Latest Fact Checks By Anna Orso

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

By Anna Orso

August 15, 2016

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

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The surprising stats on car crashes and overdoses in Pennsylvania

By Anna Orso

August 11, 2016

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

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

By Anna Orso

July 20, 2016

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

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

By Anna Orso

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

By Anna Orso

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…

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

By Anna Orso

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."…

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PA Congressman Marino and the math for 20M ‘out of work’ Americans

By Anna Orso , Louis Jacobson

May 9, 2016

Twenty million Americans are "out of work."

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

By Anna Orso

April 29, 2016

"Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes."

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Donald Trump and the number of manufacturing jobs Pennsylvania has lost

By Anna Orso

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."  

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

By Anna Orso

April 21, 2016

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

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

By Anna Orso , Cassie Owens

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…

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

By Anna Orso , Dan Levy

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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