Latest Fact-Checks By Sean Gorman

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Mike Huckabee
stated on September 24, 2015 in a radio show.:

"Six of the 10 richest counties in the United States surround Washington, D.C."

True

By Sean Gorman • September 29, 2015

Mary Mannix
stated on September 16, 2015 in a news conference.:

"Just about half of rural hospitals operate in the red in Virginia. They operate at a loss."

True

By Sean Gorman • September 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 in a speech.:

"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • September 21, 2015

Barry DuVal
stated on September 25, 2015 in an interview:

"We're the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • September 17, 2015

Dan Gecker
stated on August 18, 2015 in a candidates' forum.:

"Of the 25 wealthiest nations, we're the only one that doesn't provide basic health coverage."

True

By Sean Gorman • September 1, 2015

Glen Sturtevant
stated on August 18, 2015 in a candidates' forum.:

"Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi."

True

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • August 25, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on August 12, 2015 in a web post:

"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • August 24, 2015

Dick Black
stated on August 4, 2015 in a tweet:

Says Jill McCabe "supports late term abortions. Larger baby parts are more profitable."

Pants on Fire!

By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on August 5, 2015 in a web post.:

"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015

Gerry Connolly
stated on July 9, 2015 in a written statement.:

"In 1960, we spent more than 3 percent of our GDP on infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway. Today we spend less than 1 percent of our GDP on these vital investments."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • August 3, 2015

Bob Goodlatte
stated on July 5, 2015 in an interview:

"The actual deportations from the interior of the country are way down" under President Obama.

True

By Sean Gorman • July 20, 2015

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

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

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • July 13, 2015

Randy Forbes
stated on June 16, 2015 in a written statement.:

"The average age a child is trafficked into the commercial sex trade industry is between 11 and 14 years old."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • July 6, 2015

Don Beyer
stated on June 15, 2015 in a website post:

"More than half of women under 30 who give birth do so outside of marriage..."

True

By Sean Gorman • June 22, 2015

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

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

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • June 15, 2015

The Commonwealth Institute
stated on April 30, 2015 in a blog post.:

Says "roughly two-thirds of (state) corporations didn’t pay any income tax in Virginia."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • May 27, 2015

Rob Wittman
stated on April 30, 2015 in a news release.:

The 2005 round of military base closings "has not yet resulted in savings."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • May 15, 2015

Mark Warner
stated on April 23, 2015 in a news release.:

An audit shows "there are 6.5 million people who have active Social Security numbers who are 112 years of age or older,"

True

By Sean Gorman • May 11, 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."

Mostly False

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."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015

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