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Statement: In 2006, Planned Parenthood performed more prevention services and cancer screenings than abortions, but in 2013, there were more abortions.
Speaker: jason chaffetz
About the speaker: Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a second-term congressman, is the national security chair for the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
Date: September 29, 2015
Location: national
Topics: abortion;women
Context: a Congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: At the hearing, Chaffetz presented a chart that showed the number of abortions at Planned Parenthood rising higher than the number of preventive services and cancer screenings between 2006 and 2013. But that’s , disputed by the chart’s own, hard to read numerical labels. In fact, there were three times as many cancer screenings and prevention services as abortions in 2013. Experts in data presentation said this was an egregious example of using a chart to mislead. We rate the  .
Statement: Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent.
Speaker: laura tyson
About the speaker: Laura Tyson chaired the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council under President Bill Clinton. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California (Berkeley).
Date: August 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;education;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour''
Fact-check justification: That's not "below 4 percent," as Tyson said it was, but it's very close. In addition, the June 2010 BLS unemployment rate for those with more than a college degree is 3.3 percent. If Tyson was intending to use those statistics (which, once again, are not seasonally adjusted), she'd be correct -- but those aren't the most current figures. So, Tyson was right about the unemployment rate for college graduates and at worst, she was close on the unemployment rate for those with more than a college education. On balance, we rate her statement .
Statement: Pennsylvania rejected 372,000 mail-in ballots
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 18, 2020
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: elections
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said Pennsylvania rejected 372,000 mail-in ballots. That’s . The state rejected 372,000 applications for ballots, primarily because the voters had already requested one. We rate this statement .  This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more.
Statement: Says New York has 'bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.'
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: June 12, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: city government;government regulation;public health
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Perry said New York has "bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp." City officials are trying to tell New Yorkers they can’t buy large sizes of sugary drinks at some establishments -- but they haven’t succeeded. Notably, the ban Perry referred to would exempt convenience stores. We rate Perry’s statement as .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "doesn't believe in your right to keep a gun at home for self-defense.
Speaker: national rifle association
About the speaker: An advocacy group that fights restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Date: August 10, 2016
Location: north carolina
Topics: bush administration;negative campaigning;supreme court;guns
Fact-check justification: The NRA said Clinton "doesn’t believe in your right to keep a gun at home for self-defense." Clinton has never said that, nor could she do anything about it on her own even if she wanted to. She would need to rely on a new Supreme Court justice, who would first have to be approved by the currently Republican-led Senate. Clinton did say she disagreed with the Heller ruling, as the NRA points out. But she was talking about specifics and cited the same worries raised by the Bush administration, about looser restrictions on automatic weapons or carrying in public. We rate this  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/6645d7e7-d467-4db6-8d8f-35b88b37dd55
Statement: The Ohio Democratic Party has raised $1.1 million since the November election. A very small percentage of that has come from organized labor.
Speaker: chris redfern
About the speaker: Chris Redfern is chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, a post he has held since December 2005.
Date: May 4, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;labor
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Unions contributed a bit under 7 percent of the total, which allows Redfern -- generously speaking -- to  the it’s a "very small percentage" of what it raised so far. One important caveat: The figures presented by both Democrats and the GOP only take into account money given to the Democratic Party and its candidates. But that doesn’t include any money spent directly by labor organizations on behalf of a candidate. That’s a piece of additional information that provides clarification.    On the -O-Meter, we rate Redfern’s  .
Statement: This is a phony pandemic.
Speaker: bob good
About the speaker: Bob Good is the 2020 Republican nominee for Virginia's 5th Congressional District seat. A self-described biblical conservative, Good is a former associate athletic director at Liberty University, and served a term on the Campbell County's Board of Supervisors.
Good defeated incumbent Rep. Denver Riggleman at a convention in June 2020 to win the 5th District's GOP nominaion. He is opposed in the general election by Democrat Cameron Webb, a Charlottesville physician.
Webb graduated from Liberty in 1988 with a degree in finance.
Date: December 12, 2020
Location: virginia
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Good said the novel coronavirus is a "phony pandemic". COVID-19 has spread through every continent except Antarctica, racking 77 million cases and 1.7 million deaths. Leading science and health organizations across the world classify COVID as a pandemic. Good, without clear explanation, says it’s not. We rate Good’s statement !
Statement: You know what's in this bill? No medical malpractice suits until 2024, even if they're not COVID related.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: July 28, 2020
Topics: health care;legal issues;public health;coronavirus
Context: an MSNBC interview
Fact-check justification: It does set strict standards that must be met for a case to succeed. The standards also could restrict the number of cases filed, experts said. Regarding the bill's impact on lawsuits not related to COVID-19 care, some experts say the language is broad enough to have a chilling effect on all types of medical malpractice lawsuits.   Schumer’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says "Democratic Mayors in some of Wisconsin's largest cities closed voting locations in April to cause chaos.
Speaker: republican party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Republican Party works to elect Republicans to state and federal offices and advance the GOP agenda.
Date: July 7, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: In a tweet, the Wisconsin GOP said, "Democratic Mayors in some of Wisconsin's largest cities closed voting locations in April to cause chaos." There’s no question that Milwaukee and Green Bay had problems unlike anywhere else in the state, and their Democratic leaders weren’t shy about wanting to avoid an in-person election amid a public health crisis.  But the decision to consolidate polling places ultimately came down to poll worker shortages, and there was plenty of confusion due to legal maneuvering -- including from the GOP -- up until the last moments before election day. There’s no  to suggest the cities wanted to deliberately cause chaos, or that Democrats stood to benefit if they did. We rate this  .  window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, 'You know what? We should start colleges.'
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: January 22, 2015
Location: national
Topics: education;history
Context: an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota
Fact-check justification: Obama said "the reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ " Even allowing for some oversimplification in a live interview, Obama is exaggerating. Public colleges and universities are a distinct minority of all such institutions, and while they comprise a majority of enrollment nationally, private schools account for a significant minority of enrollment. Meanwhile, historians of American higher education note that even in the case of "public" universities, "politicians" can’t automatically  credit. The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rated it .
Statement: Says Bill Clinton "gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs" and said "we needed a regime change," even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 15, 2015
Location: national
Topics: history;foreign policy;military
Context: a social media post
Fact-check justification: The meme says Clinton "gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs" and "said we needed a regime change," even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush. Clinton did cite weapons of mass destruction in a speech about Iraq that year, but it was much more limited -- it focused on Hussein’s holdings of chemical weapons, not the alleged nuclear or biological stockpiles that Bush later used as a justification for the Iraq War. Meanwhile, Clinton did sign a law backing regime change in Iraq, but it was limited to assistance to homegrown opposition groups, not to a ground war aimed at toppling Hussein, as Bush later pursued. The meme contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: Australia is microchipping its public.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 3, 2017
Topics: fake news;technology;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: While it’s  some people have voluntarily been implanted, there’s not a shred of  to support the  notion that the procedure is mandatory in Australia, as this story claims. The  item appears to be a gross distortion of a puff piece from an actual Australian media outlet about an entrepreneur from Sydney who runs a business implanting microchips in customers’ skin. But there’s no  that the tech entrepreneur or her chip-implanting business are acting on behalf of the government of Australia, or that customers sought her service because a government policy requires them to do so. This bogus item follows a familiar  news formula, wending its way from a shocking, clickbait-y headline, through muddled reasoning that attempts to support an ultimately untenable central premise. We rate this statement .
Statement: Jurisdictions representing about 80% of WI residents have passed referendums or resolutions in favor of fair maps.
Speaker: chris larson
About the speaker: Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in November 2010. A former member of the Milwaukee County Board, he is a candidate for Milwaukee County executive in 2016.
Date: November 9, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues;states
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Larson said "jurisdictions representing 80% of Wisconsin residents" passed referendums or resolutions "in favor of fair maps."  According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, jurisdictions representing about 82% of Wisconsin’s population have approved either a referendum, resolution or both in support of fair maps.  We rate this  .
Statement: When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (President George W.) Bush's administration.
Speaker: scott surovell
About the speaker: Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, was first elected to the House of Delegates in 2009. He is a Virginia native who graduated from James Madison University in 1993 and the University of Virginia law school in 1996. Surovell is a co-founding partner and owner of Surovell Isaacs Petersen & Levy PLC, an 18-attorney law firm in Fairfax
Date: February 4, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: energy;history
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: Surovell said the decline of coal "started when natural gas took off … That started to begin in President (George W.) Bush’s administration." No doubt, natural gas has been gaining ground on coal in generating electricity. The trend started in the 1990s but clearly gained speed during the Bush administration when the production of natural gas -- a competitor of coal -- picked up. But analysts give little credit or blame to Bush for that trend. They note that other factors, such as technological innovation, entrepreneurship and policies of previous administrations, had more to do with laying the groundwork for the natural gas boom. On balance, we rate Surovell’s  .
Statement: Women in the U.S. get 23 percent less pay than men for the same exact work.
Speaker: jimmy carter
About the speaker: Jimmy Carter was elected president of the United States in 1976 and served one term. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The native of Plains, Georgia was submarine commander, peanut farmer, state senator and Georgia governor. 
Date: March 24, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: women
Context: Television interview
Fact-check justification: But it does not factor in occupations held, hours worked or length of tenure. That statistic does not refer to the pay of women doing "the same exact work" as men. There is a gender pay gap. But Carter vastly overstated it during his television interview. We rate Carter’s statement .
Statement: The COVID-19 vaccines' "spike protein is very dangerous, it's cytotoxic.
Speaker: youtube videos
About the speaker: Videos uploaded to YouTube.
Date: June 13, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a YouTube video
Fact-check justification: The headline of a widely circulated YouTube post, and a person speaking in the video, say the COVID-19 vaccines’ spike protein "is very dangerous, it's cytotoxic." U.S. public health authorities and vaccine experts say there is no  that the spike protein is toxic or cytotoxic. We rate the post . CORRECTION, June 16, 5:02 p.m.:  An earlier version of this fact-check incorrectly described how Johnson & Johnson's vaccine works. The rating is unchanged.
Statement: Law firm @POTUS used to show he has no ties to Russia was named Russia Law Firm of the Year for their extensive ties to Russia. Unreal.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: May 12, 2017
Location: national
Topics: elections;taxes
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Murphy said, "Law firm @POTUS used to show he has no ties to Russia was named Russia Law Firm of the Year for their extensive ties to Russia. Unreal." While any suggestion Trump shares the law firm's extensive ties is unproven, Murphy has the basic facts correct. The tax attorneys Trump has used to minimize his Russia ties are partners at Morgan Lewis, the 2016 "Russia Law Firm of the Year," which boasts significant work in Russia. The firm, however, says that Trump’s lawyer has done no work in Russia. We rate Murphy’s statement .
Statement: Democrats in the Legislature in 2009 voted for various "pork projects" including "a $5 million scoreboard for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker: club for growth
About the speaker: The Club for Growth is an anti-tax group.
Date: June 14, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: What’s more -- and more importantly -- the group misstates how the state money was used. About a fourth of the money went to the scoreboard. And it’s not specific to the Bucks. So it’s  in multiple ways. We rate it .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "abided by the ethics agreement" between the Clinton Foundation and the Obama administration.
Speaker: jennifer granholm
About the speaker: Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, is the Energy Secretary in the Biden administration. She served two terms as governor of Michigan, from 2003 to 2011.
Date: August 10, 2016
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Granholm said Clinton "abided by the ethics agreement" between the Clinton Foundation and the Obama administration. That's a  response that ignores what occurred at Clinton's State Department. Experts told us emails between Clinton aides and a foundation aide may not have been prohibited by the specific terms of the ethics pledges. But they demonstrate a blurring of the lines between official government business and Clinton’s personal connections — breaking the firewall Clinton agreed to preserve. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e0c97970-d37f-4572-bb2b-4d9ab6e116d8
Statement: New provisions of the health care law bar the use of flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs.
Speaker: pat mullins
About the speaker: Pat Mullins is chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. He became chairman in May 2009 and was re-elected to a second term in 2012. 
Mullins is a longtime Republican activist and ran unsuccessfully for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in 1979 and 1987. He was the Fairfax County GOP chairman from 1990 to 1996. Mullins moved to rural Louisa County in central Virginia and became the chairman of that county's Republican Committee in 2011.
Mullins sells insurance policies on horses for Markel Insurance, Glen Allen. He was born in St. Albans, W.V., earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, New York, and a law degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Date: January 3, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a letter.
Fact-check justification: It’s  that as of Jan. 1, FSA and HSA plans no longer offered reimbursements for over-the-counter drugs without a prescription. However, those same items could be covered with a prescription. Mullins misses a caveat by not noting that non-prescription items like crutches, bandages, and health supplies like diagnostic devices and blood sugar test kits remain covered. But his comments seem directed at drugs. We find his  .
Statement: Under Obama, the national debt "has been reduced every year for the last five years.
Speaker: al sharpton
About the speaker: The Rev. Al Sharpton, a minister based in New York City, is founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization. He is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and he hosts MSNBC PoliticsNation. Sharpton has run for the U.S. Senate and was a Democratic candidate for president in 2004.
Date: November 12, 2013
Topics: debt;punditfact
Context: a segment on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"
Fact-check justification: Sharpton said that the national debt "has been reduced every year for the last five years." Sharpton confused the downward trend in annual deficits with the debt, which is what he said on air and what Palin controversially likened to slavery. We rate his  .
Statement: Under Scott Walker, "right now, we're 46th in the country in terms of new businesses started.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: September 22, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;small business
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: But, again, that is a different measure than the one Burke cites. Our rating Burke said Wisconsin is "46th in the country in terms of new businesses started." Wisconsin actually ties for 45th in the well-known Kauffman index, in terms of new business owners in their first month of significant business activity. We rate the statement . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has "been mostly empty" for decades.
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: March 31, 2022
Topics: energy;gas prices
Context: a public statement
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades. In fact, it’s been  empty." First, it’s called the "Strategic Petroleum Reserve." Beyond that, the stockpile has been entirely full as recently as the early 2010s, and for almost a decade before Trump took office, the stockpile was generally 90% full or higher. Meanwhile, the percentage filled actually fell on Trump’s watch. We rate the statement .
Statement: Louie Gohmert of Texas "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on 'the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.'
Speaker: gail collins
About the speaker: Gail Collins is a columnist with the New York Times. She previously served on the New York Times editorial board and as a columnist for the New York Daily News and Newsday.
Date: October 3, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: crime;pundits;religion
Context: her opinion column
Fact-check justification: Collins said Gohmert "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on ‘the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.’" On the day of the shootings, Gohmert aired concern about attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs and referred, in the same breath, to the shootings. He also said later that day that some of his comments were taken out of context. We agree. Gohmert reflected on attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, but did not blame the shootings on such attacks. We rate Collins’ , which has an element of , as .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.