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Statement: Says his executive order requiring young girls to be vaccinated against HPV wasn't mandatory.
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: January 29, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: families;health care
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Just because there's a loophole — a way to "say no," in the governor's parlance — doesn't mean the requirement doesn't exist. Physical education classes are also mandatory to graduate high school, but if you have any number of health conditions, you can skip the timed mile. We rate Perry'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: You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists.
Speaker: dick cheney
About the speaker: Dick Cheney served as Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush.
Date: May 21, 2009
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: a speech at the American Enterprise Institute
Fact-check justification: There has been no information publicly released that any other terror suspects have been subjected to waterboarding. "We only know of those three being waterboarded," said Joanne Mariner, a counterterrorism expert with Human Rights Watch. "That's all that's on the public record." In short, Cheney is on solid ground with this statistic. We rate his statement .
Statement: Under the Democratic health plan, families "will be forced to spend an additional $2,100 a year to keep their current health care.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: November 30, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: It also does not account for the fact that the government would require individual policies to include better (more) coverage. And so we rule Pence's statement . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f1db323b-6621-4343-a2e4-27037bc8f860
Statement: The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes.
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: October 30, 2007
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: Philadelphia
Fact-check justification: By 2006, 3.5-million taxpayers fell under the AMT, which equates to about 4 percent of American taxpayers, according to the Congressional Research Service. That brought in $24-billion in taxes. But that was with a "patch" by Congress that limited how many taxpayers are affected. Without a change for 2007, 23.4-million taxpayers are going to be paying the AMT, sending $70-billion to the federal government, according to an estimate by the Tax Policy Center, a joint effort by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. Policymakers have been talking for years about changing the formula that triggers the AMT so that it only catches the very wealthiest taxpayers, but so far the rewrite hasn't happened.
Statement: Eric Cantor "voted to fully fund Obamacare in October.
Speaker: dave brat
About the speaker: Dave Brat represents Virginia's 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected to the seat in 2014 after pulling of a stunning upset of Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican Primary. He is active in the Freedom Caucus, a conservative wing of Republican congressmen.
Prior to Congress, Brat was chairman of the business and economics department at Randolph-Macon College. 
Brat, a midwestern native, has obtained a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in economics from American University. He began teaching at Randolph-Macon in 1996.
Brat served two Governors on the Joint Advisory Board of Economists. He was president of the Virginia Association of Economists.
Date: May 9, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;voting record
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Brat’s says Cantor voted to "fully fund Obamacare" last October. He’s referring to a temporary appropriations bill that Cantor supported and Congress passed to end a 16-day government shutdown. The measure guaranteed continued funding for discretionary programs that rely on annual congressional appropriations, including defense and education. But Obamacare was only marginally affected by the shutdown and the bill Cantor backed. That’s because only about 10 percent of its costs are subject to appropriations by Congress. The bill Cantor supported to end the shutdown, among many other things, topped off the ACA’s funding tank. What Brat omits is that 90 percent of Obamacare remained funded throughout the shutdown and was unaffected by the bill Cantor backed. The legislation that mandated funding for the bulk of Obamacare was approved by the House in March 2010; Cantor voted against it and has repeatedly tried to repeal the measure.   So Brat’s statement has an element of , but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, We rate it .
Statement: Other states have considered or have sunset advisory commissions; the federal government has the ability, too.
Speaker: bruce starr
About the speaker: Bruce Starr is a state senator in the Oregon Legislature. He was elected to the House in 2002 and re-elected in 2006 before running for the Senate. He owned a construction business, has worked for the Portland Business Alliance and now runs a business,  Cutting Edge NW, advising companies on public affairs strategies. He also previously served on the Hillsboro City Council.
Date: February 16, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: state budget
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: The ability to review specific spending every few years isn’t the same thing as a broad-based commission with the power to kill agencies. Starr acknowledged as much in an interview with PolitiFact Oregon. His language on the floor was a little foggy and he clarified his comments in an interview. We don’t find this to be a significant piece of missing information, but feel readers should know the difference. We find the statement .
Statement: Says Marco Rubio tweeted a verse from the New Testament to shame "his own constituents for flocking to Trump rally.
Speaker: verified politics
About the speaker: Verified Politics is a website founded in 2017.
Date: December 9, 2017
Topics: religion;punditfact
Context: an article on a website
Fact-check justification: Founded in 2017, Verified Politics describes itself as a political news website that it is for readers who are tired of  news. We emailed the website and asked if they had any  that Rubio tweeted a New Testament verse to shame his own constituents for flocking to a Trump rally, and we did not get a response. Rubio, a regular at Sunday mass, provided no explanation for his tweet so it’s merely speculation to conclude that his point was commentary on Trump’s Pensacola rally the previous night. The verse from Matthew that Rubio tweeted was part of the daily Mass for that Sunday. We rate this  .
Statement: Says when he was governor, "we expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: April 4, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: children;education
Context: a policy paper
Fact-check justification: Kaine claimed that he was part of expanding participation in early childhood programs in Virginia by nearly 40 percent. The numbers confirm that. We rate Kaine’s statement .
Statement: Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world, it still wouldn't add up to enough needed to pay down our nation's debt.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: January 9, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: debt
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: And pricing that 335.3 million ounces total by $2,280, the market’s 20-year high  from March 2008, the total ($764.484 billion) would still fall more than $15 trillion short. Our ruling: There are no formal counts of platinum production dating back before 1975, but based on recent records and historical accounts, there is no  to suggest the value of the world’s total platinum supply comes within reach of the national debt. Records from Johnson Matthey PLC, an industry leader, show that 167.65 million troy ounces were supplied between 1975-2012, and historical records indicate that number far exceeds the amount mined in the years prior. Even by the most generous counts, the total value of the the world’s platinum supply is only a fraction of the national debt. We rate this  .
Statement: Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.
Speaker: j.d. vance
About the speaker: J.D. Vance won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 2022. He has also worked as an investor, commentator, and bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy. 
Date: September 4, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: corrections and updates;criminal justice;race and ethnicity
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Vance said, "Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow." Ryan said in a 2019 town hall that he believes today’s criminal justice system is "racist," and he compared it to Jim Crow laws. Ryan’s remarks addressed criminal laws, prosecutions and sentencing. But he did not mention police specifically in relation to Jim Crow laws. Vance’s comment presented a specific pairing — the police and Jim Crow — that Ryan did not make.  We rate the statement . Update, Sept. 9, 2022 : Following publication, Vance’s campaign emailed PolitiFact with additional information. The story has been updated to reflect the campaign’s position. The rating is unchanged.
Statement: Trump's plan "would suspend the 7.65% your employer matches. See? You will NOT get that, nor will your wage or salary increase by 7.65%
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 9, 2020
Topics: social security;taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims, Trump’s plan "would suspend the 7.65% your employer matches. See? You will NOT get that, nor will your wage or salary increase by 7.65%" The employer and employee payroll tax contributions are already separate, and the government already had deferred employer payment until the end of 2020. Trump’s action applies to the employee contribution, and it’s yet unknown if that deferral will reach the pockets of employees and when. We rate this post .
Statement: Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy "have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker: jonah goldberg
About the speaker: Jonah Goldberg is a senior editor for National Review, a nationally syndicated columnist, a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a member of the board of contributors to USA Today, and a contributor to Fox News. He was the founding editor of National Review Online.
 
Date: February 13, 2015
Topics: corrections and updates;health care;punditfact
Context: "National Review"
Fact-check justification: Goldberg wrote that homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy "have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act." The law does provide a leg up for alternative therapies (although it’s unclear whether homeopathy and aromatherapy would ultimately benefit). In practice, though, it’s important not to oversell the impact. Most of the provisions in question are modest, and the one with potentially the biggest impact has been curbed by a subsequent guidance from HHS. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: You will be 'vaccinated' regardless of whether you receive the shot or not.
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: May 26, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: post on Instagram
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that "you can be 'vaccinated' regardless of whether you receive the shot or not." That’s . The only way to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is to receive a vaccine. It is biologically impossible for COVID-19 vaccines to result in virus shedding that will expose others to the virus, let alone in a way that would give unvaccinated people immunity.  We rate this  .
Statement: Half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can't read their diploma.
Speaker: tommy tuberville
About the speaker: Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, in his first run for public office, became the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama in the 2020 election. He was elected to the U.S. Senate later that year.
Date: March 2, 2023
Topics: education
Context: a speech at the CPAC conference
Fact-check justification: Tuberville said, "Half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can’t read their diploma." Data shows that as many as two-thirds of American high school graduates have underdeveloped reading skills, measured by common standards for their grade level.  But the people in this category are not so functionally illiterate that they cannot read a diploma, which requires far less skill than what grade-level assessments are testing.  Experts say the percentage of young Americans who are truly functionally illiterate is far smaller than 50%. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children.
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: June 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: families
Context: a speech at a Chicago church
Fact-check justification: But solid research has shown that growing up in a single-family household, even if other factors are controlled, has a negative effect. "I think there are very few social scientists these days who wouldn't agree that children in single-parent households are at risk of a variety of bad outcomes and that family structure has some causal impact on that risk," she wrote. Obama's premise that the absence of fathers is leading to social problems is backed up by research, but we're not ruling on that part of his statement. We're ruling on his  that, "More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children," which U.S. Census numbers substantiate. And we rule it to be .
Statement: Says a new annual report shows that "West Virginia's tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent.
Speaker: jim justice
About the speaker: Jim Justice is the Republican governor of West Virginia. A businessman, Justice was originally elected as a Democrat.
Date: October 16, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: economy;tourism
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Justice said, "West Virginia’s tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent."  These numbers align with the findings of a longstanding annual study of the West Virginia and national tourism economies. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year, "more than double that held by the committee in any recent year.
Speaker: richard burr
About the speaker: Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, has been a U.S. Senator since 2005.
Date: June 13, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: congress;elections;foreign policy;transparency
Context: his opening statement before Jeff Session's testimony
Fact-check justification: Burr bragged about the transparency of his Senate committee’s ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. He said Sessions’ testimony was the 10th public hearing his committee has had already in 2017, "more than double that held by the committee in any recent year." Burr is right, and the committee has also been holding more public hearings now than its House counterpart, as well as more than it did during past investigations into topics like CIA torture, intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq War and intelligence failures before 9/11.  We rate this  .
Statement: The "FBI was actively investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server" on Sept. 2, 2016.
Speaker: matt gaetz
About the speaker: Matt Gaetz was elected to Congress in 2016 representing Florida's 1st District. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives serving District 4 in 2010. His father is former Sen. Don Gaetz.
Date: February 7, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: ethics
Context: In a tweet
Fact-check justification: Gaetz tweeted, "On September 2, 2016, while the FBI was actively investigating @HillaryClinton ’s use of a private email server, #Page said that ‘POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing.’" We found no  the FBI was actively investigating Clinton’s server on Sept. 2, 2016. The case had not been officially closed, but reporting indicates the investigation had ceased until the Weiner emails were discovered through a separate FBI investigation. Gaetz’s office since deleted the tweet and said they meant the State Department, not the FBI. The State Department investigation was active then, but it would have been strange for FBI agents to discuss a separate agency’s investigation. We rate this statement .
Statement: Tallahassee is "the ninth-rainiest (city) in the nation.
Speaker: john buss
About the speaker: John Buss is the water resources manager for the city of Tallahassee.
Date: March 23, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: weather
Context: comments before a state House subcommittee
Fact-check justification: It is Mobile, Ala., Weatherbill concluded, with 66.9 inches of rain each year. Buss said Tallahassee is the second-rainiest city in Florida -- Weatherbill says it's fourth -- and he forgot to mention that the rainfall averages exclude Hawaii and Alaska. But this is still dreary news. Tallahassee is the ninth-rainiest city in the Lower 48. We rate this  .
Statement: For every $1 spent on afterschool programs, "we can save over $5, almost $6, in crime costs down the line.
Speaker: peter kilmartin
About the speaker: Peter Kilmartin has been Rhode Island's attorney general since Jan. 4, 2011. He is a lawyer and retired captain in the Pawtucket Police Department who, until his election, had been a state Representative since 1991.
Date: June 28, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;education;crime;poverty
Context: a speech at the state Democratic convention
Fact-check justification: RIDE cited several studies in the report on afterschool and summer-learning programs. All were cited accurately and properly footnoted to enable readers to check the sources." Well, the one cited source we checked -- because it impressed Kilmartin -- turned out to be a study that RIDE misrepresented. Kilmartin was quoting a report he thought he could trust. So we'll give him a .
Statement: A new Colorado law "literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to 'collectors.'
Speaker: megyn kelly
About the speaker: Megyn Kelly is a journalist with NBC News. Previously, she was a journalist at Fox News and hosted "The Kelly File" on weeknights. 
Date: October 21, 2014
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: a segment on "The Kelly File"
Fact-check justification: In a recent segment, Kelly went after a new Colorado law that raises fears of voter fraud for allowing "residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to ‘collectors.’" That’s , a fact Kelly later admitted. The big change in Colorado with the 2014 midterm elections is a universal mail-in system for active, registered voters. Those ballots are mailed to voters; voters do not print them out. The only people who have access to an online system are members of the military and Coloradoans who live overseas, and that system predates the most recent law. Kelly’s  rates .