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Statement: We now have several hundred teachers that are over 100 years old and what I've read recently is that a baby born today, their age expectancy is 110, at least.
Speaker: bob hall
About the speaker: State Sen. Bob Hall is a Republican who represents Texas Senate District 2, which includes Edgewood. 
Date: March 25, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: retirement
Context: the Texas Senate
Fact-check justification: Hall said "We now have several hundred teachers that are over 100 years old and what I've read recently is that a baby born today, their age expectancy is 110, at least." The Teacher Retirement System of Texas said that as of February, they had 321 retired members who were older than 100, so Hall is right about that number. And he’s right that life expectancy has increased since the system was established, but his characterization is exaggerated. The most recent study on mortality in the United States reports that the life expectancy for babies born in 2017 is 78.6 years, not 110. We rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Statement: Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: January 8, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Dartmouth, N.H
Fact-check justification: His overall sentiment seems to be now that the war has started, the United States should do the best job it can to steer Iraq toward stability. This position is not the same thing as condoning the invasion after the fact. On the question of Obama saying his position on the war is similar to George W. Bush's, we find that Bill Clinton is quoting the essence of Obama's statement, but leaving out important context. We find his statement to be . (For more on Clinton's comments and reaction to them, see our story here .)
Statement: Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans "can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: October 21, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a public address
Fact-check justification: Obama said under the Affordable Care Act, some U.S. residents could get health insurance for the same price as a monthly cell phone bill. There’s a wide range of plan costs, many of which are comparable to phone bills, especially for those who qualify for tax credits. A credible study indicates that about 56 percent of marketplace-eligible people could pay $100 or less. Obama was particularly careful in his phrasing, citing that precise study.  Still, health insurance isn't the same thing as a cell phone bill. It's insurance, so people who get sick will face additional costs in the form of co-pays and deductibles. Policyholders who get sick could be shelling out thousands of dollars each year for health care, much more than any cell phone bill.  Overall, we rate Obama’s  .
Statement: One in 13 Black Americans are deprived of the right to vote.
Speaker: gary chambers jr.
About the speaker: Gary Chambers Jr. is a social justice advocate from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a 2022 Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Louisiana running to replace U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, the Republican incumbent.
Date: February 9, 2022
Location: national
Topics: elections;race and ethnicity
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: Chambers said in a campaign video "one in 13 Black Americans are deprived of the right to vote."  Chambers’ video didn’t explain why they are deprived of the right to vote. But he was referring to the number of African Americans who lost the right to vote due to a felony conviction, based on a 2016 analysis from the Sentencing Project. A  2020 report by the same group found that number dropped slightly to 1 in 16 African Americans. It includes people who have served their sentence, are on probation or parole, or remain in prison. Chambers’ overall point that a significant number of Black people are disenfranchised due to a felony conviction is correct, but in an environment where issues of voter suppression are widely discussed and debated, the figure benefits from more explanation. We rate this statement . RELATED : Biden’s promise related to restoring felons’ voting rights stalls RELATED : ​​Fact-checking Louisiana Senate candidate Gary Chambers’ claims about marijuana arrests
Statement: A crime was committed when a New Jersey election worker allowed someone who said he was not a citizen to fill out a ballot.
Speaker: project veritas
About the speaker: Project Veritas is an organization known for undercover reporting using hidden cameras and selectively edited recordings. 
Date: November 5, 2021
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The Division of Elections reports, "If, after the election, it is determined that the voter who cast the provisional ballot was eligible to vote, the ballot will be counted." A county clerk in a different New Jersey county told a local radio station that the situation was handled exactly as it should have been. A viral Instagram post claims a crime was committed when a New Jersey election worker allowed someone who said he was not a U.S. citizen to fill out a ballot. The poll worker was following New Jersey state law, which allows for provisional ballots when voting eligibility cannot be confirmed at the polls on Election Day. We rate this  .
Statement: Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: November 21, 2016
Topics: immigration;history;punditfact
Context: "The Rush Limbaugh Show"
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said, "Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk." Limbaugh has a point that Hamilton did have some skepticism about immigrants. For several years, Hamilton favored limiting the flow of immigrants into the United States in order to preserve American culture and politics, and he offered qualified support for the Alien and Sedition Acts. But earlier in his political career, he supported policies that would encourage immigration to the United States. Limbaugh’s  is partially accurate but leaves out important details We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/aeadfc6b-28cf-4de1-8a1a-6de2bb1cc6f1
Statement: We are now, very proudly, an exporter of energy to the world.
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: January 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: the 2018 State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We are now, very proudly, an exporter of energy to the world." The United States has been exporting different forms of energy for many years. It has been a net exporter of coal and refined petroleum products, a fact that predates Trump. The one new development is natural gas. For the first time since 1957, the United States became a net exporter in 2017. Overall though, it is a net energy importer, a situation that’s not expected to change until midway through the next decade. We rate this  .
Statement: Who would sign up to speak for a (Haitian) dictator? Rob Portman.
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: August 12, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an online ad campaign, "The Portman Files"
Fact-check justification: The anti-Portman ad ominously asks, "Who would sign up to speak for a (Haitian) dictator? Rob Portman." Portman worked for a lobbying firm that required its attorneys to register as foreign agents in case they were assigned to work for overseas clients. One of the firm’s clients was the Republic of Haiti, which was under the power of dictator "Baby Doc" until 1986. Portman was with the firm from October 1984 to October 1986. He did register as a foreign agent for the Republic of Haiti in 1985, and four other foreign-based clients. But the only work Portman performed directly for a foreign account was on behalf of Hong Kong-based Duty Free Shoppers, Ltd., according to a sworn statement by a managing partner of Patton Boggs LLP in April 2005. We rate this ad .
Statement: Tuck-friendly" bathing suits at Target "are available in kids' sizes.
Speaker: matt walsh
About the speaker: Matt Walsh is a conservative columnist for The Daily Wire and host of the podcast "The Matt Walsh Show."
Date: May 17, 2023
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook video
Fact-check justification: The backlash against Target follows similar pushback against Bud Light, an Anheuser-Busch brand, for its partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Walsh specifically mentioned that in his video. PolitiFact also debunked misinformation related to the Bud Light/Mulvaney partnership. Target’s Pride collection does include swimwear for children , Target’s spokesperson said, but the products are different from the adult swimwear and do not include "tuck-friendly construction." We rate the  that "tuck-friendly" bathing suits at Target "are available in kids’ sizes" .
Statement: A 2005 gay pride vote "had nothing to do with discrimination.
Speaker: tom scott
About the speaker: Tom Scott is currently the chairman of the Tampa City Council and previously served on the Hillsborough County Commission. He is running in the March 1 election for Tampa mayor.
Date: February 8, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: lgbtq
Context: a mayoral debate
Fact-check justification: The policy does involve discrimination. A group of people is treated differently. They aren't treated differently because of individual merit. They're treated differently because they belong to that group. We rate Scott's statement .
Statement: Says Gov. Tony Evers "is proposing a new plan, a 150 day shutdown of the state (5 MONTHS!) followed by a 120 day extension.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 16, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post shared by conservative groups in Wisconsin said Evers was proposing a five-month shutdown of the state, plus a 120-day extension. At no time did the Evers administration suggest this. The Supreme Court ruling meant Evers had to turn to the emergency rulemaking process through the Legislature. That process includes limits and timetables for any such rule. The Facebook post wrongly conflates that timetable with the governor’s plan to reopen the state. As such, it is entirely . What’s more, the post encourages people to spread misinformation. We rate the  .
Statement: Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: May 17, 2015
Location: national
Topics: congress;history;foreign policy;trade
Context: on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Ryan said, "Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority. From the 1930s until today, Every president except Nixon (and Obama) has had the ability to negotiate aspects of foreign trade policy with limited congressional involvement. But these policies aren’t 100 percent apples to apples. For one, today’s policy involves more congressional oversight than the policy in place through the 1960s. Additionally, the original policy only pertained to tariff reductions, while today’s policy includes non-tariff barriers to trade. (Up until the late 1960s, foreign trade negotiations focused nearly exclusively on tariffs.) On balance, we rate Ryan’s  .
Statement: J.D. Vance said nothing about" the attack on Paul Pelosi.
Speaker: tim ryan
About the speaker: Tim Ryan is a representative of Ohio’s 13th Congressional District. Ryan served the state’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 until 2013, when he assumed office to represent the 13th District. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president. In 2022, he is running for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat.
Date: November 1, 2022
Location: national
Topics: ohio
Context: a town hall event
Fact-check justification: Ryan said that Vance "said nothing" about the attack on Paul Pelosi. Vance had spoken. In response to a reporter’s question, he called the attack terrible, and said "we need to lower the temperature in this country." National press did not report his words; a local newspaper did. Other Republicans leaders in Ohio as well as Republican Senate candidates in other states released statements via Twitter condemning the attack. Vance did not do that.   We rate this  .
Statement: The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race.
Speaker: whoopi goldberg
About the speaker: Whoopi Goldberg is an award-winning actress and comedian who co-hosts ABC's daytime talk show, The View.
Date: January 31, 2022
Topics: history;race and ethnicity;pundits;punditfact
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: Goldberg said, "The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."  The Nazi Germans’ persecution of millions of Jews was premised on a racist ideology that viewed Jews as an inferior race and the biggest threat to the so-called Aryan race and other races, and laws that set about defining Jews not by their religion, but by their heritage. Hitler himself expressed the belief that the Jews were a lesser race, historians said. Goldberg conceded her error and apologized. The statement is not accurate and makes a  . That’s our definition for . RELATED: Why Holocaust comparisons by anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. are grossly
Statement: Says Jeff Brandes voted to allow state-run Citizens Property Insurance to dump policies onto "out-of-state, unregulated private companies.
Speaker: committee to protect florida
About the speaker: The Committee to Protect Florida is headed by Rockie Pennington, a political consultant for Richard Corcoran, a Republican candidate for State House District 45.
Date: July 18, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: housing
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: As the ad claims, Brandes voted for a measure that would have allowed out-of-state companies to pluck Citizens policyholders in an effort to lessen Citizens’ liability in the event of a big storm. A month later, after the Senate included a provision that would require policyholders to opt-in to the program, House members made a motion to reject that change, and Brandes voted not to reject the opt-in provision. With the opt-in provision part of the bill, the House decided to scuttle the proposal for 2012. The  from the Committee to Protect Florida is accurate but needs additional information, which is our definition of .
Statement: A video shows Rep. Jim Jordan threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with "'possible' jail time.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 11, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: At the rally, Jordan didn’t mention Cheney. He did mention House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying about 16 minutes into this C-SPAN video , "Tonight as we sit here and talk, you can’t go to your Capitol to petition your member of Congress to redress your grievances because Nancy Pelosi won’t let you in. "  The crowd then chants, "Lock her up!" Jordan waited until they quieted and pivoted to talking about the border and freedom of speech. We rate claims that this video shows him threatening Pelosi with jail time !
Statement: Says Phil Bredesen "lured illegal immigrants to Tennessee.
Speaker: marsha blackburn
About the speaker: Marsha Blackburn, a native of Laurel, Miss., was first elected to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in 2002. Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018,
Date: October 11, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an attack ad
Fact-check justification: Blackburn said that Bredesen "lured illegal immigrants to Tennessee" by offering a driver’s certificate for the undocumented. The one accurate part of the  is that people came from out of state and fraudulently applied for both certificates and full driver's licenses. After that, the  begins to break down. Bredesen swapped a more lenient licensing law signed by his Republican predecessor for a less useful certificate that could not serve as official identification and lasted for only a year. To pin the law to Bredesen ignores that nearly every Republican lawmaker approved that change. When problems surfaced, Bredesen preempted the Legislature and ended the program by executive action. The next year, Republicans and most Democrats voted to affirm that move. Lastly, the ad strongly implies that Bredesent sought to have illegal immigrants stay in Tennessee. There is no  for that. We rate this  .
Statement: Wisconsin's driver licenses and identification (ID) cards are currently the most secure in the nation.
Speaker: wisconsin department of transportation
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation includes the DSepartment of Motor Vehicles.
Date: September 8, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: transportation
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Keeping IDentities Safe, according to its website, is a non-partisan, not for profit crime prevention and education organization based in Washington, D.C. Its primary purpose is to raise public awareness about the importance of ID security. Our rating A DMV official said  "Wisconsin's drivers licenses and identification (ID) cards are currently the most secure in the nation." The state's new polycarbonate cards, featuring black and white laser-engraved photos, ultraviolet ink and intricate artwork along with its eNotify security feature makes the Badger State's cards security "the most advanced among those issued in the United States," according to an expert on identity security. We rate the  .
Statement: The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: September 23, 2009
Location: national
Topics: military;stimulus
Context: Hong Kong
Fact-check justification: And the goal of the package was to directly stimulate the economy. So Palin's underlying point that Obama is going soft on defense is a bit of a stretch. The amount of defense spending in the stimulus bill is not a good measurement of the administration's overall commitment in that area. But she is correct that defense was a small portion of the stimulus and her number is off only slightly. So we find her statement to be .
Statement: A poll taken "a few months ago" found "70 percent approval or higher" for the Act 10 collective bargaining law.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: April 1, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city government;county government;education;health care;pensions;polls and public opinion;state budget;unions;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: As for what the level of support for Act 10 there may have been a few months ago, Franklin told us the results could be the same, but: "We simply don't know." Our rating Walker said a poll "taken a few months ago" found "70 percent approval or higher" for his Act 10 collective bargaining law. No known poll has asked Wisconsinites about Act 10 in the months leading up to Walker's statement on April 1, 2014, and his staff did not cite one. One poll question from May 2012 found 75 percent support for one part of the law, but what the level of support for Act 10’s various provisions might have been a few months ago is strictly speculation. We rate Walker's statement .
Statement: Says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.
Speaker: texas secession petition
About the speaker: The petition created Nov. 9, 2012, by Micah Hurd on the White House's "We the People" website quickly garnered tens of thousands of signatures.
Date: November 9, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: economy;states
Context: the White House's "We the People" petition web site
Fact-check justification: Hurd’s petition claimed that Texas is the 15th largest economy in the world. By a reasonable measure, Texas’ GDP would rank it 14th among nations. We rate the statement as .
Statement: Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy.
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 13, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Ohio
Fact-check justification: But now that it's become an issue in the campaign, Newsday says it is not fair to attribute the word to Clinton. "Obama's use of the citation in this way does strike us as ," Janison wrote. "The quote marks make it look as if Hillary said 'boon,' not us. It's an example of the kind of slim reeds campaigns use to try to win an office." PolitiFact might be inclined to give Obama a  ruling for this one, but since he has consistently used the word with no  — even going so far as to say she said it "just last year," we find the statement .