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Latest Fact-Checks By Sean Gorman

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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on September 23, 2014 a speech.
In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 19, 2014
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on September 17, 2014 a video.
The U.S. Constitution is "the oldest written constitution still in use today" among nations.
True
By Sean Gorman • September 22, 2014
Robert Sarvis
Robert Sarvis
stated on September 1, 2014 a speech
"Over 40 of our 100 (House of) Delegates seats go uncontested every year, and over 40 percent of our state senate seats go uncontested every year."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • September 14, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on August 25, 2014 a campaign email.
Obamacare "cuts seniors’ Medicare."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • September 8, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 20, 2014 a tweet.
Pinnacle Overlook in Southwest Virginia is "closer to eight other state capitals than to Richmond."  
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen, Sean Gorman • September 1, 2014
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on August 25, 2014 a web post.
"The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • August 25, 2014
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on July 26, 2014 a debate.
Ed Gillespie "supports a personhood amendment."
False
By Sean Gorman • August 4, 2014
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on July 11, 2014 a TV interview.
Governing magazine has "estimated that in the states that don’t expand Medicaid, a minimum, they said of 40 percent of rural hospitals will close in those states..."
False
By Sean Gorman • July 25, 2014
Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock
stated on July 7, 2014 a web post.
Obamacare "already has caused millions of hardworking Virginians to lose their health insurance."
False
By Sean Gorman • July 20, 2014
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 a speech.
"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on April 3, 2011 a TV interview.
On a balanced budget amendment.
Full Flop
By Sean Gorman • June 30, 2014
Dave Marsden
Dave Marsden
stated on June 14, 2014 a radio interview.
After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law "their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on June 3, 2014 a speech.
U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor and Luis Gutierrez were "touring the country last year … joined at the hip, working together in a bipartisan fashion indeed for the goal of immigration reform."
Pants on Fire!
By Sean Gorman • June 6, 2014
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on May 9, 2014 a radio ad.
Eric Cantor "voted to fully fund Obamacare in October."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • June 2, 2014
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 29, 2014 a campaign email.
Says a "liberal" immigration reform group endorsed his GOP primary opponent, Dave Brat.
False
By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • May 30, 2014
Democratic Party of Virginia
Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on March 26, 2014 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."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • May 23, 2014
Thomas Garrett Jr.
Thomas Garrett Jr.
stated on April 2, 2014 an op-ed.
"Last year the (Medicaid Fraud Control Unit) in Virginia alone recovered over $200 million!"
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • May 12, 2014
Democratic Party of Virginia
Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on March 24, 2014 news release.
Ed Gillespie’s 2006 book "promoted an individual health care mandate, and recommends that it be enforced by the IRS through the income tax code."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • April 27, 2014
Thomas Garrett Jr.
Thomas Garrett Jr.
stated on April 2, 2014 an op-ed.
Federal money for Medicaid expansion "is guaranteed for a few years and then goes away."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 13, 2014
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