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Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child.
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: February 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: abortion;candidate biography
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: Rubio said Clinton "believes that all abortion should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child." Clinton does not believe that all abortion should be legal. Instead, she’s said she supports restrictions on late-term abortions except in cases of rape, incest and when the mother’s life and health are in danger. That’s not the same thing as unequivocally supporting abortions "even on the due date" of the child. Such an abortion would be a purely hypothetical scenario; doctors said such a procedure doesn't make sense medically. We rate Rubio’s  .
Statement: Congressional candidate Chris Jacobs "voted against paid leave for COVID-19.
Speaker: nate mcmurray
About the speaker: Nathan McMurray is supervisor of the town of Grand Island, New York. He is a Democrat running for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 27th District. 
Date: April 8, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: workers;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: McMurray said Jacobs "voted against paid leave for COVID-19." Jacobs did vote against the New York Senate bill that provides paid sick leave to employees of                 non-essential businesses. Jacobs argued that while he supports the concept of sick leave for workers with COVID-19, he thought the particular bill offered placed too much of a burden on small businesses. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 27, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;poverty
Context: a meme on social media
Fact-check justification: The meme claims that "for every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps." The actual ratio is far smaller -- between 1.5-to-1 and 3.1-to-1. That doesn’t put the administration’s economic record in a very flattering light, but the ratio is far lower than the meme suggests. We rate the  .
Statement: No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.''
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: January 31, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: campaign finance;candidate biography
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: "No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’   In sheer numbers, that statement is correct: Obama bought many more ads than McCain did, both positive and negative. Nevertheless, two studies suggest that, overall, Obama's ads were not significantly more negative than his rival. He ran the most negative ads because he ran the most ads. We rate Rubio's statement .
Statement: Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 26, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;states
Context: a graphic circulating on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The graphic’s data uses data from the 2004 election rather than 2008, and the figures on taxes and spending date back to 2005. There are fewer states that would be labeled Republican based on the 2008 election, and there’s a strong likelihood that tax and spending data would have changed as well. Because of this likelihood, we downgrade the accuracy of this generally accurate chart to .
Statement: A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration.
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: November 20, 2007
Location: national
Topics: consumer safety;regulation
Context: Shenandoah, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Her complaints are echoed in a new report from an FDA advisory panel. The November 2007 report for the agency's Science Board said the FDA is so overburdened and underfunded that it can't effectively conduct routine surveillance. "The nation's food supply is at risk," the report said. And so we find that Sen. Clinton has a legitimate beef on ham and cheese. We find her  to be .
Statement: Cheri Beasley "vacated" a man's death sentence and "threw out" the indictment in a child assault case.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: May 13, 2022
Location: north carolina
Topics: crime
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The ad alleges that Cheri Beasley "failed to protect" victims by vacating a man’s death sentence and throwing out another convicted man’s indictment for assaulting a minor. In the death sentence case, Beasley did rule against sending Robinson to death row. But the ad leaves out two key facts: he had already been taken off death row, and her ruling kept in place a life sentence. So it’s  to suggest that victims aren’t protected from a man who remains behind bars. In the case with the minor, the ad accurately states that Beasley ruled in favor of throwing out the defendant’s indictment. It leaves out the argument of Beasley and the majority of the court: that prosecutors failed to comply with state law when indicting the man involved. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Her campaign and her supporters in her campaign were the ones that borne out the birther movement.
Speaker: reince priebus
About the speaker: Reince Priebus was the first chief of staff to President Donald Trump, replaced by John Kelly in July 2017. Priebus was previously chairman of the Republican National Committee, a post he assumed in 2011. He is also the former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. He was an unsuccessful Wisconsin state Senate candidate in 2004. He is a Kenosha, Wis., native and lawyer.
Date: August 29, 2016
Location: national
Topics: obama birth certificate
Context: an interview on NBC's Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Priebus said Clinton’s campaign and her supporters started the birther movement. Half of this  is . It has been reported by several news outlets that Clinton supporters sent emails accusing Obama of being born outside the United States. However, there is no  that Clinton or her official campaign had anything to do with it. On balance, we rate Priebus’  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3b1f7651-2206-4984-bf4f-534f5448ffd6
Statement: Whole of Italy goes into quarantine.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 10, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: According to Merriam Webster , it can mean "a state of forced isolation." Clearly not everyone in the country is being forced into isolation. But it can also mean "a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or transport of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests," a definition that fits what we are seeing in Italy. The country’s lockdown also seems well within the definition of quarantine used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: "to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. "  We rate this post .
Statement: Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country.
Speaker: jerome buting
About the speaker: Jerome Buting is a criminal defense lawyer based in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Wis. His past clients include Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man convicted of murder whose case is featured in the 2015 Netflix series "Making A Murderer."
Date: April 11, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;poverty;states
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Randy Kraft, spokesman for the State Public Defender in Wisconsin, told us his office in fall 2015 essentially updated the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers report by checking the laws in all 50 states and found no other state hourly rate had slipped below Wisconsin’s. Our rating Buting says Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country." According to the latest available data, Wisconsin’s rate was lowest among the 30 states that set hourly rates. But it’s worth noting that the effective hourly rates for the other states couldn’t be determined, because they use different systems. For a statement that is accurate but needs additional information, our rating is .
Statement: Rick Scott "increased tuition at our state colleges and universities by double digits.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: July 25, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget
Context: the realrickscott.com website
Fact-check justification: The Florida Democratic Party said Scott "increased tuition at our state colleges and universities by double digits." Democrats point to the base tuition increases of 8 percent in Scott’s first budget year and 5 percent in his second year. The state colleges did have those increases, but the universities only had the 8 percent hike -- not the 5 percent the next year. That line also didn’t specify a time period: that increase is over two years, not one. More recently, Scott has opposed additional tuition increases. We rate this  .
Statement: We are 49th in the nation for our graduation rate
Speaker: dennis richardson
About the speaker: Dennis Richardson is a member of the Oregon House, representing District 4. He is an attorney and owns the law firm of Dennis Richardson & Associates, P.C., in Central Point.
Date: July 18, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: education
Context: a campaign debate
Fact-check justification: But because only 47 states submitted data, it’s  to say Oregon came in 49th. Richardson’s  is close but needs clarification. We rate the  . Thoughts on this PolitiFact Oregon piece? Go to OregonLive.com/politics to leave your comments.
Statement: Says Ted Cruz "said I was in favor in Libya. I never discussed that subject.
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: February 25, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: comments during the Houston GOP debate
Fact-check justification: Trump tried to  during the Houston debate that he never discussed supporting U.S. intervention in Libya. That’s patently , as Trump’s own words show. This  rates !
Statement: Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: August 15, 2016
Location: national
Topics: terrorism
Context: Youngstown, Ohio
Fact-check justification: Moments after mentioning 9/11, Giuliani said, "Under those eight years before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States." Since then, there have been four successful plots on U.S. soil that were declared by the FBI to be terrorist attacks or whose perpetrators claimed to be motivated by ideology or anti-U.S. sentiments. Reasonable people can disagree over the definition of jihad-inspired terrorism, but Giuliani is taking things too far by omitting all of them. We rate his  .
Statement: Greg Abbott "heads up a party whose platform calls for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: September 19, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: civil rights;elections
Context: the Rio Grande Valley
Fact-check justification: Davis said Abbott "heads up a party whose platform calls for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act." This  is accurate about the state party platform. But Abbott may or may not support repeal; he also isn’t his party’s chief, though it’s fair to suggest any governor has a role in guiding his or her state party.  – 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: Says Jon Huntsman supports changes in Medicare that would deny guaranteed benefits to 980,000 New Hampshire residents.
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: August 29, 2011
Location: national
Topics: medicare;new hampshire 2012
Context: a statement on the state Democratic website
Fact-check justification: But he ignores that there is the possibility that the current benefits could be trimmed and he is exaggerating the facts about the Ryan plan. Many details about the plan are still unclear, particularly what would be covered. The use of the word "guarantee" suggests something more certain in the future than is supported by the current state of the economy and the health care law.   It suggests that hard choices for somebody don’t lie ahead and that’s not very likely. We rule the statement .
Statement: Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first 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: October 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Romney said that Obama promised to introduce a comprehensive immigration bill but never did. Obama did make the promise in 2008 and while he talked about moving forward, he did not. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says the Ohio Consumers' Council office employs 74 lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication.
Speaker: william g. batchelder
About the speaker: William G. Batchelder is speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He represents the 69th House District, which encompasses most of Medina County.
Date: May 29, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget
Context: an appearance on the Ohio News Network
Fact-check justification: Rather, it is raised through fees levied on utilities. PolitiFact Ohio has noted before that as speaker, Batchelder is one of the most influential politicians in the state and Ohioans listen to what he says. In this case, he made the  on a television broadcast on a statewide news network. And in this case his statement is not just , but also makes a  . When that happens, the -O-Meter points to one rating: .
Statement: Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.
Speaker: cokie roberts
About the speaker: Cokie Roberts is a political journalist and commentator for ABC News. She also is a contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition. She previously was co-anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts and also worked for PBS.
Date: May 5, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: afghanistan;debt;iraq
Context: television interview
Fact-check justification: Studies that do not include the long-term costs list war costs at $1.4 trillion thus far in funds that have been approved by Congress. Assuming Roberts’  factored in future expenses, her  would fall in the appropriate range of estimated spending. But leave those out, and she comes up short. Her  is partially accurate, but needs a lot of context to be fully understood. We rate Roberts’  .
Statement: Says Sean Hannity told listeners of his radio show that "Beto O'Rourke is asking for help in getting undocumented to vote.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 7, 2018
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: I’m not making it up, it was in the Austin American-Statesman," Hannity said. What Hannity failed to mention is that O’Rourke’s campaign said the text message "was sent by an impostor," and not by O’Rourke or his team, according to an American-Statesman Sept. 5 story . The Austin American-Statesman publishes PolitiFact Texas . The joemygod.com story is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Under President Barack Obama: 4 million jobs lost, unemployment rose from 7.8% to 9.9%, the S&P 500 was 1,115.1 and the GDP went down 2.8%.
Speaker: markwayne mullin
About the speaker: Markwayne Mullin is the United States representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district 
Date: January 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a post on Rep. Mullin's Facebook page
Fact-check justification: Mullin compared improvements in the economy during Trump’s first year with negative statistics during Obama’s. The post doesn’t note it, but Obama’s numbers are for only his first year in office. While those numbers are accurate enough, they ignore that Obama took office as the country was sliding into the depths of the Great Recession. In contrast, Trump inherited an economy on the upswing. Mullin overlooks the gain of 11 million jobs and an unemployment rate that fell by more than half under Obama. There’s some accuracy to the stats in this statement, but they aren’t labeled clearly. We rate this  .   PolitiFact Democratic guest columnist former U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire says we generously rated Mullin’s Facebook post . Read his critique here . Read more about our guest columnists here.
Statement: Says about 25 Texas cities and 39 states have banned texting while driving.
Speaker: tom craddick
About the speaker: Tom Craddick of Midland, a House member since 1969, was elected by that body as the first Republican House speaker in 2003 and won the post again in 2005 and 2007 before Rep. Joe Straus of San Antonio was chosen in 2009. He is the most senior member of the House.
Date: November 12, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: public safety;transportation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Craddick said 39 states and about 25 Texas cities have banned texting while driving. That’s correct, making his statement .
Statement: There has been a 100 percent "increase in student debt under this Democratic White House.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: August 10, 2015
Location: national
Topics: debt;education
Context: a Twitter exchange
Fact-check justification: Bush said there has been a 100 percent "increase in student debt under this Democratic White House." There has been a substantial increase in student loan debt over the course of Obama’s presidency -- but it’s an increase of about 86 percent, not 100 percent. Experts also told us that student loan debt was growing before Obama took office, too, and much of the increase that happened under his watch was a result of the recession and other factors out of the White House’s control. We rate Bush’s  .
Statement: Says bus riders subsidize the "expensive, romanticized" Leander-to-Austin train.
Speaker: clay dafoe
About the speaker: Tax preparer and Austin mayoral candidate
Date: April 16, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;transportation
Context: a mayoral candidate debate on KXAN-TV
Fact-check justification: Cap Metro’s buses pull more of their weight, so to speak, than its trains. But neither system turns a profit, and besides, most of the agency’s budget comes from sales tax, not tickets to ride. So if anybody’s "subsidizing" the trains, it’s Austin-area shoppers, though that group likely overlaps with bus riders. We rate Dafoe’s statement .
Statement: There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who've had no income interruption whatsoever.
Speaker: pat toomey
About the speaker: Pat Toomey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, having won election to his seat in 2010 by defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Toomey occupies the seat formerly held by Sen. Arlen Specter, to whom he narrowly lost in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Date: January 19, 2021
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus;pennsylvania
Context: a hearing
Fact-check justification: He eventually relented and signed the package into law without the larger payments.   Our ruling  Toomey said families with six-figure incomes who’ve had no income interruption will get several thousand dollars in payments under Biden’s coronavirus relief package. That’s right. Couples who make up to $150,000 annually will get $2,800, plus $600 for each child age 16 and under, on top of payments received from the last relief package. We rate the statement .