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Statement: Insulin prices have "gone THRU THE ROOF for patients/taxpayers bc of manufacturer, health plan & PBM biz practices.
Speaker: chuck grassley
About the speaker: Chuck Grassley is a Republican senator from Iowa.
Date: January 14, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: corrections and updates;drugs;health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Grassley said that insulin prices have dramatically increased because of manufacturer, health plan, and pharmacy benefit manager practices. He’s right. Innovations alone aren’t enough to justify the extreme increases in price that have raised insulin costs over the years. PBMs, with their complicated discount negotiations; and manufacturers, with their continuing drive to increase earnings, both play a role. So do drug stores, pharmacies, and other suppliers who want to be competitive in the marketplace by offering consumers discounts. But the discounts don’t go to everyone with diabetes, and when they do, they vary from vendor to vendor. Multiple studies in recent years, testimony in public hearings, the drug’s pricing history, and sourcing in federal government reports show examples of complicated procedures related in large part to negotiated discounts for some vendors adding to overall insulin costs. We rate Grassley’s statement .  CORRECTION: A   previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the acronym PBM stood for pharmacy business manager; it is pharmacy benefit manager.
Statement: Says Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the N.H. Republican Party, owes $92,000 in back taxes.
Speaker: new hampshire democratic party
About the speaker: The New Hampshire Democratic Party is the Granite State's branch of the Democratic National Committee.
Date: March 5, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: taxes
Context: a written statement
Fact-check justification: "I have been honest about the struggles that my family faced after my husband lost his job, and we stepped up on our own to pay our obligations," Horn wrote in an email to The Telegraph. Our ruling: Federal tax documents, kept by the county registry of deeds, support Buckley’s  that Horn owes $92,000 in back taxes -- or at least she did 20 months ago. The tax lien, issued by the IRS in July 2011, reflects the amount Horn and her husband owed at that time, but it does not consider any payments they may have made since then. The lien is still active, which means Horn still owes some amount, but because the IRS does not disclose more recent tax information, it is impossible to tell how much Horn owes at this time. With that in mind, we rate Buckley’s statement .
Statement: Romney outsourced call center jobs to India.
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: June 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Obama’s ad charges that "Romney outsourced call center jobs to India." The Obama campaign's wording suggests a broader, more deliberate policy when the state was sending some work overseas. But in choosing to veto the bill, Romney let the arrangement continue. The statement leaves out important information. We rate it .
Statement: Says Barack Obama "is the first president in modern history not to have a single year of 3 percent growth.
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: October 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a campaign speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Obama is the first president in modern history not to have a single year of 3 percent growth." Although Trump’s light on specifics, that’s accurate if he is looking solely at year-over-year figures for GDP growth going back to the Hoover administration. Experts told us that presenting the stats the way Trump did doesn't tell the whole story. And if we examine the data annually by quarters, Obama has presided over periods of growth topping 3 percent. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c46d6ec9-ea86-45ce-8245-091394df52e0
Statement: President Obama "funneled" $716 billion out of Medicare "at the expense of the elderly.
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: August 29, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;medicare
Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: Ryan said Obama "funneled" $716 billion out of Medicare "at the expense of the elderly." This gives a very  impression. In fact, the law limits payments to health care providers and insurers to try to reduce the rapid growth of future Medicare spending. Lawmakers said they hoped the measures would improve care and efficiency. Those savings, spread out over the next 10 years, are then used to offset costs created by the law (especially coverage for the uninsured) so that the overall law doesn't add to the deficit. Ryan’s statement is exaggerated and we rate it .
Statement: Says Senate Republicans are "following a longstanding tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 20, 2016
Location: national
Topics: congress;supreme court
Context: "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: McConnell said Senate Republicans are "following a longstanding tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year." McConnell’s use of the phrase "longstanding tradition" is , as the Senate has chosen not to fill a Supreme Court seat that opens up during an election year just once in the past 100 years. The reality is that, at least in recent decades, the Senate has rarely been presented with the opportunity to consider a Supreme Court nominee in an election year. It’s so rare that there’s no fully analogous scenario to compare with the current debate over filling Scalia’s seat. McConnell’s statement is not accurate, so we rate it .
Statement: New York state law says you are alive when you begin to breathe.
Speaker: deborah glick
About the speaker: Deborah Glick is a Democrat and member of the New York State Assembly from Manhattan.
Date: January 17, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: abortion
Context: the Assembly chamber
Fact-check justification: Glick said during an Assembly debate that "New York state law says you are alive when you begin to breathe." State law says a person has been born alive when the fetus has exited the woman’s body and shows signs of life. The law specifically mentions breathing as one of the signs. But the law also mentions other  of life, such as a beating heart.  We rate this  as .
Statement: Says Jen Psaki said Joe Biden wants to protect "marked people.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 22, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: It’s clear in the video, and it’s clear from the context of her statement. She goes on to say,  "There are many people in this country who aren’t vaccinated" and that "we’ve also seen, during this time, the delta variant, a transmissible variant, pose greater risk, put more people in hospitals." The White House transcript of this Sept. 10 press briefing reflects that Psaki said "more," and not "marked." So does this transcript from Factba.se , which is unaffiliated with the White House.   We rate this post .
Statement: 'The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession.'
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 25, 2022
Topics: economy
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: Instagram posts said, "The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession." It’s certainly to the White House’s political advantage to get ahead of potentially bad economic news, and there are plenty of indications that the U.S. economy faces significant challenges, including the possibility of an eventual recession. But the White House blog post cited is not only accurate about the official definition, but  shows it’s not a definition the White House suddenly cooked up as cover. We rate the statement .
Statement: The five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all rank below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranks 2nd.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: February 21, 2011
Location: national
Topics: education;labor;workers
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: However, that’s all beyond the scope of our item. Ultimately, the Facebook post uses outdated data based on a questionable methodology. A review using current data finds that Wisconsin does perform better on test scores than the non-union states, but not as dramatically as suggested in the Facebook post. And there is at best limited  that unionization played a causal role in shaping differences in test scores. We rate the statement .
Statement: In the 2018 Florida governor's race "votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward. … I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended. … I stopped his Election from being stolen.
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 10, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: a statement on Truth Social
Fact-check justification: Trump said in the 2018 Florida governor's race "votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward. … I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended. … I stopped his Election from being stolen." Trump did not support his statement with . We don't know whether Trump called the Justice Department and asked it to investigate Broward's elections in November 2018, but we found no  of a federal investigation. State law enforcement investigated allegations of Democrats committing fraud in a few counties, including Broward, and found "no  of fraudulent intent."  DeSantis was declared the winner because he received the most votes, confirmed by a recount. We found no  of a criminal plot in Broward to "steal" the election from DeSantis. We rate this statement ! RELATED : Why does the Justice Department monitor polling sites? RELATED : Donald Trump's -O-Meter RELATED : Does running for president protect Donald Trump from legal issues? No
Statement: Advertisements for [Scott] Milne's travel company allow Milne to illegally use corporate funds.
Speaker: vermont democratic party
About the speaker: The Vermont Democratic Party is led by chair Terje Anderson. R. Christopher Di Mezzo is the party's spokesperson.
Date: June 10, 2020
Location: vermont
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Our verdict The Vermont Democratic Party said "Advertisements for Mr. Milne’s travel company allow Milne to illegally use corporate funds. "  While Milne’s ads may have the effect of boosting his name recognition, there is no support for the VDP’s  that the ads are illegal. Democrats could and do argue that Milne is "skirting" the law by appearing in his company’s advertisements while he is seeking public office.    But legal experts say that unless the advertisements refer to Milne’s candidacy, they would not violate Vermont campaign finance laws. We rate the VDP’s statement .
Statement: The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt.
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: September 4, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: debt;federal budget;stimulus
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The stimulus package came with a $787 billion price tag. If you include all growth in the national debt under the Obama administration, it’s roughly $5.4 trillion, not $16 trillion. The administration inherited a national debt of more than $10 trillion when it came into office. But Boehner’s  saddles the administration with responsibility for all of the $16 trillion. On the -O-Meter, Boehner’s  rates .
Statement: Says Texas is the only state that exempts jet fuel from its state motor fuels tax.
Speaker: eddie rodriguez
About the speaker: Eddie Rodriguez has represented Austin since he was first elected to the Texas House in 2002.
Date: June 22, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a forum
Fact-check justification: They’re all different." Finally, she forwarded a chart showing variations in tax methods showing too that 11 states charge a sales tax, yet no motor fuels tax, on jet fuel. We circled back to Rodriguez, who said he had assumed Texas was the only state that doesn’t levy the motor fuels tax on jet fuel because the exemption struck him as weird. Besides, he reminded, Texas still is one of the few states with the exemption. We rate his statement .
Statement: If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: January 27, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;foreign policy;religion
Context: an interview with CBN
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible." Hundreds of Syrian Christians have entered the United States through the refugee admissions program. Thousands more Christians from other countries targeted by Trump’s ban have also entered. During former President Barack Obama's tenure, there was no formal policy that discriminated against Christians. People who watch the refugee process closely said there was no actual discrimination against Christians, either. With nothing to support this , we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e1da0489-11fc-4450-bf0d-6d8317cfd7a4
Statement: Jeff Weems' "legal record is one of defending BP, Enron and just about every big oil company against the working man.
Speaker: david porter
About the speaker: David Porter was elected in 2010 to serve as a commissioner on the Texas Railroad Commission. He built his CPA practice in Midland.
Date: July 28, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;energy
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: However, Porter saying Weems has represented "just about every big oil company" is a stretch on Weems' actual legal record. Resolving whether Weems has battled working folk in court would entail a careful review of his cases. Porter hasn't done that, far as we can tell, nor do we have the resources to undertake it. We have to punt on this part. We rate Porter's statement .
Statement: Says Jeff Foxworthy wrote a list of examples explaining how "you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 19, 2019
Topics: abortion;immigration;debt;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Foxworthy is famous for his "You might be a redneck if…" jokes , but searching online we couldn’t find any credible  that he penned this list that touches on abortion, Muslims and federal debt.    Rather, we found users on web forums crediting someone named Fritz Edmunds with the list.   Snopes, which fact-checked this  back in 2013, also noted that "the original compiler of this appears to be Fritz Edmunds, who posted it to his ‘Politically ’ blog back in Feb. 3, 2013 (albeit with a disclaimer noting that ‘some of the ideas were from an email that did not contain a copyright’)." The link to that post is now dead but the url includes the words "channeling Jeff Foxworthy." We rate it .
Statement: Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village" founded by African Americans in 1825.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: June 5, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: history;race and ethnicity
Context: on social media
Fact-check justification: The TikTok video said, "Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village" founded by African Americans in 1825. Many of the earliest residents of Seneca Village were African Americans, and they were evicted through eminent domain before the park was built.  The brief history on the TikTok does leave out some of the details, including that Irish and German immigrants were also residents of Seneca Village and that Seneca Village only accounted for a fraction of what became Central Park. But the gist of the story is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Says Obama said black people have the "worst jobs, the worst housing" and face rampant police brutality, "but when so-called black committeemen came around election time we'd all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket, sell our souls for a Christmas turkey.
Speaker: committee to defend the president
About the speaker: The Committee to Defend the President is a political action committee that supports President Donald Trump's re-election.
Date: February 25, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a television ad attacking Joe Biden
Fact-check justification: A pro-Trump ad says that Obama said black people have the "worst jobs, the worst housing" and face rampant police brutality, "but when so-called black committeemen came around election time we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket, sell our souls for a Christmas turkey." While Obama did say those words, they were not his own. In his book "Dreams from my Father," Obama was describing a conversation with a Chicago barber who remembered African Americans helping elect Chicago’s first black mayor.  The ad creates an impression that Obama was describing the failure of Democrats, including Biden, to actually help blacks, while in reality, the passage was about a key African American election victory. We rate this  !
Statement: Twice as much (federal) money is going back to Hawaii, Virginia and Alaska than is coming home to Oregon.
Speaker: jim huffman
About the speaker:  
Jim Huffman has taught at Lewis & Clark Law School since 1973. He became acting dean in 1993 and dean from 1994 to 2006. Huffman graduated from Montana State University and earned a masters from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Date: September 2, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: federal budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: "Here’s just another example of how Oregon is drawing the short straw," she said.    Huffman is right that Oregon lags behind other states, but he stretches his point by singling out the three highest states for comparison and by saying that Oregon was "all but forgotten." This  is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it . Comment on this item.
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. John Barrow "left taxpayers on the hook for $950k study on genetic makeup of ants.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: September 18, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: stimulus;voting record
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: OK, so where does this leave us? Barrow did vote for the stimulus bill. It did not mention anything, however, about ant research, but some of the funds were used for such purposes. The NRCC headline is technically accurate, but it omits some important information to fully understand this issue. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, "is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that's been sprayed, it is killed.
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 7, 2020
Location: texas
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Gohmert said that there is a powder substance that, when mixed with water, is being used as a disinfecting mist in Germany. "Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed it is killed," he said. But no such product seems to exist and no similar product is in use in Germany. There are no products currently in use as disinfecting agents in the United States that come close to meeting the description Gohmert offered. Gohmert did not return a request seeking more information about his statement. His statement is not accurate and makes a  ; we rate it .