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Statement: Says he lived in a colonia while working as a farm worker.
Speaker: david alameel
About the speaker: David Alameel, a dentist-turned-investor, was the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Texas in 2014.
Date: June 28, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;candidate biography;poverty
Context: his speech at the state convention of the Texas Democratic Party
Fact-check justification: Alameel told Democrats he once lived in a colonia . Not so. Alameel resided for a couple of years in a low-income Oxnard, Calif., neighborhood called La Colonia. By his account, though, that home had basic services like water and utility lines that are often absent from houses in Texas colonias . We rate this statement as .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Russian President Vladimir Putin "calls me brilliant.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: September 7, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: NBC's Commander-in-Chief Forum
Fact-check justification: Trump said Putin "calls me brilliant." This is an imprecise translation of Putin’s actual comments. The word he used was "yarkii," which means "bright" as in vivid or colorful, not intelligent or clever. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Just in: 45 states just banned Sharia law
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 6, 2018
Topics: fake news;legal issues;religion;states;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: In reality the practice of using foreign law in state courts is not uncommon and generally not controversial, experts told PolitiFact Florida in 2014. For example, parties in international contracts frequently agree to apply a specific foreign country’s law to govern their agreements. A headline said that "45 states just banned Sharia law," but the story itself contained no information about any such state bans. While there have been some states that have enacted legislation to ban the use of foreign law, at least in some circumstances, it’s a gross exaggeration to say that the majority of states have banned Sharia law. We rate this  .
Statement: The president of the United States already has the legal authority to reduce the price of many commonly used prescription drugs.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: January 26, 2020
Topics: health care;health check
Context: Davenport, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Warren said, ""The president of the United States already has the legal authority to reduce the price of many commonly used prescription drugs." Multiple presidential candidates have talked about ways to bring down drug prices without new legislation. We focused on Warren’s argument: that the president already has this legal authority for many drugs, and that the power stems from Section 1498 and the march-in rights provision of a 1980 law. On these points, she is on firm ground.y Legal experts agreed that laws on the books do, in some cases, give the president that executive power ― and the cases Warren outlined are viable candidates, especially for "compulsory licensing." The same experts also pointed out that even with this authority, the politics and logistics could be tricky, and that using these mechanisms wouldn’t address the entire drug pricing issue. We rate this statement .
Statement: A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay.
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: October 9, 2007
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Dearborn, Mich
Fact-check justification: But a company spokeswoman couldn't say where that number came from, either. These days, the company only keeps track of eBay entrepreneurs worldwide. That number, based on a 2006 Nielsen study, is estimated at 1.3-million. But again, it doesn't distinguish between full-time and part-time on-line auctioneers. The bottom line: Lots of people make money on eBay, but how many depend on it to pay their bills remains unclear.
Statement: Says "half the Americans don't pay any income taxes.
Speaker: scott garrett
About the speaker: Since January 2003, Scott Garrett, a Republican, has represented New Jersey's 5th Congressional District, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties. Prior to joining Congress, Garrett served in the New Jersey Assembly between 1990 and 2002.
Date: February 15, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: In a radio interview, Garrett claimed "half the Americans don’t pay any income taxes." That  is backed up by research from two nonpartisan groups -- the Tax Policy Center and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Both groups have estimated that about half of all American households did not owe federal income taxes in recent years. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve.
Speaker: pete gallego
About the speaker: Pete Gallego, initially elected to the Texas House in 1990, won election to the U.S. House in November 2012. He lost his re-election bid in 2014. In July 2018, he ran in a special election to represent Texas Senate District 19.
Date: April 2, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: small business;voting record
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: Gallego said Hurd recently "quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve." Hurd, who separately had two other committee assignments, quit the small-business panel stressing his desire to focus on security-related subcommittee assignments. Gallego’s statement, leaving the impression Hurd said he lacked time to serve, left out important details. We rate his  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the '60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971.
Speaker: andrew yang
About the speaker: Andrew Yang filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board Dec. 23 which allows him to explore a bid for mayor in 2021. Yang is an entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America New York. Yang received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 2017, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in February 2020.
Date: September 21, 2019
Location: national
Topics: economy;history
Context: Iowa Steak Fry speech
Fact-check justification: Paine supported a one-time payment to all individuals when they reached 21 and a version of today’s Social Security program. King advocated for a guaranteed minimum income. The House passed something close to universal basic income once in 1970 and once in 1971, not twice in 1971. Overall, Yang’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Drunk" Nancy Pelosi "was removed from the House floor for cursing at Republicans.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 8, 2020
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The sergeant at arms — the House’s principal law enforcement official , charged with maintaining security on the floor and for the House side of the Capitol complex — is not Joe Barron. The person in that position, notable for shouting out an introduction of the president at the annual State of the Union address, has been Paul Irving , since 2012.   Internet searches show that the post was originally published as satire on the website Busta Troll in April 2020. Since January 2019, we’ve fact-checked similar Pelosi-drunk-in-public claims, rating them  ,  ,  and  . Same rating here: .
Statement: We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: January 11, 2017
Topics: global news service;federal budget;crime;foreign policy
Context: a Senate confirmation hearing
Fact-check justification: Paul said that 70 percent of foreign aid is "stolen off the top." Paul’s office was unable to point to a study that backed that up for all American aid, and experts who study the issue knew of no such estimate. While theft is real, and possibly extreme on individual projects, it is not on the scale Paul asserted. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c2956347-4ba9-4b1b-a0a9-2794c2448aa9
Statement: We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015.
Speaker: david axelrod
About the speaker: David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. He is now an analyst for NBC News.
Date: July 11, 2010
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;this week - abc news
Context: ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: The 2 percent was a production number. The 40 percent is a capacity number. It remains to be seen how much of that capacity will be utilized. But most market analysts predict that the U.S. share of the advanced battery market -- actual sales of advanced batteries -- will be much lower than 40 percent. We rate Axelrod's comment .
Statement: Says Gen. David H. Berger said, "No mandatory vaccinations for my Marines.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 10, 2021
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: And Berger has endorsed having Marines get vaccinated.   In December, he posted a photo of himself receiving a vaccine.   "It was great to see many frontline medical workers getting their shot as well," he tweeted . As the vaccine becomes available, I encourage all Marines and their families to get the shot to slow the spread of the virus. "  We rate this post !
Statement: In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama "missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes." In 2004, John Kerry missed "close to 60 to 70 percent" and Bob Graham missed "over 30 percent of his votes.
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: October 28, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;corrections and updates;voting record
Context: the CNBC GOP presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that Obama "missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes," that Kerry missed "close to 60 to 70 percent" and that Graham missed "over 30 percent of his votes" when they were running for president. Those numbers check out, though Obama’s and Kerry’s numbers were over the course of an election year. Rubio is also correct that the newspaper didn’t call for their resignations. Overall, we rate Rubio’s statement . Correction:  This report has been updated to correct minor math errors in the calculations of voting percentages. Rubio's numbers remain on track, and our rating remains the same.
Statement: The House health care bill provides for "free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: August 28, 2009
Location: national
Topics: abortion;immigration;health care
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: And as in the earlier House bill, there are specific "conscience protections" written into the bill that make it clear doctors could not be discriminated against for opting not to provide abortions. So under the bill, no doctors would be forced to provide abortions. In other words, the  was  when Connelly made it; it's moot now with regard to the House bill; and it's  with regard to the Senate bill. In other words, under no version of the plan then or now is Connelly's statement accurate. And we rate the  .
Statement: Says Nancy Pelosi was photographed with the Manson Family.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 13, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on social media
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post claimed that Pelosi was photographed with the Manson Family in the late 1960s.  The meme circled a woman in the middle back. She has been identified as Mary Brunner, a prominent member of the Manson Family. The photo was taken in 1970. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump "wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.
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: July 5, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: economy;jobs;labor;poverty;states;workers
Context: Charlotte, N.C
Fact-check justification: Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump "wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage." She is right. While Trump has said he personally thinks the minimum wage should be higher, he has also said that it should be up to the states and that the federal government should not set a nation-wide minimum wage at all. We rate this  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/264c6117-44e5-4147-98cb-f1ebb47d86db
Statement: BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi Was Just Taken From Her Office In Handcuffs
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 10, 2017
Location: california
Topics: fake news
Context: a fake news article
Fact-check justification: Pelosi attended a town hall meeting with constituents in San Francisco on March 25, 2017 -- Pelosi called for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, to recuse himself from the panel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election In the end, the  that Pelosi was "just taken from her office in handcuffs" is "total baloney," to use a phrase from TheLastLineOfDefense.org. We rate it .   – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: There are so many data that demonstrate that poor people, surprisingly, are less likely to use drugs than people with means.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: June 19, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: drugs;crime;polls and public opinion;poverty
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Moore said: "There are so many data that demonstrate that poor people, surprisingly, are less likely to use drugs than people with means." The latest federal survey found that a higher percentage of people in poverty had used illicit drugs in the past month than people at higher income levels. Moore didn’t respond to our requests for information to back her statement. If other  available when Moore made her statement surfaces, we will revisit this item. In the meantime, we rate her statement .
Statement: Says Democratic Party created Planned Parenthood
Speaker: stephen martin
About the speaker: Stephen Martin, R-Chesterfield, represents the 11th District in the Virginia Senate. He joined the senate in 1994, after serving in the House of Delegates from 1988 to 1994. Martin is chairman of the Senate Education and Health Committee and also serves on the Local Government, General Laws and Technology, Privileges and Elections, Commerce and Labor, and Rules committees.
In 2000, Martin unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the 7th District congressional seat, losing a close primary to Eric Cantor. In 2013, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Martin was born in Chesterfield County. He is the principal at Martin Financial Services.
 
Date: May 23, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: history;sexuality
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Martin said that Planned Parenthood was created by the Democratic Party. There’s no  to support that . Biographers of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, say she shunned political commitments and was critical of presidents from both parties. Recognizing that Martin has since expressed regret for his words, we rate his statement .
Statement: More women are graduating from college now than men.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: education;women
Context: Kentucky
Fact-check justification: McConnell said that "more women are graduating college now than men." We found that since the early 1990s, women have earned more postsecondary degrees than men -- and in the 2011-12 academic year, women earned more degrees of all types -- bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral -- than men did. We rate this  .
Statement: AARP backed "federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Speaker: association of mature american citizens
About the speaker: The Association of Mature American Citizens was founded in 2007. Its founder, a retired insurance agency owner named Dan Weber, said he created it to counter what he saw as the political bias of the American Association of Retired Persons. Besides acting as a self-proclaimed conservative advocacy group, the organization offers discounts to members from cooperating businesses.
Date: August 29, 2019
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care
Context: a Facebook ad
Fact-check justification: AMAC claims that AARP has backed federal funding for Planned Parenthood. It’s tenuous to say an organization wants to use taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood because it once donated to a law center that supports abortion access in addition to seeking fair pay equity, family tax credits, affirmative action and fighting cuts to Social Security. AARP does not have a published position on abortion, or federal funding for abortion. Its health care advocacy centers on issues relevant to older Americans, like Social Security benefits, prescription drug pricing and elder abuse in nursing facilities.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says first eight chosen to draw Austin City Council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one Republican primary voter.
Speaker: derek ryan
About the speaker: Voter data specialist and former research director for the Republican Party of Texas whose online bio says that before starting his own company to manage and research data for political campaigns, he worked for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and worked on inaugural committees for Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
Date: May 22, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: city government;corrections and updates
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Ryan said the first choices to draw Austin’s council districts are seven Democratic primary voters and one GOP primary voter. Records show that six of the eight members voted in the three Travis County Democratic primaries from 2008 through 2012, and two of the six also voted in the county’s 2006 Democratic primary. One commissioner voted in the 2008 Democratic primary and didn’t vote in any others. One voted in two Democratic primaries and two Republican primaries since 2006. We rate his statement as .   CLARIFICATION, 11:30 am, June 5, 2013: We revised this story to clarify that 70 percent of recent voters in party primaries in Austin cast ballots exclusively in Democratic primaries. The original version said 70 percent of Austinites had recently voted exclusively in those primaries. This revision did not affect our rating of the .
Statement: They're unable to administer vaccines if the lockdown ends because the emergency ends with it.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: March 25, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Social media posts said "they’re unable to administer vaccines if the lockdown ends because the emergency ends with it." That’s  in both the U.S. and the U.K., where emergency approvals were granted to vaccine manufacturers separate from any decisions to impose restrictions meant to thwart the virus. The person behind the original tweet admitted: "I have no idea if this is correct or not." We rate this post .
Statement: Sixty percent of the auto thefts that we have in (St. Petersburg) are caused by people leaving their keys in the car.
Speaker: bill foster
About the speaker: Bill Foster was elected mayor of St. Petersburg in 2009. He is a former St. Petersburg City Council member.
Date: August 14, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: crime
Context: a mayoral forum
Fact-check justification: Foster said that 60 percent of car thefts occur because the owner left keys inside the vehicle. In St. Petersburg this year, it’s actually 83.4 percent. An expert said that might be tops in the country. The specific number aside, Foster’s point that many auto thefts can easily be avoided is 100 percent on the mark. We rate this  .