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Statement: Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists.
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: April 16, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: It's worth noting, however, that Obama's total lags his significantly behind Clinton, who got $865,290, from lobbyists, and John McCain, who got $590,952. Is it possible that Barack Obama took "a dime" from someone connected to oil and gas lobbyists? Yes. But it looks as if Obama took good-faith measures not to accept money from current lobbyists for any industry, including oil and gas. For these reasons, we find his statement .
Statement: Says Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, "skipped an important VA reform hearing to attend three fundraisers.
Speaker: concerned veterans for america
About the speaker: Concerned Veterans for America is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization that advocates for veterans.
Date: July 25, 2014
Location: national
Topics: congress;veterans
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: An ad said Braley "skipped an important VA reform hearing to attend three fundraisers." He had three fundraisers the same day, but none overlapped with the veterans affairs committee hearing. He was counted as present at an oversight hearing about Fast and Furious that happened at the same time. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney's investments created zero jobs.
Speaker: workers' voice
About the speaker: Workers' Voice is a "super PAC" affiliated with the AFL-CIO
Date: September 17, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;corporations;economy;jobs;message machine 2012
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: Workers’ Voice says the "number of jobs that Romney’s investments created" is zero. That ignores Bain’s role as a venture capital firm that helped build companies that hired tens of thousands of workers. The PAC, unable to provide data to back up its , said the goal of Romney’s investments wasn’t jobs, but profits. That doesn’t prove Bain’s job creation was zero. Nor do examples of Romney investments that lost jobs. This catchy  comes up empty. We rate it .
Statement: Under the House Republican tax plan, in Wisconsin, "the median household of four gets about a $2,000 tax cut, on average.
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: December 1, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;families;income;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: That’s  if the typical household Ryan describes claims a standard deduction on their taxes rather than itemizing deductions. The savings would be $2,081 -- in 2018. But many Wisconsin households at that income level would see a savings of several hundred dollars less because they would no longer be able to  deductions such as one for medical expenses, which the House bill eliminates. Moreover, because of the way the House bill is written, even the household that saves $2,081 in 2018 would see that savings drop in each year, down to an estimated $767 in 2027. Ryan’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details -- our definition of .
Statement: There are more job openings than there are people on unemployment" in Iowa.
Speaker: lindsay james
About the speaker: Lindsay James is an Iowa state representative from Dubuque County.
Date: May 11, 2021
Location: iowa
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: After hearing about pandemic-related layoffs and job cuts the past year, seeing that more people are seeking jobs in Iowa than are taking unemployment benefits might surprise some. But the numbers back it up and both sides of the argument on what Iowa should do about unemployment benefits do not dispute it. We are confining our rating to the numbers and rate the  to be .
Statement: Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes.
Speaker: betty sutton
About the speaker: Rep. Betty Sutton is a Democrat from Ohio's 13th Congressional District.
Date: March 3, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;economy;federal budget;tourism
Context: a House committee hearing
Fact-check justification: It is the state's tourism industry that accounts for nearly 10 percent of Ohio's more than 5 million jobs, according to Ohio Travel & Tourism. Nevertheless, Lake Erie does support a large number of jobs -- more than 100,000 in northeast Ohio. Sutton relied on a credible official source for her numbers, and she cited them accurately, though one of her sources, a credible one at that, misstated its data. That’s a piece of information needed for clarification. We rate her statement as .
Statement: Says the federal government "mandates transexuals (sic) and homosexuals grabbing children in their stranger-danger zones in the name of airport security.
Speaker: mark clayton
About the speaker: Mark Clayton won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, although Tennessee's Democratic Party has disavowed him as a Democrat and is asking its members to write in a candidate. He is a floor installer and former Army Reserve aircraft technician.
Date: August 5, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: privacy issues
Context: a post on his campaign's Facebook page
Fact-check justification: The state Democratic Party’s disavowal of Clayton is but one indication of his lack of credibility. This kind of baseless statement is yet another. The TSA does not mandate that any of its screeners "grope" children in any "zone." Clayton is making a , reckless , and for that we give this statement a !
Statement: Says a "Clorox bottle claimed it could kill (the 2019 coronavirus)... before it was developed.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 28, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims a "Clorox bottle claimed it could kill (the 2019 coronavirus)... before it was developed." It’s  that some Clorox products have labels that  they’re effective against human coronaviruses. But that’s because they were proven effective against past strains of coronavirus — not the one currently spreading from China. There is no  that the 2019 coronavirus was "developed" prior to the outbreak. The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: NASA space rockets can't reach space.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 14, 2023
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Launches are done over water for safety , partly to avoid populated areas, in case of a malfunction. After decades of space travel, it’s  and  to  that NASA rockets can’t reach space. We rate the Instagram post ! RELATED: Fact-checks about space
Statement: U.S. destroyer recently fired at an armed Iranian ship.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 25, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The video describes a real event. The USS Mahan, a Navy guided-missile destroyer, fired a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel that had gotten within about 1,000 yards, according to several news reports published April 26, 2017. The Mahan was forced to change course, CNN reported . The account that posted the video and framed it as recent news often shares older videos as current events from the Next News Network, a site the Chicago Tribune reported promotes conspiracies; it was recently demonetized by YouTube.   The  that a U.S. Navy destroyer recently fired at an armed Iranian ship is .
Statement: Gas prices were WAY higher in 2008, under REPUBLICAN president George W. Bush.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 20, 2021
Location: national
Topics: bush administration;energy;gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: More broadly, experts say, movements in gas prices have little to do with who’s president. Rather, they reflect the balance between global supply and demand, and the global supply is largely determined by OPEC. Occupy Democrats modified its post to add context, but our rating is based on the original post. We rate this  . PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson contributed to this report.
Statement: Ballistic tests have confirmed that the death of at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent was caused by" weapons that were part of a federal arms trafficking operation.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: December 13, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice;guns
Context: a post on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: By all accounts, Fast and Furious weapons were found at the scene of a U.S. agent's death. Dewhurst's campaign was emphatic, though, that ballistics tests confirmed that the weapons killed the agent. We found no information indicating that's so. Dewhurst's statement rates .
Statement: Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care.
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: September 20, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Fact-check justification: Barring new , this seems like a genuine disagreement between experts on a complex issue. President Obama said "You and I are both paying 900 bucks on average — our families — in higher premiums because of uncompensated care." That's an accurate citing of older data. But another study found that cost-shifting for the uninsured was not significant. Because there's major disagreement on this issue, we rate Obama's statement .
Statement: We're already seeing bakers and florists and photographers forced to participate in same-sex marriages under the threat of law and in some cases even jail.
Speaker: tony perkins
About the speaker: Tony Perkins is president of the Washington-based Family Research Council. He was a former Louisiana state legislator and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2002.
Date: June 30, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: lgbtq
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: After the Supreme Court rulings about gay marriage, Perkins said, "We're already seeing bakers and florists and photographers forced to participate in same-sex marriages under the threat of law and in some cases even jail." We didn't find cases where people were forced to participate against their will. However, if vendors refuse service, there are consequences. There are 21 states that forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation. Vendors who refuse service there could face legal actions and fines. The "jail" part of Perkins’  is an exaggeration. We couldn’t find any  that a vendor had been sent to jail or that any legal authority had threatened jail time. In some states, if a business owner loses an anti-discrimination case and refuses to comply with an order, the owner could face jail, but we found no  of that ever happening. One state, Colorado, specifically took action to remove the threat of jail. We rate this  .
Statement: Sen. Jack Reed "cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker: mark s. zaccaria
About the speaker: Mark Zaccaria is a Rhode Island Republican who ran unsuccessfully for one of the state's U.S. Senate seats in 2014. He also made two unsuccessful bids for Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District, the most recent in 2010. He is a former chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Party. Born in 1949, he is a former corporate executive who operates a business-to-business marketing consulting business. A former Air Force instructor pilot, he served two terms on the North Kingstown Town Council and four years on the local zoning board. He is married with three children.
Date: August 3, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: congress;health care;history;public health;voting record
Context: an interview on "10 News Conference."
Fact-check justification: Mark Zaccaria said that Sen. Jack Reed "cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the Affordable Care Act." Zaccaria's position is that because every "yea" vote in the motion to end debate on the act was crucial to passage, each of those votes -- 60 in all -- was the deciding vote. Reed's vote was crucial. Zaccaria could have called it "a" deciding vote (of which there can be many) but there is no  that his was "the" deciding vote (of which there is one). Because his statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts -- in this case, the 59 other yes votes, including the 15 "ayes" that came after his -- that would give a different impression, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: In Trump's first year as president, job growth slowed to a six-year low.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: January 16, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a Medium post
Fact-check justification: The DNC wrote that "in Trump’s first year as president, job growth slowed to a six-year low." This statistic is carefully chosen to make what is actually a strong job market appear disappointing. Experts say the gain of more than 2 million jobs in 2017 was healthy, especially coming at a later point in the recovery, and it was similar in scope to half of the years during Obama’s presidency. We rate the statement .
Statement: Miami Dolphins fire 2 kneeling players before pre-season kickoff.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 1, 2018
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The NFL is  not expected to implement a new national anthem policy this season. While several Miami Dolphins have knelt during preseason games this year, none of them share the names of the players in the article, and no one was fired or penalized. Miami Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson knelt during the national anthem during the Sept. 9 season opener against the Tennessee Titans, eight days after the article's  was made. They have not been penalized as of deadline for this story. We rate this  .
Statement: In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier.
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: September 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a comment by husband Bill Clinton on Larry King Live
Fact-check justification: Joe Lenski, executive vice president of Edison Media Research, says she gained 18 percentage points among independent voters from 2000 to 2006 -- even better than her 15-point gain among moderates. But he and others also attribute the increase to the fact that Mrs. Clinton was a well-known incumbent with a weak Republican challenger. And she also had the advantage of a national wave, fueled by the unpopularity of President Bush and the Republican-led Congress, that propelled Democrats nationwide in 2006 and helped them regain control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. Mrs. Clinton may not be able to count on moving independents elsewhere. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that 47-percent of independents nationally view her unfavorably.
Statement: Says Charles Schumer supports "putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: November 16, 2020
Location: florida
Topics: congress;health care;medicare;public safety;new york
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: Scott said that Schumer was in favor of Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and reducing funding for police.  Schumer is not on record supporting Medicare for All, though he has said that a strong health care bill would pass if Democrats take control of the Senate.  He is not a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, though he does support legislation to combat climate change supported by a coalition of progressive organizations, known as the Green New Deal Network.  Schumer supports legislation to make the receipt of federal funds by local and state governments conditional on adopting certain reforms. It would not reduce police funding automatically.    We rate Scott’s statement .
Statement: It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the U.S." and "halting global warming would cost $300 billion.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 29, 2021
Topics: climate change;homeless;housing;facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: Models for estimating cost often do not account for possible public resistance, limited resources and lack of international cooperation.   Our ruling  A Facebook post claimed that it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the U.S. and $300 billion to halt global warming.   These issues are complex, and there are no firm estimates of the cost of addressing them. That said, expert analysis suggests that $20 billion falls short of the actual cost to end homelessness in the U.S. Similarly, while cost models for meeting climate change targets differ widely, $300 billion is much lower — sometimes by a hundredfold— than other estimates posited by experts.   We rate this  .
Statement: Says a "Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life.
Speaker: william g. batchelder
About the speaker: William G. Batchelder is speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He represents the 69th House District, which encompasses most of Medina County.
Date: January 3, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: health care
Context: the Ohio House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: When he speaks, people listen. Yet neither he nor his office could point us to any concrete  that a high level provincial official came to Ohio for treatment. And given that the best they could come up with was that it was "widely speculated" that Williams might have come to Cleveland, the  is more than just ; it’s  to a point that we’re ready to set the good speaker’s double-knits ablaze. We rate Batchelder’s  . Comment on this item.
Statement: The crime rate in some Atlanta neighborhoods has dropped by 35 to 51 percent.
Speaker: city of atlanta
About the speaker: City of Atlanta
Date: September 23, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: crime
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: But that came after the initial,  information was broadcast to the public and only after PolitiFact Georgia questioned the initial numbers. PolitiFact has had others who’ve offered mea culpas when we’ve inquired about the accuracy of their claims. In those instances, PolitiFact will still report our findings and note the speaker admitted to making an error. The city fessed up, but that does not erase the initial error. We rate the city’s initial  .
Statement: Wisconsin's economy is in the best shape it's been since 2000.
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: March 23, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;income;jobs;poverty
Context: a radio address
Fact-check justification: Although Wisconsin’s economy is larger now than it was in 2000, the fact that the poverty rate is higher and that there is growing income inequality indicates that the benefits of our growing economy have gone mainly to those with the highest incomes." Our rating Walker said: "Wisconsin’s economy is in the best shape it’s been since 2000." The latest figures for the unemployment rate, wages and gross domestic product support Walker’s . But the figures for labor participation rate, income and poverty do not. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is .
Statement: Innocent lives will be saved" by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
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: January 24, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: abortion;medicaid
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "  Since 1976, Medicaid dollars have never been used to fund abortion or abortion-related services thanks to the Hyde Amendment. Instead, the federal funding the state is attempting to block from Planned Parenthood provides family planning services and healthcare for 8,800 Medicaid patients. Because Abbott’s office did not respond to requests for comment, it’s unclear how he connects Medicaid funding to abortions. Other anti-abortion advocates like Pojman of the Texas Alliance for Life argue that Planned Parenthood’s referral practices lead women to abortion facilities, although he couldn’t provide proof of that .   Due to the lack of  establishing this connection, and because the burden of proof is on the speaker, we rate this  .