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Statement: Says 3.5 million U.S. citizens lost their employer-tied health insurance in March, while zero lost their coverage in 20 other large nations combined.
Speaker: public citizen
About the speaker: Public Citizen is a government watchdog that represents consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.
Date: April 4, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Public Citizen’s tweet showed the discrepancy between countries with universal health care and the U.S., in terms of jobs lost due to the coronavirus.   According to the Economic Policy Institute, the 3.5 million number is accurate, though it’s estimate examined the last two weeks of March and economists labeled the total "likely," not certain.   Meanwhile, the other countries listed each utilize a universal or government-provided health insurance model, meaning citizens there are not at risk of losing their health insurance if they lose their job. We rate this  .   window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: While Rob Portman relies on his super PAC and a handful of billionaires to do his dirty work, we don't have a super PAC, and quite frankly, we don't want one that spends millions to spew out lies and distortions.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: May 14, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;wealth
Context: a fundraising email by campaign manager
Fact-check justification: A Strickland for Senate fundraising email said, "While Rob Portman relies on his super PAC and a handful of billionaires to do his dirty work, we don’t have a super PAC." Strickland doesn’t have a super PAC solely focused on his campaign like the pro-Portman Fighting for Ohio. But big spenders still have Strickland’s back. It isn’t credible to say he’s impervious to the influence of dark money while still enjoying its benefits. The  is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate this  Half . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9d083367-2a63-48c5-9f3e-dd98d6775c7b
Statement: Says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year.
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: August 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: new hampshire 2012
Context: Litchfield, N.H
Fact-check justification: John Palguta, vice president with the Partnership for Public Service, a group that encourages people to work in government, said the studies don't prove that federal workers are overpaid. "There is no convincing  that a significant percentage of those federal employees who are paid above $100,000 a year are being paid at a level that is above what major private sector employers pay their employees in similar occupations, with similar levels of responsibility, and which require similar knowledge, skills, and abilities,’’ he said. It's worth noting that studies show federal salaries rose significantly under former President George W. Bush, and then by greater amounts under President Obama. Our Ruling Romney was slightly off by saying 25 percent, but the actual number is 21.5 percent, so he was in the ballpark. We rate his statement .
Statement: U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley made U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland cry at a committee hearing.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 6, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In the original video, which interested viewers can watch in full on C-SPAN’s website, Garland neither weeps nor shouts, depending on your interpretation of the word "cry."  Rather, Hawley asks Garland about a March 1 Washington Post article that described months of disputes between FBI agents and prosecutors over how to best recover classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.   Early in the clip in the Facebook post, Hawley’s time to speak expires, and the attorney general is then questioned by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. Neither of these senators made Garland cry, either.   We rate this post .
Statement: Tim Kaine proposed "over $6 billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governor's mansion until the time he left.
Speaker: george allen
About the speaker: George Allen was a U.S. senator from 2001-2007. He was governor of Virginia from 1994-1998.
Date: April 5, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: an e-mail
Fact-check justification: By our count, Kaine proposed raising about $4 billion in new taxes -- $1 billion in 2006, $1.1 billion in 2008 and $1.9 billion in 2009. Of those increases, the 2008 plan represented a second attempt to raise new road funding, and the 2009 proposal would have been partially offset by a $650 million reduction in local car taxes. So Allen’s campaign is right that Kaine proposed some tax increases, but inflates the number by 50 percent. The campaign also fails to acknowledge the offsets in Kaine’s final plan. We rate this  .
Statement: The COVID-19 future vaccine will come with the ID — a mark. The ID tells everyone you are free of COVID.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 11, 2020
Topics: religion;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Here’s what we know about vaccine tattoos: More than three years before the first novel coronavirus cases were reported, in July 2016, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started studying how using an invisible ink that could be injected into children along with vaccines could address vaccine tracking challenges in developing countries. The dye would be visible under near-infrared light for up to five years and provide a quick, affordable way of helping health providers know if a child’s vaccinations were current. The Gates Foundation contributed funds for this research.   But Kevin McHugh, a Rice University bioengineering professor who worked on the study, told Reuters that, to his knowledge, "there are no plans to use this for coronavirus." We rate this post .
Statement: The streetcar project proposed for downtown Milwaukee "would actually take precious revenue away" from the Milwaukee Public Schools.
Speaker: joe davis, sr.
About the speaker: Joe Davis, Sr. is a Milwaukee alderman representing the 2nd District on the city's northwest side. he has announced a bid for Milwaukee mayor in spring of 2016.
Date: January 17, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: transportation
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Rather, it’s additional tax base. From our perspective, that does lend some credibility to Davis . If the increased value went onto the overall tax rolls, all property taxpayers in the city would benefit. And, in theory, MPS could collect more without taking a bigger bite out of the pocketbooks of property owners. We rate the  .
Statement: Claims Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said: "It is necessary to eliminate unions in order to balance future budgets.
Speaker: ed garvey
About the speaker: Ed Garvey a Madison lawyer and publisher of FightingBob.com, a political opinion website. In 1986, he was the Democratic nominee in Wisconsin for U.S. Senate and in 1998 he was the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin governor. Garvey served as executive director of the National Football League Players Association union from 1971 until 1983.
Date: February 21, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: a newspaper column and blog post
Fact-check justification: We rate Garvey’s  as . (Editor’s note: Garvey returned our call on Feb. 28, 2011, after this item was posted. He could not cite a source for the purported quotation. He said he heard Fitzgerald make it, perhaps on a cable television talk show. Garvey added: "In any event," he said of the quotation, "it's totally consistent with his position, as I see it.")
Statement: She "led the fight to stop health insurance rate hikes and saved Rhode Island families over $150 million.
Speaker: elizabeth roberts
About the speaker: Elizabeth Roberts has been Rhode Island's Secretary of Health and Human Services since January 2015. Previously, she served as lieutenant governor from 2007 to 2015, the first woman to hold that office. Prior to that, she was a State Senator from Cranston and Warwick.
Date: October 28, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;health care
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: It's the businesses that save most of the money. In addition, many employees do not have families. For that reason, when it comes to the verbal , the Roberts assertion isn't completely . And because the words that appear on the commercial make the untrue  that she blocked the increase, it further undercuts her -- to use the Stephen Colbert word -- truthiness. So rate her seem  as .
Statement: Paul Ryan's Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: January 8, 2012
Location: national
Topics: congress;medicare;new hampshire 2012
Context: a Republican presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: Keeping in mind that Ryan’s Medicare proposal is only a broad outline right now, what we do know about it strikes us as fundamentally different from the health insurance that members of Congress receive, and on the point that matters most: cost to beneficiaries. At a minimum, the premium supports will not keep pace with the historic record of rapidly increasing health care costs. Additionally, seniors make significantly less income on average than members of Congress and likely will not have the same options to buy more expensive plans. Finally, they will not enjoy the same protection against rising costs that "Fair Share" provides members of Congress. We rate Santorum’s statement .
Statement: Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.
Speaker: louie gohmert
About the speaker: Louie Gohmert, a U.S. House member since 2005, is a former chief justice of the Texas 12th Court of Appeals and Smith County state district judge. He lives in Tyler.
Date: April 17, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;drugs;terrorism
Context: an interview on C-SPAN
Fact-check justification: Gohmert told C-SPAN that al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico. Since 9/11, there has been occasional speculation about al Qaeda operatives crossing into the country from Mexico. Notably, too, Napolitano said in 2011 that the U.S. government has thought about what would happen if the Zetas united with al Qaeda. However, there appears to be no  of al Qaeda now having camps in Mexico, with the drug cartels or otherwise. We rate this  as .
Statement: In rejecting his amendment, "Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen.
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: March 6, 2021
Location: national
Topics: education;stimulus;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that "Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen." Democrats voted down a Rubio amendment that would have tied the school aid amounts to whether school buildings were open to students. But education experts said it is not accurate to define closed or partly closed school buildings as ones that "refuse to reopen." Some schools that brought some students back backtracked in response to surging infections in the community.  Also, Rubio described the Democratic vote as being narrowly about reopening. They voted for money to help more schools reopen, to make changes to stay open and to provide remedial instruction to make up for lost ground. Rubio’s  is partly accurate, but leaves out important context. We rate it .
Statement: Will (HB2) threaten federal funding for public schools under Title IX? No, according to a federal court which has looked at a similar issue.
Speaker: pat mccrory
About the speaker: Pat McCrory, a Republican, was governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. Previously, he served as mayor of Charlotte.
Date: March 26, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: education;government regulation;lgbtq;sexuality
Context: a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law
Fact-check justification: Gov. Pat McCrory is correct that a federal judge said schools shouldn’t lose Title IX funding for not allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. But McCrory failed to mention that the case is still pending on appeal, and that there are questions about the judge’s impartiality. Furthermore, the threat of losing Title IX funds was real enough to convince authorities in Illinois and California to comply. In the end, it largely comes down to politics. The two judges who have ruled against transgender students are Republican political appointees. The federal departments of education and justice, which typically support transgender students, are run by Democratic political appointees. McCrory is right that a judge said there shouldn’t be a threat to Title IX funding in these types of situations. But that’s not to say there’s no threat at all – the official stance of the Obama administration, after all, has been enough of a threat to scare Illinois and California into making changes. Those are important pieces of context that are nowhere to be found in McCrory’s statement. We rate this statement .
Statement: Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., "voted for the pork-filled stimulus bill -- $1.9 million to study ants in Africa, $39 million for office upgrades for politicians.
Speaker: american crossroads
About the speaker: American Crossroads is a 527 campaign committee that supports Republican candidates.
Date: September 20, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;stimulus
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: It's  that Hodes voted for the bill, but at the time he had no way of knowing that those particular projects would be funded. It is a stretch to say that he voted for "$1.9 million to study ants in Africa," because he voted to add $3 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation. Its explanation of "$39 million for office upgrades for politicians" also leaves out significant details. It's a bond program, not a direct subsidy, and the money supports a large historical renovation, not simply "office upgrades for politicians." So we rate the ad's statement .
Statement: Photo shows Barack Obama and George Clooney in a compromising situation with a child.
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: June 1, 2020
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Contrary to the caption, Clooney appears to be briefly touching his stomach, not zipping up his pants.   Rather, it shows the men and someone else — we don’t know who — on a boat on Lake Como in Italy with several other people, including Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, Malia Obama, and other unidentified guests in 2019.   In photos published by the Daily Mail , different angles of the scene reveal that there are other people nearby but not in view in the image being shared on Facebook.   Several media outlets covered the boat ride, including USA Today and The Today Show . We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Chicago now has the highest employment in the private sector in the history of the city.
Speaker: rahm emanuel
About the speaker: Rahm Emanuel is the mayor of Chicago. He represented the Chicagoland area as a U.S. congressman prior to joining the White House as the first chief of staff in President Barack Obama’s administration. Emanuel also held various posts in the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1998, and worked as an investment banker in the private sector.
Date: January 9, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: jobs;population
Context: a talk radio appearance
Fact-check justification: Emanuel said,"Chicago now has the highest employment in the private sector in the history of the city." That  is refuted by a broad array of both state and federal jobs data which show Chicago was once a much bigger city with many more residents employed and many more jobs within the city limits than it has today. There is no doubt that the city jobs picture is brighter now than it has been in quite some time. But Emanuel took inarguably good news and sought to make it stupendous with his unsupportable contention that Chicago’s count of private sector jobs is now greater than at any time in the city’s history. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Ron Johnson gave himself a $10 million 'sweetheart corporate payout'
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: June 14, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: small business
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating In a recent TV ad, Feingold claims Johnson gave himself $10 million in a  "sweetheart corporate payout." The amount is accurate, and Johnson did essentially give it to himself since he acknowledged he was the one to approve it. But there’s no  to show this payment was unusual or out of line, as the tone and use of the "sweetheart" descriptor imply. An industry trade publication said the amount is reasonable given Johnson’s role and longevity. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, our rating is .
Statement: There is already a mosque four blocks away.
Speaker: michael bloomberg
About the speaker: Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The billionaire co-founded Bloomberg LP, a financial information and media company, in 1981. On Nov. 24, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on March 4, 2020.
Date: August 24, 2010
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;religion
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Plans for the new property are much more ambitious than the settings of the existing mosques, calling for a $100 million, 15-story community center  with a swimming pool, gym and basketball court, a 500-seat auditorium, a restaurant and culinary school, exhibitions, education programs, a library, reading room, art studios, childcare services and a September 11 memorial. The plans also include a mosque that the site's organizers estimated could attract as many as 2,000 worshippers on Fridays, according to the Washington Post . Again, in making his argument against a "no-mosque zone around the World Trade Center," Bloomberg said there's already a mosque four blocks away from Ground Zero. He's right. We rate his statement .
Statement: Said Sen. Thom Tillis "co-sponsored a bill that not only provided amnesty, but provided a clear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Speaker: garland tucker
About the speaker: Garland Tucker is a businessman running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina in 2020.
Date: May 8, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview with Sean Hannity
Fact-check justification: Tucker did not specify that the Succeed Act only pertained to that group, so his  gave the  impression that the proposed bill would grant a general amnesty for illegal immigration. Therefore, we rate it . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: The United States is "the oldest democracy" in the world.
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: June 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: history
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: While the United States is not the first to include elements of democracy, it is the oldest existing nation with a constitutional government in which the people elect their own government and representatives. We rate the  . (Editor's note: This item was posted, briefly, on July 1 with a rating of . Our work as a judging panel continued past that point, so it was temporarily taken down and now is re-posted with a final rating of ). https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e3108d84-0318-4f6d-a9ed-7d68e4c765db