Claim: "The only time over the last 25 years when the state's unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when  Burke was commerce secretary."
Fact-check: Since 1988, Wisconsin unemployment rate greater than U.S. rate only when Mary Burke held state commerce post, GOP says
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Tom Kertscher
Date published: 2014-02-14T00:00:00