Latest Fact-Checks By Anna Orso

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Did Pat Toomey ‘cross party lines’ to tighten gun laws for suspected terrorists?

August 15, 2016

"Toomey crossed party lines… to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list."

The surprising stats on car crashes and overdoses in Pennsylvania

August 11, 2016

Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.

PA Congressman’s misleading claim: Hillary Clinton trusted by ‘virtually’ no one

July 20, 2016

"[Hillary Clinton]'s not trusted -- virtually at all."

Kenney blasts Pat Toomey’s ‘fearmongering’ around sanctuary city policy, but here’s the thing

July 8, 2016

"Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the…

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Pat Toomey’s gun control bill and Katie McGinty’s post-Orlando slam

June 15, 2016

"He leant his name to a bill, did little or nothing three years ago to try to get it passed, (and) since then has done…

Teamsters say soda tax would cost thousands of jobs; that doesn’t add up

May 20, 2016

A three-cents-per-ounce soda tax in Philadelphia "would result in the loss of 2,000 family-sustaining Teamster Union jobs and countless other jobs in the beverage industry."…

Did Sen. Pat Toomey say he wanted to eliminate all corporate taxes?

April 29, 2016

"Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes."

Donald Trump and the number of manufacturing jobs Pennsylvania has lost

April 22, 2016

"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."  

Claim in Bucks lawmaker’s gun law mailer isn’t exactly what happened

April 21, 2016

"Steve Santarsiero wrote PA’s Gun Safety Law."

Fact-checking Bill Clinton’s Philly defense of his controversial crime bill

April 8, 2016

"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because…

Was Villanova’s big win a ‘come-from-behind victory,’ as Hillary Clinton said?

April 6, 2016

When mentioning Villanova’s buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories."

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