Latest Fact-Checks By Sean Gorman

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Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 in a speech.:

"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014

Jim Webb
stated on September 23, 2014 in 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
stated on September 17, 2014 in 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
stated on September 1, 2014 in 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
stated on August 25, 2014 in a campaign email.:

Obamacare "cuts seniors’ Medicare."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • September 8, 2014

Tim Kaine
stated on August 20, 2014 in a tweet.:

Pinnacle Overlook in Southwest Virginia is "closer to eight other state capitals than to Richmond."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • September 1, 2014

Don Beyer
stated on August 25, 2014 in 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
stated on July 26, 2014 in a debate.:

Ed Gillespie "supports a personhood amendment."

False

By Sean Gorman • August 4, 2014

Richard Saslaw
stated on July 11, 2014 in 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
stated on July 7, 2014 in 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
stated on June 23, 2014 in 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
stated on April 3, 2011 in a TV interview.:

On a balanced budget amendment.

Full Flop

By Sean Gorman • June 30, 2014

Dave Marsden
stated on June 14, 2014 in 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
stated on June 3, 2014 in 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
stated on May 9, 2014 in a radio ad.:

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

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • June 2, 2014

Eric Cantor
stated on May 29, 2014 in 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
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."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • May 23, 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!"

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • May 12, 2014

Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on March 24, 2014 in 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.
stated on April 2, 2014 in 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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