Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Victoria Cobb
stated on August 22, 2015 in a speech.:

"Inspections of abortion centers around Virginia have found multiple violations of parental consent laws … but Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his administration have done nothing."

By Warren Fiske • September 14, 2015

E.W. Jackson
stated on July 4, 2015 in a news release.:

Says President Obama "is reducing our naval fleet to 1917 levels..."

By Sean Gorman • July 13, 2015

Mark Warner
stated on June 4, 2015 in an interview.:

Millennials "will be 75 percent of the workforce in the next 10 years."

By Sean Gorman • June 15, 2015

Tim Kaine
stated on April 16, 2015 in a floor speech.:

"It’s estimated that 40 percent of all the guns that are sold in the United States occur with no background records check."

By Sean Gorman • April 28, 2015

Joe Morrissey
stated on March 25, 2015 in a campaign flier.:

"Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obama’s Medicaid expansion."

By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015

Dave Brat
stated on March 17, 2015 in a news release.:

"Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the federal government has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations."

By Sean Gorman • March 30, 2015

Barbara Comstock
stated on January 22, 2015 in a tweet.:

"Did you know under President Obama family health care premiums have increased $4,154 on the average?"

By Warren Fiske • February 2, 2015

Mark Warner
stated on December 3, 2014 in an interview.:

Regarding sexual assault against women, "It’s actually safer not to be in college than it is to be in college."

By Sean Gorman • January 4, 2015

Richard Saslaw
stated on November 24, 2014 in a presentation.:

Female students at UVA "have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted."

By Sean Gorman • December 8, 2014

Jack Trammell
stated on October 20, 2014 in a TV ad.:

Dave Brat said "the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more."

By Nancy Madsen • November 2, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on August 25, 2014 in a campaign email.:

Obamacare "cuts seniors’ Medicare."

By Sean Gorman • September 8, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on May 14, 2014 in a news release.:

Mark Warner’s "record is one of acting against" the Keystone XL pipeline.

By Nancy Madsen • June 23, 2014

Dave Brat
stated on May 9, 2014 in a radio ad.:

Eric Cantor "voted to fully fund Obamacare in October."

By Sean Gorman • June 2, 2014

Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on March 26, 2014 in a news release.:

In 2007, Ed Gillespie "was paid $300,000 to be the frontman for a coalition that made the individual mandate the centerpiece of its health reform plan."

By Sean Gorman • May 23, 2014

Campaign for Liberty
stated on April 29, 2014 in a petition.:

"Estimates for adopting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion show it will cost Virginia taxpayers $902 million through 2022."

By Nancy Madsen • May 19, 2014

Thomas Garrett Jr.
stated on April 2, 2014 in an op-ed.:

"Last year the (Medicaid Fraud Control Unit) in Virginia alone recovered over $200 million!"

By Sean Gorman • May 12, 2014

Thomas Garrett Jr.
stated on April 2, 2014 in an op-ed.:

Federal money for Medicaid expansion "is guaranteed for a few years and then goes away."

By Sean Gorman • April 13, 2014

Republican Party of Virginia
stated on March 26, 2014 in a tweet.:

Gov. McAuliffe's budget would "raid school, other $$ 4 Obamacare in VA."

By Nancy Madsen • April 6, 2014

Terry McAuliffe
stated on February 26, 2014 in a radio interview.:

If the legislature refuses to expand Medicaid, "27 states are going to get our money – Virginia taxpayer money – into their states to provide health care for their citizens, paid for by us."

By Nancy Madsen • March 31, 2014

Jimmie Massie
stated on March 12, 2014 in a Facebook post.:

In Virginia’s Medicaid program, "approximately 30 percent, or $2.7 billion a year, is lost to waste, fraud and inefficiencies."

By Sean Gorman • March 23, 2014

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