The latest statements we've reviewed for PolitiFact Virginia
The cost of a gas tank fill-up has risen $30 since Barack Obama became president.
Maryland is "creating jobs at 2 ½ times the rate that Virginia is."
"You're supposed to throw away your shoes" if mercury from a broken CFL light bulb gets on them.
Says Gov. Bob McDonnell's budget would cut pre-kindergarten programs.
Public education has been permanently cut "by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula."
"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy."
"A cashier earning $20,000 per year pays the same (Virginia) income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning $20 million per year."
"Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009."
"The U.S. gun homicide rate is 20 times the combined rate of other western nations."
Gov. McDonnell's proposed budget "is cutting" public education.
Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping.
Says proposal to boost teacher pension fund "puts no mandate on local government."
Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan takes "money out of our classrooms to pave roads."
Says he’s proposed "the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history."
"I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere."
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."
George Allen cast "the deciding vote" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts.
"Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas."
The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate.
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