dropbox.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 29, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: national;elections
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s not the case. Under the new law, a long list of relatives can still legally return a completed ballot on behalf of an elector — including a grandchild for their grandparent.   We rate this  . RELATED: The facts about Georgia’s ban on food, water giveaways to voters RELATED: James Clyburn misspeaks in saying 43 states have passed voting restrictions
Statement: Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: May 3, 2012
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: a graphical tool on the campaign website
Fact-check justification: The Obama campaign claims that loan rates would double on Julia under Romney and the Ryan budget. But the  suggests otherwise. Romney opposes allowing the rates to double, and House Republicans -- including Ryan -- have voted to stop it from happening. Their approach to pay for the extension may not suit the White House, but it's  to say the rates would double. We rate the  .
Statement: Says abortions are decreasing.
Speaker: donna howard
About the speaker: Donna Howard is a state representative from Austin.
Date: January 22, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: a Texas Tribune interview
Fact-check justification: Howard said abortions are decreasing. The Texas tally has dropped for several consecutive years, while nationally the total hovered around 1.2 million from 2005 through 2008, by one analysis, and the number and rate decreased in 2009, according to information analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control. This  rates .
Statement: Wisconsin "is on pace to double the number of layoffs" this year.
Speaker: katrina shankland
About the speaker: Katrina Shankland was elected as a Democrat to the State Assembly in 2012 and re-elected in 2014. As of 2015 she was serving as assistant minority leader. She lives in Stevens Point in Assembly District 71 in central Wisconsin.
Date: November 16, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: She cited layoff notices received by the state. But those aren’t actual layoffs. And while she’s about right on the number of notices received, she’s  to suggest that the employment numbers are headed downward this year. In the time frame she cited the state’s added about 30,300 jobs. We rate the  .
Statement: Says the U.S. steel and aluminum industry is "a fraction of what it once was.
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: March 6, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;trade
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Trump said the U.S. steel and aluminum industry is "a fraction of what it once was." Trump is correct that employment levels in the metal industry are a fraction of what they once were, though experts attribute this more to automation than foreign imports. Steel output is also not the highest it’s ever been, though experts said it’s important to consider steel production in a broader context that includes improvements to steel as well as how output has responded to declining demand. While the amount of aluminum made from raw materials has declined since the early 1980s, the output of aluminum made from recycled materials has fairly steadily climbed since WWII, and the United States now leads the world in secondary aluminum production. We rate this .
Statement: Fall River, Massachusetts was not 'built by immigrants.'
Speaker: breitbart
About the speaker: Breitbart is a conservative news website.
Date: January 30, 2018
Topics: immigration;fake news;history;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: We attempted to reach Breitbart and did not get a reply. Breitbart wrote that, "Fall River, Massachusetts was not 'built by immigrants.' " English settlers first established Fall River in the 1600s when it was sparsely populated. But Breitbart gives short shrift to the role waves of immigrants played in growing the community as it turned into a prominent textile city in the 1800s. We rate this  .
Statement: In Florida, Sen. Bill Nelson ... got a $25 billion to $30 billion carve-out for Medicare Advantage patients in their state.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: December 22, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare;florida
Context: an interview with Fox News
Fact-check justification: Though Florida may see the lion's share of the benefit, Florida isn't specifically carved out of any potential Medicare Advantage cuts. The current Senate legislation includes a complicated formula designed to protect seniors most at risk of big cutbacks. We rate Rove's  .          Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran.
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: January 30, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: Obama said he would have voted against the amendment if he had been present. So though Clinton may have "agreed" with McCain on the issue, they did not technically vote the same way on it. To say that voting for Kyl-Lieberman is "giving George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran" remains a contentious issue. But Obama's main point is that Clinton and McCain were on the same side, and that is correct. So we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years.
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: March 13, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;foreign policy;trade
Context: an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years." While the pattern has been occurring under Obama, it is hardly new or unique to Obama. We rate the statement. .
Statement: The stimulus has not created one private sector job.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: September 3, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: Tallahassee
Fact-check justification: But that isn’t Scott’s statement. In the face of Billy Weston and now 1,300 jobs at a company Scott partly owns, his campaign still hasn’t moved from its stance that "the stimulus has not created one private sector job."   He may disagree that the stimulus is the most effective use of funds, or argue as Snaith does that "it didn't do very much." But those aren’t the words he chose. With thousands of Floridians employed because of stimulus-funded programs — not to mention jobs for a company in which Scott owns stock — we rate his statement .
Statement: Did not vote for tax increases as a member of the West Miami City Commission.
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 28, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday
Fact-check justification: "One of the reasons the system is broken is because with the massive escalation of valuations, local governments have been able to brag about cutting your millage, yet you are still paying more in property taxes," Rubio wrote in a 2007 letter to supporters. That's what happened in West Miami. Responding to a  from Crist, Rubio said it was "" to say he voted to raise taxes while a member of the West Miami City Commission. But Crist got it right, records show. We rate Rubio's statement .
Statement: Says the Denver Broncos signed Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: November 28, 2020
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It would have taken at least six days for Kaepernick to be eligible to play under the NFL’s COVID-19 rules. New players must remain in isolation for six days before joining a team.   Kendall Hinton, a practice squad receiver for the Broncos, filled in as quarterback on Nov. 29. The Broncos lost to the Saints 31-3. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says Texas "either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.
Speaker: veronica escobar
About the speaker: Veronica Escobar took office in 2019 as the U.S. Representative for Texas’ 16th Congressional District in El Paso. She was previously a County Commissioner and a County Judge.
 
Date: April 22, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: He declined to offer specifics, but said new testing will be coming from the private sector. Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner John Hellerstedt said the private sector will play a role, but public health authorities also are working to grow their capacity. Our Ruling Escobar said that Texas "is near the bottom or at the very bottom of COVID-19 testing per capita." Data supports Escobar’s statement and shows that Texas has lagged behind other states in terms of coronavirus testing per capita. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Ron DeSantis said Puerto Rico's flag can't be displayed in Florida.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: May 24, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: government regulation
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video claimed that DeSantis said Puerto Rico’s flag can’t be displayed in Florida. We found no  to back this . This legislative session, some lawmakers proposed limiting the types of flags that are exhibited in government buildings, but these bills weren’t approved.   We rate this  .   Lea este reporte en español.
Statement: In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.
Speaker: vladimir putin
About the speaker: Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia.
Date: January 19, 2014
Location: national
Topics: civil rights
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Deflecting criticism of his country’s anti-gay propaganda law, Putin said, "In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony." Several states still have sodomy laws on the books, and a few specifically prohibit gay sodomy. But the laws are unenforceable and have been for a decade after a Supreme Court ruling. That makes Putin’s statement that "homosexuality remains a felony" . We rate it .
Statement: I'm in prison for practicing politics.
Speaker: rod blagojevich
About the speaker: Rod Blagojevich served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 until his impeachment, conviction and removal from office in 2009.
Date: May 28, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: ethics
Context: a Wall Street Journal op-ed
Fact-check justification: "I’m in prison for practicing politics," read the headline on the article by the former Illinois governor. Blagojevich and his legal team also made the "politics as usual, nothing to see here" argument during his trials, but such claims were soundly rejected by federal jurors. Over two trials, they convicted him of multiple criminal counts stemming from his conduct in office. Much of the  presented at those trials stemmed from court-ordered wiretaps on which Blagojevich was heard scheming to carry out the very crimes for which he was convicted. Blagojevich was contrite about his actions at his sentencing, appearing to own up to misdeeds. Now, in playing the victim card, he is attempting to take that all back. But Blagojevich’s own words and deeds proved his undoing. Illinois has certainly suffered its share of public corruption, and skepticism about politicians abounds. But Blagojevich’s "everybody does it" argument seems an over-the-top exercise in desperation and self-pity. We give his claims our lowest credibility rating, !