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Statement: Says Newt Gingrich "made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: December 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: a Republican presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: Bachmann said of Gingrich, "When he was in Washington, D.C., he made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion." She correctly stated what Gingrich told the RNC in 1998. She even used his exact words to describe partial-birth abortion, calling it a "barbaric procedure." Gingrich said he was being a pragmatist in order to maintain a majority in Congress so that it could successfully ban the procedure. He said he’d campaign for all Republicans, even those to the left of him, because he didn’t think party leaders should be "purging" Republican candidates and dictating to voters whom they should choose. Bachmann left out that context and thus, gave an incomplete impression of Gingrich’s position. Given all that, we rate her statement .
Statement: My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: May 10, 2022
Topics: debt;deficit;economy
Context: remarks at the White House
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor." The Treasury has announced its intention to pay down $26 billion in debt during the second quarter of 2022.  However, the federal government’s planned paydown during the second quarter — when the government is flush with tax payments — will be swamped by new borrowing during the other three quarters of the year. The Trump administration was also "planning" to pay down the debt during the second quarter of 2020 but was stymied by the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic.  We rate the statement .
Statement: Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate Cannon, Senate President-Designate Haridopolos and I stood up to Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his mismanagement of the party.
Speaker: john thrasher
About the speaker: John Thrasher is a Republican state Senator representing District 8 in Northeast Florida and the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
Date: July 6, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: legal issues
Context: a press release sent by the Republican Party of Florida
Fact-check justification: Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate Cannon and Senate President-Designate Haridopolos were top elected party leaders. Thrasher became a key player by virtue of his quick selection to replace Greer. Regardless of the behind-the-scenes nature of their attempts, the four politicians have been the most visible in their attempts to get Greer out of office. And they acted in the face of initial support for Greer from Gov. Crist, who at the time was still the nominal head of the party. We rate Thrasher’s statement .
Statement: Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: energy;weather
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: We rate this  . RELATED: No, renewable energy didn't 'thrust' Texas into statewide blackouts RELATED: Tucker Carlson falsely blames Green New Deal, wind energy for Texas power outage RELATED: Yes, aversion to federal regulation drove Texas to isolate its power grid RELATED: Fact-checking Texas Republicans on blackout blame RELATED: Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage RELATED: How Fox News, far-right TV blamed green energy for Texas’ power outages
Statement: Video shows people collapsing because of COVID-19 vaccines.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 29, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram reel
Fact-check justification: An Instagram reel suggested numerous clips of people collapsing were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine. PolitiFact verified the individuals in each clip, and none of the incidents were linked to the vaccine. Some of the clips predate the COVID-19 pandemic. We rate this  . PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: That 5% (wealth tax) starts at $159,000 per family.
Speaker: phil scott
About the speaker: Phil Scott is the 82nd governor of Vermont.
Date: September 29, 2020
Location: vermont
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Scott said "that 5% starts at $159,000 per family" when referring to his opponent’s proposed tax on the wealthiest Vermonters.  The Department of Taxes reports that filers with $159,000 in adjusted gross income would indeed be included in Vermont’s wealthiest 5%. While the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s analysis shows that 5% would encompass people making $215,000 or more, closer to Zuckerman’s projection, the Department of Taxes’ data is a more accurate reflection of who the current proposal would impact. We rate Scott’s statement .  Editor’s note: The headline on this article was changed after publication to better reflect the statement being fact-checked.
Statement: Trump looking to open up E Coast & new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP
Speaker: edward markey
About the speaker: Edward Markey was elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 2013 and previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: April 20, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: environment;oil spill
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Markey tweeted, "Trump looking to open up E Coast & new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP." During the campaign, Trump frequently expressed support to open up more oil drilling. Since in office, his administration proposed leasing 73 million acres offshore starting in August 2017. After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, Congress couldn’t agree on safety standards. The Obama administration took some steps to improve safety standards, though some environmentalists say that the government didn’t go far enough. We rate this  .
Statement: President Trump has passed more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman.
Speaker: tom mcclintock
About the speaker: a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
Date: April 28, 2017
Location: california
Topics: congress
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump has "worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Truman." California Republican Congressman Tom McClintock made a similar  about Trump passing more legislation than any president since Truman. In the first 100 days of his first full term, Truman signed 55 bills. The president with the highest count since then is Trump with 28. The national PoltiFact rated Spicer’s   , with the key clarification that none of the bills Trump has signed so far are major pieces of legislation. They added that his accomplishment doesn’t indicate that Trump has been particularly skilled at getting his agenda through Congress so far. For the same reasons, and with the same key clarification, we rate McClintock’s  .   – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Second Roy Moore Accuser Works For Michelle Obama Right NOW
Speaker: thelastlineofdefense.org
About the speaker: A web site associated with fake news. It is run by a man named Christopher Blair, a self-described "liberal troll" who wants to fool conservative readers with outlandish stories.
Date: November 11, 2017
Topics: elections;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The website was created by Christopher Blair who previously told PolitiFact he designed his parody site to fool conservatives with  stories most people would find . We messaged Blair on Facebook to ask about his post on Dourif "You're fact-checking fiction," he said. "There are satire disclaimers on every post." There is no  that Dourif accused Moore of groping her or that she works as Michelle Obama’s housekeeper. We rate this headline !
Statement: U.S. military arrests Dr. Deborah Birx.
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, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) "The United States military has arrested Dr. Deborah Birx, also known as ‘the scarf lady,’ after authenticating reports that she and her partner in crime, the still at-large Dr. Anthony Fauci, had conspired with the CDC to intentionally deceive the American public into believing that face masks are an effective method to mitigate the spread of COVID-19," the post on Real Raw News says .   Experts say that masks can be effective at preventing the spread of COVID-19 . And there is nothing to corroborate the unfounded allegation that Birx was arrested.   Like many of the other stories we have rated from this site, this post, too, gets a !
Statement: A photograph shows Barack Obama kissing David Cameron.
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: March 25, 2019
Topics: candidate biography;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Rather, it looks like a guerilla Photoshop job. The original photo shows Obama kissing Michelle. According to the caption on a Nov. 6, 2008, Belfast Telegraph story, it happened after he gave his victory speech in Chicago on election night on Nov. 4 that year. The image was also posted on other websites, like Pinterest .     We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: July 27, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a statement on the House floor
Fact-check justification: And we certainly think it's fair to question where such ideas might lead in a practical sense. Emanuel is a key health care adviser. But to make the sensational  that Emanuel says health care should not be extended to the disabled is a gross distortion of his position, lifted out of context from an academic paper in which he poses philosophical ideas but doesn't necessary endorse them. Emanuel's hefty medical record also counts for something, as well his unequivocal public position against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. We rule Bachmann's statement .
Statement: Says George Soros said, "I'm going to bring down the United States by funding Black Hate groups. We'll put them into a mental trap and make them blame white people. The Black community is the easiest to manipulate.
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: May 30, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If in 2014 he made the statement that appears in the Facebook post — even in a non-English language — it would make American news. But we found nothing to corroborate the post.   Finally, we reached out to Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic organization founded by Soros. The group told us that there’s no  to the post.   We rate if .
Statement: Disney+ has had over 350,000 cancellations in the last five days.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 8, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts  Disney lost over 350,000 Disney+ subscription days after conservatives called for boycotts. There is no  to support this. Disney has not released any data on its subscription numbers since February and more figures will be reported after the company’s next quarterly earnings call in May. We rate these unsupported posts . RELATED: ‘Don’t say gay’ vs. ‘parental rights': Fact-checking claims about Florida’s HB 1557
Statement: The new beverage tax will increase the cost of sodas, juice drinks, sports drinks, iced teas, and flavored water up to 50%.
Speaker: american beverage association
About the speaker: The American Beverage Association is an trade group that represents hundreds of beverage producers, distributors, franchise companies and support industries for non-alcoholic drinks.
Date: May 11, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: health care;public health;taxes
Context: a placard
Fact-check justification: That's not ; that's not how the bill is written. And if the companies decided to jack up the prices for the diet drinks and all-natural fruit drinks that would be exempted from the tax, the beverage association's estimate of the potential price increases would be even less . By trying to have it both ways, the American Beverage Association is making a  that is accurate but leaves out important details. So we rate its statement as  . (To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on Facebook .)
Statement: Perpetrators of school shootings "have been drugged in many cases … many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten.
Speaker: oliver north
About the speaker: Oliver North is the incoming president of the National Rifle Association. He is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel.
Date: May 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: drugs;guns
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: North said, "They have been drugged in many cases … many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten." A minor percentage of school shooters studied had been medicated, not "many." The notion that many have specifically been on the drug Ritalin since kindergarten has no factual basis. More broadly, causation has never been established between the medication and violence. We found no specific ties between ADHD medication and school shootings, either. We rate this statement .
Statement: Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes.
Speaker: katie mcginty
About the speaker: Katie McGinty is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania. She is a former secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection and served as Governor Tom Wolf's chief of staff.
Date: April 28, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: taxes
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: McGinty’s campaign says Toomey "advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes." While he told CNBC back in 2007 "Let’s not tax corporations" and his book mentions it as one of his two favored tax plans, the incumbent Senator seems to know that corporate taxes aren’t going away completely anytime soon. While it's  he’s most recently advocated for a lower tax rate and a simplified system, he did tell CNBC viewers he’d prefer no tax at all. We rate the  .
Statement: The VA negotiates prescription drug prices. Medicare doesn't do that.
Speaker: seth moulton
About the speaker: Seth Moulton is a representative of Massachusetts’s 6th Congressional District. He has represented the district since 2014. Moulton served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2001 to 2008 and attained the rank of captain. After being discharged from the Iraq War, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School. Moulton previously received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: June 2, 2019
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Moulton said that the VA negotiates drug prices but Medicare does not. All of our experts said the  is correct. Medicare isn’t allowed by law to negotiate prices on behalf of its beneficiaries. The VA — with 6 million patients — does negotiate and also has a legally enforced limit on the price of prescription drugs. We rate this statement .
Statement: We're worse than a Third World country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage.
Speaker: mike polensek
About the speaker: Mike Polensek is a longtime member of Cleveland City Council, serving for more than three decades. He represents Ward 11 in the northeast part of Cleveland along the Lake Erie shore.
Date: November 18, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;infrastructure
Context: a public meeting
Fact-check justification: The bottom line, she said, is what happens during overflows:  "It's a completely open sewer going directly to the rivers and streams. It is like Third World." So where does that leave Polensek’s statement? So we find Polensek’s statement has some elements of , but that also you need to know some important details to completely evaluate its accuracy. On the -O-Meter that scores a rating of .
Statement: The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program.
Speaker: fred thompson
About the speaker: Fred Thompson was a U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He graduated from Memphis State University and earned a law degree at Vanderbilt University. Thompson practiced law and served a variety of government counsel positions, including as minority counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities ("Watergate Committee"). In his acting career Thompson has appeared in 18 films, and recently worked as a TV actor, playing a prosecutor on the series Law and Order. Thompson was born in Alabama in 1942. He has been married to Jeri Kehn since 2002, and has four children, two from his first marriage. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 22, 2008.
Date: October 9, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Dearborn, Mich
Fact-check justification: In December 2006, the group released its report, The Way Forward: A New Approach, which recommended a new U.S. strategy. The 142-page report focused on the future of Iraq and did not address whether Saddam wanted to restart a nuclear program. So we find Thompson's  to be . It's possible that Thompson was referring to the Iraq Survey Group, a CIA panel that was formed to investigate whether there were weapons of mass destruction or the intent to produce WMDs in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The report found that Saddam did not produce or possess any weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade before the U.S.-led invasion, but that he "aspired to develop a nuclear capability — in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks."
Statement: Says the "last non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that #VoterID was necessary.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: February 12, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: Abbott said the "last non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that #VoterID was necessary." The Carter-Baker commission, the latest tri-partisan national body to review election reforms, recommended that states require citizens to present REAL ID cards to vote. Three of its 21 members dissented on the recommendation. The  rates as .