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Sean Gorman is a PolitiFact reporter with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Sean Gorman
Prince William County "has cut violent crime in half" since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration.
George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."
Says the Congressional Budget Office has estimated "every penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt and entitlement spending by 2025."
Tim Kaine "reduced higher education funding by 25 percent when he was governor, driving up tuition..."
"In 1950, the average American lived for 68 years and 16 workers supported one retiree. Today, the average life expectancy is 78 and three workers support one retiree."
"Seven out of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates (have) Republican governors … That approach that Republicans are using is working."
President Obama's "budget would call for about $25 trillion in debt by the end of his term, if he was re-elected."
President Obama pushed through the stimulus "based on the promise of keeping unemployment under 8 percent."
The cost of a gas tank fill-up has risen $30 since Barack Obama became president.
Recent stories from Sean Gorman
Fact-checking the new Crossroads GPS adPresident Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half in February 2009, when it stood at $1.3 trillion. Today, the deficit is estimated at almost $1.2 trillion.
Barack Obama debuts stump speechPresident Barack Obama held his first official campaign rallies in Columbus, Ohio, and Richmond, Va., on Saturday. He repeated several claims that PolitiFact has rated before and made new ones that PolitiFact will rate in the coming weeks.
Fact-checking the GOP Senate debateThe four Republican candidates squared off for the first time in Roanoke. We put some of their claims to the Truth-O-Meter. More from PolitiFact Virginia: *In Context: McDonnell denies his impending ad campaign *Ad Watch: Obama lauds his energy record *Ad Watch: American Energy Alliance blames Obama for gas prices
Ad Watch: American Energy Alliance blames Obama for gas pricesSteven Chu did call for boosting U.S. gas prices to "the levels in Europe." But this happened before he became energy secretary, when Barack Obama was campaigning for president. Chu had no ties to Obama at the time.
On health care reform: What does the public want?Polls show heavy majorities want the U.S. Supreme Court to strike all or part of the health care reform law. But the same surveys also show most of the public hopes the court will either uphold the law or everything in it except the mandate that Americans have health insurance coverage.
'Breakfast with the devil' story leaves no crumbsCrockett-Stark said a constituent, who is 82, awoke at 2 a.m. to the sound of someone breaking of a window at the funeral home where she lived. The woman, a sharpshooter, pulled a pistol and confronted the intruder as he was coming in the window. "So she grabs him up. She puts the pistol under his chin. She said ‘do you want to eat breakfast with the devil?’" Crockett-Stark said.
Ron Paul’s claim on gas prices touches off fireGas prices are going up, but an overstatement about their creep by presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas set the Truth-O-Meter aflame.
On Bob Marshall and light bulbsWe do not dispute that precautions should be taken when mercury is released. But there’s a big difference between mercury beads spilling from a broken glass thermometer and the amount released from a shattered CFL light bulb. Marshall, in his statements, glosses over this key distinction.
Wolf corrects statement on missing soldiers from Korean War"At least 8,000 American servicemen are still listed as POW/MIA on North Korean soil," Wolf said in a November 1 news release. The Defense Department’s estimates a similar number of missing soldiers from the Korean War, but believes almost one-third of them are not in North Korea.
Do people without health insurance die sooner?What caught our attention was Kaine’s assertion that 23,000 people die each year due to lack of health insurance. When we checked, we found credible reports supporting and undercutting that claim, so we’re taking a pass on submitting his statement to the Truth-O-Meter. But we still want to summarize what we found.
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