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Statement: In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, offshore drilling "did not cause any real difficulties.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: July 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: environment
Context: Albuquerque, N.M
Fact-check justification: If McCain's point is that no individual well spewed large amounts of oil into the Gulf as a result of Katrina and Rita, he's correct. But his comments at the town hall meeting were more vague. Talking about oil drilling and saying the storms "did not cause any real difficulties" seems like putting a happy face on a situation where damage did occur as a result of the oil and gas industry that permeates south Louisiana. If McCain had been more specific about rigs versus oil development as a whole, we might be inclined to give him a better rating. But in this case, we give his statement .
Statement: A clear majority of Americans support removing the cost-sharing requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage.
Speaker: rush holt
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is a Democrat representing New Jersey's 12th district.
Date: February 24, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care;women
Context: an e-mail newsletter
Fact-check justification: Holt  said "a clear majority of Americans support removing the cost-sharing requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage." We found eight polls that recently asked respondents whether they supported or opposed requiring health care plans to cover the cost of birth control. In six of those surveys there was majority support, only one of which could be impacted by a margin of error. Two others polls showed more opposition than support. Still, Holt’s  is backed by most of the polls we reviewed. Overall, this  is . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says U.S. is giving seven Alaskan islands to Russia.
Speaker: wes riddle
About the speaker: Wes Riddle, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, sought the 2012 Republican nod for a U.S. House seat in the incumbent-free 25th Congressional District. He described himself on his campaign website as the founder of the Central Texas Tea Party.
Date: May 16, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Though Riddle took the item off his Facebook page, he stands by it, so we’ll ratify our colleagues’ findings and rate his statement .
Statement: When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home.
Speaker: thaddeus mccotter
About the speaker: Thaddeus McCotter is a Republican House member from Michigan. He is also a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
Date: August 16, 2011
Location: national
Topics: housing
Context: the "National Review"
Fact-check justification: (It) is clear that lenders share the interest of homeowners and their communities to avoid foreclosure." In ruling on McCotter's statement, we want to be clear that we found no definitive national studies on what lenders lose when they foreclose on homes. Still, the  on pricing suggests that it could be in excess of 30 percent. Industry estimates also put the number at 30 percent or higher. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal "eliminates Medicare" in 10 years.
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: August 30, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;medicare
Context: remarks at a campaign fundraiser
Fact-check justification: The bottom line is that all seniors would continue to be offered coverage under the proposal, and the program’s budget would increase every year. The plan would reduce the growth in Medicare spending but not wipe out that spending. And current beneficiaries and those currently 55 and over would not be affected by the changes. It changes Medicare, dramatically, but does not eliminate it. We rate Biden’s statement .
Statement: In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State's) advance.
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 20, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State’s) advance." Obama’s language is carefully worded not to oversell the United States’ progress or the Islamic State’s lackthereof. And U.S. airstrikes have had a qualitative, if not quantifiable, impact on slowing the group’s swift spread compared with the situation last summer. However, Obama’s statement implies the United States is winning its war against the Islamic State, and that is not at all clear. While the terrorist group has stalled in Iraq, its movements in Syria are much more fluid. Things look improved today, but the situation can change quickly. Additionally, other countries in the region, including those outside our alliances, have played a role in fighting the Islamic State. Obama's statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: Revenues are 15 percent of GDP — it's still in the range of the lowest it's ever been.
Speaker: saxby chambliss
About the speaker: Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, is a United States senator from Georgia
Date: November 8, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Williams also pointed out some of the other major changes in government spending and revenue requirements, such as Great Society initiatives like Medicare, enacted in the 1960s. To summarize, Chambliss said federal revenue is in the range of the lowest it’s ever been. Since that type of data has been recorded by the federal government, the only time it’s been lower for a period longer than now was before World War II. We still believe that bit of context is necessary to fully examine the senator’s . Our rating: .
Statement: Elizabeth Warren doesn't think Obamacare goes far enough: 'The next step is single payer.' Does Sen. Nelson agree? He has in the past ... Sen. Nelson votes with Warren 90 percent of the time.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 5, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a Facebook ad
Fact-check justification: Sen. Nelson votes with Warren 90 percent of the time." The ad suggests that Nelson supports Warren on most things, including a single-payer health care system. Actually, Nelson has said he doesn’t support single payer and wants to focus on preserving current law. His voting record is similar to Warren’s, but members of the same party increasingly vote alike due to a lack of bipartisan votes in the Senate. We rate this  .
Statement: As chairman of the City Colleges, I cut millions in waste and we cut property taxes.
Speaker: gery chico
About the speaker: Chico served as chief of staff to Mayor Richard. M. Daley from 1992 to 1995, then board president of Daley's Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001. In 2007 he became president of the Chicago Park District. And in 2010 he served seven months as president of the City Colleges board. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Chicago in 2011 and is now running for that post again in 2019.
Date: January 2, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: city budget;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Chico said, "as chairman of the City Colleges, I cut millions in waste and we cut property taxes." He had but a cup of coffee at City Colleges, to borrow a phrase from baseball for a player who served just a short time in the Major Leagues. Spending was cut under Chico, as were taxes. But the savings to the owner of a modest Chicago bungalow amounted to  enough to buy a real cup of coffee. What’s more, records make clear that a big portion of the tax cuts he takes credit for were set in motion before he arrived at City Colleges. Chico’s statement is accurate on its face but leaves out key details and context. We rate it .   – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here  for more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Medicaid is close to 30 percent of the state budget and "the biggest expenditure at the state.
Speaker: florida chamber of commerce
About the speaker: The Florida Chamber of Commerce is a business group that is supporting a series of proposed education reforms that would tie teacher pay increases to student performance.
Date: March 10, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: medicaid;state budget
Context: a Senate health policy committee hearing
Fact-check justification: Medicaid is close to 30 percent of the state budget and "the biggest expenditure at the state," Wilson said. There are two ways to look at Medicaid spending. The 30 percent figure is correct if Wilson counts both the state and federal dollars that go toward Medicaid, and it is the biggest expendituree. However, if we only count state dollars, then education eats up a bigger piece of the budget. It's important to understand that the federal government contributes to Medicaid, so the statement is accurate but needs additional information. We rate this  .
Statement: The Commission on Presidential Debates wrote a letter after the 2016 presidential debates apologizing to Donald Trump.
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 8, 2020
Topics: debates;elections
Context: an interview with Fox News
Fact-check justification: President Trump said that the Commission on Presidential Debates wrote him an apology letter in 2016 over oscillating his microphone during the first general election debate against Hillary Clinton. The organization released a one-sentence statement that noted that there was an issue with Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall, but not his audio for Americans who watched the debate on TV. The group was not forced to publicly apologize for the malfunction and we found no  that it sent Trump a letter doing so. Trump’s  is unsubstantiated. We rate it .
Statement: The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds" of stool stuck in their gut.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 18, 2023
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks;health check
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed "the average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds" of stool "stuck" in their gut. Doctors told PolitiFact that average people do not have 5 to 15 pounds of stool "stuck" in their gut. The cells that form the lining of the intestine regenerate continuously and are fully replaced in less than a week, meaning that stool does not remain stuck there for extended periods.  Experts also noted that despite what some digestive supplements sellers might , it is impossible to fully eliminate all the waste in the gut because it is always being formed.  We rate these claims . RELATED: Parasite cleanses are ineffective and harmful RELATED: There’s no scientific  to support that these supplements can kill the coronavirus
Statement: I'm ninth generation from New Hampshire.
Speaker: scott brown
About the speaker: Scott Brown was elected a Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 2010. He lost re-election in 2012 and subsequently became a political commentator for Fox News. In March 2014, Brown announced that he was considering entering the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire.
Date: October 28, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: candidate biography;families
Context: speech to the Nashua Rotary Club
Fact-check justification: Brown said he is "ninth generation from New Hampshire." For the most part, this is : Brown’s New Hampshire lineage connects his grandmother to some of the region’s earliest European inhabitants. In fact, one of Brown’s ancestors, Francis Mathews, came to the New World in 1634 specifically to help settle the territory that became New Hampshire. But this isn’t the only relevant fact to consider. Brown’s statement can also be interpreted to mean that Brown counts himself as part of an unbroken line of ancestors who are "from" New Hampshire. It’s clear that Brown and his mother spent much of their lives in Massachusetts. The family connection to New Hampshire weakened after the birth of Brown’s grandmother, Bertha Rugg, who moved to Massachusetts and raised her daughter -- Brown’s mother -- in the Bay State. Brown himself stated in a press release sent this week that "I have lived in Massachusetts for most of my life," and his trademark pickup truck parked outside a GOP fundraiser in Nashua on Dec. 19 still had Massachusetts license plates. Bottom line: It’s clear that New Hampshire is the ancestral home of many of Brown’s relatives, but it’s a stretch to say that Brown and his mother are "from New Hampshire." The statement is partially accurate, so we rate his  .
Statement: Georgia has had the nation's busiest Court of Appeals for a decade or more.
Speaker: charlie bethel
About the speaker: lawyer and member of state senate
Date: April 2, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: legal issues;state budget;states
Context: Senate chamber
Fact-check justification: That undoubtedly requires the justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals to work swiftly. And it does a lot to boost the credibility of the often-repeated statement that the court is among the nation’s busiest. But experts say there is no absolute measure out there to compare the court’s workload to that of other courts. That’s a lot of missing context. For that reason, we rate the statement
Statement: Adolf Hitler confiscated all the weapons — took all the weapons, had a registry of everybody — and then on the night of June 30, 1934, sent out his secret police and murdered all of his political opponents.
Speaker: david simmons
About the speaker: David Simmons is a Republican state senator in Florida.
Date: March 3, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;guns
Context: the Florida senate
Fact-check justification: Simmons said that Hitler "took all the weapons" and had a registry of everyone and then, on the night of June 30, 1934, murdered his political opponents. This oversimplifies and mangles the historic facts. While Hitler did take weapons away from Jews, Communists and Social Democrats, he also armed private citizens to better terrorize those same political opponents. To reduce Nazi gun policy to confiscation of weapons is to miss at least half the story. According to a German historian who has gone through the records, Hitler "drastically increased" the number of privately held weapons. On the confiscation side, she noted that the registry was limited and far from comprehensive. Contrary to what Simmons said, Hitler didn’t take everyone’s weapons and the registry at the time was so incomplete that many Jews retained their weapons. Furthermore, Simmons miscasts the connection between Hitler’s gun policies and the events of June 30, 1934. Far from targeting disarmed leaders, it was a strike at the well-armed pro-Nazi Sturmabteilung. Hitler’s real desire to disarm his opponents doesn’t overcome the flaws in this statement. We rate this  . Update (March 7): Simmons responds After we published we heard from Simmons. He told us that when he made his remarks, he was referring to the people Hitler subjugated and killed, primarily the Jews. "I do not believe I am in error," Simmons said. "All Jews were denied the ability to have weapons. They had registries of everyone who was Jewish. And they killed 6 million." Simmons said that on the Senate floor, "you only have so much time and you have to condense things." Videotape of Simmons’ remarks shows no mention of the Jews. The  we checked is complete and omits no context.
Statement: Twenty million Americans are "out of work.
Speaker: tom marino
About the speaker: Tom Marino has served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district since 2011.
Date: May 5, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Marino said on MSNBC that 20 million Americans are out of work. While the statement can be interpreted as accurate depending on the definition of "out of work," it lacks context. We rate the  .
Statement: Joe Biden approved a "new card" that "gives free health insurance to Americans" who are 25 and older.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 5, 2022
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Unless Congress acts, those expanded subsidies expire at the end of 2022, according to Politico, which published a story in March about how "the president’s ambitious health care plans are faltering. "  The image that appears in the post was doctored to make it look like Biden is announcing free health insurance for most adult Americans.   But a reverse image search shows that the photo was actually taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci in February 2021, when Biden gave a foreign policy speech at the State Department.   Secretary of State Anthony Blinken can be seen standing to Biden’s right.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says Ronald Reagan "was behind in the polls in 1980 going into the debate with Jimmy Carter and then turned around 10 days later and won 40 states.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: September 24, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: At a news conference, Christie claimed Ronald Reagan "was behind in the polls in 1980 going into the debate with Jimmy Carter and then turned around 10 days later and won 40 states." Reagan went on to win 44 states, but it was not necessarily the comeback victory described by Christie. Reagan was behind in some polls and ahead of Carter in others. Given the margins of error for the polls, the race was "too close to call" and a "virtual dead heat," articles show. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/d6c098aa-df49-433a-b170-7f608ecd3b96 To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: In last week's debate, Bernie questioned Hillary's commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent.
Speaker: robby mook
About the speaker: Robby Mook, a Democratic political strategist, is the 2016 presidential campaign manager for Hillary Clinton.
Date: April 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: environment;campaign finance;energy
Context: a Medium post
Fact-check justification: Mook wrote, "In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent." Mook’s statement is accurate, though it’s carefully constructed to exclude donations by lobbyists who have at one time represented the industry -- a point made by Sanders, though its relevance is up for debate. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f1dfea64-4e60-4564-9663-e348645568ed
Statement: Bill White ...offered sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
Speaker: cathie adams
About the speaker: Cathie Adams served as the Republican Party of Texas chair from October 2009 to June 2010. She was previously elected to the Republican National Committee and has been a delegate to every state and senatorial district Republican convention since 1988. Before becoming chair, she helmed the Texas Eagle Forum. She lives in Dallas.
Date: February 20, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a fund-raising letter
Fact-check justification: None of this proves Adams'  that White "offered sanctuary to illegal immigrants." The Congressional Research Service did list Houston among localities with sanctuary policies. Yet the only overt action on White's watch was the decision, at the end of his six years in office, to join the Secure Communities program -- a federal initiative intended to make it harder, not easier, for illegal immigrants to remain in this country. Whether the White administration's approach helped make illegal immigrants feel at ease in Houston is another question -- and not the one Adams raised. We rate her sanctuary statement as .
Statement: The non-profit group Feeding America is lying when it claims "that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily" in the United States.
Speaker: william benson huber
About the speaker: William Benson Huber has written opinion pieces for the New York Post and describes himself as a New York City tea party member.
Date: September 28, 2014
Topics: children;poverty;punditfact
Context: the "New York Post"
Fact-check justification: Huber said that Feeding America was lying when it said kids were starving in America. Huber acknowledged that "starving" was his word, not the nonprofit’s. The sentence about children "going to bed hungry" was essential to Huber’s argument, but we could find no  that Feeding America ever used that phrase. Feeding America also denied using that phrase. While Huber insisted it was accurate, he was unable to provide any . One of the principles of PunditFact is that people who make factual claims are accountable for their words and should be able to provide  to back them up. Huber has none. As such, we rate the  .