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Statement: In 2008, "candidate Obama, he's not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms.
Speaker: kimberley strassel
About the speaker: Kimberley Strassel is a Washington-based columnist and editorial board member for the Wall Street Journal.
Date: May 28, 2017
Topics: foreign policy;punditfact
Context: "Meet the Press" on NBC
Fact-check justification: A single conservative scholar says Miller told him about his secret ‘08 campaign mission to Iran. Independent journalists who have covered U.S.-Iran relations extensively haven’t been able to confirm the account. There is no corroborating , and Miller says it’s not ; he says he never worked on behalf of the Obama campaign, and he didn’t travel to Iran in 2008. At PolitiFact, we believe the burden is on the speaker to back up their  with . The  here is insufficient, so we rate this  .
Statement: Says "there are actually more people in poverty now than there were when we started" the War on Poverty.
Speaker: jason conger
About the speaker: Oregon Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, represents House District 54.
Date: October 15, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: poverty;welfare
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: But if you look at the rate, which takes population growth into account, we’ve experienced an overall drop. The rate itself, of course, is not perfect, but that seems to be the fairest measure over time, even if it doesn’t take into account many of the programs that came a result of the War on Poverty. Conger’s statement is accurate but needs that clarification. We rate this  . Tell us what you think by leaving a comment on OregonLive.com .
Statement: Wisconsin's Lincoln Hills youth prison has a "66 percent recidivism rate," while "states like Missouri, that have more of a regional model -- 8 percent.
Speaker: gordon hintz
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, was elected to the state Assembly in 2006. In September 2017, his colleagues elected him minority leader of the Assembly.
Date: November 21, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;criminal justice;crime;states
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification:  . State Sen. Leah Vukmir (R-Brookfield), a 2018 candidate for U.S. Senate: In 2016, there were 5,570 people in Wisconsin "who committed crimes on probation and they were not revoked."  . Federal Judge James Peterson : "Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive confinement than the youth at Lincoln Hills."  .
Statement: Says Washington's Kim Schrier has a plan to eliminate employer-provided health coverage, double income taxes and put your care "in the hands of government bureaucrats.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: October 9, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The NRCC says "Kim Schrier’s Medicare for All plan" would eliminate employer-provided health coverage, "put your health care in the hands of government bureaucrats and require historic tax increases." It is  that Schrier said, "Look, ultimately I think we do need to go to a Medicare for All system," but she then said a lot more, and the ad ignores it all, instead citing criticisms of a specific plan she doesn’t support (and those criticisms themselves are in dispute). Her plan would make Medicare available to all -- all who chose it, that is. The day may come when a Sanders-like plan is viable and politically realistic, but Schrier made clear that since that day is not now, she is focused elsewhere. We rate the  .
Statement: Student loan rates set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: April 24, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: education;federal budget
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: But the statement we're reviewing now is this: "Student loan rates [are] set to double because a Democratic-controlled Congress voted to double them." It is accurate in saying that Democrats were in the majority when Congress passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act in 2007. It is accurate in saying that the loan rate reductions in the measure are scheduled to expire in July, and that the result would double the current rate. But to describe that initial vote five years ago as one in which the Democratic majority "voted to double" rates this year is  at best.    On the -O-Meter, Boehner's statement rates as .
Statement: Says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.
Speaker: ron shipman
About the speaker: Ron Shipman is the vice president of environmental affairs at Georgia Power. Shipman directs the company’s environmental stewardship and compliance programs to meet or surpass all environmental laws and regulations.
Date: June 10, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: energy
Context: a meeting
Fact-check justification: In 2011, Georgia Power customers paid 5.1 percent below the national average. To sum up, Georgia Power official Ron Shipman said the company’s customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average. Our findings showed Shipman’s numbers were off the past two years but on point for the prior eight years. Georgia Power’s research was fairly similar. Since he was slightly off for 2012, but right for eight of the nine years before that, we rate Shipman’s  as .
Statement: Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country.
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: November 3, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;history
Context: Phoenix
Fact-check justification: Tim Kaine said, "Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country." Linguistic experts tell us that’s accurate. Even though English is the dominant language in the United States, the first permanent English settlement came 42 years after explorers from Spain founded St. Augustine in Florida. Their primary language was Spanish. Kaine’s statement rates .
Statement: Says Sen. Sherrod Brown "cast the deciding vote on the government takeover of health care.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: May 23, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;message machine 2012;voting record
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: Brown’s vote for the health care reform legislation was crucial, but was it the deciding vote? A listener hearing the Mandel ad could be lead to believe Brown’s vote had more weight than other votes. Yet, he certainly did not cast the 60th vote, and he did not have to be wooed for support. And it is not accurate to state that he voted for a "government takeover of health care." On the -O-Meter, this  from Mandel’s ad rates .
Statement: The United States "has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP.
Speaker: jan schakowsky
About the speaker: Schakowsky was elected to represent Illinois' 9th Congressional District in 1998, after serving for eight years in the Illinois General Assembly. She is in her eleventh term.
Date: November 12, 2013
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;taxes
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Schakowsky said, "This country has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP." We found that GDP has trended upward throughout much of America's history and the current level is only slightly higher than pre-recession levels. But the numbers show Schakowsky is right. We rate her comments .
Statement: Perry pushed for a law that lets insurance companies raise homeowners' rates without having to justify the increase.
Speaker: back to basics
About the speaker: Back to Basics is a political action committee that aims to "shed light on who are politicians are working for — themselves and their pals instead of hardworking Texas families," according to the group's website.
Date: September 8, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;consumer safety;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: But the release also mentions the possibility of a "prior approval" system. Summing up: The Back to Basics  is based on the notion that Perry was instrumental in pushing the file-and-use system. That’s not supported by news reports or other . In addition, the suggestion that insurance companies need not justify homeowners’ rate increases is off base: That’s part of the information they’re asked to submit with their filings, and it plays a role in the back-and-forth that may ensue with the department’s staff. We rate the statement .
Statement: Less than half of Texans ages 18-24 are registered to vote.
Speaker: charlie geren
About the speaker: Charlie Geren, a Fort Worth businessman, won election to the Texas House in 2000. In 2017, he chaired the House Committee on Administration.
Date: September 18, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: census;population;states
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Geren said less than half of Texans aged 18 through 24 are registered to vote. There’s a solid basis for this  — a federal post-election survey in which 47.6 percent of 18- to 24-year-old Texans reported registering to vote. But we found more recent data and ways to crunch figures that suggest the described registration rate might exceed 50 percent. We rate Geren’s statement .  – 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: Video shows police removing disabled protesters from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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: January 6, 2021
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) The video is authentic. You can see some of the protesters in this C-SPAN footage from a September 2017 Senate hearing on health care legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. U.S. Capitol police arrested 181 people, including 15 people who were charged with disruption of Congress, the Associated Press reported at the time .    We rate claims that footage from that demonstration happened during the siege at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as .
Statement: Says the individual mandate is "highly unpopular.
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: November 13, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said the individual mandate is "highly unpopular." As recently as February 2017, a YouGov poll found that 65 percent of people opposed it, a finding that is consistent with earlier polls from other organizations. That’s a fair sign of the provision’s unpopularity. On the other hand, when people were given more details about the mandate, they had a more favorable view, as high as about 60 percent. And in the context of repealing the Affordable Care Act, the most recent polls found the public generally split 50/50 on whether to keep the mandate in force. Public opinion about the individual mandate is not a simple black-and-white choice. As a leading expert explained, people might not love it, but they are willing to live with it. We rate this  .
Statement: Dinesh D'Souza passed away.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 11, 2019
Topics: fake news;pundits;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The day after this blog post was published on a website that appears to be called both " AMERICA NEWS TODAY " and " environmentdepth.org ," D'Souza appeared as a guest on President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign show, "Real News Insights," to discuss the news coverage of the raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.   More recently, D’Souza was on Fox’s "The Ingraham Angle" covering a rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg and discussing the controversy surrounding stop-and-frisk policies on Feb. 14, 2020. D'Souza also remains very active on Twitter and has been promoting his new book and documentary release since the beginning of February 2020 . D’Souza is a popular pundit with a dedicated following whose death would certainly merit some legitimate news coverage, of which there has been none. News of his death has been greatly exaggerated; we rate this  !
Statement: Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: September 1, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: figures cites on campaign website
Fact-check justification: If that trend continues, the state will continue to spend less on remedial education. So back to the . Does Florida spend $300 million on remedial education for students held back between pre-K through third grade. The report Sink’s campaign cited was not the most recent, therefore their numbers are off by a couple of million. But, with the state spending close to $271 million in education for those children held back, we rate this  .
Statement: Says professional soccer player Christian Eriksen received the Pfizer vaccine days before he collapsed during a game.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 13, 2021
Topics: public health;sports;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  that Eriksen collapsed on the field from cardiac arrest days after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The director of Inter Milan, the Italian professional team Eriksen plays for, said the footballer hadn’t received any of the vaccines. He is currently undergoing testing to pinpoint the cause. We rate this  .
Statement: Were you aware the $3.5 Trillion Human Infrastructure package includes an animal agriculture tax of $2,600‼️ per head of cattle? $500 for swine!!!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 27, 2021
Topics: environment;agriculture;animals;corrections and updates;taxes
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said, "Were you aware the $3.5 Trillion Human Infrastructure package includes an animal agriculture tax of $2,600!! per head of cattle? $500 for swine!!!" Democrats are considering a legislative proposal to tax methane emissions by oil and gas producers as a way of curbing climate change, but the proposal was not written to apply to methane released by livestock operations. Two leading agriculture groups have explicitly said that there’s no agricultural methane tax proposal under serious consideration, and the Senate passed an amendment to rule out a methane emissions tax on agriculture. We rate the statement . CORRECTION, Oct. 8, 2021: This version corrects John Buhl's affiliation.
Statement: Sophia Stewart wrote books in the 70s that were stolen from her by Warner Bros. (Terminator 1-4 & The Matrix 1 & 2!) ... she won Hollywood's biggest lawsuit, $2.5 Billion.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 4, 2021
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;legal issues;pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that Stewart won "Hollywood’s biggest lawsuit" over copyright infringement in the "Matrix" and "Terminator" film franchises and was awarded $2.5 billion. This is . The case was dismissed in 2005, with no money going to Stewart.  We rate this  . UPDATE, Oct. 6, 2021: This story has been updated to note that Stewart did respond to PolitiFact following initial publication.
Statement: Thirty-four of the 47 men depicted in the famous "Declaration of Independence" painting were slaveholders.
Speaker: arlen parsa
About the speaker: Arlen Parsa is documentary filmmaker in Chicago.
Date: September 1, 2019
Location: national
Topics: history
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Parsa said 34 of the 47 men depicted in the famous "Declaration of Independence" painting were slaveholders. We found strong  to back the  on the 34, recognizing there is no one definitive source on the question. We rate the statement .
Statement: If the legislature refuses to expand Medicaid, "27 states are going to get our money – Virginia taxpayer money – into their states to provide health care for their citizens, paid for by us.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: February 26, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;medicaid;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said that the General Assembly’s refusal to expand Medicaid would send Virginia taxpayers’ money into 27 other states to insure their working poor. He’s right that 27 states have broadened Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. And if Virginia doesn’t join suit, it will sacrifice federal dollars that would pay the overwhelming long-term cost of the expansion. Virginians, like residents of all states, are subject to new taxes to help support the ACA. The payments pour into the U.S. Treasury where they are mixed with other tax dollars and piped out to federal programs. There’s no tracking of individual coins in this flow of money and it’s possible that some deposits from Virginia could end up helping Medicaid recipients in other states. But contrary to McAuliffe’s statement, there’s no direct connection between Virginia’s decision on expansion and what happens to Medicaid in other states. The goal of expansion is to offer Medicaid insurance to people earning up 133 percent of the U.S. poverty line. States participating in the program will receive the same federal subsidy for each new enrollee regardless of whether Virginia participates. So McAuliffe’s statement has an element of  but gives an  impression on the impact turning down the money would have. We rate it .
Statement: In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million.
Speaker: big gamble nj 
About the speaker: Big Gamble NJ is a joint campaign started by the Communications Workers of America and the Asian American Retailers Association that opposes efforts to privatize the state lottery.
Date: November 13, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education;gambling
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: Big Gamble NJ -- an advocacy group that opposes privatizing management of the state lottery -- said on its website that  "in 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million." The lottery funneled $930 million into education and other social services in fiscal year 2011. Nearly three quarters of that amount funded education-related initiatives. So New Jersey’s classroom didn’t receive the full $930 million from the state lottery, but education aid comprised a significant majority of that money. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: I had five of my citizens that were killed last week" because of border security problems.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: November 8, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview on The Daily Show
Fact-check justification: As we completed this article, Nicole Thompson, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Department of State, confirmed to us that six U.S. citizens have been killed recently in Juarez. Summing up: Perry was one short in recounting the six Americans from El Paso killed in Ciudad Juarez since little over a week ago — presumably missing the sixth because there was a delay before the U.S. Consulate confirmed the American identity of one of the slain students. But Perry made his  in the context of arguing for tougher border security in the U.S. without mentioning that his citizens, as he put it, were killed in a foreign country, not the U.S. Nor did he say how securing the border on the U.S. side would prevent shootings in Mexico. Those are important details to omit. We rate his statement as .