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Statement: We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children.
Speaker: chris dodd
About the speaker: Chris Dodd is a former U.S. senator from Connecticut, having served in that post from 1981-2011. Dodd also ran unsuccessfully for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and was a member of the U.S. House prior to his service in the Senate. He was born in Connecticut in 1944, graduated from Providence College and earned a law degree from the University of Louisville. Dodd is married to Jackie Marie Clegg. They have two children.
Date: December 13, 2007
Location: national
Topics: poverty
Context: Johnston, Iowa
Fact-check justification: "In 2005, 37.0-million people were in poverty, not statistically different from 2004," it says. "In 2005, the number in poverty remained statistically unchanged from 2004 for people under 18 and people 18 to 64 years old (12.9-million and 20.5-million, respectively)," it goes on. Dodd even says "about 12-million or 13-million are children," not looking too flashy by quoting the precise number of 12.9-million. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 report, released in August 2007, is "not statistically different from 2005," although it lists the number of people living in poverty as 36.5-million and the number of children living in poverty as 12.8-million. Either way, we rule Dodd's statement .
Statement: Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black.
Speaker: mike turzai
About the speaker: Mike Turzai, a Republican from Allegheny County, is the state's Speaker of the House. He's been a state rep. since 2001.
Date: June 15, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: economy;state budget;stimulus;taxes
Context: an op-ed for PennLive
Fact-check justification: Turzai wrote, "Each budget finished in the black" from the Corbett administration. This is right, but borderline . It conveys that the state was healthy place financially. Pennsylvania wasn’t. Moreover, the administration implemented one-time tactics to balance the books that their own budget secretary had previously decried. We rule this  .
Statement: The CDC lifting mask guidelines "out of the blue with no solid explanation proves they lied to you the whole time about everything.
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: May 16, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The post says that the CDC lifted its mask guidelines "out of the blue with no solid explanation," proving that the agency "lied to you the whole time about everything."  The CDC presented its decision to update guidance for fully vaccinated people and explained that it was based on data showing the effectiveness of vaccines among those who have been fully vaccinated.  We rate this post .
Statement: The Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Donald Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia.
Speaker: maria bartiromo
About the speaker: Maria Bartiromo is host of CNBC's On the Money with Maria Baritromo and a co-host of Closing Bell. She previously worked for CNN.
Date: March 16, 2021
Location: georgia
Topics: corrections and updates;elections;pundits;punditfact
Context: an interview with former President Donald Trump
Fact-check justification: Bartiromo said that the Washington Post was "forced to correct what (Trump) told the secretary of state of Georgia." That’s . The Washington Post issued a correction about a separate report detailing the contents of a different call Trump had with a different Georgia official, Watson. But the newspaper has not changed its reporting on Trump’s Jan. 2 call with Raffensperger, the secretary of state. The report that was corrected came after the Georgia Senate runoffs and therefore had no bearing on the outcome of that election. We rate Bartiromo’s  . UPDATE, March 17, 10:35 p.m. : This fact-check was updated to reflect Bartiromo’s comments on March 17 acknowledging that she confused the two calls. Our rating remains the same. RELATED: What Trump told Georgia election officials RELATED: Here’s why Georgia’s Republican officials are confident in their presidential election results RELATED: Donald Trump falsely claims Georgia victory in recorded call RELATED: Trump rehashes debunked  about ‘suitcases’ of ballots in Georgia phone callTrump rehashes debunked  about ‘suitcases’ of ballots in Georgia phone call
Statement: Says Texas Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher contradicted herself on her health care position by saying "we need universal health care.
Speaker: john culberson
About the speaker: John Culberson is the Republican U.S. Rep. for Texas' 7th Congressional District. 
Date: October 25, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Culberson attempts to display Fletcher contradicting herself on her health care position. But the ad uses an incomplete sound bite that ultimately takes Fletcher out of context. Fletcher did use the words "universal health care," and has so in the past, but not in the context of a single-payer or "Medicare for All" type health plan. Fletcher has advocated for improvements to the Affordable Care Act and a public option to buy into Medicare,  not through a government-funded single-payer type of program. The ad uses an incomplete sound bite that ultimately misleads viewers on her stance. We rate it .
Statement: Donald Trump says "all Mexicans are rapists.
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: August 1, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: immigration
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump has roiled emotions with his debunked claims that the Mexican government is sending "rapists" and other violent criminals into the U.S. as unauthorized immigrants." Kaine has embellished the controversy by saying Trump has said "all Mexicans are rapists." The Democrat doesn’t come close to proving his ; all of the Trump quotes Kaine’s campaign sent us pertain to unauthorized immigrants crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. No doubt, many Latinos have taken umbrage with what Trump actually has said. But Kaine put an insult into the mouth of Trump that never was uttered. So we rate Kaine’s statement .
Statement: Says Bill Nelson voted for "cuts to Medicare providers" and voted to weaken "Social Security protections" as a U.S. senator.
Speaker: new republican pac
About the speaker: New Republican PAC is an Independent Expenditure Only PAC (i.e., a Super PAC) focused on the election of Rick Scott in the race for Florida United States Senate. 
Date: June 11, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: medicare;social security
Context: a political ad
Fact-check justification: The New Republican PAC ad said that Nelson voted for "cuts to Medicare providers" and voted to "weaken Social Security protections" as a senator in the 2000s. This  is . The votes neither weakened Social Security nor eroded the position of Medicare providers, experts said. The budget act in 2013 actually prevented a larger cut to Medicare providers, and the Social Security votes in the 2000s can just as easily be portrayed as a "stalking horse" for personal accounts.  In addition, the ad ignores other actions Nelson has taken to protect Medicare and Social Security. We rate this .
Statement: I have been very clear with DACA. Even in my campaign six years ago I stood for those Dreamers.
Speaker: joni ernst
About the speaker: Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.
Date: September 28, 2020
Location: iowa
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Ernst has stated multiple times during and since her 2014 campaign that she supports DACA recipients and would vote to grant them legal permanent residency. However, her voting record does not completely indicate this. She has voted both for and against legislation that would grant legal permanent residency to DACA recipients throughout her term. When she had a chance to cross party lines and join a handful of other Republicans to support ending Dreamer deportations she voted "no." For these reasons, we rated the  that Ernst has been clear with her stance on DACA and that even six years ago she stood for the Dreamers as being . UPDATE:  Shortly after publication, we updated this story to include response from the Ernst campaign.
Statement: Says she "stopped Capital Metro from raising fares for senior and disabled citizens.
Speaker: margaret gomez
About the speaker: Margaret Gomez is the Precinct 4 commissioner in Travis County.
Date: February 15, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: disability
Context: a campaign flier
Fact-check justification: Did she stop the fare increase? Sure she did, along with most fellow board members. She also earlier voted twice to advance plans subjecting seniors and the disabled to fare increases. But fares never raised for seniors and disabilities on her watch. We rate Gomez's  .
Statement: Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: texas
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "   Texas is a state with diverse energy sources. Grid officials have said multiple times that, on top of grid infrastructure being poorly designed to handle the week's freezing conditions, the drop in power supply is attributable to all energy sources. Although many wind turbines faltered under the conditions, wind energy as a whole outperformed normal expectations thanks to blustery weather.   Abbott walked back the comments he made on Hannity during a press conference the next day, denying that he singled out wind power as the culprit.   We rate this  .
Statement: Says her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax.
Speaker: marsha blackburn
About the speaker: Marsha Blackburn, a native of Laurel, Miss., was first elected to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in 2002. Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018,
Date: June 7, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: economy;health care;jobs;taxes
Fact-check justification: Blackburn  the number of medical device manufacturing jobs in her district and in the state while citing a free-market advocate’s 2009 study that says 1,000 jobs could be lost statewide. Some of the assumptions made by The Manhattan Institute study have been questioned, and the provisions of the bill itself mean there’s little reason to suspect there would be much off-shoring based on the excise tax. There is also no consensus on how much demand might drop for medical devices produced in Tennessee based on pricing. Taking into account that Blackburn’s office acknowledges she made a  in saying "congressional district" rather than "state," we rate the statement .
Statement: The 2016 and 2017 Missouri budget includes more funding for the University of Missouri than any time in the last 15 years.
Speaker: kurt schaefer
About the speaker: Kurt Schaefer is a Missouri state senator representing portions of Boone and Cooper counties.
Date: November 13, 2016
Location: missouri
Topics: education;state budget
Context: the Columbia Daily Tribune
Fact-check justification: Schaefer praised his work on the Senate Appropriations Committee, citing increased funding for the UM System as one of his accomplishments. But it’s clear from the data that state funding has not kept pace with rising inflation. In reality, state funding for the UM System has decreased considerably since 2008, despite what Schaefer wrote in his ad. We rate his  .
Statement: Elijah Cummings' house was broken into after Trump publicly attacked him on Twitter.
Speaker: chelsea handler
About the speaker: Chelsea Handler is a comedian, actress, author and television host.
Date: August 2, 2019
Topics: crime;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Handler said, "Elijah Cummings’ house was broken into after Trump publicly attacked him on Twitter." An intruder did attempt to enter Cummings’ home, but that was almost four hours before Trump tweeted the first of several attacks on the congressman and his district. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says that Sherrod Brown is an "Obama rubber stamp" for "supporting the job-killing cap and trade plan.
Speaker: josh mandel
About the speaker: Josh Mandel, a Republican from Lyndhurst, is a Marine veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He served as Ohio treasurer from 2011 to 2019.  Before that, he was a state representative from the 17th Ohio House District. He unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 US Senate race. Mandel is running for the GOP nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
Date: October 31, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;cap and trade;climate change;voting record
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: He "bluntly stated that unless the (carbon emissions bill's) authors agree to a variety of manufacturing and trade provisions, there is little possibility that the legislation will get anywhere near enough support to clear the Senate," according to The New York Times. That bill stalled in the Senate and died without a final vote. In 2008, prior to Obama becoming president, Brown joined Republicans and voted to block a bill that would have created a cap-and-trade system of credits for carbon dioxide emissions. That is far from being a rubber stamp on the issue. On the -O-Meter, the  in the radio ad rates .
Statement: We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed).
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: July 8, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy;stimulus
Context: a PBS interview
Fact-check justification: Some private forecasters anticipate unemployment rates as high as 11% in the absence of action." That sure doesn't sound like a full-fledged promise to us. We think it's a big stretch to call an economic projection a "promise." The administration never characterized it that way and included plenty of disclaimers saying the predictions had "significant margins of error" and a higher degree of uncertainty due to a recession that is "unusual both in its fundamental causes and its severity." And so we rule the statement by Cantor — and other Republicans who have said the same thing — .
Statement: Says longstanding Food and Drug Administration regulations "created barriers to the private industry creating a test quickly" for the coronavirus.
Speaker: dan crenshaw
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw represents the 2nd Congressional District in Texas.
Date: March 13, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: government regulation;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Crenshaw’s statement is accurate. FDA procedures adopted in 2004 meant laboratories had to seek the agency’s approval before developing and using tests in communities, a policy many health care officials have said prevented the country from taking early action in response to the novel coronavirus. It is important to keep in mind that other factors have contributed to the low levels of testing for the virus, beyond the FDA regulations. But Crenshaw’s statement is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Every engine manufacturer in the United States is now in the state of Texas.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: September 18, 2013
Location: national
Topics: jobs;states
Context: a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"
Fact-check justification: Perry said every engine manufacturer is now in the state of Texas. Using a broad definition from the Census Bureau, we counted 17 firms in Texas that are involved with building engines. However, in that broad line of work , the total number of firms nationwide is well over 350. A sampling of some of the larger engine makers in the United States revealed some notable absences from Texas. We rate the statement .
Statement: Tells David Cicilline, "94 percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature.
Speaker: john loughlin
About the speaker: John Loughlin is state representative from Tiverton who ran an unsuccessful 2010 campaign for Congress in Rhode Island's 1st District. He owns a television, radio and film production company and served 26 years in the military, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve in 2006. He is married with two daughters.
Date: October 19, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;cap and trade;climate change;energy;science
Context: a WPRI/Providence Journal debate
Fact-check justification: Ultimately, the Loughlin campaign did not provide any  that nature is responsible for the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is the key problem stoking the fears of global warming. And the NASA scientist he mentioned told us Loughlin's comments were "nonsense." There's plenty of room to debate aspects of climate change, such as the best way to prevent climate-related problems, how much money should be spent on prevention, and whether it's worth the investment if other countries aren't willing to seriously limit their carbon emissions. But Loughlin's suggestion that nature is largely responsible for the looming problem is . We rate his  as .
Statement: California is growing a hell of a lot faster than Texas.
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: December 14, 2016
Location: california
Topics: climate change;economy;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Gov. Jerry Brown recently claimed "California is growing a hell of a lot faster than Texas." We took this to mean economic growth with a focus on the pace of job creation. California’s 3 percent job growth rate in 2015, which doubled Texas’ pace, definitely fits into Brown's colorful . But California’s rate has slowed to about 2 percent so far this year, closer to Texas’ 1.6 job growth rate. Other economic metrics show California faring better than Texas in several, though not all, categories: California’s GDP expanded faster than Texas’ GDP in the first two quarters of this year, though Texas had a faster GDP growth rate in 2015. Also, per capita income grew twice as fast in California as Texas in 2015, also backing Brown’s statement. Texas, however, has consistently held a lower jobless rate than California in recent years.   Brown, like the state’s economy in recent years, is on the right track. Although California has expanded jobs and its economy faster than Texas in many cases, there are a few cases where that growth has been strong but not necessarily "a hell of a lot faster." We rate Brown’s statement .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/158c502a-4b3e-463d-906f-529da13e2451
Statement: Says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.
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: July 22, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: health care;veterans
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: "The state can’t cherry-pick which groups of people would be eligible for expanded coverage under Medicaid. Nunn is making a political argument, not a policy argument, so it’s not something we’d have numbers on," Robinson said. To sum up, Nunn claimed 25,000 military veterans could be added to Georgia’s Medicaid rolls if the state would sign up for the federal government’s plan under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The  was based on research that hasn’t been reviewed for a second opinion and appears on target. We rate this  .
Statement: Publix drops Ben and Jerry's 'for the good of our kids.'
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 4, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We found no press releases on Publix’s website announcing that it has dropped Ben & Jerry’s products. And searching for Ben & Jerry’s products in Publix locations around the country, we found some favorite flavors on store shelves. Pints of Half Baked , for example, are on aisle 9 in a Publix in Tampa, Florida.   Searching for other coverage of this alleged news, we found the exact same story published on The Dunning-Kruger Times, a self-described satire website.   We rate claims that Publix has dropped Ben & Jerry’s products .