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Statement: With this reform, every insured American gets valuable consumer protections, and every uninsured American can become insured.
Speaker: lloyd doggett
About the speaker: Rep. Lloyd Doggett was initially elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: March 21, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: Now, where does that leave us with Doggett's floor statement? He's right about the law introducing consumer protections. Also, the law is expected to ease access to coverage, though not everyone benefits immediately. Still, starting in 2014, every American will be able to sign up for insurance. We rate Doggett's statement as .
Statement: Says Congressmen Paul Ryan and Todd Akin co-sponsored legislation "to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of 'forcible rape.'
Speaker: john wisniewski
About the speaker: John Wisniewski is a Democratic state Assemblyman representing a part of Middlesex County. Wisniewski also is chairman of the state Democratic Party.
Date: August 21, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: abortion
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In a news release, Wisniewski claimed Ryan and Akin co-sponsored legislation "to limit federal funding for abortion to victims of ‘forcible rape.’" It’s accurate that the two congressmen co-sponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, first in July 2010 and again in January 2011. Both original versions of the bill limited federal funding for abortions to pregnancies resulting from "forcible rape" and certain other circumstances. The term "forcible" was later removed from the bill, allowing federal funding for abortions in all cases of rape. But when Ryan and Akin originally signed on, the legislation included the phrase "forcible rape." We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden backs a fracking ban that would cost 100,000 Wisconsin jobs
Speaker: wisconsin trump victory
About the speaker: Wisconsin Trump Victory is a political group led jointly by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. 
Date: August 12, 2020
Location: national
Topics: energy;jobs;wisconsin
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: Trump Victory said that by backing a ban on fracking, Biden would cost 100,000 Wisconsinites their jobs.  Biden does not support an outright fracking ban, though he did speak inaccurately about his stance on the issue in a March 2020 debate.  As far as the 100,000 jobs, that figure includes a far larger range of jobs than just those related to the fracking industry, taking into account other oil and gas figures.  We rate this  .
Statement: The first (state) budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood...It resulted in the reduction of hours, the elimination of days, elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: September 4, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: abortion;health care;women
Context: a rally at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: At a Planned Parenthood rally, Booker went after Christie’s record of cutting funding for family planning services. "The first budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood," Booker said. "It resulted in, it resulted in the reduction of hours, the elimination of days, elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state." It’s  that Christie eliminated nearly $7.5 million for family planning services in the fiscal year 2011 budget, and has rejected efforts to restore that funding. That funding reduction led to the closure of six family planning clinics around the state. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit.
Speaker: john o'bannon
About the speaker: Del. John O'Bannon, R-Henrico, was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2000, filling a seat that Republican Eric Cantor left that year to make a successful run for Congress.
O'Bannon, a neurologist, was born in Richmond and got his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia -- now known as Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.  His wife, Patricia, is a long-serving member of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors.
Date: February 1, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion;crime
Context: a constituent survey
Fact-check justification: O’Bannon said "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit." As , he points broadly to a series of secretly recorded videos in which anti-abortion advocates - posing undercover as officials of a  biotech firm seeking to buy fetal tissue for research - met with Planned Parenthood officials. Planned Parenthood acknowledges that one of its clinics in each of two states - Washington and California - supplies fetal tissue to researchers but says they comply with federal law barring a financial profit from the transactions. O’Bannon’s statement implicitly accuses Planned Parenthood of breaking the law, so there’s a burden on him to prove the organization profited from sales. He falls short by simply pointing to the videos in which Planned Parenthood officials, under prodding from the undercover activists, say tissues probably could be obtained for $30 to $100 per sample. A medical ethicist tells us those fees seem to be a "reasonable" reimbursement for the cost of supplying the tissue. An investigation by Washington’s attorney general cleared Planned Parenthood of charges it was profiting from the sales in that state. Investigations in 11 other states also have cleared the organization. There’s simply nothing that proves O’Bannon’s  and much that contradicts it. So we rate his statement .
Statement: The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;legal issues;military;religion
Context: an e-mail received by many people
Fact-check justification: So to sum up, the ACLU said it was not suing over that. ("The ACLU believes very deeply in the cherished value of religious freedom, and the right of all Americans to practice the religion of their choosing — or to practice no religion at all — freely and without fear or compulsion," Matthews said.) The U.S. Department of Veterans doesn't know about any lawsuit. And the American Battle Monuments Commission said there is no lawsuit. So we rate this statement !
Statement: Opponents of Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act) complain of state expense, yet their only cost is the paper, postage and manpower required to send copies of legislation to the federal government for review.
Speaker: john lewis
About the speaker: Civil Rights icon John Lewis represents Georgia's 5th Congressional District. He was the recipient of the presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in February 2011. 
Lewis is the oldest surviving keynote speaker of the 1963 March on Washington.
 
Date: February 24, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: elections;supreme court
Context: newspaper column
Fact-check justification: But that option can be expensive. And there is also another more costly option for states that involves taking the case through the court system, which is likely to require significant amounts of money in legal fees. Lewis’  is partially accurate but leaves out important details about the second review method’s cost for more complex elections changes. For this missing information, we rated his  . Staff writer Karishma Mehrotra contributed to this story.
Statement: Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend, David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for agriculture commissioner.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: March 9, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;elections
Context: his autobiography
Fact-check justification: West Texas was swinging Republican anyway, and Perry, who was discouraged by his failure to advance in the House leadership and thinking of becoming a lobbyist, had nothing to lose.” The rest is dramatic Republican history: Perry, whose advisers included Rove, upset Hightower and has now held statewide office for nearly 20 years. Rove went on to help Bush to the White House. Others were involved, though, in Perry making his initial leap. We rate Rove’s statement as .
Statement: Says Ron Johnson "is benefiting from several super PACs, I am not.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: October 27, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: campaign finance;elections
Context: a meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board
Fact-check justification: Our rating Feingold said Johnson is "benefiting from several super PACs. And I am not." Simply put, he was. Though such spending for Johnson has been higher, Feingold has received significant super PAC support. Our rating is .
Statement: Phony" ballots "were printed without my name on it.
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 20, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;california;pennsylvania
Context: Erie, Pa
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Trump said "phony" ballots "were printed without my name on it." We found an instance of about 2,000 ballots sent to a single precinct in Los Angeles that skipped the presidential race entirely — not just his name, but Biden’s and the other candidates, too. The county quickly replaced those faulty ballots.   Errors are not  of a conspiracy to favor one candidate or commit fraud. We rate this statement .
Statement: Joe Biden announced that the U.S. dollar will now become cryptocurrency.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 12, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: It directed the Federal Reserve to weigh the risks of using digital currency and research the possibility of using a central bank digital currency.   In September, the Treasury Department published three reports in response to the order, identifying "the real challenges and risk of digital assets used for financial services," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement . The reports included one on the "future of money and payments," but it doesn’t suggest replacing the U.S. dollar with cryptocurrency. Biden also didn’t transform the dollar into a cryptocurrency.   We rate that  .
Statement: Goodwill Industries International pays workers with disabilities wages as low as pennies per  hour.
Speaker: national federation of the blind
About the speaker: The National Federation of the Blind is an advocacy organization for blind Americans.
Date: October 31, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: disability;income;jobs;workers
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: For Goodwill, which allows each of its independent affiliates to determine whether to use the reduced wage allowance, the pay scale varies. Some affiliates pay workers minimum wage and even more, while other affiliates do pay extremely low wages, depending on the situation and how much work employees are able to complete. In Georgia, all four affiliates pay disabled workers at least minimum wage. And two affiliates possess the lower wage certificate, which they could eventually decide to use. We rate the NFB’s  .
Statement: There are "paid protesters" involved in the Stephon Clark demonstrations.
Speaker: scott jones
About the speaker: Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones is the Republican challenger in California's 7th District Congressional race.
Date: April 2, 2018
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones claimed "paid protesters" inflamed recent demonstrations over the death of Stephon Clark. Protest organizers say Sacramento’s streets have been filled with volunteers, not for-hire demonstrators. They’ve called the sheriff’s  baseless. Jones appears to be the only top law enforcement official to make this assertion and has said he has  to back it up. His spokesman, however, declined to provide any information to support it and said it’s unlikely they ever will. When we evaluate statements at PolitiFact, the burden of proof is on the person making the . We’ll assess any information that might be released in the future. In the meantime, we rate Jones’  .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE: We have updated our fact check with comments from Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn and an organizer from the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter.  Read Capital Public Radio's full coverage of the Stephon Clark shooting here .  Our coverage includes PolitiFact California's article  on the facts behind police shootings.
Statement: Photo shows a sea of red-clad education advocates covering most of the Halifax Mall.
Speaker: mark jewell
About the speaker: Mark Jewell is President of the North Carolina Association of Educators.
Date: May 1, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: education
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Jewell tweeted a photo that showed a sea of red education advocates covering most of the Halifax Mall, located behind the legislature. There was a crowd. However, the photo was altered to make the crowd look larger than it was in reality. We rate the statement . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: Says Tony Evers is "a career politician.
Speaker: tim michels
About the speaker: Timothy J. Michels is an American politician and businessman from Brownsville, Wisconsin. He co-owns and co-manages Michels Corporation, a family-owned and operated construction company. A member of the Republican Party, Michels is a candidate in the 2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. Michels won the GOP primary for governor on August 9, 2022.
Date: September 4, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;elections
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Tim Michels claimed that Evers is a "career politician." In his 48-year working career, one could say he has held any elected office for 17 years, or spent four years as a partisan politician.  To label him a "career politician" ignores 31 years, or more than half his work life. But we also can’t ignore two earlier, unsuccessful, attempts to win the statewide job. That means we have a statement that "contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." And that’s our definition for .
Statement: If black America were a country, it'd be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world.
Speaker: larry elder
About the speaker: Larry Elder announced April 20 that he is running as a Republican for president. He lost the California gubernatorial recall election in 2021 and is a conservative radio talk show host.
Date: August 20, 2014
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;poverty;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN
Fact-check justification: Arguing that racism is "not a major problem," Elder said that "if black America were a country, it would be the 15th wealthiest in the world." Elder took an estimate of African-Americans' total earned income ($836 billion in 2011) and looked at how it compared to national GDPs (it was actually 16th). But comparing earned income for a group of people to national GDPs isn’t a sound methodology, experts told us. The comparison falls more off the rails when you look at things on a per capita basis. In that scenario, black America’s buying power would rank around 44th when compared to countries’ per capita GDPs. We rate his  . Correction: Elder said racism was not a "major" problem. An earlier version of this fact-check omitted the word major.
Statement: In Miami-Dade County, "we spend at our school system over $20 million every year" educating recent immigrants.
Speaker: carlos curbelo
About the speaker: In 2009, Carlos Curbelo was state director for Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux and was elected to the Miami-Dade school board in 2010. Curbelo, a Republican who lives in Kendall, won the Congressional District 26 seat in 2014 and 2016 and lost re-election in 2018 to Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.
Date: May 24, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;education
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: When talking on Fox News about the challenges posed by immigration, Curbelo said "I'll give you an example, in our hometown, Miami Dade County. We spend at our school system over $20 million every year as a direct result of the broken immigration system." The more than $20 million a year figure is valid; it reflects annual costs for new students who need English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL. The district spends additional money for existing students who need ESOL classes. Curbelo's comments also gloss over some of the complexity of immigration costs. We found differing opinion among experts as to what impact the law would have on school districts. Some said the costs would likely stay the same, other said costs would go up. Overall, we rate his statement .
Statement: Says Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, missed "79 percent of veterans affairs committee hearings.
Speaker: concerned veterans for america
About the speaker: Concerned Veterans for America is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization that advocates for veterans.
Date: July 25, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;veterans
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: A Concerned Veterans ad said Braley "skipped an astonishing 79 percent of veterans affairs committee hearings." When we analyzed the hearing transcripts, we found that he had missed about 76 percent of all 2011 and 2012 full committee hearings. He did, however, attend almost all of his subcommittee hearings. We rate this  .
Statement: Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama's willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump's "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 11, 2018
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The side-by-side quotes cast Hannity as criticizing Obama for being willing to talk to North Korea while praising Trump for his willingness to do the same thing. The quotations are pretty much accurate. But the image glosses over the different policy preferences of each man at the time Hannity spoke. In 2008, Obama said simply there were no preconditions for a meeting with the leader. In 2018, Trump’s administration voiced some relaxation on preconditions, but not a full rejection of them. At the same time, Trump agreed to a meeting before North Korea had done more than agree to hold off on testing during any talks. The image leaves out some context, but overall, we rate it .
Statement: Says in 2012 "Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote.
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: August 5, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections;history;human rights;legal issues
Context: a posting on various websites
Fact-check justification: An anonymous, viral post claims that in 2012, "Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote." Obama did lose in the four states that had such a law in effect in 2012, but those states historically vote Republican in presidential elections anyway. The post is flat  about Obama winning states that do not require a photo ID. He lost in 20 states that lacked the requirement. On the whole, we rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ae22eaa3-6b2d-4ae8-b909-e0b3d8f543fd
Statement: The Biden-backed infrastructure bill contains a provision establishing a per-mile driving tax.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 26, 2021
Topics: transportation;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: This is . The infrastructure bill would create a pilot program that would study the effect and viability of a per-mile driving tax among a group of volunteers. Enrollment in the pilot program would be voluntary, and participants would be fully reimbursed for any fees they pay.   We rate this  . ​
Statement: Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients.
Speaker: steve lonegan
About the speaker: The former mayor of Bogota in Bergen County, Steve Lonegan is the New Jersey director of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group. Lonegan ran unsuccessfully in 2005 and 2009 for the Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: October 24, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: medicaid
Context: an op-ed on the Asbury Park Press' website
Fact-check justification: In an op-ed last month, Lonegan claimed: "Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients." That statement is backed up by a recent study estimating that roughly 40 percent of New Jersey doctors were accepting new Medicaid patients in 2011. The study also suggests that fewer physicians accept such patients in states with lower Medicaid payment rates. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .