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Statement: A private company building a natural gas pipeline into Florida "is being forced to spend months under the review of six federal agencies.
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 13, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: energy;government regulation
Context: his book ‘American Dreams’
Fact-check justification: Rubio said a private company building a natural gas pipeline into Florida "is being forced to spend months under the review of six federal agencies." When we checked on the groups involved in the building of the Sabal Trail Transmission expansion, five agencies were listed in paperwork from the builder. Throw in the fact the Department of Transportation has to okay the plans, that makes six. OSHA compliance could bring it to seven, but Rubio doesn’t need it. We rate the statement .
Statement: Pallet Company in Oregon City confirmed Antifa arsonist on camera. Douglas County Sheriff has 6 ANTIFA arsonists in custody.
Speaker: paul romero
About the speaker: Paul Joseph Romero Jr. is a former congressional candidate from Roseburg, Ore. He ran for Oregon's 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016 and 2018, and U.S. Senate in 2020. He lost in the Republican primary election each time.
Date: September 9, 2020
Location: oregon
Topics: fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: But multiple police departments and fire officials across the state say there’s no  that the wildfires are part of a "politically-driven arson campaign." All  points to a mix of drought, high winds, historic heat and fires set by an influx of people trying to enjoy the outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic. "Many of the fires currently burning in Oregon are still under investigation so I don’t have confirmation of cause," said Joy Krawczyk, a public affairs manager for the Oregon Department of Forestry. "That being said, I haven’t seen or heard anything that indicates that the statewide wildfires we’re battling are the result of a coordinated, politically-driven arson campaign." Romero’s tweet rates .
Statement: The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do.
Speaker: bill o'reilly
About the speaker: Bill O'Reilly hosted The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News until 2017. He formerly worked as a television news reporter and has authored numerous books.
Date: February 24, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;labor;pundits;workers
Context: on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"
Fact-check justification: In any case, none of the economists we spoke to thought the gap was especially surprising, either now or historically. So where does that leave us in terms of O’Reilly’s ? He said that "right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do." To say it’s "much lower" is a stretch, but he's right that it is lower. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: February 15, 2019
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;crime;women
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Biden said, "Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63%." He’s close on the percentage, which was 60 percent between 1994 and 2012. However, this data should be treated cautiously because it is six years old, and it’s unclear whether the decline is due to the law itself or to the broad, societal decline in all types of violent crime since the early 1990s. And after 2000, as violent crime continued to fall, the domestic violence rate remained about the same. We rate the statement .
Statement: 70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone.
Speaker: kathy castor
About the speaker: Kathy Castor is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida’s 14th Congressional district, which includes Tampa and St. Petersburg and parts of Hillsborough, Pinellas and Manatee counties. She was first elected in 2006.
Date: May 6, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: children;education;federal budget;poverty
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Castor said, "70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. … 2,000 in the state of Florida alone." Castor omitted that important qualifier "up to" 70,000 children that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided in February. Her Florida figure comes from the White House (2,700 for Florida) and the National Head Start Association (2,000). HHS hopes to provide data in June that will show how many spots for Head Start are actually being cut based on reporting by the programs. Until federal officials share that data, it is difficult to come up with an accurate nationwide number based on anecdotal  in news articles. Also, Castor used a vague term by saying the children will lose "access." Access could mean a number of things, from scaling back weeks of operation, removing bus service, or cutting enrolled kids. News reports show many programs are finding ways to completely avoid or at least reduce the number of affected children by cutting other parts of the program, such as staff retirement funds and cleaning services, and holding fundraisers. We rate this  .
Statement: Says when he was governor, "most of the Democrats" voted for his billion-dollar property-tax cuts, but U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin "voted against it.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: October 18, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;voting record;taxes
Context: debate comments
Fact-check justification: Baldwin was in Congress by then. Our rating Thompson claimed Baldwin, while in the Assembly, voted against a property tax relief plan that most other Democrats favored. There’s an element of  in that Baldwin voted no on the budget that prominently included a property tax relief plan. But most Democrats actually opposed the budget, a critical fact that undercuts the impression Thompson meant to leave -- that Baldwin had bucked her own party. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is hypocritical for challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law.
Speaker: ohio alliance for retired americans
About the speaker: The Alliance for Retired Americans is a nationwide organization, founded in May 2001, with 3 million members. It advocates on behalf of members, lobbying in areas such as laws, policies and politics. The Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans is it's state affiliation in the Buckeye State.
Date: January 10, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;voting record
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: You’ll pay a penalty for delaying if you change your mind, but you are free not to change your mind. You have that choice -- and about 4.7 million people, or 10 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, have made that choice, according to CMS figures cited by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Not a one of them is paying a fine. In other words, DeWine is not being hypocritical in challenging the 2010 health insurance mandate, because when he voted in 2003 for the prescription insurance program, he was not supporting a mandate. That’s why we rate the Alliance for Retired Americans’  .
Statement: Says former state Sen. Kelli Ward "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona.
Speaker: arizona grassroots action pac
About the speaker: Arizona Grassroots Action Political Action Committee describes itself as not being authorized by "any candidate or committee." However, the PAC has run ads against Republican Kelli Ward and Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, challengers in the November race for Sen. John McCain's U.S. Senate seat. 
Date: April 20, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: homeland security
Context: a political advertisement
Fact-check justification: The ad claimed Ward "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona." Ward did seek to limit the power of the NSA by preventing assistance from state and local law enforcement without a warrant. However, experts said calling it an outright "ban" on operations is beyond what the bill proposed. The legislation was meant to discourage federal agencies from collecting information without a warrant. We rate the ad’s  as .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e0152c92-7c02-4b73-8396-0d6a40f4c330
Statement: Says Barack Obama's "favorability rating in Israel once clocked in at 4 percent.
Speaker: kinky friedman
About the speaker: Kinky Friedman, a humorist, author and singer, sought the 2010 and 2014 Democratic nod for Texas agriculture commissioner. He ran as an independent for governor in 2006.
Date: August 24, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: israel;polls and public opinion
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: So, what of Friedman’s ? There was a 4-percent result in a poll, but that question covered the Obama administration’s support for Israel--not Obama’s popularity. Meantime, Obama has been viewed favorably by a greater share of Israelis. The statement misrepresents his standing. We rate it .
Statement: The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
Speaker: pray in jesus name project
About the speaker: The Pray in Jesus Name Project is an advocacy group founded by Gordon James Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy Chaplain.
Date: May 17, 2009
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;military;religion
Context: an advertisement
Fact-check justification: The clear implication of this advertisement is that soldiers aren't allowed to have their own Bibles, but that's not . The incident in question involved one soldier, not soldiers. The only real issue is when a soldier intends to use his or her Bible to evangalize about Christianity to the local population, a practice that violates a military policy unrelated to who is president. While much of this sentence is technically correct, it clearly is intended to distort. We rate it .
Statement: I have voted every year in Wisconsin.
Speaker: tommy thompson
About the speaker: Tommy Thompson, a Republican, was a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. He served as governor of Wisconsin from 1987 until 2001, when he left office to become President George W. Bush's secretary of health and human services. He previously spent 20 years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Thompson briefly ran for president, withdrawing in 2007.
Date: July 22, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;elections;voting record
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Records show that since fall 2002, he missed voting in elections in five different years. We rate his statement . Aug. 13, 2012 -- a footnote: Folks who heard Thompson's  might have thought he meant he had voted in every election. The record shows he did not vote in every election. And to be clear, he missed voting entirely in 2003 and 2005 (there were two statewide elections both years).
Statement: Says Sen. John McCain "has taken more money from Wall Street than any other sitting senator.
Speaker: ann kirkpatrick
About the speaker: Ann Kirkpatrick is a Democratic U.S. representative from Arizona’s 1st congressional district. She served one term, from 2009 to 2011, and was defeated for re-election by Republican Paul Gosar, before being elected again in 2013. 
Date: October 10, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Kirkpatrick said, "(McCain) has taken more money from Wall Street than any other sitting senator. The numbers are on the mark, but need clarification. McCain ran for president in 2008, which does involve a higher level of fundraising. Excluding his presidential run, the senior senator has taken significantly less money from Wall Street. On balance, we rate her  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ee15a938-4d9b-4ebc-b7b9-b765887d7b60
Statement: America's gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium's if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S.
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: August 20, 2013
Location: national
Topics: crime;pundits;guns
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Huckabee said that "America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S." Not only is this a strange way to analyze the numbers, but it’s not even correct on its own terms. Even after subtracting these four supposedly high-crime jurisdictions, the firearm-related homicide rate in the United States is still about four times higher than the rate in Belgium and the rest of Europe. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Mary Burke's "2007-'09 state budget had a tax hike of $1.8 billion -- costing every man, woman and child in the state an extra $310.
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: March 13, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a website ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating The state GOP said "Burke's 2007-'09 state budget had a tax hike of $1.8 billion -- costing every man, woman and child in the state an extra $310." The figures are basically on target, but the real target of the party’s  was Burke. And to put a governor’s entire state budget on an appointed Cabinet secretary is a misfire. We rate the statement . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's web page .
Statement: The blood test for coronavirus costs $3,200.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 27, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post says the "blood test for coronavirus costs $3,200." Testing for COVID-19 is free. But there could be costs associated with seeking such testing, like a visit to the hospital. In one case, in Florida, a man who worried he was infected initially faced a $3,270 bill even though he never received a coronavirus test.  We rate this post .
Statement: In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off.
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: June 4, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: elections;race and ethnicity
Context: a speech at Texas Southern University
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off." Clinton omits that this effort started before Bush was in office, though it did continue under his watch. In 2004, the state scrapped another purge after officials admitted errors. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. So we rate it .
Statement: Every person on death row was a foster kid.
Speaker: stephen wise
About the speaker: Stephen Wise is a Republican state senator from the 5th District of Florida. He was elected to the state Senate in 2001. Prior to that, he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives.
Date: March 31, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: children;families;public service
Context: a Senate Education PreK-12 committee hearing
Fact-check justification: To us, this  is woefully incomplete and unsubstantiated. The state agencies that supervise death row inmates and foster kids said they don't have information about inmates who were in foster care, nor do any other groups involved with death row or foster care that we could find. We easily found two cases of inmates on death row who had not been through the foster care system, disproving the  of "all" death row inmates. A foster care advocate who made the same  two years earlier says today he can't vouch for it. Perhaps Wise was just repeating Dunlavy's comment from 2009, or perhaps he is privy to other information that "every person on death row was a foster kid." We wish that the senator had called back to tell us the source for his comment, because it carries a harsh sting for those who are or have been in foster care, as well as the officials, families and volunteers who work with them. If we hear from him later, we will update this item. For now, we rate the  .
Statement: Says Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad chartered a plane to remove 124 young illegal immigrants from his state and take them back to Honduras.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: August 26, 2014
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: The chain email said that Branstad chartered a plane to remove 124 young illegal immigrants from his state and take them back to Honduras. Branstad’s office denies this, and there is no credible  to undercut the governor’s account. In addition, Branstad would have no authority to make such a move on his own. We rate the  .
Statement: I thought it was a terrible thing when (Nancy Pelosi) ripped up the speech. First of all, it's an official document. You're not allowed. It's illegal what she did. She broke the law.
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 7, 2020
Location: national
Topics: congress;legal issues
Context: a comment to reporters
Fact-check justification: Trump said Pelosi "broke the law" by ripping her copy of his speech. That’s not how the law in question works. The copy Pelosi tore was not the official document that would be shipped to the National Archives for preservation.  We rate this statement !
Statement: Rocks being dropped off in cages in LA for rioters. Compliments of George Soros.
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: June 1, 2020
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Here is the : THESE ARE SECURITY BARRIERS and have been here for almost a year! Nevertheless to alleviate people’s concern that they may be vandalized and used by rioters, they were temporarily removed (as can be seen in this picture). Stay safe, we are praying for you all, and may there only be goodness and peace in our community." The post includes a photo of the barriers without rocks. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent.
Speaker: mike villarreal
About the speaker: Mike Villarreal, a House member since 2000, resigned his seat on the cusp of the 2015 legislative session to run for mayor of San Antonio.
Date: August 6, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a Texas Capitol rally
Fact-check justification: He said that if he’d said the percentage of hourly workers earning the minimum wage or less in Texas has doubled since Perry's first full year as governor, his "point would have been the same, the audience would have understood the same idea, and the statement wouldn't be snagged on any technicalities." Asked why the governor is responsible for changes in the state’s share of minimum-wage hourly workers, Villarreal replied that Perry has taken credit for job creation in the state, so all jobs should be taken into account. He said he offered the comparison in arguing that Perry has not led Texas "towards investing in the education and human capital needed to grow high-paying jobs." Our take: Villarreal’s statement wobbles in two important ways, first by saying the percentages apply to the total Texas labor force when they do not and second by understating the percentage of hourly workers paid at or below the minimum wage before Perry became governor; it was 5.8 percent, not 4 percent, though the share dropped to 4.2 percent his first full year as governor. We rate Villarreal’s statement .
Statement: Says Paul Workman "voted in the Democrat primary, supporting Democrats with his vote.
Speaker: holly turner
About the speaker: Holly Turner is a lawyer who grew up in Seguin and moved to the district from Fort Worth in July 2009.
Date: February 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: So over 20 years, Workman voted in every Republican primary except for one in '94. What caused Workman to cross party lines and vote Democratic? We didn't find out; his campaign consultant, Eric Bearse, said Workman "doesn't recall voting in that primary." The record shows he did. We rate Turner's statement as .