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Statement: Democrat Stephen Webber "voted to allow sex offenders to be within 500 feet of childcare centers and playgrounds, and even voted to allow sex offenders to be coaches.
Speaker: caleb rowden
About the speaker: Caleb Rowden is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives representing District 44.
Date: October 12, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: candidate biography;children;crime
Context: a YouTube video
Fact-check justification: Rowden said Webber "voted to allow sex offenders to be within 500 feet of childcare centers and playgrounds, and even voted to allow sex offenders to be coaches." That’s a  version of events. Webber actually supported the House version of the legislation in question. But the bill was amended in the Senate to include a provision that allowed some sexual offenders to have their names removed from the sexual offender registry. Webber opposed that addition, his campaign said, and voted against the final bill. There is an element of  to this  but not much more. We rate it .
Statement: Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts.
Speaker: j.d. vance
About the speaker: J.D. Vance won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 2022. He has also worked as an investor, commentator, and bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy. 
Date: December 31, 2017
Location: ohio
Topics: states;technology
Context: an interview on Face the Nation
Fact-check justification: Vance is largely correct but doesn't describe the situation with precision. Data from a trade association showed that California received 55 percent of venture capital money followed by New York at 10.6 percent and Massachusetts at 8.9 percent.   If we looked at the number of deals closed that year, the three states’ share added up to 52 percent. That left almost half of the deals for the rest of the country. We rate Vance’s  .
Statement: If we keep the minimum wage at the current level, then single-parent families earning the minimum wage at a full-time job will live in poverty in New Jersey.
Speaker: wayne deangelo
About the speaker: Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo is a Democrat who represents parts of Mercer and Middlesex counties.
Date: February 27, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: poverty;workers
Context: The Times of Trenton
Fact-check justification: The assemblyman said: "If we keep the minimum wage at the current level, then single-parent families earning the minimum wage at a full-time job will live in poverty in New Jersey. " A New Jersey resident working full-time at a job paying the state’s minimum wage of $7.25 per hour makes roughly $15,000 annually. For a family of two, the federal health department’s poverty guideline is $15,130. We rate the  . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com . Editor's Note: A research fellow with the business-backed Employment Policies Institute took issue with this ruling. We address his points in this story .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate Democrats "have gone without any budget at all" for more than 1,000 days.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: January 23, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: On three other occasions (fiscal years 1999, 2005 and 2007), the House and Senate failed to reconcile their different bills and pass a compromise measure. In these latter three cases, the Republicans were in the majority in both chambers of Congress. Our rating Ryan said "Senate Democrats have gone without any budget at all" for 1,000 days. It hasn’t been quite that long since the last Senate budget resolution expired, but it has been 1,000 days -- and counting -- since the Democrat-controlled Senate adopted a budget. We rate Ryan’s  .
Statement: Says Rick Perry cut taxes.
Speaker: craig james
About the speaker: Craig James has been a football analyst for ESPN. He's a former star running back who played in Texas for the Southern Methodist University Mustangs. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in 2012.
Date: January 3, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;state budget;taxes
Context: an online video ad
Fact-check justification: Perry put in motion major tax hikes generating less revenue than state-ordered reductions in local school property taxes the governor also signed into law. However, it’s overly simplistic to say that Perry simply reduced taxes. He cut some, raised others. This statement rates .
Statement: Sanctuary jurisdictions "violate the laws of our nation.
Speaker: steve daines
About the speaker: Steve Daines is a U.S. Senator from Montana.
Date: November 15, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a Senate hearing
Fact-check justification: Daines said, sanctuary jurisdictions "violate the laws of our nation." Daines was referring to Section 1373, but his office did not name a jurisdiction found to be violating that law. Instead, his office named jurisdictions that the Justice Department contends might be violating it. No courts have found a jurisdiction in violation of the law, and some courts have said the law itself might be unconstitutional. Daines’ statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Carlos Gimenez "wants a national database to track you and discriminate against you.
Speaker: america first political committee
About the speaker: America First Political Committee is a conservative political organization.
Date: January 10, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ad watch;coronavirus
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: The Facebook ad said Gimenez "wants a national database to track you and discriminate against you." We found no  to back the attack on Gimenez. We rate it .
Statement: John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.
Speaker: glenn beck
About the speaker: Glenn Beck is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show. He also hosts an Internet-based TV show. Beck formerly hosted a television talk show on CNN Headline News and then Fox News.
Date: July 22, 2009
Location: national
Topics: abortion;pundits
Context: his TV program
Fact-check justification: But in seeking to score points for a political argument, Beck seriously mischaracterizes Holdren's positions. Holdren didn't advocate those ideas then. And, when asked at a Senate confirmation hearing, Holdren said he did not support them now. We think it's irresponsible to pluck a few lines from a 1,000-page, 30-year-old textbook, and then present them out of context to dismiss Holdren's long and distinguished career. And we rate Beck's  !
Statement: This particular pandemic is one where I don't think nationwide, there's been a single fatality under 25.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: April 9, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a meeting
Fact-check justification: DeSantis claimed that the novel coronavirus hasn’t killed anyone under the age of 25 in the United States. That’s , according to the CDC, contemporaneous news reports and the counts of state health officials in places like New York. While we don’t have precise numbers, we can say with certainty that deaths in people 25 and under do exist. We rate this  !
Statement: As the Democrats finally maxed out their government spending credit card Monday, Kurt Schrader continued to stand with his party leaders in failing to offer any viable long-term solution.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: May 18, 2011
Location: oregon
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Schrader, like most Democrats, has selectively voted to boost spending. But he’s also offered proposals calling for deep and specific cuts. The NRCC attack ignores both the facts and the basic history of spending decisions that predate Schrader’s arrival in Congress but which contribute to the fiscal reality that lawmakers and all Americans must face. Taken together, those oversights are substantial and the reason we rate this : . Return to OregonLive to comment on this statement and ruling.
Statement: Texans have some of the highest property taxes in the nation
Speaker: don huffines
About the speaker: Don Huffines, a Dallas businessman elected in 2014 to represent Texas Senate District 16, was vice chair of the Veteran Affairs & Border Security Committee in the 2017 Legislature. He is a 2022 candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas.
Date: May 10, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: taxes
Context: campaign material
Fact-check justification: "  There are several different ways to compare and rank states’ property tax burden.  From the ranking methodologies reviewed here, Texas has between the 6th highest and 13th highest property taxes.   Huffines’ statement is somewhat subjective — there’s no absolute way to define "some of the highest. " Nonetheless, experts generally agree that, even though there’s no standard way to compare and rank states‘ property tax burden, Texas is heavily dependent on property tax revenue.    We rate this  .
Statement: Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "denies that there's such a thing as evolution.
Speaker: jerry brown
About the speaker: Jerry Brown is the governor of California. A Democrat, he earlier served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.
Date: July 27, 2016
Location: california
Topics: religion;science
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: California Gov. Jerry Brown said GOP Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence "denies that there's such a thing as evolution." Pence, in a 2009 interview on MSNBC, said: "I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth and the seas and all that’s in them." When asked again and again whether he believes in evolution, he demures, stopping short of explicitly rejecting it. He clearly did not want to answer the question, which ends up sounding like a ‘No.’ Our research found no  that Pence has expanded on his less-than-clear view on evolution, leaving it open to interpretation. In more recent years, the Indiana governor has criticized other science-based initiatives, including efforts to slow climate change. Brown’s statement says Pence "denies" evolution. The Indiana governor certainly doesn’t affirm it. That’s not the same as denying it. We rate Brown’s  .  – 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. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/76a37fb0-f532-4470-ab06-9d9e1f4e36b5
Statement: We have had over 40 days this summer where it was unsafe to breathe the air.
Speaker: jennette gayer
About the speaker: Jennette Gayer is staff advocate for Environment Georgia
Date: September 15, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: environment;transportation
Context: a meeting
Fact-check justification: " To be more technical, the state’s chart shows 18 of those days were in May and early June, before the official start of summer. Gayer said she based her comments at the meeting on Atlanta’s smog season, which begins May 1 and ends Sept. 30. Gayer’s comment was generally accurate -- with an emphasis on generally.   But it also leaves out some key details. We rate it .
Statement: Points of Light is  "the world's largest volunteer organization.
Speaker: michelle nunn
About the speaker: Michelle Nunn was the chief executive officer of the Points of Light Foundation, a charitable organization. She is the daughter of former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, a Democrat from Georgia. Michelle Nunn is running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat.
Date: August 7, 2014
Location: georgia
Context: television ad
Fact-check justification: Nunn has used her stewardship of the non-profit to burnish her leadership credentials in the race against businessman Perdue. But her political ad undercuts how Points of Light describes itself on its website  --  as "the largest organization in the world dedicated to volunteer service. "  That’s substantially different from the world’s largest volunteer organization. .We rate the ad statement as .
Statement: Says Obama's net neutrality proposal "puts the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: November 10, 2014
Location: national
Topics: government regulation;technology
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Cruz said, Obama’s net neutrality proposal "puts the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered." While theoretically possible, Obama said specifically that he does not want the FCC to regulate Internet prices, and the FCC typically does not regulate prices for similar things, such as telephone services. In terms of product offerings, the proposal would allow the FCC to prevent Internet service providers from giving certain websites priority over others. But Cruz’s statement conjures an image of FCC officials sitting around a table designing Internet service packages and their prices, and this is not what Obama is proposing. We rate Cruz’s  .
Statement: On ISIS, (Michael Bennet) chose the (Washington) insiders over our generals.
Speaker: restoration pac
About the speaker: Suburan Chicago-based Restoration PAC is a super PAC that was formed in January 2015.
Date: October 13, 2016
Location: colorado
Topics: terrorism
Context: A TV ad
Fact-check justification: Restoration PAC says Bennet "chose the (Washington) insiders over our generals" in the battle against Islamic State. The group says President Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq fueled the rise of ISIS and blames Bennet for supporting the withdrawal and for generally backing Obama. However, Bennet has advocated for a strong defense against terrorism, passed legislation to prevent potential terrorists from using the Visa Waiver Program to easily enter the United States and backs initiatives to counter extremists from recruiting people online.      It's a big stretch to say that because Bennet supported the withdrawal and welcomed home U.S. troops after a long war, he chose Washington insiders "over our generals." We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/631c3593-8987-495b-9829-ce229320ff0f
Statement: I've been a cop in Lake County, Michigan, since 1982 thereabout. I conduct federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers.
Speaker: ted nugent
About the speaker: Ted Nugent, who lives near Waco, performed after Gov. Rick Perry's 2007 inauguration. He is an ardent supporter of Second Amendment gun rights. In 2014, he stumped with Texan Greg Abbott for governor and chaired Republican Sid Miller's campaign for state agriculture commissioner.
Date: February 24, 2014
Topics: candidate biography;punditfact;guns
Context: comments on CNN
Fact-check justification: Nugent said he is and has been a cop in Michigan and that he conducts raids with several federal and state law enforcement agencies. He said "we are re-arresting fugitive felons" and painted a vivid picture of being with agents immediately afterward. "When we are done with these kinds of raids, we get together and our hearts are broken that we have to face these monsters," Nugent said. The single piece of this narrative that Nugent confirmed is one ride-along with U.S. Marshals in 2005. He is not a cop in Michigan by any conventional meaning of the word. No agency said that he presently plays any role in any of their raids. Nugent may have been passionate but his words take him far beyond the facts. We rate this  .
Statement: The city building code violations on my properties only involve exterior issues; "within the households, it's fine.
Speaker: lee holloway
About the speaker: Lee Holloway is the chairman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. He represents the county's 5th District, which encompasses parts of Milwaukee's north side. He was elected to the board in 1992 and has served as chairman since 2004.
Date: January 21, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;housing
Context: a statement at a candidate forum
Fact-check justification: But inspection records paint a different picture: Roaches, exit signs, smoke detectors, ceiling plaster. All of those -- and more -- are interior issues. There’s even a note about faulty fire extinguishers. That seems appropriate. We rate Holloway’s statement .
Statement: Says photo shows "the sharpest image of the sun ever recorded.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 8, 2022
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: a photo
Fact-check justification: The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) The photo is a "heavily software-processed image," photographer Jason Guenzel wrote in a Jan. 20, 2021, Twitter post about the image. He also explained in a 2021 interview that he had digitally enhanced the image by using software to sharpen it and change its contrast. "Walking the thin line between science and art ... perhaps blurring it a bit," Guenzel tweeted.
Statement: Says Donald Trump "just promised that if he wins reelection, he'll gut Social Security and Medicare.
Speaker: kamala harris
About the speaker: Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. Harris was elected as a senator from California in 2016. She previously was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 until 2011, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris received a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Howard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in December. On Aug. 11, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate.
Date: August 9, 2020
Location: national
Topics: social security;california
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Harris said Trump "promised that if he wins reelection, he’ll gut Social Security and Medicare." Trump did not make that statement, and his payroll tax deferral does not affect the funding for Medicare.  The element of  is that Trump offered no clear plan to replenish the loss to the Social Security trust fund, which could undermine Social Security. In the scheme of things, a $100 billion loss would advance the trust fund depletion date from 15 years from now to 13 or 14 years from now.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says FBI Director James Comey's letter about new developments in the investigation into her emails "only" went "to Republican members of the House.
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: October 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: congress
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Clinton said Comey’s letter about new developments in the investigation into her emails "only" went "to Republican members of the House." Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate received this letter. We rate Clinton’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/1bf568b6-3a28-4aeb-be69-59c015b09a23
Statement: Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people.
Speaker: sunny hostin
About the speaker: Sunny Hostin is a co-host of ABC's "The View" and a senior legal correspondent and analyst for ABC News. Hostin is a former federal prosecutor.
Date: July 15, 2020
Topics: crime;race and ethnicity;pundits;punditfact
Context: an episode of ABC's "The View"
Fact-check justification: Hostin said, "Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people." An ABC spokesperson clarified that Hostin’s 84% figure referred to the percentage of white homicides that involved white offenders. A 2011 report on data from 1980 to 2008 showed 84% of white homicide victims over that 28-year period were killed by white people. The report is almost 10 years old, but more recent annual data from the FBI also puts the percentage of white homicide victims killed by white offenders in the same range. Experts say most homicides where race information is known are intraracial. We rate this statement .
Statement: Our median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation.
Speaker: maggie hassan
About the speaker: New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She formerly served as governor and as a state lawmaker in New Hampshire. 
Date: February 12, 2015
Location: new hampshire
Topics: census;economy;families
Context: her budget address
Fact-check justification: Gov. Maggie Hassan said New Hampshire’s "median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation." Looking at U.S. Census data only for that year, Hassan is correct. For other recent periods, however, New Hampshire ranks just below the top. In the meantime, census data is widely trusted, but other calculation methods may have produced different results. However, Hassan was correct in qualifying that statement by suggesting that the survey might not tell the whole story. The  is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate the  .
Statement: In the House Republican bill, "70 percent of the tax relief goes to those families making less than 200,000.
Speaker: kevin brady
About the speaker: Brady represents a Houston-area U.S. House district.
Date: November 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo
Fact-check justification: Brady said that in the House Republican bill, "70 percent of the tax relief goes to those families making less than 200,000." That’s only accurate if you look at the individual income tax portions of the House bill. Once you factor in tax changes related to business income, which tend to benefit wealthier taxpayers, the share earned by those under $200,000 is actually 58 percent in 2019, falling to 50 percent in 2027. And if you factor in the impact of the estate tax, it would be as low as 54 percent initially and 31 percent by 2027. We rate the statement .