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Statement: When we go to vote, they ask for driver's license and verify that you are a voter and a citizen in the state of Texas.
Speaker: farouk shami
About the speaker: Farouk Shami is a Palestinian-born businessman from Houston. He is the founder and chairman of Farouk Systems, Inc., a $1 billion corporation known for it's BioSilk and CHI hair care product lines.
Date: February 8, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: When we called that office, a representative told us (incorrectly) that we need a photo ID to vote — even if we have a voter registration card. She also said a driver's license is preferred. Shami is correct that poll workers verify that voters are registered — and voters can use a driver's license as a substitute for their registration card. But state law doesn't require poll workers to ask voters for their license, and voters can use other forms of ID to cast their ballots. We rate Shami's  .
Statement: Donald Trump is "against marriage equality. He wants to go back.
Speaker: sean patrick maloney
About the speaker: Sean Patrick Maloney is the congressman representing New York's 18th Congressional District. He was first elected in 2012.
Date: July 28, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: lgbtq;marriage
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Maloney said Trump is "against marriage equality" and "wants to go back" on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision. Trump has consistently opposed same-sex marriage in interviews since 2000. He also said he would consider appointing justices to the Supreme Court who would favor reversing the decision and leave the issue of same-sex marriage to the states. We rate this  as .
Statement: Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states.
Speaker: tom kean jr. 
About the speaker: Tom Kean Jr. is the Republican leader in the New Jersey State Senate. He represents parts of Morris, Somerset and Union counties.
Date: October 7, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Kean said Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states." Under Democratic control of the state Legislature and governor’s office, the state saw nearly 115 increases in taxes and fees or other tax policy changes. But Kean can’t attribute a loss of jobs in New Jersey solely to those changes. We rate his statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men.
Speaker: kirsten gillibrand
About the speaker: Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: April 23, 2013
Location: national
Topics: crime;military;women
Context: an interview with MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Gillibrand said that "one in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men." Her phrasing is somewhat  because her words suggest more recent incidents than the survey indicates. The survey included incidents anytime since the person joined the military. Still, her numbers are correct. We rate her statement .
Statement: Under a bill before the legislature, "you'd have to go to court to fire an employee.
Speaker: kenneth block
About the speaker: Kenneth Block is a software engineer and president of Simpatico Software Systems. He founded Rhode Island's Moderate Party and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010. He switched to the Republican Party in 2013 and made an unsuccessful run for Rhode Island Governor in 2014.
Date: March 2, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;jobs;labor;legal issues
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: If Block had stuck to his better-worded news release, he’d have been right. We rule Block’s statement  . (Correction: Matthew Schweich is the policy director for the Block campaign. The initial version of this item incorrectly identified him as the campaign manager.)
Statement: Under current U.S. immigration policy, "literally one person with a green card" can, in the extreme, bring in more than 270 of his relatives.
Speaker: phil gingrey
About the speaker: Phil Gingrey, a Republican, is a congressman from Georgia
Date: December 16, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration
Context: a state legislative committee meeting
Fact-check justification: Quotas mean it can take years -- even decades. Merely processing immigration documents can take months, if not years. Given that recent data show that the average immigrant brings in 2.1 others in his lifetime, Gingrey could easily have remained within the bounds of accuracy by describing an "extreme" scenario as one where two or three dozen others followed the first immigrant within 15 years.   Instead, he said "279" -- hundreds more than "extreme." We therefore rule Gingrey's statement .
Statement: A molecule found in a Himalayan fungus "kills cancer cells with 40 times potency.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 26, 2022
Topics: drugs;health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims a molecule found in a Himalayan fungus can kill cancer with "40 times the potency." The fungus, known as Ophiocordyceps sinensis, has been used in traditional Asian medicine to treat a variety of illnesses including cancer.  Researchers in the United Kingdom have found that the fungus contains an antiviral compound that has anti-cancer effects. They were able to derive a chemotherapy drug from the compound, and laboratory tests showed it was 40 times more potent in destroying cancer cells than what’s found naturally in the fungus.  It is the drug that’s derived from the compound in the fungus — not the compound in the fungus itself — that has the potent cancer-killing power. We rate this  .
Statement: They have 180 million people, families under what he wants to do, which will basically be socialized medicine — you won't even have a choice — they want to terminate 180 million plans.
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 22, 2020
Topics: health care;health check
Context: comments during the last presidential debate
Fact-check justification: While estimates show that there are a number of Americans that would likely leave their employer-sponsored coverage for the public plan, they would be doing that by choice and the estimates are nowhere near Trump’s 180 million figure.   Experts also agree that the public option is not socialized medicine, and it’s  to conflate Biden’s plan with Medicare for All.   We rate this  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Says "the headlines … tell the story" of how Walker has "mismanaged" Milwaukee County
Speaker: tom barrett
About the speaker: Tom Barrett served as the 44th mayor of Milwaukee from 2004 until 2021. The mayoral position is non-partisan. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly (1984–1989), Wisconsin Senate (1989–1993) and U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2003).
Barrett lost bids for governor in 2002, 2010 and in the 2012 recall race against Gov. Scott Walker. He was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg on Dec. 23, 2021.
Date: September 30, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: message machine 2010
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: But the ad uses digital trickery to mix-and-match headlines, give stories greater emphasis than they originally received and to amplify Walker’s role in each by adding photos to the layout. In the art world, that would be considered forgery. There may be elements of  to some of the claims in isolation, but the way they are presented give viewers a  impression of what happened, how it was covered and the role Walker played. We’ll make our ruling clear: . ( Note: As of Oct. 7, 2010, the Barrett campaign removed the video from YouTube.)
Statement: Says Oak Grove is "one of the largest cities in Oregon" and is "the biggest city in Clackamas County and it's not a city.
Speaker: charlotte lehan
About the speaker: Charlotte Lehan was elected to the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners in November 2008 and appointed chair in March 2011. Prior to joining the board of commissioners, she was mayor of Wilsonville for 12 years.
Date: January 8, 2013
Location: oregon
Topics: census;city government;county government;population
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The cities she names -- Beaverton, Gresham and Hillsboro -- are twice the size. Third, Oak Grove itself has fewer than 20,000 people. Words matter to PolitiFact Oregon and here, she didn’t spell out the larger geographical area. We rate Lehan’s statement . It is partially accurate but leaves out a cumulation of important details.
Statement: 75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy.
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: February 4, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs;small business
Context: an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
Fact-check justification: And the BLS told us they didn’t track that data, either. But researchers there made a point of saying they were sure Batchelder’s statement was essentially correct. As one pointed out: 99 out of 100 employers are classified as small businesses, so saying 75 percent of all new jobs in Ohio are created by small businesses is hardly different than saying ALL businesses create ALL jobs. So the experts who deal with labor statistics back up Batchelder’s , but we also note that the absence of specific data on Ohio jobs is a point that provides clarification. On the -O-Meter we rate Batchelder’s statement as .
Statement: Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now.
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: July 22, 2009
Location: national
Topics: corporations;health care
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Getting back to our ruling, we wonder if Obama was simply remembering a story he'd read in the paper that day and puffed it up a bit. One health insurance company did report unexpected profits. But it's not clear yet whether others will. And the profits UnitedHealth reported were not "record profits." We find his statement .
Statement: The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China.
Speaker: john delaney
About the speaker: John Delaney is a former representative of Maryland’s 6th Congressional District. He served in the office from 2013 until 2019, and he did not run for re-election in 2018 because of his early announcement to run for president. Delaney received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and an honorary doctor of laws degree from Washington College. In 2017, he announced he is running for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: August 27, 2019
Location: national
Topics: environment;china;trade
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Delaney said the Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China. U.S.-Chinese trade tensions have expanded South American farmers’ opportunity to sell soybeans in China, which in turn has created an economic incentive to burn Amazon land so it can be used for crop production. But a more direct cause of the surge in wildfires is the loosening of deforestation rules under the current Brazilian government that favor the country’s agricultural and business interests. We rate this .
Statement: The past president (Barack Obama) brought Al Sharpton into the White House something like 80 times.
Speaker: glenn grothman
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Grothman, of the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, was first elected to Congress in 2014 after serving 21 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He represents the 6th Congressional District in east-central Wisconsin that includes all or parts of Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Winnebago, Columbia, Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties.  
 
Date: January 15, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: history
Context: a public forum
Fact-check justification: For the record, the Trump Administration has not made its White House Visitor Log information available to the public. Our rating Grothman said Obama "brought Al Sharpton into the White House something like 80 times. "  A December 2014 check of White House visitor logs by The Washington Post found that Sharpton's recorded visits stood at 72 at that time, though most were for large events.    Our analysis of logs through September 2016 showed 118 entries. For a statement that is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing, our rating is .
Statement: Josh Mandel "is lying about his own record. The rating of Ohio's investment fund has NOT improved.
Speaker: sherrod brown
About the speaker: Sherrod Brown is a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Ohio. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007.
Date: September 8, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2012
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: When we rated Mandel’s  in his email  for overstatement, that was for his use of the words ""just received," which we said could give the impression that the rating was new. He did not say in that email that the rating for the STAR Ohio fund had gone up. While the claims put the best possible spin on Mandel's performance, they do not qualify as "lying about his record." In that regard, the suggestion from the ad that he said the rating increased is just deceptive and . On the -O-Meter, the Brown campaign ad’s  rates .
Statement: One in six local election officials have received threats of violence" and threats against judges have doubled over four years and threats against members of Congress have increased by 10 times over five years.
Speaker: amy klobuchar
About the speaker: Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
Date: October 30, 2022
Location: national
Topics: congress;elections;crime;terrorism
Context: an interview on Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Klobuchar said "one in six local election officials have received threats of violence," that threats against judges have doubled over four years and threats against members of Congress have increased by 10 times over five years. A survey done for the Brennan Center earlier this year of about 600 local election officials nationwide found 1 in 6 faced threats. While Klobuchar singled out judges, federal data shows threats that were investigated against the judiciary and other federal court officials rose between three and four times between 2017 and 2021. The figure is closer to double if we look at a broader category of inappropriate comments and threats. Threats investigated against members of Congress rose from 902 in 2016 to 9,625 in 2021. We rate this statement . RELATED : Misinformation fuels  narratives about attack on Paul Pelosi RELATED : No, the Pelosis aren’t withholding surveillance video from police RELATED : Most states don’t explicitly ban guns at polls. Some lawmakers want to change that
Statement: A small business in my district" needed "31 different permits and fees just to be able to expand.
Speaker: connie mack
About the speaker: Connie Mack was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2004. Mack, of Fort Myers, lost a U.S. Senate race to Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003.
Date: August 11, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: government regulation;regulation
Context: remarks
Fact-check justification: Mack was on target in describing the number of permits and fees required of Marine Concepts. He might have even underestimated. But Marine Concepts is in a highly regulated industry, so it’s not an example of the typical amount of permits a company would have to get to expand. Many other types of businesses would require less permitting, a business liaison told PolitiFact Florida. We rate Mack’s  .
Statement: Says Warren Buffett asked people to forward a chain email about the "Congressional Reform Act of 2019.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 23, 2019
Topics: congress;federal budget;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In 2011, the phony legislation was called the "Congressional Reform Act of 2011" and while neither Trump nor Buffett were named, FactCheck.org checked its claims .    In 2012, U.S. News and World Report ran a story called "Warren Buffett and the mythical ‘Congressional Reform Act.’ "  "Incendiary emails like the bogus Buffett petition aren’t an argument for cleaning up Congress," the publication said. "They’re a better argument for civics tests for voters." We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: What do Rutgers University, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, Stockton College, Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common? They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years.
Speaker: joseph cryan
About the speaker: Joseph Cryan is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing parts of Union County. He previously served as the Assembly Majority Leader and the chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
Date: December 19, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: an Assembly session
Fact-check justification: Cryan said, "What do Rutgers University, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, Stockton College, Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common? They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years." Cryan cited statistics reported by the schools he names for first-time, full-time students starting a four-year program in 2004.  The graduation rates trend upward, though, for more recent years, and the rates jump substantially for students who took six years to earn their bachelor’s degree. Still, Cryan’s  is technically accurate and we therefore rate his  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: We've just now given over $100 billion" to Iran, "the equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion.
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: September 16, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: comments on the CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Huckabee said, "We've just now given over $100 billion (to Iran). The equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion." Huckabee’s $100 billion figure is one of the most commonly cited estimates of how much the Iranian economy will reap from sanctions relief under the Iran deal, though no one is fully certain of the amount. But he gives a  impression of the transaction by implying the United States is giving the money to Iran when it would just unfreeze the assets. We rate Huckabee’s  .
Statement: Texas "could be very close to herd immunity.
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: April 11, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Adding those totals together would mean that the state's immunity level ranges from 45-60%, while the herd immunity threshold is understood to range between 60-80%. However, other factors would subtract from the state's immunity level, like the fraction of people who receive a vaccine but aren’t protected, or the overlap of people who recovered from prior infection and received a vaccine. But there are no estimations for how many people fall into either of these categories, experts said. Furthermore, health officials urge everyone to get vaccinated — whether or not they've recovered from a past infection — because immunity from vaccines is known to be more durable than natural immunity. We rate this  .
Statement: Governor-elect Scott Walker's opposition to high-speed rail "killed 13,000 Wisconsin jobs
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: December 9, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;transportation
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The state Democratic Party claimed that Walker’s opposition to high-speed rail not only cost Wisconsin nearly $810 million in federal funds, but it "killed 13,000 Wisconsin jobs." The party relied on a report by an organization that two months earlier had disavowed the number after it was discredited by the Journal Sentinel.    Perhaps thousands of jobs were at stake, but there is no  that 13,000 jobs were lost. What’s more, that has been clear for some time -- and most everyone else has stopped using the figure. We rate the party’s  as .