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Statement: Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.
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: April 29, 2008
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: South Bend, Ind
Fact-check justification: “Or some woman... that just gets diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis." “I don’t mind doing it,” O’Reilly said. Clinton’s point was that, to an extent, family health policy holders already are shouldering some of the burden for the uninsured. There may be some debate about whether the number is exactly $900 a year, as she stated, but several health policy experts agreed that she’s at least close. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says if Congress doesn't avoid the sequester, "tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
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 19, 2013
Location: national
Topics: bipartisanship;children;congress;corrections and updates;debt;deficit;families;federal budget
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: The president warned that if Congress didn’t take action, "tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids." The sequester does hit two big programs that affect parents’ child care or their need for it — a subsidy program and the early childhood education program Head Start. The government estimates up to 100,000 kids would be affected. But neither the White House nor HHS has provided sufficient  to establish the number of kids whose parents would need to find other child care. Parents might be able to keep their subsidized child care with lower subsidies or higher co-pays. In the case of Head Start, it’s not clear how many of the affected kids would lose spots in the types of programs that might leave their parents in a child-care lurch. Between the two, "tens of thousands" is plausible, but unproven. We rate the  .
Statement: The State Capitol Police "recommended" banning guns at the Capitol.
Speaker: virginia house democratic caucus
About the speaker: The House Democratic Caucus consists of the 32 Democrats in the 100-member Virginia House of Delegates. Its chairman is Del. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax.
Date: January 10, 2020
Location: virginia
Topics: public safety;guns
Context: a committee meeting
Fact-check justification: House Democratic leaders (Filler-Corn, Herring and Simon) said four times they were imposing a gun ban at the Capitol at the "recommendation" of the Capitol Police. But Pike, the chief of the Capitol Police, says the Democrats had decided among themselves there would be a gun ban and approached him afterwards to work out the details. He declined to tell reporters if he thinks thinks the ban is a good idea, citing the nonpartisan nature of his agency and its role to enforce legislative rules.  Democrats have not disputed Pike’s account. We rate the statements by the House leaders .
Statement: The No. 1 cause of death for African-American males 15-34 is murder.
Speaker: juan williams
About the speaker: Juan Williams is a Fox pundit.
Date: August 24, 2014
Topics: criminal justice;crime;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News Sunday
Fact-check justification: Williams said that the No. 1 cause of death for black men 15-34 years old is murder. CDC data supports the . Out of all causes of death, homicide claimed about 40 percent of black lives between 15 and 34 years. This was significantly higher than the national average for males of that age group, and all other racial groups. We rate Williams'  .
Statement: The Ukrainian government just indicted the Burisma gas company & named Hunter Biden for accepting millions of dollars from a slush fund.
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: November 20, 2019
Topics: criminal justice;impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who researches kleptocracy in Russia, told NBC that the lawmakers pushing new allegations at the press conference — Oleksandr Dubinsky and Andriy Derkach — are "professional disinformers. "  "This is generally known in Ukraine," he said, "this is not outstanding news. Anybody who’s anybody knows about these two. They are not credible. "  We rate these Facebook posts .
Statement: Muslims "attempted to establish the first Islamic Sharia court inside the United States in the town of Irving, Texas.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 29, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: legal issues;religion
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email said Muslims "attempted to establish the first Islamic Sharia court inside the United States in the town of Irving, Texas." Not so; news stories and the Islamic Tribunal website indicate a few Muslim individuals teamed up to offer Sharia-governed, non-binding mediation services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including in Irving, with the declared intent of complying with state and federal laws. We spotted no  of residents trying to open a Sharia court with all the powers that word implies. We judge this  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac.
Speaker: brigid shea
About the speaker: Brigid Shea, a former member of the Austin City Council, won election as the Precinct 2 member of the Travis County Commissioners Court in 2014. She earlier helped found Save Our Springs, a group devoted to protecting Barton Springs.
Date: April 16, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: transportation
Context: an Austin mayoral debate on KXAN-TV
Fact-check justification: During the debate, Shea responded to Leffingwell’s description of the plan to add a managed lane to each side of a stretch of MoPac by calling it a toll lane and saying Leffingwell had voted for it in a transportation plan. Our conclusion is that except for a select few kinds of motorists, drivers who use the new lanes would have to pay varying tolls. And Leffingwell voted for this approach thrice. Shea did not say MoPac would be entirely tolled. Her comment had the context already given at the debate by the mayor. We rate her  .
Statement: Says Tommy Tuberville "quit on his players" all four times that he was a college football coach.
Speaker: doug jones
About the speaker: Doug Jones is the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate special election in Alabama.
Date: October 1, 2020
Topics: candidate biography;sports
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Jones claimed Tuberville "quit on his players" all four times that he was a college football coach, suggesting he betrayed the players. But the circumstances of his departures are not that cut and dried. Tuberville shocked players and university administrators when he abruptly quit Mississippi and Texas Tech in order to take new coaching jobs. But he resigned from Auburn and Cincinnati after disappointing seasons that led the schools to look for new coaches.  We rate the  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.
Statement: Abraham Lincoln "visited and some say even danced in (the Ohio Senate) chamber.
Speaker: keith faber
About the speaker: State Rep. Keith Faber is running for state auditor in 2018. His hometown is Celina, in western Ohio.
Date: January 7, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: history
Context: the Ohio Senate
Fact-check justification: But we know that Lincoln visited the Statehouse on several occasions, and that he attended receptions and a ball. And Faber left himself room to two-step by phrasing the  about dancing as "some say." Some do say, and not without justification, that he danced there. He didn’t dance with Kate Chase, which is a bit of lore that Faber wisely left out of his opening day remarks. On the -O-Meter, Faber’s  rates .
Statement: First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year.
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: October 12, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Fact-check justification: In a Richardson campaign video, a narrator says Richardson's time frame to withdraw troops is "as quickly as they can safely exit the country." His web site -- www.getourtroopsout.com – emphasizes withdrawal in a matter of months, citing several past examples of large troop movements that have occurred in "as little as three months" or "in just a few months." It may be strategically smart of Richardson to drop the controversial six-months number that distracts from his main argument of a fast withdrawal. But we can't find any examples of Richardson "acknowledging" a year-long withdrawl time-frame either. We rate Biden's charge .
Statement: Silicon Valley Bank "donated $73M to 'BLM Movement'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 15, 2023
Topics: financial regulation;race and ethnicity
Context: a headline shared on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts claimed Silicon Valley Bank "donated $73M to 'BLM Movement.'" The  stemmed from a database kept by the Claremont Institute. It showed that since 2020, Silicon Valley Bank had donated or pledged to donate more than $70 million to causes "related" to the Black Lives Matter movement. The institute defined "related causes" as "organizations and initiatives that advance one or more aspects of BLM’s agenda." Black Lives Matter is not one entity with a set agenda; it is a decentralized international activist movement with no formal hierarchy. A close look at the Claremont list shows that Silicon Valley Bank’s charitable contributions went primarily to groups and initiatives with no clear association to the Black Lives Matter movement. We rate this  . RELATED: Was Silicon Valley Bank demise caused by Trump easing regulation, 'woke' efforts, or something else?
Statement: Says Michele Bachmann said, "The Chinese built a Great Wall 5,000 years ago. You don't see any illegal Mexicans in China.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 17, 2015
Topics: immigration;punditfact
Context: a meme
Fact-check justification: A meme says that Bachmann said, "The Chinese built a Great Wall 5,000 years ago. You don't see any illegal Mexicans in China." We found no  that Bachmann ever said this, and her spokeswoman said she did not, in fact, say it. The meme seems to have satirical origins but is now being passed off as fact. We rate the statement !
Statement: Barack Obama "rejects everyone white, including his mother and his grandparents.
Speaker: jerome r. corsi
About the speaker: Jerome R. Corsi is the author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. He is a senior staff writer for the conservative news Web site WorldNetDaily.com. In 2004, he co-authored a book attacking Democratic nominee John Kerry, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.
Date: August 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: his book <i>The Obama Nation</i>.
Fact-check justification: It's also worth noting that photographs document the Obama wedding and Obama's maternal grandparents visiting him at college. In August 2008, Obama took a weeklong break from the campaign to visit his maternal grandmother at her home in Hawaii. To conclude that Obama "rejects everyone white, including his mother and his grandparents," Corsi has to significantly read against the memoir's stated meaning. We find factual  also contradicts this statement, indicating that Obama maintained lifelong relations with his white relatives. We rate Corsi's statement !
Statement: 40,000 rejected vote by mail ballots in DeKalb County need to be cured by Friday or they will be tossed.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: November 4, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: elections
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Every legal vote will be counted." The tweet is . We rate it . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Says Barack Obama was silent on Iran "when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, (and) the Green Revolution occurred.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 22, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;foreign policy
Context: a foreign policy debate
Fact-check justification: Romney said that Obama was silent "when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, the Green Revolution occurred." Romney was referring to the aftermath of the June 13, 2009, re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which led to massive protests. Two days later on June 15, in response to a question at a press conference, Obama said he was "deeply troubled" by the violence, and that it would be  for him to remain silent. Obama made similar remarks the next day. On June 20, he issued a statement specifically calling on the Iranian government to stop the violence, and on June 23 he condemned the government for its response. Obama was criticized for showing a muted response in the days following the start of the protests. But it is an exaggeration to say that Obama was "silent." We rate this  .
Statement: In Florida children are required to take their first standardized test within 30 days of beginning kindergarten and Gov. DeSantis wants to extend that requirement to preschoolers.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: January 13, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a Sun Sentinel op ed
Fact-check justification: Sanders said, "But in Florida children are required to take their first standardized test within 30 days of beginning kindergarten and Gov. DeSantis wants to extend that requirement to preschoolers." Kindergarten students do take a standardized screening test during the first 30 days. We didn’t find any  that DeSantis wants to extend such a test to preschoolers (and we’ll note they are already tested).  The DeSantis administration called for an "accountability measure for all our school readiness programs" after a report showed 41% of VPK students were not prepared for kindergarten. But he has not been specific, and we haven’t found  that it will include new testing for VPK students in the first 30 days. We rate this statement .
Statement: Baltimore spends the third highest per capita on its public schools.
Speaker: chris wallace
About the speaker: Chris Wallace is the host of "Fox News Sunday."
Date: May 3, 2015
Topics: education;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Wallace said that Baltimore ranks third in per capita school spending.  That's only  if you look at the 100 largest school districts. Among the top 500, Baltimore ranks 20th. Among school districts with at least 5,000 students, Baltimore ranks 160th in spending. Wallace's  is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it Half .
Statement: Seventy-five percent of the young adults in this country are not mentally or physically fit to serve.
Speaker: bing west
About the speaker: Bing West is a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and a former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs in the Reagan administration. He is the author of numerous books on military affairs.
Date: February 25, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: military
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Bing West said 75 percent of young adults in the United States were physically or mentally unfit to serve in the military. The Defense Department and a non-governmental organization have both done research that support his . We find the statement   . (Comment on this ruling on providencejournal.com. If you have a  you'd like us to check, send it to [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter are going to pay a huge new tax.
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: May 2, 2021
Topics: taxes
Context: remarks on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Christie said, "Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter are going to pay a huge new tax." Biden is proposing a series of new taxes that could hit large inheritances in a significant way. But Christie is  to frame these as hitting "any family" passing down a business within the family. The White House says it will explicitly rule out this possibility when the formal legislation is written. But even if such protections aren’t enacted, the increased taxation would target only a small number of very wealthy families, since few businesses and farms have unrealized capital gains of $1 million or more. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says he's a "retired U.S. Navy officer.
Speaker: george p. bush
About the speaker: George Prescott Bush, formerly a corporate lawyer, won election as Texas land commissioner in 2014. He's renominated to seek a second term in 2018.
Date: February 14, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;military
Context: a mailer pointed out by challenger Jerry Patterson
Fact-check justification: In a voter mailer, Bush says he’s a "retired U.S. Navy officer." Bush served nearly a decade as an officer in the Navy Reserve. But that doesn’t make him a retired officer, we find. At minimum, Bush would need to have served longer to call himself that. We rate this self-description .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Obamacare "was the Republican plan in the early '90s.
Speaker: ellen qualls
About the speaker: Ellen Qualls is a Democratic strategist and former adviser to Nancy Pelosi. She previsouly worked as a television reporter in Virginia.
Date: November 12, 2013
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News Channel
Fact-check justification: Qualls said the Affordable Care Act "was the Republican plan in the '90s." The bill she had in mind did have a strong roster of Republicans behind it, and it did share many major features with the Affordable Care Act. There were some significant differences but in a side-by-side comparison, the similarities dominate. However, to call it the Republican plan, as though a majority of Republicans endorsed it, goes too far. The House Republicans took a different path, and there was opposition from more hard-line members of the Republican coalition. It is telling that the Chafee bill never became a full blown bill and never came up for a vote. We rate the statement .
Statement: Never once did they (House Republicans) actually cut spending or reduce the state budget. Even when they cut taxes in 2005, they increased spending.  They never paid for their tax cuts.
Speaker: armond budish
About the speaker: Rep. Armond Budish, a Democrat from Beachwood, Ohio, formerly was speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. Be became the minority leader in 2011 after Republicans regained control of the House in the 2010 elections.
Date: September 22, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Still, the impact in 2007 of the tax cuts was fairly light compared to the impact that had been projected for the current budget -- $4.2 billion. But when lawmakers adopted  Strickland’s proposal to push back the final year of the income tax cuts that pushed back some of the effect. The state actually ended up with $3.4 billion less to spend in the current budget than if the tax changes of 2005 never happened. So let’s get to the grading card and see what we got:       Budish’s statement is largely accurate but needs additional information to see the full picture. That’s why we rate Budish’s statement as .