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Statement: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administration's Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much as 16 percent per year.
Speaker: lamar smith
About the speaker: Lamar Smith is a Republican congressman from a San Antonio-based district in Texas. He became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2011.
Date: December 6, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: environment;corrections and updates;energy
Context: the San Antonio Express-News
Fact-check justification: One of PolitiFact’s -O-Meter principles is that words matter, and at the very least, Smith's  is worded ambiguously. The ERCOT analysis and a news release point to an increase in energy costs of 16 percent by 2030. Smith claims that increase per year. We rate this  as .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. EDITOR’S NOTE 3:30 p.m., 12/18/15: After publication, Trip Doggett, ERCOT president and chief executive officer, emailed a statement saying Smith’s statement of 16 percent per year was based an erroneous information provided by ERCOT. "Because ERCOT inadvertently provided  information to the Chairman’s staff, I would like to take this opportunity to state the correct information and offer an apology." This additional information did not change the rating of our .
Statement: She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: November 2, 2007
Location: national
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: She has executive experience." To support its , the Romney campaign quoted U.S. World & News Report publisher Mort Zuckerman, who said Clinton didn't have "that much executive experience." That's a far cry from Romney's blanket statement. Clinton's resume is fair game for criticism, but given her work as a law partner and her managerial role as first lady, we find Romney is way off with his  that she "hasn't run anything." We find the  to be .
Statement: There have been no new COVID-19 variants since Dr. Anthony Fauci retired.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 6, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: This variant has been detected in 27 countries as of April 6. Meanwhile, several variants that were detected in 2022 have risen to become "variants under monitoring" — such as CH.1.1 and XBF — or "variants of interest" like XBB.1.5. A variant under monitoring, according to the WHO, is a SARS-CoV-2 variant "with genetic changes that are suspected to affect virus characteristics and early signals of growth advantage relative to other circulating variants," but that needs more assessment to determine potential health impact.   Variants of interest have genetic changes "that are predicted or known to affect virus characteristics," such as transmissibility, and have other indicators suggesting an emerging risk to global public health. We rate the  that there have been no new variants after Fauci stepped down from his positions .
Statement: The No. 2 owner of Fox News is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who said, "A strong American Government is not good for us.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 29, 2013
Topics: pop culture;punditfact
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Internet memes sometimes make us laugh. This one is frustrating. The post is correct that Prince Alwaleed is the No. 2 owner of Fox News (technically, 21st Century Fox, the giant movie and TV corporation that owns the network). It’s one of his many Western investments. But we found no  the frequent guest of American media actually said, "A strong American government is bad for us." We especially could not find it uttered under the context in which the meme may intend for you to understand it: that a strong American government is bad for Fox News. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Ron Johnson "likes to say there are too many lawyers in the Senate – 57. He'd be the 70th millionaire.
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 18, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: In turning the tables on Johnson, Feingold says the problem isn’t lawyers in the Senate, but millionaires. He pegs Johnson as the would-be 70th, though that would be in the current Senate -- not whatever mix is there after the election. By our calculations, and those of the Center for Responsive Politics, Feingold is accurate. If anything, the methodology underestimates a person’s net worth -- and therefore may under-count the actual millionaires in the body. We rate his statement .
Statement: Wisconsin has created "just under 100,000" jobs since he took office.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: December 12, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: However, several within his own administration, including his primary spokesman, have said that is the  way to measure jobs -- you can’t combine partial and full year data sets. As one aide said: It would be "misrepresenting the ." By his administration’s own yardstick, his statement is . We think it’s  to -- after private admonitions -- publicly present it this way. .
Statement: We are the most generous in New England and New England is known for its generosity toward its welfare recipients.
Speaker: colleen conley
About the speaker: Colleen Conley is founder and president of the Rhode Island Tea Party.
Date: April 13, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: poverty;state budget;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: But when she said Rhode Island is the "most generous in New England . . . toward its welfare recipients,"  that invoked the image of single mothers receiving the biggest welfare checks in New England. That's simply not , no matter how you measure it. She may not have intended to give that impression, but her words clearly conveyed that. So we’ll split the difference and give her a  .
Statement: David Cicilline was the state representative who opposed tough mandatory sentences for those convicted of domestic violence  and child abuse.
Speaker: brendan doherty
About the speaker: Brendan Doherty, former head of the Rhode Island State Police, ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2012 in Rhode Island's 1st District as a Republican.
Date: October 9, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: candidate biography;children;criminal justice;families;crime;public safety;women
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Brendan Doherty’s campaign said David Cicilline voted against a 1995 bill that imposed harsher sentences on those convicted a second time of domestic violence and a 1996 bill that did the same for convicted child abusers.   The legislative record shows Cicilline did vote against both bills. We rule Doherty’s statement . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Mass vaccination for COVID-19 in Senegal was started yesterday (4/8) and the first 7 CHILDREN who received it DIED on the spot.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 10, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He had cosmetic products for sale in his bag," she said. Because he was pretending to be a public agent to sell his products — flouting rules barring people from entering others’ homes — she reported him to the authorities, according to the story.   A spokeswoman for Senegal’s health ministry told Agence France-Presse the Facebook claims were . "There is no vaccine," she said.   We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: The White House staff risks violating federal ethics rules if they participate in Donald Trump's "fake news awards.
Speaker: norm eisen
About the speaker: Norm Eisen served as White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform and United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic under President Barack Obama.
Date: January 7, 2018
Location: national
Topics: ethics;fake news;legal issues
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Eisen said the White House staff risks violating federal ethics rules if they participate in Donald Trump’s " news awards." Two experts, who practiced government ethics at the highest levels, said participation by White House staffers would violate federal ethics rules. Trump, for the record, is exempt. They added that the president and his administration’s pattern of playing favorites among media outlets raises First Amendment issues that would subject this event to heightened scrutiny by ethics officials. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Anthony Bourdain tweeted, "This might be the best bat soup I ever had in my life. Someday everyone's gonna be talking about Wuhan.
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 7, 2021
Topics: china;food;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: (He died June 8, 2018.) We couldn’t find anything confirming that Bourdain visited Wuhan or ever tried bat soup. In the early days of the pandemic, a video circulated online of a woman eating a bat . The clip was wrongly described as showing a meal in Wuhan, but it was filmed in Palau, Micronesia.   We rate claims that Bourdain tweeted this .
Statement: Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans.
Speaker: americans united for change
About the speaker: A liberal advocacy group, Americans United For Change states on its Web site that it was founded in 2005 to fend off President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. In 2006, the organization "broadened its scope to build broad public and congressional support for action on a wide range of long-stalled policy issues."
Date: March 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: stimulus;taxes
Context: a cable TV ad
Fact-check justification: But they said they did so  because of objections to the spending portion of the plan. And they offered alternatives that included tax cuts for working families. To be sure, there are big differences in the distribution of tax cuts proposed by the two sides. But to say Republicans opposed tax cuts for working families based on opposition to the stimulus package grossly distorts the Republican position. We rate the ad's  .
Statement: (Jack Kingston) had more earmarks at one time than every member of the Georgia delegation put together.
Speaker: paul broun
About the speaker: U.S. House Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican, is from Athens. He represents Georgia's 10th congressional district.
Date: December 11, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: federal budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Broun meant to say Kingston had more earmarks at one point than the entire Georgia Republican delegation. Broun might have received a  if he had said that in the interview. It appears that Kingston had scored more earmarks than the entire Georgia GOP delegation to Congress in 2010 from our examination of two separate databases. Broun, however, misspoke in the interview, giving anyone who viewed it the  impression of Kingston’s record on earmarks. We rate his statement .
Statement: Georgia has one of the nation's highest jet fuel taxes.
Speaker: trebor banstetter
About the speaker: Delta Spokesman.
 
Date: March 1, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: state budget;transportation
Context: a newspaper article
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion: Delta officials are arguing against reinstating a 1-percent tax on jet fuel, which would generate about $23 million a year,  from Delta fuel purchases. Delta executives say that Georgia already has one of the nation’s highest jet fuel taxes and would have an even higher rate, if the exemption were eliminated. Georgia’s jet fuel tax is ranked 11th and is less than half of the tax in No. 1 rated Illinois. That bit of missing context takes this one down a notch on the -O-Meter. We rate Banstetter’s statement .
Statement: Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work.
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: June 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: poverty
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: But the Illinois governor at the time, Republican Jim Edgar, got a lot of credit as well. Press reports from the time referred to the plan as "the Edgar plan." This isn't the first time Obama has referred to Illinois laws as if he passed them singlehandedly . Nevertheless, the legislation's primary role was welfare reform, and the legislative record shows that Obama had a leadership role in getting it passed. For these reasons, we find Obama's  .
Statement: Facebook video shows "counting Biden's votes at 2 a.m.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 3, 2022
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We don’t know the details about the type of paper in this video, but we know that it doesn’t show counting ballots for Biden at 2 a.m. We rate this statement . PolitiFact staff writer Gabrielle Settles contributed research to this fact-check. RELATED : Fact-checks about elections RELATED : A  about serial numbers on ballots is misguided
Statement: New food safety legislation will regulate backyard gardening.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 29, 2010
Location: national
Topics: agriculture;food safety;regulation
Context: postings to the Internet
Fact-check justification: Plunkett pointed us to a line in Section 105 the Senate bill that said the rules "shall not apply to produce that is produced by an individual for personal consumption." In rating this statement, we see no  to support the  that backyard gardens would be regulated under the food safety bill. There might be legitimate concerns about small growers, but even those have been addressed in the Senate version of the bill. At any rate, concerns about small growers are quite different then the  that backyard gardens will be regulated. We find no  to support the  and rate it .
Statement: When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: January 23, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: bipartisanship;cap and trade;climate change;energy
Context: Tampa, Fla
Fact-check justification: He didn't specifically promote cap and trade, though he had supported it in the past. It's also  that Romney rejected what was hailed as a landmark regional cap-and-trade agreement among several northeastern states in 2005 -- although it came after two years of him touting its merit. Both facets of Romney's  are factual, though they did not occur simultaneously, as his use "while" would suggest. They actually were three years apart. We rate Romney's  .
Statement: Says marijuana use among Colorado high school students "has not increased since legalization.
Speaker: campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol 
About the speaker: The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is the pro-marijuana group behind Proposition 205, which would legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona. 
Date: September 27, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: marijuana
Context: a political advertisement
Fact-check justification: Based on the numbers cited, there does appear to have been a slight increase in marijuana use among Colorado’s high school students. However, multiple experts we spoke with said that increase is not statistically significant. They also said it was too early to draw conclusions about marijuana use, and that more years of study will be needed. We rate the ad’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/1b3ae305-61f4-4506-a9c8-c0a27f4d2c2e
Statement: Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.
Speaker: robert brown
About the speaker: Robert Brown, a Democrat from Macon, is a Georgia state senator.
Date: October 29, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: crime
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: "We want to look at a remedy [to the existing law] that will have some broad impact," he said. Brown appears to have done his homework on his  about the connection between animal abuse and violence against humans. There is overwhelming research that Brown is right. This one is a slam-dunk. We rate his  as .
Statement: Job creation fell by 70 percent in Wisconsin in 2016" under Scott Walker.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: October 4, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Our rating Evers says: "Job creation fell by 70 percent in Wisconsin in 2016" under Walker. He’s essentially on target in that the one-year growth in private-sector jobs in 2016 was 66 percent lower than the growth in 2015 (13,000 jobs versus 38,000 jobs) -- though it’s important to note that private-sector jobs have increased each year during Walker’s tenure, but much more slowly in 2016. Where clarification is needed is that Walker’s performance is only one of many factors affecting job growth. We rate Evers’ statement . div class='artembed'>
Statement: A law backed by Virginia Democrats barred local sheriffs from having military equipment that "would have come in very helpful" with the I-95 traffic jam.
Speaker: dana perino
About the speaker: Dana Perino is the former press secretary to President George W. Bush. She now is a Fox News commentator and co-host of "The Five."
Date: January 4, 2022
Location: national
Topics: military;public safety;transportation;virginia
Context: a segment
Fact-check justification: Perino claimed that a law passed by Virginia Democrats prevented local sheriffs from having military equipment that "would have come in very helpful" with recovery efforts in the I-95 traffic jam. Virginia Democrats voted to pass such a law, but experts and state officials said that the prohibited equipment would not have helped clear roads any faster in the snowstorm, and that the law did not hamper recovery efforts. In any case, agencies can seek exemptions to the law for special circumstances, or may be able to take advantage of a federal program to acquire surplus military gear. We rate this  .
Statement: Says that during President Barack Obama's tenure, the United States has created "15 million new jobs.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: October 4, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs;labor;stimulus;workers
Context: the 2016 Vice Presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Kaine said that during Obama’s tenure, the United States has created "15 million new jobs." To reach a number that high requires some creative calendar work -- starting the count at the low point in the job market, which was just over a year after Obama took office. That’s not an unreasonable place to start, but it’s also not the only one, and for Kaine to cite that figure amounts to a bit of cherry-picking. In addition, it’s always worth a grain of salt when allocating credit to an elected official for good economic news. On balance, we rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/79dcc34d-5ba4-45f9-b5c4-467f925f01db