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Statement: According to Republican Rep. Jeff Shipley, teachers should not receive a pay raise if they teach American history that Republicans don't agree with.
Speaker: iowa house democrats
About the speaker: The Iowa House Democrats include Democrats serving in the Iowa Legislature.
Date: February 10, 2022
Location: iowa
Topics: education;history
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Democrats in the Iowa House accused Shipley of saying teachers should not get pay raises if what they teach doesn’t align with what Republicans want. Shipley says they mischaracterized his House floor comments. The Democrats’ tweet leaves open the suggestion that Shipley would punish teachers for teaching anything Republicans don’t approve of, which would be a stretch of what he talked about on the House floor. But, Shipley made clear that he thinks teachers who veer into teaching that inherent racism exists or tenets of critical race theory should not get raises. We rate the tweet to be .
Statement: Says a tweet he sent out "wasn't saying, 'check out a sex tape.' It was just 'take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
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 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said the tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape’"  but rather to "just take a look at" Machado’s background. That’s . While Trump did urge his Twitter followers to check out Machado’s "past," he literally wrote "check out sex tape" in the tweet. We rate his statement ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c43aeea6-512d-4b14-a42a-80b0955e4504
Statement: Social Security and Medicare are "a Ponzi scheme.
Speaker: carlos curbelo
About the speaker: In 2009, Carlos Curbelo was state director for Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux and was elected to the Miami-Dade school board in 2010. Curbelo, a Republican who lives in Kendall, won the Congressional District 26 seat in 2014 and 2016 and lost re-election in 2018 to Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.
Date: September 18, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: medicare;social security
Context: a speech to a college GOP group
Fact-check justification: Curbelo said that Social Security and Medicare are "a Ponzi scheme." A Ponzi scheme is by definition an illegal crime and an unsustainable set-up that crashes very quickly. Social Security and Medicare, which have been around for decades, are not criminal schemes. Both programs face the massive challenge of fewer workers paying for the benefits of current retirees, and budget experts say Congress could make changes to make them more sustainable in the future -- though many politicians are reluctant to gamble with the support of current senior voters. Curbelo raises a legitimate point about the need for reform, but that’s entirely different than calling these programs "Ponzi schemes." We rate this  .
Statement: Bibles banned in California moves one step closer to evil reality.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 28, 2023
Location: california
Topics: religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Some supporters of the bill pointed to the Bible’s references to homosexuality to  the bill could ban sales of the Bible. The Facebook post’s footage is from Next News Network, and it is the latest example of old footage from that network being misleadingly reshared as if it were current events.   Next News Network is a site the Chicago Tribune reported promotes conspiracies and it was recently demonetized by YouTube. We rate the  that "Bibles banned in California moves one step closer to evil reality" . RELATED: California fact-checks RELATED: Religion fact-checks
Statement: Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.
Speaker: viral buzzfeed
About the speaker: buzzfeed.com
Date: April 20, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: income;jobs;labor;women;workers
Context: video
Fact-check justification: The 78 percent  figure is real, but for culmulative wages.   It does not factor in occupations held, hours worked or length of tenure. And, unlike the video, the Census data never attempted  to compare equal pay for equal work. Using this statistic to illustrate the gender pay-gap is . We rate it .
Statement: The stimulus created "zero jobs.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: October 13, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: jobs;stimulus
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: "  When we asked for proof, the campaign organization provided none. Instead, a spokesman said the ad "clearly" referred to federal unemployment reports -- not the Recovery Act. We don't buy that explanation; the commercial is undoubtedly focused on the stimulus. Not one job anywhere? It’s a   and we rate it, once again, .
Statement: He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps.
Speaker: ralph nader
About the speaker: Ralph Nader, 74, ran for president in 2000 and 2004. Born in Winsted, Conn., in 1934, he graduated from Princeton University with a major in East Asian studies, and earned his law degree from Harvard. After a stint in the Army, he made his name as a consumer advocate with exposes on the auto industry, notably the 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile." He and his activist-disciples, known as "Nader's Raiders," successfully advocated consumer-banking laws, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Freedom of Information Act and a host of other reforms. A bachelor, he still resides in Winsted, though he spends much of his time in Washington, D.C.
Date: June 18, 2008
Location: national
Topics: bush administration;civil rights
Context: a radio interview with Democracy Now!
Fact-check justification: Only three senators — Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and John Kerry, D-Mass. — have co-sponsored Feingold's resolution. It has not moved out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Obama campaign did not respond to requests to clarify his position on this censure proposal. His past comments and his decision not to co-sponsor Feingold's resolution lead us to conclude Nader was correct in saying Obama does not support it. We find Nader's  to be .
Statement: Says Newt Gingrich's contract was with "the lobbyists at Freddie Mac.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: January 24, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification: Romney said Newt Gingrich’s contract was with "the lobbyists at Freddie Mac." Gingrich provided strategic advice, a way of wielding political influence without having to register as a lobbyist. The primary point of contact on the contract was one of Freddie’s lobbyists. We rate Romney’s statement .
Statement: They delayed my swearing-in here in Massachusetts for a couple weeks so they could ram (the health care law) through.
Speaker: scott brown
About the speaker: Scott Brown was elected a Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 2010. He lost re-election in 2012 and subsequently became a political commentator for Fox News. In March 2014, Brown announced that he was considering entering the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire.
Date: November 11, 2013
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Brown said, "They delayed my swearing-in here in Massachusetts for a couple weeks so they could ram (the health care law) through." We never heard back from Brown, but the record is pretty clear on this. His swearing-in wasn’t delayed, and the Senate did not "ram" the health care law through in the time between his election and his taking the oath of office. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Keanu Reeves gave a speech that began, "I cannot be part of a world where men dress their wives as prostitutes by showing everything that should be cherished ...
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 26, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: Maisel told us she had the entire fan page removed from Facebook. It wouldn’t be the first time a famous person was misquoted on the Internet , of course. And Reeves knows a little something about being on the Internet . But he wasn’t The One who made this protracted speech. We rate this statement !
Statement: There were "$2 billion in earmarks in fiscal year 2012.
Speaker: karl king
About the speaker: "I have no background in politics, no special interest groups that I am beholden to, no personal wealth to fund my campaign, and no party line that I am expected to tow," King says on his website. He hopes to take on Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OR.
Date: October 15, 2013
Location: oregon
Context: a website statement
Fact-check justification: News outlets have tackled the question of earmarks and whether, in varying forms, they continue to exist even after the congressional ban. If a large appropriations bill ultimately directs millions to a dam and locks project in Kentucky, for instance, is that an earmark? It may not fit the definitions of the Office of Management and Budget or the Congressional Research Service, but groups such as Citizens Against Government Waste might say yes. Because of that, if we were strictly rating the figure in the Pig Book, we might find an element of . But because King cited "2 billion dollars in earmarks in fiscal year 2012" -- not the $3.3 billion -- and because he offered with no sourcing for his figure, we find his statement .
Statement: Embryonic stem cell research is at a "dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment.
Speaker: dave weldon
About the speaker: Dave Weldon is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who is running for the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 23, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: health care;message machine 2012;science
Context: a mock debate
Fact-check justification: Weldon’s synopsis of embryonic stem cell research as at a scientific "dead end" does not appear to be widely shared by scientists. Research is ongoing, and scientists say it’s too early to call it quits on a discovery made in 1998. Weldon’s second point about there being "no one good successful treatment" from embryonic stem cell research is accurate, though scientists say it is premature and unrealistic given the field’s bureaucratic constraints. On the whole, we rate this statement .
Statement: In the U.S., "African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites" on marijuana charges.
Speaker: naacp
About the speaker: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date: March 3, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: civil rights;criminal justice;drugs;crime;marijuana
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The NAACP New England Area Conference said "African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites" on marijuana charges. The group accurately cited a nationwide study that used a widely accepted data source, and a similar study done a few years earlier found almost the same disparity. We find the statement  . ( If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Russian President Vladimir Putin "intercepts adrenochrome shipment headed to United States.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 8, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: It cites as its source a Russian Federal Security Service agent. We found no credible news reports or other sources to corroborate the claims in this post.   Real Raw News has a disclaimer saying it contains "humor, parody and satire," though the author has defended his stories as . The website also regularly publishes , fantastical stories authored by someone using a pseudonym. We rate this baseless post !
Statement: Says some in Congress are trying "to create a separate government for those with a drop of Native Hawaiian blood.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: November 2, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: legal issues;race and ethnicity
Context: a book
Fact-check justification: In a Dec. 7 letter to Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. senators, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reiterated its 2006 opposition to the Akaka measure or any legislation that would "discriminate on the basis of race or national origin and further subdivide the American people into discrete subgroups accorded varying degrees of privilege." So how does Perry's Google-it statement shake out? The proposal would authorize a separate government for Native Hawaiians, one that proponents say would give the group the same right to self-governance extended to other indigenous people. However, the legislation doesn't specify ancestry requirements — drops of blood or otherwise — for those who would ultimately be represented by the proposed government. We rate his statement .
Statement: Video shows paratroopers crashing in Uganda.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 25, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Uganda did celebrate Independence Day on Oct. 9, marking 60 years since its independence from the British Empire in 1962. But this video doesn’t show a botched display by paratroopers there.   Rather, the paratroopers were trying to land in José de la Paz Herrera Uclés stadium in Honduras for a celebration of the country’s 201st Independence Day on Sept. 15. Strong winds were blamed for blowing the paratroopers off course.   We rate claims that this happened in Honduras .
Statement: The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government.
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: January 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: Boca Raton
Fact-check justification: The Tax Foundation provides an accurate overall average. And the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities accurately says that figure overstates the impact on an average American. Bottom line, it's  a debate over the term average. Had he said "Americans on average are paying ...," Huckabee would have been on more solid ground than "the average American is paying..." You follow? We can only give him a .
Statement: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome "is absolutely a side effect of vaccination.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 29, 2021
Topics: children;public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: "In addition to providing vital protection against infectious diseases," Li said, "infant immunization coverage contributes significantly to reducing SIDS." Our ruling  An Instagram post claimed that SIDS "is ABSOLUTELY a side effect of vaccination." The causes of SIDS aren’t known.   Scientific studies and analyses have consistently shown that there is no causal relationship between vaccines and SIDS, and that receiving recommended immunizations can lower an infant’s risk of SIDS.   We rate this  .
Statement: Property taxes "are now 18% higher than when (Mark Sharpe) first took office.
Speaker: josh burgin
About the speaker: Josh Burgin, 34, of Plant City is making his first run for office in seeking the Republican nomination for an at-large seat on the Hillsborough County commission. Burgin previously served as a state legislative aide, a county commissioner's aide and taught American history and English in Russia.  
Date: August 20, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: Fraud is a serious charge to level at anyone, even though some politicians tends to toss the word at opponents rather casually. Burgin has done it at least four times so far this campaign. But before accusing someone of an intentional perversion of the , it’s probably good to double- and triple-check the basis of your . We have no way of knowing if Burgin’s  was an intentional distortion or an innocent miscalculation. Either way, we find this statement to be .
Statement: And while (Ted) Strickland proposed cuts for services for children, he wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governor's mansion.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: August 18, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: candidate biography;economy
Context: "Flush," a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: An ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee says that while governor, Strickland "proposed cuts for services for children" and "wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governor’s mansion." Strickland did propose budget cuts in the midst of the national economic downturn, many of which affected services for low-income families. But the ad suggests that the money used to renovate the restrooms at the governor’s residence could have been used to fund those services. In reality, the funding sources -- the Americans with Disabilities Act, and residence-specific dollars reserved by Strickland’s predecessor -- would not have been available for shoring up programs affected by budget cuts. The ad calls the bathrooms "his," as in Strickland’s. But they weren’t -- they were for public visitors of the governor’s residence and surrounding property. The ad flushes the facts, so we rate it ! https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/db8e211a-122c-49d7-a5ad-4d0ead6b78e4
Statement: Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college.
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: July 23, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: children;education;lgbtq;marriage
Context: a speech at Catholic University
Fact-check justification: Rubio said, "Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college." Rubio was citing a research brief that looked at a survey of 11 different measures of fathers’ involvement with their children and whether the children graduated from college. But when Rubio used the word "makes" he implied that having an active father causes their children to graduate from college, and the research doesn’t prove causation. Other researchers said there could be other reasons for the disparities in college graduation. Rubio’s statement requires further explanation and relies on one piece of research only. We rate this statement .
Statement: When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None.
Speaker: jimmy carter
About the speaker: Jimmy Carter was elected president of the United States in 1976 and served one term. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The native of Plains, Georgia was submarine commander, peanut farmer, state senator and Georgia governor. 
Date: February 21, 2013
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan
Fact-check justification: Carter said on CNN that when he ran against Ford in 1976, "you know how much money we raised? None." Carter is correct that, like every presidential candidate until Obama in 2008, he did not raise money for his own campaign committee for the general election, opting instead for federal funding that came with some strings. However, he  slightly by suggesting that he and his campaign raised no money during their general-election campaign against Ford. In fact, they did help raise money for the DNC, a compliance fund and for down-ballot candidates. We rate his statement .
Statement: India has nearly 1.4 billion citizens. Nearly 800 million of them live in extreme poverty — less than $1.90 per day. Yet EVERY singly (sic) Indian citizen is required to have a valid form of ID to vote in national elections.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 12, 2022
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: India has a national voter ID requirement, but the post leaves out important context about voting in the U.S. and India. In India, before casting a vote, citizens must enroll as new voters and be included on electoral lists. Reports have indicated that people are not always added to the rolls when they register, and others are removed from the rolls without explanation. In the U.S., most states have an ID requirement for voting, and the rest require some type of identifying information. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy.
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: January 28, 2008
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq
Context: an automated call to voters
Fact-check justification: As with our previous ruling on this same attack, we find it . McCain is right that Romney promised to be more supportive of gay rights than Kennedy had been, but he loses some points by using the term "special rights." What Romney actually advocated was equality for gay and lesbian Americans; nothing "special." Yes, it's a small point. But for a politician like McCain, who took such grief over the misuse by his opponents of the term "amnesty" to describe his proposal for illegal immigrants, it's reasonable to expect a little more precision.