Latest Fact-Checks By Sean Gorman

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Bill Clinton
stated on February 24, 2016 in a campaign rally.:

"Every year there is a slightly smaller percentage of American households owning guns."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • March 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 in a speech.:

"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • February 29, 2016

Bob Goodlatte
stated on February 15, 2016 in a TV interview.:

"It’s highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • February 22, 2016

Jill Vogel
stated on January 27, 2016 in legislative hearing.:

In Virginia, "people are going and getting marriage licenses who are 12 and 13, and 14 and 15 years old."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • February 8, 2016

Thomas Garrett Jr.
stated on January 11, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force."

False

By Sean Gorman • February 1, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on January 28, 2016 in a Republican debate:

"Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll, Sean Gorman • January 29, 2016

Virginia Center for Public Safety
stated on January 18, 2016 in a rally flier:

"Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, more Americans have died by gunfire within our own country than American servicemen and women who were killed in all our wars."

True

By Sean Gorman • January 26, 2016

Philip Van Cleave
stated on January 18, 2016 in a speech:

Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."

False

By Sean Gorman • January 25, 2016

Occupy Democrats
stated on January 12, 2016 in a blog post.:

Says Virginia Del. Mark Cole "wants schools to check children’s genitals before using bathroom."

False

By Sean Gorman • January 18, 2016

Steven Landes
stated on December 24, 2015 in a constituent survey.:

Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year..."

False

By Sean Gorman • January 11, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on December 17, 2015 in a radio interview.:

"Existing law right now requires 700 miles of double-layered border fencing" on the Mexico border.

False

By Sean Gorman • December 29, 2015

Rob Wittman
stated on December 9, 2015 in an interview.:

"Only nine" coalition nations with the U.S. "are truly actively involved" in fighting the Islamic State.

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • December 22, 2015

Bob Goodlatte
stated on November 24, 2015 in a radio interview.:

"There is a federal criminal law that says it's a crime to transport dentures across state lines."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • December 7, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on November 14, 2015 in a news conference.:

Says President Barack Obama "will not utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and as matter of policy, nobody in the administration will say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’"

True

By Sean Gorman • November 30, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 28, 2015 in a speech.:

"It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • November 23, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 28, 2015 in a speech.:

The Koch Brothers are "spending more money than either the Democratic or Republican parties" in the 2016 elections.

False

By Sean Gorman • November 6, 2015

Terry McAuliffe
stated on October 15, 2015 in an executive order.:

"It has been estimated that nearly 40 percent of all guns sold in America are sold by private, unlicensed sellers either online or through gun shows."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • November 2, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on September 24, 2015 in radio interview:

The Washington D.C.-area "never has a recession."

False

By Sean Gorman • October 19, 2015

Richard Saslaw
stated on October 5, 2015 in a debate.:

Virginia’s current unemployment rate is "the lowest in Virginia history."

False

By Sean Gorman • October 12, 2015

Gerry Connolly
stated on September 8, 2015 in radio interview.:

"It's estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - that's billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesn't have the resources."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • October 5, 2015

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