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Statement: I am now the No. 2 member of this House in terms of length of service.
Speaker: william g. batchelder
About the speaker: William G. Batchelder is speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He represents the 69th House District, which encompasses most of Medina County.
Date: January 7, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: public service
Context: a speech on the House floor
Fact-check justification: He first ran successfully for the House in 1980. Batchelder, who left the House for a judgeship in 1999, now has served for more than 35 years. He has never served in the Senate. Term limits will prevent him from seeking another House term in 2014. And on the -O-Meter, his  about ranking No. 2 for length of service in the Ohio House rates as .
Statement: 4.7 million people have lost their insurance in 32 states" due to Obamacare.
Speaker: dana loesch
About the speaker: In 2017, Dana Loesch became an NRA spokeswoman. Loesch is a conservative talk show host and commentator. She broadcasts from Dallas, Texas.
Date: November 13, 2014
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
Fact-check justification: Loesch said that 4.7 million people have lost their health insurance due to Obamacare. That number matches one cited by the Associated Press based on preliminary estimates and incomplete data. The best estimate from independent researchers is that perhaps 2.6 million people received notices that their health care insurance policies were being canceled. However, Loesch spoke as if these people, whatever their number, did not find replacement coverage. In reality, fewer than 1 million people who had been part of the individual insurance market ended up with no coverage at all. Given the constant churn in that market, it is unlikely that the Affordable Care Act caused all of them to be without health insurance. Loesch’s number is off, both in terms of the cancellations and what people did afterward. Still, the new law did hurt some people. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney plans to "fire" Big Bird.
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: October 8, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: federal budget
Context: Derry, NH
Fact-check justification: Romney has been clear that his plan for PBS is not specific to Big Bird (nor to Jim Lehrer for that matter). He simply wants to end federal subsidies. It's a  stretch to equate that with firing the 8-foot-2 yellow bird. Just as Democrats have scared senior citizens about losing Medicare, they are now scaring preschoolers about losing Big Bird. !
Statement: Uncompensated care has "gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months" of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.
Speaker: george barker
About the speaker: George L. Barker was first elected to the Virginia Senate in 2007.  Prior to his election, he had been active in a number of civic and community organizations.  
Barker has two degrees from Harvard University, receiving undergraduate honors in Economics and Public Health and a master's in Health Policy and Management.  For three decades he worked for the Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia.  He currently consults on health care issues.
Barker and his wife reside in Clifton.  They have two grown children and were foster parents to 13 children. 
 
Date: July 26, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: medicaid;state budget
Context: statement
Fact-check justification: Barker said hospitals in states with Medicaid expansion have already benefited from a 30 percent drop in uncompensated care. The  is based on the first three months after Medicaid expansion took effect and from a few sources. It’s early, but he accurately reported the results. The statement is .
Statement: A Ukrainian tank uses a house as camouflage.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 5, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: an Instagram reel
Fact-check justification: An October 2020 article from the news outlet RBC-Ukraine said the car was decorated to look like a Ukrainian village house. The car motor was hidden, and the driver’s seat was built into the floor. Side mirrors that would normally be on a car were replaced with cameras inside the structure, RBC-Ukraine reported. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, there have been numerous  and  claims about the war and both countries’ military units. We rate the  that a Ukrainian tank is using a house as camouflage .
Statement: So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: January 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: But Senate Democrats, facing a veto threat from the White House and opposition from oil-state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, did not succeed in rolling back oil and gas industry tax breaks to pay for $21.5-billion in incentives for alternative energies such as solar and wind. Obama voted for the bill, too. Rolling back tax breaks for the oil and gas industry in this Congress, and with this administration, is as likely as winning big in Vegas. Clinton's best chance will come if and when she moves into the Oval Office. And despite being right when it comes to the 2005 Energy Policy Act's treatment of the oil and gas industry, we find her assessment of its impact on renewable energy .
Statement: Says the New Year's Day "fiscal cliff" deal "reduces the deficit.
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: January 1, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: congress;deficit;federal budget;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: How then, how does Brown’s  rate for accuracy? Based on the CBO’s analysis, he was  -- if you use the baseline built on the old law and an assumption that every single tax cut would end and the sequester would kick in as scheduled. But Brown was right if you use the CBO’s alternative analysis. If you were gambling, you’d probably bet somewhere in the middle, which in a way is what Congress did. On the -O-Meter, Brown’s  rates .
Statement: Video shows Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian helicopters.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 29, 2022
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Using keyword searches we found the same video on YouTube , which described the scene as a simulation from Arma 3, a military tactical shooter video game that’s been used several times in  claims about the fighting in Ukraine.   The same Facebook account posted another video  titled "Rus_sian Helicopter Convoy firing at U_kraine Military Base." It, too, is from the same game and doesn’t depict real-life combat. We rate these posts .  UPDATE , June 7, 2022: We updated this fact-check to include another Facebook video misrepresenting video game footage.
Statement: The Affordable Care Act "will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: June 28, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: financial regulation;health care;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: It would have to grow more than 10 fold to match the wartime tax increase from 1942. It would have to nearly double just to match the 1982 increase under Reagan. And that still wouldn’t crack the top 5 since 1940. They are so far from the largest that it is not now possible, much less "likely," that they will "go down as the biggest tax increase in history." On the -O-Meter, Mandel’s  rates .
Statement: For "the past year, I was censored" and muzzled.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: January 14, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: congress;ethics
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: Paul said he was censored and muzzled for the year after he left the House. That's not factually supported. Far as we could tell, in contrast, Paul freely voiced his views on issues in most every way possible during the year, though he was barred, as a former member, from directly lobbying lawmakers. We rate this  as .
Statement: Border guards found 52 tons of guns and ammunition in 14 Conex containers disguised as furniture. This 'furniture' is from Muslim immigrants who have come to America
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: April 15, 2019
Topics: immigration;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The ship sailed from a port in Turkey near the Syrian border and was intercepted near Crete. "Greek media reportedly suggested that an offshoot of Islamic State, based in the nearby city of Sirte, was to be the final recipient," the story says. "But the Turkish government claimed the weapons were destined for the Sudanese police force and were fully documented." According to a 2015 Reuters story , a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said the ship was also carrying building materials for Libya. We rate this Facebook post as .
Statement: Tammy Baldwin wants to take away" Medicare and Social Security.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: February 21, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;medicare;social security;workers
Context: YouTube ad
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Senatorial Committee claimed Baldwin "wants to take away" Social Security and Medicare.  Baldwin’s record shows that she has supported expanding the programs. Baldwin did support the American Rescue Plan Act, which had the potential to cut the Medicare program. But, she also co-sponsored additional legislation to avoid the impact on recipients.  We rate this  .
Statement: Cocaine, porn, evidence of child trafficking found in (Gov. Gretchen) Whitmer's car.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: June 3, 2023
Location: michigan
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a TikTok post
Fact-check justification: However, there are no credible news reports or press releases about such an arrest. No criminal charges appear against Whitmer in PACER , a database of federal court records. And the governor appears to be living her life unaffected by the supposed political and legal scandal described by Real Raw News.   On June 7, she signed legislation aimed at reducing distracted driving, and on June 9, she welcomed singer Taylor Swift to Michigan, where Swift is performing over the weekend.   We rate this post !
Statement: Sen. Sherrod Brown's vote helped pass "Barack Obama's job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: April 4, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Plenty of people dislike the Affordable Care Act. That is a fact. Brown voted for it, and that’s a fact, too. But to pick a national number and apply it to one segment of one state is not accurate and is simply . On the -O-Meter,  claims get a rating of !
Statement: John McCain has "a consistent pattern of ducking important environmental votes.
Speaker: sierra club
About the speaker: Sierra Club is a grassroots environmental organization.
Date: February 23, 2008
Location: national
Topics: environment
Context: a letter from Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope to supporters
Fact-check justification: Indeed, McCain did miss 15 important environmental votes in 2007, while running for president. He also missed five environmental votes scored by the League in 1999, during his prior bid for the White House. But those years excepted, McCain has missed only three of 212 votes scored by the League since McCain's first year in the Senate, 1987. That's not a consistent pattern. The Sierra Club's charge, therefore, is .
Statement: Says Joe Biden and Gretchen Whitmer were maskless at the Detroit Athletic Club "while OUR children are being mandated to wear a mask while playing outdoor sports.
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: September 10, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Athletic Club shut down on March 16.   On April 24, more than a month after Biden’s campaign rally, Whitmer signed an executive order requiring people to wear face coverings in enclosed public spaces.    On Sept. 9, the same day that Archer posted the fundraiser photo from March, Whitmer signed an executive order requiring face coverings be worn by "athletes training for, practicing for, or competing in organized sports when the athlete cannot maintain 6 feet of social distance, except for occasional and fleeting moments." The order doesn’t apply to swimmers and athletes playing professional sports.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says "6 percent more Republicans across the state voted than Democrats.
Speaker: bob tiernan
About the speaker: Bob Tiernan was elected as chairman of the Oregon Republican Party in January 2009. He served in the Oregon House from 193 to 1997. He was sponsor of three Oregon ballot measures: Measure 11, mandatory sentences; Measure 8, pension reform; and Measure 17, prison work.
He is president of  Tiernan and Associates and owner of  the new PayLess Drug.
Tiernan has a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University, a law degree from Seattle University School of Law and an  LLM from Georgetown University Law School.
Date: November 4, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: voting record
Context: a radio show
Fact-check justification: We spoke with Greg Leo, the spokesman for the Oregon Republican Party, and he told us that Tiernan was referring to the return rates within each party, not overall. So, back to the ruling. Tiernan is right, the Republicans did have a stronger turnout if you’re talking party proportions. But he didn’t make it exactly clear what he meant in his guest spot on "Think Out Loud," and certainly listeners could have come away a bit confused, thinking more Republicans had voted than Democrats. So, we’ll split the difference and call this one .   Comment on this item.
Statement: The Democrat-controlled Senate, it hasn't passed a budget in more than 1,000 days.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a video address
Fact-check justification: In these latter three cases, the Republicans were in the majority in both chambers of Congress. Those facts lend perspective to Boehner’s statement. But on its face, Boehner’s statement is accurate. And it is more precisely worded than those that we’ve previously checked. On the -O-Meter, it rates .
Statement: 29 states still don't have "comprehensive protections" for people in the LGBTQ community.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: March 12, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;human rights;lgbtq;states
Context: a podcast
Fact-check justification: "But, if you live in Texas or Oklahoma or Florida, or the many other states without these state statutes, you are not protected under state law from discrimination (based on) sexual orientation or gender identity under these state statutes. "The Equality Act would benefit all LGBTQ people across the country but it would be especially beneficial to those living in states without state level protections."    Our rating Baldwin claimed 29 states don’t have comprehensive protections for LGBTQ people. The number is on the money, based on our conversation with Romero and other researched data on state statutes. We rate Baldwin’s  .
Statement: 70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All.
Speaker: alexandria ocasio-cortez
About the speaker: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, was elected to New York's 14th Congressional district seat in November 2018.
Date: February 5, 2019
Location: new york
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Ocasio-Cortez said, "70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All." Judged against whether the public supports the idea of Medicare for All as a full replacement of other health insurance, only one poll shows support as high as Ocasio-Cortez said. A benchmark poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation put support at 56 percent, and support fell dramatically when pollsters raised potential downsides. Another survey, of less certain quality, had support at 36 percent. Enthusiasm for expanding Medicare to people over 50 reaches into the high 70s, but that approach wouldn’t fit the definition of Medicare for All. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Officer Derek Chauvin's knee was "not on neck of George Floyd.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 8, 2021
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said video proved that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s shoulder, not his neck. The video was taken only in the last seconds of Chauvin restraining Floyd, and does not show what occurred before. All testimony based on the full video showed that pressure was applied continuously on or near Floyd’s neck. Medical experts say that pressure in that area blocks the flow of oxygen and blood. We rate this  .
Statement: Tony Evers is cutting child support.
Speaker: dale kooyenga
About the speaker: Dale Kooyenga, born February 12, 1979, was elected as a Republican in the fall of 2010 to represent the 14th District for the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was re-elected in 2012. He lives in Brookfield in suburban Milwaukee. Kooyenga, an accountant, is part of the so-called "CPA Caucus" in the Assembly. He is a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq War and earned a Bronze Star for his service, his official bio states.
Date: April 12, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;medicaid;welfare
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Kooyenga said "Tony Evers is cutting child support." Evers’ budget does seek to eliminate the state’s birth cost recovery program. And, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the hole that leaves in the budget would exceed additional money included by Evers for local child support enforcement agencies. Kooyenga’s statement was overbroad in that it suggests Evers is advocating a reduction in support paid to children by non-custodial parents. But with less money available for enforcement, it could indirectly reduce the amount collected from court-ordered judgements. We rate Kooyenga’s  .
Statement: The House budget plan proposes "the largest discretionary spending cut in history.
Speaker: bob goodlatte
About the speaker: Bob Goodlatte, a Republican, was first elected to Congress in 1993. He represents Virginia's 6th District, centered in Roanoke.
He is currently the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the vice chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.
Goodlatte earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, in 1977. His undergraduate degree in government was earned at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1974.
Date: February 25, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: federal budget;history
Context: a column
Fact-check justification: In terms of raw numbers, Goodlatte is correct. The closest Congress came to that number was about a $38.5 reduction in 1946 and about a $21 billion lop the following year. But the magnitude of those post-war cuts, when adjusted for inflation and the percentage of non-discretionary spending they represented at the time, far outstrips this year’s House proposal. Goodlatte’s statement is accurate but benefits from clarification. We rate it .