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2635.json | Says the Annies List political group supports third-trimester abortions on demand. | false | That's a premise that he fails to back up. Annie's List makes no bones about being comfortable with candidates who oppose further restrictions on late-term abortions. Then again, this year it’s backing two House candidates who voted for more limits. Honestly? | 0 |
10540.json | When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off that started to begin in (President George W.) Bushs administration. | half-true | Surovell said the decline of coal "started when natural gas took off … That started to begin in President (George W.) Bush’s administration." No doubt, natural gas has been gaining ground on coal in generating electricity. The trend started in the 1990s but clearly gained speed during the Bush administration when the p... | 1 |
324.json | Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran." | true | Obama said he would have voted against the amendment if he had been present. So though Clinton may have "agreed" with McCain on the issue, they did not technically vote the same way on it. To say that voting for Kyl-Lieberman is "giving George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran" remains a contentious issue. But Obam... | 2 |
1123.json | Health care reform legislation is likely to mandate free sex change surgeries. | false | The release may have a point that Mikulski’s comment could open the door to "medically necessary" coverage which conceivably may include sex-change operations. But it's unclear whether her amendment will remain in the legislation, and there's nothing specific in the legislation on sex-change procedures and nothing else... | 3 |
9028.json | The economic turnaround started at the end of my term. | half-true | Crist said that the economic "turnaround started at the end of my term." During Crist’s last year in office, Florida’s economy experienced notable gains in personal income and industrial production, and more marginal improvements in the unemployment rate and in payroll employment. But GDP didn’t grow again until Scott ... | 4 |
12465.json | The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades. | true | Vos said the Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the past 10 years than the number of UW faculty members who have been fired in the past 20 years. Six faculty members have been fired in the past two decades, while there have been nine different starting quarterbacks for the Bears in the past decade. | 5 |
2342.json | Jim Dunnam has not lived in the district he represents for years now. | false | But determining that would take significant detective work, far more than a few photos. A broader interpretation would allow for the possibility Dunnam hasn’t lived exclusively in his House district for years, but instead flits between -- and lives in -- both houses. | 6 |
153.json | I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate. | half-true | However, it was not that bill, but another one, sponsored by Majority Leader Harry Reid and introduced five days earlier on Jan. 4, 2007 that eventually became law. Obama was not a cosponsor, but he did successfully offer an amendment concerning lobbyist disclosure and the bill included some elements from the one he ha... | 7 |
5602.json | However, it took $19.5 million in Oregon Lottery funds for the Port of Newport to eventually land the new NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific. | half-true | But Johnson is correct that many other factors played a role and for the Lottery to suggest that its money was the final piece is incomplete. The statement is partially accurate -- Lottery money made the lease competitive -- but it leaves out important details. Astoria dropped out; Newport’s bid was better on technical... | 8 |
9741.json | Says GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a compromise vote that cost $788 million in higher electricity costs. | true | Stroebel’s ad says Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a "compromise vote that cost $788 million" in higher electricity costs. They cast that vote, and higher costs have followed. | 9 |
7115.json | For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin. | true | The senator’s correct that Latino voters put Obama over the top in winning the popular vote, according to both a Latino Decisions poll and exit polling data. But Menendez should have been clearer about the historic nature of the Latino vote in 2012. The 2000 election was the first time when Latino voters delivered more... | 10 |
4148.json | Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty. | half-true | So where does this leave us? On Sanders’ side, he used a solid number, and he’s clearly right about the underlying trend -- despite some ups and downs, there are more impoverished Americans today than there were in 2000, both measured by raw numbers and as a percentage of the population. But we think he goes too far wh... | 11 |
8616.json | The economy bled $24 billion due to the government shutdown. | true | Doonesbury, aka Garry Trudeau, said the government shutdown cost the economy $24 billion. That is based on the highest of the independent estimates. The others are lower. Three prominent forecasters, Goldman Sachs, IHS and Moody’s assessed the damage at $20 billion. A survey of economists set $16 billion as the most li... | 12 |
8705.json | Most of the (Affordable Care Act) has already in some sense been waived or otherwise suspended. | false | With all the talk about problems with the health care law, it’s easy to forget just how many corners of health insurance policy the law affects. Will seemed guilty of that on Fox News Sunday when he said most of the law has been waived or suspended. Obama has made at least two major course corrections in the law. He de... | 13 |
10683.json | In this last election in November, ... 63 percent of the American people chose not to vote, ... 80 percent of young people, (and) 75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote. | half-true | Sanders said that "in this last election in November, ... 63 percent of the American people chose not to vote, ... 80 percent of young people, (and) 75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote." Sanders was too loose with some of his numbers and his wording, but he has a point that rates of non-voting among Amer... | 14 |
620.json | McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' | true | I firmly object to all 'buy America' restrictions, as they represent gross examples of protectionist trade policy." He added, "Furthermore, as a fiscal conservative, I want to ensure our government gets the best deal for taxpayers and with a 'buy American' restriction that cannot be guaranteed." The McCain campaign did... | 15 |
3863.json | U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out | false | And the debt is a result of tax cuts as well as various spending measures, and both Democrats and Republicans supported such measures. We do, too. | 16 |
12372.json | Water rates in Manila, Philippines, were raised up to 845 percent when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner. | half-true | Moore said that when the International Finance Corporation became a part-owner of Manila Water, rates rose 845 percent. The source cited by Moore’s staff undermines that number. The International Finance Corporation bought its stake in 2004. Between 2004 and 2012, rates rose about 170 percent. However, the IFC crafted ... | 17 |
12385.json | Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year. | true | That appears to be close. Airline data suggests about 89,000 more people departed Puerto Rico for the United States then entered it in 2015. While that’s not a perfect estimate to measure out-migration, all the population trends suggest Puerto Rico is experiencing a surge in out-migration, as residents leave for better... | 18 |
10173.json | Women and men both are making less when you adjust for inflation than when John Kitzhaber was first elected governor. | false | It didn’t, in other words, change the final result. The Richardson campaign did get back to us but, regardless, the information it provided doesn't hold up. Data from the two federal agencies and the state Employment Department show that both genders make more today, when their wages are adjusted for inflation, than th... | 19 |
9867.json | The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the free world. | true | Bolling said the United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free world." He was referring to the statutory rate, meaning the rate before deductions. On that score, he’s right: The United States does have the highest statutory rate among developed countries. However, the United States’ corporate tax rate d... | 20 |
12408.json | We just had the best year for the auto industry in America in history. | true | Clinton said, "We just had the best year for the auto industry in America in history." With sales figures that exceed the pre-recession high, 2015 was a great year for the auto industry, including American manufacturers. This high point should be taken with a grain of salt because it might mask long-term issues with Am... | 21 |
2673.json | Says Scott Walker favors cutting up to 350,000 families and children off health care. | half-true | Walker changed course to a muddier position, while Greater Wisconsin has continued to cite the number. It adds an important qualifier though -- "up to" 350,000. Walker’s new position, while unclear, still focuses on reining in BadgerCare enrollment -- whether it’s the 68,000 or some other number remains to be seen. | 22 |
7057.json | Says Mitt Romney wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood. | false | The Planned Parenthood Action Fund aid said that Romney wants to "get rid of Planned Parenthood." That directly contradicts what Romney has said -- that he wants to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, not abolish the organization -- and his staff reaffirmed that position. There’s no question that an end to fede... | 23 |
10215.json | I dont know who (Jonathan Gruber) is. | false | Pelosi said, "I don't know who (Jonathan Gruber) is." | 24 |
12517.json | Hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques have tripled after Paris and San Bernardino. | true | Clinton said that "hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques have tripled after Paris and San Bernardino." Calculations by the director of an academic center found that the number did triple after those attacks. But it’s worth noting that his data does not show whether or not they remained at that elevated level... | 25 |
3910.json | Rick Perry has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the Texas governorship three times in landslide elections. | half-true | And, Jillson said, he would not term Perry’s ‘06 win a landslide. Indeed, he said, the governor’s 39 percent amounted to a comeuppance; 60 percent of voters chose a different aspirant. Our take: Perry is the third--not first--Texas governor to win re-election thrice. Two of his wins were bona fide landslides but the th... | 26 |
11092.json | ISIS supporter tweeted at 10:34 a.m. Shooting began at 10:45 a.m. in Chattanooga, Tenn. | false | Geller updated the original post, but it did little to stuff the rumor back into the bag. | 27 |
12163.json | Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent. | true | Defining which cities, suburbs and townships are "minority communities" is a matter of debate. But it’s worth noting that Ferguson’s youth are not only more unemployed than their peers in St. Louis , they are also significantly more unemployed on average than both white and black 16-24 year-olds across the country. Fer... | 28 |
13237.json | Says Paul Ryan is still endorsing Trump. | true | Clinton says Ryan "is still endorsing Trump." https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/82b74708-0ee4-414b-9fb4-437544a96b41 | 29 |
5383.json | If you look at states that are right to work, they constantly do not have budget deficits and they have very good business climates. | false | They did generally rank right-to-work states higher than union states, but they considered many other factors, including tax policy, that could account for the better rankings. (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter. To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.) | 30 |
9727.json | What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is youre not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants. | false | Capito said "What (Obama is) going to come out with in the next several months is you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants." The proposal Capito is referring to is an EPA plan to cut carbon emissions in existing power plants. Those rules do not prohibit current facilities from... | 31 |
8239.json | We cut business taxes so today 70 percent of our businesses dont pay a business tax. | true | Scott said "70 percent of our businesses don't pay a business tax." His general point was that during his tenure, he’s been cutting all sorts of taxes. State data for 2011 taxes shows that 76.8 percent of businesses don’t pay the corporate income tax due to the exemption. Scott is including some very small businesses h... | 32 |
10121.json | Says Mark Pryor votes with Obama 93 percent of the time. | true | Cotton said Pryor "votes with Obama 93 percent of the time." Since Obama became president, Pryor has voted in line with the president’s positions between 90 and 95 percent of the time, with 92.6 percent -- basically 93 percent -- as the average, according to the best rating system at our disposal. Pryor doesn’t vote wi... | 33 |
7550.json | We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats. | true | Cruz, railing against modern interpretations of the Commerce Clause and the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, said, "We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats." Editor's note: We updated this item on March 26, 2013, to clarify that the U.S. Access Board requires mos... | 34 |
9018.json | Austin is a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded. | true | Leffingwell said Austin is a "city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded." Click here formore on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. | 35 |
1038.json | The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests. | true | That means 99.37 percent of all the tests were done by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, he said. "It's about right," Sublette said of the figures cited by North Korea. "If it's off, it's only off by a few (tests)." We aren't inclined to quibble with fractions of one percent. | 36 |
2940.json | In the case of a catastrophic event, the Atlanta-area offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will self-destruct. | false | We are pleased to reassure the CDC's neighbors that they do not need to install flame-proof siding. The CDC said none of its emergency plans involve blowing up its campus. Plus, the AJC reported two cases in which the CDC emergency generator failures did not coincide with subnuclear explosions. And by the way, we can't... | 37 |
8492.json | Under President George W. Bush, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama weve added $6.5 trillion to the debt. | true | Ayotte said that the country has added $6.5 trillion to the national debt since Obama took office and $4.9 trillion under Bush. When measuring by total debt, she’s correct on both counts. | 38 |
5352.json | Says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law. | false | Rubio mentioned a female Supreme Court Judge and then concluded, "if you are an appellate lawyer you need to brush up on your South African law because that is how some cases apparently are going to be decided here going forward." Rubio was implying that Justice Ginsburg favored South African law rather than the U.S. C... | 39 |
12027.json | Says Marco Rubio skipped 18 defense votes including one to arm the Kurds to fight ISIS. | half-true | A pro-Cruz PAC said that Marco Rubio "skipped 18 defense votes, including one to arm the Kurds to fight ISIS." The ad also omits that Rubio voted for the overall bill, which passed the Senate. The majority of the skipped votes were amendments, while many others were procedural or related to votes after the bill passed ... | 40 |
5210.json | Rep. David Cicilline is responsible for the federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, the failed solar company | false | The full name of the legislation under which the stimulus package was approved gives this one away -- the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Cicilline took office in January 2011, a full 23 months after passage of the bill enacting the loan guarantee program that benefited Solyndra. The National Republican... | 41 |
7993.json | Says Ohio budget item later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a mandatory vaginal probe. | false | And with Kasich up for re-election next year, it’s no surprise that Democrats are eager for a debate that draws contrasts with the governor. But there should be no debate about what types of ultrasounds these new regulations require. Had Maddow read the language closely, she would have seen a mandate -- for external de... | 42 |
1926.json | We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' | false | “Just two weeks ago, American hotels were the target of bombings in Jakarta that killed eight people and injured six Americans.” More recently, Napolitano told CNN on May 2, 2010 – the day after a sport-utility vehicle holding a bomb was found in New York’s Times Square – that the incident was being treated “as if it c... | 43 |
11418.json | African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent. | half-true | During the debate, Sanders said that "African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent." He has a point that African-American and Hispanic youth have significantly worse prospects in the job market than whites do. But his numbers are too far off. Using the standard method for... | 44 |
7990.json | Obamacare will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally. | false | The chain email says that Obamacare provides insurance "to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally." It’s actually citing a 2009 proposal that didn’t pass, but that doesn’t really matter. The Affordable Care Act does nothing to provide health insurance to anyone living in the United States illegally. (A... | 45 |
3652.json | President Barack Obama took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commissions ideas. Not one. | false | If Boehner had offered a more measured assessment, he would have had a fair point about the differences between Obama’s fiscal approach and that outlined by the commission. The president certainly could have gone further in embracing the recommendations of the panel he had commissioned. But he did embrace a wide variet... | 46 |
12848.json | It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost (Capt. Humayun Khans) life. | false | Pierson said, "It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost (Capt. Khan’s) life." Under the rules of engagement in 2004 and today, Khan would have been able to use deadly force to defend himself. More importantly, Khan died five years before Obama became presiden... | 47 |
13503.json | Hillary Clinton in 2005 co-sponsored legislation that would jail flag burners. | true | The online site Townhall.com said Hillary Clinton co-sponsored legislation in 2005 that would jail flag burners. Clinton did indeed co-sponsor a bill that would have done just that. Republicans have backed similar legislation in the past, even though the courts have ruled flag burning is legally protected. | 48 |
4930.json | Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romneys book deleted line that Massachusetts individual mandate should be the model for the country | false | Perry's right that Romney's comments about health care were edited between editions. Among other things, a line that advocated the Massachusetts model as a strong option for other states was replaced by a shorter, more generic sentence. But that line was preceded by an argument for state-level solutions, exactly the ar... | 49 |
13210.json | Maggie Hassan raised tuition, making it the highest in America. | false | The National Senatorial Committee says Maggie Hassan "raised tuition, making it the highest in America." For starters, in-state tuition in New Hampshire for four-year colleges has been the highest in America for years, but it was that way before Hassan took office. As for Hassan’s role as governor, of the two budgets s... | 50 |
8187.json | Says Terry McAuliffe is the person who invented the scheme to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom. | false | Cuccinelli, in attacking McAuliffe’s ethics, says the Democrat is "the person who invented the scheme to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom." McAuliffe authored a memo in early 1995 listing ways Clinton could connect with top Democratic patrons. But the original note did not mention White House sleepovers; that idea was late... | 51 |
12758.json | We created 800,000 new jobs, we cut the unemployment rate almost in half and today New York State has more private sector jobs than it has ever had in its history | true | During a press briefing in Ontario County, Gov. Cuomo told a group of reporters that 800,000 jobs had been created, the unemployment rate fell by almost half, and the state had more private sector jobs than ever before. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/25db535b-412c-4788-bbcd-ce9660d5c1e9 | 52 |
10693.json | We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water. | false | Miller said: "We have towns in West Texas that are out of water." In recent years, towns around Texas occasionally ran dry until new wells or water plants met needs. But Miller named no towns out of water of late nor did we identify any. Click here formore on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. | 53 |
13077.json | In Georgia, women earn 82 cents for every dollar earned by men. | half-true | Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Barksdale that women in Georgia only earn 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man. But the statement is missing substantial context needed to fully grasp a very complex issue. When asked for clarification, Barksdale's campaign issued a statement that veered into the equal-pay-for-... | 54 |
3283.json | A federal system that verifies employees are authorized to work in the U.S. is inaccurate anywhere from 50 percent all the way up to in excess of 80 percent of the time. | half-true | But his suggestion the error rate ranges between 50 and 80 percent was too high. E-Verify’s worst error rate -- for illegal workers -- is high, but it’s still well below what Raynor suggested. For all workers, it shrinks to 2.3 to 5.7 percent. | 55 |
12981.json | They were going to build the wall a while ago, not so long ago, like in 06. And they couldnt get environmental impact statements. | false | Trump said, "They were going to build the wall a while ago, not so long ago, like in '06. And they couldn't get environmental impact statements." The Secure Fence Act of 2006 called for the construction of an additional 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. While there were environmental concerns related t... | 56 |
812.json | Sen. Obama's campaign announced that he's choosing his cabinet. | false | Has Obama "announced that he's choosing his Cabinet"? He definitely has not. What's happening is the usual transition planning that occurs with any presidential campaign in the final days before an election. | 57 |
7548.json | In 2008, only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out. | true | The Battleground Texas advocate said that in 2008, "only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out." Research rooted in federal surveys and an analysis starting from the state's 2008 voting roll supports those figures, while our own estimates starting from Texas stud... | 58 |
6000.json | Only 2 percent of public high schools in the country offer PE classes. | false | Official federal data show that more than 95 percent of high schools in 2006 required PE -- a far cry from the 2 percent Obama cited. | 59 |
321.json | Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy." | true | Whether Huckabee's "investment" of higher taxes for better services was a good move is not is not a turnaround category Giuliani lists. It has to be kept in mind that the economic circumstances each chief executive faced were very different. Giuliani can't match Romney in the corporate turnaround business. And Giuliani... | 60 |
1779.json | On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong." | true | Justice Samuel Alito did not participate because he had not yet been seated to the court when oral arguments were made. The court did reject the arguments put forward by the law schools, which included FAIR and the brief filed by the Harvard professors. All of the justices who voted opposed the law schools' arguments. | 61 |
1833.json | There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools. | true | More recent data available from the agency shows both have increased; still, the ratio of teachers to non-teachers is about the same. But Sullivan's online call to action doesn't do justice to the state's actual mix of school workers. The majority of non-teachers aren't administrators or paper shufflers; they're people... | 62 |
8584.json | Under Mayor Cicilline, [Providence] was a sanctuary city. | false | John DePetro said that under Mayor David Cicilline, Providence "was a sanctuary city." While there is no legal definition of "sanctuary city," in the eight years that Cicilline was mayor Providence had not taken any of the measures adopted by other cities often identified by that label. (Get updates fromPolitiFactRI on... | 63 |
10829.json | Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered. | false | Coleman told colleagues: "Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered." We’re not judging here whether transgender individuals are at risk of attack. Click here formore on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE, 12:30 p.m., April 25, 2016: We revised this art... | 64 |
6612.json | At Bain Capital, we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. | true | Romney said the first lady "praised" Bright Horizons. She did say that she was "excited" to launch an initiative that included the child care provider, calling Let’s Move partners "so important." Those are favorable comments about the company. | 65 |
12056.json | Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS in his social media posts. | false | Trump said Thomas DiMassimo, the man who rushed at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts. There is lots to offend people on DiMassimo’s social media posts. But there doesn’t appear to be any legitimate connection between DiMassimo and ISIS. The link Trump tweeted was a ho... | 66 |
6161.json | U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey gave the government the power to electronically spy on Americans without a warrant. | false | But he does raise a legitimate criticism of CISPA. The bill’s protections may not be enough to keep average Americans safe from Hall and Oates’ private eyes. Opitz’s statement raises real issues. But he overstates some key points, and it could use a lot more context. | 67 |
2526.json | Alex Sink funneled three quarters of a million dollars in no-bid contracts to Bank of America. | false | Let's take this one step at a time. Alex Sink funneled ... First, she was one of four statewide elected officials to agree to change the process for selling state bonds that ultimately resulted in paying $770,321 in commission fees to Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Second, she had no idea when she approved the new ... | 68 |
3786.json | If you take the population growth here in Virginia, we are net zero on job creation since (Bob McDonnell) became governor. | true | Economists say governors have little control over economic conditions. Virginia has consistently had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation this century. Those points aside, McDonnell bills himself as a job-creating governor. McAuliffe accurately summarized one set of statistics about employment in Virginia... | 69 |
6697.json | Under Obama, home values in Florida collapsed, construction jobs were lost and the state had a high foreclosure rate. | false | But each one of those trends began well before Obama was elected. Analysts say they have been driven by a natural and inevitable market correction much more than by any government policies. But since the ad draws a cause/effect relationship -- the cause being Obama’s presidency, the effect being a sour housing market -... | 70 |
1738.json | The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person." | true | That said, we think that a close reading of the law and the views of the
experts we contacted do allow us to draw some conclusions. Gutierrez' statement -- that the law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person" -- is fairly accurate, b... | 71 |
7425.json | The only time in our history when the debt has been higher than this was the end of World War II. | true | In hard dollars, it’s not even close. The current $16.49 trillion debt is far larger than at any other point in U.S. history. But, the debt-to-GDP ratio tells a different story. The current ratio, 73 percent, is among the nation’s highest. But, as Cote notes, it still has a ways to go to get to the 106 and 109 percent ... | 72 |
10039.json | The cost of health care is now the single-biggest factor driving down the federal budget deficit. | true | Obama said the cost of "health care is now the single-biggest factor driving down" the federal budget deficit. The CBO recently lowered its projection for long-term deficits and specifically cited health care costs as the main reason, though the Affordable Care Act is not necessarily the primary cause of that calculati... | 73 |
2166.json | During the recession, the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent. | true | On the surface, then, the facts tend to support the broad version of the paradox of thrift. The jump in the household saving rate has thus been harmful to economic growth, at least in the short run." We'll acknowledge that there's a difference of opinion in how economists view the impact of the saving rate's growth dur... | 74 |
1978.json | On whether a U.S. Supreme Court nominee should be forthcoming at confirmation hearings. | false | "I think it is an important question, and a difficult question, about how an election contest that at least, arguably, the political branches can't find a way to resolve themselves, what should happen, and whether and when the court should get involved. It's hard to think of a more important question in a democratic sy... | 75 |
3005.json | Says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran. | false | Using U.S. Census Bureau statistics to extrapolate the percentage of males among veterans (93 percent), McGhee comes up with a figure of 99,720 homeless male veterans — slightly more than one-third of the total number of adult homeless people calculated from the January 2009 one-night survey. | 76 |
9165.json | Says Charlie Crist supports cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. | false | The Republican Party of Florida said Crist supports "cuts to the Medicare Advantage program." Crist has flip-flopped on a lot of issues, including the federal health care law. He used to oppose the Affordable Care Act, but now he supports it. The law tries to bring down future health care costs by reducing Medicare Adv... | 77 |
2109.json | I think it is unacceptable for the Chinese today to be larger in wind power and in solar panels and photovoltaic manufacturing than all of Europe put together -- forget the United States. | half-true | China added more renewable-power capacity than any other country in the world in 2009, according to the Worldwatch Institute. But Ferre's point was manufacturing when he met with the Sun-Sentinel editorial board. His statement that China is larger than Europe and the United States in the manufacturing of wind and solar... | 78 |
10053.json | Says Scott Brown co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for birth control. | true | Shaheen said Brown "co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for birth control." The amendment, which Brown supported, was written loosely enough to allow a religious-conscience opt-out for birth control -- an issue about which there has been a longstanding policy debate on religious and moral grou... | 79 |
9613.json | At some point in their lives, 99% of women use birth control. | half-true | Happ said "at some point in their lives, 99% of women use birth control." It’s clear she was arguing that contraception use is widespread, and important for women who run the risk of getting pregnant. | 80 |
3146.json | In the past 20 years, Egypt has made great strides in political and democratic reform. | false | There is no meaningful political space here." In our ruling, we find little to support the ambassador's statement that "Egypt has been on a road of economic, political, democratic reform for the last 20 years or more, and it has achieved great strides in that regard." A few things may have improved, particularly in the... | 81 |
8755.json | The amount of attention paid this week to Chris Christie makes the coverage of Benghazi ... pale in significance. | false | Rove said that the coverage of Christie pales "in significance" to the coverage of Benghazi. When news of the attacks on Benghazi broke, coverage was widespread, and it continued through congressional hearings. Moreover, a lot of the coverage questioned the administration’s narrative and response to the attacks. Indeed... | 82 |
9989.json | Says U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland voted to keep the shutdown going. | true | Graham said Southerland "voted to keep the shutdown going." The ad refers to an Oct. 16, 2013, no vote Southerland cast against a bipartisan Senate bill that funded the government and ended the shutdown. By the time it reached the House floor, it was clear to lawmakers that their vote would effectively be deciding whet... | 83 |
2044.json | In Rick Perrys Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries. | half-true | The center said that to meet the demand for registered nurses by 2020, the number of graduates will need to triple from the 2009 level, when 8,211 people graduated. Texas nursing schools are still turning away qualified applicants -- about 8,700 in 2009, primarily because the schools lack sufficient faculty, the center... | 84 |
11657.json | There is a federal criminal law that says its a crime to transport dentures across state lines. | true | Goodlatte said it’s a federal crime "to transport dentures across state lines." He made the statement while promoting a bill that would repeal what he considers to be unnecessary laws. But it doesn’t restrict citizens from wearing their dentures wherever they go. The congressman didn’t mention that. | 85 |
11131.json | We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders. | true | Booker said, "We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders." Booker is right that a new prison was built every 10 days during that period. But while there was a significant rise in the incarceration rate of nonviolent offenders, it to... | 86 |
767.json | Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class." | false | Its more generous exemption for dependents and lower tax rates would cut across income levels and reduce or eliminate many taxpayers’ AMT exposure. | 87 |
10263.json | Austin is burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation. | false | Skaggs said Austin has the fastest-growing tax increases of any major U.S. city. Among the nation’s largest cities, Austin appears to have had the third-fastest growth in its property-tax bite on a median-valued home from 2005 to 2013. It seems reasonable to speculate local taxpayers feel the pinch. However, Skaggs did... | 88 |
1969.json | Phoenix, Arizona, is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world. | false | In fact, experts advise that such rankings can't be made based on available information. If they could, they speculate, other cities would prove to have more kidnappings than Arizona's capital. We found nothing confirming Phoenix as No. 2 in kidnappings worldwide. | 89 |
10386.json | I belong to the AFL-CIO. | true | Perry said he’s a member of the AFL-CIO. Since 2006, Perry has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild, which is part of the AFL-CIO. Click here formore on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. | 90 |
2020.json | The insurance commissioner cant do squat about health care. | true | He used the word "squat," as in "diddly squat." Bupkis. Nada. Nothing. | 91 |
4264.json | Says a poll found him the only Republican candidate who could beat Barack Obama in Texas -- and by eight points. | half-true | In the June poll, all told, Romney performed better in Texas than other Republicans against Obama, but contrary to his statement, he was not the only Republican to best him. He was the only candidate who did so by more than the poll's margin of error. But Romney is hardly the only Republican who could win the state. No... | 92 |
6359.json | President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon. | false | Romney said the U.S. stayed out of conflict settings under Reagan, except once in Grenada. Romney put Lebanon in a separate category of "a peacekeeping setting." The record shows multiple military engagements and a large loss of life in Lebanon. Reagan was wary of the actual use of troops, but he did not stick to that ... | 93 |
8931.json | Says David Jolly supports privatizing Social Security. | false | Democrats say Jolly "supports privatizing Social Security," using a paraphrased statement that private accounts should be on the table in discussing future reforms. They also point to the fact Jolly had a meeting with Ryan to discuss the program. Jolly says he’s been very clear where he stands on Social Security, but w... | 94 |
9213.json | Did you know US population growth is at its lowest since the Great Depression? | true | Sarvis said the U.S. population growth is at its lowest level since the Great Depression. | 95 |
7599.json | The average student in Florida, what they actually pay out of pocket at our major universities for tuition is as much or less than what they spend on cellphones. | true | Weatherford defended his call for a tuition hike before the leaders of the state university system by saying students spend more on cellphones than "what they actually pay out of pocket at our major universities" for tuition. We found his point is accurate if you compare the average out-of-pocket cost for all schools a... | 96 |
7128.json | A foreclosure tax that would take effect in 2013 could mean a high tax bill for those facing foreclosure and millions of families who modified their mortgage or had a short sale through their lender. | true | The National Association of Realtors wrote that millions of Americans could face a hefty tax bill if Congress does not extend this act. It’s possible, if the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act isn’t extended. The Realtors’ estimate that it could have an impact on one-quarter of transactions seems on target, if you ad... | 97 |
5667.json | The Florida Department of Agricultures website FreshFromFlorida.com can be used to get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house. | false | Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said that at the Florida Department of Agriculture’s website FreshFromFlorida.com, people can "get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house." But fingerprints are required as part of the application process, and Gross m... | 98 |
4170.json | The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years. | false | In fact, it will take an estimated 467 jobs to construct the line, plus 23 jobs that last 20 years or longer to run the streetcar. Experts think the remaining 4,600 jobs will be for those who produce materials needed to build the line or products workers purchase with their earnings, as well as employees of new busines... | 99 |
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