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Statement: Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course.
Speaker: herman cain
About the speaker: Herman Cain is an author, columnist and talk radio host. Cain, a former pizza franchise CEO, ran for president as a Republican in 2012.
Date: November 15, 2013
Topics: health care;history;punditfact
Context: a video on Cain TV
Fact-check justification: Cain said that Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for a while, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course." Jefferson did write a line that resembles that in some important ways, but Cain put a fair number of words into Jefferson’s mouth. At PunditFact, we believe quotations should be relatively word-for-word accurate. If someone went to the trouble to leave their thoughts for posterity, the least we should do is honor what they actually said. We rate the  .
Statement: (Bill) Nelson voted for billions in wasteful spending earmarks like the Bridge to Nowhere.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: May 10, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget;transportation
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: I wouldn't put him in the pantheon of earmarkers, but he certainly played the game." We've docked politicians before for stretching the  by claiming their opponent supported the Bridge to Nowhere simply because they voted for that highway bill in 2005. But this ad paints with a broader brush, criticizing Nelson for voting for billions of dollars worth of earmarks such as the Bridge to Nowhere. Nelson may not have specifically supported the Bridge to Nowhere project, but there's no question he voted in favor of a bill that was known to include billions of dollars worth of road project earmarks, some of which Nelson had requested for Florida. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Joe Biden owns four $3 million -$7.5 million homes on a $200,000 salary.
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: October 17, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  The Facebook post claimed that Biden owns four properties, which range from values of $3 million to $7.5 million, on a salary of $200,000 a year.   Biden owns two of the four properties pictured. He rents a third property in the photo, and the fourth property was a mansion he renovated and sold in 1996.   Biden’s recent earnings from book deals and speaking engagements were far larger than his salary as a government official.   We rate this  .
Statement: I have never lobbied against sanctions personally... to my knowledge, Exxon never directly lobbied against sanctions.
Speaker: rex tillerson
About the speaker: Rex Tillerson is the former CEO of Exxon Mobil. On Feb. 1, 2017, he was sworn in as President Donald Trump's secretary of state.
On March 13, 2018, Trump fired Tillerson and replaced him with CIA director Mike Pompeo.
Date: January 11, 2017
Location: national
Topics: energy;foreign policy
Context: a Senate confirmation hearing
Fact-check justification: Tillerson said that he never lobbied against sanctions that targeted the Russian energy industry, nor to his knowledge had Exxon. But lobbying records show Exxon spent over $300,000 to argue its case on sanctions. Visitor records for the White House and the Treasury Department show Tillerson was a visitor when sanctions were being considered. An Exxon spokesperson said the company simply offered information on sanctions. But in 2014 Tillerson told reporters that he thought sanctions generally were ineffective and that he had let top government officials know what he thought of them. We rate this  .
Statement: What the facts say" is ... "the best scenario for kids is a loving mom and dad.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: July 17, 2016
Location: national
Topics: children;race and ethnicity
Context: comments on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Priebus said, "What the facts say" is ... "the best scenario for kids is a loving mom and dad,"  as opposed to having same-sex parents. The limited pieces of research that appear to support Priebus’  have been called into question. And overall, scholarly research shows that what matters to children is the quality and stability of the parenting, rather than the parents’ particular sex, gender or sexual orientation. We rate Priebus’  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6d388e00-e032-4283-84a1-9d3850f75429
Statement: We're still doing dumb things like telling the parent of an 11-year-old that it's against the law for them to tell their parents what they were tested on ... That will end when I'm governor.
Speaker: adam putnam
About the speaker: Adam Putnam lost the Republican primary for Florida governor to U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in 2018. A former Republican Congressman from Congressional District 12 in Central Florida, was elected Florida Commissioner of Agriculture on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014.
Date: August 12, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: Orlando
Fact-check justification: Putnam said, "We're still doing dumb things like telling the parent of an 11-year-old that it's against the law for them to tell their parents what they were tested on something that will determine whether they're promoted or not." He said he would change this if elected governor. There are rules that prohibit students from disclosing test information with other students, particularly through texts and social media. One FAQ response goes further to say students cannot share the information with "anyone." However, the state has updated its rules to explicitly say that conversations about "testing experiences" between parents and children are not a violation of the rules — and they are not against the law. Putnam does voters a disservice by repeating the notion that these conversations are discouraged and could spell legal jeopardy. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: Say Lance Armstrong is dead.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 13, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: fake news
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: An Internet post claims Lance Armstrong has died. The once world-class and still world-famous cyclist remains alive. We find this  (bike) Pants on Fire!  – 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: We cut a record $15 billion from our state budget.
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: October 31, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: message machine 2012;state budget
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Nobody disputes that the latest Texas budget spends considerably less than the previous one — and Perry’s $15 billion figure has a basis. However, much of the ballyhooed reduction reflects the loss of one-time federal stimulus aid — a "cut" originating in Congress and one that was not in Perry’s control. Put another way, the budget he signed into law trimmed state spending (which the governor can directly influence) by $1.6 billion. Also, Perry’s calculation doesn’t acknowledge the state’s underfunding of Medicaid and a delayed education payment — which, if counted, would knock the budget cut down to about $3 billion in total, $12 billion less than what Perry celebrates. We rate his statement .
Statement: Socialist Workers Party leader Bernie Sanders supported Ayatollah Khomeini against the US, condemned president Carter for imperialism, and accused the hostages of being CIA spies.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 18, 2020
Topics: iran;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In 1980, Sanders said he didn’t support all of the party’s positions, telling the Rutland Daily Herald newspaper (hat-tip Snopes ): "Although I am not in agreement with the SWP on all issues, I strongly support that party’s attempt to become a nucleus for a national labor party, which will fight for the interests of low-income and working people." Sanders' relationship with the party seems to have largely diminished since then, and he hasn’t publicly addressed his affiliation with the organization during his current campaign for president.   A Sanders campaign spokesperson referred us to their comment for the Snopes story : "Sen. Sanders did not think the hostages were spies nor did he support their captivity. Any suggestion otherwise is nonsense." We rate this .
Statement: When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: May 8, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: A number of other countries have also increased their own bilateral sanctions against Iran in recent years." Biden would have had a strong case for high marks on the -O-Meter if he said what appeared to be his main point: the Obama administration has prodded the rest of the world to be tougher on Iran. But there is a disconnect with what the vice president actually said and U.N. resolutions passed against Iran during the Bush administration. The resolutions seem to be a little more than "virtually no international pressure on Iran. "  We rate Biden’s statement .
Statement: Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States.
Speaker: sheldon whitehouse
About the speaker: Sheldon Whitehouse is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.
Date: February 24, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: afghanistan;iraq;military;states
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: The National Journal analysis is five years old, but we couldn’t find any new study of deployment rates that had been done since then. (We never heard back from the National Guard Bureau.) If the rates in other states increased in a similar fashion to Rhode Island’s -- and there’s no reason to believe they didn’t -- then the rankings in 2007, in all likelihood, are the same today. Rhode Island then would still have the second-highest number of deployments per capita in the nation. Lacking any  to the contrary, we rate Whitehouse’s  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: In Zimbabwe, people have started selling their toes for thousands of dollars due to (the) high cost of living.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 31, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that people in Zimbabwe are selling toes for money, up to $40,000, depending on their size. The claims appear to have started as a joke, according to multiple news reports and fact checks. The country’s deputy information minister said they are not  after visiting a mall to investigate. We can find no  showing this is really happening, so we rate this  .
Statement: The Transportation Security Administration spent "a couple hundred million dollars" on gender-neutral screening technology.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 19, 2023
Location: national
Topics: transportation
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The new technology, which was rolled out in airports in December, will "improve the customer experience of travelers who previously have been required to undergo additional screening due to alarms in sensitive areas," the March 2022 news release said. Langston said the technology will also reduce the number of  alarms, which improves efficiency.   Key claimed the TSA spent "a couple hundred million dollars" on gender-neutral screening technology.   TSA spent $18.6 million on gender-inclusive screening technology, not "hundreds of millions. "  We rate the  .
Statement: In the United States, we've had "12 years in a row of wages declining.
Speaker: martin o'malley
About the speaker: Martin O'Malley is the former governor of Maryland who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He has also served as the mayor of Baltimore.
Date: March 29, 2015
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: O’Malley said that in the United States, we’ve had "12 years in a row of wages declining." He has a point that, using the most appropriate measure of compensation, weekly wages adjusted for inflation are lower now than they were 12 years ago. But they have not fallen consistently and inexorably, as the phrasing of his  on This Week suggests. We rate the  .
Statement: Obesity kills 34 children per hour.
Speaker: rob eissler
About the speaker: Rob Eissler of The Woodlands, first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2002, lost the Republican nomination for the House seat in 2012.
Date: May 23, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: children;health care;public health
Context: remarks on the House floor
Fact-check justification: No doubt, obesity has health consequences across age groups. But Eissler’s  that 34 children die every hour because of it misstates an outdated statistic solely referring to adult deaths. And, according to the latest data, about 13 adults die every hour due to obesity-related disease — not 34. The statement is . !
Statement: Three percent is not a modest tax increase, if you own a $100,000 home in the city of Buffalo, that means an extra $300 a year.
Speaker: byron brown
About the speaker: Byron Brown is the mayor of the city of Buffalo. He is a Democrat.
Date: September 9, 2021
Location: new york
Topics: city government;taxes
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Brown said Walton’s proposed increase in property taxes would lead to an additional $300 for a house assessed at $100,000.  That might be  if Walton intended to add three percentage points to the property tax. But Walton proposes increasing the tax rate by 3 percent over her first term, which would lead to an eventual increase of about $30 for a home assessed at $100,000. We rate Brown’s  .
Statement: Insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001.
Speaker: jay rockefeller
About the speaker: a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Date: September 21, 2009
Location: national
Topics: corporations;health care
Context: the newspaper Roll Call
Fact-check justification: Let's recap. If you carry the data forward to 2008 — an admittedly somewhat atypical year — the increase falls short of Rockefeller's stated 400 percent. Also, the numbers Rockefeller used reflect 10 of the biggest companies as opposed to "insurance companies" in general. On the other hand, the increase exceeded 400 percent for the period 2001 to 2007, and however you slice the numbers, the rise in insurer profits is large indeed. On balance, we rate Rockefeller's statement .
Statement: LeBron's 'I Promise School' To Cost Taxpayers Millions Of Dollars Every Year
Speaker: wannabe entertainment
About the speaker: A website associated with misleading news.
Date: August 7, 2018
Location: ohio
Topics: education
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The headline and subsequent story might leave people thinking James’ school will be a drag on taxpayer resources. But taxpayers are paying the same amount of money they’d pay whether or not James got involved.  James’s foundation is funding enhancements meant to try to elevate students attending the school. The statement is partially accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.
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: February 6, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;supreme court
Context: an interview on Fox
Fact-check justification: They did not. They dismissed the cases because of procedural grounds. We find his  . Appendix: 12 Cases Cited by the White House (PolitiFact added links to the cases and rulings that we could find online) Archer v. U.S. Senate , dismissed April 12, 2010 Baldwin v. Sebelius, dismissed Aug. 27, 2010  Burlsworth v. Holder, dismissed on Sept. 8, 29/8 Coalition for Parity Inc. v. Sebelius, dismissed on June 21, 2010 Fountain Hills Tea Party Patriots v. Sebelius,  dismissed June 2, 2010 Mackenzie v. Shaheen (NH) - dismissed May 26, 2010 New Jersey Physicians v. Obama, dismissed Dec. 8, 2010 Schreeve v. Obama , dismissed Nov. 4. 2010 Sollars v. Reid , dismissed April 2, 2010 Taitz v. Obama , dismissed April 14, 2010 U.S. Citizens Association v. OMB, dismissed 8/2 Bryant v. Holder, dismissed Feb. 3, 2011
Statement: Says New Jersey's tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: July 9, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: a speech at the Brookings Institution
Fact-check justification: Christie said New Jersey’s teacher tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure." For the large part, superintendents must file tenure charges against teachers who receive two consecutive negative ratings on annual evaluations. In those cases, teachers may ultimately be fired, but they don’t automatically lose their tenure and, therefore, maintain the right to appeal the charges levied against them. We rate this  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: New Mexico is the second Hollywood" because of tax incentives for the film industry.
Speaker: gary johnson
About the speaker: Gary Johnson is the Libertarian nominee for president in 2016. He was also the party's nominee in 2012. He previously served as governor of New Mexico as a Republican.
Date: July 14, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;new hampshire 2012;taxes
Context: an interview with the 'New Hampshire Business Review"
Fact-check justification: The studio has continued to operate during the reorganization, with major productions such as The Avengers and Breaking Bad being filmed there. So was Gov. Johnson overstating the case when he said New Mexico has turned into the "second Hollywood"? Of course, but hey, it’s show business. And he is correct in asserting that New Mexico has become a player in the movie industry. We’ll give him a .
Statement: There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid.
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: June 28, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicaid
Context: a Facebook live speech
Fact-check justification: Rubio said, "There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid." Rubio is  to state that benefit cuts are off the table. There are reasons that Medicaid recipients could lose benefits if the Senate bill becomes law. The bill curbs the rate of spending by the federal government over the next decade and caps dollar amounts and ultimately reduces the inflation factor. Those changes will put pressure on states to make difficult choices including the possibility of cutting services. We rate this  .
Statement: No other public or private business in America" except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs in advance.
Speaker: sanford bishop
About the speaker: Democrat Sanford Bishop represents Georgia's 2nd Congressional District
Date: September 15, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget;pensions
Context: a letter to the the Postal Regulatory Commission chairwoman
Fact-check justification: This means there’s no reason to go postal over the  by Bishop and others that "no other public or private business in America" except for the USPS must fund 100 percent of employee pension and retirement health costs in advance. By and large, this statement fits the . We do take some issue with the ’s broader point, which is that the retirement funding requirement unfairly singles out the post office. As we noted above, the office that manages federal retiree benefits argues the arrangement could keep the entire federal health benefit fund from going broke. With this dispute in mind, we rule Bishop’s statement .